The blood moon quietly gazed upon the land of Donghai City, the sky-raining fireballs having completely dissipated.
The air carried a scorching, burnt scent, and the ground was already a scene of devastation.
Within a hundred-meter radius illuminated by the fireballs, the ground had vanished entirely.
A deep, concave pit remained, appearing like an abyss at first glance.
Looking down from the edge of the pit, only darkness was visible.
Along the edges of the pit, hot, flowing magma continued to stream downwards.
And at the very center of the entire pit stood a single, remaining stone pillar, piercing the deep darkness above.
At the very top of the stone pillar, where the normal ground once was, two massive bronze hands, clasped together to form a broken handprint, stood tall on the moonlit earth.
Indeed, the once-sturdy, bronze-gold Mage Hand had been largely shattered.
Through the exposed gaps, the light of spells crackled and popped.
This was a peculiar kind of damage, one that had inflicted a certain degree of harm upon the spell's structure, causing the entire formation to become unstable.
Within the Mage Hand, Chen Luo gasped heavily.
The relentless battle had drained him of too much energy.
This was the most arduous battle Chen Luo had experienced since entering the Doomsday Game!
Sensing the increasingly faint aura of the Wolf King within the great pit, Chen Luo's mind inevitably recalled everything that had transpired.
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When he had drawn the sky-raining fireballs, causing them to pour down like a torrential downpour.
Amidst the torrent of fire, the Wolf King had directly abandoned its defense.
Under the compulsion of the system's mode, the maddened Wolf King's sole focus was to kill Chen Luo, even at the cost of its own life.
The threat of death made the Wolf King's attacks increasingly terrifying.
The continuously shattering bronze hands forced Chen Luo to constantly fill them with new Mage Hands.
While defending against the Wolf King's attacks, Chen Luo dedicated more of his energy to controlling and releasing the fireballs.
Chen Luo could feel that his life's leap, the final piece of the puzzle, lay with the nightmare-grade Wolf King before him!
Over several hours of combat, out of eight million wolves, Chen Luo alone had slain a million.
But the accumulation of quantity still lacked the final spark of quality! And the Wolf King before him was the best kindling!
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Slaughter it tonight! Right here, tonight!!
Beneath the explosion of sky-raining fireballs, the man and the wolf within the massive bronze hands shared the same thought.
The fireballs' explosions generated terrifying light and heat, which, while damaging the Wolf King, also inflicted damage upon Chen Luo's defenses indiscriminately.
But these were all necessary costs!
Bloodshot veins faintly appeared in Chen Luo's eyes; his flesh and blood body, under the intense control of magic, began to accumulate fatigue at an alarming rate.
But the light in Chen Luo's golden eyes shone ever brighter!
"Come! Fight! Let me see who the true victor is tonight!!"
His golden eyes fixed intently on the flickering figure beneath the rain of fire.
The moment the figure appeared, violent collisions echoed from the massive Mage Hand—the Wolf King's terrifying attacks, capable of shattering all things!
Synchronized with its strength was the Wolf King's equally terrifying speed.
The Wolf King's flickering form even left countless afterimages in Chen Luo's eyes.
To hit this monster with a single-target skill would be a fool's dream!
But it didn't matter!!
Beneath the sky-raining fireballs, light and heat indiscriminately destroyed all tangible existence within the range!
As long as the Wolf King couldn't cease its attacks on him, it was a matter of who would burn the other out first, or who would be torn to shreds!
The ground, under the continuous, terrifying light and heat, even began to faintly glow with a scorching luminescence.
This was a sign that the bricks and stones were about to melt!
This place had transformed into a hell of flames!
Neither wind nor snow could penetrate this area!
In the midst of the battle, the eyes of the two monsters could perceive nothing else; they could only see each other!
The Wolf of the Night, leaping within the flames, exuded a wild, sinister aura, yet its inherent elegance, born from its bloodline, was undeniable.
The supreme mage, cross-legged within the bronze hands, manifested a hundred spells with a single thought, making the laws of magic his servants.
Power!
Destruction!
Annihilation!
In the collision of light and heat! The King of the Night and the Infinite Mage burned their respective spiritual wills to the limit.
In this battle! Survival was sought through death!
In this battle! It was either you die, or I live!!
Along the rapidly flickering spell trajectories in the void, the light grew ever more intense, and a mutation was about to manifest with Chen Luo's fervent will at this moment!
When Chen Luo's spiritual will reached its absolute peak during the battle!
When the power of light and heat, explosion and flame, let out the most scorching roar in this world!
Power began to advance to a higher stage!
[Skill proficiency reached, your Fireball has been promoted from B-class to A-class!]
[Fireball A-class (1000000/1000000)]
Active effect: Consumes 120 mana points, deals damage equal to Spirit x120, maximum attack range 300 meters, cooldown 10 seconds, casting time 4 seconds.
Passive effects:
1. Fire Control: Can freely control the spell's power based on the mana input (current maximum mana input is 120 points).
2. Detonation: Fireball explosion effect enhanced, enemies within the explosion range suffer equivalent damage.
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The promotion proficiency for B-class Fireball was a staggering one hundred thousand times!
However, in the battle against the million night wolves, the skill proficiency value had long been maxed out.
From the beginning of the battle with the Wolf King, Chen Luo had been using the Fireball that had already been promoted to A-class.
And in this battlefield of fire rain, where the man and the wolf fought to their madness, Chen Luo's growth had never ceased!
These monsters had already reached their peak and limits.
But Chen Luo was constantly growing stronger with every passing second of battle!
Until this moment, accompanied by the light of blood and fire, as the flame of will also burned to its peak.
The overflowing skill bloomed into a new form!
[Skill proficiency reached, your Fireball has been promoted from A-class to S-class!]
[Detected player's will burning to the limit, resonating with the origin of flame!]
[Detected player possesses the "Archmage" talent and "Novice" title, greatly increasing the chance of skill mutation, "Fireball" will undergo Super Magic Advancement!]
The system seemed to be saying something, but Chen Luo could no longer spare the attention.
As a hundred spells manifested with a single thought, Chen Luo's spirit had been pushed to its absolute limit.
Pain surged through his brain, and he felt a dampness at the tip of his nose.
Chen Luo instinctively reached up to wipe it, only to see the color red.
But none of this mattered; with each breath, Chen Luo clearly felt the fact that he was alive.
The threat of death had never receded, and the feeling of wielding power was intoxicating.
This was a soul's dialogue with a strong opponent, a gamble with life as the stake, a clash of souls and will!
Spells flashed!
Wolf claws were swift!
Flames roared!
All things burned!
The earth began to shatter under the terrifying violence!
And in the eyes of the combatants, nothing else existed!
As life rapidly ebbed away, the Wolf King became even more terrifying; after countless tens of thousands of strikes from its sharp wolf claws!
The thick, solid bronze hands accumulated terrifying cracks to their limit.
On the unyielding bronze hands, a thin, narrow gap suddenly broke open.
The gap was extremely narrow, extremely deep.
As piercing hot wind poured in through the gap, a blood-red wolf eye and a golden eye met at close range for the first time.
The wolf eye was filled with madness and ferocity!
And in the golden eye,
The flame ignited!