Chapter 306 - A teacher’s help
Scarlett did not see what happened to the Anomalous One. The sky, the landscape, the entire Memory were engulfed in Arlene’s blinding inferno, rendering it nearly impossible to see beyond the raging flames. She could only make out how every ember and flare seemed to converge upon the Anomalous One’s massive form, crackling with thunderous bursts and ominous booms that echoed through the air.
The blazing spectacle lasted several seconds, intensifying as fires spiralled forward, painting the horizon in waves of scorching crimson. For a moment, it truly felt as though they were all suspended in a dimension made entirely of fire. The monstrous creatures created by the Anomalous One, along with the dark tendrils reaching for their group, were consumed by the all-encompassing conflagration. Yet, miraculously, none of the heat touched Scarlett or her allies.
She watched as, eventually, the spell began to fade, the final cinders lingering in the air to reveal what was left of the Anomalous One. Once vast enough to overshadow the entire city below, the entity was now a charred mass of molten red and twisted grey, writhing upon itself in an effort to regenerate.
With the Anomalous One exposed, Olgolzkreh—the gargantuan dragon—came into view, seemingly unscathed despite being surrounded by flames before as well. Wounded as it was from its previous battle, the dragon wasted no time. With a deafening roar that reverberated across the Memory, it reared back and unleashed a stream of searing white that blasted into the Anomalous One before charging forward with the force of a roiling storm.
A shattering sound ripped through the air as Olgolzkreh’s claws tore into the frozen Anomalous One, splintering huge chunks of its form. The dragon then lifted the entity—now less than half its own size—and dragged it through the sky before smashing it into the ground far beyond the city. The impact unleashed a rolling cloud of dust and shattered rock, with fragments of earth scattering across the landscape.
High above, the countless white rifts trembled and destabilised, while the grey mist of the Anomalous One’s influence began to dissipate as the warped space started returning to a semblance of normalcy.
Around Scarlett, the Isle wizards stared on in awe. Beside her, the other Scarlett clicked her tongue in annoyance.
“Was that truly…a primordial spell?” Gaspar murmured, his gaze falling on Arlene’s back.
“It was,” Scarlett confirmed, her own eyes turning to Arlene.
To be precise, it was a primordial pyromancy spell — the very one Scarlett had found the formula for in the fire goddess’ temple beneath the House of Fire. But Arlene’s casting of it had been far more potent than Scarlett ever imagined possible.
In the distance, the ground shook once more as Olgolzkreh’s assault on the Anomalous One continued, though Scarlett suspected it was no longer necessary. The Anomalous One—at least this current manifestation of it—was not unstoppable, and there was no doubt in her mind that the spell just now had overwhelmed it. In fact, she couldn’t think of a single being that could withstand something like that.
Primordial spells seemed like even more of a cheat code than she’d realised. But it made her wonder exactly how much mana that feat had required.