Chapter 3394: Chaotic Echoes and Grafting Gloves

Directly below the cliff is the beginning of the eastern part of this mountain canyon, which is not very wide but exceptionally long. Xia De and Xie Wei continued to walk west along the canyon, and soon felt the air warm up slightly.

And after continuing forward, they saw a man walking out of the raging fire ahead.

The rampant fire had melted the snow in half of the canyon, and now those flowing fires had turned the canyon into a "river channel," as if it could swallow everything forward.

And behind the man who was calling fire to cast spells, a fate ring was also floating. The 9th-Ring level was quite high, the same as Xia De's. But what Xia De was concerned about was not his level, but the metal holy emblem hanging on his chest:

"The Doom Sect."

Unless entering a city, cultists generally hang their holy emblems on their chests. The higher the level of the cultist sorcerer, the more they have this habit, so it is not difficult to identify them.

Because he was maintaining a state of full-force spellcasting, the stranger cultist's perception also reached its maximum, which meant that Xia De and Xie Wei, who were walking toward them from the canyon, were discovered before they could dodge.

Both sides were stunned at a distance of nearly eight hundred meters. Before Xia De could ask the question "Do you know that playing with fire is forbidden on Fatu Monster Mountain?", the stranger cultist raised his hands high and pushed forward fiercely:

"Arcane Art—Fire Dragon Roar!"

The surging fire swallowed him from behind, and then ran along the canyon toward Xia De and Xie Wei.

"The nun mentioned this arcane art to me. It is not just a change in fire form. Because the learning ritual includes dragon blood, it also contains dragon breath components."

Xia De signaled Xie Wei not to take action, then touched the small ice sculpture of Chloe in his pocket to activate the state of 【Chloe's Ice Echo】, but this time he didn't let Chloe's phantom appear behind him.

Then he took a deep breath in this state:

"Chloe's Cold Breath."

The frost-white airflow sprayed out from his mouth and made contact with the vanguard of that fire flow in the next second.

No water vapor appeared. In the rustling sound, the phenomenon that appeared first was not the disappearance of either the frost or the fire, but the fire being frozen in the ice. Then, as the ice cubes shattered, the fire in the ice disappeared without a trace, while the frost spread along the sea of fire in the canyon to a more distant position.

The 9th-Ring sorcerer who manipulated the fire stood in the sea of fire, so he couldn't immediately notice what happened ahead.

And by the time he noticed that the surrounding temperature didn't continue to rise, but continued to drop, it was too late for him to react. The frost mist was rolled by the wind, chasing the "retreating" fire and almost instantly arrived in front of him.

The combat instinct honed over many years allowed him to release a protective spell before being submerged by the frost. The sea of fire behind him was also completely extinguished by this frost cold in the following few seconds, and even the canyon, which looked bare after the snow was melted, was covered with a layer of frost again as the frost spread.

Snowflakes drifted down from the high sky, as if summoned by Xia De, and as if it just happened to be snowing nearby at this moment.

When the other two companions of the cultist located above the canyon jumped down from the high place, the temperature nearby had even returned to a stable sub-zero.

The 9th-Ring sorcerer who cast the spell just now was now covered with frost, but of course, he wouldn't be frozen to death so easily. With a sudden shake of his body, the heat emitted from his pores melted the frost on his body surface.

It was just that the frost continuously surging from the front was still incomparably bone-chilling, so after the three cultists joined together, the 5th-Ring, 7th-Ring, and 9th-Ring fate rings appeared together. They first raised their hands to call fire in their palms, and then used the exact same arcane art:

"Fire Art—Chaotic Echoes!"

Then the fire in the hands of the three people each had completely different effects. The fire in the hands of the 9th-Ring sorcerer suddenly expanded into a giant mimic fire dragon, the fire in the hands of the 7th-Ring sorcerer turned back into a sea of fire and surged toward Xia De and Xie Wei, and the fire in the hands of the 5th-Ring sorcerer flew into the sky and then turned into falling fire rain to smash toward the two.

These suddenly appearing fire arcane arts were quite abnormal. While Xia De cast spells to counter them, he clearly felt the more violent and uncontrollable power contained in these fires.

But the advantage of 【Chloe's Ice Echo】 in the snowy mountain environment was still obvious. 【Freezing Ray】 erupted from Xia De's fingertips and hit the most troublesome fire dragon. While the giant fire dragon was gradually being frozen, Xia De used the power of the special state to cast an arcane art he hadn't learned:

"Ice Storm!"

The violent wind and snow rubbed out by his hands swallowed the falling fire rain, and then the ice tornado moved forward to collide with the sea of fire until both sides were annihilated into nothingness at the same time.

And Xie Wei provided Xia De with the details of the other party's spellcasting:

"【Chaotic Echoes】 is the application of ancient magic in the modern era. This arcane art cannot be cast directly. After any spellcasting, 【Chaotic Echoes】 can be additionally cast, causing the original spellcasting to produce mutations in unknown directions.

