Chapter 280 Snow Peak Stronghold
Chapter 280
In fact, the cleanup operation against the Meteorite Council had already begun quietly under the secret order of the Wizard Council.
Although Lin En was in Plane World 001 at the time, thanks to the difference in the speed of time flow between that world and the wizarding world, he found time to break through to the Morning Star Wizard.
Even if he rushed back immediately, he was still a step too late and was unable to personally participate in the deployment and mobilization at the beginning of the operation.
But the good news is, according to the memory fragments that the Spirit Eye Wizard recently transmitted to Lin En.
At least for now, on their side, the Temple of Life and the Spirit Eye Wizard have not suffered any direct impact.
In fact, it was quite the opposite. Instead of any fighting, it was very peaceful here.
The reason is not complicated, but rather extremely direct.
As early as when the Meteorite Council secretly tried to establish contact with the Hall of Life, Lin En sided with the Wizard Council in order to clear himself.
So he decisively ordered the Spirit Eye Wizards to actively cooperate and maintain "good communication" with the Meteorite Council.
The Spirit Eye Wizard sorted out all the correspondence and negotiation details word for word and presented them intact to the top leaders of the Wizard Council.
This move immediately won the trust and appreciation of the parliament, and also made the Wizarding Council decide.
Let the Temple of Life and the Spirit Eye Wizard "retreat to advance", directly transform into undercover spies, and integrate into the enemy camp.
So, when the Night Shadow Wizard secretly mobilized forces from all over the country, and the Morning Star Wizards went to the border between the Black Wizard and the White Wizard to fight various battles of all sizes...
The Spirit Eye Wizard, however, remained very calm, and even drank and chatted with the top leaders of the Meteorite Council while analyzing the "current situation" together.
Everything seems calm, but in fact there are undercurrents.
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At this moment, in the distant snowy mountains, the sky and the earth were covered in silver.
The Atlas Mountains, like the spine of a sleeping dragon, wind across the southern lands, leading directly to the Nightmare Rift Valley;
On the other side, there is an extremely cold mountain chain that towers into the clouds and is blocked by wind and snow all year round. It is cold and murderous, like a frozen deathland.
Under the dome of dancing snow, a giant dragon as dark as night was soaring among the storms.
It has a huge body, cold scales, and its dragon wings sweep across the sky, stirring up layers of air waves and tearing apart the sea of clouds.
On the dragon's back, Lin En was wearing a black robe, his expression as calm as the abyss.
He stood quietly, gazing at the world ahead where snow-capped mountains danced. The cold wind whistled in his ears, but in his mind, the latest memory sent back by the Spirit Eye Wizard was echoing.
"Currently, the Meteoric Council has no idea about the Spirit Eye Wizard."
The Meteorite Council now has extremely high trust in the Spirit Eye Wizard, and even regards him as a rare "ally".
Especially at this time of crisis and internal and external troubles, the Spirit Eye Wizard still maintained contact with them and was naturally regarded as a "trustworthy person".
"It looks like... I'll be a double agent for a while..."
Lin En shook his head and smiled helplessly, then piloted the black dragon towards the coordinates given to him by the Spirit Eye Wizard.
The cold wind howled, raging wildly among the mountains; the black dragon spread its wings, flying through the snowy sky, cutting through the sky and leaving a deep, dark afterimage.
It flew along the unchanging scenery of the snow-capped mountains. The snow-covered mountains rolled up and down, and the world seemed to be frozen in an eternal winter picture.
The environment here is far worse than on the other side of the Atlas Mountains.
The towering mountains seem to pierce the sky, and the sky and earth are filled with strong energy factors of wind and ice elements, which are almost visible to the naked eye.
Those translucent energy particles rotated, jumped, and collided in the cold air, forming an extremely unstable magic field.
Because of this, this area often experiences horrific natural phenomena such as high-intensity tornadoes and windstorms.
Those disasters caused by the riot of wind element factors sometimes have wind speeds as high as 100 or 200 degrees of magical energy pressure, which can easily tear apart an ordinary first-level wizard.
Not to mention the frequent blizzards and ice attacks this place endures, as well as the snow monsters and ice beasts that inhabit the depths of the icefields...
Each one represents a different level of deadly threat.
Some avalanches can even reach a destructive level of 300 degrees. The wide coverage and terrifying power are enough to make any second-level wizard change his face instantly and dare not act rashly.
Such an environment is undoubtedly a natural trap for all weak lives.
Even a first-level wizard or an ordinary wizard apprentice might be torn apart by the cold wind and buried in the sea of snow after entering this place for just a few moments.
It is a deserted place, not because no one wants to come, but because no one can leave alive.
But for Lin En today, all these "natural disasters" are just waves that can be easily dealt with.
As the black dragon flapped its wings, wind and snow flew, air waves rolled, and all obstacles lay low under its feet.
However, even if they could not threaten Lin En's life, these disorderly magical disasters were enough to slow down his flying speed and disrupt his rhythm of movement.
