With My Broken Body, I Become Blazing Fire

Like a Phoenix, she charged headlong into the fakes with blinding flames. Her left arm, writhing in pain, first clenched tightly, then quickly spread open like a wing, igniting the floor and ceiling. Bathed in flames, she pounced on them.

The Imitation Human scattered in panic, not daring to confront the overwhelming storm of destruction. Four or five Imitation Human, unable to escape, scrambled from their seats. Their exposed skin, merely touched by Mars, instantly melted large sections of their bodies. Their bodies, like butter, rapidly curled and melted, their muscles burning away in an instant. They collapsed to the ground, struggling briefly before being burned to death in excruciating pain.

Luo Zhi · Concealment, unhurriedly, attached a bayonet to the rifle, gripped it with both hands, aimed at Qiu Ran who was rushing towards him, and immediately thrust it forward. Qiu Ran, whose body was engulfed in flames, was instantly stabbed in the abdomen by the gunshot wound, and her body stopped almost instantly.

"What's the panic? She's just at her last gasp. A human body can't stay burning for long—you just put out the fire and let me eat her."

As soon as Luo Zhi · Concealment finished speaking, a hand immediately landed on the rifle.

Smack

Luo Zhi raised her head. In the raging fire, the woman's unrecognizable face burned ceaselessly, and the flesh and blood of her mangled body became fuel, constantly expanding the flames.

Qiu Ran opened her mouth, but said nothing. The rifle bayonet melted into molten iron under the high temperature, and the wooden gun barrel caught fire. Luo Zhi's pupils contracted. She hurriedly dropped the bayonet, took two steps back, picked up a fire axe from the ground, turned around, swung the axe handle in a wide arc, and swiftly chopped upwards at the opponent's only remaining left arm! Crack—

Li Aoz tore open the door and had barely stepped inside when Qiu Ran's left arm flew high into the air and landed in front of him.

Qiu Ran lost an arm and could not maintain her balance, making her movements even more unsteady. Luo Zhi weighed the axe in his hand, turned the handle again, swung the weapon in a wide arc, and smashed it down towards Qiu Ran's neck.

Thud! The fire axe struck Qiu Ran's right shoulder, causing her to freeze. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't get any closer to the other person.

Luo Zhi smiled, displaying her own face, and said in a voice exactly like her own:

"That means you can't go any further, right—"

Before it finished speaking, the sharp axe melted rapidly, and molten iron spread and slid down Qiu Ran's shoulder. The cut surface of the wound was eroded by the raging fire, stopping the bleeding. Her pupils had already merged with the flames, making it impossible for her to see anything clearly, but the axe handle had already been set ablaze.

Luo Zhi's hands were burned by the conducted high temperature. He dropped the axe handle, and the next moment, Qiu Ran bumped into the chest of Imitation Human who looked exactly like herself.

Bang! Her vocal cords were burned by the flames. The sea of fire continued to spread as she moved forward. One by one, the Imitation Human were ignited by the high temperature of the flames as soon as they got close. The roof of the carriage was also burned by the high temperature. The seats and wooden floorboards were ignited by raging flames. They screamed in terror and fled backward, but they forgot that the train was moving at high speed and the wind was also rushing behind them.

"--Don't!"

Luo Zhi's pupils constricted as its body burst into flames. Unable to stop Qiu Ran from charging forward, the armless Qiu Ran blindly pushed forward, ramming its body into a cargo wagon filled with various flammable materials.

Rumble——————

The rapid burning quickly escalated into an explosion, and the terrifying shockwave swiftly knocked Li Aoz to the ground.

The fire spread rapidly, creating a sea of flames between Qiu Ran and Li Aoz.

Li Aoz fell to the ground and staggered to his feet.

"Cough cough—cough!"

He picked up Qiu Ran's severed hand immediately, ignoring the scorching heat that burned his palm, and extended his nerve tendrils to extract Qiu Ran's Aoneng using his Ability Pod.

Once Qiu Ran loses her Aoneng, the flames she ignited should also stop—most Aoneng effects can be stopped by stripping away the Aoneng or killing the host.

This is the only way; there might still be a chance to stop it.

The nerve tendrils were burned by the high temperature of hundreds of degrees, and the pain in every detail was transmitted to his whole body. Li Aoz's eyes were wide open as he continued to extract Qiu Ran's Gene Sequence. The speed at which he could complete the task in an instant in the ever-changing battlefield in the past now seemed to take more than a century.

