Chapter 149: The True Archmage

After calming his mind, Lin Lei began to care about his current situation; the most important thing right now was to figure out exactly how many years Lenna had sent him back in time.

In this strange Star System, there were very few events that could be used for comparison, so determining this was not easy.

Lin Lei asked Hede indirectly but found that he simply did not know concepts like Demon and Abyss, which were familiar to the ear, and he had not even heard of Sky City, the City of Saints, or the Holy City.

This made Lin Lei secretly wonder: what era had Lenna sent him to? How could the people here not know about the three major Energy Controller organizations that controlled the Andromeda Galaxy?

Was this place too remote, or had the future situation simply not formed yet?

If it was the latter, then the time regression was not just a year or two; it would have to be counted in millennia at least. Did Lenna have that ability?

Thinking of this, Lin Lei sank into his Will Space in the room Hede had specially tidied up for him. In this space, there was Lenna’s final legacy: a Will Ring! It was just like the one the Dark Saint had back then.

This was the price of the time regression, causing a World Tree that could influence a world several Light Years away with just Will and energy to leave only the final seed.

The Lenna at this moment only retained her core elements of the eleventh dimension. Even the Law information in her Will was scarce, making her even more miserable than the Dark Saint back then; she could not even manifest into Lenna’s image.

She just floated quietly in Lin Lei’s Will Space, waiting for Lin Lei to resurrect her.

Obviously, it was impossible for Lin Lei to get useful information from her now, so he had no choice but to withdraw from the Will Space.

Since he could not get the information he needed in this remote small town, Lin Lei prepared to leave here and look around elsewhere to seek some clues, while also preparing to comprehend the next Dimensional Element.

He had stayed here for half a month, and Old Hede had always treated him kindly. Now that he was leaving, it seemed somewhat inappropriate to just wave his sleeve and walk away coolly.

After thinking for a moment, Lin Lei prepared to leave some things behind. Gold, the hard currency of the interstellar world, was the best reward he could think of at the moment.

Thinking of this, the figure of Yan Siyu flashed through Lin Lei’s mind. She had taught him this trick in the carriage outside Roland City on the Montokas Star, but now her trace was faint, and he had basically broken off relations with her.

Getting gold might be difficult for others, but for the current Lin Lei, it was effortless.

Creation in the Void was not a myth, but a real existence!

Although the Andromeda Galaxy had some differences from the Galaxy in basic constants, the specific physical laws had not changed. The Dimensional Elements Lin Lei had comprehended could still function here.

His power ful Will began to interfere with the Void in front of him. Various gas molecules in the air were instantly turned into individual protons and neutrons by Lin Lei using the Disintegration and Destruction Dimensions.

Subsequently, Lin Lei began to use the Creation Dimension to combine the isolated protons and neutrons. Here, the strong interaction between these nucleons had been weakened by the Destruction Dimension to a very tiny, almost negligible level.

Lin Lei simply stacked them into the most stable, non-radioactive isotope of gold.

Only after all this was completed did Lin Lei relax his Will’s interference with the Dimensional Elements, and a piece of real pure gold appeared out of thin air in the air, about the size of a brick.

Lin Lei placed it on the bed, then left Hede’s house invisibly and walked towards the outside of the city.

It was night time. Tanster had no satellites, and the air was pure, so the stars in the sky were exceptionally bright. Lin Lei raised his head and looked for his home in the boundless starry sky—the Galaxy.

At this time, the Galaxy looked no different from the dim stars; it was inconspicuous in the starry sky. Presumably, the people here could never imagine that this blurry bright spot contained nearly two hundred billion stars and brilliant civilizations.

Lin Lei did not observe the Galaxy carefully; it was too far away, over two million Light Years from here. What Lin Lei could see was only its image from over two million years ago. At that time, none of the things he was familiar with had appeared yet.

Sighing, Lin Lei walked towards the outside of the small town. The security of the small town was good, and it had quite strong defense forces, so although Old Hede said that bandits appeared near Moka Town, the small town had not really been harassed by them.

