Chapter 295: Chapter 295: Fire Elemental Body’s Transformation

The two Flame Lions charged straight for Li Wei.

Baring fangs and brandishing claws, they intended to tear him to shreds and snatch the Spirit Gathering Crystal on his back.

Suddenly, the ground shattered, and cyan flames erupted.

Two pillars of fire shot toward the sky, engulfing the two Flame Lions just as they passed over.

This was the Magic Trap Li Wei had prepared.

Having lost his helper, Li Wei understood his disadvantage: he was outnumbered and couldn’t handle too many enemies at once.

It wouldn’t have mattered if they were weak enemies.

But Tier Four Flame Lions were certainly not weak.

Even he had to go all out to defeat them.

That was why he had prepared the Magic Trap in advance.

A Magic Trap was essentially a delayed-detonation spell.

Since he had mastered Perfection Level Tier Three Fire Element Magic, creating a delayed magical explosion wasn’t difficult.

However, he was limited by the range of his Spiritual Power.

He could only set the Magic Trap within a hundred-meter radius.

Beyond that, he couldn’t detonate it in time.

To a Tier Four Flame Lion, a hundred meters was a distance it could cross in just two or three seconds.

This left Li Wei an even smaller window to trigger the trap.

Hitting both Flame Lions accurately had involved a bit of luck.

When the pillars of flame dissipated, Li Wei fixed his gaze on the scene.

One Flame Lion was dead.

The other was barely clinging to life, half its body charred black.

"AWOOO!"

The two Flame Lions that had been entangled by the cyan Fire Serpents collapsed, dying amidst the azure flames.

Li Wei fired a Flaming Arrow, piercing the head of the heavily injured Flame Lion.

The cyan Flaming Arrow burned through the beast’s forehead, incinerating its brain and finishing it off.

A moment later, a streak of blue light flew out from the corpse.

Li Wei used his Object Control Skill to extract the Demon Cores from the bodies.

Four Tier Four Demon Cores.

They were worth over a thousand Gold Coins.

It was a small return on his investment.

Ten minutes later, Li Wei quickly summoned his Shadow Attendant again.

Without its help, defending his position alone was exhausting.

Li Wei kept the Spirit Gathering Array active until it could no longer absorb even a single drop of Fire Spirit within thirty seconds, at which point he shut it down.

Once the array was off, Li Wei quickly stored the Spirit Gathering Crystal in his Spatial Ring.

He had to prevent the aura of the Fire Spirit from attracting more Magic Beasts.

’Time to find a new spot and continue.’

He took out the Fire Crystal Stone and began searching for another suitable location.

After wandering around for a while, Li Wei found himself back at the edge of the Hot Spring Lake.

He discovered that, short of going inside the volcano itself, this was the place with the highest concentration of Fire Spirits.

Li Wei gazed at the murky Hot Spring Lake, his eyes filled with curiosity.

’What exactly is down there? What’s causing such an astonishing concentration of Fire Spirits here?’

After careful consideration, Li Wei decided to go down and have a look.

SPLASH!

Li Wei dove headfirst into the Hot Spring Lake.

A blue light shimmered around him as he relied on the oxygen stored within his Invisible Armor.

It would allow him to stay underwater for half an hour.

If he still couldn’t get out after thirty minutes, he had one last trump card.

His Fire Elemental Body.

It didn’t require him to breathe.

The only question was, could the Fire Elemental Body exist underwater?

Li Wei didn’t know. He had never tried it.

After passing through the murky, boiling surface and descending more than ten meters, Li Wei discovered that the lakebed was glowing.

He continued his descent, and after another fifty or sixty meters, he could finally see clearly what lay below.

It was a volcanic crater.

There was lava at the bottom of the Hot Spring Lake.

’Wait a minute... is that... a Fire Fish?’

Li Wei’s interest was piqued as he spotted a dark shadow swimming at the bottom of the lake.

WHOOSH!

A dark shadow, over ten meters long, swam past, moving freely between the lava and the lake water.

The collision of lava and lake water churned up vast clouds of steam bubbles.

’What a huge Fire Fish!’

Li Wei was stunned.

The Fire Fish caught by the Tier Five Mage earlier had only been four or five meters long.

This one was several times larger.

It was a true behemoth.

Its power had to be far more terrifying as well.

ROIL!

The surrounding current grew chaotic, and Li Wei sensed something approaching.

He shot toward the surface.

"Fire Escape!"

BANG!

Li Wei burst out of the Hot Spring Lake in an instant.

Behind him, a gigantic Fire Fish leaped from the water, its gaping maw wide open, trying to devour him.

Li Wei continued to shoot upward.

The Fire Fish couldn’t fly, however, and once its momentum gave out, it began to fall.

Li Wei seized the opportunity to cast a spell, hoping to take the Fire Fish down.

A cyan Fireball slammed into the fish, but it failed to even melt its scales.

Li Wei’s eyes widened in disbelief.

’No, something about this feels wrong.’

He frowned.

No matter how astonishing the Fire Fish’s defense was, it shouldn’t have been completely unharmed. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

The giant Fire Fish swam in circles in the middle of the lake for a moment, as if in a show of force.

Seeing that Li Wei refused to descend, it turned and dove back into the Hot Spring Lake.

Li Wei pondered for a long time before he figured out what had happened.

The Fire Fish hadn’t taken any damage, not because its Defense Power was absurdly high, but because it was immune to fire.

It could completely negate the damage from Flame Magic.

Fire immunity was a far more advanced trait than Fire Resistance.

This meant that no Fire Element Magic could harm the colossal creature.

Li Wei felt this was going to be a problem.

’Whatever. First, I need to find a place to absorb my gains.’

Li Wei flew to a desolate region of the Fire Elemental Interface, an area with no signs of Magic Beasts.

He took out the Spirit Gathering Crystal and began to absorb the Fire Spirits within.

The few Magic Beasts drawn by the Fire Spirits were all weak creatures of Tiers One and Two.

The area was too remote and the concentration of the Fire Element was extremely low, so basically no Fire Element Magical Beasts lived here.

This allowed Li Wei to absorb the Fire Spirits from the Spirit Gathering Crystal in peace.

As he absorbed the Fire Spirits, Li Wei immediately felt his Fire Elemental Body begin to transform.

His Fire Elemental Body was growing stronger.

From the principles of the Original Fireball Technique, Li Wei had come to understand the essence of magic.

He was now developing his own interpretation from that knowledge.

Li Wei was pursuing the ability to make casting magic an instinct.

This required a caster to have an extremely high degree of control over Magic Elements.

Now, Li Wei felt that this was within his grasp.

The Fire Elements in the surrounding world moved according to his will.

His Fire Element Affinity had been boosted to an unprecedented level.

In the past, Li Wei had to pray for the Fire Element to heed his call, begging to borrow its power.

That gradually evolved into becoming a partner to the Fire Element, borrowing power from each other.

Now, Li Wei felt he was the master of the Fire Element.

The Fire Element obeyed his command.

He was the Flame Dominator.

With a mere thought, Li Wei could gather the Fire Element, making flames combust out of thin air.

He still couldn’t create more powerful attacks this way.

For that, he still had to rely on Magic Models.

Still, he had taken that first crucial step.

Li Wei knew that sooner or later, he would master the power he envisioned.

[Fire Elemental Body (High Level)]: Elemental Awakening, Flame Power +2, Instant Cast for Low-level Fire Element Magic, Quick Casting for Fire Element Magic, Greatly Reduced Fire Element Magic Consumption, Elementalization, Unknown (Evolving).