Chapter 983: Summoning Hellfire with Ten Rings

This time, the evil sorcerer lord really died.

The tower's control core was destroyed, his magical items and constant spells failed, spells below the Nine-ring Technique cannot be cast; against other enemies there might still be a chance, but before Lei En there is no possibility of survival.

Lei En glanced at the phone screen, the soul power pool was rapidly rising.

"Caster…"

He shook his head; this was his first time directly killing a Saint Rank caster, and it felt far more troublesome than other Saint Rank strong ones.

The whole battle lasted about ten seconds, and Reslin's side had already finished.

The King of Loathing's vitality and defense were far greater than the evil sorcerer's, but it could not resist Time Stop; when six seconds elapsed, dozens of seven‑ring, eight‑ring, and Nine-ring Technique spells formed an energy torrent that engulfed it, causing a chain explosion that outright destroyed the hall.

From start to finish, the King of Loathing never raised a hand to retaliate, not even seeing the enemy.

"Both are Demon lords, but the difference is huge."

Reslin teleported to outside the dungeon, looked down from high above; the ground shook violently as if an earthquake had struck, rumbling came from below, dust billowed, and the area within several hundred meters collapsed, instantly turning into a huge pit.

A massive undead army inside the dungeon was all buried alive.

The soul power pool surged wildly!

Lei En immediately poured all his energy into My World, the progress bar beneath the icon surged—85%, 86%… in an instant it passed 90%, 91%, 92%, rose a few more ticks then halted, about five percent shy of activation.

"Almost there."

At that moment, the battle erupted!

Ai Luoti Xiya's demon army, already numbering tens of thousands, crossed the Jia Ma Lan River and engaged in slaughter with the demons on the opposite bank.

In the sky, Fro Bird Demon, Kas Demon, Gargoyle, Acid‑fire Flying Dragon, Horn Demon, Soul‑stealing Monster, and countless other flying Demons swarmed like a massive dark cloud, blotting out the sun as they sped toward the summit of Luo Dong Shanqiu; meeting enemy flying Demons they clashed in the air.

The stretches of land for several miles on both riverbanks turned into battlefields.

Demons died every second.

Lei En sent over a hundred Thundercast Celestial Soldiers to Ai Luoti Xiya, disguised as Dream Demons, evil sorcerers, Chaos Princes and vampires, each leading a squad of elite Demons, dispersing into the demon army and harvesting souls across the battlefield.

The energy in the soul power pool, just spent, rose again, absorbing faster than it was consumed, as if endless.

In just a few seconds, the My World progress bar filled up!

"Ding‑dong…"

A cheerful tune rang in Lei En's mind, and he saw the square pixel icon flicker, each tiny square shifting colors—red, yellow, green, brown, gray, black, white—like a light strip flashing in rapid succession.

He waited half a minute, but the pixel icon kept flickering.

"Still activating…"

Lei En couldn't help scratching his head, amazed, "Does it really take this long?"

In just a moment, the soul power pool's energy would be full again; he could only devote half to strengthening Dark Angels, while numerous Wizard avatars also leveled up, enhancing his Elements, building spell models and increasing the number of spell rings.

The other half of the energy was poured into the Heart of the Main Brain, advancing toward level thirteen.

Boom!

Lei En looked toward Luo Dong Shanqiu, where a massive pillar of fire shot into the sky; the Flame Demon Ba Luo Yan Mo sent a signal to summon the demon army.

From afar he saw Ai Luoti Xiya standing atop the Hellfire Dragon Pa Su Wei Ao, having flown over the Jia Ma Lan River; the Dark Angel battle corps crossed the river, raging forward across the battlefield, crushing every demon in their path, carving a bloody road toward the castle atop the mountain.

"There's still some time."

Lei En didn't rush to join the fight on the hill, and cast Greater Teleport again, arriving at the territory next to the evil sorcerer lord's domain.

The owner of this territory is a Shadow Mother.

It happened to burst out of its lair, and for some reason didn't immediately teleport to Luo Dong Flame Fortress to aid the Flame Demon Ba Luo Yan Mo, but instead shouted loudly within its own domain, with tens of thousands of Shadow Demons clustering around it, a black mass stretching endlessly.

"What's going on?" Lei En asked, a bit puzzled.

The Shadow Mother resembled a massive flesh mountain over ten meters tall, shrouded entirely in shadow mist; its dark skin was creased with folds, its features grotesquely ugly, and two sagging flesh masses hung from its chest, exuding a nauseating stench.

But the Demons, upon smelling the odor, became aroused as if on aphrodisiacs, dozens crawling up and down the Shadow Mother's body, in and out.

The scene was so disgusting it nearly blinded Lei En.

"What the hell!"

He could no longer bear to watch and didn't want to investigate what the Shadow Mother was up to, so he immediately ordered the already‑arrived Reslin, who had been hiding in the shadows, to act.