But when Lin Lei walked to the edge of the town, he found that tonight was an exception; outside the small town, it was very unpeaceful.

A group of nearly three hundred people, under the cover of night, were sneaking secretly towards Moka Town.

Lin Lei did not believe that such sneaky behavior was not that of bandits. He did not want this peaceful small town to be destroyed by these bandits, so Lin Lei prepared to take action.

But someone took action faster than him. On the low city wall of Moka Town, the lights suddenly became bright. Standing on the wall was a row of Moka Town guards holding bows and arrows. These guards did not speak but directly rained arrows down upon the bandits.

The bandits below turned pale with fright and scrambled to find cover to hide. At the same time, a rough voice shouted: “Ramondsto, you are ruthless! But today, you definitely won’t have the last laugh!”

This Ramondsto was the leader of the guards of Moka Town. He was also holding a giant bow, shooting arrows at the bandits below. Hearing the words of the bandit leader, he shot an arrow directly towards the source of the sound.

“Ude, you have said this many times. Where does your confidence come from this time? Did you invite another liar who claims to be a Mage?”

This bandit leader named Ude was forced into a somewhat sorry state by Ramondsto, but he responded proudly: “Haha, you will know how stupid your words are now.”

As soon as his words fell, a bright lightning bolt struck the city wall of Moka Town, directly striking down a group of archers on the wall.

Ramondsto was shocked and hurriedly looked for cover to hide. He had misjudged the situation today; this was the power of a real Mage!

Since when would proud Mages associate with bandits?

There was also an uproar among the archers on the city wall, and fear quickly spread. For ordinary people, even with superb martial arts, it was difficult to fight against a Mage; this was common sense!

Even if the other side only had one Mage, it was not something Moka Town could handle.

Ude’s voice came out again: “How about it, Ramondsto? This is the Archmage Loga we paid a heavy price to invite. You’d better run away quickly, Moka Town belongs to us! Hahaha…” he laughed wildly.

Ramondsto was not a person without knowledge. After listening to Ude’s boasting, he retorted disdainfully: “Archmage? Ude, open your dog eyes and don’t be deceived. An Archmage would associate with you? I think this guy who is hiding his head and tail is at most a Level 1 Mage, and a hopeless one at that!”

A real Mage had a boundless future, so how could he be willing to be a thug for others and commit such acts of robbery.

Obviously, this Mage named Loga had been hit where it hurt by Ramondsto, and a golden energy light point immediately shot towards Ramondsto’s hiding place.

This was a single-target attack method of an Energy Controller. Lin Lei had seen it before; its penetrating power was astonishing, and the cover Ramondsto was currently hiding behind could not protect this town guard leader.

Lin Lei did not want to see Moka Town fail, so he intervened.

The energy light point fired by Mage Loga suddenly disappeared halfway through its flight, as if it did not exist.

Everyone on the battlefield was watching this dazzling energy light point, but now a sudden change occurred, stunning everyone present.

Mage Loga looked at the tall black shadow at the town gate as if he had seen a ghost.

Only he saw clearly what happened in that instant; his energy light point suddenly lost contact with him and was then forcibly dissipated by the black shadow opposite him.

Obviously, the other party was also a Mage, and judging by his action just now, his ability was much stronger than his own!

There were no cross-level battles between Mages. A low-level Mage, upon meeting a Mage one level higher, had to maintain a respectful attitude. If there was a conflict, he had to give way proactively; to put it bluntly, he had to take a detour.

Ude, however, was not clear about the current situation. He said to Loga somewhat anxiously: “Master, what is going on? Why did your spell fail?”

Ude was very depressed. In order to invite a Mage, he had paid a huge price, and he hoped nothing would go wrong.

Loga ignored Ude’s words completely. He just said respectfully to Lin Lei: “I am Level 1 Mage Loga. May I ask who you are, sir?”

