Chapter 436
Chapter 436 Slaughter
The expected boot finally dropped after a month’s long wait.
Greem’s contract of service with the Sarubo Clan was for a hundred years. He was now in his tenth year of service, and his protection period as a newly advanced adept had finally worn off. He was now an official adept of the clan, and as such the clan’s compulsory missions quickly arrived.
Just like Meryl had leaked to him, Greem would be sent to Gilneas, the closest city to the area of conflict. There was a Sarubo mine there known as Iron Ring Mine, famous for producing high-quality azure moonstones and noble topaz.
Of course, one of the clan’s Second Class resource sites was also nearby. That was one of the targets of protection for the stationed adept.
According to past conventions, Greem, as the stationed adept sent by the clan, would have to ensure the safety of these two places. Another specialized group of pseudo-adepts and advanced apprentices would be responsible for their daily production. Greem didn’t need to stay on-site to guard those locations.
However, if the resource site and mine faced a severe problem that the apprentices couldn’t handle, Greem, as the stationed adept, would have to come out to expel or murder those adept-level opponents that had threatened the collection of resources.
A massive hill-sized brutelephant slowly patrolled within their territory, and the ground quaked with every step it took.
Suddenly, it raised its long trunk. Its enormous body turned with incredible agility as its bloodshot eyes fixated upon a spot in the darkness beyond.
There, it could faintly sense a dangerous aura that it hated!
Roar.
The brutelephant lifted its thick front leg and stomped the earth beneath its feet. Its thick trunk swayed from left to right, smacking the trees nearby and causing them to shake and tremble. The brutelephant’s two sharply curved tusks chafed on the ancient trees. Bark flew everywhere, and the white wood beneath was exposed.
As a territorial creature, the brutelephant let out a threatening roar as it raised its trunk. It was trying to intimidate the enemy. If the creature in the darkness knew well enough to leave, it would pretend it hadn’t seen anything and would continue to patrol the territory.
After all, this terrifying sense of danger allowed it to understand that this was no ordinary enemy. However, the opponent cared not for its goodwill. Not only did the creature not leave, but it also even walked towards the brutelephant.
Rumble.
The angered brutelephant launched a death charge without hesitation. It lowered its head and pointed its tusks at the opponent before rumbling towards the humanoid creature walking out of the darkness.
The opponent was a human in a black robe. Intense elementium fluctuations surrounded him.
These details allowed the brutelephant to recognize the intruder as a human adept!
The brutelephant leader knew that an adept’s tower had been erected in the vicinity when it migrated here. However, it clung on stubbornly to the idea that neither parties would come into conflict as long as they didn’t start one. As such, the brutelephant leader chose to set up his home here.
Many of the surrounding magical creatures had come over to win it to their side during this time. However, the brutelephant leader had kept a strict hold on his subordinates and prevented them from stepping out of their territories for no reason. Sadly, all its efforts had been for nothing. It hadn’t gone looking for trouble with the human adept, yet the adept had come looking for trouble with it!
The brutelephant leader was like a moving mountain of flesh as it charged with anger and bloodthirst. It knocked over two or three massive trees that were in the way and advanced towards Greem with unstoppable momentum.
Greem lifted his head under the black robe. Two blinding red lights shone from under the shadow of his hood. He held a staff in his left hand and extended his right hand. A brilliant red stream of flames shot out of his palm. The fire cut through a distance of thirty meters and struck at the brutelephant leader’s exposed skull.
Szzzz.
The sound of wildly burning flesh rang out in the forest.
A thin force field appeared around the brutelephant leader, obstructing the stream of fire from Greem’s hand. Its massive body then rushed right past where Greem had been like an out-of-control train.
A large cluster of flame burst in the air.
Greem’s ‘frail’ body vanished beneath the iron limbs of the brutelephant leader. When he once again reappeared, he was standing proudly upon the broad shoulders of the beast.
A massive magma fireball was forming in his palm.
When the fire elementium reached concentrations that were hard for even him to maintain control, he shook his wrists. He flung the fireball at the head of the brutelephant as Greem once again vanished in a blast of fire.
Boom.
An explosion thundered and sent quakes reverberating throughout the area.
A terrifying flame shockwave ravaged the silent Black Forest as waves of fire licked the skies.
The sea of fire had devoured an entire space almost thirty meters in diameter in an instant!