Chapter 308: Overwhelming

The moment the legendary lich's body shattered, Li Mochen manipulated 'Hazel's' form, wrapped in blazing black flames, and charged deep into the magic tower. He knew that what he had shattered was not the lich's true body, but a magical puppet used to substitute for death.

The real legendary lich was regrouping within the magic tower! In less than a second, it could use the tower's energy pool and magic arrays to construct an extremely powerful 'defensive fortification'.

This was undoubtedly a very powerful lich, skilled in space-time and evocation magic. If not for the fact that this lich had selflessly devoted the entire magic tower's energy to protecting the purple-robed youth, then even with Li Mochen's combat awareness and Hazel's demigod body, it would have been difficult to kill and annihilate it in such a short time.

But now—

With a barely audible 'crack', the seven-meter-tall alloy gate, covered with countless magical runes, shattered into pieces before 'Hazel'!

Under the assault of the black calamity fire, the alloy gate and the magic arrays within the tower were already overburdened, and the dragon claw that 'Hazel' struck was more than they could bear!

The entire process took less than a thirtieth of a second. Not only was the tower gate smashed, but the defensive array inside the magic tower, which under sufficient energy infusion could have withstood more than ten 'Annihilation Magic Cannons', was also blasted through with a huge hole by 'her'!

'Hazel' under Li Mochen's control not only possessed demigod dragon strength, but 'her' technique was also astonishing. The ten extended sharp claws were even sharper and sturdier than holy artifact daggers. They constantly vibrated slightly, stirring waves of magical ripples, destroying the surrounding magical rune structures. Sometimes they would trace some奇妙 and profound trajectories, precisely piercing the weaknesses and flaws of the magic and magic arrays.

"Roar!"

At this moment, three powerful auras surged from behind 'Hazel'—the twenty-fifth-level bone dragons raised by the legendary lich in this demiplane.

They were all beings only one step away from entering the legendary realm. But 'Hazel' did not even glance at these bone dragons. From her forehead, a powerful dragon might burst forth again, causing the three bone dragons to nearly freeze in place.

Meanwhile, under Li Mochen's control, 'Hazel's' body continued to advance with overwhelming momentum! First floor! Second floor! Third floor!

Layer after layer of magic arrays shattered and collapsed; one after another, gargoyles and metal golems attempting to block were smashed to pieces. In just one-tenth of a second, 'Hazel' had already reached the fifth floor of the magic tower.

"Defend!"

On the magic altar at the center of the sixth floor, the soul fire in Lind Emerson's eye sockets flickered wildly. He decisively abandoned the twenty-second-level legendary spell 'Heavenly Chains' he was preparing and instead struck the ground with his platinum scepter.

At that moment, the six magic energy pools within the tower were drained frantically. All remaining arrays inside the magic tower were activated to their maximum state, forming a solid protective barrier beneath the sixth floor. The metal golems, up to level twenty, also surged in aura, their magical sources strengthened to the extreme.

Immediately after, at the tip of Lind Emerson's platinum scepter, powerful magical energy began to gestate.

"Imprisonment!"

This was the first spell the legendary lich cast after retreating to the top of the magic tower. Instantly, layer upon layer of magic arrays formed around 'Hazel', not only suppressing her power but also sealing her magical energy.

These were extremely powerful sealing arrays, utilizing the four elements of earth, water, wind, and fire, as well as space-time power, attempting to seal and imprison her at the top of the magic tower.

But at this moment, Li Mochen suddenly turned into flames and flashed in place, directly crossing space and entering the sixth floor. He left behind the layers of sealing arrays and the nearly indestructible magical energy shield.

In terms of understanding space-time, he was no weaker than this opponent! And among dragons, black dragons, besides their powerful bodies and innate mastery of fire magic, also possessed space-time abilities second only to shadow dragons.

The opponent's desperate draining of the magic energy pools and full activation of the magic arrays had indeed strengthened the sixth floor's defenses to the limit, but correspondingly relaxed the space-time barriers.

Facing the legendary lich again, Li Mochen could clearly sense the intense emotional fluctuations within its spirit. He remained unmoved, and his hand, covered in pure black dragon scales, struck toward the top of the altar with calamity fire condensed to the extreme.

Lind Emerson once again struck the platinum scepter before him: "Astral Escape!"

Instantly, layers of magical runes continuously formed beneath his feet. But this time, a small accident occurred in Lind Emerson's spellcasting—a discordant symbol appeared, causing the nearly completed magic array to collapse due to magical energy conflict.

The legendary lich's body stiffened, and the soul fire in its eye sockets conveyed obvious astonishment.

For a legendary lich mage, such an error should never have occurred! Then it seemed to realize something and looked at the opposite side: "Calamity Divine Authority? You are—"

In that instant, its body was pierced by 'Hazel's' dragon claw, and the leaping 'calamity fire' destroyed every part of the lich's body in moments.

Only a few of Lind Emerson's magical artifacts remained, including the robe, crown, and platinum scepter, all preserved almost intact. Li Mochen grabbed them all and then realized that he needed to make a spatial artifact for Hazel. He had nowhere to put these things now, and in Hazel's current state, she couldn't perform celestial arts like 'Qiankun Divine Seal'.

So Li Mochen simply discarded most of them on the sixth floor of the magic tower, keeping only the platinum scepter and a magical seal ring.

If he wasn't mistaken, the platinum scepter in his hand was most likely the legendary lich's phylactery, and having this third-grade holy artifact staff in hand would aid him in the upcoming battle.

As for the magical seal ring, it was closely connected to the magic tower he was in. Holding this item, Li Mochen could clearly sense all the magic arrays within the tower, as well as the six magic energy pools and the status of all metal golems. This was the key artifact for controlling this demiplane and the magic tower, something he must keep in hand.

What he valued most in this magic tower were the magic energy pools containing vast amounts of pure magical energy, almost equivalent to an external elixir, which could be directly used as magical power. And with this magical seal ring, even from thousands of miles away, he could draw out part of the energy from the magic energy pools.

After that, Li Mochen turned his gaze to the purple-robed youth.

During his battle with the legendary lich, this person had already used space magic to escape. With a legendary twenty-second-level 'Hecate (Note 1) Gate', he forcibly broke free from the spatial restraints Li Mochen had imposed and fled a thousand miles away.

But if that was all, this person could not escape Li Mochen's pursuit, and he had no intention of letting him go.

Note 1: Hecate, Greek goddess of roads, the three-formed goddess of opportunity, goddess of magic, queen of ghosts, and goddess of the underworld, a very powerful Titan goddess.