Red Flame

Green stared at the sky in horror at that scarlet fireball that was like a second sun, and could not help wondering, was this truly power possessed by a new class of wizard apprentices?

So this was the Son of the Sun!?

Her mental strength had probably already reached 30!

Boom!

Green only felt a scarlet flash streak past, and then he was surrounded by endless flames. Everywhere he looked was a surging sea of scarlet fire. Though the protective barrier maintained by the Pale Mask remained steady, the magic power in Green's body was being consumed at an astonishing speed.

In just that brief moment of daze, Green had actually burned through a full one-fifth of his magic power!

"Run!"

Green could no longer care about anything else. Because all he could see around him was scarlet flame, he could not tell any direction apart, so he picked one at random and fled with all his might.

But what made Green despair was that he seemed to have entered an endless world of fire, with no end in sight, ever.

In the sky, rolling heat-wave steam rose from the large expanses of bare skin on the Son of the Sun. The air around her had become somewhat distorted because of it. On her cold, cruel, exquisitely beautiful face, raging flames burned in her lovely eyes as she stared fixedly at Green on the ground, who was trying to rely on constant movement to escape the area enveloped by her Blazing Flame Domain spell.

A cold sneer hung at the corner of the Son of the Sun's mouth. High in the air, her fiery-red long hair stood and drifted upright without wind, and between her hands, a pillar of flame like a colossal sword propping up the heavens stabbed into the ground.

Wherever the pillar of flame swept, trees and vegetation were all burned to nothing. Even some stones gradually softened, becoming lava-like liquid.

The Son of the Sun slowly changed the direction of her hands, and that heaven-propping giant-sword pillar of flame slowly changed direction along with them.

In this way, Green on the ground naturally could not escape the range covered by the flames.

Atop a giant tree very far away, Ghost Thief leaned comfortably against the trunk, chewing an unknown red fruit in his hand as he watched the Son of the Sun in the distant sky looking down from above, awe-inspiring and utterly domineering as her giant flame sword swept across the ground. Green on the ground was like an ant facing doomsday, struggling with all his might.

Ghost Thief revealed an intoxicated expression.

"What a wonderful painting. Even though this is the third time I've seen the Son of the Sun display her power, I'm still amazed by her terrifying talent. This is simply the art of flame."

A moment later, the pillar of flame dissipated.

The earth looked as if it had been savagely carved through by a giant flame sword, leaving behind a black trench dozens of meters long. Flames continued spreading in all directions, burning fiercely in an apocalyptic scene.

However, the expression of the Son of the Sun in the sky changed!

"Damn it! He's still not dead?"

Unable to keep sustaining the massive magic-power consumption of the Blazing Flame Domain, the Son of the Sun blinked her somewhat weary beautiful eyes and showed a touch of astonishment.

Suddenly, the Son of the Sun faintly sensed certain energy fluctuations in the space behind her. This familiar fluctuation—she knew who it was even without looking.

A fierce light flashed in her beautiful eyes burning with red flame, and without the slightest hesitation, the Son of the Sun took out a fist-sized glowing pearl and hurled it toward Green.

On the ground, Green's body was so weak that he could barely stand steadily. The Pale Mask covered his pale, almost bloodless face as he looked up in despair at that majestic, dignified, overbearing, inviolable figure in the sky.

Wizard apprentices—because of so-called talent, was the gap truly this great?

This gap had even practically reached the point of absolute crushing. The energy fluctuations emitted by the Son of the Sun in the sky absolutely should not be something a wizard apprentice who had only entered the academy three years ago could possess!

In that instant, Green even gave rise to a certain doubt.

"Damn it, Green! Dodge!"

The roar made Green snap completely awake. Looking at the Flame Fusion Pearl flying toward him from the sky, he instinctively reacted. The giant Phantom Wasp's wings flashed, and it instantly blocked in front of Green.

Blinding light occupied everything in Green's vision. Heaven and earth seemed to fall silent in an instant, deathly silent.

Boom!

Abruptly, a deafening explosion turned into tangible sound waves that swept through a range of several hundred meters. As a sky-covering, earth-blanketing wave of fire instantly drowned everything within twenty meters of the explosion's core, the spreading flames extended even forty to fifty meters outward. The giant Phantom Wasp in front of Green, along with countless small Phantom Wasps that had only been born a few minutes ago, each gave a despairing hiss before death, then with a puff, turned into flying ash.

Streaks of blinding light passed through the three-meter body of the giant Phantom Wasp. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of small Phantom Wasps, together with the insect mother, were all reduced to ashes under that destructive wave of blazing fire, leaving no trace behind.

