Chapter 274: Star Spirit Bell Tower and the Savage Spirit

Chapter 274: Star Spirit Bell Tower and the Savage Spirit

2024-11-05 Author: Insomnia is Better than Writing Books

"Is this a piece of the Corpse of the Toxic Death Lord?"

Su Nan gazed deeply at the swamp below.

The greenish swamp water was incredibly viscous, constantly bubbling and emitting greenish smoke. It covered an area of about a hundred square meters, standing out starkly against the surrounding gravel.

In the center of the swamp, a thumb-sized piece of grayish-white flesh floated.

Even from a distance, Su Nan could still sense the intense energy particle fluctuations emanating from the flesh.

Centering on the swamp, the ground around it was littered with the corpses of over twenty divine creatures and thousands of puppet remains.

Just this small piece of divine corpse had transformed into dozens of divine creatures.

The power and strong infectious nature of the gods were evident from this.

Su Nan extended his hand, using the Mage Hand spell to grab the grayish-white flesh, intending to retrieve it from the swamp.

However, before it could touch the flesh, the Mage Hand was quickly eroded by the greenish smoke rising from the swamp.

"The corrosiveness is quite strong."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow, and with a thought, a stream of silvery liquid metal flowed from his palm, forming a giant hand that reached for the grayish-white flesh.

The silvery giant hand passed through the swamp without any resistance, but the moment it touched the grayish-white flesh, the contact point was rapidly eroded and worn down, causing the entire hand to shrink slowly but visibly.

Su Nan had to add more liquid metal to maintain the shape of the silvery hand and retrieve the grayish-white flesh.

"The corrosiveness is so strong that any creature below the Mage level would be infected and transformed into a toxic monster if they even slightly approached it."

"Even a Level 1 Mage would find it difficult to keep this thing close for a long time."

Just a thumb-sized piece of divine corpse was this dangerous; it was hard to imagine how terrifying the corrosiveness of an entire divine corpse would be.

"It seems I need to create a special container for this."

Su Nan planned to return to the Mage Tower to study the characteristics of the divine corpse fragment and then create a specialized container.

However, when he returned to the Mage Tower, he found that Cyril had arrived.

"It looks like you've made good progress and found the divine corpse fragment so quickly."

Cyril's gaze fell on the silvery liquid sphere floating beside Su Nan, his eyes lighting up slightly.

With his mental power, he could naturally sense the dense divine energy inside.

"Fortunately, I brought a special container for the divine corpse fragment."

Cyril tossed a ring, which floated slowly toward Su Nan.

The latter caught it and examined it carefully.

The ring had a rather ancient design, with intricate and complex patterns engraved on its surface, giving it a sense of stillness.

"This is a God-Banishing Ring created by the Star Spirit Bell Tower, capable of suppressing the leakage of divine energy and divine power." Cyril explained.

Su Nan immediately understood.

Among the many mage factions, the Star Spirit Bell Tower was the most enthusiastic about slaying gods, without a doubt.

Nearly a third of the gods slain by mages so far were the work of the Star Spirit Bell Tower.

It was said that the founder of the Star Spirit Bell Tower came from a home plane that had been destroyed by a god, and he vowed to hunt and kill gods for the rest of his life, founding the Star Spirit Bell Tower with the primary goal of slaying gods.

Most of the spells, magical items, and puppets designed to combat gods in the mage world were invented by the mages of the Star Spirit Bell Tower.

When the grayish-white flesh was placed inside the God-Banishing Ring, the corrosive energy that had permeated the surroundings instantly disappeared.

Su Nan retracted the liquid metal and nodded at Cyril.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Cyril hesitated for a moment but ultimately decided not to try to persuade Su Nan to hand over the divine corpse fragment to the Codex of Wisdom.

From the look on Su Nan's face, it was clear he had no intention of doing so and likely wanted to keep the fragment to study it further.

In fact, almost every affiliated organization would make this choice.

After all, opportunities to study the corpse of a god were rare.

"How is your progress?"

Su Nan's words interrupted Cyril's thoughts, and he smiled and said:

"It's going well. We've made some progress. After all, the main branch deployed a considerable army to the Earth Crystal Plane this time, and it's led by a True Spirit descendant."

"True Spirit descendant? Which one?"

"Ronin Ward."

"What is his relationship with Darus Ward?"

