Chapter 952: 952. Flower
Dodging the flames was impossible. The fire had spread so quickly that Noah didn't even have time to activate one of his spells before it swept him and his allies.
The two beings connected to him reacted due to their instincts. The Demonic Sword and Snore argued a lot, but they bypassed Noah's thoughts and followed his survival instincts as soon as the danger in his mind reached its peak.
The Demonic Sword hid inside his robe, and a dense black membrane appeared over his body as the flames enveloped all the regions inside the defensive walls of the Empire. They even crashed on the blue dome, but they didn't manage to do any damage to that structure.
However, the various districts fell apart in less than an instant. They turned into ashes as soon as the flames touched them, and even their remains vanished.
Any form of vegetation on the ground burned, and the terrain itself took fire. What had once been the home of the strongest organization in those Mortal Lands became nothing more than a black land filled with cracks and burning boulders.
The scene became a spectacle of red shades with the occasional blue light of the dome managing to cross the sea of flames and shine into the world. The red sea remained in place for a while. Then, it retracted and condensed in the form of a man that gazed at his destruction with a satisfied smile.
His expression became slightly annoyed when he saw that the blue dome didn't suffer any damage, but his smile widened when he looked at the invading forces.
There were only a few cultivators still standing in the air. Elder Regina and a few rank 5 cultivators stood behind a massive golden door that had managed to absorb most of the power of the flames. Still, their bodies had countless burns, and some of them showed charred bones too.
The activation of the golden door wasn't intentional. That protection was an item that the Council had given to Elder Regina to preserve her life. It was an inscribed shield that would activate on its own if she was to face a deadly attack.
The Elders near her had managed to use the protection provided by the golden door to save their lives. Yet, the human cultivators and those in the fourth rank weren't as lucky. Even their ashes had disappeared from the area.
On the other hand, Andrew Elbas had reacted in time. A giant made of ice had surrounded all the assets of the Royal family and had prevented them from suffering any injury.
Still, Elder Regina felt that his timing had been off. The giant had appeared even before the arrival of the flames, and Andrew didn't have the thinking speed necessary to perform that action in time.
The giant wasn't an automatic defense. Elder Regina could be sure of that because she had felt a surge of power coming from Andrew as soon as the first flame appeared.
That was her issue in the matter. If her senses didn't deceive her, she felt sure that Andrew Elbas had activated his defensive item before the flames started to spread!
Also, the ice giant had been able to block all the flames, which made her even more suspicious. After all, her item had been able to save her life, but it was a generic shield meant for every situation.
In Andrew's case, instead, the ice giant appeared meant to weaken attacks of the fire element. The leader of the Royal's army had a water aptitude. Still, the fact that he owned such a powerful item capable of countering the fire element sounded too coincidental.
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