Chapter 477: The Calamity of the Flame Demon
The stranger raised his head and looked at all this in shock.
——The steaming gray-black smoke rolled up, and there were deep red and golden flames in it.
Not far in front of him, the Silver and Tin Temple began to spew out a lot of dust and smoke from the center, and the whole building gradually broke and collapsed.
The building strengthened by the preservationist had no resistance. The whole building seemed to be chewed and swallowed by some monster, making a sour creaking sound. It curled up and collapsed bit by bit with the vibration of the ground.
And the strange monocle worn by the stranger on his face, like a microscope, automatically rotated and retracted, giving him a new vision:
The heat spread throughout the building, like a piece of soil tightly held by the roots of a plant. And not far away, a huge human figure that was so hot that the stranger dared not look directly at it even through heavy walls gradually stood up.
It was slowly absorbing the entire Silver and Tin Temple, becoming larger and larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
With earth and stone as bones, and fire as flesh.
A lava giant made of melted metal and rock, constantly gets the "materials" around it in the inward-contracting flames and becomes bigger and bigger.
——That is the Flame Demon!
The two Star Antimony strongmen who appeared in the picture during the plot introduction stage, Stranger is actually very familiar with them. They are all his acquaintances.
One of them is his mentor in the Spirit Tower; the other is his senior, Lieutenant General Leo Carl, who has a good relationship with him. Not long ago, he entered the same advancement ceremony with him and caused him to break his leg.
Although Stranger is not a demonologist, because of his strong curiosity, he once asked Lieutenant General Carl why there is "another soul" in his body.
Lieutenant General Carl did not have any taboos about this, but directly told Stranger the truth:
When these demonologists were promoted to demon incarnations, a demon seed began to appear in their bodies.
They are all extremely powerful upper demons, and they are powerful helpers that normal demonologists cannot obtain through summoning and contracts. Just extracting power from them can obtain supernatural power equivalent to the fourth-level energy affinity.
When the demon incarnation just reaches the fourth energy level, these demons are still in an inert state. If they are killed at this time, the demons in the body will usually only release twisted power.
But once they reach the fifth energy level, these demons will be activated... just like an egg with only yolk at the beginning, turning into a mature embryo that is about to hatch into a chick and has begun to grow hair and meat.
The demon incarnation must use rituals or curses to limit the activity of the demons in the body, otherwise it may get out of control if you are not careful.
If they are about to die, then these fifth-level strongmen will directly walk into the ritual array that restrains the demons. In this way, when they die and the demons break out of their bodies, these demons can be directly sealed or expelled. They can even be contracted by their own students and become powerful helpers of the other party.
And if they are accidentally killed, the out-of-control demons will teach the murderer a lesson-although the sealed demons have a great hatred for the host itself, this does not mean that they will be grateful to the enemy who released them.
These first-generation demons have all the memories, knowledge and emotions of the host from birth to death. Rather than being a demon, it is better to say that they are another demonic personality born after they have received the mark of sin.
Although they are actually two souls with the main body, they are somewhat similar in personality.
General Carl also told Stranger that the correct promotion route for demon scholars is to defeat the strong with the weak again when reaching the sixth energy level and completely devour the demon personality in the body.
When the two personalities are combined into one, it is equivalent to two of you overlapping together. Only in this way can you truly control this power and become a genuine "demon incarnation".
And it is obvious that this fire demon is a "not so perfect" product. It is the proof of General Carl's death.
When General Carl was killed and the fire demon broke out of his body, the enemy who killed him must have been swallowed by the uncontrolled fire.
But after it defeated the enemy, Xingti will become its new and only enemy-
Because it was the inheritance of Xingti that taught General Carl how to suppress himself, how to restrain himself, and how to continuously extract power from his body. After being bound for so many years, its hatred for the Star Antimony far outweighs everything else...
But perhaps it is precisely because of this that he is temporarily safe now, because it has no intention of destroying Avalon. Stranger thought.
After all, the role he plays now is a court alchemist of Avalon. This makes his situation safer.
If you ask who the Balrog wants to attack the most at this moment...it can only be his mentor.
——That is, Mr. Brunzwick, codenamed "Advisor". He is the old man in a black robe.
