Chapter 399: Exile
The Shadow Giant that Ace had transformed into smiled bitterly. He indeed wanted to find an opponent, but he never imagined finding such a powerful one. This was not a pseudo-rank existence; the mountain-like, magnificent Bone Dragon opposite him was a true Legend.
Ace weighed the situation in his mind and, without hesitation, quickly used the Portal spell to flee. However, just after he flashed twice in succession, the Bone Dragon actually anticipated his movement and appeared abruptly beside him, swatting him away with a single claw.
Ace’s golden eyes stared at the Bone Dragon. There was no mistaking that faint spatial fluctuation—the opponent could perform spatial jumps!
This was a situation Ace had never encountered before. He usually crushed peers relying on his flexible spatial abilities, but at this moment, being crushed by the Bone Dragon in the same but more powerful way filled him with unease.
Ace tried his best to dodge. His mental imagery dream world shattered upon manifestation, and the Unstable Elemental Annihilation Sphere could not effectively harm the opponent. In a moment of desperation, Ace burned the surging blood qi of his mental imagery world, turning it into pure vitality brilliance, piercing into the Bone Dragon’s soul fire like a sharp arrow.
Roar!
The Bone Dragon reacted like a beast stabbed in the eye. The extreme pain aroused its ferocity even more. It chased Ace madly, spraying dragon breath filled with death power at him, corroding his shadow body.
The runes in Ace’s eyes continued to flicker. He keenly discovered the terrifying power and possibilities contained in that breath. Relying on Golden Regeneration, Ace’s body recovered from severed limbs multiple times, but his mana and vitality blood qi were gradually running dry.
“I can’t drag this out any longer. I can’t beat it at all. The opponent’s spatial ability completely crushes mine. I must find a way to disengage.”
Ace gradually made up his mind. His body had been dispersed over a dozen times, and his lifespan had been consumed by over a decade. He drew out the Glazed Heart Fire from the mental imagery world, burning vitality and brilliance to form a sword of fire and light, slashing at the Bone Dragon’s claw.
With the sound of metal striking stone, Ace used his strongest attack method, yet only managed to chip off a small section of the opponent’s bone finger. Even among Legendary existences, this Bone Dragon was definitely a powerhouse.
It was only because it lacked intelligence and relied entirely on instinct that Ace had a chance to breathe. He unfolded his mental imagery world, collecting that small piece of undead bone finger and the death dragon breath into it.
The golden-red light in his eyes flickered, and the cowlick on his head swayed, trying hard to record the mana trajectory caused by the opponent. Those were level 3 runes and rune structures; as long as they were degraded, they could become golden runes!
Bang!
Ace’s body was once again beaten into blood mist by the Bone Dragon. His silver hair flew from his remaining head as his body gurgled and grew back. Deep in the mental imagery world, True Spirit Ace held the golden spell model Time Stagnation high.
The skeletal giant dragon, nearly three hundred meters long, finally stagnated. Ace activated Unstable Subspace and Random Portal, triggering the combo spell Spatial Banishment, with the target being Ace himself!
Random spatial coordinates flashed constantly in Ace’s eyes. The dragon’s giant claw was slowly approaching Ace. The force field of Time Stagnation fluctuated constantly, seeming ready to disintegrate at any moment.
The space of the entire reflection world fluctuated drastically. Massive amounts of death aura gathered here. The skeletal giant dragon bound by the golden spell seemed to be drawing on the power of the surrounding environment, about to unleash an incredibly terrifying authority.
“I can’t hesitate anymore!”
Ace had no time to choose. He vaguely determined a location and activated the readied Spatial Banishment. Accompanied by violent mana fluctuations and the tearing of space, Ace’s figure gradually blurred and vanished.
The force field of Time Stagnation completely disintegrated. The claw of the skeletal giant dragon swept through the place where Ace had disappeared. A wave of spatial fluctuation completely disrupted his direction.
Pitch-black death power gathered. Specks of black light appeared in the terrifying maw of the skeletal dragon. The power gathered more and more, and a terrifying breath like the fire of vengeful spirits corroded everything within a dozen li into nothingness.
Ace, who was randomly teleporting, was pushed by the force of the giant claw across space. Deviating from the roughly intended target range, he was swept into spatial turbulence.
His body was torn by the spatial turbulence, ground to pieces by terrifying spatial rifts in almost a breath. Only a head remained, with a large patch of his smooth silver hair sliced off, revealing a bloody scalp.
Ace didn’t even have time to curse before he was swept into an unknown spatial tunnel by the oppressive force of space. His mental power, mana, and blood qi were close to exhaustion. He tried his best to maintain the functions of his flesh. Before escaping the spatial tunnel, he had neither the opportunity to meditate nor the chance to consume food or potions to restore vitality.
In this state, Ace still struggled to maintain the Eye of Truth, because only the Eye of Truth could see through the spatial fog and spatial turbulence, finding a way for him to escape this predicament.
And in this state, Ace also recorded a large number of naturally occurring spatial golden runes.
“My mana is getting lower and lower. If this continues, I will die!”
A strong consciousness appeared in Ace’s mind. He tried hard to think of a solution and suddenly realized there were still residual fragments of the Star of Ultimate Evil in his mental imagery world. He unhesitatingly burned the Star of Ultimate Evil with Glazed Heart Fire, decomposing the mana and desires within it.
Time passed unknown. Ace completely decomposed the fragments of the Star of Ultimate Evil. Massive amounts of mana filled his Lake of Mana, and his mental power was also restored. However, Ace did not choose to regenerate his body.
First, such regeneration would consume too much mana and life force, and he had nowhere to replenish mana. Second, having only a head presented a small target, whereas having a body would make it harder to survive in the spatial turbulence.
Just like that, Ace, consisting of only a head, bobbed in the spatial turbulence. With ample mana, he was not impatient. He calmed down to observe the structure and characteristics of the spatial turbulence and the fleeting traces of rules. Time passed day by day.
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Two months later, inside Ace’s mental imagery world, his True Spirit sat in the lotus position on the rune pyramid deep in the mental imagery dream world, holding high four 3-ring spell models: Directional Portal, Stable Subspace, Non-Directional Portal, and Unstable Subspace.
These four spell models flickered constantly. The runes within them were constantly dispersing and aggregating. With every dispersion and aggregation, a trace of pale golden light would emerge. The four spell models rotated above True Spirit Ace, slowly approaching each other.
As they got closer, the bottom layer of the entire dream world began to shake. The surface dream world began to crack and crumble. Space seemed about to collapse; the world seemed about to be destroyed.
True Spirit Ace carefully deduced different combinations, trying bit by bit. Finally, the four 3-ring spells turned into two golden spells and landed on top of the rune pyramid.
As the two golden spells returned to their positions, the entire mental imagery dream world shook violently. The space of the surface dream world began to expand continuously. Golden runes emerged and dissipated one by one. From the villa by the Lake of Mana, Aleias looked at the transformative changes before her eyes, her reverence for Ace growing even deeper.
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