Chapter 431, Section 430: Ivan's Incredible Pleasure
Puji Dungeon, Mushroom Garden No. 1.
This place was once the soil where dreams sprouted, the place where the great legend of the green mushroom began!
After experiencing periods of abandonment and recapture, it once became a gathering place for cave dwellers to live and thrive.
As Lin Jun gained complete control of the underground city, a wider space was opened up, and the cave dwellers gradually moved to the new area. This mushroom garden, which carried countless arduous memories, eventually returned to its most primitive form: the fungal carpet cave.
However, it would be a shame to leave such a memorable place idle, so Lin Jun gave it a new meaning.
In one corner of the cave, a meticulously crafted stone tablet stands quietly, with only two characters engraved on it: Aiding.
The inscription area is blank.
Having learned from the experience with Dylan's tombstone last time, Lin Jun was smarter this time and decided not to write an inscription yet.
It's such a waste of emotion to have to smash a beautifully crafted eulogy with your own hands in the end.
As it turned out, Lin Jun's decision was correct. Ai Ding actually survived that situation, which is truly remarkable!
It was a bit of a pity to lift the stone tablet with a thud.
As it has developed to this point, there has not yet been any tragic sacrifices worthy of being written about in detail, which makes Mushroom Garden somewhat lacking in epic scale and gravitas.
After all, you can't just find any dead consumable and erect a monument to it, can you?
Just as he was about to smash it, he thought about it and decided not to throw it. In the end, he found a lake and sank it.
Carving such a beautiful stone tablet is no easy feat. Since no epitaph was written, grinding off the name will allow it to be used by someone else later...
Of course, Lin Jun was genuinely happy that Ai Ding was able to return safely!
After doing all that, a little poop jumped out from in front of Aiding, who had been howling for a while.
He immediately extended his tentacles and lifted him up: "Mu...Aiqing! What's wrong with you?"
Aidin's face stiffened, and his eyes twitched slightly, but he quickly regained his grief-stricken expression and began to recount his harrowing escape.
At that moment, witnessing the storm elements rapidly coalescing before his eyes and feeling the suffocating pressure up close, Aidin truly thought he was going to perish there.
Don't be fooled by the fact that a Lord-level Storm Elemental is only around level 70; it actually falls into the category of a natural disaster and is far beyond what an ordinary Duke can achieve.
Compared to it, Aidin, an ordinary diamond-level character, was like an ant looking up at a mountain, especially since the scenario was an encounter battle, which he hated the most.
This can be seen from the fact that the arcs of electricity emitted by the storm element could easily shatter the magical shield he had put up with all his might.
Fortunately, Aydin's "weakness" caused him to be ignored by the storm elementals. The larger pigman army became the primary target.
Aidin originally intended to flee this dangerous place, but thinking of his mission, he gritted his teeth, ran a distance, then turned back and risked running towards Redstone City.
The reason he didn't use a clone was simply because both the three S-grade crystals and the divine wood core were too precious, and he dared not use a clone to carry them back and forth.
He had intended to try to persuade the Silver Thorn Squad to complete the transaction directly, but he did not expect the demons to collapse even faster than he had anticipated!
He had barely entered Redstone City when he was horrified to discover that the storm elements had changed direction and were sweeping towards the city!
Although Duke Xenophon of the Pigmen was incredibly powerful and could withstand direct attacks from the storm elementals, his enchanted battleaxe could only inflict negligible damage on that colossal and invisible creature.
With no outlet for his brute strength, he could only watch helplessly as his legion crumbled under the combined force of gale and thunder.
The moment the storm elementals turned around, everyone in Redstone City immediately began to flee for their lives.
However, not only are storm elements enormous and incredibly destructive, but they are also remarkably fast.
Those who were a step too slow, or those who were unlucky enough to be caught in the storm's path, all followed in the footsteps of the demon army, turning to ashes in nature's fury.
Only when no more large-scale life forms could be found in sight did the storm element finally turn north and leave, leaving a huge and ferocious "V"-shaped wound permanently in the ruins of Redstone City.
Unfortunately, Aidin and the members of the Silverthorn Squad happened to be in the "unlucky" category.
...
"The Duke's envoy? You didn't leave after all!" Nova, who was running wildly, noticed Aidin not far away.
Aiding had already given up, but unexpectedly encountered the Silver Thorn Squad again on his escape route!
"Why are you even saying hello?! Run faster!" Night Owl leaped through the surrounding shadows. She was the only one who knew how to escape danger quickly, and she was extremely anxious as she watched Nova and the others move at their slow pace.
The half-dragon Gar was also running wildly, but he was carrying an old mage on his back: "Ivan, why aren't you casting a wind speed spell on us?"
Upon hearing this brainless remark, Ivan immediately flew into a rage: "What do you think that is? The Storm Elemental Lord! The master of wind and lightning! You want me to fight him for control of the wind element? Believe me, the moment the spell is cast, it will turn into a tornado and drag us into its body?"
"We need to think of something! It's coming this way!"
Seeing the storm element getting closer and closer, and realizing he couldn't outrun it, Garr suddenly stopped: "Get behind me!"
[Substitute Wound LV7]
[Shield Domain LV8]
[Group Defense Upgraded to LV8]
Ivan, who was put down, immediately cast an elemental resistance buff on everyone.
However, this defensive field only lasted a short while, blocking three bolts of lightning in the storm. The fourth bolt blasted everyone into the air, and Aidin was also nearly killed by the blast.
In the nick of time, the night owl only managed to grab Ivan and slip into the shadows to escape.
But she can't take everyone with her.
Just as the others were about to die on the spot, Ivan suddenly lunged toward Edin and grabbed an S-class crystal that had fallen beside him.
"What time is it? Why are you still worrying about that?!" Night Owl was completely dumbfounded. If he had known better than to save Nova earlier, he could have gambled with the artifact!
Ivan ignored her.
He ignored the lightning bolts raging overhead and focused all his attention on the crystal.
He conjured a cutting spell in his hand, brutally destroying the precious S-grade crystal until it was cut into long strips. Without a second's hesitation, he inserted it into the magic crystal slot in his abdomen.
The lightning struck again, but was blocked by a blue magic shield.
A long, excited roar!
"Oh my god! This is the power of a top-tier magic crystal! It's... incredibly exhilarating!"
Indeed, Ivan did take flight... A surge of magic converged on Ivan, and dazzling magical light shot out from his mouth and eyes.
This change finally caught the attention of the storm element.
An even more violent thunderbolt struck, and although the new magical shield began to tremble under the attack, it ultimately did not break.
The night owl trembled under the shield; under such an attack, once the shield shattered, even hiding from the shadows would be useless.
Amidst the thunderous roar, she shouted, "Old man, is there any other way? If you have, bring it out now! I'm going to die!"
Ivan, however, didn't hear a word, lost in his own world: "So this is what magic is! I... I completely understand!"
The next moment, a magic circle made entirely of magic spread out from under Ivan's feet, enveloping everyone.
This magic circle had no casting materials, yet Ivan still firmly controlled its magical power within a predetermined path.
Meanwhile, in the basement of the half-destroyed Redstone City Lord's Mansion, a short-range teleportation array lit up!
...
"You all escaped? So, did you... get that..." Lin Jun barely managed to restrain herself from making the impolite move of letting Puji search her body directly.
"Boss, we have to go save them!"
(End of this chapter)
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