Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 412 - 397: You Are No Match for Li

The voice of the desolation increasingly no longer sounded like a human voice, echoing across this world like repeated heavy hammer strikes, pounding relentlessly into Andrew’s ears, mind, and the depths of his soul.

In Andrew’s vision, the dragon-shaped fire kept enlarging, rushing towards him.

Strangely, facing this blow aimed entirely at him, Andrew’s originally serious expression turned into a smile: "Is that so?"

From the opponent’s words and attack moves, Andrew sensed anger.

Though the desolation concealed it well, there was no doubt that having both the intercepted signal and the close mini teleportation gate exploded was almost a face-slapping humiliation for the desolation.

Getting one’s face slapped certainly leads to anger.

"But, being angry means there is more than one person showing weakness!" Andrew’s eyes flashed with a murderous intent.

Faced with the strongest strike aimed entirely at him, Andrew not only did not retreat, but instead felt a surge of killing intent!

Andrew took a deep breath once more, integrating with the entire Water God Realm.

Then, he raised his hand and propped it up.

With his movement, the surrounding sea surface suddenly arched upwards.

A vast amount of seawater instantly gathered into a circular shield.

In the shield surface, streams of water continuously rotated and flowed.

If "Life Pupil Kill" was the Water God Li borrowing the Fire God Xu’s magic to create the most powerful water magic,

then this "Shield of Flowing Water" was the strongest defensive water magic.

Water God Li and Fire God Xu both deeply understood the principles of "Water and Fire United," often borrowing from and learning from each other.

The Water God Li, inspired by the Fire God, created "Life Pupil Kill."

Conversely, Fire God Xu also borrowed this move "Shield of Flowing Water," creating the "Flowing Fire Series" within Warm Fire Magic.

Yes, the Flowing Fire Series, as Warm Fire Magic, contained the secret technique of water magic internally.

Before Andrew’s journey to negotiate at the Royal Court, he passed through the fortress "Shield of Flowing Fire," which was established as a fortress with the "Flowing Fire Series" as the foundation array.

The "Shield of Flowing Fire" is one of the two strategic fortresses of the Warm Fire Commerce Association, corresponding to the "Crimson Spear," with one defending and one attacking.

Essentially, the "Shield of Flowing Fire" can be considered the guardian city of Warm Fire City, praised as the "Barrier" and "Shield" of the Warm Fire Commerce Association.

And whether it’s the fortress "Shield of Flowing Fire" or "Flowing Fire Series" magic, tracing back to the origin, it stems from the strongest water defense magic Andrew is currently using: Shield of Flowing Water!

A loud boom was heard! As the dragon-shaped fire moved forward silently, it exploded with an earth-shattering roar upon hitting the water shield.

The dragon shape, progressing like a knife through butter, surprisingly pierced through the shield surface in an instant.

However, Andrew remained composed, holding his hands in the air.

Only to see the dragon shape suddenly slow down, its penetration was halted halfway through the shield, or rather Andrew’s water shield actively let it penetrate halfway.

The upper body of the dragon shape had already passed through the shield surface, while the lower body was "stuck."

Andrew maintained his left hand in a fist position, while his right hand opened five fingers, making a "twisting" movement.

With Andrew’s movement, the shield surface began to rotate and accelerate.

Frantically grinding the dragon-shaped fire "stuck" within the shield!

"Fire of Greed" is based on devouring, swallowing everything.

However, once rashly trapped within the "Shield of Flowing Water," it was rapidly "chewed" and "dissolved" by Andrew’s water shield!

"Is it... this easy?"

Silver and others widened their eyes almost in disbelief.

If the first breath of the desolation was largely to tear off Andrew’s disguise, it was not entirely aimed at Andrew.

Sending signals did not count as a substantial attack on Andrew.

Then, the third strike just now was completely aimed at and purely targeted Andrew.

Yet Andrew, facing this most specific and heavy strike, looked like it was the easiest of the three times facing off?

"Hmm?" Silver suddenly looked up.

Only to find that the atmosphere of the scene had changed as Andrew neutralized the dragon-shaped attack.

Previously, it was always the aura of the desolation occupying the scene, filling the world before him.

Now the aura of the world started to be dominated by another force.

The center of this entirely new dominant power was Andrew.

"This... this feeling..." Silver’s expression became somewhat peculiar.

Understanding that all these years, the Water Mages have lived in the Water God Realm, nominally the owners of this world.

But in practice, they have been constantly hunted down!

Now, feeling the increasingly overwhelming presence of Andrew and sensing Andrew’s aura gradually suppressing the aura of the desolation, not just Silver, but many other Water Mages experienced a peculiar sensation for the first time:

This world... is ours.

We are the true masters here!

This should indeed... be our home field!!

As Andrew’s power aura suppressed the desolation, everyone felt for the first time the unique security of being "at home."

"Good!" Many Water Mages couldn’t help but cheer, "Well done!"

Like a long-pressed invisible boulder on their chests suddenly disappeared, making breathing much smoother.

Silver was instead surprised into momentary speechlessness:

"The combat style reflects a person’s character.

This Andrew is more proactive in character and style than Master Li!

His three times facing the desolation, each time he was the last to act, yet every time he skillfully turned the tables, actively shifting from passive to active—"

With a sudden burst, the desolation’s massive body exploded.

Just like the previous crab-shaped signal and the previous mini teleportation gate, it exploded.

The Water Mages cheered even louder: "Won? We won!!"

Everyone, more or less, has noticed Andrew’s battle style of "defensive counterattack" and "turning passive into active."

