"Ugly things... Be purified and ascend in the burning lava!"
Nate raised both hands high.
A lava fireball five meters across formed above him. He hurled it toward the densest cluster of Twisted Treants.
The fireball arced down from the sky. The heat, well over a thousand degrees, filled the Twisted Treants below with terror.
Mouths gaped in their twisted trunks as they roared on instinct.
Some lashed their vines at the fireball in a panic, trying to stop it or knock it away.
Nate watched them struggle, a savage grin spreading across his cracked, lava-covered face.
He held out his right hand toward the fireball.
Just as it reached the treants, Nate clenched his fist.
"Lava Burst... Detonate!"
In an instant.
The enormous fireball burst like a water balloon squeezed in someone's hand. Scalding magma sprayed across dozens of meters.
Fiery droplets rained down on the Twisted Treants.
The magma was impossibly sticky and penetrating. Countless globs clung to every treant.
Flames rose in the heat.
The little fires joined, then surged into a blaze that set every Twisted Treant alight.
Goting and Merlin conjured long whips of fire and stood guard beside Nate.
The Bronze Tier Ascetics became living flames, attacking the Twisted Treants with the three of them at the center.
Magma seethed across the ground. Thick black smoke, heavy with the stench of sulfur, blanketed the sky.
These Lava Believers fully unleashed the Lava Demons within them, pouring out their fury and power without restraint.
Under their influence, the entire battlefield became a furnace.
And the Twisted Treants were fuel at its base.
As they burned, they set more of their own kind alight.
Just as Nate and the others prepared to finish off the remaining Twisted Treants.
He suddenly looked up.
Between the two landmasses