Mechanical Alchemist-Chapter 525 : 524 Annihilate Pursuers

The golden-haired nun's corpse was clamped in Su Lun's hand, suspended in midair and swaying slightly.

From the moment this fellow arrogantly appeared on the deck to becoming a corpse, it seemed to have happened in the blink of an eye.

The members of the Dawn Group went from gaping in shock to being utterly astonished.

Although they didn't understand, they had now realized that it definitely wasn't because the enemy was weak.

It was because Su Lun was too strong!

Barrett, Wuzz Huzzo, and the other seventh-tier members came to their senses and belatedly realized the grievous danger hidden in that dramatic scene, as cold sweat faintly seeped from their foreheads.

This was the first time they had witnessed the legendary "power of time" and had barely skirted the edge of death.

This special high-level rule was almost entirely free from any form of restraint, and even they didn't understand it, let alone have any chance of defeating it.

Such an enigmatic enemy, coupled with Morlock, the "King of the Western Sea," would have indeed posed a threat of annihilation to the Dawn Group.

Alas, they had Su Lun on board.

As soon as they were about to face off, the person was killed, and the crisis hadn't even erupted before it had been averted.

Not far away, Morlock on the sea surface was momentarily stunned, but he roared as he continued the charge.

Su Lun harvested the soul of the corpse, didn't elaborate much, and only said indifferently, "Prepare for battle."

The members of the Dawn Group all had solemn expressions and instantly went into combat mode.

The sound of a "clang" from a drawn sword rang beside their ears, and upon looking again, Qiantiao's fighting spirit had already reached its peak, unsheathing his sword and vanishing on the deck.

Morlock had the nickname of "Eighth-Tier Gatekeeper" in the Bounty Hunters' Guild, and Qiantiao naturally wanted to test his might.

There were already few enemies within the same tier that could pressure her, and this eighth-tier was just right!

Alone, her chances of winning weren't great, so Barrett also let out a light shout and leapt off without any hesitation.

Behind Wuzz Huzzo, his bat wings vibrated, leaving behind an afterimage on the spot.

The three top combatants of the Dawn Group rushed towards Morlock, who was bearing down on them from the sea, and in the blink of an eye, they were locked in battle.

Huge waves erupted instantly on the sea surface, with shockwaves rolling higher and higher.

...

Top professionals in combat were not something ordinary people could meddle in, but there were still more than twenty pirate ships eyeing them covetously.

The members of the Dawn Group sharpened their knives eagerly as the ship, Eternal Night, shifted its sails. Tanni, the helmsman, maneuvered the vast ship to glide out a perfect arc over the several dozen meters high waves, immediately changing course like surfing, and charged towards those more than twenty pirate ships.

Even when the ships were still a great distance apart, the cannons had already spit out tongues of flame.

For a moment, the cannons roared.

The Dawn Group, outnumbered one to twenty, showed no signs of weakness, darting into the midst of wolves like a fierce tiger.

The opposing sides collided head-on, initiating a heated sea battle.

But the gap in cannon technology was too great, and the pirate ships were completely suppressed by the Dawn Group.

The battle started, and they were immediately at a disadvantage.

After two rounds of cannon fire, five or six pirate ships were severely damaged.

But the enemy's confidence was clearly not in their cannons. The moment the bombardment began, magical shields lit up on four or five of those pirate ships.

Su Lun was quite familiar with this setup. It was a five-hundred-person Mage group.

Rough estimates suggested there might be two to three thousand Mages in all.

As soon as the battle began, these Mages also started chanting legion magic, "Great Tsunami Art," "Great Gale Force Spell," "Great Thundering Spell"...

The sea surface was instantaneously filled with lightning and thunder, with the surging magic elements exaggerated like they were about to boil over.

The combat power of legion Mages was not to be underestimated, a five-hundred-person Mage group could cast legion magic capable of threatening the lives of eighth-tier professionals.

Windstorms, in conjunction with tsunamis, caused even ships of the Eternal Night's tonnage to sway as if they were mere paper, seemingly about to be overturned and sunk at any moment. The sky was flickering with thunderclouds, and the thunder magic was fully charged, promising to cause widespread casualties once it struck down.

Su Lun wasn't about to watch these fellows deliver a heavy blow to the Dawn Group.

Dispersing them was the best choice!

In that instant, he teleported over, appearing directly on a pirate ship.

The group of Mages wasn't completely unprepared.

