209: Chapter 210 Dragon Summoning Master

Just as Lin Muyang, utilizing the Divine Concealment Aura, was leading Xu Ruohan, Time Utterance, Heartstring, and Lilia silently approaching Crocodile Shark Island at an astonishing speed, preparing to find a weak point to infiltrate, a premeditated welcome ceremony had already begun deep within the island's hidden cave camp.

"In the northwest direction, about forty-five kilometers away, at high altitude, a life reaction has suddenly entered the perception range!" A slightly lazy yet absolutely focused female voice rang out simultaneously in the minds of everyone in the coalition.

The speaker was Mavis, the woman from Australia who possessed the "Myriad Manifestations" talent. She was not lying on a tree trunk at this moment, but sitting cross-legged on a relatively clean stone platform inside the cave. Her eyes were tightly closed, and those pale purple eyes, which seemed to be composed of countless tiny crystals, glowed slightly beneath her eyelids, reflecting the scenes flashing by outside. Her perception was like an invisible spider web, centered on her, covering the entire Crocodile Shark Island and the surrounding airspace and waters for dozens of kilometers. Any life form that entered this range could hardly escape her "gaze".

Although the effect of Lin Muyang's Divine Concealment Aura was extremely powerful, hiding his figure, Aura, and even energy fluctuations almost perfectly, the existence of life itself seemed to trigger a deeper sensing mechanism within Mavis's talent. She could not see the specific appearance or number of the arrivals, nor could she accurately judge their forms, but she could clearly "perceive" that there were seven highly condensed individuals, containing powerful life energy, like seven miniature suns, speeding toward the island at an incredible speed!

"Seven targets! Speed is extremely fast, already breaking the conventional flight limit! Bearing, northwest, altitude about eight thousand meters, descending rapidly!" Mavis's voice lost its laziness, becoming rapid and clear, like the most precise radar, continuously transmitting key information such as the "prey's" position, speed, and altitude to everyone in the team.

"They're finally here!" Inside the cave, the atmosphere suddenly tightened. Shadow, Hill, Madame Crystal, Crow... the eyes of all the experts instantly became sharp as knives, and the energy around their bodies began to surge obscurely, like cheetahs about to pounce on their prey.

"Yves, it's up to you! The targets have entered the optimal range!" Shadow's hoarse voice carried a hint of excitement as he looked toward a tall, thin man in the corner of the cave with a head full of dense, small braids and shiny dark skin.

The man named Yves Martin, who came from an obscure, ancient African tribe, slowly opened his eyes. He had very little white in his eyes, and his pupils were a strange silver-gray, as if they contained rotating nebulae. He did not speak, but simply nodded silently, raised his hands, and gripped the air in front of his chest, as if grabbing something invisible.

His talent was extremely rare and powerful—【Dimensional Cutter】. It could, to a certain extent, interfere with, divide, and reorganize local space, creating temporary extra-dimensional fragments independent of the main world. Although these fragment spaces were unstable, had a limited existence time, and their size and rules were limited by his strength, they could have miraculous effects under specific tactical conditions.

The core of this plan was built precisely on this ability of Yves Martin! They were certain that the Xia Kingdom would never let Lin Muyang come truly "alone" and that there must be top experts following him in secret to protect him. If it were a group melee, although these twelve of them were strong, in a situation where the opponent was well-prepared and the Xia Kingdom's experts were not to be trifled with, the outcome would be unpredictable, and they might even be countered or stalled, giving Lin Muyang a chance to escape.

But if they could divide the battlefield, forcibly isolate Lin Muyang from his protectors, and then concentrate the power of all twelve of their top experts to besiege Lin Muyang alone within an independent extra-dimensional space... then the result, in their view, would be without suspense! This was the true fatal trap!

At this moment, Mavis's precise coordinates provided Yves Martin with the optimal "cutting" location.

"Space... Stripping!"

Yves Martin let out a low shout, and his silver-gray pupils suddenly erupted with brilliant light! His gripped hands suddenly split to the sides!

Silently, a profound and immense space power erupted, centered on the airspace where Lin Muyang and the seven others were located!

From the outside, that piece of sky only slightly distorted, like a stone thrown into a calm lake, creating an almost imperceptible ripple, and then immediately returned to normal. But for Lin Muyang and the seven others inside, the feeling was completely different!

