The Magic Empire for 20,000 years

Chapter 281 Time Reversal, Amber Coffin!

"Wrong, wrong, completely misjudged..."

"That human captain is not a pedantic or foolish person at all; he didn't believe my promise at all..."

"All his actions were deliberately designed to delay, until the magic empire of Eldoron discovered the signal was cut off and came to their aid..."

Artina flapped her bat wings and flew through the air, looking panicked and disheveled, covered in blood. It was clear that she had already shown signs of weakness in the first wave of attacks from Elian.

"His Majesty!"

"Your Majesty El-Erian!"

"His Majesty has come to save us!"

Below, the pioneers, including even the two high-ranking demons, cheered.

With Artina Shi attacked, the mid-level legendary great demon could no longer maintain the group monster immobilization spell, and all the pioneer team members were able to move again.

"This is the first time the development team has gone missing. So I came straight here..."

"So something really happened..."

Elian narrowed his eyes, flew through the air, and locked onto Altina Shi ahead.

He quickly uttered a short, rapid syllable, and his body instantly grew taller, transforming into a pale-skinned monster with three pairs of six arms.

—The Weaver Form!
Elian simultaneously began casting spells with all three of his arms. Some spells attempted to weaken Artinas's powerful immunity and magic resistance, while others used wishes to distort reality and strip Artinas of her abilities, and still others defended against Artinas's offensive magic...

clap clap.

Multicolored light shimmered and echoed in the air.

After only a few seconds of intense fighting, Artina's face turned pale, she coughed up blood, many of her signature abilities were stripped away, and her magic resistance was removed.

"It can't be that bad, that's terrifying..."

"Even though I fought with all my might, I had no chance to fight back at all..."

"Such terrifying strength, could it be a high-level legendary figure?"

"He has been weakening and stripping me of my power. Is he about to launch a fatal attack?"

"We have to escape!"

In the blink of an eye, Artina had made up her mind.

She transformed into a streak of reddish-brown lightning, rapidly retreating over a thousand meters to exit the battlefield, after which a cloud of blackish-red mist erupted from her body.

She's teleporting to escape!

At the same time, Elion unleashed several attacks, stripping Artina of most of her special abilities and magic resistance in a short period of time.

—After reaching the pinnacle of intermediate legend, with his superior magical reserves, Elion's actual combat strength was comparable to that of a high-level legend. Even the second-ranked great demon in the entire Abyss Plains was no different from a child in front of him!
At that moment, Elian took out a precious and exquisite piece of amber from his pocket, ready to unleash the final blow to end the battle, but he saw Artina Shi about to teleport away.

"Want to escape?"

El-Erian smiled faintly:
"Secondary Lord Artina Shi, the most powerful secondary lord in the first layer of the Abyss,"

"Since you dared to attack my people, you don't think you can go back, do you?"

Looking into the distance, the black and red mist around Artina Shi burst forth completely, and this lesser lord's body had merged into the dimensional rift, about to disappear entirely.

"Human mage, you are very powerful. I am no match for you."

"But if I want to run, you can't stop me!"

"Hehe, I'll remember you. See you next time!"

Elian shook his head, extended his left hand, and gently twisted his wrist.

A giant hourglass projection appeared in the air, with snow-white sand flowing down.

The next moment, the illusory hourglass turned upside down, and the snow-white sand that had fallen back to where it came from was twisted back to its origin.

Time has turned back.

—【Time Reversal】!
Elian gained supernatural abilities after bathing in the divine source of time.

The figure of Altina, who was about to disappear, became solid again.

Immediately afterwards, the surrounding scene turned into a reversed video. Altina, who had been flapping her wings and rapidly retreating away from Elian, was now back in front of Elian, her movements reversed.

"We have to escape!"

The thought had barely crossed Altina's mind when she saw Elian ahead of her, firing a beam of emerald green that struck her body.

Immediately afterwards, Altina's reddish-brown body emitted a faint green light, as if her body had been completely anchored in the current space.

——【Dimensional Anchor】!
The most hated method for those who want to teleport away to escape.

"Damn it, this guy is like he can read minds, did he know I'd decided to run away?"

Altina gritted her teeth, a panic she had never felt before welling up inside her.

"No, we have no choice but to fight back with everything we have. This is our last chance!"

The mid-legendary lord spread his arms wide, his entire body radiating dazzling light. Seeing the great demon before him determined to fight to the death, Elion remained unmoved, his fingertips trembling as he activated a spell.

The next moment, another identical Elian—also a pale-skinned monster with six arms—appeared behind Artina Shi.

—【Time Replication】!
This time magic briefly summons your future self to fight alongside your present self, achieving a 2v1 effect for a few seconds.

