Six Rings (II)

The wizard had become a Sixth Ring, but this breakthrough had not ended. On the contrary, it had only just reached its halfway point.

After becoming a Sixth Ring wizard came the advancement to a sixth-rank demon.

The boiling sea of rules seemed to belong not merely to this plane.

But to the entire Bottomless Abyss.

Once Charles began his breakthrough, the Abyssal Will had drawn close enough to the Bottomless Abyss.

At that moment, the power of rules was absorbed by Charles.

Thanks to the fire origin, it was almost perfectly compatible with Charles's Balor form.

A vast amount of complete fire rules entered Charles's soul and body, while nearly endless rule energy was continuously absorbed by him.

His body kept growing stronger, stronger without pause.

His body continuously collapsed, then condensed anew.

The Balor body that had originally stood only a little over twenty meters tall kept growing, becoming ever more massive.

The scales on his body burst apart, then grew back.

Rules manifested upon his body.

The newly grown scales even retained complete rules upon them.

This meant that to break such defenses, one could only rely on attacks wielding the power of rules.

Not only that—every breath Charles took, every movement he made, contained rules.

At that moment, he seemed to be the embodied manifestation of rules.

Flames continually flickered into being and died out around him.

Despite the Balor's immense body, it did not appear bloated in the least. Instead, it looked remarkably well-proportioned.

The horns atop his head grew thicker and harder, curving backward, their tips glimmering with firelight.

Sitting upon the ground, he resembled a mountain.

Though he could not compare with an actual mountain peak, his aura far surpassed the high mountains of the Abyss.

Even the tallest peak in this layer