Chapter 830: Impossible
A dozen bursts of flame crashed into Baroque's rune shield, sending ripples across its surface as the runes whirled frantically.
Baroque's body was like a rubber ball, kicked violently by the barrage of flames and sent flying dozens of meters. Only after tumbling through the air did he finally swing his staff, conjuring a pair of flaming wings behind him to hover midair.
Watching the fire elemental slowly emerge from the towering wall of flames, Baroque's expression turned utterly grim.
He hadn't expected Leon's Fire Elemental Avatar to be this powerful—comparable to a true thirty-eighth rank fire elemental. Its immunity to fire was terrifying; low-level fire spells couldn't even scratch it.
Leon gripped his Dragon Staff, a cold sneer on his face.
Did this idiot really think I'd use frost spells?
The Blazeforge Realm is built on the power of fire; it's crawling with fire elementals, and fire magic reigns supreme here. Using frost spells in this place—against a ninth-rank title archmage who has both home advantage and mastery over fire—what kind of lunatic would do that?
People in this era barely pay attention to Elemental Avatars. Almost no one realizes that mastering them is essential for any mage who wants to survive future battles.
Elemental Avatars may not have an explicit rank, but the higher your rank, the stronger your transformation. Still, there's a hidden hierarchy...
Normally, a mage can cast spells up to sixth rank. But as their understanding deepens, with faster casting and refined incantations, their spells can surpass that—at the limit, a sixth-rank spell can explode with the power of an eighth-rank, and only get stronger from there.
During the peak of the Northend World, everyone was a genius—physical limits no longer held back mages. What truly mattered was insight, knowledge, vision, and a sharp mind.
There were a rare few who, even as mages, could push a sixth-rank spell to the power of a seventh—or even unleash the force of a Limit Spell. They were exceptional, but they existed.
And without exception, these people all ended up among the legends at the summit of Northend World.
Elemental Avatar is a spell with virtually no fixed rank—it grows stronger as the mage advances. It was mostly ignored until a legendary figure called the Flame Sovereign appeared and changed everything.
The Flame Sovereign was the one who discovered the concept of hidden ranks. Back then, as a ninth-rank Title Archmage, he accidentally fell into a Fire Elemental Plane. It wasn't the largest, nor did it have any Heavenly Mages ruling it, but there were hundreds of Fire Elemental Lords.
That plane was home to over a million fire elementals.
When the rescue party arrived and saw what had happened, they gave up on saving the Flame Sovereign. He'd landed right in the center of the plane, and reaching him meant fighting through to the heart.
Three Heavenly Mages tried to break through, but halfway in, they were exhausted. The sheer number of fire elementals was overwhelming—a single Heavenly Mage, facing dozens of Fire Elemental Lords and hundreds of thousands of fire elementals, was forced to retreat in defeat.
But at that moment, the Flame Sovereign broke out himself—at ninth-rank Title Archmage, he slew dozens of thirty-ninth rank Fire Elemental Lords and over three hundred thousand fire elementals.
After breaking free, the Flame Sovereign even rescued three battered Heavenly Mages who were trapped in desperate combat.
That's when everyone realized—the Flame Sovereign had only used a Fire Elemental Avatar. All those fire elementals couldn't even hurt him; he was totally immune to every fire spell below ninth rank.
But what happened next was even more shocking. The Flame Sovereign sent the rescue party away, then turned around and re-entered the Fire Elemental Plane. In just one month, he slaughtered the entire plane—hundreds of thirty-ninth rank Fire Elemental Lords, hundreds more at thirty-eighth rank, and hundreds of thousands of fire elementals, all killed by him alone.
That achievement shocked the whole Northend World. Once people learned it all came down to mastering the Fire Elemental Avatar, a tidal wave of research swept through the realm...
The Flame Sovereign introduced the idea of hidden ranks, which was eventually proven true. Normally, an Elemental Avatar matches the mage's own rank, but with deep research and practice, its power can be elevated—just like any spell, it can reach Limit Spell status.
If you can push your Fire Elemental Avatar to Limit Spell level, it means you'll be completely immune to fire spells of the same rank—and your casting power and fire magic potency will soar.
Just think about how terrifying that is...
Imagine a mage legion specializing in fire spells—hundreds of Title Archmages, thousands of mages. If even one Title Archmage among them masters the Fire Elemental Avatar at Limit Spell level, he could pick them off one by one, completely unscathed.
What used to take a massive mage legion decades to conquer in an Elemental Plane, now a single master of Elemental Avatar could do in a year. The difference is staggering.
Utterly staggering...