Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 293 Black Flame
The snowfield was torn into pieces by the terrifying giant's prayer. The two figures bathed in firelight were like demons condensed from flames, pouring the most extreme violence on each other with unimaginable strength and speed!
Faced with these two humanoid "giants" that overturned all known information, the fire monks of the Jero branch began to flee on a large scale after Bishop Julian collapsed. The wolf hunting knights who were raised at a great expense by the Xilia family were in a slightly better situation, but they also retreated quickly under the leadership of several knight commanders.

The reason is simple. In a battle of this level, troops with combat power levels like the Wolf Hunters have lost their eligibility to participate in the battle. If one wants to suppress one side by relying on numerical superiority, at least a complete group of Tree Guards must be pulled from Rodel to have any chance of success.

After another round of injury-for-injury combat, Glenn Celia licked the blood from the corner of her mouth, staring at Adam opposite her with burning eyes, her eyes revealing unreserved admiration.

"He is indeed a perfect test subject! His sanity is on the verge of extinction, but he can still fight to this point with his muscle instincts and his adaptability to the 'Fire'. I am really jealous of him!"

Adam's only response was a wild animal roar. He pounded the ground with his fist and rushed forward again, trying to break Grant's neck.

But this time, he was slower.

Grant didn't even need to attack anymore. He just stepped lightly and his body was like a erratic breeze, leisurely avoiding every attack from Adam.

Gradually, Adam's breathing became heavier, his eyeballs were filled with more and more blood, and the air he exhaled was also stained with a dangerous blood color. Even though the fanatical fighting spirit brought by the giantization suppressed the pain to a great extent, he could still feel the burning pain in his lungs and even the entire chest cavity.

His body, which had never fully recovered, had been overdrawn by the series of fierce battles and the transformation into a giant. All his organs were now on the verge of failure. The only thing that supported him to continue fighting was the last bit of his undying will - he must get those two girls out alive.

Grant dodged Adam's slow punch with his head turned sideways, clamped his arm and kneed him, causing him to bleed profusely. He chased after him at a speed much faster than Adam could get up, raised his boot and stepped on his head, pressing his face deeply into the shattered ground!

"What a pity." She rolled the soles of her boots, and even though Adam's muscles were tense and veins were bulging, he still couldn't break free from the suppression. "Your adaptability is far superior to mine, but your fire is too low-level."

"But there's nothing we can do about it." She took off the iron mask, exposing the face that was destroyed beyond recognition by the violent magic energy to the air. She took a deep breath of the cold air and let out a hearty moan.

"That person will only give me the most powerful spark, and give me the only one he can trust, rely on, and love - only I can help him accomplish what those idiots can't do! Do you understand?"

She expected a response from Adam, but he just continued to struggle frantically.

A look of humiliation and anger emerged on Grant's ugly and broken face. She suddenly increased the strength of her feet and trampled on Adam's head continuously.

Strands of blood oozed from the soles of her feet. The scorching heat melted the dirty ice and snow around her into water. Adam seemed to have completely fainted.

Ge Lan cast his eyes towards his back. Even in such a dying state, the light cocoon was still intact, but the two girls inside had temporarily fallen into a deep sleep under the effect of the magic.

"Before you are recycled, savor this despair—"

Grant licked his lips and gave a hideous smile, "This is the price for disobeying me."

She pulled out the half-broken serrated sword, attached a layer of flame to the sword, cut off Adam's long hair wrapped in the light cocoon, and stabbed the girls' necks with the sword!
Suddenly, a hand stretched out from below and grabbed the falling sword with its palm!
The pitch-black teeth tore through the flesh and rubbed against the metacarpal bones, making a teeth-grinding sound. The flames attached to the sword almost burned the arm!
Adam's left arm remained in a twisted posture raised backwards, and his bulging muscles were almost deformed under the huge force. Grant let out a hysterical roar and stomped on his joints frantically, but he was unable to break through the obstruction and pierce the sword blade into the light cocoon even a little bit!
"Damn it, damn it, damn it. You damned bastards! Who gave you the courage to resist?"

She threw away the hilt, roared, drew out another greatsword, and slashed at the back of Adam's neck. She no longer cared about the mission, the only thing she wanted to do now was to kill this fire monk who had always been against her in the most cruel way - no, before he died, she would torture the two Samir girls to death in front of him, making him suffer the torment of his soul on the way to his death!
However, just when the sword was about to break through the flesh, something strange happened!

Faint wisps of black flames silently sprang up from Adam's palm, instantly destroying the greatsword he was holding. At the same time, they quickly spread along the edge of Grant's sword and burned her hand!

An extremely dangerous and cold feeling exploded in Glen Xilia's heart. She immediately threw away the greatsword and dropped the iron glove on her right hand. However, the pale cold flame mixed with the darkness still extended towards her like a maggot on her tarsal bone!
She screamed in fear and tried to release the power of the fire, using the giant flame to resist the black flame, but it was all in vain.

There was no high temperature, no severe pain. In just one breath, Ge Lan saw with his own eyes that his right hand had disintegrated into ashes, and those faint black flames were still rising along the fracture!

She crawled on the ground like crazy, rolling on the snow, hoping that the snow and ice on the frozen surface would extinguish the flame.

But no matter how she struggled, the black flames continued to burn calmly and mercilessly, engulfing her forearms and elbows, and burning along her upper arms to her torso!

A fierce look flashed in Ge Lan's eyes. She suddenly jumped up, grabbed a broken sword that was scattered on the ground not far away, and chopped it towards her shoulder with all her might, cutting off her right arm before her body was completely ignited!
The broken arm didn't even have time to hit the ground before it was burned to nothingness by the black flames in mid-air. The remaining flame remained on the ground, swaying and reflected in her pupils, like a mocking demon.

Not far away, Adam stood up again, bathed in black flames.

He tilted his head and looked at her, the dark red flame patterns at the bottom of his pupils replaced by black and white flames. Although he said nothing, Ge Lan still felt a shudder from the bottom of his soul!

Run - that was the only thought that seized upon her confused mind.

Without caring about the task of retrieving Adam or the revenge for the broken arm, Grant took advantage of the fact that Adam looked unconscious and quickly turned around and ran towards the direction where the Wolf Hunter Knight retreated.

What she didn't notice was that Adam didn't chase her, but just stood there quietly, watching her back as she ran away.

"The first phase of the test is complete. The fire is operating well and has shown a clear suppression effect on the evil god's fire—"

In the darkness, a figure shrouded in a white robe was staring at Adam. In the air in front of her, a mysterious emblem shaped like a pupil floated in layers, and its surface was also wrapped with black and white flames.

"Adam and the two children he protected survived, and Glenn Cilia escaped after losing an arm. Do you have any other instructions?"

"Got it. The mission ends here."

The woman waved her hand to disperse the emblem, and then her entire body turned into a wisp of burning black flame and disappeared into nothingness.

(End of this chapter)