Time Stop!

The Shadow Mother sensed the magical disturbance in time, let out a scream, and its massive body turned into a huge black mist that shot away, but it was still half a step too slow.

The black mist's speed suddenly slowed, struggling to move in mid‑air like a snail.

Lei En's spirit leapt behind it, brandishing a titanium‑golden holy sword; the blade glittered, and within six seconds he cut the black mist a dozen times.

When Time Stop ended, Reslin's figure vanished simultaneously.

Whoosh…

The Shadow Mother emerged from the black mist, and the instant it hit the ground the massive flesh mountain shattered into hundreds of fragments, dark‑brown blood gushing out.

It's dead!

The surrounding Demons had no idea what had happened; they were first bewildered, then scattered in a chaotic scramble.

Lei En activated his rainbow‑glow cloak, and while invisible drew out a soul stone.

The Shadow Mother, after all, is a Demon lord; its demonic soul is of Saint Rank, and even if it cannot be merged, the dozens of Elements attached to it include many Shadow Magic spells, as well as one legendary Element and two Nine-ring Techniques, which alone would fetch a good price when extracted.

Having contained the demonic soul, Lei En looked at the fleeing masses of Demons and thought, "This is all energy; it can't be wasted."

He then raised his hand to cast.

Spiritual Energy Storm!

Spiritual Energy Storm!

Spiritual Energy Storm…

Lei En repeatedly leapt with his spirit, casting each time he emerged.

In half a minute he hurled a dozen Spiritual Energy Storms in one go, all Nine-ring, the surging invisible energy covering every inch of space within several thousand meters, tearing the souls of Demons within the spell's range, causing them to collapse and die en masse.

This wave harvested nearly twenty thousand units of electricity, the soul‑power pool surged wildly, making Lei En feel dizzy and bloated, almost unable to hold together.

Demon corpses littered the ground, appearing intact.

These corpses can be used to grow black soul mushrooms, so he chose a psychic storm, which wouldn't damage the Demon bodies.

Some Greater Demons and Demons with mental shielding survived, but Lei En ignored them and teleported away at once.

The next second.

Lei En appeared in the sky above Luodong Hills.

The Infernal Dragon had already carried Ai Luotixiya to the outside of Baro Flame Demon's castle; on the hill several li wide, demons covered the mountains in a blood‑soaked melee, the Dark Angel had already reached the hillside, countless Demons surged forward in a relentless blockade, yet they could not impede its forward steps at all.

The dragon hovered in midair.

Ai Luotixiya watched the castle raise a layer of flame shield, her eyes filled with solemnity.

The walls of Luodong Flame Fortress stood over thirty meters tall; countless Demons surged up the parapet, crowding each other, leaping down like a tide, breaking through the shield to join the fight.

Amid the earth‑shaking clash, a deep voice rang out.

"Succubus!"

"Who gave you the nerve to dare assault my Flame Fortress?"

The voice seemed to come from a distant past, majestic and ancient, bearing a terror more dreadful than a dragon's might; each syllable struck the soul, causing the Demons on both sides to freeze, silent for two seconds.

A towering, burly figure stepped out of the castle's great hall, appeared on the central plaza, and looked up at the sky.

"Bu Lukantike!"

Ai Luotixiya's spirit was greatly shaken.

Lei En also observed this Baro Flame Demon; it was taller and bulkier than Reslin and the Di Ma E Tu his comrades had slain, standing nearly ten meters tall, its massive body seemed forged of lava, its skin ablaze with raging flames, and a pair of huge fire wings sprouted from its back.

It wore simple black armor, wielding a decapitation sword in each hand and a fiery whip.

The Baro Flame Demon's eye sockets blazed with two flames, shooting beams several meters long; a pair of massive horns pierced the sky like red blades. Streams of lava seeped from beneath its armor, flowing down its sturdy legs to the ground, causing the temperature within a radius of a thousand meters to surge, turning the spot it stood on into a magma pool.

"As expected of a high‑ranking Demon Lord, its strength far exceeds that of Di Ma E Tu."

Lei En made a judgment.

The Soul Eye cannot sense targets of a higher tier, but from the evil energy aura one can roughly gauge its power.

"Um…"

"It should be comparable to Kurgos, with slightly stronger attack but certainly less vitality."

"Killing it is not difficult."

Bu Lukantike withdrew his gaze, scanned the surroundings, and saw only one Demon Lord, then roared angrily: "Weitu Ka, why are you alone? Where is Seer, why hasn't he arrived yet? Where are the other Demon Lords?"

Weitu Ka is one of the five Demon Lords of Gamma Lan's southern shore, and he is a Sat Demon Lord.

These Demons were born in the previous era; they were originally elves, corrupted and transformed by evil energy. After their fall they retained humanoid features, standing three to five meters tall, with dark‑purple skin, claws for hands, reverse‑jointed limbs ending in hooved feet, and a pair of massive goat horns on their heads.