Faster, faster! Without Aoneng, he couldn't cross such a vast sea of fire. Without Aoneng, Qiu Ran might have had a chance to extinguish the flames on her body.

Li Aoz never hated how fast time flies as much as he does today.

The lingering heat of the flames warped his nerve tendrils, but what did the pain matter? With each relentless extraction, he finally heard the voice he had longed for—

[Ability Pod Activated]

[Aoneng Extracted from Target]: [Natural Ignition] Rating: Omega (Ο, the fifteenth Greek letter) [Active Effect]: Mode 1: Purify Filth: Consumes Aura Value, and applies the 'Accelerated Oxidation' effect to all theoretically flammable objects centered on your palm, ignoring the lack of oxygen in the surrounding environment, and forcibly creating high temperatures.

If the target is a living being, inflict the ' Burning State, dealing spell damage equal to 7% of the target's current maximum health per second, and applying a slowing effect based on the target's [Willpower] attribute.

When the target is a carbon-based life form, spell damage is converted into True Damage.

Mode 2: Scour the World: Instantly consumes 50% of Aura Value to create a 10×10 cubic meter field of extremely high temperature and pressure in front of you, causing massive magical damage and secondary physical damage.

After the field lasts for five seconds, all oxygen within the area will be depleted, and parts of the ground will be transformed into 'lava terrain', lasting up to 40 minutes.

If a life with a Constitution below 10 is in this state, ignore other attribute checks and immediately inflict the "Incineration" effect; "Incineration": In this state, life recovery is prohibited, and the maximum Constitution of 10 points is permanently deprived.

Note: Targets that die due to incineration will have their bodies turned into ashes, and their physical bodies will be prevented from being resurrected.

Note: This status will cause True Damage to undead and Carbon-Based Life.

"You should be like fire, enduring the long night and living on without ceasing."

High temperatures and flame-like Aoneng always possess immense destructive power, yet those who wield them are often gentle and kind.

Just like elephants and whales, which are huge and have immense strength, but are gentle and affectionate.

The flames inside the carriage gradually died down. Li Aoz dragged his long sword and hurried forward. Along the way, he saw patches of black tar that had melted on the ground, with some hard fragments remaining.

The pungent, smoky smell lingered in the air, like rotten eggs boiled in hot water. The acrid odor hit my eyes and nose hard, and my tear ducts immediately started working, secreting tears to soothe the burning pain.

Half-dead sludge crawled toward him from his feet. These charred Imitation Human no longer possessed the ability to mimic transformation. Before they could struggle for a few moments, they collapsed to the ground and automatically disintegrated into a pile of debris.

"Qiu Ran... Qiu Ran..."

Li Aoz walked to the middle of the cargo compartment. The explosion had destroyed everything around him. The windows were blown out, and the gale kept blowing in, swirling in surging white snow and sand.

There was no sign of life here. Imitation Human the living could have survived such an explosion. The wind howled through the gaps and cracks torn open by the explosion, sounding like the wailing of demons. But he still did not give up hope. He flipped over the overturned and shattered cabinet and his eyes kept scanning every corner.

Finally, when he reached the end of the carriage, he saw a figure kneeling on the ground with his back to him.

Qiu Ran knelt on the ground, her body charred black by the flames.

"Qiu Ran!"

Li Aoz rushed forward, a surge of intense joy welling up inside him. He dropped his weapon, and the elation released the pent-up emotions within him. Forgetting caution and prudence, he slid to his knees without any regard for decorum and reached out to help her up.

Snap—

The moment his hand touched the charred body, Qiu Ran's outline instantly crumbled and collapsed. A gust of wind swept through, and blackish-gray snow immediately began to drift in the carriage.

Li Aoz opened his palms, his hands stained with black ash.

—That wasn't snow; it was ashes from a fire that had burned out.

The fire took Qiu Ran's life, and the wind carried away her body fragments as well, scattering them among the Frost and Snow, drifting between heaven and earth, and merging into the eternal darkness of the Outland.

This is the system's description of Qiu Ran's [Natural Ignition] ability when she first appeared:

You possess the ability to alter and generate oxidative heat to some extent.

The essence of flame is the phenomenon of combustion. Combustible materials are rapidly oxidized by oxygen, which can cause a fire. And you have the ability to accelerate this oxidation process.

Honestly, no one wants to be your enemy, because the pain of being slowly burned to death by flames is far greater than any other way of dying.

However, this ability will not make you immune to fire damage. Those who start fires rarely have a good ending, and hopefully you will too.