<h4>Chapter 394: Dark Iron Dwarves</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>Shiraishi <strong>Editor: </strong>TheAlliance


    He could onlypound a bottle of Rebirth to deal with this emergency. Rebirth Potion needed a total of four ingredients. Lin Yun looked around his pockets and quickly found three of the needed ingredients, but after a few minutes, he found out that he was missing the zing me Grass.


    ‘Misfortune neveres alone!’


    But soon, Lin Yun felt a warm aura within his Magic Array. This made his eyes shine. The zing me Grass was a verymon herb that usually grew in hot environments, so it shouldn’t be hard to find some around here.


    Lin Yun patted the dust off his clothes and examined his surroundings. It seemed to be a naturally formed cave, a huge, naturally formed karst cave. It was very wide, and after some calctions, Lin Yun roughly estimated that this ce was five kilometers away from the surface... Yet it wasn’t dim at all...


    He followed the warm aura forward and walked for roughly a dozen minutes before the scene in front of him shook him deeply. A huge pce was hovering in midair, fastened to the ground with countless thick chains, and the warm aura wasing from that pce.


    What truly shook him wasn’t the hovering pce, but the manpower needed for such a great feat of engineering. Even during the flourishing period of the 3rd Dynasty, if the entire country was focused on this project, it would still need at least ten years!


    He walked to the hovering pce by following a thick chain. The heatwaveing from below made him frown. There was boilingva emitting terrifying heat below. In a short few seconds, the high temperature made his robe stick to his body due to sweat, and his face flushed red.


    Although the mana here wasn’t as chaotic as earlier, there was still a lot of interference. In such circumstances, it would be very difficult for him to survive if he fell.


    ‘Eh?’


    With a quick nce, he discovered something.


    There were four skeletons floating in theva. These skeletons were a bit special, as they weren’t human skeletons. With a careful look, Lin Yun noticed that they were emitting a gloomy dark-gold luster, and the people these four skeletons belonged to should have been about a meter tall when they were alive...


    ‘Dark Iron Dwarves?’


    Lin Yun frowned. He could confirm that these were the skeletons of Dark Iron Dwarves. They would spend most of their time working by a forge, so they naturally had extremely high heat resistance. It could be seen from these four skeletons. They remained there for at least a millennium and were floating in theva, but they had yet to melt.


    ‘But, howe Dark Iron Dwarves died in this ce... After all, this is within the borders of Ond...’


    The Dark Iron Dwarves were famous in the Nesser Dynasty. They were the servants of the Chromatic Dragons and they held the richest mineral resources on Noscent. They had the most advanced forging techniques, but unfortunately, the era of the Dark Iron Dwarves fell alongside the Nesser Dynasty, when the Dragons went to the void. Now, the Dark Iron Dwarves couldn’t be seen in Noscent. They were already hiding underground and few people would ever meet one alive. Only the best auction halls of Noscent would see a masterpiece of a Dark Iron Dwarf from time to time, proving that the race had yet to be extinct.


    ‘But, what happened to those four Dark Iron Dwarves? Is it rted to the hovering pce?’


    Dark Iron Dwarves were innate forging masters, so finding a hovering pce near them wasn’t surprising at all, but their death put Lin Yun at a loss.


    As he moved alongside the chain, Lin Yun paid attention to theva below, and sure enough, the number of Dark Iron Dwarves’ skeletons weren’t limited to those four. After walking a few more minutes, he found a dozen more.


    A heatwave suddenly rose up as arge, ming bird came out of theva with a sharp cry, pping his wings, surrounding Lin Yun in countless mes.


    ‘me Vulture!’


    This abrupt change startled Lin Yun. He had had a strange feeling while going up the chain, as if someone had been spying on him, but he had been unable to find anything amiss, so he had been walking cautiously for the past few minutes. He understood when the me Vulture appeared. The me Vulture itself was a fire lifeform and had been hiding in theva. No wonder he hadn’t been able to find him...


    That me Vulture wasn’t very powerful. It was approximately only level 31. Had it been before, a magic beast of that level wouldn’t have drawn Lin Yun’s attention. But the environment here was very bad for Lin Yun. The mana was chaotic, greatly weakening his power, and the fall had also injured him.


