End of the Magic Era - Chapter 1158

Chapter 1158: Evolution (3)

Half of Lin Yun’s abyssal army was burnt to death, and the remaining half fled towards the fort after being scared by Steer’s might.

“Sir Bajiao, what do we do now? Their leader unexpectedly made a move, that damned guy…”

While running, an Abyssal Bear Goblin following Bajiao leaned forward and helplessly inquired about their next course of action. With their level of intelligence, they couldn’t think of anything other than running.

Bajiao fiercely slapped at him and loudly shouted, “Don’t be afraid, the Great Master once said to rely on wisdom! Do you understand what wisdom is? Damn, an idiot like you definitely doesn’t understand what wisdom is. It’s something a pureblooded Demon like Great Master possesses!

“Naturally, Lord Bajiao has also learnt some of Master’s wisdom.

“We will retreat to the fort first and rely on the fort’s defense. Our Great Master is researching a very difficult spell.

“There is no point in asking what it looks like, would a group of idiots like you understand? Don’t ask me, I also don’t understand. In any case, it is very fierce, and only a powerful Abyssal Spellcaster like Master could understand it.

“Although that Evil Bone Demon is powerful, it’ll definitely be eliminated by Master as long as we wait for the research to finish. Don’t even think about submitting to the enemy, damned morons!

“Do you want to survive by submitting? Would there be more food than you can eat or more Energy Crystals if you submit?

“You might as well die and forget it. Not to mention, all the enemies will die when Master is done with his spell!”

Bajiao loudly cursed at all the forces trembling in fear, and soon, many of them calmed down and obediently rushed back to the demon fort.

It could be said that Abyssal lifeforms were very loyal, but it could also be considered unloyal. Before the Demon they swore allegiance to died, they definitely wouldn’t betray him. But once he was killed, none of these abyssal lifeforms would dare to fight to the end; they would immediately submit to the new master

Lin Yun had yet to be eliminated, so these guys didn’t dare to betray him. In a fight to the death, they would at most be eliminated. However, if they betrayed him, and he not only survived but also got rid of the other side’s Demon ruler, then these traitors wouldn’t be able to die even if they wanted to.

Steer led his subordinates to chase, not too slowly, yet not too fast. They kept nibbling away at Lin Yun’s army. By the time they reached the demon fort, only a quarter of Lin Yun’s army remained. The rest had all been eliminated.

The army returned to the fort and relied on the fort’s meager defenses, but it didn’t seem very optimistic. The fort’s entrance was quickly melted down by a group of fire-breathing monsters, and the gate made of Abyssal Magic Iron was burnt into molten iron.

Treading over the molten iron, a large number of abyssal monsters rushed inside the fort, and the one-sided slaughter started.

Steer entered the fort very slowly and displayed his own Demon Body. Towering ten meters in height, he stood in the center of the fort and howled with laughter.

“Stupid guy, don’t tell me you want to hide? It’s an honor for idiotic Demons like you to die at this Lord Steer’s hands.

“Damned Flame Fiend, get the f*ck out here for me. Abyssal cowards that don’t dare to fight will be disdained by all Demons!”

Steer was frantically destroying the fort, killing his way towards the center, continuously cursing in Abyssal Language.

Many abyssal lifeforms couldn’t bear the power of these Abyssal words and stiffly went insane.

Abyssal Language was the most malicious curse in a Demon’s mouth. A Demon could pollute the mana of a Light Angel and corrupt a soul believing in the holy light just by relying on the Abyssal Language.

Steer exploded the head of an Abyssal Bear Goblin with a slap and kicked open the entrance of the ruler’s mansion before swaggering in. All the abyssal lifeforms he encountered were completely eradicated if they dared to resist.

Soon, Steer arrived in front of the room that Lin Yun was using for his evolution. He took a step forward, and a wall of fire rose in front of him.

Steer laughed heartily as he walked through the wall of fire. Red-hot flames were burning all over Steer’s body, but they had no effect.

“Silly guy, I was born from the flames of withered bones. Flames are my life! Flames of this level are better used as a lava bath.

“Flame Fiend, get the f*ck out and come meet your death…”

As Steer walked among the flames, the temperature grew hotter and hotter, but they had no effect on him. It would at most slightly slow him down.

Steer’s big, flaming hand slowly stretched towards the door of the room. That metal-cast entrance wouldn’t be too different from a wooden doorway when it came to stopping him.

Inside the room, the silent puppet suddenly raised its head, its eyes shining with a red light. The red eyes flickered a few times before the pupped lifted both arms, which formed into cannons.

If Steer’s hand touched the entrance, the patched puppet would blast him into nothingness along with the entrance.

Suddenly, the patched puppet’s eyes flickered, and it slowly retreated to a dark corner.

A crack slowly expanded over that huge, black cocoon, and all the abyssal power gathered inside the cocoon.

