There was a boundless and terrifying sea of fire!
The skies burned, as did the ground; the entire world was burning intensely.
One could not sense the terror of these baseless flas when looking from afar. It was only when you were inside the sea of fire that you could understand the trendous damage that twelve-thousand-degree flas could inflict upon the human body.
Even the low-grade fire creatures didn’t dare to set foot in such a sea of fire. Otherwise, there was a possibility the fire could burn their souls and reduce their consciousness to ashes.
Yet, it was in such a sea of fire that the flas suddenly moved. Fire elentium particles were drawn from the surroundings and ford into a massive humanoid face.
The flas trembled.
The face opened its eyes and looked at its surroundings in confusion. It was only then that its eyes blaze and burned with the unique soul light of intelligent lifeforms.
Dammit, where exactly was this? Why can’t I sense even a trace of fire creature soul fluctuation? Could I have deviated from the plotted path and ended up in the depths of the sea of fire?
Greem started cursing after a series of questions.
Dammit, dammit, dammit! It was all because of that damned flaming tiger! If it weren’t because of its relentless pursuit, he would never have run into such a dangerous area without any regard for his safety. To think, he couldn’t even detect his current planar coordinates!
[Beep. Warning. Warning. Seven minutes and twenty-eight seconds left before soul assimilation. Request that host finds the closest path of exit from the origin sea of fire. Consciousness is at risk of dissipating. Soul is at risk of assimilation.]
"Don’t just warn . Help determine my position. I need a direction."
[Judging from the intensity of the sea of fire, host can escape by traveling one hundred and fifty kiloters to the north!]
The next second, a blue light shone in Greem’s fire-ford face. The Chip projected an arrow and pointed in a certain direction.
"Hopefully we’ve managed to get the flaming tiger off our tail!" Greem sighed. His soul consciousness then silently moved away as the face dispersed without another sound.
Fifteen minutes later, the fires here parted, and a three-ter-long flaming tiger ford entirely of flowing flas appeared. It strode proudly and casually toward the location before lifting its nose and sniffing the air. Finally, its eyes landed on where Greem’s face had previously ford.
"Hehehe. Trying to play this kind of ga with , are you? You’re too green! You’ve already remained in the origin fire sea for over an hour now. You must be in a hurry to find the closest piece of land. Hmph. Judging from this clue, I shouldn’t go wrong now."
The flaming tiger’s eyes swept about its surroundings before locking onto a particular direction. It then stepped upon the intangible fires and leaped away.
If Greem were still here, he would have realized that the direction the tiger was tracking was the sa as the one he had set off in.
Half an hour later, Greem successfully erged from the sea of fire and stood at the edge of a stretch of mountainous volcanoes. From a distance, he could see a towering volcano on the horizon piercing the clouds. The black smoke had engulfed most of the surrounding regions, giving the entire place the appearance of an apocalyptic hellscape.
anwhile, several two-ter-tall fire spirits were wandering aimlessly about the smaller volcanoes nearby. They looked as if they had been walking around the area for a long ti.
Greem looked just like them in his current state. He looked just like a two-ter-tall elentium fire spirit. However, Greem had just erged from the origin sea of fire, and his body of flas carried so purple origin flas on it. He needed to find a place as soon as possible to absorb or extinguish these origin flas.
Even his body couldn’t endure the origin flas for an extended period, despite having elentary fire immunity!
Greem had absorbed five Essences of Fire in the past two months and had raised the fire affinity of this body to a specific limit. From now on, there would be no room for improvent for his fire affinity if his soul origin didn’t improve.
After leaving Gaba Market, Greem had advanced north along the sea of fire. He had visited two other fire markets and gathered a sufficient number of Essences of Fire. There were still two Essences left after using up five of them. He intended to trade with fire adepts upon returning to the World of Adepts. He was certain that he would be able to obtain so decent treasures in exchange.
However, all that would co later. Greem’s current priority was dealing with the origin flas on his body.
Greem had just taken a step when his body froze on the spot.
With his three-hundred and sixty degree spiritual senses that had no blind spots, Greem realized that a strange flaming tiger had silently appeared behind him. anwhile, the opponent’s flowing, lava-like mouth was resting just two fingers behind his body of flas. Its majestic patterns, ferocious aura, and the unique concentration of a hunting predator terrified Greem.
Greem was sure that there had been nothing behind him just a second ago, not even elentium fire. Yet, this terrifying Third Grade flaming tiger had appeared out of nowhere, just like that. It was holding its breath like a stalking predator as if waiting for him to turn his head before severing his neck with a single bite.
