Chapter 168: Blazing Fire Sword!
A sprout of flame swept through the air with a combination of brown and blazing red colors, clearly contrasting between the two kinds of flames.
Mo Fan’s fist was trembling. He had lost count of how many times he had launched the flames. The energy of his Fire Element would have depleted long ago if he were still an Intermediate Magician!
Little Flame Belle did not leave Mo Fan’s body, allowing him to continuously draw upon some of her power.
Even after killing so many skeletons, the army of skeletons showed no sign of decreasing. Mo Fan raised his head and helplessly discovered that the Meteorite Fist: Nine Dragons, which was already comparable to an Advanced Spell, was still slowly being swallowed by the endless skeleton tide.
This time, more than ten formations of skeletons were marching toward him. Each formation consisted of about sixty Iron Ball Skeletons!
He had no idea how the skeletons had ended up in that appearance. An extremely heavy bone shaped like an iron ball had grown from their spines. The bone was the size of an adult’s head. The skeletons were able to remove the ball shaped bone from their backs, connect it to the long bone on their shoulders, and then fling it wildly like a flail!
One or two skeletons of that kind were not scary, but when around six hundred of them were waving their flails wildly under the command of higher undead, the situation immediately became gruesome.
Mo Fan and Little Flame Belle had already eliminated almost a thousand undead. Their next opponent was the army of Iron Ball Skeletons. Their white, heavy ball shaped bones were swinging in the air noisily!
Taking a deep breath, Mo Fan charged toward the formations of skeletons once again.
When possessed by Little Flame Belle, Mo Fan too could ride a wave of flames like her...
As he dashed forward, a tide of flames over twenty meters tall rolled ahead. Mo Fan nimbly leapt onto the tide, letting the heat and surging fire carry him forward!
Farther behind, Zhang Xiaohou was still using wind to redirect and slow the skeletons pressing in from the outer edge. He could not match Mo Fan’s direct destructive force, but his Advanced Wind control had already become completely different. With a sweep of his arm, green currents would slash into the skeleton tide and force openings apart, relieving some of the pressure around Mo Fan.
Even while fighting, Zhang Xiaohou could not help but feel the difference again.
After stepping into the Advanced level, the Wind Element no longer felt like something distant that needed to be painstakingly pulled and shaped.
It obeyed his thoughts.
It moved as naturally as breathing.
The Servant class undead no longer felt difficult for him to handle. If it were not for their overwhelming numbers, Zhang Xiaohou alone could already dominate a large area of the battlefield!
As Mo Fan approached the first formation of Iron Ball Skeletons, he leapt into the air. His whole body had turned a deeper red just a moment earlier, and suddenly more than ten lumps of fire erupted around him. The flames completely wrapped around him, forming a giant meteorite burning fiercely in the air!
The meteorite that Mo Fan had transformed into slammed into the ground, leaving a brilliant trail of fire along its path.
The burning meteorite collided with the formation of skeletons, resulting in a brief deafening blast. The sound was produced when the ground cracked from the enormous impact!
The next second, pieces of shattered rock were propelled in all directions. A terrifying shockwave spread through the surroundings with Mo Fan as the center, knocking the Iron Ball Skeletons flying and spinning into the air!
Some were shattered by the flying debris, others were blown back by the shockwave. Yet that was only the prelude after the meteorite struck the ground. The real danger was the fire that instantly covered an area the size of a lake!
With the aid of the shockwave, the flames expanded outward over a hundred meters in concentric rings. Rows of Servant class skeletons shattered at the same time the moment the flames touched them!
Mo Fan had rarely fought together with Little Flame Belle in that way. He knew that prolonged possession would create adverse side effects for her growth, since she was still only in the Youth Phase. She had yet to reach the Fiery Sorceress’ level, thus she had not fully mastered the ability to possess someone without burden. The longer Mo Fan used her power, the greater the strain it would put on her.