Lin Muyang was controlling the Aura, preparing to choose a seemingly weakly defended jungle edge to land and conduct a preliminary reconnaissance. However, at the very moment his thoughts shifted, everything around him—the azure sky, the lush jungle below, the deep blue sea in the distance—suddenly shattered, blurred, and reorganized like a broken mirror!

The next moment, he found that he was no longer in the high sky, but in a place of absolute darkness and void. Up, down, left, right, front, and back, everything was a deep, bottomless blackness. There was no light, no sound, no air circulation, and he couldn't even feel the existence of gravity, as if floating in the deepest part of the universe. Only the faint light emanating from himself and his own sense of existence were the only perceivable coordinates in this void.

"Space division?" Lin Muyang raised an eyebrow slightly, a flash of surprise in his eyes, but he did not panic. The fact that the opponent had such a method, being able to precisely locate and forcibly cut the space to drag him into an independent extra-dimensional fragment while his Divine Concealment Aura was fully active and he was moving at high speed, was indeed somewhat beyond his expectations. It seemed that the opponent had really prepared quite a few surprises to deal with him.

He did not immediately try to use brute force to break open this space. On one hand, he needed to first confirm the situation of the others; on the other hand, he also wanted to see what the opponent wanted to do after going to such lengths to isolate him.

"Lilia, Elabess, Xiao Wan, what is the situation on your end?" Lin Muyang communicated with the three summoned maidens through the soul link immediately.

"Master, it is pitch black on my side. I cannot see anything, and I cannot perceive your existence either." Lilia's crisp voice, laced with a hint of vigilance, came through immediately.

"An independent, closed small space lacking basic material rules—a very interesting trick." Elabess's voice still carried a lazy, seductive tone, but it also revealed a calm analysis.

"No light, no sound, nothing—a cage of pure 'nothingness'. The designer's intention is very clear: to divide and isolate." Gui Wanwan was concise and to the point, directly identifying the opponent's purpose.

"As expected, everyone has been separated." Lin Muyang's thoughts raced. The opponent's move of space division was quite brilliant; it wasn't simply randomly throwing them into different locations, but a true "isolation" that cut off their direct contact and possibility of support for each other. If it were any other team, they would likely have fallen into a state of fighting individually or even panic by now.

"However... it is ineffective against me."

A cold arc curled at the corner of Lin Muyang's mouth. With a thought, he directly cancelled the summons of Lilia, Elabess, and Gui Wanwan through the summoning contract. Their figures dissipated like phantoms in their respective trapped dark spaces.

The next moment, Lin Muyang activated the summon again.

A flash of light passed, and the figures of the three maidens reappeared unharmed beside Lin Muyang. The essential connection of the summoning contract transcended the barrier of this temporary extra-dimensional space! As long as Lin Muyang, the "summoning core," was still there, he could re-gather his summons to his side at any time.

"Master." The three maidens appeared beside Lin Muyang, quickly adapting to the surrounding pure darkness, faintly guarding Lin Muyang in the center, vigilantly perceiving their surroundings. Although they could not see, their keen perception could still capture some abnormal fluctuations in this space.

Almost at the same time the three maidens were re-summoned, this dark and void space suddenly underwent a new change.

A point of faint light lit up in the distance, rapidly expanding to form an oval-shaped light gate that seemed to ripple like water.

Immediately after, one, two, three... a full twelve figures exuding powerful, biting, and distinct terrifying Auras filed out from the light gate, appearing in this dark space, surrounding Lin Muyang and the three maidens from all directions.

Some of them stood in mid-air, some stood on platforms condensed from elements, and some were surrounded by strange force fields. Their postures were different, but without exception, their gazes were like the sharpest knives, firmly locked onto Lin Muyang in the center. In those gazes, there was a mixture of scrutiny, wariness, greed, killing intent, and a hint of triumph at the success of their plan.

"One, two, three... twelve." Lin Muyang's gaze calmly swept over these twelve figures, his tone flat, as if he were just counting how many trees were by the roadside. "You've all come quite together."

He instantly understood the opponent's calculation. They used space ability to separate him from Xu Ruohan, Time Utterance, and Heartstring, cutting off his reinforcements. Then, they sent all twelve of these top experts, carefully selected from different countries, into this independent space where he was, forming an absolute encirclement and kill situation of twelve against one!

This was indeed a ruthless and effective plan. If it were an ordinary genius, even a Nation-Guarding Level Expert, facing a siege by twelve opponents of the same level or even stronger, in a situation of being isolated and helpless with an unfavorable environment, it would likely be dire.

