Chapter 1 The Cemetery Lantern Bearer

Suren peered out through the ventilation vent, carefully, and immediately saw the giant humanoid monster that was over thirty meters tall.

It looked like an ancient soldier, wearing a domed, wide-brimmed bronze helmet. Its shoulders and legs were covered in broken metal armor of the same color. The robes it wore had long since rotted away, and the exposed skin was a deep brown corpse color...

The most striking thing was the hexagonal bronze lantern hanging from a black pole in its hand.

The bronze lantern had a simple and ancient design, with mysterious carvings on the body. The dull yellow glass lampshade was blackened by smoke, and the flickering dim yellow light could be vaguely seen, forming a halo nearly ten meters around the copper lamp...

It was this faint halo that gave off an extremely terrifying feeling, as if being illuminated by the light would cause one to be reduced to ashes.

"A Overlord-tier Aberration?"

Suren's pupils contracted violently as he looked at the monster.

The All-Knowing Eye identified the monster's information and it turned out to be a Overlord-tier Aberration, a level higher than the Lord-tier!

[Dawn City Cemetery Lantern Bearer]

Details: A distorted monster formed from the resentment of ancient soldiers, a Overlord-tier zombie species, possesses super-tier strength, skilled in controlling fire, extremely dangerous;

(Note: In the protagonist's current understanding, all identifications above Tier 3 are considered 'super-tier')

This was the strongest Aberration Suren had ever seen!

The mountain-like pressure made one tremble from the depths of their soul.

It was so strong that he felt that even the Lord-tier Wailing Banshee would be reduced to ashes in an instant before this being.

Even with the Black Scythe in hand, Suren felt he had no chance of winning.

Upon seeing it, the first thought was definitely to run away.

Because, not only did he have a sealing object, but the hexagonal bronze lantern in this monster's hand was one too!

[Vulcan's Furnace Lamp]

Quality: Legendary

Description: Those who play with fire will eventually be burned;

Cursed Characteristics: It can forge extraordinary alchemical items and possesses flames that can incinerate everything; Using this furnace lamp can drive a large-scale 'Vulcan's Lava Fire' to incinerate any item whose law level is not higher than the furnace lamp itself; However, the flame is an indiscriminate attack and will also burn the releaser;

Details: A copper lamp forged by ancient alchemists imitating a divine artifact; It possesses super sealing power; A wisp of 'Vulcan's Lava Fire' is imprisoned in the lamp, which can forge alchemical items of extremely high quality; Can be used as advanced advancement material for fire-type alchemists;

Suren looked at this ancient lamp and felt more terrified than when he first saw the Black Scythe.

At least the damage from the Black Scythe was controllable, and the curse backlash could be roughly estimated...

But this furnace lamp was simply an indiscriminate attack.

Looking at it, Suren only saw four words:

......

In the bunker in the distance, Suren looked at this wonderful operation of his and exclaimed in his heart: "Earth-type to gold-type compound technique? Even a Tier 3 alchemist might not be able to manipulate the conversion between two Tier 3 spells, and this guy directly used the conversion between two 'super-tier spells'? Just how strong is he?"

Seeing this, he already didn't know how to describe his mood.

Although Suren had not personally seen a Tier 3 professional take action, he had obtained some information from various classics and collected memories, and he had a general concept.

"Multiple Element Conversion" is one of the most advanced spellcasting techniques in the field of magical alchemy.

The more seamless the conversion, the more it requires a super understanding and control of elemental spells.

Normally, a Tier 3 professional who can skillfully master the seamless conversion between two Tier 3 different elemental techniques is already considered a first-class master.

But this cloaked figure, successively cast these two "super-tier spells", and still looks very calm?

With just this technique change, the rich earth element in the swamp pit suddenly transformed into a gold element. The brown mud instantly turned golden, like solid gold metal.

With this, the tall soldier monster could no longer move its feet and was immediately controlled there.

.......