During the voyage of just over an hour, Lin En encountered three waves of extremely threatening natural disasters:
A strong wind disaster formed by the magical power of wind elements swept across the sky like a blade;
A high-frequency avalanche, accompanied by the roar of the mountain, poured down, trying to bury all living things;
There was also a six-armed ice beast with a transparent body and condensed ice crystals. It jumped out from the depths of the snow ridge and tried to attack the belly of the black dragon.
Lin En did not take action. He easily resolved these threats with the power of the black dragon itself and a few low-pitched witchcraft defenses.
But this is enough to prove that the danger level of this snowy area is far greater than that of ordinary areas.
If some second-level wizards come alone, they can only move through the ice with caution. If they dare to be careless, they may die on the ice field.
Only great wizards of the third level and higher can truly be fearless of the dangers of this place and walk calmly in the white desperate situation.
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After flying over a ridge, the black dragon soared above the clouds, with ice, snow and the sky gradually moving away behind it.
Lin En stood on the dragon's back, his robe rustling, and his eyes looked down at the undulating contours of the snow-capped mountains below with calm and deep eyes.
There, halfway up the snowy mountain where silver and rock intertwined, he finally caught a glimpse of something unnatural:
A pitch-black platform, embedded between the snow-capped mountains, looks like a metal skeleton exposed from the remains of an ancient giant beast.
The entire platform is made of fragments of fallen stars, exuding a deep and ancient energy, with faint star-like light spots jumping in its cracks.
Lin En narrowed his eyes and immediately determined its identity based solely on the material and energy fluctuations.
"It is indeed here... The Meteoric Council, the most hidden stronghold at the border between the Dark Wizards and the White Wizards."
The wind and snow swept in again, and the cold wind like ice blades swirled in the air.
Lin En stood on the back of the black dragon, his robe rustling, his eyes piercing through the flying snow like lightning, his expression calm.
He took a deep breath, raised his hand and gently pressed the dragon's spine: "Let's go."
The black dragon let out a low roar, folded its wings, and swooped down, like a pitch-black sword piercing the dark platform hidden among the snow-capped mountains.
Their arrival had already been detected by the platform below, which was made of fragments of fallen stars.
The witchcraft formation hidden in the platform immediately captured the magical fluctuations from high altitude. With a faint flash of light, the formation pattern completed the identification and analysis.
Fortunately, the Spirit Eyes Wizard was currently sitting there, drinking and chatting with several Morning Star-level wizards.
As his disciple, Lin En was not judged as an external enemy.
Instead, a wizard figure walked out from the platform, raised his hand, gestured with a smile, and guided him to land smoothly.
The black dragon circled slightly in the air, then slowly folded its wings, lightly stepped down with its claws, and landed steadily on the dark platform that was glowing with a faint light.
Almost at the same time that Lin En and Black Dragon landed, the atmosphere of the entire platform suddenly changed.
One scene after another twisted and distorted, as if the space itself was twitching and twisting.
In the blink of an eye, the once clearly visible structural boundaries, star patterns, and meteorite remnants were all replaced by a sudden surge of phantoms:
It was an illusory world of wind and snow, with cold wind and blizzard mixed together, just like the other scenes in the area.
Obviously, the Meteorite Council had previously deliberately closed the hidden witchcraft formation in order to guide Lin En to find this place.
Now that the mission is complete, the illusion and shielding barrier are quickly restarted, and everything is once again hidden in the wind and snow.
From this detail, we can see that the Lingmou Wizard has a very high status in this place. He can even mobilize the formation to block the authority for an outsider?
You have to know that Lin En came here this time as just a student of the Spirit Eye Wizard.
But even so, the fact that this mysterious council located at the junction of black and white wizards was able to reveal its true face says it all.
His body flashed, and he landed on the black dragon's back as lightly as a feather, his black robe fluttering slightly, and his aura was natural and steady.
At this moment, a loud laugh came from the front:
"Haha! You are the student of the Spirit Eye Wizard, right?"
The speaker was a chubby man with a ruddy face.
He had shiny golden hair and wore a gorgeous robe inlaid with gold and silver.
The whole person looks more like a wealthy businessman in the world, an aggressive nouveau riche boss in the market, rather than a low-key and eccentric wizard who studies witchcraft.
Moreover, although the opponent's appearance is funny and frivolous, there are three energy shields of different colors slowly rotating around him, exuding an extremely powerful aura.
That was the symbol of three permanent witchcraft marks, which obviously represented that the opponent's strength was at the level of a third-level great wizard!
"Let me introduce myself. I'm Dieter."
The fat man approached with a smile, his words revealing a bit of sincerity and enthusiasm.
Looking at the familiar blond fat man in front of him, Lin En felt as if his memory was hazy.
Of course, he had not forgotten the fat blond man in front of him. He had known him before.
When he left the Soul Eye Furnace and sought refuge in the Nightmare Rift, he followed the team of the man named Dite across the Atlas Mountains.
