Flaming Serpent
Faced
with the little boy’s head exploding like a watermelon, the green mist
distorted, revealing a heavily muscled figure that was more than 2
meters in height. For a moment, his head was visible, but he covered his
head, his eyes bloodshot and glowing red.
“You actually…… You actually killed him……”
Giant
roared, as if the little boy was very important to him. Seeing Leylin
unceremoniously kill the little boy instead of letting him go, Giant was
on the brink of going ballistic.
Tendrils of green mist rushed
towards Leylin, looking like a swarm of moths and bees, and appeared to
envelop Leylin like a huge cloud.
*Chi Chi!* Green meridians
crawled over the muscles of Giant’s body like small snakes. Then his
body grew instantly, increasing in height by more than three meters. The
hairs on his head stood straight up, facing the sky like small thorns.
“Why are you in such a hurry? Are you afraid?”
Leylin sneered, and immediately, black smoke billowed from his body, rising and dispersing into the air.
A trace of the black gas condensed to form numerous black snakes.
The
bodies of those black snakes had fine black scales, and each had a pair
of bean-sized eyes that exuded an unnatural, devilish red light. The
snakes constantly hissed, and went to meet that green swarm of bees and
moths.
*Peng!*
For a moment, the two big groups — the wisp
of green gas and the den of black snakes — immediately mingled, and
there were all kinds of sounds of biting, hissing, and other sounds all
constantly emanating from within the green mist.
“Ah! I will kill you, I swear! I shall break all the bones in your body; I will make you regret being born into this world!”
Giant howled as he crouched and jumped.
*Boom!*
A huge pit immediately appeared on the ground, soil and rocks flying
outwards like bullets, and creating sparks in the air.
With this momentum, Giant’s body was like a fiery arrow heading straight for Leylin.
“Kemoyin’s
Scales!” A layer of fine black scales covered Leylin’s hands, from
which spreaded rings of black light. The black colour from the scales
turned even more vivid, and vaguely formed a design that was similar to a
rune!
Following which, the muscles on Leylin’s arm bulged, and his strength of 20.1 was then displayed!
*Boom!*
Green and black figures fiercely slammed into each other, explosions continuously sounding out.
The
two human figures flickered as they fought. Anything that the
shockwaves from their battle brushed past, whether it was rocks or wood,
would immediately explode into pieces.
*Bang!* Leylin’s left hand
blocked Giant’s fist. As quick as lightning, his right hand turned into
a claw, blood-red flames burning as it headed straight for Giant’s
chest, where his heart was.
Currently, Giant’s two hands were
rendered immobile by Leylin, and it was basically impossible to evade an
attack that was so close.
Giant’s expression became resolute and
he adjusted his position, avoiding that fatal claw at his chest!
However, his right chest had been caught by Leylin’s Crimson Palm, and a
huge chunk of flesh and blood flew out.
“Bone Piercing
Technique!” Giant yelled, and his arms spread wide. Not dodging nor
avoiding any attacks, he charged straight for Leylin.
*Tss! Tss! Tss! Tss! Tss!*
White bone spikes rapidly pierced through Giant’s skin, growing out from inside his body.
*Ka-cha!* Leylin’s right hand was the first to be struck by the bone spike.
There were some spiral designs on the bone spikes that, upon contact, drilled into whatever it hit.
The
revolving spikes first broke through the crimson flames, and then
struck the surface of Leylin’s right arm, which was covered in Kemoyin’s
Scales.
The extremely piercing sound of metal scraping against
metal sounded; it could also be said to sound like a woman’s screams.
Leylin’s brows furrowed, and he quickly moved back.
“Haha! If you’re only thinking of leaving now, it’s much too late!”
Giant
laughed heartily, ignoring the blood that was gushing all over his
body, and spread his arms. His posture was like someone giving a bear
hug, he brought his arms together and was ready to prick Leylin till he
became like a porcupine.
“This distance… Shadow Stealth!”
A large amount of light appeared on the surface of Leylin’s black, scaly armour. He then disappeared into thin air.
“You thought that I wouldn’t have prepared against this?”
After losing track of Leylin, Giant looked around and suddenly shouted, and then breathed in deeply.
Two
streams of white gas that even the naked eye could see entered Giant’s
nostrils like dragons, bulging his chest to a noticeable degree.
After this, Giant made a lengthy howl, “Awooooo!”
The piercing sound travelled in all directions, and one could even see ripples in the air, with Giant at the epicentre.
An
entire layer of the ground was peeled off by the soundwaves, and the
green fog of moth and bees in the air, as well as Leylin’s little black
snakes, exploded from the soundwaves, turning into vapour.
The fog was pushed further and further away by the soundwaves and eventually disappeared.
