"She's already here!"
The moment Gloria had teleported over, Mary had sensed her presence through the Nightmare Domain.
Within the range of Mary's powerful senses, the energy radiating from Gloria's body was so dazzling that it was as if a sun had suddenly risen from the horizon. Mary could not ignore it even if she wanted to.
Mary was no longer the inexperienced little Magus of the past. She had seen all sorts of rank 4 Magi, and had even come into contact with powerful beings at the peak of the Magi realm. However, she had never met someone as powerful as this female Magus who had appeared out of nowhere.
If Mary did not have the boost from Nightmare Castle, there was a high chance that she would be injured just by looking at the energy radiating from Gloria's body.
This kind of oppression and strength was something that no enemy had ever given her before!
Grimm took a deep breath and smiled wryly, "It's Gloria, the second most powerful being in the Magus Association!" Through the A.I. Chip's senses, he was able to identify her even faster than Mary.
"Who cares who she is, as long as she dares to come, we'll take her down!" Mary said fiercely, the nails at the ends of her slender fingers growing crazily and curling into sharp claws. There was a scarlet glow on them, and they had the terrifying effects of 'laceration', 'corrosion' and 'bleeding'.
"Don't show yourself!" Grimm shook his head and stopped her, "Whether or not we can defeat this enemy today depends entirely on the strength of Nightmare Castle's home field. I'll deal with her, you stay in the castle and suppress her to the greatest extent. "
"I'm better at fighting than you …" Mary's scarlet eyes burned as she shrieked.
"But we need this home field!" Grimm was still as calm as ever, "The moment you show yourself and are heavily injured by the enemy, Nightmare Castle's home field advantage will be gone. When that happens, our chances of victory will be even lower! "
Mary gritted her teeth and said hatefully, "Why do I have to stay behind every time? I don't need you to take care of me, I want to fight too … "
"You'll have time to fight! Let me whittle down her strength first, and I'll leave the decisive battle to you! "After spending so much time together, Grimm clearly knew how to pacify this violent woman who was on the verge of going berserk.
"Hmph!" Only then did Mary remain silent.
But when Grim turned around and was about to leave, Mary suddenly pulled him back.
"If … I mean if … it's really dangerous, we can give up!" Mary suddenly looked into Grim's eyes and said seriously, "Nothing else matters! The central region, the clan, the resources … we can give up everything! As long as we're still here, no matter where we go, we'll be able to carve out a new world … "
Grimm smiled warmly and patted the back of Mary's hand. He then turned around and walked out of the Nightmare Castle.
In front of the pitch-black Nightmare Castle, in the wilderness filled with scorched marks and deep pits, Grimm stood still. He held the Book of Darkness in his left hand and the Flaming Coral Staff in his right. He held his breath and waited patiently for the other party to arrive.
Not long after, the night mist in the distance surged, and a tall and graceful female figure surrounded by purple light stepped out of the mist and appeared in front of Grimm.
As the purple light was too dazzling, even Grimm's vision could not see through the energy radiance to clearly see the other party's appearance. However, in his mind, the A.I. Chip used infrared vision, long-range touch, elemental perception, energy spectrum and many other detection methods to get a simple outline of the other party's appearance after stripping off the energy forcefield.
Needless to say, although she was not a true beauty, her figure and appearance were still passable.
At least, Grimm could not detect any traces of magic on her body!
"You're Grimm?" The purple figure stopped in her tracks and could not help but sigh, "I thought you were going to hide in a mouse hole and wait for me to dig you out before you're willing to show yourself!"
After saying this, the other party sized him up and down as if she had not had enough, and said indifferently, "You're not bad! At least among all the wizards I've seen, you're the best! "
Although her words were compliments, the condescending and superior attitude in her words was abhorrent.
Grimm sneered and quickly sent a message to Mary in his mind.
"Begin the suppression!"
In the next second, the smiling purple figure suddenly trembled, and her fiery gaze quickly landed on the dark castle half a mile behind Grimm.
She could sense very clearly that a terrifying domain power was overflowing from within the castle, quickly enveloping and sealing off the surrounding void plane. Then, it condensed into a powerful force field that suppressed her body.
The energy undulations from her body were immediately weakened by more than 30%.
