Volume One: Hell-Level Lord World Chapter 111: Synthesizing Illusions

After tidying up the battlefield, Chen Gu retreated three hundred meters away.

By now, Chen Gu understood that he had not yet conquered this lordly realm.

Here, things did not simply go according to his will; he could encounter all sorts of situations at any moment.

Sometimes he could take a gamble, but before doing so, he needed to ensure his escape route was secure.

“Carrion vines, go try once more,” Chen Gu ordered.

He recalled the reasons behind the ghost ship’s appearance.

He had been fishing by the lake for some time before, and during that period, the ghost ship never appeared.

There had to be some differing factor.

This time, however, when the carrion vines tried the lakeside embankment again, they failed to draw out the ghost ship.

Chen Gu found the conditions for the ghost ship’s emergence puzzling.

Fortunately, at that moment, Pan arrived driving a light horse carriage.

“Master, it’s ready. I can get to the designated spot in twenty minutes with this carriage. Adding your weight, thirty minutes is definitely achievable.”

“Good. Withdraw all the carrion vines, fire spirit crows, and blood shadow wolves. Let them leave first,” Chen Gu immediately commanded upon hearing Pan’s report.

Without Chen Gu’s guidance, the carrion vines and fire spirit crows quickly headed toward the undead city.

They already knew the route from before; this was simply an early departure.

Chen Gu then took out several bottles of magical potions, mostly for replenishing mana, with a few intended for temporarily boosting mana and magical power.

Previously, the carrion vines had dug around the lakeside embankment, loosening it somewhat.

Now, Chen Gu’s task was to blow open the weakened embankment.

He didn’t know fireball spells, and even if he did, such thick embankments couldn’t be destroyed so straightforwardly.

Instead, Chen Gu employed black holes.

He placed a series of black holes beneath the embankment.

Each black hole sucked in massive amounts of nearby earth and stones.

Five black holes alone caused cracks to appear in the embankment, and the lake water began to surge forward.

Without glancing back, Chen Gu jumped into the light horse carriage and immediately threw the fish he had caught into the flowing water.

“Ready?” he asked.

Pan nodded firmly.

Chen Gu then held a mana-replenishing potion in one hand and pointed at the fish with the other.

[Water Fish (17)] + [Lake Water] = [??? (Success Rate: 0.7%)]

This was Chen Gu’s plan: to combine these fish with the soon-to-be-gushing lake water.

Then, using illusion magic, he intended to create an illusion of the synthesized fish.

This would give him the chance to conjure an illusion of a cascading flood.

The current success rate was so low it was almost laughable.

Chen Gu thought that if he had saved a few more fish earlier, the odds might have been higher.

He kept his eyes fixed on the cracking embankment while Pan continually glanced back to monitor their rear.

As soon as the floodwaters burst forth, Pan would immediately drive the carriage forward.

In Chen Gu’s hand rested a mosquito—an avatar sent by Kebas.

When Chen Gu initiated his move, this avatar would attack the undead city, dragging everyone into combat.

With a guaranteed half-hour buffer, Chen Gu could ensure the illusion would work smoothly.

Now, it all depended on whether the water could break the embankment and on the success of Chen Gu’s synthesis.

Fortunately, Chen Gu’s plan did not fail.

As more earth was swallowed by the black holes, the lake water finally broke through, pouring out like a rampaging tiger.

Seizing this moment, Chen Gu pointed at the water fish and commanded, “Synthesize!”

He then began casting illusions onto the fish.

At the start of the synthesis, all the fish exploded, merging into the floodwaters.

Chen Gu noticed that the floodwaters even briefly took on the shape of fish.

But in the next instant, all the floodwaters reverted to their original form and surged forward.

Pan did not know whether Chen Gu’s synthesis had succeeded, but he knew they could not delay further.

The carriage surged toward the undead city.

Chen Gu hurriedly swallowed his magical potion.

In his hand was also a water-blue object—the very illusion he had just synthesized.

As Chen Gu’s mana replenished to its peak, he continuously poured mana into the illusion, conjuring one water-blue object after another.

During the half-hour, Chen Gu kept drinking potions and replicating the illusions.

The single illusion quickly multiplied to ten, then twenty.

By the time the carriage reached near the undead city, Chen Gu held nearly one hundred and thirty such illusions.

From a distance, Chen Gu spoke to Pan, “Drive straight into the undead city. I’ll disembark first; you get off early when you’re close.”

“How far in advance do you want me to stop?”

“How far can you control the carriage?”

“I understand,” Pan replied, grasping Chen Gu’s plan.

He drove the carriage straight toward the undead city.

Midway, Chen Gu leapt down, rolling on the ground.

The carriage continued forward a few hundred meters before Pan also jumped off.

The arrival of this carriage caught the attention of all the undead heroes within the city.

Kebas had already launched one attack on the undead city before.

His targets were the zombies and vampires guarding the city walls.

After that surprise attack, Kebas did not retreat immediately.

His mosquito swarm continued to harass and ambush inside the city.

When under attack, the mosquitoes would quickly hide on water surfaces or in sewers.

When the undead were not looking for them, they reappeared.

Thus, the atmosphere within the undead city had grown extremely tense.

Seeing a carriage charging toward the city, the undead lord immediately issued orders:

“Catapults, destroy that carriage!”

The command quickly reached the troops stationed on the walls.

The catapults mounted on the city walls launched massive stones.

A huge boulder fell from the sky, smashing the light carriage into splinters.

At the same time, the one hundred and thirty illusion spheres stored inside exploded.

Floodwaters multiplied by one hundred and thirty surged forth.

As the floodwaters gushed out, they first took the shape of fish.

Then, they exploded on the spot.

This revealed Chen Gu’s precise timing.

He had seized the instant when the synthesis began but then failed.

Only in that fleeting moment were the water fish connected to the floodwaters.

The floodwaters of one hundred and fifty great lakes surged directly toward the city.

With a thunderous roar, the city walls were torn apart.

The raging floodwaters swept through the valley, washing away everything within the city.