Within the Mudflow

Within the earth, great quantities of soil, mud, sand, and stone were surging toward the center of the plot like liquid.

Above the ground, a storm formed of mana was gathering. Vast amounts of wind elements and earth elements wrapped around the dust and sand in the air, forming yellow currents that flowed around the walls near the central tower.

At the very center, Landen gradually lowered his altitude. When he was less than ten meters from the ground, there came only a "pfft," and black mud sprayed up from underground. It quickly spread outward like oil, stopping only when it reached the edge of the array encircled by the Mages. Inside the array, the mud was like liquid in a test tube, its surface slowly rising until it gradually approached the soles of Landen's feet.

Stepping onto the black liquid felt like landing on a mire. With magic, Landen did not sink into the mud, but stood on the surface as the mud kept rising. When it reached twenty-five meters, the opportunity came.

The arrays on his formalwear kept operating. As a magic robe personally made by the queen of Night-Kirin City, even though it was not in the Magic Furnace Room, the robe could still make use of Night-Kirin City's Ley Line to operate, saving Landen an operating cost of just under two hundred Magic Crystals per minute.

The elemental currents in the air grew increasingly restless. By the time Magic Patterns began appearing continuously around Landen, sand, stone, and elements all converged toward the center. At that moment, he was like a dividing line. Above his head, the elemental flow formed a concave yellow mana cyclone, its top reaching the fifty-meter-high walls of the plot; below him was black mud.

The three magic Great Fairies had already