Michael looked at Klaus with disappointnt
"Very well. Don’t bla for what happens now." Michael said.
He took out his gleaming spear and walked towards Klaus as if he had decided Klaus’s punishnt in his mind.
"Thank god he is initiating this, I would have looked too cringe challenging soone like this," Klaus thought, a flicker of satisfaction in his mind.
His Draconic Pride made it awkward to issue a formal challenge to soone he viewed as fundantally beneath him, even if that ’soone’ was an SSS-rank hunter.
Michael’s direct approach simplified matters for him.
Klaus then looked at Arthur and the three ladies and said, "You know, I don’t have the patience to wait and play with kids, so it’s better I finish everything here and finally do what I ca for."
"Arthur, take Julie and others and get at least 15 kiloters away from this point, preferably to the west."
Klaus told them without caring whether anybody was listening.
"Who do you think you are to fight everyone alone, even if you are strong? The numbers are too much," Arthur protested.
Klaus looked at Arthur coldly and said, "Listen!!.., you don’t get to tell what to do."
"Get stronger if you want others to obey you," Klaus said as he looked at the figure of Michael sprinting in his direction.
He lunged forward with a blur with his spear aid directly at Klaus’s chest.
The spear vibrated with raw earth elental mana, its point hardening and weight increasing.
Michael used one of his most powerful strikes to end Klaus’s life in one go.
Klaus’s eyes narrowed. He did not dodge. Instead, his body began to glow with a searing red light.
"Let’s begin," he said with a smile
[ding!! Flaming God’s Fury (SSS)activated]
Klaus’s form transford. His skin rippled, and his body ignited, becoming a being of pure, solidified fla.
The form was called primordial fla incarnation.
The red glow intensified, turning him into a miniature sun in the center of the arena.
His clothes shimred and vanished, replaced by the living fire that now constituted his form.
With this skill activated, he had gained absolute immunity to all fire damage.
Now every attack Klaus would unleash from this mont forward, regardless of its original type, will be imbued with overwhelming fire damage, designed to pierce through most defenses.
Michael’s spear, charged with earth mana, slamd into Klaus’s chest. It passed through the fiery form as if hitting empty air. The spear’s tip, monts ago sharp and solid, lted instantly, turning molten from the intense heat.
Michael’s eyes widened in disbelief. His attack had no effect, and his legendary spear lted like ice.
Although it was known that things could not be broken in real life if their projection got broken inside the VR, the sheer act of lting the family heirloom of the Helios family was no small feat.
Klaus had now beco a being of pure fla.
He simply extended a hand. He did not use a sword.
He used the Living Cinder Manifestation effect, creating unstable pillars of condensed fla that erupted from the ground around Michael. The pillars rose with explosive force, trapping Michael within a circle of searing, incandescent fire.
The heat was imnse.
Michael scread, his body enveloped by the sudden flas.
His earth shield, which he had quickly manifested after his attack, began to crack and lt under the direct, overwhelming heat.
The other scions, who had rushed forward to help Michael, halted abruptly. Their faces contorted in shock and fear.
They watched Michael burn, trapped within the circle of fire, his screams echoing.
Klaus now appeared in front of Arthur, making him sweat profusely. Arthur could not believe what had just happened and how Klaus had transford into such a monster suddenly.
He just felt an overwhelming headache that even his elental resistances failed to protect him from.
"Have you made your decision?" Klaus asked coldly
Arthur simply nodded nervously before turning around and leaving.
Klaus then nodded at Julie before returning his attention to the now scattered crowd.
Jas, Henry, and Michael were already caught in the fire, but they were not dying from it since Klaus knew that way they would just respawn.
So he carefully controlled the flas to make them as painless as possible while keeping them alive.
Klaus then unleashed the Infernal Nova effect.
A massive, outward-spreading wave of pure hellfire erupted from his transford body.
The nova consud the entire circle of fla, expanding rapidly, dealing catastrophic fire damage to every other participant caught in its enormous radius.
The forest around them ignited instantly, turning into a roaring inferno. Trees incinerated, ground lted, and the very air shimred with oppressive heat.
Those participants who were not imdiately caught by the Infernal Nova tried to flee.
They ran in all directions, their faces pale with terror. They understood the sheer destructive power they had just witnessed.
This was not just a powerful skill; this was sothing they had never seen and felt.
The lingering zones of superheated ash and molten ground left behind continued to burn and hinder any foes caught within them.
Klaus, still in his fiery form, did not pursue them.
His purpose was to eradicate all who stood against him, to win the tournant with 10,000 points. He needed to be efficient.
He extended his senses, using Omniscient Tracking (SSS). His map imdiately showed the scattered green markers of the remaining participants.
He activated Blazing Sky-Dash (S). His body, already a being of fla, burst into a roaring torrent of fire.
He launched into the air, gaining rapid, sustained flight. While airborne, he moved with incredible speed and agility, becoming a streaking cot of fire across the virtual sky.
He pursued the fleeing participants directly while performing blazing dashes, leaving trails of searing fla that damaged enemies caught within them. Each dash delivered a burst of Fire damage upon impact.
Any physical attack Klaus perford while flying was imbued with intense heat, causing them to deal additional fire damage and apply a "Burning" debuff that dealt damage over ti.
He struck with his fists.
The participants, even the strongest rankers, were overwheld.
They scread as he passed through them like a living inferno, their virtual bodies dissolving into ash. He swept through the scattered groups, eliminating dozens in re seconds.
In the observation room, the Paragons watched in stunned silence.
Helios, patriarch, seeing his son Michael’s utter defeat, slumped in his chair, his face pale.
Neil Ashford, his pride in Veridian shattered, now watched as Klaus systematically eliminated the remaining participants.
"He can control fire like this?" Lady Crimson whispered, her voice filled with awe. "This is beyond an SSS-rank skill. This is beyond that."
The Crimson family had produced generations of fire elent users; thus, she knew the limitations and scopes of the elent at each rank.
William simply smiled, a profound satisfaction in his eyes. He watched Klaus effortlessly dominating the entire battlefield. Although he was curious about where he had acquired these skills, William had decided not to delve into Klaus’s secrets.
Every strong person had so tricks up their sleeve; it was just that in Klaus’s hands, these were not tricks but a genuine skill of annihilation.
The participants who had been eliminated by Klaus’s Blazing Sky-Dash (S) and subsequent fire attacks appeared back at their spawn points, shivering out of fear and pain they had experienced.
Many of them vomited, their bodies trembling, the simulated pain of being incinerated too much for them.
They had experienced absolute, burning agony. They looked at their zero points, their spirits utterly broken.
So of them directly opted to give up on the competition at this point due to the sheer trauma they felt.
Michael Helios was among them. He erged from his VR pod, his face pale, sweat pouring down his face.
His sophisticated gear was undamaged in reality, but his spirit had been vaporized. He still felt the lingering, searing heat of the Infernal Nova. He saw Henry Chrowell, also disoriented and shaking, next to him.
"This is insane," Michael muttered, his voice hoarse. "He’s not just an SSS-rank. He’s... a monster."
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