You send a signal, and I not only intercept it, but also reverse it to shatter your signal transmitter.

You want to kill me, so I not only defuse your attack but counter-kill you.

——It’s all the same logic, isn’t it!

In everyone’s eyes, Andrew must be defusing the attack while simultaneously exerting pressure to eventually shatter Huang’s body.

However...

That’s not the case.

Actually, Huang... self-detonated.

As the King of Flame Warriors, he brought the greatest strength of the Flame Warriors to the extreme, which is "explosive power."

Compared to the Crimson Knight and Deep Blue Guard, the mobility of Flame Warriors definitely falls short.

But the "attack speed" of Flame Warriors is extremely fast, under the natural advantage of professional super "explosive power."

Huang’s three proactive attacks were all perfectly defused by Andrew.

His strategy to deal with it is: don’t dwell, don’t be discouraged, immediately prepare the next move!

And this time his change of tactics was quite odd.

He proactively self-detonated that huge body, breaking into parts, not engaging in direct confrontation with the site already dominated by Andrew’s power.

Instead, he turned to a one-on-one, man-marking—or more accurately, crab-marking—method, rushing into the crowd, instantly kidnapping and taking hostage every Water Mage including Yin!

This change was truly sudden.

Originally, when Andrew sensed the opponent’s anger, the killing intent arose within him, intending to seize control of the scene while defusing the opponent’s attack, then suppress, kill, or at least severely injure the opponent!

Even Andrew did not expect the opponent to change tactics immediately upon sensing trouble, and so quickly, so suddenly.

Not to mention that the opponent had such bizarre combat techniques.

Previously, Huang’s violent breath couldn’t break through Andrew’s defenses to touch the people behind Andrew.

Yet at this moment, before Andrew could react, he had already seized everyone present except Andrew!

Andrew looked around.

Every Water Mage had crab claws around their necks, seemingly ready to chop off their heads at any moment.

Behind every Water Mage was Huang, reduced in size numerous times, in the shape of a crab!

This scene looked somewhat absurd, even comical.

Yet it rendered the site exceptionally quiet for the moment.

"Shout now, keep shouting, weren’t you all happy before, thinking you had won?" Huang’s voice emerged from different bodies, speaking in unison.

It was noticeable that Huang’s voice was tinged with undisguisable weakness; this breaking into parts surely consumed a tremendous amount of energy.

With just a short sentence, Huang seemed to be out of breath towards the end.

Yet the crab claws around every Water Mage’s neck remained steady and unmoving as ever!

"I cannot defeat you."

After a brief pause, Huang continued, "Under Divine Level, you are probably unbeatable. My strike, aimed completely at you, was so effortlessly defused; if I had reacted even a little slower, I’d probably be dead by now, wouldn’t I?"

Andrew was silent, not responding.

Huang took another break before he continued, "Aside from L, who turned human at the last moment, no one on this Outer Battlefield can defeat you; I... I have come to terms with it.

Compared to L, you are more aggressive, more proactive. Moreover, I must say, your magic means are more restraining of me than L’s physical strength.

But! There is one aspect where you are far inferior to L, extremely inferior!"

This time Andrew replied: "Oh, how so?"

Only to hear Huang said: "You are indeed more proactive, stronger in attack than L, but you failed to consider: when you attack me, who is there to protect these useless beings behind you?

You are a top-notch assassin, but you are not a qualified leader. One-on-one, I am no match for you. But one-on-many, I can instead win against you!

This is the biggest difference between you and L!"

The past generations of Huang, and the first generation of L, have been intertwined in this Water God Realm for endless ages.

For Huang, the most troublesome aspect of L has never been his absolute power—except for the moment when he finally turns human.

The point that has frustrated generations of Huang the most is L’s ability to protect his Water Mages well while fighting Huang.

And it’s not just simple protection.

Pure protection surely distracts, dissipates power, which cannot be a lasting mode.

The truly remarkable thing about L is that, in the "Black Whale" mode, he not only protects everyone but also allows everyone within Black Whale to participate in the battle.

Even newly born infants can contribute their own share through his Black Whale body.

This is L.

L ultimately abandoned the Black Whale form because he believed it could thoroughly kill Huang, yet he failed to succeed.

L’s Water Mages, who lost the Black Whale form, actually, are no longer qualified to stand on the battleground against super powerhouses like Andrew and Huang as it is today.

Huang gasped, seemingly finally recovering a bit, said: "In our one-on-one, even if I lost, I can admit defeat.

Now, return that large Teleportation Gate to me! And then cut off one of your arms, and one leg!"

Andrew had not yet responded.

Yin’s face suddenly turned purple-red as she struggled against Huang’s forceful suppression and shouted, "Andrew, don’t worry about us—mm-mm!"

She did not continue, her body twisting in pain.

Huang seemed as if he was doing nothing, but silently, a thin layer of sticky black fire emerged on the surface of Yin’s body!

On the other side, Natalie remained relatively calm, but Pasha was fiercely struggling, apparently like Yin, wanting Andrew not to give in to Huang’s demands.

Andrew remained silent, raised his hand, and removed the Water Element giants on both sides of the Teleportation Gate.

Yet he did not immediately exchange back the Teleportation Gate.

Huang chuckled, confident in victory: "What, trying to stall? It’s futile. Obeying my instructions honestly, or else..." Faces appeared on the underside of Huang’s crab body, smiling, "otherwise, I will, in front of you, one by one, devour these useless beings."