Chapter 374 – Breaking the Ice (1/2)
The gigantic Fire Source sphere a kilometer wide slowly rotated while releasing incomparable heat that distorted the surrounding space to blurriness. From time to time, there were severe vibrations when space burned through somewhere, accompanied by the wretched screams of some hapless monsters that were touched by the sphere flames.
From five different directions, the Ghost Phoenix, Emperor Occult Flame, the Fire Dragon, and the three other Divine Demonic creatures all charged towards the Source of Fire. This was what they had been planning for thousands of years. Seeing that success was imminent, they couldn’t suppress the excitement in their eyes.
It was extremely difficult to rise to the realm of Legendary. Considering how they had been stuck for thousands of years at this level of strength, one could imagine the hardships. However, this bottleneck could be smoothly passed if they absorbed just a sliver from the Fire Origin, so it was natural they’d risk their lives for it.
Excited by the breath of five Divine experts, the Source of Fire suddenly burst, and countless thick flame pillars shot out at them. Superheated fire pierced through space, bringing calamity upon who-knew-how-many alien creatures.
“Stupid things!” The huge head hiding under the sea of fire watched the five Divine experts desperately close in on the Source of Fire with a disdainful sneer. Fatty, wrapped in its tentacle with his face down, couldn’t see what happened.
Boom boom…! Explosions resounded as the five Divine experts each resisted the flame pillars. The Ghost Phoenix and Emperor Occult Flame weren’t affected with their high strength and kept charging in like meteors, while the other three painfully whined from bearing quite some damage.
“Arghh!” The Fire Dragon spat out a mouthful of blood. The pillar attack had cracked open its scales in at least seven spots. Despite being fire-attribute, the Fire Dragon couldn’t withstand such a high temperature. Bleeding all over, it let out a ferocious roar and desperately rushed forth.
“Where did it get the guts to come here with that kind of strength…?” the huge head mumbled.
A barrage of flame pillars, in addition to some flame monsters, shot out from the Source of Fire at the approaching Divine experts. They tried hard to dodge to avoid fighting as much as they could, and only parried head-on when dodging was impossible.
With those obstacles blocking their path, the distance that seemed passable in one wing flap became a chasm. The Ghost Phoenix made several attempts of contact, only to be forced out, making it so angry that it shrieked nonstop.
Of the five Divine experts, the dragon was the weakest and therefore suffered the most damage. In just ten-something minutes, it had been injured more than a dozen times and looked beyond horrible. Half of the tail was gone, the wings were almost roasted, and its whole body smelled like burnt meat.
“You’ll be it.” After the Fire Dragon had just finished dealing with a flame dragon from the Source of Fire with difficulty, the huge head took advantage to suddenly make its move. Several tentacles quietly shot out from the fire, gunning for the Fire Dragon.
Whoosh!
The Fire Dragon couldn’t react at all when it was already firmly bound by the tentacles. Not giving it a chance to cry for help, the tentacles rapidly dragged it down into the vast sea of fire.
“Where is the Fire Dragon?”
The Ghost Phoenix suddenly realized something was wrong. It carefully scanned the surroundings but couldn’t find the dragon anywhere. But at this critical moment when it was so close to the Source of Fire, it just didn’t have the heart to care about the missing irrelevant fellow.
At the sight of the huge head, the Fire Dragon's eyes were full of horror. It struggled and growled but was unable to break free at all. It wanted to spit flames and burn the tentacles, but the tentacles emitted flames that were even more powerful. As a result, it was the Fire Dragon who ended up the one screaming in pain.
“Stop struggling. It's useless.” The huge head swept the dragon an indifferent glance. In the air, dozens of tentacles suddenly wrapped around the dragon's head, limbs, tail, and wings, trapping it there.
“To lift the Great Curse of Ice, the life of a Divine existence is the cost. The stronger the life force, the better the effect, and the less likely it is to fail. If the spell can be successfully removed, there will even be certain benefits. Human, you’re lucky this time. If you dare to not agree to my request after the curse is lifted, I will take my time to roast you into a meat skewer,” the huge head said to Fatty.
An obscure voice sounded from the mouth of the huge head, the tune sometimes high, sometimes low, with a lot of ups and downs. Hearing this voice, the fire spirits within the sea of fire flocked over Fatty and attached themselves to him with solemn expressions.
Countless fire spirits leaned on him to fight with the ice. It was clear how difficult it was to deal with this solid ice that was manifested from ice spirits, seeing how it hadn’t melted one bit in the temperature of the fires here. However, after the fire spirits gathered, a spot suddenly sizzled and a puff of white smoke drifted up. The ice block started to melt a little.
As more and more fire elements were attracted by the huge head’s incantation and gathered on Fatty, the ice melted faster and faster, becoming visibly smaller. It still looked thick, but it was only a matter of time before it melted completely.
As for the Divine experts, their progress was facing increasing obstacles when numerous Demonic flame monsters came at them like crazy from the Source of Fire. Made up of the purest fire from the source itself, these monsters were especially powerful and won in numbers to boot. For the moment, they forced the Divine experts to repeatedly retreat.
“Damnable! Why are there so many of them?!” Seeing more monsters still coming after all their slaughtering, even the Ghost Phoenix grew anxious.