Flames swept through, thick smoke billowing until heaven and earth lost their color.
More than a thousand separate fires had joined into one. The once-crowded, chaotic shantytown was engulfed in searing flames.
Ash and smoke rose as waves of scorching heat roared outward.
The fire devoured everything around it like the ravenous maw of a behemoth. Neither houses nor streets were spared.
The one responsible for it all stood at the center of the inferno.
At thirty meters tall, it made the low buildings around it look like toys.
The people fleeing in every direction seemed even more insignificant beneath his enormous figure.
"You will all become sacrifices for my ascension to godhood!"
His deep, frenzied voice, coupled with the terrifying pressure of a level 41 being, filled everyone with dread that felt like the end of the world.
At the sight of such a horrifying monster, countless people in the Border District fell into indescribable terror and despair.
Some even stopped running. They looked up at the terrifying Flame Giant and prepared to die.
The people who had escaped to Su Yi's side were still shaken, their faces full of fear and despair.
They had lived in the hell of the underclass since birth. After drifting from place to place, they had finally built little homes of their own here on the border.
Those homes were nothing more than ramshackle sheds beside drainage ditches choked with household waste.
But to these displaced people, they were still somewhere stable to live.
Now cruel reality had taken away their last refuge—and with it, their only hope.
Inside the shelter, many women held their children and wept quietly.
What frightened them was not the terrifying Flame Demon in the distance. It was losing their homes and becoming displaced once more.
They had