    He gently raised the magic staff and three Ice Walls instantly rose up in front of him, blocking the mes. At the same time, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel also rose up behind him and burst with mana, forming a flood of spells that engulfed the me Vulture. At this time, Enderfa came out of the Spell Wheel, and with his control, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel ruthlessly bombarded the me Vulture.


    Lin Yun didn’t know what Enderfa used the Variant ck Lizard Blood for, but after getting it, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel’s might did increase a lot. Just as Enderfa had said, it reached the level of a middle-rank True Spirit Magic Tool!


    After being bombarded by the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel, the me Vulture slowly became unable to resist. The frequency at which it pped its wings gradually slowed down until it finally chose to flee with all its might. Even if the spells were low-tier spells, they were all-powerful and greatly injured it. In less than five minutes, the mes on its body darkened and it was riddled with scars.


    Growing tired as it ran for its life, the me Vulture didn’t notice the three clear blue rays of light, those three Frost Lances. The me Vulture let out a mournful howl as the mes on its body stopped burning. At this time, arge Magic Hand grabbed it.


    Lin Yun bent down and carefully extracted the me Vulture’s mana crystal.


    But Lin Yun’s expression became strange when he took out that mana crystal. He looked at it thoughtfully.


    It was too strange...


    The fighting power disyed by that me Vulture had already surpassed level 30. In other words, its mana crystal should have reached the realm of spirit mana crystal...


    The mana contained within spirit mana crystals was pure, and not only could they be used in any field of alchemy, but even low-rank mages could directly draw power from them.


    But the mana crystal in Lin Yun’s hands was far from being pure. The mana contained within was extremelyplicated, and even Lin Yun, with his experience and knowledge, couldn’t help shaking his head. This mana crystal would be poison to a low-ranked mage.


    If that were all, Lin Yun wouldn’t have lost any self-control.


    The me Vulture was a fire lifeform. The condensed mana crystal should contain fire elements, but that mana crystal didn’t just contain fire elements... It also contained earth, wind, and water!


    What did that mean?


    One mana crystal contained four elements... Lin Yun had never heard of such a thing, even 30,000 years in the future.


    He was very curious about how the me Vulture could condense such a strange mana crystal.


    After carefully observing the crystal, Enderfa’s lofty voice echoed. “Shit! What’s going on! Merlin,e over and take a look...”


    Lin Yun frowned and crouched down. The me Vulture’s body had stopped burning and was just a pitch-ck corpse now. He followed Enderfa’s sight and discovered a scar that was hard to notice. After carefully observing it, he discovered that there were traces of the scar being sutured. With the addition of the strange mana crystal, Lin Yun froze, a preposterous thought shing through his mind.


    The four-element mana crystal should have been man-made before being imnted into the body of the me Vulture.


    If his guess was correct, then the person that did such a thing was too crazy...


    But after thinking about it, Lin Yun felt that this was inconceivable. How could a four-element mana crystal be man-made? Moreover, how could a magic beast be unscathed after being imnted with a mana crystal? There would be a lot of trouble to extract the mana in the mana crystal to cast a spell...


    “That magic beast isn’t the only strange thing, its mana crystal is also strange...” Lin Yun frowned and showed that strange mana crystal to Enderfa. Enderfa’s three faces turned contorted.


    “This, this...” Enderfa was also startled speechless...”Merlin, don’t you think this ce is very strange? Most of the bones floating in theva came from Dark Iron Dwarves. Who knows how they died here?”


    Lin Yun nodded but didn’t say anything before resuming his path.


    Before he passed the chains to reach the hovering pce, Lin Yun discovered some herbs growing on the wall. His pupils constricted as he saw that the zing me Grass he needed was among them.


    But the zing me Grass wasn’t easy to pluck. It was tenaciously growing on the wall and needed Lin Yun to use Levitation to harvest them. This wouldn’t pose a problem normally, but the mana was in chaos now and was seriously interfering with casting. Other spells would be fine, but Levitation was out of question. If the chaos suddenly became worse, wouldn’t Lin Yun fall to his death?