Chapter 2712: Chloe's Strange Art

The red-haired sorceress who was waiting for Xia De at the wellhead turned to look at the burning big house at this time. Although she saw the fire, because she promised to wait for Xia De here, she had no intention of putting out the fire.

Suddenly, a fiery red light flew from the roof to the night sky. Miss Danister, who was prepared, raised her hand and slashed out a moonlight:

"Moonlight Slash!"

The scarlet moonlight collided head-on with the firelight in the night sky. Amidst a not-so-loud explosion, the figure in the firelight fell obliquely toward the north of Hoy Manor.

"Chase it, it seems that thing ignited this big fire."

The red-haired sorceress said to Xia De behind her, and the two chased after the falling firelight together.

Hoy Manor was originally located at the northernmost end of the city. Leaving the manor and continuing north directly left the urban area and entered the forest area. But tracking the falling firelight was not difficult, because it left a faint red trail in the night sky.

The firelight landed in the forest amidst a loud noise, so a raging fire ignited in the forest before the two arrived at the landing position. The autumn forest is extremely easy to ignite. Looking from above, with the landing point of the firelight as the center, the sea of fire was spreading rapidly toward the surroundings.

The center of the sea of fire had been blown into flat ground because of the landing of the firelight, and the fallen trees were burning rapidly. And in the large pit in the center of the open space, while the fiery red claws were climbing out of the ground, the moonlight split the sea of fire, and Xia De and Miss Danister also arrived.

"Is this the demon?"

I saw that the thing climbing out of the deep pit was roughly human-shaped, but in fact, it was a ferocious monster about three meters high completely composed of flames. It was not standing on the ground, but floating almost against the ground.

The flames on its body were black-red, and the flames on the left hand were thicker and heavier than the flames on the right hand, generally in the shape of a beast's claws. The flames constituting the right hand were in the shape of a human hand, and a whip was taking shape as the flames flowed.

As for its head, it was hollowed out in the flames, and two round holes and a lying crescent moon formed the shape of eyes and mouth.

Xia De blinked his eyes. In the field of vision of "Demon Vision," the color of this thing in front of him changed to the deepest black with malice:

"It looks like a demon indeed, but why..."

The flame whip broke through the sea of fire with a *whoosh* and came before their eyes, hitting the ink-colored shield of the "Night Curtain Seal" and causing ripples.

Immediately, the seal disappeared, and Xia De appeared ten meters to the left out of thin air while holding Miss Danister's hand. The big fire in the surrounding forest illuminated their faces, and Xia De reached into his pocket:

"No matter what, let's solve it first. I'll do it myself, you are responsible for preventing it from escaping. Can you temporarily seal this open space?"

The red-haired girl looked up at the moon in the night sky dyed red by the firelight:

"No problem, be careful yourself."

The 【Witch Hunter Seal】 was worn on Xia De's finger, and as the monster composed of black flames let out a howl of "Witch Hunter!", the surrounding sea of fire exploded, and several flame tornadoes formed in the sea of fire and gathered toward the central open space, but were immediately dispersed by Miss Danister.

The formula for the exorcism potion given by the doctor was still being configured by Miss Bell, so he took out the bottle containing the No. 3 holy water and the bottle containing the moonlit water. But the demon would not watch Xia De cast the spell. The flames sprayed from under its body allowed it to jump into the high air, and then it raised its left claw high and rushed toward Xia De's position with a *boom*.

But it did not hit Xia De. When the black flames that melted the earth gathered again to become a demon, it turned around and saw that the two liquids in Xia De's hand were intertwined, forming a liquid long sword in his right hand. And in Xia De's left hand, the small ice doll of the witch had been dyed with light by the spirit.

The complete eight-ring Ring of Destiny appeared behind him, and the spiritual light of the miracle 【Echo】 spirit rune bloomed with incomparable golden light, and that small ice doll also turned into ice-blue light and climbed onto Xia De's body.

"Chloe's Ice Echo!"

With the rotation of the Ring of Destiny, the rustling sound of freezing became louder and louder along with the freezing of the long sword in his hand. At the same time, Miss Danister, who was casting spells outside the open space to prevent the flames from rushing toward the open space, looked up and saw the falling snow in the night sky:

"Is it the power of that Witch Empress again?"

But this time it was clearly different from the last time, because while the fluttering snow appeared above the fire field, she actually heard a sigh from a strange woman that appeared beside her ear.

That sigh seemed to make her see the silver-haired girl looking at the moon with melancholy on the ice field surrounded by mountains. At this moment, the cold wind whistled in the forest. This time, the chill carried a heartbreaking feeling, more real than the last time.

Even the surrounding sea of fire was suppressed by this strange art. In the fluttering heavy snow, when she turned to look at Xia De, she actually saw that as the long sword in his hand completely condensed, the ice-blue transparent figure behind him hugged his neck with both hands, and then the strange girl put her head on his left shoulder.