When a stranger appeared on the ship, the air among the crowd suddenly became sticky. This was a compound control type magic, "Anti-Magic Air Swamp."

The air turned glue-like, firmly sticking Su Lun to the deck. The surrounding elements were isolated, restricting spellcasting. The space was compressed, making teleportation away a hundred times more difficult than coming.

This double-control magic combining physical and magical aspects could instantly kill most seventh-tier professionals.

But today's Su Lun was well-versed in dealing with Mage legions, and how could he not have anticipated such a scenario?

A glint flashed in his eyes, and as soon as he touched the ground, the spell was complete. He uttered a single command, "Domain: Living Forbidden Zone!"

In an instant, an air of terror swept over the entire ship.

Su Lun himself made no movements, but the layer of pitch-black luster on the surface of his body spread out rapidly.

The warship wasn't large, and in a blink of an eye, it was completely engulfed.

In a split second, everyone on the pirate ship felt a strange force draining their lives away. Their breaths surged uncontrollably, and the magic they were gathering in their hands was interrupted.

"Not good!"

The crowd was shocked and their complexions turned pale, but it was already too late for any sort of reaction.

The lower the mage's rank, the more they felt as if their bodies were like punctured balloons, with their vigor and life rapidly escaping.

In just a moment, those mages who had originally planned to subdue Su Lun and strike him down helplessly watched as liver spots appeared on their skin. Those spots rapidly grew larger, then merged together. Eventually, all their skin quickly darkened and decayed, emitting a stench of putrefaction.

The low-ranking mages were utterly powerless to stop this life-draining effect, their eyes filled only with shock and desperation, and they lost their lives in the blink of an eye.

A few sixth-tier mages and those two seventh-tier squad leaders, with three to four tenths of their life force drained, still had the strength to fight back. They cast their fire rings in reverse and rapidly retreated, jumping out of the eerie domain's range.

[Living Forbidden Zone] is a domain of death condensed from various laws. Without the capacity to resist its negative aura, the enemy doesn't even qualify to confront him.

This is why being ranked seventh-tier is the watershed that identifies top-tier professionals!

It was just three breaths' time since Su Lun teleported over, and on the vast pirate ship, only he stood alone.

The sea wind howled, and the giant waves never ceased.

With corpses strewn about his feet in disarray, Su Lun stood there expressionlessly, immovable as a mountain.

Behind him, the deathly shadow loomed with black vapors billowing as if it indeed had come from hell to harvest lives. In his indifferent demeanor, there was a complete dispassion towards his enemies.

This scene was witnessed by everyone on the battlefield.

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When the magic shield of the pirate ship suddenly vanished, the people on the other nearby pirate ships also looked over, just in time to witness this scene, and were stunned with horror.

Killed six to seven hundred people without a sound?

Even the battle where a thousand seventh-tier mages ganged up to fight the 'King of the Western Sea,' Morlock Poppen, wasn't as chilling to the core.

Fear comes from the unknown.

At this moment, Su Lun, shrouded by the black domain, seemed to everyone not so much a human, but an indescribable "Great Terror."

This eerie spectacle didn't just terrify the pirate side; even the people on the Eternal Night gazing from afar were dumbstruck!

If the other members of the Dawn group had hardly understood how Su Lun had killed that sacred army nun earlier,

now, they understood.

One person... killed everyone on a ship in an instant?

Such a terrifying domain!

Such formidable combat strength!

On the deck of the Eternal Night, Lolo Ta, Tanni, Dora... everyone was absolutely astounded.

Mr. Su Lun is actually this strong?!

Kit let out an astonished cry, "Damn, what kind of domain is this? Why is it so bizarre?!"

He'd been rescued by Su Lun and had seen some of his methods, thinking he himself had already greatly overestimated Su Lun. He had assumed that Su Lun's strength might be on par with the "Top Ten Legendary Hunters."

But now with this move, he realized that Su Lun's prowess was beyond his wildest imagination.

That was a magical team of five hundred people... just killed like that?

Is this really only seventh-tier power?

While shocked, Kit was also filled with excitement.

Everyone from the Dawn group was also excitedly howling, their spirits high!

...

With an indifferent expression, Su Lun entered battle mode, his mind solely focused on how to end the fight quickly.

After he had killed the people on that one ship, the mages on the other ships simultaneously launched their instant-cast spells at him.

With a "crack," a lightning bolt as thick as a water barrel came crashing down, reducing both man and ship to dust in the attack.

A hundred meters away, the figure of Su Lun appeared once more.