Cyril looked at Su Nan in surprise, not expecting him to know about Lord Darus.

Among the many scholars of the Codex of Wisdom, Darus was the most low-key, with little fame, and many affiliated organizations were unaware of his existence. Su Nan, however, seemed to know.

"Ronin is Lord Darus's son," Cyril said with a hint of envy. "He advanced to the Third Tier Crystal Mage a hundred years ago and is one of the geniuses recognized by the Codex of Wisdom as having the greatest potential to become a True Spirit Mage."

Su Nan's eyes flickered as he asked, "Which other mage factions are led by True Spirit descendants?"

Cyril sneered, "There are quite a few. The Deep Blue Alliance, the Star Spirit Bell Tower, the Obsidian Throne, the Bloodline Jungle—basically, all large mage factions are led by True Spirit descendants. In addition, the Pale Mask, the Sea Leviathan, the Thousand-Headed Bird, the Rainbow Light City, the Black Rope Tower, and others are also led by True Spirit descendants."

At this point, Cyril gave Su Nan a strange look and hesitated, "I heard you killed Makarov of the Black Rope Tower in Rainbow Light City. Is that true?"

Su Nan admitted it frankly, "Yes, it is."

It was indeed true.

Cyril clicked his tongue in amazement but wasn't particularly surprised.

He had witnessed firsthand the terrifying power of Su Nan's third innate ability combined with alchemical engravings. Although Makarov was a renowned Third Tier Mage, he had no chance against such a powerful attack.

What puzzled him was how Makarov couldn't even escape.

"You need to be careful. The Black Rope Tower is known for its grudges. Killing one of their promising Third Tier Mages, they won't let this go easily."

"Normally, they wouldn't dare to act openly, but in the Earth Crystal Plane, they have fewer reservations. I suspect they might target the Star Alliance."

Su Nan remained calm, "Thank you for the warning. I'll be careful."

Seeing that Su Nan had a plan, Cyril didn't press the matter further. They chatted for a few more minutes before he took his leave.

However, after flying a short distance, he couldn't help but turn back to look at the busy golem army in the distance, a hint of doubt in his eyes.

Wasn't the Star Alliance's army a bit too large?

After pondering for a moment, Cyril shook his head, reined in his thoughts, and turned to leave.

Once Cyril was gone, Su Nan turned to Lize and instructed, "Find the bases of the other mage factions and send the Red-Eyed Crows to monitor their activities, especially those of the Black Rope Tower."

Lize nodded in agreement and asked, "Did Cyril bring some news?"

Su Nan didn't hide anything and recounted the situation with the Black Rope Tower.

After listening, Lize nodded lightly, showing she understood, but didn't seem overly concerned.

At any other time, the Black Rope Tower would undoubtedly be far superior to the Star Alliance, but the current situation was quite special.

In the Earth Crystal Plane, the Star Alliance didn't need to worry about anyone except the few large mage factions.

After giving the instructions, Su Nan went to the laboratory, activated the isolation array, and began to study the divine corpse fragment.

In the mage world, the corpse of a deity was an extremely precious and versatile rare material.

Extracting divine energy to cultivate divine creatures was a given, but it was also commonly used to create potions, magical items, and puppets.

For example, the Divine Corpse Golem.

The Divine Corpse Golem is a type of corporeal golem.

Corporeal golems are among the lowest-tier golems, but the creator of the Divine Corpse Golem took a different approach, using a divine corpse as the main body and combining it with various rare materials to create the Divine Corpse Golem.

The Divine Corpse Golem, besides having an indestructible body that is immune to all spells below the sixth circle and equivalent magical abilities, can also use some divine powers, making it the most powerful war machine below a True Spirit Mage.

Even against a True Spirit Mage, it can still put up a fight.

If made from the corpse of a medium or high-powered deity, the Divine Corpse Golem can even match a True Spirit Mage in direct combat.

In a sense, the Divine Corpse Golem is one of the greatest achievements in puppetry.

The only thing that can be compared to it is the Magic-Empowered Construct, a legendary construct life form.

Apart from these, there have been attempts to integrate divine corpses into body modifications, but due to the high level of contamination from divine corpses, there have been few practical results so far.

After three days, Su Nan thoroughly studied the divine corpse fragment, organized the experimental data, and without hesitation, extracted all the divine energy from the fragment.

