499 Calamity Fire, Dark Flame (1/2)
Translated by XephiZ
Edited by Aelryinth
The Ocean of Flames quickly spread to the area of the pool.
Mo Fan carried the slightly unconscious Xinxia back to the area, yet he discovered that the place was already burning with flames.
Luckily the flames here were not as fierce as the ones in the battle, Mo Fan could still resist them with his Rose Flame.
He held Xinxia close to him as he moved past the walls of fire. He finally saw Zhang Xiaohou and the others who were backing off to safety. Unlike him, they did not have the Fire Resistance provided by a Fire Seed. The flames were still deadly to them.
”Is she alright?” asked Zhao Manyan when she saw Xinxia slightly unconscious.
”She's fine, it's likely that the Fiery Sorceress' psionic power is too strong. It was a heavy burden for Xinxia to handle it,” said Mo Fan.
Xinxia was murmuring with her eyes closed. Her mouth continued to babble, as if she were sleep talking. Mo Fan could make sense of some of it, but the words were structured weirdly. He could not understand if Xinxia was trying to tell him something, or if it was a side effect of the emotion left by the Fiery Sorceress.
”Let's leave this place, I don't want to get dragged into this mess,” suggested Zhao Manyan.
Mo Fan shared the same thought, too. They never had anything to do with the incident, and the Fiery Sorceress was incredibly powerful. She would hurt them by accident if she completely lost her temper...
”Where's Chen Yi? I don't see her!” asked Mo Fan when he saw someone missing.
”She must have gone to her parents. This Chen Yi; she was the one that attacked the Fiery Sorceress. The creature surely hates her. What could she possibly do going there? She's going to get herself killed,” cursed Zhao Manyan.
”No...that's not it...” Xinxia murmured something half-consciously.
She was denying continuously, as if she were trying to tell something to the group.
However, she was only shaking her head and babbling continuously.
”There's nothing we can do, let's leave this place first...” Mo Fan carried Xinxia and left without wasting any time further.
Just as the group was about to move, a blinding fireball swept past above them.
The projectile had obviously come from the battle, yet its force was shocking. It slammed into the resting hall beside the pool...
The hall was connected to four other buildings, which happened to surround the open-air pool. As the fireball landed, the direction the group was planning to escape into immediately turned into an ocean of flames. The fire was taller than the buildings. They were lucky the fire did not devour them, let alone trying to cross the fire to safety.
”Damn, we're trapped!” cursed Zhang Xiaohou.
”Rolling Wave!”
Zhao Manyan did not give up. He waved his hand and used the water from the pool to produce a surging tide rolling toward the blaze covering the resting hall...
However, the strength of the fire completely exceeded his imagination. No one could tell what level the Fiery Sorceress' fire was. Not only did the water fail to put it out, the whole tide evaporated into steam within a short period of time, leaving Zhao Manyan with his eyes wide and jaw dropped.