Lin Lei did not reply but prepared to wipe out this bandit group in one fell swoop, treating it as doing a good deed for Moka Town.

There was another point; he wanted to test whether he could release a Curse like other Saints.

A Curse, as long as one’s Will and power reached a certain level, could be released. It had huge lethality, ordinary people could not defend against it, and those hit were certain to die, often in very painful ways. It was also infamous in the Andromeda Galaxy.

Lin Lei raised one hand, which emitted a faint light. This was to guide the Dimensional Elements in order to build the foundation for the Will to leave the body.

For this first Curse, Lin Lei prepared to use a copy of the one Saint Anthony had used, except he changed Disintegration and Aggregation to Destruction and Creation, making it even more profound than the Curse Saint Anthony had once used on him!

“May all enemies who block my path suffer torment in their bodies and eternal pain in their souls!”

As soon as Lin Lei’s words came out, the faces of everyone present changed. Whether it was the guards of Moka Town or the bandits opposite, all wore expressions of fear.

Mage Loga almost went mad. He did not expect, never expected, that a real Archmage would appear in such a small town. He just wanted to earn some extra money to get funding for his research to improve his Mage level faster.

“Attack him quickly, quickly! Otherwise, we are all finished!” Loga shouted hysterically, although even he knew clearly that this was just a dying struggle.

But no one listened to him. Almost all the bandits immediately threw down their weapons and ran madly towards the rear, crying and screaming all the way.

Even the guards on the city wall, even knowing they were not the target of the Curse, all turned pale. They looked at each other, but no one could speak.

Curse was the real reason that elevated a Mage from a long-range attacker to a terrifying existence between a Demon and a Deity.

At this time, Lin Lei’s first Curse had already left his body. A sinister, cold aura pounced forward at high speed, like a surging flood, unavoidable!

Lin Lei’s Curse bypassed Mage Loga; this person was still useful to him, and he had to keep him to ask some things. The other bandits were not so lucky.

The Curse caught up with the first bandit. He let out a miserable scream and fell to the ground, frantically scratching his own body. An intense numbness, itching, and pain attacked him at the level of Will.

Very quickly, this bandit tore his own body apart. He even pulled out his own intestines, yet he still did not stop moving, continuing to frantically destroy his own body. The scene was incomparably terrifying.

…Not only the bystanders, but even Lin Lei himself did not expect this Curse to be so terrifying. However, since he had started, he would see it through to the end.

In less than half a minute, the aura of the Curse had shrouded all the bandits. These unlucky fellows howled for a full half an hour before slowly becoming silent, although their bodies still twitched from time to time.

Seeing the miserable state of these bandits, even Lin Lei found it a bit hard to stomach. He decided to release Curses with caution in the future; this manner of death was too terrifying, making one associate it with hell at a glance.

The leader of the guards of Moka Town walked down the city wall tremblingly and came in front of him, saying with a stuttering tone: “Sir… Sir, thank… thank you for your help.”

This one was not like the Level 1 Mage who only knew how to set off fireworks earlier; this was a real strong man. With a raise of his hand, a bandit group of over three hundred people turned to ash.

Lin Lei had no intention of staying here longer. He waved his hand and said: “You are welcome, this is what I should do.”

Lin Lei had stayed here for over half a month, and this guard leader recognized him. He just hadn’t expected that this young man with a kindly face was such a fierce god.

Ramondsto wanted to speak again, but was stopped by Lin Lei raising his hand: “I am leaving here. You tell Old Hede that I thank him for his hospitality over the past half month.”

After saying that, Lin Lei’s figure vanished into the Void. Subsequently, not far away, Mage Loga, who was completely stunned, also disappeared.

Only a faint trace of aura indicated that the two of them had gone far away…

After a long while, Ramondsto turned his head and said to the guards looking at him: “Collect the bodies of these miserable fellows. Forget about what happened today! Mages are not for ordinary people like us to provoke.”