As
Giant’s voice increased to a higher pitch, the insects and moles in the
area simply exploded in the air, forming a bloody mist.
*Weng!*
With some undulations in the air and a flash of black light, Leylin’s body flickered from his camouflage.
“I
found you, you damned worm!” Giant snarled, the spikes on his body
growing more densely and constantly rotating. He was like a human
killing machine, charging ahead blindly and turning all the trees and
rocks that obstructed him into powder.
“Latent Fireball!” Leylin’s gestured, and countless black fireballs converged into a giant jet black, flaming fireball.
With
the added bonus from Leylin’s elemental essence conversion, the latent
fireball currently had a power of 57 degrees. It could even be said to
be the maximum amount of power that a rank 1 Magus could produce!
The
moment the black fireball appeared, the temperature of the surroundings
rose, and the earth began to melt, with some of it evaporating into
black smoke.
“Go!”
Leylin pointed at Giant, and the black fireball kept stretching until it formed a python that blazed with black flames.
The
python’s eyes were brimming with intelligence as it nimbly floated
around, sometimes spitting out flames and blocking Giant’s path.
Giant’s
eyes were fixed on the flaming serpent, the fear in his expression more
apparent. Being able to manipulate such a powerful spell that required
immense precision showed Leylin’s immense talent in this area. His rate
of improvement had far exceeded Giant’s expectations.
“Hisssss!”
The flaming black serpent hissed while coiling around Giant’s body.
*Ka-cha!* The black flames that brought blazing heat with them crashed into the white armour made of bone spikes!
*Rumble!* The raging flames constantly ascended, turning into a giant black inferno.
At the heart of the inferno, Giant’s figure that was filled with bone spikes stood silently within, looking quite pale.
The
air constantly distorted, shrinking inwardly and seemingly turning into
a black hole. It kept sucking in all matter around, getting smaller and
smaller.
*Rumble!*
Then, a huge black mushroom cloud gradually rose from the ground.
Immense
energy waves constantly dispersed in all directions, to the point that
even Magi from both factions who were battling at the Four Seasons
Garden’s headquarters could feel this power, which could destroy the
heavens and the earth!
“Has the two great rank 2 Magi’s fight brought them here?”
A
young light Magus stopped what he was doing, “What do we do? Should we
go take a look? Those are rank 2 Magi! I’ve never seen one fight
before!”
*Pak!*
Immediately after, the back of his head was
firmly struck. The youthful light Magus turned back and pitifully looked
at a Magus with a white beard, “Teacher! Did I say anything wrong?”
The
old light Magus’ face was full of wrinkles, but his eyes sparkled with
wisdom. He did not hesitate in the least and struck the young Magus’
head again.
“Why are you still in a daze? Get out of here! Just
the aftershocks from the rank 2 Magi’s battle is enough to annihilate
you without leaving a speck of dust behind!”
The old Magus was
obviously very wise and had many life experiences. He knew that this
high-level battle between Magi was a disaster for regular people and
even low ranked Magi such as themselves!
“Hm? What?”
The young light Magus had yet to react.
“Look!” The old Magus yanked him by the hair and made him look in the direction of the battle.
At
this moment, the young Magus suddenly discovered that the dark and
light Magi who had been battling had all given up. as if they had
reached a mutual understanding, and were moving in the opposite
direction of the mushroom cloud.
“Do you see that now? Only a rookie like you would even think of watching a battle between rank 2 Magi.”
The
old Magus pulled the young Magus along as he spoke, green hurricanes
under his feet as he used invisible gusts to wind to send both of them
far away.
……
In the middle of the black mushroom cloud.
The
previous explosion had left a large crater that was more than ten
metres wide. At the heart of the pit was a seemingly bottomless hole
that was sending out black luster, as if it was a direct pathway to the
core of the earth.
*Boom!*
A white human figure surrounded by green mist fell to the ground, along with shards of bone that had shattered.
*Pak!* Giant struck the ground, carving out long troughs as his body ploughed through the floor.
He
looked to be extremely pitiful, with more than half the bone spikes on
his body gone and his right arm missing. There were serious injuries all
over his body.
*Xiu!*
A black figure appeared in front of him, and what appeared next was a pair of phantom, blood-red flaming claws!
“Crimson
Palm!” Leylin, on the other hand, was completely fine. He was also very
satisfied with the strength of the latent fireball, which he had
released with his full strength.
There was no expression on his face as he calmly dealt out the final blow to Giant!
Giant struggled and crawled a little, but the phantom crimson claws mercilessly caught hold of his two legs.
*Ka-cha!*
Giant’s legs snapped, and there were even crimson flames climbing towards his body from the legs.
