Mage Adam
Chapter 268: The Pyramid

The rainbow energy beam came suddenly. Adam had just emerged from the electric net when the beam was already in front of him.

Adam's emergency mechanism reacted instantly. In microseconds, all the defensive spells stored in his threads were activated. He then disintegrated his Electro True Self, spreading the threads across each free electron.

This was a failsafe Adam had set for himself to counter transcendent-level attacks.

The rainbow energy beam wasn't a straightforward visual line; its attack was of a higher, scattered level. Each electron from Adam's disintegrated true form was targeted. From each thread's perspective, the energy beams locked onto them were inseparable.

"Master, it's a transcendent creature! There's a transcendent Metal Eater in the zone!" Garfield screamed in alarm.

As Adam disintegrated, the Flame Garfield had put in Adam's willpower also split into countless parts. That amplifying the sense of danger exponentially for Garfield.

Adam ignored him. There was no time to talk. He kept putting himself back together, getting rid of unneeded parts, summoning Mage Armor, and creating defensive magic.

As seconds passed and his defenses got weaker, the beam's attack power slowly dropped. After ten seconds, Adam gathered himself into a high-frequency electromagnetic blade. He swung through the air and faced the beam head-on.

After three seconds of intense explosions, the beam scattered. Adam's blade, still strong, hit the defense shield, making ripples.

"Master, let's run! I knew it! Such an important place would have transcendent Metal Eaters guarding it! I should have told you!" Garfield babbled.

"Shut up! This is just a defensive measure."

Adam realized this after breaking through the beam. The energy beam was just a preset defense by the transcendent Metal Eaters, not a direct attack from their main body.

The attack wasn't as strong as he had thought. If this was the usual strength of the Metal Eaters' ordinary transcendent, Adam felt he had overestimated them. Compared to mages, their power was lacking. Even Lord Svorsi was much stronger. No wonder Iron 27 said only Angels could hunt down their lords.

The ripples on the defense shield triggered a chain reaction. The whole guard area went crazy, and countless Metal Eaters swarmed out from their broods. All the preset attacks activated at once, targeting Adam.

Knowing the regular energy beams were just for show, Adam chose to use a magic scroll for direct defense.

He took out a level-four mystical defense spell called "Chaotic Sanctuary" from his personal space, a spell he had bought for a lot of money.

Without hesitation, he activated the rune group within it.

Instantly, a ring of energy with a chaotic glow surrounded Adam's body. Some of the attacks aimed at him were neutralized, some were reflected, and others were swallowed by the spatial rifts created. Then, they reappeared inside the defense shield and cut many Metal Eaters into minced meat.

Chaotic Sanctuary came from the Third Tower. In fact, most mystical spells came from the Third Tower. They stubbornly researched a different set of knowledge from modern magic and successfully created many sinister, eerie, and terrifying spells.

Adam endured the transcendent attacks and stood before the defense shield. Telekinesis extended from his body, forming eight arms. Together with the two arms of his true form, he gently manipulated the magnetic field lines.

These lines extended from every point with a magnetic field, whether from real life or energy radiation. To Adam, these magnetic fields were clearly visible, and he could control them to a certain extent.

However, this took a huge amount of computational power. He had to enter an overclocked state, which he had not done in a long time, to support the calculations for the upcoming spell.

Adam entered his relative time frame, where everything outside slowed down. Every wave of the defense shield and every tiny movement and displacement of the Metal Eaters were digitized and added to his function calculations.

Magic power steamed from his body, igniting into a fierce flame on his skin. The originally invisible magnetic field lines solidified between his fingers, ignoring spatial barriers and extending from every point into his hands.

In two external seconds, which felt like four minutes in his overclocked state, Adam's ten arms pulled tens of thousands of magnetic field lines. Then, he suddenly crossed his ten arms in front of his chest, moving the lines along.

This created a stunning visual effect.

The strong magnetic fields interacted, making each line sharper than any blade. The origin points were pierced, the lines intertwining and wrapping around each other, slicing the space into billions of small fragments. Each fragment shattered into even smaller pieces upon collision, spiraling into a storm with Adam's arm movements.

In the next second, the defense shield shattered. The nearest Metal Eaters were torn apart, swept into the turbulent flow, and turned to ash.

Adam exited the overclocked state, and an overwhelming emptiness surged through every cell and part of his soul.

This spell, called Magnetic Cutting, was a concept Adam had created after advancing to level three. He had expected consequences from using it, but not ones so severe. Without the support of his Electro True Self, a regular mage's body might have collapsed. Even now, he could barely maintain flight.

Fortunately, he had his magic construct. He was immensely grateful for having built this piece of equipment.

After summoning the construct, he set it to fully automatic control, directing the path towards the building. Taking advantage of the broken defense shield and the unfilled losses of the Metal Eaters, he became a streak of light, rushing into the guard area.

The construct provided excellent protection for his body. Tubes extended and connected to every part of Adam, linking to his personal space core, which continuously supplied ether crystals.

These crystals were converted by the mana furnace into pure magic power and delivered into Adam's body. This method, though somewhat rough, was the fastest way to replenish energy.

Adam's body suffered multiple ruptures from this process, but the life-support devices healed them instantly. Within the brief ten seconds it took to reach the targeted building, he had nearly recovered.

At this point, the building's true form was revealed.

It was a nine-layered structure, similar to a pyramid, built from golden stones. Each groove held a giant nest, with spikes piercing through and connecting them, continuously drawing energy from the nests.

The energy flowed layer by layer from the bottom to the top, purifying as it ascended. At the peak of the pyramid, the energy converged into a single point and shot into the space above, its destination unknown.

If Adam's guess was correct, this building was part of a large-scale altar spread across the continent!