The stranger raised his head and looked at all this in shock.
——I saw the steaming gray-black smoke billowing up, containing deep red and golden flames.
Not far in front of him, the Palace of Silver and Tin started from the center, spewing a large amount of dust and smoke inward, and the entire building gradually shattered and collapsed.
The building strengthened by the preservationist had no resistance. The whole building seemed to be chewed and devoured by some kind of monster, making an acidic crunching sound. It curled and collapsed bit by bit as the ground shook.
The strange monocle that the stranger wore on his face, like a microscope, automatically rotated and retracted, giving him a whole new perspective:
I saw heat spreading throughout the building, like a block of soil tightly clung to by the roots of a plant. And not far away, there was a huge human figure that was so hot that strangers dared not look directly at it even through heavy walls.
stood up.
It is slowly absorbing the entire palace of silver and tin, growing larger and larger at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Earth and stone are used as bones, and fire is used as flesh.
A lava giant shaped from molten metal and rock, it continues to get bigger and bigger from the surrounding "materials" in the inwardly contracting flames.
——That is the Balrog!
Stranger is actually very familiar with the two powerful Star Antimony men who appeared on the screen at the introduction stage of the plot. They are all his acquaintances.
One of them is his mentor in the Ziggurat; the other is a senior with whom he has a fairly good relationship, Lieutenant General Leo Carr. Not long ago, he entered the same advanced level with him.
ritual, and caused him to break his leg.
Although Stranger is not a demonologist, because of his strong curiosity, he once asked Lieutenant General Carl why there was "another soul" in his body.
Lieutenant General Karl had no taboos about this, but directly told the stranger the truth:
When demon scholars like them are promoted to demon incarnations, a demon seed begins to appear in their bodies.
They are all extremely powerful high-level demons. They are powerful assistance that normal demonologists cannot obtain through summons and contracts. Just by extracting power from their bodies, you can obtain supernatural power equivalent to the fourth level of energy affinity.
When the demon incarnation has just reached the fourth energy level, these demons are still in an inert state. If they are killed at this time, the demons in the body will usually only release twisted power.
But once it reaches the fifth energy level, these demons will be activated... It's like changing from an egg with only a yolk at first to a mature embryo that is about to hatch into a chick, with hair and meat already beginning to grow inside.
The incarnation of the devil must limit the activity of the devil in the body through rituals or curses, otherwise it may lose control accidentally.
If they are about to die, then these fifth-level strong men will also directly walk into the ritual circle that restrains the demons. In this way, when they die and the demons break out of their bodies, these demons can be directly
Sealing or expelling. You can even be contracted by your own students and become a powerful help to the other party.
And if they are accidentally killed, the out-of-control demon will teach the murderer a lesson - although the sealed demon has a great hatred for the host itself, it does not mean that they will be grateful to the one who released them.
enemy.
These first-generation demons possess all the memories, knowledge and emotions of the host from birth to death. Rather than being demons, they are more like another demonic personality born after receiving the mark of sin.
Although he and his main body are actually two souls, there are some similarities in personality.
General Karl also told Stranger that the correct promotion path for a demonologist is to once again defeat the strong with the weak when reaching the sixth level and completely devour the demonic personality in the body.
When two personalities merge into one, it is equivalent to two selves overlapping each other. Only in this way can we truly control this power and become a true "devil incarnate".
Obviously, this Balrog is a "not-so-perfect" product. It is proof of General Karl's death.
When General Karl was killed and the Balrog broke out of his body, the enemy who killed him must have been devoured by the out-of-control fire.
But after it defeats its enemy, Star Antimony will become its new and only enemy——
Because it is the inheritance of Star Antimony that taught General Karl how to suppress himself, how to restrain himself, and how to continuously extract power from his body. After being restrained for so many years, his hatred of Star Antimony is far greater than anything else...
But perhaps because of this, he can be temporarily safe now, because it has no intention of destroying Avalon. The Stranger thought to himself.
After all, the role he plays now is that of a court alchemist in Avalon. This actually makes his situation safer.
If we were to say who the Balrog wanted to attack the most at this moment... it could only be his mentor.
——That is, Mr. Bruzwick, codenamed "Advisor". He is the old man in black robe.
