Chapter 978 A Savage Battle


    The first ones to charge onto the battlefield were naturally those fire creatures who acted as cannon fodder.


    Low-grade fire elementals, fire spirits, fire deities, fire wolves, magma hounds, infernals, and fire giants.


    All sorts of fire creatures of various shapes and forms swarmed out from behind Greem, roaring as they rushed at the four adepts standing above the crater. Waves of wild fire magic devoured the adepts before the creatures even arrived.


    Though this wave of attacks seemed iparably ferocious, there were no powerful fire spells mixed within. Most of these fire creatures’ innate powers only included the use of elementium fireballs.


    Purple light shed in Benija’s eyes, and an intangible mental fluctuation swept across the air, detonating the elementium fireballs before they could reach them.


    A tremendous fiery explosion urred right in front of the four adepts. The aura of the energy flux was shockingly powerful. However, the shockwave from the detonated fireballs was already on itsst legs when it reached the adepts. It could not move their seemingly thin defensive forcefields, let alone wound them.


    After two waves of useless fire attacks, the massive army of fire creatures had arrived near the top of the crater. Before they could scatter and surround the adepts, de Princess Katherine stepped forward. She pushed with her hands, and five metal des stood in the way of the fire creatures like fluttering butterflies.


    The disc-des spun, and their bodies of fire fell apart.


    The fire creatures at the average of beginner First Grade were sliced to countless pieces beneath this fearsome array of des, shattered into sparks before they had the chance to struggle.


    One wave was minced to pieces, and the next, minced to pieces as well.


    The five disc-des moved at Katherine’s every whim and will, soaring through the horde of fire creatures. Their every attack left a ground full of sparks and scattered mes behind them.


    Even the most quick-footed and agile of the fire creatures could not escape the metal des the de Princess controlled!


    The elementium magical machine charged forward under cover of the fire creatures, rumbling as it swung its metal fists down upon Katherine. Vicious magical energy trailed the path of its punch, creating small elementium vortexes in the air as its fists traveled towards its target.


    As a mechanical witch, Katherine’s attributes leaned toward Agility. However, her Strength was pretty impressive as well.


    Thus, she did not choose to dodge when faced with the magic-enhanced punch of the magical machine. The two metal spikes in her hands joined together and shed with the metal fists as a violent storm of steel.


    Katherine’s body drifted across the air as she continued her wild attacks, borrowing the force of the elementium magical machine’s punch to retreat rapidly. From a distance, it looked as if Katherine had been blown away by the elementium magical machine and had been the victim of that exchange.


    In truth, Katherine was unharmed, while a series of fine cuts and tiny dents now covered the magical machine’s right arm. However, with the thickness of the magical machine’s metal arm, this much damage could not affect itsbat prowess at all.


    It was much like a roon toying with a ck bear. Regardless of how the elementium magical machine lunged and darted, pummelling with its fists and sending wave after wave of magical energy shockwaves, Katherine remained a shadow. She moved and circled about the hulk, her metal spikes and disc-des sending sparks flying as they cut against its body of steel. The sound of grinding metal was piercing to the ears.


    Once Katherine was pushed back by the elementium magical machine, the fire creatures finally managed to break through the de array. They roared and charged at the remaining adepts.


    The next to take Katherine’s ce was Benija.


    She didn’t roar or shout or behave in any particrly eye-catching way. Her slender body simply stepped forward as several waves of invisible flux radiated from therge purple crystal on her forehead. The bodies of all the fire creatures caught by the wave stalled before disintegrating without any exnation.


    These massive clusters of fire exploded near the crater, sting the soft volcanic rock to pieces and sending them tumbling down into theva.


    If Katherine’s way of ughter was within the realm of normality, then Benija’s method of ughter was utterly iprehensible. Even Greem, all the way behind the army, could only detect the existence of the mental flux through his multiyered vision. However, he had absolutely no idea how this mental flux had destroyed the consciousness cores of the fire creatures.


    From his perspective, it looked as if the fire creatures had charged forward and mysteriously self-destructed. Their wild elementium fires then turned into giant fireballs and devoured the frontlines.


    Greem had no intention of summoning Thunder Dragon Arms.


    He wasn’t arrogant. It was merely because the act itself was meaningless.


    The four hunter adepts would turn and flee without hesitation whenever Arms appeared. They used the vast space of the battlefield to wait out the dragon’s summoning time.


    ording to the narws, Third Grade Thunder Dragon Arms was not summoned to Henvic by an internar portal but through his dragon contract with Greem. As such, the time he could remain in Henvic was restricted by the narws.


