Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 416 - 401: Mission Accomplished

"So this is... ’Exorcism’?"

Desolate Beast could feel that apart from the ancient giant’s bloodline which naturally made his physique tall, all other professional powers, Dragon Transformation Combat Technique, Fire of Greed, were gone.

Involuntarily, he recalled the information he had read about Andrew exorcising Desolate Beasts in the Inner Sea Desert. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Andrew shook his head, "You’re overthinking it."

For a Flame Warrior leader with bloodstained hands of Water Mages, even if Andrew could, he wouldn’t use exorcism.

Moreover, the one who made the final move wasn’t Andrew at all, but Silver, who broke through to the Realm of Magic.

Silver shouted, "Exorcism? What exorcism?"

She didn’t know anything about the events over in the Flame Realm, this term ’Exorcism’ was entirely new to her.

Different people breaking through to the Realm of Magic borrow the Power of the World in different ways, with varying focuses. It has to do with one’s practice, accumulation, and personality.

After Silver’s breakthrough to the Realm of Magic, her defensive capability didn’t increase much, but her offensive and destruction capabilities were pushed almost to the extreme—

Desolate Beast thought he was stripped of all professional abilities, mistakenly thinking he was exorcised.

In reality, while his body was still standing there, the life within him had already extinguished.

Desolate Beast was already a dead man.

"So it is." Desolate Beast soon felt it too, "I’m actually already dead, right?"

He stared at Silver, panting heavily, unable to maintain standing.

Then his gaze swept over every Water Mage present.

Finally, his eyes settled on Andrew.

Andrew nodded, "Yes."

At the same time, he remained cautious, not relaxing his guard.

Desolate Beast chuckled, saying, "You don’t need to be so tense, guarding against me. I lost, lost completely. I didn’t expect to lose in such a manner, and after truly losing, I actually feel a bit... relieved. I really lost, but at the same time, I also feel liberated."

As he spoke, Desolate Beast’s body began to collapse, like a crumbling sand sculpture; his body internally was already necrotic.

Some Water Mages remained immersed in the epiphany brought by "Enlightenment," with a few sitting down to absorb and comprehend the great gains and insights from the battle.

More Water Mages watched the collapsing Desolate Beast, silently observing this once nightmare-like terror in their minds.

Soon, only half of Desolate Beast’s body was left.

He fixed his gaze on Andrew and suddenly asked, "And then? After I die, what do you plan to do? You initially stole my Teleportation Gate, don’t tell me you’re planning a sneak attack on ’Scholar’s Fortress’?"

Andrew replied calmly, "That’s nothing you need to worry about."

On the surface, Andrew seemed unmoved, but internally, he couldn’t help feeling somewhat excited and thrilled.

Coming to this Water God Realm, Andrew was entrusted with a mission from President Beiru.

Now, the Flame Warriors on this Outer Battlefield had been annihilated, and the leader Desolate Beast was about to die; the Teleportation Gate for returning to the Flame Realm was already in hand.

He had arrived alone, with average strength, and now stood in the Realm of Magic, surrounded by new companions, including Silver who also reached the Realm of Magic!

"The mission is basically completed perfectly, even exceeding expectations," Andrew couldn’t help feeling a rush of emotion.

At that moment, Desolate Beast said, "In the end, I’ll tell you one thing. My mission, or rather, the task given to the first generation Desolate Beast when he was first commanded to this Outer Battlefield: Ensure no Water Mage can live to return to the Flame Realm!

You see, the task content doesn’t mention having to kill all the Water Mages on this Outer Battlefield, right? Despite us trying to do so all these years..."

At this point, Desolate Beast’s body was reduced to half a skull, yet he showed a smile of relief, lightness, and satisfaction, "I lost, but the task was ultimately completed. That Teleportation Gate, and my life are mutually connected, bound—"

Desolate Beast’s voice abruptly stopped, and the last bit of his body disintegrated.

Andrew was stunned, and then suddenly realized something, turning to look at the Teleportation Gate.

The Teleportation Gate, which was originally intact, immediately showed large patches of cracks the instant Desolate Beast’s form and essence vanished!

No external force touched the Teleportation Gate; it began to collapse rapidly from inside out!

"Hell!" Andrew instinctively cursed.

His reaction speed could not be said to be slow.

At the first moment of noticing the anomaly, Andrew began channeling power, trying to sever the life link between the Teleportation Gate and Desolate Beast.

Water Magic has a natural advantage in aspects like link, resonance, and bond. "Enlightenment" is precisely among its representatives.

Conversely, in tracing back connections, severing links, stopping resonances, and cutting ties, Water Magic is also very proficient.

Andrew’s magic power acted almost instantly upon the Teleportation Gate at the first appearance of a crack on it.

But the result... there was no sign of contact!

Andrew couldn’t find any trace of connection between the Teleportation Gate and Desolate Beast!

This doesn’t mean there was actually no link between them.

Rather: "I cannot detect it? With my current strength in the Realm of Magic, I can’t even detect the life connection between them?!"

It was fine before not noticing, but now, knowing there was a connection between them, deliberately probing, he still couldn’t detect anything.

This indicates that the existence binding the Teleportation Gate and the lives of generations of Desolate Beasts is powerful enough to crush my current self in the Realm of Magic!

"—Lidzmat!!"

Andrew roared, his face iron blue, fists clenched, unconsciously squeezing out blood!

The Teleportation Gate, still intact a second ago, collapsed into debris within no time, amidst a thunderous crash.

...

...

Darkness.

Boundless darkness.

It’s said that after extreme darkness, light will come.

In front of this dark abyss, however, was a voice.

"Hey..." a cold female voice rang out.

Who? Who’s calling me?

"Hey, wake up..." the voice sounded again, cold and filled with unconcealed disgust, "Wake up, hurry! You bastard, there are sins yet to be repaid, how dare you think you can just comfortably die?"

Sins...

Repayment...

These words seem quite familiar.

And the voice of this woman, even more familiar!

Who is it? Who could it be?

"—Hey! Wake up, you beast who killed my husband!"

Shua!

The old man abruptly opened his eyes, awakening from the endless abyss of darkness, "This... this voice is... Li?"

In the Water God Realm, the children called him "Lord Li."

But the old man knew in his heart that he was not truly Li.

In his heart, Li was always the one and only.

She was the Water God Li, whose every smile he could still clearly recall, even after countless ages!

"Li? Li? Is that you? You... you aren’t dead? Where are you??" The old man stammered in excitement.

He heard Water God Li’s voice drifting from nowhere, yet distinctly clear, "Please, finish the last task before dying."