But at the next moment, Stranger's expression suddenly changed.
Because he heard the sound of Balrog's fists hitting the ground.
In an instant, the ground shook and the mountains shook. The building shook violently, shattered, and collapsed. The knights' panic and shouts suddenly came from the building.
The magical monocle worn by the alchemist kept shrinking, curling, and focusing repeatedly, locking on the souls that were devoured by the flames and died one after another.
Through his strange clairvoyance eyes that could turn all non-supernatural objects into transparent, he could easily see that the flames were spreading from the giant's fists, like the roots of plants, snakes or centipedes.
They penetrated into the walls and the ground, and when the buildings shook and shattered, they suddenly emerged from the cracks and attacked the knights.
No, they don't even target just knights!
Even ordinary people and servants working in the palace were devoured by the fire snakes and screamed in agony.
Even the fourth-level arbiters had little ability to resist this. Their defensive spells were easily penetrated, and their blessed metal armor melted like paper.
……How is this going?!
The stranger trembled with fright.
Fortunately, not long after he landed, he packed his things immediately because he wanted to run away. He packed all the materials and medicines he needed to cast his spell into a brown-red leather suitcase.
He picked up the box and ran away. As soon as he reached the door, a knight rushed over.
"Master Nobel, please leave quickly!"
He was very nervous. He raised his sword and pointed it at a slender fire snake crawling out from the corner: "I'm here to cut off your virginity -"
"Don't break it!"
The stranger grabbed the knight's shoulders and almost screamed: "Anyway... run! Let's run together!"
At this moment, the knight hesitantly put away his sword and prepared to leave.
And a fire snake ejected from the corner of the wall, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, came towards me.
Like flaming arrows, like hounds.
The sword blade that the knight subconsciously raised was easily burned into an ever-expanding hole, like a newspaper burned through the middle by flames. His instinctive turn of the head saved his life - the fire snake shot directly into the ceiling.
, leaving the ceiling dripping with molten steel.
In just an instant, the residual heat passing by made his helmet become hot, causing him to scream - the left side of his face was like being branded on an iron plate, making a sizzling sound.
.The stranger even vaguely smelled the aroma of barbecue.
But the knight's energy and perseverance were extraordinary.
He was not killed immediately, but he just took a few breaths and recovered.
Seeing "Master Nobel" trotting all the way and escaping at a snail's pace, he finally felt dissatisfied and rushed over to pick up the stranger.
The stranger immediately felt that his armor had become hot - as if it had been exposed to the sun for several hours at noon in midsummer. Even with the heat insulation of the robe, the stranger could not help but let out a cry of being burned.
Scream.
Even so, he held on to his suitcase without letting go.
The two of them just screamed one after another and ran towards the outside of the Palace of Silver and Tin.
They could see it clearly - a knight on their way to escape tried to cut off a fire snake that was attacking him with his sword, but was penetrated directly through the chest by the fire snake.
Fire continued to spurt out from the gaps in the armor, and his screams only lasted for one voice before disappearing completely. He soon stopped struggling in pain and became quiet. He just screamed from the gaps in the armor.
The fire gushing out became more stable and quiet.
The metal armor turned into a semi-melted form - the stranger used "Nobel's" monocle and could clearly see that man's soul being forged into a new form by the flames.
It's like the soul was parasitized by a fire snake, or like the block of fine steel was melted and mixed with bone powder. The original traces can still be seen, but it is obvious that he is no longer the same person as before.
Burning knights, burning servants, burning skeletons - more and more people gathered. Their clothes and weapons were burning with flames, but they still maintained their previous form without being burned.
The flames on their bodies were all golden red, and they all held weapons made of purple flames in their hands. Where their eyeballs should have been, they turned into two burning purple-black flames.
As they gradually burn, the human parts become less and less visible to the naked eye.
First came skin and hair, then flesh. Even if there was only one skeleton left, it continued to burn, turning into more and more powerful flames. Finally, only a vague human form was left, turning into pure elements.
On the other hand, the Balrog in the center of the Palace of Silver and Tin has shrunk to about half its size at this moment. It still maintains the posture with its fists touching the ground, and the entire Palace of Silver and Tin is in its flames, gradually
Start burning.
An "Army of Fire Demons" was created from scratch!