For example, they first used basic spells to summon fire. The effect of 【Chaotic Echoes】 might directly cause them to explode, but it might also be like just now, all mutating into stronger and more violent arcane arts."

Then Xie Wei's voice sounded in Xia De's mind:

"The Great Witch of 【Chaos】 likes to additionally cast 【Chaotic Echoes】 after any spellcasting, but she relies on her own talent to guide the spellcasting effect to be close to her own thoughts in the chaotic and disordered element surge and tide of spirits. These cultists are completely manipulating doom to artificially control the direction of arcane art mutation."

"Chaotic Echoes" is not an exclusive arcane art of the 【Doom Sect】, but most sorcerers in the sect who can learn this arcane art have learned it. Because of the power brought by their own faith, they and the 【Infinite Change】 are quite fond of arcane arts and relics that gamble on probabilities.

Of course, there is still a difference between the two. The 【Doom Sect】 also specializes in curses, while the 【Infinite Change】 has deep attainments in mathematics.

In short, the ice storm tornado collided with the sea of fire, and dense water vapor immediately dispersed inside the canyon under the cliff.

And taking advantage of the cover in the dispersed steam, the three cultists saw that the enhanced spellcasting effect of "Chaotic Echoes" could be resisted by the other party, so they knew that they had encountered bad luck this time.

Believing in the "God of Doom," they understood better that once they encountered bad luck, the best choice was to turn around and run instead of trying to overcome it. Therefore, the three retreated together, but in the depths of the steam mist, arcane art attacks appeared faster than Xia De's figure:

"Moonlight Greatsword!"

It wasn't a long whip attacking, but a scarlet longsword piercing through the mist and shooting over. The three longswords almost turned into three red streams of light. The 5th-Ring sorcerer couldn't dodge in time and was directly pierced through the abdomen and nailed to the ground. The scarlet moonlight immediately began to corrode his body and flesh; the 7th-Ring sorcerer dodged, but his right arm was still taken away by a large piece of flesh by the longsword.

Only the 9th-Ring sorcerer had the courage to confront the flying longsword head-on. A pitch-black shield was first raised. After the Moonlight Greatsword broke the shield, he used the green glove on his hand to grab at the scarlet stream.

Ordinary gloves naturally couldn't catch Xia De's long-range attack, but as the glove squirmed, the center suddenly split open, and then the giant mouth, like a sea monster, swallowed the scarlet longsword in one bite.

The appearance of strong whispering elements made Xia De stop his steps. Xie Wei, who followed closely, also saw the green glove that was squirming and deforming in the sky full of water vapor.

The glove wrapped around the entire right arm of the 9th-Ring sorcerer. While his companions were helping each other, the squirming glove finally turned into a huge black dragon head. The dragon head was even larger than the cultist's body, and it was quite abruptly grafted onto his arm.

Xie Wei recalled the information collected by Speaker Adele Isabella related to the 【Doom Sect】 before she set off for Fatu Monster Island:

"Sage-level relic 【Grafting Glove】. After activation, it uncontrollably deforms into the head or limbs of any creature, and even the head and limbs of evil things might be simulated."

The black dragon head had already opened its mouth at this time, and in the dragon roar, it sprayed black destructive dragon breath toward the front.

But it would have been fine if the glove had turned into anything else, but it just happened to turn into a dragon head. Even before Xia De learned dragon-type abilities before the Moon Bay incident, he could confront it with the 【Higgs Dragon Head Stone】. And now, the 【Dragon Communion Ritual】 gave Xia De the power that didn't need the dragon head stone:

"Roar!"

In the same dragon roar, pure silver moonlight was sprayed out by Xia De.

The black and bright silver dragon breaths collided in the middle of the canyon. It was quite difficult for mortals to confront such a sage-level relic, but the blessing of the "Fourth Child of the Dragon" was still effective even when facing a relic:

The violent tide of elements collided. After a brief stalemate between the two, the silver moonlight actually pressed the black dragon breath toward the back. And once the advantage appeared, the collapse was only in an instant.

The black dragon breath was completely defeated. The silver moonlight breath was about to hit the three people who were still standing together, but in an instant, the glove turned into a huge palm again, forcibly using the palm like a city wall to catch the moonlight.

"Titan? No, it's a hill giant with Titan blood."

Xia De made a judgment in his heart, and Xie Wei prompted:

"Even if it's a sage-level relic, it can't be used so casually. He's not going to make it."

Xie Wei's judgment was correct. Behind that huge palm, the 9th-Ring sorcerer's face was already pale. At this time, the glove not only swallowed his right arm but even made green leather tissue appear on more than half of his right body.

Repeatedly manipulating the 【Grafting Glove】 to deform and meet the enemy, he only released divine arts during this period to induce the other party's doom. He didn't expect that the glove would repeatedly turn into a giant dragon's head and an ancient giant's palm.

The true use of this relic is to gamble on luck to find a deformation state and use it for a long time, rather than deforming so frequently. The extraction of spirits by the glove, as well as the influence of the relic's whispering elements on the body, had already made him unable to maintain such a high-intensity battle. ===== CHAPTER 3395 =====