Chapter 442: Erica's True Identity

Chapter 442 Erika's True Identity

Two bat-like wings erupted from Lox's back.

He stared at Levi, his expression solemn as he muttered, "You continue to surprise me more and more."

"I truly never expected you to have already mastered the laws of fire."

Levi let out a soft laugh. "There are plenty of things you never expected."

"Rest assured, you won't have to think about them anymore."

"The dead have no need for thought."

Lox fixed his gaze on Levi. "You are far too arrogant."

"Just because you've gained a minor advantage, you truly believe victory is within your grasp?"

"You are still too green. Don't worry, I won't kill you; you will be with me forever."

"Ugh, this is getting more and more repulsive." Levi felt a wave of nausea at his words.

"You talk too much."

Fire Dragon Spell!

Roar!

A colossal fiery dragon head materialized in mid-air, swallowing Lox's silhouette in a single gulp.

Countless citizens within Maple Leaf City witnessed the massive flaming dragon head in the sky.

All of them wore expressions of sheer terror.

They had no inkling of what was transpiring.

However, it was absolutely nothing good.

Bang!

Lox burst through the attack radius of the fire dragon spell, a layer of crimson dragon scales sprouting across his body.

This layer of scales helped him mitigate ninety percent of the fire attack damage.

The wings on Lox's back shuddered violently, and he accelerated in an instant.

He vanished from Levi's line of sight.

Levi's spiritual perception spread out like flowing water, enveloping every single corner of the surroundings.

Suddenly, a figure charged rapidly into the range of his spiritual perception.

He snapped his head up, launching an attack toward the sky above without a moment's hesitation.

Golden sacred fireballs were hurled out as if they cost nothing, shooting up into the sky.

They resembled a giant net enveloping the rapidly diving Lox.

In an instant, Lox's figure vanished from sight.

Levi felt a ripple of spatial fluctuation manifest from behind him.

Puff!

Lox's right hand pierced through Levi's body, sparks flying in all directions.

The attack just now had been nothing but a deception.

He had deliberately induced Levi to attack toward the heavens.

Then, taking advantage of the opening, he teleported behind Levi to launch a fatal assault.

Lox's arm skewered Levi, who was currently in his flame form.

The dragon scales on his forearm bristled, and a peculiar substance was released from his pores.

This substance possessed the property to render magical elements inert.

Levi felt a numbing sensation, a feeling of being anesthetized.

He was losing control over his body of supreme fire.

The Holy Dragon Physique could grant immunity to negative status effects.

Buzz!

The sacred power within Levi's body was triggered.

The flames transformed into golden holy fire.

It swept away all traces of paralysis and loss of control.

Lox witnessed Levi's body turning into golden flames.

A sudden sense of foreboding washed over him.

Just as he attempted to pull away and retreat.

Levi's body expanded rapidly, transforming in the blink of an eye into an eighteen-meter-tall flame giant.

He swallowed Lox entirely into his form.

Lox wished to use teleportation to escape.

He activated the ability, only to find it was ineffective.

Looking down, a translucent void chain had already coiled around his waist.

Lox's face twisted. "Damn it, how can Levi possess a void chain?"

Wasn't this thing a tournament prop? Why was he able to bring it out?

Lox recalled that among the rewards of the exchange tournament, there was absolutely no such reward as a void chain.

Just as Levi had said, there were still many things he did not know.

Levi transformed into a melting furnace, incinerating Lox.

The internal temperature rose continuously, the crimson-gold flames shifting into blue-gold flames.

The blue-gold flames then transitioned into green-gold flames.

Lox's body was rapidly scorched to cinders.

He exerted all his capabilities, wishing to resist the external high temperature, yet he still could not survive.

Lox understood that the moment he was trapped inside Levi's body, he had already lost.

Against this terrifying temperature, it was impossible for anyone to survive.

Lox had already been burned until only his head remained. Looking out at the boundless expanse of fire, he let out a hoarse voice.

"This time, you win."

Whish!

Lox's head was reduced to ashes.

Only after Levi ensured that Lox had completely turned to ash did he withdraw his power and return to his normal form.

"Is it over?"

Li Wei wasn't quite sure.

Rox's words before his death had been too strange.

What did it mean to say "you win this time"?

Could it be that Rox wasn't actually dead?

Li Wei carefully probed the area with his mental energy more than ten times, but found no trace of Rox's spiritual presence.

He should be dead.

Not even ashes remained.

There was no way he could come back from that, right?

Even the resurrection spells of the Church of Light required a corpse.

Rox didn't even have a body left.

He was definitely dead.

Resurrection magic would be useless.

"Just to be safe, I'll ask Erica."

Li Wei descended downward.

Erica was still fighting Nitoro.

"Erica, stop! Your teacher is already dead."

Li Wei called out loudly.

Upon hearing this, Erica froze for a moment, then looked around.

Indeed, she could no longer see Rox's figure anywhere.

After carefully sensing for a while, she confirmed that Rox was truly dead.

Erica ceased fighting.

The Shadow Servant stood aside, watching Erica intently, ready to strike at any moment.

Li Wei landed in front of Erica. The magical bandages on her body had been damaged during the battle with the Shadow Servant.

Many places were now exposed.

But beneath the magical bandages was not the skin of a young girl, but rather chunks of flesh in various colors.

Many areas still bore traces of stitching.

Erica appeared as if she had been sewn together from the flesh and blood of countless magical beasts.

Even Li Wei couldn't help but frown at the sight.

He now had a fairly good understanding of Erica's true identity.

She wasn't a descendant of dragons, nor was she a human transformed from a dragon.

Rather, she was Rox's masterpiece of biological alchemy.

Through biological alchemy, Rox had transformed Erica into a weapon of war.

Noticing the change in Li Wei's expression, Erica said calmly: "Li Wei, my teacher isn't dead yet."

"The one you killed was just one of him."

Li Wei looked up at her and asked: "What do you mean?"

Hearing Erica's words, he felt neither surprise nor shock.

When Rox had spoken those words, Li Wei had already sensed it.

Rox most likely wasn't dead.

Erica tore off the magical bandage on her arm, exposing the flesh beneath.

She extended her arm for Li Wei to see.

"As you can see, I'm a bio-engineered being. My true profession is actually Bio-Demon."

"The teacher you just killed was also a Bio-Demon - just one of my teacher's bio-engineered forms."

"At the Alchemy Tower, I've seen at least three different forms of my teacher."

Li Wei nodded. "Hmm, I understand."

He looked at Erica and asked: "What about you? What do you plan to do next?"

Li Wei could tell that Erica hadn't truly been serving Rox willingly.

She had simply been constrained by circumstances, forced to obey.

Erica wrapped the magical bandages back around herself and said: "I plan to return to the Alchemy Tower. Without my teacher's special medicine, my body will eventually collapse."

Her body, having undergone countless modifications, had long since exceeded the bounds of normal biology.

It could only be sustained through medication.

So much so that due to the extreme degree of modification, the skin below her neck couldn't even be maintained.

The magical bandages had thus become her external skin.

(End of Chapter)