Chapter 1197 Limiting the Scope <TOC> Chapter 1199 Where The Gaze Falls
Translator: SumTLMan
The mysterious silhouette behind the Flameless Lord, bearing icy green eyes, gazes towards the sky.
What the Flameless Lord discerns in her vision are limitless green runes dancing in Angel’s gaze, arranged like an orderly manifesto, evolving into streams of green vines aiming for the shadowy specter of her True Spirit!
Biting down her resolve, the Flameless Lord leapt to meet the challenge.
She too desired to comprehend the extent of Angel’s offensive repertoire!
The emerald light, and the colossal shadow, at this moment, merged in their first close quarters encounter!
The wind roars fiercely, light and shadow shift.
No explosion, no implosion born of energy convergence, yet the instant when the shadow intermingles with the green runes, the pupils of the Flameless Lord constrict sharply.
Her True Spirit, rapidly eroded by the green runes!
She had known before, each green rune could disintegrate at least part of the shadow, but only now did she discover, her previous comprehension was mere child’s play.
With the unique formation of these green runes after a fresh cycle, their speed and capacity in disintegrating the True Spirit of the Demon God surpassed what was initially presumed!
She now understood somewhat, the reason behind her previous encounter and the scoffing she heard, for the current outcome was entirely within the adversary’s prediction!
Feeling the rapid drain of her True Spirit’s power, determination flashed in the Flameless Lord’s eyes.
Engaging with Angel’s green runes for less than a second, the Flameless Lord, like a hero sacrificing an arm, clasped her hands together, igniting a High Energy Surge.
Spatial ripples are stirred, causing barely any impact to Angel, due to the vast area covered by the ripple, Angel merely retreated a few steps. However, for the Flameless Lord, it resulted in irreparable damage, not only losing a tenth of her Demon God True Spirit, her complexion also turned deathly pale at a visible speed.
The Flameless Lord only felt a churning of blood and energy in her chest, she attempted to forcefully suppress it, but instead seemed like adding fuel to the fire. The boiling blood energy rapidly bounced upwards from the chest, a large volume of blood was spat out from her mouth.
After spitting out blood, the discomfort in the Flameless Lord’s chest dissipated, but her body visibly wilted at a perceivable pace.
This was the damage inflicted by nourishing the True Spirit with the physical body.
Yet, this was merely an inconsequential Demon God Avatar, even if it fueled the True Spirit, the gain was minuscule.
Meanwhile, Angel, hovering in the sky, remained calm as if nothing had transpired, presenting a stark contrast against the severe injuries of the Flameless Lord.
Witnessing this scene, both Popoca and Greaves could hardly believe their own eyes.
To contend with the Avatar of a Demon God is no mere trifle. It is not only about tackling a formidable adversary with at least half-step legendary power, but also confronting their unfathomable depths and innumerable combat experiences!
Consider Popoca, who forcefully elevated his strength. In a way, he stood on the same level as the Flameless Lord’s Avatar. But when the real battle commenced, Popoca was merely crushed without the ability to retaliate.
Such disparity is born from a difference in perspective and a vast chasm in combat experience, an expanse nearly impossible to bridge in a short span of time.
To the Flameless Lord, Popoca’s various strengths were like a baby wielding a knife — no different, that is. Even with a sharp weapon in hand, if the wielder lacks the proper skills, no tangible results can be achieved.
Therefore, Popoca found it hard to believe. During Angel’s fight with the Demon God’s Avatar, even when the True Spirit of the Demon God descended, could he still fight back, suppressing his opponent? Not only did he remain unscathed, but he also made the Flameless Lord spit blood?
This was a multi-dimensional overpowering in perspective, experience, and strength!
Certainly not something the original Angel could have achieved.
So, who is this “Angel”?
The cries and questions deep within Popoca’s heart echoed the puzzles harbored by Greaves and the Flameless Lord. Yet, Greaves was somewhat more accepting. After all, before the “shop owner’s” identity was revealed, he seemed quite mysterious to him, capable of helping a half-demon break through her bottleneck, and awakening the Panaces Succubus — achievements beyond any “ordinary person.” Thinking back, it seems normal for the shop owner to hide his strength, but this concealed power is unbelievably overwhelming, even the manifestation of the Demon God’s True Form can’t suppress the shop owner.
The Flameless Lord knew all too well that the entity truly battling him wasn’t the human body before her eyes, but the phantom!
She couldn’t clearly see the phantom’s face, but the golden hair and peculiar eyes were not attributes of the human she knew before. More crucially, this phantom descended from a distant time and space, initially not residing within this human’s body.
Otherwise, the Flameless Lord would never have been able to crush this human to near death using only one hand of Flamelessness, without even exerting any force.
Considering the current situation, the Flameless Lord was already contemplating retreat.
She appeared to be in a standoff with Angel, but the spreading shadows at the edge were secretly testing the nature of the “green halo,” trying to break through it.
