Two minutes later, Angel raised his head and fixed his gaze on the surface of the Lava Lake.
He could already sense that the fire-element energy beneath the lake before him had suddenly grown restless.
"Whoosh—"
After a dull, sticky sound, the fiery-red phantom Ermi had become drilled out of the magma.
After coming ashore, Ermi did not sink into the shadows. Instead, he chose to stand in front of Angel. The blue lamp-flower atop his head swayed in the wind, and his fiery-red shadow immediately turned into a pure white shadow.
The change in color also represented a change in elemental attribute.
The power of fire had transformed into the utterly opposite aura of ice.
This entire series of actions from Ermi had not been ordered by Angel.
For Ermi to undergo such a drastic change without his master's will, there was only one possibility: his defensive state had been activated.
In other words, an enemy had launched an attack against Ermi or Angel!
Angel's gaze passed over Ermi and looked toward the nearby surface of the Lava Lake. The lake appeared the same as before, with vast amounts of magma churning. The only difference was a strange "gudu gudu" sound rising from beneath the lake.
As the sound grew louder and louder, the icy aura emanating from Ermi became increasingly intense.
Until a fiery-red figure leaped out from beneath the Lava Lake, the aura around Ermi reached its peak, transforming into a multitude of pure white ice blades that shot straight ahead.
The fiery-red figure opposite him was startled as well. It had not expected to face a rain of ice blades the moment it emerged. By the time it tried to dodge, it was already too late.
Just as the pure white ice blades were about to