The cocoon split open and a human-shaped figure made of flowing lava appeared. Sizzling sounds kept echoing from his body.

The outer shell of the cocoon touched the lava and was instantly burnt to ashes. The room’s temperature rapidly increased, and in a few seconds, the surrounding room burnt to ashes before it could even ignite.

That Magic Iron entrance also slowly turned red. It was just the heat transmitted from his body, yet it could heat up the Magic Iron entrance three meters away.

Outside the room, Steer had been about to burst with power to open the door, when his expression suddenly changed. That pitch-black Magic Iron entrance could be seen reddening at a visible speed. This made Steer move back immediately. Thick, bony outgrowths surged out of his body as the black Bone-corroding Black Flames kept spurting out.

Lin Yun closed his eyes and walked towards the entrance. By the time he was a meter away from it, it rapidly melted into molten iron.

Standing atop the boiling molten iron entrance, Lin Yun slowly opened his eyes. The heat waves emitted by his body were slowly dwindling, but lava kept rolling under his feet.

Steer vigilantly looked at Lin Yun from a hundred meters away. He appeared somewhat bewildered.

“Flame Demon? Damnit, wasn’t it supposed to be a Flame Fiend?”

There was a huge gap between Flame Demons and Flame Fiends. Flame Fiends were also part of the pureblooded Demonic Bloodlines, and they weren’t all the way at the bottom.

But their reputation wasn’t very good, because Flame Fiends were only the offspring of Flame Demons, even if it was the strongest race among the Flame Fiend’s offspring.

After all, within the 72 Demonic Bloodlines, Flame Fiends were the only race that were the offspring of another race.

But Flame Demons were different. The Flame Demons that appeared in the Abyss were different from those appearing in Noscent or other planes, as those had impure bloodlines. The trademark of a pureblooded Flame Demon was the heat they were constantly radiating and their bodies continuously dripping with bright lava without a trace of impurity. It was like shining crystals of lava.

Pureblood Flame Demons were part of the Silver Bloodlines and could even advance into a terrifying existence known as Flame Demon Monarch. They weren’t looked down upon because of their Silver Bloodline, either… Even the Demons of the ten Gold Bloodlines didn’t dare to casually provoke a Flame Demon.

That race had the largest number of Demons among the Demonic Bloodlines of the Abyss. Any area possessing lava and volcanoes would be the territory of a Flame Demon Overlord, because no Demon could compete with a Flame Demon in such an area.

Suddenly seeing that his target wasn’t a Flame Fiend but a Flame Demon, Steer hesitated.

No one would care if a hundred Flame Fiends were killed, but this might not be the case for a pureblooded Flame Demon.

Demons were temperamental and simply didn’t have the notion of siblings. It was very normal for them to kill their genitor and siblings.

But Flame Demons were different. There could be a Flame Demon Overlord suddenly wanting to eliminate the murderer of a pureblooded Flame Demon after hearing about it.

And the excuse of avenging a sibling was the best reason to expand one’s territory.

Steer only hesitated for a split second before exposing a malevolent smile.

‘Damn, I thought it was a Flame Fiend, but it turns out to be a pureblooded Flame Demon. That’s even better! His heart will be the most formidable source of mana.

‘If I get rid of that guy, I’ll be able to smoothly level up to Level 36. No, I might be able to use the heart of this idiot to quickly reach Level 39.

‘There isn’t a large formation of volcanoes here, so it’s simply impossible for a Flame Demon Overlord to be here. As long as I advance to Level 40, I’ll be able to use Extraordinary Power to connect to my body and leave this cursed Abyss.

‘Will those stupid Flame Demons chase me back to the Raging Flame Plane?

‘If they dare, all that will happen is them getting torn apart!’

Steer was covered in bony outgrowths, and ashen black Bone-corroding Black Flames were curling around his body. Moreover, a sinister Aura power was hiding within that thin body.

That was the method of awakening Aura that Steer had slowly fumbled with by relying on his memories. The body of an Evil Bone Demon was much stronger than the body of a Bronze Beastman, and the Aura he roused was definitely stronger, too. Even if the difference in their bodies was huge, Steer was able to find a simple way to rouse Aura.

Aura was Steer’s trump card against Demons of the same level.

“Stupid Flame Demon, I already got rid of eight Flame Demons, but I have yet to get rid of a pureblooded Flame Demon. You can only blame your lack of luck. Fate isn’t on your side!

“You are the same as that stupid human abandoned by fate. you are bound to die a tragic death. Your heart is mine!”

Before Steer even finished his words, a dark green fireball exploded onto his body. The huge explosive power was like a slap that fiercely hit Steer’s face.

