Water Mage in the Flame Realm

Roar!

A desolate beast with a particularly strong physique opened its bloody maw and charged forward. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Before it reached them, it brought a wave of scorching and rancid breath.

Andrew looked at the beast expressionlessly.

He watched as it seemed to be pouncing towards him, but actually brushed past him once close, and dashed towards Wildfire Territory.

Then the second, third...

One desolate beast after another leapt past Andrew and the "obediently standing" Fleur beside him.

They didn’t target Andrew but launched a full-scale assault directly on Wildfire Territory!

"What does this mean?"

Andrew frowned slightly upon seeing this, "Could it be that Naros has noticed the magical bonds I forged through the Gate of Enlightenment between myself and Wildfire Territory?"

After breaking through to Tier Three, as his Magic Power further transformed, imbued with more Soul Power attributes.

Andrew could feel an even closer connection between himself and the entire Wildfire Territory.

At this moment, the opponent drove the desolate beasts to launch an all-out assault on Wildfire Territory instead of attacking him directly, which was actually more difficult to handle than a direct attack.

Of course, difficult does not mean impossible.

Andrew’s gaze swept around him, taking in the terrifying scene of the beasts’ rampage, unable to see Naros’s figure at all.

He could only hear Naros’s voice, floating from no discernible direction: "I admit, both I and Fleur underestimated you, Andrew, didn’t we? It was you who secretly marked my people, wasn’t it? I must admit, you indeed have some skill, but...

Now that I’m taking this seriously, this will be your limit!"

Naros’s voice sounded as if he had recovered from the shock and rage of losing a life from Barbara’s strike.

Just as Fleur was about to clash with Andrew, Naros chose to retreat into the herd of desolate beasts.

Taking advantage of the moment Andrew and Fleur clashed, Naros finally unleashed his long-prepared big move—

No longer restraining the desolate beasts surrounding Wildfire Territory.

Instead, he let them charge with all their might!

Although Wildfire Territory was under the command of the Water Tower Tree "Shire," which had a natural deterrent effect on desolate beasts, the number charging this time was simply too large.

Just a single Water Tower Tree "Shire" couldn’t intimidate such a massive group of desolate beasts.

As Naros said, after losing a life, he truly got serious.

The people of Wildfire Territory had their attention drawn to the attacking beasts, and hardly saw the process of Andrew subduing Fleur, and even if they did see it, they couldn’t understand the depth of the soul-level confrontation involved.

But Naros saw it clearly!

He could discern that Fleur was subdued by Andrew on a mental and soul level.

Hence, while Naros’s heart was filled with awe, a boiling desire to kill Andrew emerged even stronger!

It’s no exaggeration to say that at this moment, Naros was displaying strength far beyond the strongest opponent Andrew had faced before—old Mage Humboldt.

During his lifetime peak, Humboldt was a Grand Mage, much stronger than Naros. But after his injuries, his Combat Power couldn’t even reach Tier Three.

And Naros?

He was a top-notch Tier Three Earth Fire Mage proficient in Soul Magic from the Desolate Language Series.

At this moment, driving thousands of desolate beasts to launch a collective charge, this utterly surpassed the Tier Three scope, and it’s not far from saying that under Tier Seven, no one can confidently claim they could entirely protect themselves against such a tide-like onslaught!

You must know, even Ivan, uninjured, barely reached Tier Seven. In the Flame Realm, Tier Seven is practically not a height achievable by the younger or middle-aged generation. Those who reach Tier Seven are usually older aces!

"—I see, so this is the true weight behind the title ’Desert Speaker’?"

Andrew nodded slightly.

Previously, Naros’s vanguard plan successfully broke the Wildfire Territory’s Magic Barrier, originally overseen by Barbara.

Now, Wildfire Territory is almost defenseless.

And Naros driving the desolate beasts, directly attacking Wildfire Territory and deliberately ignoring Andrew, is still an attack at the heart. It’s not that he noticed the extraordinary connection between Andrew and Wildfire Territory exceeding a normal lord and his territory and designed such an assault strategy.

This essentially posed Andrew with a question: Will you act to save people, or not? Even if you give it your all, how many can you save? Even if you save many, how do you face me when exhausted?

"So, despite loudly proclaiming ’to get serious,’ cannot change the despicable, disgusting combat style?" Andrew mocked, unabashedly, "Can’t go a day without disgusting people, you feel uncomfortable all over, don’t you?"

While speaking, the new transformed Magic Power, activated "Water Spirit Sensing."

Andrew tried with all his might to locate Naros amongst the desolate beast herd.

