Rise of the Lustful Evil Monarch (Re)-Chapter 478: Desperate Clash Between Two Titans
Third Person’s POV
The robes on his upper body were gone and were shredded to reveal a torso of bulging, coppery-skinned muscle etched with glowing, mysterious patterns of dark crimson fiery runes and cryptic inscriptions.
His earlier short reddish horns had elongated and curled wickedly like a true arch-demon’s that Ethan had only seen in the fantasy and mythological books of his previous life.
His eyes now burned with a steady, pitiless red light as the neat, decapitating slash Lady Raven had scored across his neck had already sealed without a scar.
Most chilling of all was the fact that any trace of rage was gone from his face, and it had been reduced into an expression of utter, cold indifference, as if the destruction beneath him was merely expected dust settling after a minor nuisance.
He suddenly turned his gaze toward the place where the slender figure of Lady Raven, who hovered in midair after having narrowly dodged the wave of molten lava that had erupted from Solomon’s crushing fist.
Suddenly, at once, towering pillars of lava surged upward from the churning magma pool below, spraying ash, fire, and glowing embers into the sky.
The heat distorted the air as thick clouds of smoke rolled outward, quickly blurring the battlefield and hiding much of the surrounding space.
Within that fiery haze, streams of molten rock shot upward like spears and hurtled toward Lady Raven with terrifying speed.
Some of the towering lava pillars arced directly toward her body, while others curved outward in wide, sweeping trajectories, sealing off every path she might have used to retreat.
In mere moments, a lethal cage of flame and molten stone, looking like small meteors, was formed around her, radiating suffocating heat that warped the very air.
Seeing this, Lady Raven’s sharp and elegant features hardened with fierce determination.
Her figure suddenly blurred and dissolved into a streak of crimson light that cut through the fiery haze like a blade.
In the next heartbeat, a jagged flash of red lightning slammed into one of the massive lava pillars, tearing a smoking, glowing hole straight through its molten core.
She burst through the opening in a shower of sparks and burning fragments, her blood-red armor glowing faintly as it resisted the blistering heat.
But the instant she emerged, her eyes widened as a massive palm of molten rock that was easily about fifteen meters in rough span was already descending toward her from above.
It filled her entire field of vision and formed a crushing, blazing wall of magma and fire.
It was so close that there was no time to summon a proper barrier or retreat, yet even in this desperate instant, Lady Raven did not panic as she had not reached her current level of power without surviving countless life-and-death battles that had honed her instincts to perfection.
Gritting her teeth, she activated a powerful spell seal embedded deep within her crimson sword, a technique she could only invoke once under the condition that she had exhausted her core mana.
A deep, blood-red glow erupted from the blade and flooded the surrounding space with a searing sanguine light as Lady Raven launched herself forward like a living projectile.
She drove herself straight through the descending molten palm, the resistance nearly overwhelming her as molten matter and fiery pressure crushed against her.
The glow around her sword dimmed slightly due to the sheer force opposing it and the limited power she could draw at that moment, yet she still managed to break through it in a violent explosion of molten fragments that sprayed in all directions.
Knowing that Solomon would not allow her even a single breath of reprieve, and that he would press his advantage without mercy, her battle instincts took over completely.
She poured a massive, reckless surge of lightning mana into her sword and forced it to expand and stretch outward into a towering five-meter blade of crackling, scarlet energy.
Arcs of red lightning lashed wildly from its edge, illuminating the smoky battlefield.
Without hesitation, she pivoted sharply in midair and swung it with all her might.
The motion created a whirling disk of condensed crimson lightning, like a spinning chakram forged from raw bloody lightning.
It tore through the air and slammed directly into Solomon’s fiery fist, which was already descending toward her in the wake of the molten palm ambush.
The collision detonated in a violent explosion that shook the entire sky.
And despite her superior fighting technique and the brilliance of her counterattack, the crude construction of her rushed spell, and the sheer, monstrous force behind the fire demon’s molten fist overwhelmed her.
The impact blasted her away like a blazing comet and hurled her violently toward the roiling magma below.
Waves of fire, shock, and searing heat from the molten fist wrapped around her descending body, and she was flung through the air as it threatened to burn her to nothing.
Agonizing heat tore through her flesh and armor, yet Lady Raven’s expression remained calm and resolute.
And just as she was about to plunge into the hungry magma pool, a burst of power erupted from her back.
A pair of red, leathery wings tore into existence and snapped open in the next instant, violently altering her trajectory and pulling her away from the molten abyss that waited below.
She flew laterally across the blazing magma pool, her figure streaking through the scorching air as multiple violent and fiery explosions erupted both behind her and along her forward path.
Fire, molten rock, and crushing shockwaves chased her like living beasts.
They snapped at her front and back with murderous intent, yet she twisted, rolled, and veered through them with razor-thin precision, slipping past each deadly burst by margins so small they made the air scream. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮
Small burns accumulated on her body, and just as she finally built enough momentum to rise, arcs of crimson lightning burst across her wings and wrapped around them like crackling veins of living energy.