Having been imbued with the power of time, all of Elion's time-related spells have been enhanced to varying degrees. Furthermore, the casting time has become much shorter. Like this [Time Copy].

Two Elian, each with three pairs of arms, simultaneously began casting spells.

That's equivalent to six legendary mages casting spells at the same time.

One spell grants a wish that the next attack will hit; another suppresses all of Artina's defensive abilities; two spells neutralize the great demon's desperate counterattack; and a third spell hurls a shimmering amber orb...

A blinding light enveloped the sky.

A few seconds later, Altina fell from the sky.

This most powerful secondary lord of the first layer of the abyss was completely imprisoned in the [Amber Coffin]. Within this layer of crystalline amber, time was completely frozen, and even thought ceased to exist.

puff.

The crystalline amber sphere that sealed the poem of Altina fell onto the wasteland.

A middling legendary demon has been defeated.

"As expected of His Majesty Elion, he took down this powerful demon in just over ten seconds of fighting."

"Is she Artina Shi? A lord comparable to a mid-level legend? Now defeated by His Majesty."

The members of the pioneering team were both surprised and delighted by what they saw, and even felt as if it were a dream.

The seemingly unimaginable enemy who had taken control of the entire pioneering team was defeated by Elian in such a short battle, without even a chance to escape.

—Apart from Elian himself, no one else has any memory of a time reversal!
Elian also fell from the sky, landing beside the crystal-clear amber sphere, looking at the poem of Artina sealed within it.

The great demon's face still bore the marks of shock and fear from the moment before his defeat.

From absolute ruler who controls everything to utterly defeated without any resistance, this dramatic shift in status happened in just half a minute...

"Winning was easier than I imagined. The essence of the bathing time I spent earlier really brought me a lot of benefits..."

"Otherwise, she might have actually managed to escape..."

Elion reached out and touched the amber sphere, intending to shrink and take away the sphere that sealed the lord, the [Amber Coffin].

The next moment, he suddenly stopped moving and turned his head to look sharply at the clouds in the sky behind him.

An invisible wave swept in from afar, about to strike Elian and dispel the buffs and protective magic on him.

boom!
Amidst a series of rapid explosions and flashes of light, Elian vanished, leaving the invisible shockwaves to fall into empty space.

"Did you evade the lock of the [Higher Dispel Magic]?"

Pazuzu, the Wind Demon King, whose appearance is a fusion of bird and humanoid creature, wields a giant sword, and has four huge wings, appeared from behind the clouds with a solemn expression.

Pazuzu flapped its two pairs of wings and looked down at the wasteland.

Previously, when Altina was on a mission, he had been secretly watching from a distance to prevent any accidents from happening.

Originally, according to Pazuzu's prediction, even if the Magic Empire Eldoron discovered the abnormality of the pioneering team, it would only send several low-level legends or one mid-level legend, as well as some high-level combatants to provide support.

So, if he suddenly makes a move while the supporting forces are engaged in fierce combat with Altina, he will surely cause the legendary support force to perish in this wilderness.

—Significantly weaken Eldoron's legendary forces before the official final battle begins!

However, to Pazuzu's surprise, the human legend Elion's strength far exceeded his expectations. After only a few exchanges at the start of the battle, he directly defeated Altina Shi!

He hasn't even had a chance to join the fight yet.

Watching Elian teleport away, briefly distancing himself from the amber sphere that sealed Altina's poem, Pazuzu didn't think much of it. He disappeared into a cloud of black mist and appeared directly beside the [Amber Coffin].

—Based on the combat prowess Elian just displayed, Pazuzu believed that whether he could defeat this human legend was another matter, but if this human wanted to escape, there was at least no chance of stopping him. In that case, it would be better to abandon the fight and first try to minimize the losses.

"The most urgent task is to rescue the Shapeshifter..."

"Otherwise, our alliance would lose a mid-level legendary figure, as well as the demon legion that Artina originally commanded..."

"We cannot accept such losses before the war even begins..."

In the blink of an eye, Pazuzu had already identified his current target. He raised his hand to touch the amber sphere, intending to take the amber that sealed Altina's poem and leave this place immediately.

Upon seeing that Pazuzu was going to rescue Artina Shi, Elian, still in his six-armed [Weaver] form, did not hesitate and immediately cast a spell, with multiple arms simultaneously grabbing at the amber sphere.

The amber sphere containing Aldina's poem was instantly given life, activated on its own, evaded Pazuzu's touch, and flew directly towards Elian.

[Animate objects]? Or a similar spell? Casters are so annoying...

Pazuzu's heart skipped a beat, and he shouted behind him:

"What time is it? Stop watching the show and come out now."

“You are also lords of this wasteland, so you should know very well that if we lose Altina before the official start of the war, the situation will be even more unfavorable for us!”

(End of this chapter)