    Even with their contract, Greem could only keep Arms within Henvic for fifteen minutes. It was more than enough for a fight but far toocking for them to pursue four hunter adepts who were solely intent of avoiding battle.


    As for escaping while Arms kept the adepts at bay...Greem had considered the idea, but in truth, the four hunter adepts wanted nothing more than that.


    After all, if he left the volcano, he would leave the shelter of theva pool behind. Greem was not so confident as to believe he was powerful enough to defend against all four of them without a geographical advantage. Thus, Greem gave up on the idea entirely after summoning Arms twice. He started to y this game of siege with the hunter adepts with all his seriousness.


    Seeing that all his minions had charged forward, Greem transformed into a me giant without any hesitation as well. He lifted his hand and summoned clouds of fire, which he cast down upon his enemies.


    The four hunter adepts could no longer remain unfazed against the ferocious attack of a Third Grade fire adept. Each of them started to carefully dodge those sshing Magma Fireballs and the crashing Meteor Showers, trying to avoid every one of Greem’s attacks.


    For some reason, the fire magic that Greem used was shockingly powerful!


    The spells even contained light-attribute damage that could ignore their defenses.


    However, what troubled the hunter adepts the most was the magical effects of Greem’s fire spells, which he could alter at will. Coldme, fire poison, explosion; the various strange magical effects were enough to drive an enemy insane.


    The fire poison was nothing much. With Poison Witch Guinevere around, they could cure themselves of any poison.


    However, the explosive fireballs and the Coldme fireballs were far too challenging to deal with!


    Greem’s fire spells were terrifying enough with their intense heat. They could also explode and at any time, as well. That made them incredibly annoying to deal with. There were many times when Katherine was forced to exchange blows with the elementium magical machine because of the disruption shockwaves from a fireball’s explosion.


    If her luck were any worse, she would have been frozen on the spot by Coldme. Even with her tremendous power, she would have been beaten within an inch of her life by the savage elementium magical machine.


    It couldn’t be helped. The de Princess’ power was at an all-time low after all, with all the severe injuries she had already sustained. She was stuck in a weakened state until she could return to the realms beyond for a thorough treatment!


    The four adepts immediately split up their work when they saw Greem step on the battlefield.


    Natagu and Benija worked together against Greem, while Katherine and Guinevere held back the elementium magical machine.


    Both parties demonstrated their myriad powers and shed with each other in this volcano crater with a diameter of over two and a half kilometers.


    The four hunter adepts had tried to have Katherine alone upy the elementium magical machine, while the remaining three rained down upon Greem, hoping to kill him through this n quicky.


    Unfortunately, Greem was surprisingly resilient and stood right behind a pool ofva from which he could draw even more power. As such, he stood unyielding against the attacks of three hunter adepts.


    Inparison, de Princess Katherine became the weakest of the group.


    The battle between Greem and the three adepts had yet toe to a conclusion, yet the elementium magical machine already had her on the ropes. A little bit more, and the duel would have ended in a clear defeat.


    It was that battle that caused Katherine to sustain even more damage and be further weakened.


    However, of the four hunter adepts, neither Benija, the psionic, or Guinevere, the poison adept were suited to dealing with the magical machine. They couldn’t possibly hold it back either. Meanwhile, Serpentine Adept Natagu served as the main force of the attack. It made no sense for him to switch priorities and deal with the irrelevant magical machine.


    If he did that, Greem might have enough space to unleash his full might, bringing to bear a shocking threat against them all!


    The four hunter adepts had no choice but to rely on this ‘gentler’ approach to slowly wear down the fire adept.


    One had to admit that, as the leader of their group, Natagu’s power was genuinely terrifying.


    When he transformed into the ck Mamba, he had scales that were as tough as the elementium magical machine’s body of steel, as well as exceptional magic resistance that couldpare to that of the dragons.


    With his powerful physical and magical resistances, Natagu could even charge into theva and engage Greem in a melee. Whenever the two of them fought at their full strength, it would be as if Gangsas Volcano had erupted in full force. Wave after wave of blisteringva would surge out of the crater, along with plumes of volcanic ash that could blot out the sun itself.


    The earth rumbled as if it would be torn asunder, and the entire vicinity of the volcano became a near-apocalyptd of destruction where no living being could approach!


    The shockwaves created by the battle between the adepts caused the volcano to erupt with increasing frequency and intensity. All humans and creatures within fifty kilometers of Gangsas Volcano started to flee into the distance in front of this indescribable threat.