The Sat Demon combines the strengths of Destruction Demons and Shadow Demons, possessing powerful melee ability and mastery of Shadow Magic.

"Lord…"

The Sat Demon Lord Weitu Ka turned pale with fear, immediately knelt, and reported: "Lord Seer is missing, and there is no news of the other three Lords."

"What's happening?" Baro Flame Demon suppressed its anger and pressed further.

Weitu Ka shook his head and said he did not know.

Bang!

Bu Lukantike cracked a whip at the Sat Demon Lord, flinging it dozens of meters away, shouting angrily: "Useless waste!"

Weitu Ka let out a howl, but dared not resist.

The Baro Flame Demon suddenly looked up, staring at Ai Luotixiya outside the castle, and asked in a deep voice: "Succubus, is this your plot?"

Ai Luotixiya had already received Lei En's magical transmission, deliberately raised her voice and replied: "Those three Demon Lords are dead; they won't come to aid."

"Just because of you?"

Bu Lukantike snarled a grim smile, saying contemptuously: "Your master behind you finally couldn't hold back. I, the great Baro Flame Demon, Bu Lukantike, fear no challenge; no matter who your master is, they cannot match the lord I serve!"

It raised its decapitation sword toward Ai Luotixiya, "Succubus, you will regret attacking my castle."

"Who do you serve?"

Ai Luotixiya was unmoved by the Flame Demon's threat and instead asked.

"You have no right to know." Bu Lukantike said, then shouted: "Come, let me see how much power you have!"

"Hellfire Legion, attack!"

The Baro Flame Demon roared wildly as it cast, its body engulfed in fierce flames; massive fire element waves made Luodong Flame Fortress tremble. On its palm it gathered black stones, heating them to a glowing red before launching them skyward, exploding like fireworks.

Boom—

Each stone ignited, expanding rapidly, forming a barrage of meteors that rained down.

As they fell, the meteors quickly grew larger, sprouting heads and limbs each four to five meters tall, their bodies wreathed in scorching flames, becoming giant Demon‑level hellfires; over five hundred appeared, a spectacular sight.

Lei En watched the scene, also awestruck.

Nine-ring Technique — Summon Hellfire!

This is one of the Infernal Mage's most frequently used summoning spells; it can be upgraded from one ring to nine rings, the higher the level, the more hellfire summoned and the stronger they are.

Earlier on the Dreweil Peninsula, Infernal Grand Mage Jorgen summoned a Hellfire Lord at nine rings, but it was far inferior to Baro Flame Demon's spell. Bu Lukantike's Hellfire summons almost reached Ten rings!

The number summoned was ten times that of a normal nine‑ring spell, and each was a Greater Demon.

However, Lei En also saw the clue.

This was not a true Ten‑ring Spell; Bu Lukantike had carefully selected a batch of Hellfire from his own demons, killed them, extracted their core nuclei, then sealed the Hellfire souls within the cores, inscribing summoning and control runes.

When needed, he would inject massive fire elements into the cores, summoning the Hellfire via spell.

These summoned Hellfire were stronger than in life, gaining one to two tiers.

And the casting was extremely fast!

It isn't a Ten‑ring Spell, yet it's as good as one.

Bu Lukanti Ke, using a shortcut, achieved near‑instant Ten‑ring Spell speed. Of course, it must draw on the massive fire element pool in Luodong Flame Castle to infuse so much hellfire with fire element; if it leaves the castle, the spell's power will drop dramatically.

"This spell is interesting…"

Lei En watched over five hundred hellfires fall like meteor bombardments, striking the Dark Angel Legion charging toward the mountaintop castle.

The spell's coverage area was enormous and indiscriminate; even the Demon army under Baro Flame Demon himself was bombarded.

Accelerate!

The Dark Angel's speed suddenly surged, ignoring the Demons blocking its path, it rammed through them and sprinted wildly toward the mountaintop.

Rumble…

The ground trembled, explosions roared.

When hundreds of hellfires slammed into the ground, triggering a series of violent explosions, the Dark Angel happened to burst out of the bombardment zone, leaving only Baro Flame Demon's own Demons wounded.

"Terror warriors aren't that fast; they're not terror warriors at all!"

Bu Lukanti Ke roared in anger, staring intently at Ai Luoti Xi Ya, "Succubus, who exactly is your master?"

Ai Luoti Xi Ya gave no reply.

"Kill you, and your master will naturally appear." Baro Flame Demon's flames flared, about to cast a spell to close in on Ai Luoti Xi Ya, when it suddenly became alert, turned its gaze toward a spot a hundred meters ahead, and a Dream Demon's silhouette emerged.

Lei En said softly in Abyssal Language, "Your opponent is me."

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