"The ’Tears Mark’ has been consumed, and I need to find a way to locate him again."

Taunting the opponent as "a dog that can’t stop eating shit" is intentional, to provoke the opponent and make them show a weakness.

Rose just paused for a moment and replied slyly, "You can only resort to sharp tongues now. Indeed, I’ve marked myself, and with Barbara’s help, almost got killed. You’ve indeed subdued Fleur, and it seems like you used soul tactics, which even I couldn’t achieve. But so what?

You subdued Fleur, but the people in town—who saw it? Everything you’ve done was covered by the Desolate Beast tide driven by me! In fact, not only do they not know what you just did, but you—now—are entirely caught in the frenzy caused by the Desolate Beasts I’ve unleashed!

What more can you do? Tell me, what more can you do?! You can’t do anything!!"

Saying this, Rose’s tone became vicious.

Psychologically, he’s still not over the near-death experience at the hands of Barbara. Mentioning the previous situation, it’s clear he’s still angry!

He seemed to take a deep breath, calming down again, finally saying, "Do you still not understand? During this Desolate Beast Sand Tide, I, Desert Speaker Rose, am the epitome of invincibility! Your best and last chance to kill me was just now, unfortunately, Barbara didn’t seize the opportunity!"

Andrew quietly stood amidst the tide composed of Desolate Beasts, listening silently. Like Fleur beside him, he seemed to become invisible on the battlefield at this moment.

When Rose finished speaking, Andrew nonchalantly replied, "Oh."

Rose, who had just calmed down again and declared his invincibility, was left speechless: "..."

In the Desolate Beast group, Rose’s voice did not reappear for a long time.

Andrew as a transmigrant didn’t have much interaction with the notorious Desert Speaker Rose in this Flame Realm.

Conversely, Desert Speaker Rose knew almost nothing about Andrew beforehand.

Rose really didn’t understand why his almost invariably successful psychological warfare tactics had almost no effect on this Andrew.

Feeling that this person’s mindset is... incredibly steady! Instead, it’s himself who feels his psyche repeatedly being affected when facing this guy.

However, this time Rose misunderstood Andrew.

Andrew’s "Oh" actually carried a lot of admiration.

"Because Rose kept rattling on like this, I still couldn’t locate his position, which is truly remarkable," Andrew mused, "It seems that the thought of ’directly killing Rose to naturally resolve the Desolate Beast threat’ is unworkable.

—Must intercept all these Desolate Beasts directly."

Yes, direct interception.

This is the only way to lift the current crisis.

If Rose’s challenge to Andrew was: How many people can you save?

Then Andrew’s answer was simple: save them all, isn’t that obvious?

Hidden among the Desolate Beasts, Rose, nearly having his psyche explode on site due to Andrew’s one-word "Oh," no longer wasted words; he wanted to see what Andrew could do besides having a tough mouth!

After Andrew said "Oh," he finally stopped standing still and began to move.

But... what Andrew did was not to intercept the passing Desolate Beasts.

Nor did he try to return to the Wildfire Territory, restart the Magic Barrier, and fight side by side with the people of the Territory.

He didn’t even use Fleur for any transactions or coercion.

Andrew simply raised his hand, gently pressing his fingertip into the empty space before him, as if to soothe the restless air of this Flame Realm, deep within this Inner Sea Desert due to the Desolate Beast tide.

The action of the fingertip, what influence it had upon this world, whether it calmed the world or not, Rose couldn’t discern.

However, he noticed: after Andrew raised his hand and soothed the air with his fingers, the action had a reciprocal effect on Andrew’s body.

The action at the fingertip seemed to push back its power into Andrew, thereby making Andrew’s wrist, forearm, upper arm, shoulder, neck, head, torso, waist, hips, and legs—all in simple terms, his entire body—begin to move.

Andrew, astonishingly—in this end-of-world-like terrifying scene, within this Desolate Beast tide capable of instilling terror in anyone—

Started dancing!

"What...what is...going on here?"

Secretly observing Andrew, Rose couldn’t help being a bit confused for a moment.

To his knowledge, in Warm Fire Magic, there’s no series that is executed in the form of a dance.

In their Magic Guild’s Earth Fire Magic, it truly does exist!

And it’s a very famous Magic series, rumored to only be executable by Earth Fire Mage who has fully mastered the "Fire of Extinguishing," the "Flame Extinguishing Dance"!

But... this kid can’t possibly be from our Earth Fire Mages’ line, right?

Moreover, this dance doesn’t resemble the legendary fierce and intimidating "Flame Extinguishing Dance!"

What... what kind of dance is this?