The crimson flames gradually died away.
Amid the flames, a figure stood proudly.
Not even a thread of Aaron's clothing was disheveled. A layer of transparent, illusory scales floated around him in defense.
Though the blaze raged fiercely, it could not breach the scales in the slightest.
He glanced at his status panel:
[Name: Aaron (Zorro)] [Talent: Ageless Immortality] [Age: 609] [Sorcerer Talent: First Class?] [Sorcerer Level: Level Three] [Bloodline: Legendary Serpent?] [Meditation Method: Mobius Serpent Meditation Method (8799/10000)] [Level 1 Sorcery: Life-Hiding Art, Snake Molt Restoration Art, Snake Scale Technique, Petrifying Eye...] [Level 2 Sorcery: Corrosive Fire, Void Traversal] [Level 3 Sorcery: Legendary Regeneration]
"Who gave you the courage to attack me?"
"Oh... I forgot. I've been suppressing most of my energy fluctuations..."
Aaron slapped his forehead and released the restraints he had placed earlier.
The next instant!
Tifflin felt as though the black-robed sorcerer before him had become an entirely different person!
A terrifying instinct of danger pressed before his eyes like two blades!
Rumble!
Terrifying energy waves spilled outward, and the hiss of a serpent echoed through the void.
Hiss... hiss...
Part of that invisible chaotic power even manifested itself, forming an enormous black serpent coiled around Aaron.
Aaron took a step forward and stood atop the head of the black giant serpent, looking at Tifflin as though he were already dead.
Tifflin, too, sensed that he stood only a hair's breadth from death.
"Ah!"
With a roar, he had the Blood Sail Beast, fused with the airship in the sky, descend rapidly. The Thousand Spirits Blood Sail unfurled, and layer upon layer of crimson light wrapped around him.
A river of blood rippled outward, countless human souls drifting within it.
"The Blood Sail Beast is an alchemical life-form personally crafted by Teacher... and