However, he did not have a choice in the current situation. Not only was Little Flame Belle already using all her energy to fight the skeletons, Mo Fan too was bearing a burden greater than what his body should have comfortably endured.
Several formations of Iron Ball Skeletons had already surrounded Mo Fan by the time the first formation was wiped out. They lifted their bone flails and hammered the ground frantically. White bones went flying everywhere.
Mo Fan weaved through the flying bones, but he still suffered several heavy impacts from the ball shaped skeleton flails. The Black Snake Armor blocked most of the force, yet the pain still lingered through his body. Most importantly, the continuous impacts caused him to lose his balance repeatedly.
“Shadow Clone!”
Mo Fan was tired of being knocked around by the barrage. He immediately hid himself in a shadow, which split off into a decoy that fled rapidly in another direction.
The skeletons still had some intelligence. The moment they saw movement after losing the real target, they immediately chased after the shadow and continued hurling their ball shaped bones at it.
Mo Fan remained still where he was.
When the shadow clone moved away, he watched the Iron Ball Skeletons piling after it. Their bodies stacked atop one another like half a mountain.
The sight was absurd.
An ordinary Magician would have no chance of surviving something like that!
“I’ll wipe them out in one blow!”
Little Flame Belle was synchronized with him while possessing him. She accumulated the flames and gave Mo Fan the ability to control their shape with shocking precision.
With a thought, Mo Fan discovered once again that both the Rose Flame and the Calamity Fire were fully under his control. Ordinary Fire Mages had to rely on Star energy to release the power of fire, but an Elemental Creature like Little Flame Belle could shape fire directly with thought. Her own supply of energy was limited, but Mo Fan’s current Fire Galaxy gave him abundant energy, allowing him to freely make use of Little Flame Belle’s terrifying control over flame!
“Flame sword!”
Mo Fan focused his mind. Even though he was still getting used to it, the energy of the Fire Element gathered rapidly in front of him.
It grew from a tiny flame sprout into a huge mass of fire. Yet the fire did not spread uncontrollably. It simply condensed before Mo Fan and took the form of something long and lethal.
It was like a weapon being forged in a furnace.
The fire gradually transformed into a ten meter long burning sword!
The sword was formed from Rose Flame, making its body brilliantly blood red. Yet there were also brown red lines flowing across it. Those were the Calamity Fire markings carved into the blade by Little Flame Belle, forcibly modifying the Rose Flame into the form of a true fire sword...
Behind Mo Fan, even Zhang Xiaohou was stunned for a moment when he saw the giant flaming sword form so quickly.
That was not just raw power.
That was control.
That was the terrifying combination of Mo Fan’s Advanced Fire cultivation and Little Flame Belle’s natural dominion over fire!
“Time to kill ’em all!” Mo Fan roared.
The ten meter long fiery sword shot forward, heading straight for the Iron Ball Skeletons that were chasing the shadow.
The pressure of the sword alone was enough to make the clustered skeletons shake.
When the fiery sword slashed into the mountain of skeletons, a huge flare of light erupted instantly. The entire area was devoured by violent flames!
The raging fire spread madly in all directions. At the center of it all, a long ravine created by the slash became visible. Inside the ravine was scorched black earth, with stacks of skeletons whose undead crystals had already been burned away!
The clustered Iron Ball Skeletons were completely trapped in disaster too. They were set on fire by the slash, and that fire was not easily extinguished. It clung to them like a curse, burning them alive in just a few minutes!
The people watching from the Wicked Eye Copper Mirror would have been dumbfounded if they saw it clearly.
This was no longer something as simple as a Fire Mage using brute force.
This was Mo Fan using the full domination of the Summoning Element through Little Flame Belle’s possession, turning his Fire Element into a true instrument of battlefield execution.
And even surrounded by endless undead, the pair of Mo Fan and Zhang Xiaohou were still forcing the battlefield to move according to their will.