Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 386 - 374: Traitor

It’s dawn.

The morning light shines down.

On the colorful sea, dyed by the sunlight, a mysterious crab is using all eight legs to move quickly in a certain direction.

This mysterious crab is the same one that fought the Black Whale Headquarters in the clouds earlier.

It was not completely defeated, just temporarily shaken off.

Now, the mysterious crab has returned from the clouds to the sea, fully illuminated by the morning sunlight, appearing even more menacing and bizarre.

In stark contrast to it is a graceful figure standing on the crab’s head.

It is a Water Mage, with a perfect figure that stands out even among the usually well-proportioned female Water Mages.

Her eyes are set wide apart, her eyebrows are faint, and her lips are full – not conventionally beautiful, but exuding a unique and dangerous sensuality.

Her name is Mela.

She is a top-tier Tier Nine Water Mage.

Yet she chose to betray her companions and clan.

All the locations of the Water Mages’ "sub-tribes" were revealed by her and sold to the King of Flame Warriors known as "Ara", leading to a near-total collapse of the Water Mage side.

But after that, something seemed to have happened in the Flame Realm.

Ara was urgently summoned back to the Magic Guild Headquarters, temporarily leaving the Outer Battlefield.

Before leaving, Ara temporarily entrusted the "Great Wilderness War Chariot"—that is, the mysterious crab—to Mela, for her to deal with Black Whale Headquarters.

The problem is...

The problem is—

"I failed! I’ve messed up! I actually messed up the task Ara gave me!"

At this moment, Mela stood at the top of the Great Wilderness War Chariot, her whole body exuding anger, anxiety, and restlessness, "Why did it turn out like this? How did it come to this? I originally planned to personally kill Li, to earn a great merit for the Magic Guild. That way, I could return to the Flame Realm, I could go home! I wouldn’t have to continue being trapped on this prison-like planet! Where exactly did things go wrong? Last night, Li was clearly completely suppressed by me. Why did he suddenly surge in strength, suppress me in turn, and then escape?!"

Mela was almost going crazy with rage!

She chose to betray her clan not because of any hardship, but simply for her own selfish desires: she wanted to go to the Flame Realm.

She wanted to go to that place, handed down through generations in her clan, known as "homeland".

Because she was truly fed up with the days of hiding like a rat in this Outer Battlefield.

To Mela, "Whether that legendary Flame Realm is home doesn’t really matter. The key is, that is the real world. Someone like me, Mela, belongs there and shouldn’t stay in this damned stinking ditch!"

Mela hesitated about choosing the path of betrayal, not because she still had a conscience, but because she wasn’t entirely sure she could do it under Li’s watchful eyes.

Finally, after making up her mind, choosing betrayal and selling out, and succeeding, she was truly delighted and excited.

However, precisely because of that, she couldn’t accept the current situation at all!

She should have killed Li or at least held him back.

But she actually let Li escape!

"Calm down, calm down; things aren’t too bad yet."

At this moment, as Mela drove the mysterious crab forward, she took deep breaths, recalling the situation on the clouds last night, "At that time, a strange will suddenly intervened in my battle with Li. After that, Li suddenly became much stronger.

So is the problem with that strange will? Who was that? The aura was unfamiliar, definitely not from headquarters, otherwise I would have known."

Of course, she couldn’t have met Andrew, and even more so, she wouldn’t have imagined that the owner of that will, Andrew, was from the Flame Realm she longed for.

"Don’t hurry; there’s still hope for a turnaround! Even though Li has grown stronger, as long as he hasn’t rejoined with ’Whale Eye’, I still have confidence. I can overpower him with the ’Great Wilderness War Chariot’!" Mela clenched her fist, "There’s still a chance! Don’t give up! As long as I complete the task beautifully before Ara returns, it will be okay!"

Thinking this, Mela’s eyes regained their brightness.

Yet, just moments later, her face froze again.

She finally followed the traces left by Li after shaking her off, arriving at the location of Andrew and Lick’s battle with the Flame Warrior’s main army before dawn, the same place where Li arrived in time at dawn to end the fight.

Andrew was no longer at the scene.

Neither was there any sign of Li.

Nor was there any trace of Water Mages.

A large number of corpses floated on the sea.

Looking at those corpses, Mela’s hands couldn’t help but tremble.

Because they were all corpses of Flame Warriors!

"How... how could this be..." Mela’s brain felt jumbled, unable to think clearly.

Water Mages have a unique advantage in stabilizing the mind, granted by their profession.

Mela tried her best to remain composed, scanning the floating corpses on the sea, seemingly searching for something, like seeking a final lifeline.

But the more she searched, the more despairing her gaze became: "All dead, really all dead?

If others are dead it’s whatever, but what about that Saint Son kid? I can’t find even a trace of that guy called Lick? He... he can’t be dead! If he’s dead, what... what should I do?"

Failing to complete Ara’s task and failing to kill Li was at most just a failure.

But failing to hold back Li, resulting in the death of the First Saint Son Lick, that would be a grave offense!

For a moment, Mela’s mind was filled with only one voice, one question: "What to do? What the hell... what the hell can I do now?!"

Suddenly, she shuddered as if struck by electricity, lifting her gaze sharply.

In mid-air, she saw a part of the space suddenly burn as if melted by violent heat, revealing a doorway-shaped portal with charred edges.

A giant, towering figure stepped out of the Teleportation Gate and stood steadily in the skies of the Water God Realm.

"Master Ara!"

Mela immediately knelt down, bowing her head.

That giant figure was Ara.

The leader of all Flame Warriors in the Water God Realm, the strongest among the Flame Warriors, Ara.

Ara passed through the Teleportation Gate, returning from the Scholar’s Fortress to the Water God Realm, and gently raised his fan-sized giant hand.

The flaming teleportation portal behind him immediately shrunk to the size of a palm, landing in his hand, as he stowed it away.

The only current Teleportation Gate linking the Flame Realm to the Water God Realm—part of President Beiru’s mission for Andrew, requiring him to seize and then lead others to return to the Flame Realm—was astonishingly not located somewhere in the Water God Realm, but rather carried with Ara!

Ara stowed the Teleportation Gate, looked down silently for a moment, and then spoke, his voice surprisingly pleasant: "I can still sense Li’s aura, but I can no longer sense Lick’s. What happened?"

Jin from the Warm Fire Commerce Association was also brawny, with a warm and pleasant voice, but compared to Ara here, they were worlds apart.

Ara’s height surpassed three meters, no longer a normal human stature, perhaps carrying ancient Titan blood.

His voice wasn’t the deep, resonant kind of pleasant but rather somewhat neutral, even somewhat feminine in its pleasantness.

Such a physique, yet possessing such a soft voice.

Ara’s unhurried voice reached Mela’s ears.

After hearing it, Mela’s body involuntarily shook twice more, with cold sweat already trickling down her temples.