"This understanding of magic is simply amazing. There are still such experts hidden in Old Lingdun..."

Suren felt that he had underestimated the top professionals of Old Lingdun.

Before, he thought that a Tier 3 professional like Chuck, the boss of the Cross Society, was already the top expert in Old Lingdun.

Now, at least this cloaked figure is stronger than Chuck.

When he identified the information of that Overlord-tier mutated monster, Suren thought these people were "overestimating themselves" and misjudging the monster's tier.

But now, looking at this black-robed man starting with two super-tier control techniques, he realized that these people were not misjudging at all, but came prepared, seemingly with full confidence in taking down this monster, and the sealed object in its hand!

However, even with its feet fixed by the metal and unable to move, the huge soldier Overlord had not lost its combat power.

The hand holding the lamp did not move, but the other right hand holding the rusted greatsword swung its arm and slashed towards the black-robed man casting the spell.

In the face of absolute power, all skills seem pale and powerless.

With this sword falling, Suren felt that it could probably easily split a ten-story building in half.

Moreover, not only was it a pure physical attack, but the blade of the greatsword was also visibly covered with a layer of violent wind element sword aura.

The greatsword, which was more than twenty meters long, did not look fast when swung, but was actually as fast as the wind and was unavoidable.

The large area of wind element sword aura covered the black-robed man casting the spell, making his robes rustle and unable to move.

Even before this sword fell on his head, the ground around him had already been cracked layer by layer by the terrifying sword aura, which was extremely terrifying.

Even Suren's bunker, which was hundreds of meters away, seemed to be collapsing from an earthquake, and dense cracks began to appear on the top, with gravel falling like rain.

Suren's eyelids twitched as he watched the bunker, which had been visited countless times by mutated monsters and was still sturdy, actually being crushed by a wisp of sword aura.

Just how terrifying was this sword?

Before he could hesitate whether to run out now, Suren suddenly saw another black-robed man holding a short knife, fearlessly meeting the giant sword that was being swung down.

Almost at the same time, the black-robed man casting the spell changed his hand seals again, and the golden heptagram formation under his feet turned into a wind element blue again!

Suren's eyes were like torches: "Here it comes again? Three-element conversion?"

This wind element alchemy formation seemed not to be forcibly blocking the attack, but more like diverting the flow, directly guiding the world-destroying straight sword aura on the giant sword into a whirlwind.

As soon as the sword aura tornado was formed, the ground was cracked layer by layer as if an iron plow had passed over it.

But the two people in the core of the alchemy formation were completely unaffected!

"Clang!"

A sharp sound of metal collision echoed through the ruins.

The black-robed man holding the short knife had amazing strength, and with a body that was ten times smaller, he firmly took the giant's sword strike.

The moment the knife and sword touched, the shock wave exploded from the center of the contact, forming a visible air wave that blew sand and rocks.

Even in the bunker hundreds of meters away, Suren was shaken by the shock wave pouring in from the vent and said in shock: "Is this the top powerhouse..."

This strike made him feel that a Tier 3 powerhouse would be seriously injured if not dead, but it was easily resolved by the cooperation of two cloaked figures.

.......

"He used super-tier wind element control again. That alchemist is at least proficient in three types of magic..."

Suren watched, his eyes trembling, and he was already speechless about how to evaluate this black-robed alchemist.

Textbook-style operations, whether it was the alchemist's seal or the technique of condensing elemental magic, were impeccable.

Suren really couldn't imagine what the identity of this black-robed man was that allowed him to be proficient in at least three types of magic.

He even suspected that this guy, like him, had awakened some kind of talent that could harvest other people's abilities?

Otherwise, how could it be so exaggerated?

Under normal circumstances, magical alchemists would only specialize in one type of elemental magic.

After all, a person's energy is limited. Only by specializing can they become stronger and be able to delve into higher fields.