At the beginning, Dieter played a team leader who led the team through the Atlas Mountains, and during that time he had a hot relationship with Davin.
One of them is truly innocent and has little experience in the world; the other is so immersed in the role of a tour guide that they can chat with each other.
Unfortunately, while crossing the Atlas Mountains, they were caught up by the Aquila constellation’s pursuers, the Great Wizard Silver-Gray and his men.
Although they did not capture Lin En, they did capture Dieter and some people from the Meteorite Council.
During that battle, Lin En found time to escape and had no idea what happened afterwards.
But from the fact that Dieter is standing here with a smile on his face, it is not difficult to guess that the two sides should have fought to a 50-50 draw at the beginning, and neither side could do anything to the other.
Those people from the Meteoric Council must have finally escaped the pursuit of the Silver-Ash Great Wizard...
From this perspective, Lynn should even thank Dieter.
After all, it was Dieter and the people from the Meteoric Council who led away the pursuers of the Silver-Ash Great Wizard. Otherwise, he would not have been able to escape to the Nightmare Rift so easily...
Of course, the current Silver-Ash Wizard naturally died at the hands of Lin En. In a sense, this could be considered as a way of repaying Dieter's gratitude by helping him kill a powerful enemy...
Lin En let out a light breath and suppressed all the distracting thoughts in his mind.
At this moment, he is playing the role of a student of the Spirit Eye Wizard, who is a loner and doesn't like to talk to people.
He lowered his eyes, slowly raised his head, and looked calmly at the enthusiastic blond fat man, Dieter, in front of him.
In order to be cautious, Lynn put on a specially made silver-gray mask before landing.
It was a shielding tool made of rare magic materials that could block the mental detection of others.
At the same time, he also restrained most of his aura and only released three energy fluctuations of permanent witchcraft marks. He looked like a third-level wizard with decent strength but far from the top.
"Yeah. Hello."
His tone was flat, his voice low and indifferent, and the three cold words seemed particularly harsh in the chill wind where the ice and snow had not yet dispersed.
But Dieter did not show any displeasure. Instead, he looked as if he had expected it. He continued to nod and respond with a smile, his attitude as warm as before.
Apparently, he had already been reminded by the Spirit Eyes Wizard: this boy has a dull temperament and doesn't like to talk, so don't pay attention to him.
"The Wizard Council is currently in turmoil, with both the Dark and White Wizards making increasingly probing moves... Even we in the Meteoric Council are feeling the pressure."
He smiled as he walked slowly into the depths of the platform side by side with Lin En.
"At this critical juncture, your Excellency is willing to come and support us and contribute your own strength. We are naturally very grateful."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a silver-patterned door in front of him quietly opened, with starlight flickering, like a dream.
Lynn didn't respond, but just followed silently.
They walked in a passage made of star fragments.
The surroundings were dark, and the walls were as dark as meteorites, but deep in the stone walls, there were traces of naturally flowing starlight, like the remaining sparks in the night sky, quietly flickering in the darkness.
There were no torches or light crystals; all light was outlined by the stars, creating a cold and mysterious atmosphere.
Occasionally, witchcraft patterns flickered beneath one's feet, and subtle magical fluctuations came from the soles of one's feet, as if the entire base itself was a dormant magical prop.
"By the way, what should I address you, sir?" Dieter suddenly asked, his tone still relaxed and casual.
Lin En paused slightly and uttered two words expressionlessly: "Qinglin."
The voice was still low and cold as before.
"Great Wizard Qinglin, follow me."
Dieter grinned again, as if he was used to Lynn's indifference. He didn't show any displeasure at being neglected, but instead his tone became more enthusiastic.
He stepped aside to lead the way, explaining to Lin En the structure and layout of both sides of the passage.
"This base was built by our Meteoric Council after a hundred years of extracting resources and refining the structure from the remains of a dead star. The entire structure may seem plain on the surface, but it actually has multiple wizard formations embedded inside, making it immune to space folding and magic erosion..."
Lin En looked calm on the surface, but he was actually slightly shocked.
The so-called dead star naturally refers to a plane world.
The plane worlds have different manifestations, there are stars, there are continents, there are also irregular plane worlds that look like clouds...
And to build a stronghold at the cost of an entire plane of the world is indeed a big deal!
He glanced around and indeed, between the pitch-black walls, he could vaguely perceive many sealed floating marks, magic circle nodes, and intertwined witchcraft veins, like a star map sunk into a quagmire, hidden in the cracks of space dimensions.
And in this passage, from time to time you can see wizards in black robes standing or patrolling.
Some of them closed their eyes to rest, while others stood quietly holding sticks. When they sensed the two people approaching, they all bowed their heads in unison with solemn expressions.
Some of their eyes fell on Lin En, with scrutiny and curiosity, but they quickly returned to normal and did not dare to make any judgments.
Lin En remained silent, just following silently and observing everything coldly.
Under Dieter's guidance, Lin En followed him and slowly walked deeper into the cave...
(End of this chapter)
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