“Foolish Steer, you are still that stupid after reincarnating as a Demon. You actually roused the Beastmen’s Aura… You are even dumber than those goblins that only know how to eat…”

Lin Yun walked on the lava, and his body suddenly expanded. In an instant, it reached over ten meters in height, and the heat emitted by his body distorted the surroundings, making him look like an illusory phantom.

He had called out Steer’s true identity in one sentence, stunning him.

Steer vigilantly looked at Lin Yun, and his bones slowly condensed alongside the bone armor and covered the surface of his body.

“Who are you? This is a misunderstanding, we are allies. There is no need to waste power in this kind of filthy place, our goal is to return…”

Lin Yun’s boiling lava slowly burned brighter and brighter, and his demonic horns looked like orange shining crystals. The heat burnt the surrounding buildings one after another, and the earth slowly turned into lava. Lava sprayed out of Lin Yun’s body and rapidly flooded the area with lava. The dense smell of sulfur filled the air like toxic gas.

Suddenly, Steer’s bones shot out 8 thick flaming pillars. The Bone-corroding Black Flames attacked Lin Yun’s body and swallowed him in less than a second.

“Stupid guy! Regardless of who you are, you will die here, just like that stupid Mafa Merlin. Your body will become a putrefied corpse and will become food for those abyssal lifeforms.

“You might not know, but that stupid Mafa Merlin got reincarnated as an Abyssal Magic Bug.

“You should know what that is, right? That’s the weakest abyssal lifeform that can only be treated as food. It can never live past three days. He should have already turned into a Crawler’s waste.

“Being able to die at my hand is your honor. At least you are a lot more fortunate than Mafa Merlin.

“Give me your heart and your name… I’ll keep in mind that you helped me leave this place faster.”

The ashen black flames wrapped around Lin Yun and made the surrounding black flames even hotter.

But the flames still retained the same appearance after ten seconds, and the red hot lava spread to Steer’s feet.

Suddenly, two big blazing hands covered in lava stretched out of the Bone-corroding Black Flames as if they tore through paper.

At that instant, Steer’s flames seemed to be torn apart like rags. Lin Yun took a step, and various abyssal runes stuck to the surface of his body.

Lin Yun’s body instantly disappeared, dashing right in front of Steer.

A frantically revolving fireball instantly condensed in Lin Yun’s palm, and with a slap, it ruthlessly hit Steer’s face

The explosive power and the slap itself shattered Steer’s bones, disfiguring half of his face.

The huge body fell to the ground with a loud boom.

And as Steer fell into the lava, shackles made of lava bound his body.

Lin Yun walked over and looked at the shocked Steer.

“Idiot, I am Mafa Merlin. Demons’ strong points are their bodies and their casting abilities, yet you actually gave up on both to study some sh*tty Aura?

“After staying in the Abyss for so long, could it be that you still don’t know that Flame Demons are immune to all flames on the same level?

“I’m Level 35, and you are Level 35, yet you actually wanted to use Bone-corroding Black Flames to burn a Flame Demon to death. You are really an idiot… I don’t even have the heart to get rid of you.

“Doing so might even lower my intelligence. Besides, Flame Demons have no bones. Even Evil Bone Demon Overlords wouldn’t try to use Bone-corroding Black Flames to burn pureblooded Flame Demons to death…”

Lin Yun looked at the fallen Steer and suddenly really couldn’t bear to get rid of him. This kind of thing was common sense in the Abyss, any Imp would know about it. Trying to burn a Flame Demon to death could only be described as stupid. A Demon with little knowledge… Everyone liked to use this sentence to snidely curse at those kinds of people…

Even if they didn’t know in advance, this was common sense. Relying on his common sense from the Raging Flame Plane in the Abyss was stupid in itself.

Flame Demons did appear in the Raging Flame Plane, but they were only b*stards.

Steel looked at Lin Yun in shock.

“Mafa Merlin? Impossible, I obviously saw you reincarnating into an Abyssal Magic Bug…

“No! Mafa Merlin, we are allies! You can’t kill me! What happened before was an accident, it was Birbo of your human side that enticed me! I really didn’t want to get rid of you!

“We are allies, any grievances should be settled after the Raging Flame Plane’s crisis has passed.

“No! Mafa Merlin, I give up on our hatred, that was only an accident. We can cooperate, cooperate…”

Lin Yun slowly raised his foot and ruthlessly stomped on Steel’s head. A series of flaming explosions echoed as his head was crushed into the burning lava.

Black smoke condensed, and after a few seconds, Steer’s body stopped struggling and was slowly devoured by the lava, his body completely disappearing within.

Lin Yun’s huge Demon Body slowly shrunk back to its normal size, and the terrifying heat in the surroundings slowly dissipated. But the layer of blazing lava covering Lin Yun’s body kept flowing.

After walking out of the lord’s mansion, the commotion outside had already ceased. As Steer was killed, his subordinates immediately knelt and welcomed their new master.