Yet, despite its seeming softness, the green halo exhibited extreme resilience. Even with energy compressed in a minute area as small as a hair’s breadth, it left no trace of damage on the green rune! If it were normal space, an energy collapse or even an energy storm would have occurred. But when applied to the green rune, nothing happened, leaving the Flameless Lord once again astonished at the green rune’s strength.
This isn’t something that could be achieved at an average Demon God realm.
Moreover, the Flameless Lord suspected that even if the Supreme Demon God arrived, it probably couldn’t unravel the mysteries of this green rune.
“Who are you really?” This was the second time the Flameless Lord asked. Although she had heard Popoca and the Young Fire Demon shouting, calling this human ‘shop owner’ and ‘Angel’, she wasn’t asking about those but rather about the phantom whose face remained unclear so far.
In response, there was only cold indifference.
The Flameless Lord’s spirits sank, the green rune strongly restraining the True Spirit of the Demon God, under these circumstances, she temporarily couldn’t see signs of victory.
The green halo could not be broken through either.
At this moment, summoning back the True Spirit of the Demon God with her True Form lurking in the Bottomless Abyss would be the best choice.
However, the Flameless Lord was somewhat reluctant. Once she summoned back her True Spirit, it would be tantamount to giving up this Avatar entirely. Although she has many Avatars, those that can reach a half-step legendary realm are still few, and to give up an Avatar also means to relinquish the soul and legacy of Olucia.
Olucia hoped to go to the land of the birth of gods to find her own path. The Flameless Lord also wanted to go to the land of the birth of gods to find the key to the Supreme Demon God realm.
That’s why she sent an Avatar along with Giallar.
Continuing the fight might lead to irreparable damage to the True Spirit of the Demon God, and retreating signifies giving up the “future.”
The Flameless Lord weighed her options repeatedly.
Perhaps, like Olucia, she would go against all odds for the so-called future, even betray her “mother” and turn against her.
But the Flameless Lord has reached the pinnacle, and compared to the vague future, she believed she should choose restraint.
The Flameless Lord had already made a decision, but just as she prepared to execute this decision, she paused because her peripheral vision caught a detail on Angel.
His arm had developed a crack, and a bit of blood was seeping out of the crack.
A glimmer of thought flashed in the Flameless Lord’s eyes. During their previous contact, he had not hurt the other party at all, so what caused this sudden wound?
An answer emerged from the bottom of her heart: even with the arrival of the phantoms, his flesh was too weak.
Thinking of this, the Flameless Lord recalled her previous actions when she knew she was at a disadvantage, she used a high energy surge to try to reduce losses.
In her mind, the high energy surge was just a means of escape, but on second thought, was he caught off guard and injured because of this?
Perhaps his methods were powerful, but his physical weakness was a constraint!
With this in mind, the Flameless Lord began to calculate the pros and cons internally, re-weighing whether to stay or leave. By the time the ripples of the high energy surge had subsided, the Flameless Lord had made her decision.
A myriad of brilliance, endless flames, rose from behind the Flameless Lord.
Accompanied by the advent of the Law Domain, the shadow and flame, like the fusion of light and dark, with an unstoppable momentum rushed towards Angel!
And in Angel’s eyes, a new green rune leapt out!
In the interweaving of light and shadow, the shadow and the green rune quickly counteracted each other, and the flames were also blocked by the green rune, but these were all superficial attacks from the Flameless Lord.
What she really wanted to do was——
In absence of the green rune’s protection, is to target Angel’s frail physical form!
Despite the rapid energy drain of her True Spirit, the Flameless Lord lies in wait for the opportune moment.
At one point, she sees a gap, her eyes sparkle, and the already prepared the high energy surge from her palm!
Compared to the slow ripples of high energy surge, the Flameless Lord opts for the most fundamental method of energy use — the energy torrent. Despite this method’s basic nature, the energy torrent’s coverage is broader and its speed can exceed the upper limits set by laws!
The moment the energy torrent appears, the Flameless Lord clearly sees a flicker of dimness cross Angel’s eyes.
The energy torrent is extremely swift, and by the time Angel’s eyes flicker, it has already surged in front of him.
Angel extends his hand, and with a flash of green light, the energy torrent is momentarily halted.
It takes the Flameless Lord a moment to realize that Angel’s right hand already bears some green runes. These runes can offer brief defense. It may only be an instant, but in that fleeting moment, it grants the eyes time to conjure new green runes to block the energy torrent.
However, despite blocking the energy torrent, Angel’s body is still subject to the physical impact carried by the energy torrent.
A burst is heard, flesh flies from Angel’s hand, and the wound is deep enough to expose the bone!
The Flameless Lord realizes that she has found the right strategy.
As Angel’s blood splatters, the Flameless Lord nonchalantly casts a curse of demonic whispering on the blood, trying to directly harm Angel’s physical body.
However, as the Flameless Lord anticipated, the demonic whispering is blocked by a green rune.
But the Flameless Lord’s intention is merely to harass; the true attack is yet to come.
Chapter 1197 Limiting the Scope <TOC> Chapter 1199 Where The Gaze Falls