Once again, numerous bolts of lightning struck forth, and he dodged again.

His now[Teleport]had virtually no casting delay, as fluid as breathing. While lightning spells were fast, as long as he was cautious, they were unlikely to trouble him.

However, Su Lun didn't attempt to teleport to the other remaining magical team's ships.

The Legion Mages were already on guard, going there again had a certain risk.

Su Lun didn't give those guys any chance.

With a single tug of his hand, shadows that moved extremely quickly passed beneath the water.

"There's something in the water!"

The pirates on those ships also noticed something, but it was too late.

Suddenly, a harsh "crack" "crack" of splintering wood could be heard by their ears.

Like a fountain erupting, tentacles of mechanical octopi instantly burst through the decks of several pirate ships.

The Legion's magical shields weren't meant to encompass entire ships, only the parts above water, to ward off cannon attacks.

And mechanical octopi were the best at breaching ships, a type of mechanical beasts those Mages had never seen.

Their powerful suckers could firmly attach to the hull, and with various ship-breaking tools on their mechanical arms, even armored ships could be easily breached. Let alone wooden warships?

Even elite warships with enchanted plating couldn't last long, they were quickly torn into pieces.

And these weren't the usual octopi with just a few meters-long tentacles, but gigantic octopi where each tentacle was dozens of meters long!

Ever since capturing that "Northern Sea Leviathan: Kraken" last time, Dr. Banks had cultivated a large batch of enlarged octopi. After the battle in the mines of Gold Digger Island, Su Lun had emptied the secret mechabeast research base of Duke Rafael. He had enough materials, equipment, and technicians to make plenty of large mechanical octopi.

Naval battle?

With these large mechanical octopi, even without the Eternal Night, those enemies didn't qualify for a naval battle in Su Lun's eyes.

Now, he had practically filled all the gaps in the Legion's combat capabilities.

Just while turning around, Su Lun's mechanical octopus legion, with hundreds of octopi, had already clung to those dozen-plus pirate ships. The sound of wood splintering was incessant, countless mechanical tentacles sprouted from the pirate ships.

The Magical Squad was not weak; they bombarded with all sorts of magic, killing some of the mechanical octopi.

But Su Lun had a large number of replacements at his disposal, able to sustain such combat losses.

With the Eternal Night providing accurate distant cannon fire, it didn't take many rounds before the ships that had escaped far away were also all sunk.

Once the ships were destroyed, the formations of the several five-hundred-member Mage groups were scattered, and the water surface for miles around was covered with floating Mages and pirates who had fallen overboard.

What followed was close combat.

In the sky, a giant cross appeared, with countless transparent threads dangling down.

Su Lun didn't unleash the full force of his puppet legion to kill the enemy, as these shipless foes no longer posed much of a threat. After dispersing several magical formations, he left the rest to the members of the Dawn Squad.

He had more important things to do.

Su Lun turned his attention to Qian Tiao and the others who were fighting fiercely.

He didn't want to miss the opportunity to fight against eighth-tier professionals directly.

King of the Western Sea Morlock, although called an Eighth-Tier Gatekeeper, was truly of the eighth order.

An eighth-tier Alchemist reaches the "Overlord Body Realm," which is a super-strong state of overpowering and dominating with an invincible physique, where normal attacks come with critical hits!

Moreover, Morlock himself was a "B-026 Stone Giant" with second phase innate talent; his attacks weren't strong among the eighth-order, but he was very hard to kill.

This realm's comprehension of elemental law brought a pressure as sharp as a knife, another level entirely.

Su Lun and Qian Tiao were both exceptional seventh-tier individuals, with such an opponent hard to come by.

There was also "Duke of Blood" Huazhuasi, the centuries-old vampire, who required the enlightenment of advancing to eighth-tier.

And so, several seventh-tier members of the Dawn Squad surrounded Morlock and gave him a beating.

Although they encountered many dangerous situations, once they held on, death was the only outcome left for Morlock.

...

Throughout the battle, Number 19 did not show herself or join in.

Su Lun didn't feel there was a need for her to join the fight.

It's best to keep one's trump card hidden.

Finally, after the Dawn Squad had almost wiped out everyone on the sea surface, Su Lun's battle also neared its end.

With the ships destroyed and multiple instances of teleportation making escape impossible, Morlock, outnumbered, was slain on the spot.

The Pirate King who once dominated the Western Sea ultimately died in this unknown part of the Far West Sea.