Chloe's phantom hugged Xia De tightly from behind, and the little girl affectionately pressed her side face against Xia De's side face, with a quiet and gentle expression on her closed-eyed face.

And Xia De, who used this strange art for the first time, also received "her" prompt:

【During the casting of the strange art, any spirit-releasing attack will carry the effect of an ice attack.】

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

The index and middle fingers of the left hand wearing the "Witch Hunter Seal" were pressed together at the end of the frozen long sword blade.

As the fingers slid across the blade, the brilliant silver moonlight gradually wrapped around the entire long sword. Finally, after the silver rune chain outlined by the light formed on the surface of the ice sword, the silver greatsword blade completely wrapped around the ice sword.

The power of ice, silver moon, and 【Witch Hunter Seal】 gathered completely on this brand-new weapon. Xia De, who was hugged by that ice-blue phantom, jumped up, and the moonlight slashed from the air was already attached with a chilling cold.

The burning demon raised its arms to take the moonlight head-on. After the arc-shaped moonlight stalemated with it for a second, as the flames on the demon's arms were suppressed by the ice, the moonlight cut off the two flames and slashed directly at its head.

"Roar!"

The black flames spat out from the demon's mouth shattered the moonlight, but at this time Xia De's figure had already arrived in front of it through "Lagley's Jump." The Moonlight Greatsword pierced into the demon's chest, and white frost spat out from the opened mouth, making the demon's body size shrink by a circle directly.

After the flames on its arms went out, what was revealed inside was the charred arm of a human mummy, but if you look closely, it was clearly a piece of wood carved into the shape of a human arm. That pair of arms that seemed to shatter at a touch pinched toward Xia De's neck, and the ice-blue phantom behind Xia De also opened its eyes at this time.

Those eyes were not Chloe's golden eyes, but ice-blue. While Xia De's spirit was reduced by a large chunk out of thin air without warning, wherever the eyes of Chloe's phantom looked, the demon's arms exploded into ice powder directly, and the flames all over its body were suppressed again, and even the wooden mummy wrapped in black fire could be vaguely seen.

Xia De gripped his sword with his right hand and jerked it upward, splitting the suppressed flames on the demon's body into two halves. The demon still wanted to make a final struggle; the mouth of its severed, burning head opened and spat another black fireball at Xia De's face.

But immediately Xia De also spat out cold air, cooperating with the eyes opened by the Chloe phantom on his left shoulder, the fireball went out in the air, and then Xia De's palm wearing the ring pressed directly on the demon's head:

"Shadow Ball!"

The darkness that appeared in his hand immediately began to petrify the wood carved into a human skull under the flames, and at the same time, the chill extinguished the flames of the demon's head thoroughly as the darkness spread.

But the sound of *thump, thump, thump* sounded abruptly in the demon's chest again. Miss Danister, who had been paying attention to the battle here, immediately reminded loudly:

"It's going to self-destruct!"

Enemies of the fire type seem to like self-destructing very much. Xia De, who had been prepared, immediately used his right-hand greatsword to pierce the demon's beating heart directly. But this did not stop the *thump, thump, thump* heartbeat sound, but instead made the flames of the demon's body expand more violently.

Xia De immediately jumped backward, using space jump to avoid the power of the subsequent self-destruction. And the red-haired girl greeted him, and the red moonlight wrapped around the mass of expanding flames with a wave of her hands.

So the demon exploded in the red moon. Although Miss Danister's face turned pale, she still successfully suppressed the power of its self-destruction completely—this was also related to Xia De's last sword greatly weakening its power:

"If the enemy wants to self-destruct, the best solution is not to give it another hit, but to avoid it or defend immediately."

The eighteen-year-old girl with her hands on her hips did not forget to "teach" Xia De, but she was not looking at Xia De's face, but at the ice-blue phantom behind him.

"Yes, yes, I know."

Xia De had to say this. He did not cancel the spell, but walked quickly to the position where the demon self-destructed. In the deep pit of the explosion, the brilliance of the red moon had not dissipated, and at the bottom of the deep pit, a tiny black flame was jumping.

Xia De then rummaged through his pocket for the old lantern obtained from 【Sin Mansion】 that could hold fire seeds, and put the black flame into it.

The forest fire had not yet been extinguished, and Miss Danister's long shadow fell beside Xia De in the deep pit. She did not feel relieved:

"I still don't understand, has that demon been eliminated by us? I don't have as much witch-hunting experience as you, but from common sense, this matter shouldn't be so simple, right?"

Xia De took off the ring on his hand and hung it on the lantern, so the black flame was immediately suppressed until it was almost invisible:

"Let's extinguish the big fire here first. I see this fire is going to get out of control. As for whether it is too simple, sometimes it is better to be simple." ===== CHAPTER 2713 =====