Domain Range: 1.5 miles... Energy Rank: Grade 4... Domain Effect: Strength Suppression... Source of Energy: Nightmare Castle...
Hidden in the purple light, Gloria was enraged. Energy surged around her, intending to charge into the castle and drag out the little mouse hiding inside.
However, just as she was about to make a move, Grimm, who had been waiting for a long time, made the first move.
Grimm's body rapidly expanded, and in the blink of an eye, he had turned into a tall molten giant. The core of the molten giant emitted four colors of light, representing the four types of fire law that Grimm had mastered. The Book of Darkness also projected a dazzling light that lingered around the molten giant, forming the outermost layer of protection.
At the same time, the Flaming Coral Staff in his right hand quickly transformed into an energy projection, turning into a ten-meter-long Flaming Staff. It spurted out a three-meter-thick stream of high-temperature flame, slashing horizontally towards his opponent.
"Hmph, do you think you can defeat me with this?"
At the front of the flames, the purple human silhouette forced out an invisible force field, blocking the surging high-temperature flames outside its body. Wherever the flaming fragments landed, a wave of fire would rise.
Wherever the flames burned, all life would be extinguished, and everything would turn to ash!
However, this land had already gone through a disaster, and the materials and lives that could be burned were all used up in the previous war. Hence, when the flames surged, apart from scorching the ground and causing the air to churn, they could no longer replicate the terrifying scene from before.
There was a loud explosion.
Flames exploded …
The purple figure actually withstood the scorching heat of the flames and charged towards the molten giant, its tiny right hand clenching into a fist as it punched out viciously.
* Hum … *
A strange muffled sound rang out, as if a jet fighter had flown past at a low altitude. The tiny fist broke through the high-temperature flames, bringing with it a terrifying wind pressure as it whistled through the air and landed on the layer of protection around the molten giant's body.
[Warning, warning. The strength of the attack has exceeded the limit of the current protection. Unable to defend completely, please dodge immediately …] The A.I. Chip in Grimm's mind immediately warned.
Unfortunately, there was not enough time for Grimm to activate Flame Leap in between the time it detected the strength of the opponent's attack and the moment the opponent's attack reached its body.
Thus, under Grimm's all-out defense, the huge force broke through the outer layer of the Law Protection, crushed the lava shields, and hit the last layer of the Molten Giant's flame protection.
There was another explosion.
The front was hit, but the back was the one that exploded.
A huge bloody hole suddenly appeared on the back of the molten giant. Tons of boiling lava and viscous flame energy sprayed out in a fan shape, creating a rain of lava behind it.
Grimm's molten body had been pierced through by the purple figure in a single strike!
The molten giant's body leaned forward, its two thick legs pushing against the ground, and it slid back for half a mile before it barely came to a stop.
The huge bloody hole on its back heavily injured the molten giant once more. If not for the fact that its body was made of energy, Grimm would have fallen to the ground and never gotten up again.
Having lost a large amount of 'flesh' on its back, the molten giant slowly stood up, the millstone-sized core of laws still pulsing wildly. Every time it swelled, it would pump out a torrent of flame energy.
The flame energy flowed through its body that had lost most of its organs. Part of it was lost, while the other part turned back into abundant fire elements and started to repair the severely damaged body and organs.
The organs and blood vessels built by the fire elements started to expand, and pure flame energy filled up the empty places. It turned back into a molten body and started to seal the wound on its back.
After only seven fingers, the molten giant trembled and stood up again.
The purple figure was not completely unharmed after that critical strike!
The counterattack of the Book of Darkness and the recoil of the molten giant's flames overlapped, dispersing the energy field around the purple figure's right fist. The surface of the exposed tiny fist was completely carbonized in an instant. Even the flesh and blood inside were scorched by the high temperature. The slender finger bones were even more charred.
The purple figure grunted in pain and activated its power. The purple flames flowed along its arm and wrapped around its right fist again. After isolating the law of fire, the flames on the fist were instantly extinguished. The damaged flesh and bones quickly regenerated and healed under the powerful energy.
With just seven fingers, the purple flame humanoid healed the damage to its right fist, and once again charged at Grim.
Grimm could only stop the healing of his body and shoot a series of exploding fireballs to slow down the opponent. Only then did he jump away when the new attack was about to hit him.
A thousand meters away, Grimm appeared from another area.
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