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The seven fire snakes flew at incredible speed. Wherever they passed overhead, even the houses lining the small town's streets caught fire. Flames roared skyward, painting a scene of utter disaster. The common folk of Wushan Town, who had long since hidden themselves at a distance to watch, saw their homes destroyed and felt nothing but anguish and grief.
In front of the seven colossal fire snakes, row after row of stone houses crumbled like toys, easily obliterated, flames engulfing everything.
"Go!" The female archer could no longer care about anything else. She immediately urged her griffin upward toward the sky.
A fire-system mage had a limited range of control over the fire snakes. Once the female archer flew beyond that range, she would be safe.
"Hssss!" Two fire snakes coiled around each other, wrapping up the two female mages and the Bloodthirsty Iron Bull. The sizzling sound of burning flesh filled the air, and Lin Lei could even smell the acrid stench of singed hair.
"Brother Kailai, help—" One of the female mages let out a piercing scream from within the flames.
"Hrrgh, hrrgh~~" The Bloodthirsty Iron Bull's eyes burned a terrifying red. Every muscle in its body twisted and writhed as it snorted furiously, trying to break free from the fire snakes' hold. But the binding force of each individual snake was terrifyingly immense.
"Luisha!" The red-haired brute let out a anguished, agonized roar.
The two beautiful female mages and the Bloodthirsty Iron Bull turned to ash in the blink of an eye. But before the red-haired brute could even process his grief, he and the other two male warriors each found themselves facing a massive fire snake. Before those colossal serpents, they were as helpless as infants.
Even a punch that could shatter stone — once coiled by a fire snake's body, what could they possibly do?
"Ahhh~~~" The three warriors, engulfed by fire snakes, screamed in agony.
Mid-scream, their battle qi shields shattered in an instant. The sizzling sound of searing flesh rang out. The muscles on the three warriors' faces twitched and twisted, their eyes bulging from their sockets. Every hair on their bodies was burned away in an instant — skin, muscle, bone... under the fire snakes' horrifyingly intense flames, nothing could withstand it.
Three formidable warriors were burned to ash in a matter of moments.
"Huff... huff..."
The female archer gasped for breath. She had finally escaped the range of the Fire Snake Dance.
"Lujia, Luisha, Brother Kailai... I will avenge you. I swear it." The female archer wept in anguish, then rode her griffin higher into the sky.
"Boom!"
A massive bolt of lightning suddenly lashed down from midair, striking the completely unprepared female archer dead-on. Her entire body was instantly reduced to ash, while the griffin, charred black all over, convulsed as it plummeted from the sky, crashing heavily onto a commoner's stone house. It smashed through the roof and tumbled inside.
"Think you can run? Hmph." The mysterious mage let out a cold snort.
A hundred meters away, Hillman watched everything unfold. He swallowed hard, an irrepressible tremor of fear running through his heart: "An eighth-level mage... and a dual-system mage at that."
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"That was called the Fire Snake Dance?" Lin Lei stood rooted to the spot, completely stunned.
The sight of those seven colossal fire snakes rising into the air, the surging waves of scorching heat and towering flames — it had shaken him to his very core. Each of the seven fire snakes was roughly the same size as a Rapid Dragon. Having all seven rise at once was like the arrival of a catastrophe. Houses burned and collapsed, flames towered to the heavens.
In the blink of an eye, those four powerful warriors, two mages, one archer, and two magical beasts — with the exception of the griffin, whose fate remained uncertain — were all dead.
The seven colossal fire snakes had already vanished, but Lin Lei could still feel the terrifying waves of heat radiating from the battlefield. The area where the fight had taken place was now nothing but a wasteland of rubble. The ruins and the still-rolling waves of heat seemed to narrate the devastating battle that had just occurred.
"So... so powerful."
Lin Lei's breathing was still somewhat ragged. In his mind, the image of seven colossal fire snakes soaring into the sky, descending like catastrophe, replayed over and over.
Compared to that scene, even the terrifying Rapid Dragon paled somewhat.