Of course, elentium fire spirits did not have necks. Their entire body was a blazing fire. Only their heads and limbs showed so humanoid features. However, on the whole, they did not have the delicate and frail features of a human.
Dammit, it was that Third Grade flaming tiger!
At the sa ti that Greem realized this, a sudden blaze of fire engulfed his entire body. The next second, his body halfway up a volcano a quarter of a kiloter away.
A loud explosion rang out. Greem’s ntal consciousness had just relocated from a distance. He extended his spiritual appendages outward and once again discovered the flaming tiger behind him, a strange smile on its face.
Greem didn’t know how a tiger would smile, but he was certain that the tiger definitely was.
Greem couldn’t be bothered with what the tiger is smiling about. He imdiately activated Fire Teleportation for a second ti. If this had been in the past, and before he had managed to increase his fire affinity, Greem would not have been able to cast the second Fire Teleportation in such quick succession after the first one. He would have needed a minimum of three to five seconds of buffer ti between each Fire Teleportation to redefine his fire positioning.
Unfortunately, when Greem once again stepped out of the flas, he discovered the flaming tiger behind him again. It seed that the distance between him and the tiger had not changed at all despite the two Fire Teleportations.
Greem let out a sigh and finally stopped trying to run.
Since the opponent had already demonstrated the massive gulf between their powers in this manner, there was no longer any need for him to keep up his futile struggle.
Greem very slowly and gently turned backward.
His gentle actions were so slow that it looked like those of an eighty-year-old grandma. Every single move of his was easily perceivable and clear for all to see.
As expected, the flaming tiger didn’t move this ti. Instead, it faced Greem head-on. The distance between them was so close that they could hear each other’s breath.
"Go on, run. Why aren’t you running anymore?" The flaming tiger finally spoke was using ntal ssages.
"Given your exceptional pyromancy skills, I wouldn’t be able to escape even if I were to teleport another hundred tis!" Greem said with a bitter smile on his face.
"Hmph, as long as you understand!" The flaming tiger snorted and said, "You outsiders always think you have comprehended the entire Fire Elentium Plane after mastering only the most superficial aspects of fire. You always run around the plane as if it’s your own ho. If I weren’t the one you ran into, you probably wouldn’t even know how you died!"
Greem couldn’t say anything to that at all. He could only maintain his bitter smile.
Still, he, a Second Grade adept known for his wisdom and knowledge, was actually being reprimanded by a magical fire creature, which adepts had always regarded as slow and foolish. This irony in reality indeed filled Greem’s heart with resentnt!
"You co from the World of Adepts?" The flaming tiger casually looked at Greem’s body of flas after scolding him before tossing out this question.
"Yes!" Greem answered without any hesitation.
"Are you still maintaining contact with the World of Adepts?" An urgent expression appeared on the tiger’s face.
"Yes!"
"Then you can return to the World of Adepts any ti you wish?" The tiger asked hesitantly.
"I can’t!" Greem shook his head and said, "I ca here by opening a planar rift through the use of my tower. I will need to recalculate the anchor point and find the planar coordinates left behind by the tower if I want to return!"
The tiger shook his head as if he didn’t understand and couldn’t be bothered to try.
"Don’t tell about these things that I don’t understand. Just tell whether you can bring back along with you when you go back to your tower."
Judging by the fierce expression of the tiger, he was obviously trying to convey an unfriendly ssage of ’if you can’t do it, I will eat you now.’
"You...you want to go to the...World of Adepts?" Greem was instantly stunned.
What was the World of Adepts?
It was a place where the evilest and most selfish individuals in the multiverse lived! It was where the adepts lived!
A Third Grade flaming tiger might be a powerhouse in the Fire Elentium Plane that could easily bully a re Second Grade fire adept like Greem who had ’broken in’ here. However, if it were to go to the World of Adepts, it would instantly turn from predator to prey and beco the best target that the high-grade adepts would compete over.
"You don’t need to care what my purpose is. Just tell whether you can do it!" The tiger pressed even further, and the fla streams that rolled out of its mouth started charring Greem’s fire spirit body.
"Of course, of course, of course. As long as you are will it to be, I can make it happen for you!" Greem hastily agreed to the request.
It was only then that the flaming tiger moved his ferocious mouth away from him.
"Good. We can set off once you sign this contract!"
The next second, a mysterious contract ford from fire appeared from nowhere and appeared in front of Greem.
Greem quickly read through the contents of the contract, and the colors of his face changed several tis in a row.
"What...what is this? You want to beco your contracted familiar?!"
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