But, in Lin Muyang's view, wasn't this also trapping themselves?

The opponent used this extra-dimensional space to separate him from his companions, but at the same time, they also isolated themselves from the outside world, limiting the battlefield to this closed "cage." Wasn't this just locking this group of dangerous "venomous snakes" together, making it convenient for him to wipe them all out?

At this moment, the situation could not be clearer. Since the opponent had set up such a formation, they would certainly not act immediately. According to common sense, the next step should be the verbal sparring stage, using threats and inducements to try to persuade him to surrender. Even if Lin Muyang showed an intention to submit, the opponent would absolutely not believe it easily and would inevitably propose signing some kind of highly binding soul contract, master-servant contract, or something similar to ensure control.

However, from the beginning to the end, Lin Muyang had never considered the path of surrender. His goal had been clear from the start—to take back the skill book and make these guys who dared to scheme against him pay a painful price!

"Mr. Lin Muyang, nice to meet you for the first time."

A steady and magnetic male voice rang out, speaking in standard Xia Kingdom language. The speaker was a middle-aged white man standing slightly in front of the others, wearing a well-tailored navy blue suit, his blond hair meticulously combed, and his face as handsome as a classical sculpture. He looked like an aristocrat from the Western Federation, his demeanor elegant, but deep in his eyes, there was the majesty of someone who had long been in a high position and a sharpness that could see through people's hearts. He was one of the nominal general coordinators of this joint operation, an expert from the Western Federation, "Silver Fox" Adolf.

Lin Muyang did not respond, just watched him quietly, his gaze calm and waveless, as if looking at a group of clowns.

Adolf did not seem to mind Lin Muyang's silence and continued to speak in his highly infectious voice: "Mr. Lin Muyang, it is truly a last resort that we have invited you here in this manner. But please believe that we have no malice toward you; on the contrary, we greatly admire your talent and have great expectations for your future achievements. Today's action is just to have an honest and open discussion with you, to provide another possibility for you, and for the future of this world..."

While he was speaking, among the twelve experts, a middle-aged man with an unusually tall and burly build, wearing a thick beard, a leather vest, and exposing his thick arms, stepped forward. He did not speak, but just raised his hands in the air, muttering something in his mouth.

In an instant, Magnificent magical power surged out from his body! The dark space in front of him twisted violently, and huge space cracks exuding ancient, majestic, and violent Auras were forcibly torn open!

"Roar—!!!"

A deafening roar came from those space cracks! That was not a simple beast roar, but a terrifying dragon roar carrying dragon might that made the space itself tremble!

Immediately after, huge, ferocious dragon heads covered in thick scales of different colors poked out from the cracks! The crimson fire dragon head breathed hot sparks from its mouth and nose; the ice-blue frost dragon head caused the surrounding air to instantly condense into ice crystals; the pitch-black shadow dragon head seemed to be able to absorb all light; the earth-yellow dragon head carried the weight and power of the earth...

One, two, three... a full seven western giant dragons, massive in size, different in form, and with terrifying Auras, completely crawled out from those space cracks, stretching their dragon wings that blotted out the sky, hovering in this dark space! Their cold, vertical pupils locked onto Lin Muyang below in unison, and the dragon might, like a tangible tsunami, pressed down toward Lin Muyang!

Giant Dragon Summoner! And a top Summoner capable of simultaneously summoning and controlling multiple pure-blooded giant dragons!

"Hansa Bami..." Lin Muyang's gaze fell on the bearded man, and his eyes finally had a slight change—not fear, but a hint of realization and... interest.

Hansa Bami, one of the strongest Summoners in the American Empire, ranked fourth on the global Summoner leaderboard! His iconic ability was to summon and drive pure-blooded western giant dragons of various attributes to fight. Each giant dragon possessed terrifying combat power comparable to a top Epic-Rank Monster, and he himself was unfathomable. It was said that his strongest trump card was an ancient dragon soul with a mythic grade bloodline!

Xu Ruohan was ranked fifth among global Summoners and was already a Nation-Guarding Level pillar of the Xia Kingdom. And the strength and prestige of Hansa Bami, who was ranked above her, could be imagined. The fact that the opponent had actually sent out this long-famous Giant Dragon Summoner showed just how much importance—or rather, wariness—they placed on Lin Muyang!