With his magic power almost completely exhausted, Green despairingly took out the Leaf of Life that Lafi had given him and held it in his mouth. At the same time, the last thread of stored magic power in the ring on his left hand surged into his body, and he used every ounce of strength to maintain the protective barrier.

Blisters had been burned onto his body, stinging his nerves. Green knew that this time, he had truly reached his limit.

The instant between life and death!

Suddenly, a familiar spatial Distortion power stirred. Green's heart loosened, and he broke away from the core blast range of the Flame Fusion Pearl. The life energy of the Leaf of Life began repairing the large patches of burns and blisters on Green's body.

"Hmph, you finally came. Though that crazy woman beat me to it, it's fine. At least I managed to save you."

Yun Li spoke lightly to Green. The little white mouse still lying on his shoulder looked around fearlessly in all directions.

"Ah... Distortion!"

In the sky, the Son of the Sun roared furiously. Her eyes, burning with raging flames, wished they could burn him and Green to ashes together.

Yun Li's withered, pale face did not change.

"The madwoman is about to go crazy. I'll send you somewhere safe first to recover your magic power. I might still need you in a bit."

After saying this, space distorted again, and the two figures disappeared from their original spot. A hundred meters away, the two appeared again, and Green took out a mid-grade magic stone and desperately began recovering his magic power.

When Yun Li saw that Green had actually taken out a mid-grade magic stone to recover his magic power, his eyes nearly bulged out, including the little white mouse on his shoulder—both its eyes popped wide too!

This guy's mentor treated him way too generously, didn't he?

Not only had he given him this top-tier mask magic tool among wizard apprentices, he had even given him mid-grade magic stones?

Leaving aside Yun Li's thoughts, on the other side of the sky, Bibilionna and the Son of the Sun looked as though a pair of age-old enemies had met, their hatred undisguised.

There was almost no excess speech. Under the pressure of violent magic power, Bibilionna's golden long hair instantly stood upright and fluttered. Slowly, a golden slit pupil opened on her forehead and gazed toward the distant Son of the Sun.

After the Son of the Sun let out a slightly shrill scream, the blazing flames in the sky flashed and concealed her figure. She laughed loudly. "A mere rare water-element rune talent, and you think you can defile my Fire-Bathed Body? Hahaha..."

It was clear that although the Son of the Sun was laughing wildly and arrogantly, the actual situation was by no means as easy and simple as she claimed.

Bibilionna sneered. "Hmph, keep laughing. With that little magic power of yours, let's see how long you can still laugh."

"Mina, we meet again."

A pair of black wings like giant crow wings spread open behind Solam. Strange strands of black smoke seeped from all over his body, yet they did not disperse, instead circling around him.

Solam's figure was blurred and indistinct. His eyes burned with pale-blue flames like ice, giving off waves of mysterious, uncanny aura that seemed to draw in one's soul.

An ominous, oppressive field spread out, just like when the Faceless Mask had appeared on the ocean liner back then.

This should be some kind of bloodline sorcery transformation from a strange creature of another world.

"Solam! Hmph, I've already figured out a few things about your Undying body. If I'm not mistaken, you're nothing more than a poor wretch living in symbiosis with some monster. Once you run into certain high-level sealing sorceries, you might even be worse off than an ordinary wizard apprentice! If my older sister were here..."

The Son of the Sun shouted loudly, her arrogant belief that she alone reigned supreme displayed to the fullest on this beautiful woman.

This self-centered temperament was far more insane than Lafi's, to the point that it had already reached a kind of twisted sickness, an arrogance that looked down on everything beneath the sky.

Solam remained unmoved. The thin strands of black aura spreading from him actually began to turn into black arrows, shooting together with Solam toward the flames in the sky. Instantly, waves of fire and black smoke churned without end, and the astonishing aura that erupted completely covered up the battle between the two at the center.

While maintaining her golden slit pupils, Bibilionna suddenly spat toward the air. A sapphire-blue column of water flashed and vanished, accompanied at the same time by an angry, piercing cry from within the waves of fire, a voice whose hatred for Bibilionna had sunk deep into the bones.

After the battle in the sky continued for a short while, Green finally recovered some magic power and gained the ability to protect himself.

Yun Li looked anxiously at the battle in the sky and could not help but sigh softly. "That crazy hag, just like Solam, has already become a monster."

Squeak squeak...

The little white mouse on Yun Li seemed to be expressing its agreement.