Therefore, most of the well-known Tier 2 experts in Old Lingdun City are alchemists specializing in a certain element, such as the mainstream earth, wind, water, and fire...

Very few have two types.

Because to specialize in one more type, the alchemist has to spend multiple times the time and energy of others.

But if it is more than two types of "multiple types"...

Under normal circumstances, unless they are top geniuses, those who try to learn too much are called "trash all-type alchemists".

And to cast super-tier spells, it definitely means that the alchemist must be "proficient" in this type of magic.

.......

However, Suren thought it was already unbelievable that this cloaked figure was proficient in three types of super-tier magic.

But the facts proved that it was not over yet.

At the moment, the heptagram formation under the cloaked alchemist's feet lit up again.

The light also changed from the wind-type blue to the wood-type green.

Although this conversion had an interval of a few seconds, it seemed to be a bit difficult...

However, continuous four-element conversions were already at an "unimaginable" level.

Watching one super-tier magic after another, Suren was very calm, only muttering, "Four-element conversion, just how many types of elemental magic is this guy proficient in..."

Then, he watched the cloaked figure throw a green bean into the alchemy formation.

The green light of the alchemy formation flashed, and a green vine suddenly broke out of the ground and grew rapidly in the wind. The violent wood element power madly urged the growth of the vine. From a small seedling, it rapidly expanded and grew, from the thickness of an arm to the thickness of a water tank, and then to the embrace of several people...

Then the main stem of the vine began to fork, and the branches spread and became thicker, and then continued to fork and become thicker...

In just the blink of an eye, it swelled a thousand times, and the vine turned into a lush, towering giant vine.

And in the process of the vine's growth, it was like a knotted python climbing up the giant's limbs. When the vine grew, it had already wrapped the tall soldier tightly.

The monster wanted to struggle, but the vine became thicker and thicker, and the restraints became tighter and tighter.

In this moment, Suren identified four super-tier alchemy spells, [Earth-type Great Swamp Art], [Gold-type Touchstone], [Wind-type Wind Dragon Scroll], [Wood-type Arcana Sky Vine]...

However, controlling the monster naturally meant killing it.

The monster probably wanted to use the hexagonal ancient lamp in its hand to release "Void Flame", but before the flame could rush out of the lamp furnace, a light blue thirty-six-sided seal barrier suddenly appeared on the lantern.

Then, a flash of sword light, and a smooth cut suddenly appeared on the arm holding the lamp.

The monster's forearm was cut off and fell to the ground.

With the ancient lamp taken away, the monster was no longer a threat.

What followed was a slaughter without any suspense...

........

Suren counted, a total of five people in black.

Only three took action.

After seeing how fierce the black-robed alchemist's methods were, he knew that there was no suspense in this battle.

They came prepared, familiar with everything about this monster, familiar with its attack methods, familiar with the sealed object...

The tactical plan was also flawless.

Before it could unleash its big move, the giant soldier's body had already died in the entanglement of the vines.

However, watching the excitement was comfortable.

Suren also knew that those people had discovered him.

With this level of expert, there was no reason they wouldn't notice being watched for so long.

However, Suren was not flustered.

Because he guessed the identities of this group of cloaked figures.

He could think of only two forces in all of Old Lingdun that could assemble such a luxurious hunting lineup.

Either the Black Tower,

Or the mysterious "third-party force."

Obviously, these people were not from the Black Tower.

One reason was that the people from the Black Tower didn't need to be secretive...

The second was because Suren recognized two of the five people.

Before, he had a strong sense of familiarity when he looked at the black-robed alchemist who used super-tier spells, and this feeling of "all-knowing and all-powerful" immediately reminded him of someone he knew - Mr. Black.

And the one who could physically withstand the giant sword, it didn't feel like a normal body, and there was a "hissing" sound of mechanical propulsion between actions. If he guessed correctly, she was the super mechanical warrior - Number Nineteen.

Suren looked at them appearing in front of him with a rather complicated expression.

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