"You have stripped the soul of 'Morlock Poppen' "

"You have obtained a vast amount of 'Eighth Order Earth Elemental Law Fragments,' 'Eighth Order Strength Law Fragments'"

"You have gained some insight into the 'Overlord Body Realm'"

"You have learned some secrets about the West Sea Fleet..."

"Spiritual power+..."

Su Lun harvested the soul of this eighth-tier professional, reaping a bountiful harvest.

The members of the Dawn Patrol busied themselves salvaging the spoils of war from the sea.

The outcome of war was such that as long as you won, you were bound to make a huge profit.

This wave alone had swallowed up more than twenty ships and several thousand mages, marking another great harvest.

As the battle area had been selected deliberately, the water wasn't too deep. The mechanical octopuses that were killed were recollected and sent back to the War Workshop to be reforged.

The Dawn Patrol could almost say, with minimal battle damage, they had gained immense profit.

On the other hand, before the battle, the Dawn Patrol had used a signal jammer to block communication signals across a large swath of the nearby sea.

It was highly likely that the situation here hadn't reached the encampment island of the thousand-mage phalanx.

Even if it had been transmitted, since the previous artillery fire had destroyed most of the ships, those guys would have to think twice about sending reinforcements.

The current power of the Dawn Patrol was no weaker than any pirate fleet in the alchemy plane. Without a few eighth-tiers, anyone who came would be delivering themselves.

Besides, if they really couldn't beat the opposition, Su Lun could completely escape by teleporting.

There was almost no threat.

However, more coincidentally, while the battle on their side was still not over, Su Lun noticed that violent combat had broken out in the vicinity of the "Rainbow Well" island in the far distance.

When he teleported over to take a look, the mages from the celestial plane and a deep-sea monster were engaged in a fierce battle.

This maritime zone was not the domain of humans.

Dragons, Gorgons, deep-sea monsters... These natives were not rare.

The previous artillery commotion had attracted monsters from within a hundred miles, and that area was likely to be lively for a while.

But, the combat power of the thousand-mage phalanx was tremendous, and they had a steady stream of personnel teleporting in; they were not worried about trench warfare.

Su Lun didn't watch for long before that troublemaking sea monster was slain by the mage phalanx.

If he wanted to divert disaster elsewhere, he'd need to come up with a good long-term plan.

...

Before long, the Eternal Night continued to sail on the sea surface.

Su Lun also teleported back.

On the deck, people were counting the loot from this battle, with piles of magic wands, robes, crystal balls, and magic tomes stacked like mountains.

The members of the Dawn Patrol were witnessing the wealth of inter-planar mages for the first time, each one bubbling with excitement.

"Oh, these mages are really rich, much more so than those pirates. My God, every storage ring is filled with piles of magic gemstones..."

"Hahaha... High-ranking mages need a lot of magical tools for practice, being wealthy is normal. We've struck it rich this time."

"Oh, thanks to Mr. Su Lun! If it weren't for him sinking those guys' pirate ships, we couldn't possibly have stopped them all with just our cannons."

"Exactly, exactly! Mr. Su Lun is mighty!"

"..."

As soon as this was exclaimed, everyone on the large ship burst into cheers.

Su Lun, hearing the exaggerated praises of everyone, also responded with a smile.

Then he gathered with Qiantiao, Barrett, and a few other high-ranking fighters to hold a brief meeting on the deck.

Given the current situation, venturing blindly into the waters of Dragon Country was not a wise choice.

And unless the problem of the teleportation array was resolved, those guys from the celestial plane would be a huge hidden danger.

After some discussion, they couldn't come up with any good solutions.

The mages had established defensive positions on the island's mountain, even ninth-tiers would have problems charging in. It'd be even less likely for the Dawn Patrol to have any chance of success.

Just when everyone felt they had not come up with any good plans, Su Lun thought of the Naga tribe sacred item "Rainbow Conch" he had found when he saved Kite.

He looked up at Tanni, who was eavesdropping among the group of youths on the mast, and asked, "Tanni, do you think you can use this conch?"

Tanni leapt down, "Eh... this conch feels so familiar."

Su Lun explained, "This is a sacred item of the Naga tribe."

Tanni said, "No wonder, I feel like I've seen it when I was little."

He took the rainbow conch, and feeling an inexplicable familiarity, he put it to his mouth and blew into it, puffing his cheeks.

As he blew, a melodious and pleasing sound of the conch spread out.

PS: Hit a writer's block, hence there's less update.