Although he wasn't short of divine energy, he adhered to the principle of not wasting anything that could be used.

Besides, the Codex of Wisdom didn't require the divine corpse fragment to retain its divine energy when submitted.

Time passed quickly.

Before he knew it, it had been over a month since entering the Earth Crystal Plane.

Under the relentless search by the Star Alliance army, five more pieces of divine corpse fragments were found subsequently, adding up to about a third of a palm's size when combined with the first piece.

However, after this, the search speed significantly slowed down.

This was mainly because as the search area expanded, the chances of encountering other mage factions increased greatly.

In the past few days, the Star Alliance army had already encountered other mage factions' search teams in the wilderness three times.

However, both sides exercised restraint, passing by each other without any conflict.

But Su Nan was very clear that this was only temporary.

Once most of the divine corpse fragments were found, and the remaining pieces became scarce, various mage factions would inevitably resort to force to compete for the remaining fragments.

That would be the true beginning of chaos.

Just after finishing his cultivation, Su Nan opened his eyes to receive a message from Lize. He then went to the meeting hall.

Lize and others were already gathered in the hall, staring intently at a floating light screen in the air.

Seeing Su Nan, Lize said, “You arrived just in time. The Red-Eyed Crows have detected a conflict between the Deep Blue Alliance and the Savage Spirit. I sent a mage to transmit the battlefield images. I believe it's necessary for us to observe the combat strength of large mage factions.”

Su Nan raised an eyebrow in surprise, not expecting the Deep Blue Alliance and the Savage Spirit to clash so soon.

It was likely that both factions had found large pieces of the divine corpse and were unwilling to let them go, leading to the conflict.

Approaching the light screen, Su Nan focused his gaze.

The image was clear, showing a diagonal downward view from a distance, encompassing most of the battlefield.

On the vast battlefield, millions of creatures were engaged in a chaotic melee, including human knights, golem puppets, and various bizarre creatures.

Some of these creatures were alchemical beings from mage laboratories, some were native races from affiliated planes, and others were slave armies purchased from slave markets.

There were also many prehistoric-like beasts with fangs and claws.

Su Nan even saw a giant bird with a body surrounded by hundreds of thin black smoke trails and covered in metallic feathers, fighting a dragon to a standstill.

“An ancient beast cultivated by the Savage Spirit, I presume.”

Su Nan's gaze flickered.

The Savage Spirit was renowned for its expertise in cultivating exotic beasts, similar to the Thousand-Headed Bird, but in reality, the two were vastly different.

The Savage Spirit not only excelled in cultivating exotic beasts far more than the Thousand-Headed Bird but also had a much more aggressive approach.

Hunting ancient exotic beasts was a common practice, and they often attacked other mages to seize rare exotic beasts.

In terms of cultivating exotic beasts, the Savage Spirit had attempted to fuse various beings, including humans, with exotic beasts to create new life forms.

Many mages had been captured by the Savage Spirit and used as experimental materials for exotic beast fusion.

Such an aggressive approach naturally made many mages despise them, leading to the Savage Spirit being categorized as a dark mage faction.

Compared to the Savage Spirit's actions, Su Nan's previous biological modification experiments were like child's play.

Reining in his thoughts, he continued to observe the image.

Thousands of races were engaged in a brutal melee on the battlefield, a true battle of myriad races!

On such a plane battlefield, knights and grand knights were merely cannon fodder, with only legendary knights barely qualifying as the backbone of the fighting force.

In the image, both sides had highly capable armies.

A significant proportion of the combatants were legendary warriors.

Additionally, there were no shortage of mage-level combatants.

From the image alone, it was estimated that there were no fewer than three thousand mage-level combatants, including mages, puppets, and various powerful creatures.

"The entire Star Alliance has only just over a thousand mage-level combatants."

"The forces on the battlefield represent only a small part of the Deep Blue Alliance and the Savage Spirit's total strength. The depth of large mage factions is indeed profound, and the Star Alliance still has a long way to go."

Su Nan mused, his gaze shifting to the sky above the battlefield.

There, a dense cluster of war constructs and mage towers floated, far fewer in number than on the ground but with no less intense combat.

One side had deployed hundreds of towering spires, entirely sea blue in color. Though slightly smaller than small mage towers, they were still colossal.

Mobile spires!

The Deep Blue Alliance's renowned war constructs in the multiverse!

(End of Chapter)

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