Chapter 965: Volcanic Eruption
Chunks of shattered stone appeared out of thin air around Leon. Runes flickered in his eyes as he opened his mouth and spat out a rune.
In an instant, a dark golden hemisphere materialized before Leon. The converged ray struck the dark golden dome, sparking a shower of fire and unleashing a metallic tearing sound, as if metal were being ripped apart bit by bit.
The dark golden hemisphere was forcibly torn open, but Leon had already vanished from behind it.
On the earth below, Leon stood quietly, a flame and a chunk of stone in his eyes, the two slowly merging together.
Then, in an instant, both the flame and the stone seemed to become boundless.
Every smallest fragment of flame and stone held the power of a rune—countless fire runes and earth runes, slowly fusing into one.
The stone gradually melted, turning crimson, the flames vanished, and all that remained was a churning sea of blazing magma...
The fusion of the Fire Rule and the Earth Rule was complete...
Under such pressure, Leon had repeatedly used the Fire Elemental Avatar and the Earth Elemental Avatar, constantly switching and fusing them.
This was the chance for Rule fusion!
At last, it was complete!
Leon sneered coldly at the two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems.
"Had enough fun? Now it's my turn!"
With a single word, a layer of sludge surfaced on Leon's skin. The muck instantly turned crimson, submerging him in a shell of magma.
In the blink of an eye, Leon's body grew, transforming into a towering Lava Avatar nearly eight meters tall.
The ground beneath began to soften, turning into a field of molten lava.
Within a radius of over two hundred meters, the land was transformed into a vast magma pool.
Lava Avatar!
After fusing the Fire Rule and Earth Rule, casting Lava Avatar again yielded a completely different result.
The magma beneath Leon's feet surged into a wave, propelling his body forward at high speed toward the two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems.
Facing another torrent of magic, easily over ten meters wide, Leon's body became molten, darting through the two-hundred-meter magma pool. In less than three seconds, he closed the distance to within a hundred meters of the two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems!
All the ground around the two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems was transformed into a magma pool, the scalding magma endlessly burning their feet.
The two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems unleashed their spells at full force, runes lighting up across their bodies. The torrent of magic crashed down, sending waves of magma splashing, the pool roiling and surging, with wave after wave of molten lava rising up.
But this time, unlike before, the massive torrent of magic failed to destroy the magma pool.
Previously, Leon had relied on a sea of fire stretching for hundreds of meters, using Flame Blink to dodge the relentless magical attacks. But those ordinary elemental flames were swept away and extinguished by the torrent of magic.
Now, though the magma pool churned violently, it was like a storm on the sea—the magma barely diminished.
Leon flickered freely within the magma pool, merging almost completely with the vast two-hundred-meter expanse.
Within this two-hundred-meter radius, Leon was like the most agile fish in the sea—impossible to catch, impossible to strike.
Moreover, this magma pool expanded and shifted with Leon's position. When he moved fast enough, the scalding magma would spread across a range of four or five hundred meters.
The two Sky Rank Alchemical Golems stood in the magma pool, sinking deeper as runes flashed across their bodies. The runes on their feet glowed intensely—the constant damage was weak, but unavoidable, draining their strength and eroding the power of their hardened runes every second.
With the fusion of Rules, the tide of battle shifted instantly.
The two Alchemical Golems couldn't reach Leon at all. With Fire and Earth Elemental Avatars fused into a true Lava Avatar, the power and defense of magma spells skyrocketed.
He even leveraged the power of Rules so that the self-evolving magma pool created by the Lava Avatar couldn't be destroyed by these two golems.
As long as the magma pool wasn't destroyed in one blow, Leon wouldn't lose. Even if only a portion remained, the complete pool would reappear in the next second.
Leon gazed coldly at the two Alchemical Golems. Behind him, the Violet Dragon Manifestation slowly bowed its head, and at the center of the Arcane Wheel's spectral image, the Four-Element radiance faded, leaving only the colors of fire and earth. The two fused together, the glowing phantom turning into a churning sea of magma.
Leon spat out a rune, which condensed into substance—runes formed from rolling magma.
The moment these runes appeared, the magma in the pool boiled furiously. Streams of magma twisted into serpents, countless torrents surged upward like giant waves, crashing fiercely against the Double-Headed Alchemical Golem.
Eight rotating, massive shields whirled around the Double-Headed Alchemical Golem, forming an eggshell-like barrier. The magma poured down upon it.
The enormous impact made the Double-Headed Alchemical Golem's body tremble. The blazing magma collided with the eight shields, gradually assimilating the four flame shields—the magma seemed poised to seep inside.
The four Frost Shields began to emit thick white mist, the massive shields melting like ordinary ice blocks under intense heat...
Spells blasted down, but the magma surged like a waterfall—no spell could hold back the flood.
The Double-Headed Alchemical Golem couldn’t escape far and was forced to endure the magma torrent, while the magma in the pool below began to surge upward, creeping up its body like a living thing.
A thick cloud of white steam billowed skyward, temporarily trapping the Double-Headed Alchemical Golem.
Leon dodged while continuously spitting out magma runes, rapidly draining his mana. The magma in the pool slowly converged from all directions, forming a circular tsunami that surged toward the Single-Eyed Alchemical Golem.
Runes flashed rapidly on all four arms of the Single-Eyed Alchemical Golem, its spellcasting pushed to the limit as it unleashed every solidified spell in rapid succession.
Wave after wave of magma was shattered, erupting into blazing splashes, but more scalding magma surged up from behind.
The magma rose in towering waves, over ten meters high, closing in from all directions. The Single-Eyed Alchemical Golem’s eye flashed as if sensing something.
Beneath its feet, countless magma runes flowed and combined, forming a massive Alchemical Array.
The earth trembled, and the magma pool deepened. The Single-Eyed Alchemical Golem had to cast Weightlessness to stave off sinking further.