Chapter 401
Chapter 401 Battle Against the Manticores
The elite-level manticore howled out in pain.
Violent elementium flames ravaged its body, burning and roasting its flesh. All the hair on its skin vanished in an instant. Boils of all sizes rose on the exposed areas, exploding and sending blood splashing all over the place.
The elite manticore frantically retreated into the cave and deep into the smoke. No one could see the creature, but they still heard its pained cries and howls.
It had been severely injured!
Truly, severely injured!
That blow might not have been lethal, but it had been excruciating. That elite manticore was not going to rejoin the battle any time soon.
The manticore leader no longer entertained any thoughts of negotiation once he understood their position. With a furious roar, he leaped at the massive Flame Fiend.
Greem lunged at the manticore with equal vigor and energy.
However, he had already swallowed a potion before he stepped forward. It was the antidote that Gargamel had specially concocted to deal with the manticore’s paralyzing venom.
Greem pushed forward with both of his hands before he clashed with the manticore leader. A massive torrent of fire blasted towards the beast. The manticore took the flames head-on with its powerful forcefield, parting the flames and charged at Greem.
Scritch. Scritch. Scritch.
Frightening claws left deep marks on the Magma Shields floating in front of Greem. The fire singed the magnificent hair on the manticore leader’s chest and instantly burned away.
His long scorpion tail abruptly struck at the Flame Fiend as the two held each other at bay. The hook-shaped stinger had some kind of armor penetrating effect. It immediately broke through the Magma Shield and embedded itself in the body of the Flame Fiend.
Aaaaaah!
Aooooo!
The two opponents let out screams of agony at the same time.
Greem felt his shoulder hurt and slowly become numb. By the end of it, he couldn’t feel anything from his shoulder. The manticore leader’s potent paralyzing venom also possessed the ability to cripple the soul. Greem felt himself losing control over parts of his body.
It was a slight and insignificant loss of control, but it did indeed exist!
The Manticore, on the other hand, howled from the fire damage he took from his burnt stinger. He felt like he had just thrust his tail into molten magma. There were plenty of Spirit nodes located in his tail, and it felt like his tail had been completely cooked in a flash.
Even though he was already injecting as much venom as he could into his enemy, it didn’t appear to have much effect. While most prey would have collapsed entirely, it only seemed to have slightly hindered and slowed the movement of this adept.
Meanwhile, the Ring of Fire and the sea of magma beneath his feet were burning him.
Even the manticore leader could not endure such monumental fire damage.
After a dozen more seconds striking at each other, the manticore leader was the first to back away.
The tremendous damage that both of them had suffered in the short skirmish was only noticeable now that they had separated from each other.
All the Magma Shields that Greem had around him had shattered and a gaping wound had been torn in his chest. Crimson lava continuously flowed from the hole, transforming the ground into a small magma lake.
While he was the Flame Fiend, all this lava was his blood!
The manticore hadn’t fared much better either.
It was almost as if he had been thrown into a volcano for a lava bath. Not a single piece of his skin was unharmed by the flames and lava. Every inch of skin had been burned and damaged; boils and blisters covered his entire body. The blood that flowed from his wounds turned to vapor before it could drip to the ground.
If it weren’t because his eleven points of Physique granted him the innate ability of Rapid Regeneration, he would have had to retire from this battle.
The manticore leader put some distance between the two of them. He intended to catch a breath before launching an even more ferocious wave of attacks. On the other hand, Greem didn’t even take a step backward. Instead, he gestured and grabbed the Scroll of Voodoo in his hands. The fire adept wanted to launch another wave of spells at the manticore without any pause.
Scarlet Firestorm!
Fire Core Explosion!
Two destructive fire spells instantly locked onto the opponent and devoured the enemy like an unstoppable storm.