But the next moment, Stranger's face suddenly changed.
Because he heard the sound of the Balrog's fists hitting the ground.
In an instant, the ground shook. The building shook violently, broke, and collapsed. The panic and shouts of the knights suddenly came from this building.
The magical monocle worn by the alchemist kept shrinking and curling, focusing repeatedly, locking one soul after another who was swallowed by the flames and died.
Through his strange perspective eyes that could make everything non-supernatural transparent, he could easily see that the flames spread from the giant's fists, like the roots of plants, snakes or centipedes.
They drilled into the walls and the ground, and when the buildings shook and broke, they suddenly drilled out from the cracks and attacked the knights.
No, they didn't just attack the knights!
Even the ordinary people, the servants working in the palace, were swallowed by the fiery snakes and screamed miserably.
Even the fourth-level arbitrators had almost no resistance to this. Their defensive spells were easily penetrated, and the blessed metal armor melted like paper.
... What's going on? !
The stranger shuddered.
Fortunately, he packed his things as soon as he landed because he wanted to run away. He put the materials and potions he needed for his spells into a brown-red leather suitcase.
He picked up the box and ran. As soon as he ran to the door, a knight rushed over.
"Master Nobel, please leave quickly!"
He was very nervous, and raised his sword to aim at a slender fire snake crawling out from the corner of the wall: "I'll cover your retreat--"
"Don't cut it off!"
The stranger grabbed the knight's shoulder and almost screamed: "Anyway... run! Run together!"
At this moment, the knight realized it belatedly and put away his sword and prepared to leave.
A fire snake shot out from the corner of the wall, which had been accumulating strength for a long time and rushed towards him.
It was like a flaming arrow, and also like a hound.
The sword blade that the knight raised subconsciously was easily burned with an expanding hole, like a newspaper burned through the middle by flames. His instinctive turning of his head saved his life-the fire snake shot directly into the ceiling, causing the ceiling to drip with molten steel.
In just a moment, the residual heat from the brushing made his helmet hot, causing him to scream-his left face was like being branded on an iron plate, making a sizzling sound. The stranger even vaguely smelled the aroma of barbecue.
But the knight's vitality and perseverance were extraordinary.
He was not killed immediately, but he just took a few breaths on the spot and recovered.
Seeing "Nobel Master" jogging and running away at a snail's pace. He finally couldn't stand it anymore, so he rushed over and picked up the stranger.
The stranger immediately felt his armor becoming hot - just like being exposed to the sun for several hours at noon in midsummer. Even with the insulation of the robe, the stranger couldn't help but screamed from being burned.
Even so, he held his suitcase tightly and didn't let go.
The two of them screamed one after another and ran towards the outside of the Temple of Silver and Tin.
They saw clearly - a knight on their escape path tried to swing his sword to cut off a fire snake that attacked him, but was pierced through the chest by the fire snake.
The flames continued to spew out from the gaps in the armor, and his screams lasted only a moment before they disappeared completely. Soon he stopped struggling in pain and became quiet. The fire that gushed out from the gaps in the armor became more and more stable and quiet.
The metal armor became half-melted - Stranger used the "Nobel" monocle to clearly see that the man's soul was forged into a new form by the flames.
It was like the soul was parasitized by a fire snake, or like a block of fine steel was melted and mixed with bone powder. The original traces can still be seen, but it is obviously no longer the same person as before.
Burning knights, burning servants, burning skeletons - more and more people gathered. Their clothes and weapons were burning with flames, but they still maintained their previous forms and were not burned.
The flames on their bodies were all golden red, and they all held weapons made of blue-purple flames in their hands. The place where their eyeballs should have been turned into two burning purple-black flames.
As they gradually burned, the human part became less and less at a speed visible to the naked eye.
First the skin and hair, then the flesh and blood. Even if there was only a skeleton left, it continued to burn, turning into a stronger and stronger flame. In the end, only a vague human figure was left, turning into pure elements.
However, the Fire Demon in the center of the Silver and Tin Palace had shrunk to about half its size at this moment. It still kept its fists touching the ground, and the entire Silver and Tin Palace was in its flames, gradually starting to burn.
A "Fire Demon Legion" was created from nothing!