Chapter 1034 - Direct Challenge
Chapter 1034 Direct Challenge
“Teacher was so cool just now.”
Even the usually composed fire dragon adept had turned into an obsessed fan before her teacher, excitedly cheering for him.
Mary, Meryl, Emelia, and a few representatives of their allied clans, as core members of the Crimson Clan and close acquaintances of Greem, had a suite of their own from which to watch the battle under more private conditions.
The massive screen in front of them had been split into over a hundred smaller screens. Different angles of the four participant’s actions were projected onto each one.
It was obvious that the Association’s degree of monitoring throughout the battlefield was pervasive and everywhere!
Even so, as the four powerhouses stepped onto the battlefield, the screens of light started to go dark, one by one.
Those who could participate in this tournament were indeed the best among the Third Grades. Naturally, they would not allow the monitoring beasts left behind by the Association to get too close to themselves. Every one of them struck out and blinded the ‘eyes’ that were too obvious or close.
Regardless of how wildly spread Greem’s title of the legendary fire adept was, in Sanazar’s heart, he was still that subservient ‘small fry’ bowing before her. Even though she logically knew this to be incorrect, her feelings did not allow her to view the fire adept’s status objectively.
So, when faced with a challenge from this ‘ant,’ Sanazar answered without hesitation, even though she was still experiencing planar suppression.
Sanazar was 1.72 meters tall, but she showed no fear on her face as she looked at the towering giant in the distance.
She could sense it very clearly.
The fire giant might look fearsome, but the intensity of the flames that made up its body was insignificant.
It was obvious that Greem also suffered from planar suppression.
Reducing unnecessary energy consumption was the correct choice under such circumstances. It wasn’t hard to imagine how much fire energy Greem was expending by having forcibly gathered so much fire and increasing the size of his body to this extent.
At Third Grade, an adept’s magic resistance had already reached a shocking level. The large area-of-effect spells commonly used in the past became much weaker at threatening an enemy compared to the more concentrated single-target spells.
As for using a large elementium body to intimidate the opponent? A tactic like that might be useful against low-grade adepts, but it was undoubtedly no more than an empty threat against Third Grade opponents.
“Brat, you have not experienced a high-grade battle like this, have you? Today, I will let you know the power of a real Third Grade powerhouse.” Sanazar’s somewhat hoarse and sharp voice rang out of the purple mist, quickly turning into a bestial howl or roar of sorts.
The purple mist continued to radiate and spread, quickly engulfing a circumference of a hundred meters around her.
There seemed to be a massive creature roaring and struggling at the center of the mist. Occasionally, a muscular and slender tail, or a powerful scaled claw, would brush past the edge of the fog. However, they remained obscured, and what was happening within still could not be discerned.
Greem let out a snort and proceeded to gather a Magma Fireball, which he threw at the purple mist. A blinding pair of ghostly green eyes lit up within the mist, and a deafening roar filled the air.
Violent wind surged outwards as a massive silhouette charged out of the purple mist. It smashed the Magma Fireball to pieces with a single swipe of its claw before lunging at Greem, still engulfed in specks of fire and sparks.
The opponent might be fast, but Greem had captured all of its movements with his dynamic vision.
The Flying Venom Dragon that Sanazar had transformed into was still as ugly and vicious as ever before. It had none of the majesty of ordinary dragons, nor the clearly defined angles of pure-blood dragons. Instead, it looked like a green dragon that had been skinned and covered in mucus and dark spots instead.
However, the Flying Venom Dragon was still a dragon. It had the overwhelming aura of the dragons, as well as their formidable Physique.
As the Flying Venom Dragon flapped its webbed wings, its colossal, twenty-meter long body turned into a bolt of lightning. As it lunged at Greem with vicious fangs and claws, the overwhelmingly cruel aura that assaulted him almost felt suffocating.
Greem raised his hand, and layers of Inferno Shields appeared between him and the Flying Venom Dragon.
The dragon opened its mouth and spat a glob of green poison out, eroding through five of the Inferno Shields before vanishing as light green mist. The Flying Venom Dragon’s momentum did not decrease. Instead, it used its powerful body to crush the three remaining Inferno Shields and ran straight into the last two Lava Shields.
Dong!
An earth rending explosion rang out as the two giant creatures collided. They rolled across the forest, leaving a wide path in their wake as they wrestled and tore at each other.
To maximize his close-combat ability, Greem gave up on the Body of Flames, which gave him tremendous firepower. Instead, he transformed into the Flame Fiend, which had a powerful Physique.
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