A Brief Respite

(Sixue suddenly realized there were almost no fantasy books on any of the major rankings! Had fantasy, once so glorious, really fallen this far? It hurt! Sixue loved fantasy and had once been moved by it. When would fantasy rise again?) Er Dongsheng stood silently, watching the Fairy Queen recede into the distance, lost in thought.

The storm was coming.

"System, analyze everything we know about those Third-Level Demons. Run a simulation and tell me the results!" Er Dongsheng left this kind of logical analysis to the Abyss System.

"Confidence: 95%. Simulation diagram follows!" The mechanical voice sounded, and a stream of information entered his mind.

A cell appeared in Er Dongsheng's mind, magnified countless times. At its center was a core formed from Ink Spirit Flame. Driven by a mysterious force, the flame in the core began to grow. It swelled larger and larger, blazing until it engulfed the entire cell! No, engulfed wasn't quite right. Ink Spirit Flame devoured and replaced most of the cell's structure, until it became a flesh-and-blood cell made entirely of Ink Spirit Flame. Then countless mysterious Spirit Runes emerged from thin air, forming pitch-black chains that shimmered with boundless Laws. They revolved around the fiery cell, shifting without cease.

"So the marks of a Third-Level Demon are an Elemental Avatar and Spirit Rune Chains on the surface of the body? An Elemental Avatar could be called the ultimate evolution of Force-Field Protection, but what are the Spirit Rune Chains? Weapons?" Er Dongsheng stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"And how do you form elemental cells? The information says it happens under some mysterious Laws? Laws?"

"Does becoming a Third-Level Demon mean you have to comprehend Laws? Then what are my Laws?"

He murmured to himself as question after question rose in his mind.

The system