"Wow, so this was the real Dead River? What a spectacular sight."
Even Joseph could not help but sigh in awe at the scene before him.
But the admiration in his eyes abruptly turned icy as he pointed his short wand downward.
"Ifrit! Fiendfyre!"
The "Fire Spirit" immediately released even more magical flames upon hearing the command.
The starlight and full moon over Warrington were swiftly obscured by the flames filling the sky.
Even people far away in Liverpool and Manchester could see the burning clouds on the horizon.
At the scene.
Ifrit transformed in the blink of an eye into an extraordinarily enormous flaming serpent.
"SSS—ROAR—"
The instant it appeared, it let out its most ferocious roar at the pillars of blood below, formed from countless Evil Spirits swarming together like ants and resembling demonic claws.
The visible rings of sound waves shattered the approaching "blood tentacles" on the spot.
But before the densely packed Evil Spirits could fall to the ground.
The scorching blast that followed the sound waves instantly ignited them, along with the blood, in midair.
[BOOM—]
The next moment, the flaming serpent plunged headfirst into the vast Dead River.
It wildly twisted its serpentine body through this ocean of blood and Evil Spirits, incinerating everything it encountered and devouring the Dead River's territory with an ever-expanding sea of flames.
"Hmph, over a million souls? A river of blood comparable to a tsunami?"
"Before Ifrit transformed into Fiendfyre, there was only one outcome—being burned to ashes!"
Joseph sneered as he held his slender wand.
Blazing flames were reflected in his sapphire-blue eyes.
The Fiendfyre Curse was a fire-element spell in the Zero Magic World's "four great systems of fire, water, earth, and wind" whose learning difficulty had reached the "Pentagon, five-star" level.
Because its danger rating