Chapter 442: Chapter 442: Erica’s True Identity
Two bat-like wings sprouted from Locks’s back.
He stared at Li Wei, his expression grave. "You’re just full of surprises, aren’t you?"
"I never imagined you’d already mastered the Flame Rule."
Li Wei chuckled. "There’s a lot you never imagined."
"Don’t worry, you won’t have to think about it anymore."
"Dead men don’t need to think."
Locks stared at Li Wei. "You’re too arrogant."
"Just because you’ve gained a slight advantage, you really think you’ve already won?"
"You’re still too green. Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. You will be with me forever."
"Ugh, you’re getting more and more disgusting." Li Wei felt a little sick hearing his words.
"You talk too much."
Fire Dragon Skill!
ROAR!
A giant Fire Dragon Head appeared in mid-air and swallowed Locks’s figure in a single bite.
Countless people in Maple City saw the giant Fire Dragon Head in the sky.
All of them wore looks of terror.
They had no idea what was happening.
But it definitely wasn’t anything good.
BANG!
Locks burst out of the Fire Dragon Skill’s attack range. A layer of red Dragon Scales had grown on his body.
This layer of Dragon Scales helped him mitigate ninety percent of the fire attack’s damage.
The wings on Locks’s back beat forcefully, and he instantly accelerated.
He vanished from Li Wei’s sight.
Li Wei’s Spiritual Perception spread out like flowing water, covering every corner of the surrounding area.
Suddenly, a figure shot into the range of his Spiritual Perception at high speed.
He snapped his head up and attacked upward without hesitation.
Golden Holy Fireballs shot into the sky as if they were free.
They formed a giant net that enveloped the rapidly diving Locks.
In an instant, Locks’s figure vanished.
Li Wei felt a spatial fluctuation appear behind him.
PFFT!
Locks’s right hand pierced through Li Wei’s body, sending sparks flying.
The previous attack was a feint.
He had deliberately tricked Li Wei into attacking the sky.
Then, he seized the opportunity to teleport behind Li Wei and launch a fatal attack.
Locks’s arm pierced through Li Wei, who was in his flame state.
The Dragon Scales on his forearm all flared out, and his pores released a strange substance.
This substance could make Magic Elements inert.
Li Wei felt a numbing sensation, as if he were being anesthetized.
He was losing control of his Flame Body.
The Holy Dragon Body could grant immunity to negative status effects.
VMM!
The Holy Power within Li Wei’s body was activated.
The flames turned into golden Holy Flame.
It swept away all traces of paralysis and loss of control.
Locks saw Li Wei’s body turn into golden flames.
He suddenly had a bad feeling.
Just as he was about to pull back and flee...
Li Wei’s body rapidly expanded, in the blink of an eye becoming an eighteen-meter-tall Flame Giant.
It completely swallowed Locks into its body.
Locks tried to use teleportation to escape.
He activated the ability, only to find it had no effect.
Looking down, he saw a translucent Void Chain had already wrapped around his waist.
Locks’s expression changed. ’Damn it, how does Li Wei have a Void Chain?’
’Isn’t that a tournament item? Why was he able to bring it out?’
Locks remembered that the Void Chain wasn’t one of the rewards for the exchange tournament.
Just as Li Wei had said, there were many things he didn’t know.
Li Wei transformed into a furnace, incinerating Locks.
The temperature inside him rose continuously. The crimson-gold flames turned blue-gold.
The blue-gold flames turned cyan-gold.
Locks’s body was quickly burned to a crisp.
He used every trick he had to resist the high temperatures, but he still couldn’t survive.
Locks understood that the moment he was trapped inside Li Wei’s body, he had already lost.
No one could possibly survive such terrifying temperatures.
Locks had already been burned until only his head remained.
He looked at the vast, endless flames and spoke with a hoarse voice.
"You win this time."
WHOOSH!
Locks’s head was burned to ashes.
Only after confirming that Locks had been completely reduced to ash did Li Wei retract his Power and return to his normal form.
’Is it over?’
Li Wei wasn’t so sure.
Locks’s last words had been too strange.
What did he mean by "You win this time"?
’Could it be that Locks isn’t dead?’
Li Wei carefully scanned the surroundings with his Spiritual Power more than ten times but found no trace of Locks’s Spiritual Power.
’He should be dead.’
’Not even ash remained.’
’There’s no way he could come back from that, right?’
’Even the Light Divine Sect’s Resurrection Divine Technique requires a body.’
’Locks doesn’t even have a body anymore.’
’He must be completely and utterly dead.’
’The Resurrection Divine Technique would be useless.’
’To be safe, I should go ask Erica.’
Li Wei descended.
Erica was still fighting Nitro.
"Erica, stop! Your teacher is already dead," Li Wei shouted.
Hearing this, Erica froze for a moment and looked around.
It was true; she could no longer see Locks’s figure.
She focused her senses for a moment and confirmed that Locks was truly dead.
Erica stopped fighting.
The Shadow Attendant stood to the side, staring at Erica, ready to strike at any moment.
Li Wei landed in front of Erica. Her Magic Bandages had been damaged during her fight with the Shadow Attendant.
Many areas were exposed.
But beneath the Magic Bandages was not a young girl’s skin, but pieces of flesh of various colors.
There were also traces of stitches in many places.
Erica looked like a doll stitched together from the flesh of countless Magic Beasts.
Li Wei couldn’t help but frown at the sight.
He now had a pretty good idea of Erica’s true identity.
She wasn’t a descendant of the Dragon Race, nor was she a Giant Dragon transformed into a human.
She was Locks’s Biological Alchemy masterpiece.
Locks had used Biological Alchemy to transform Erica into a combat weapon.
Erica noticed the change in Li Wei’s expression. She said calmly, "Li Wei, my teacher isn’t dead yet."
"You only killed one of him."
Li Wei looked up at her and asked, "What do you mean?"
Hearing Erica’s words, however, he wasn’t surprised or shocked.
When Locks had said those last words, Li Wei already had a premonition.
Locks most likely wasn’t dead.
Erica tore off the Magic Bandage on her arm, exposing the flesh beneath.
She held out her arm for Li Wei to see.
"As you can see, I’m a biochemically modified person. My true class is actually a Biochemical Demon."
"The teacher you just killed was also a Biochemical Demon. That was just one of his biochemically modified bodies."
"In the Alchemy Tower, I’ve seen at least three different forms of my teacher."
Li Wei nodded. "I see."
He looked at Erica and asked, "What about you? What are you going to do now?"
Li Wei could tell that Erica wasn’t truly loyal to Locks.
She was merely being controlled and had no choice but to obey.
Erica wrapped the Magic Bandage back around herself. "I’m going back to the Alchemy Tower. Without my teacher’s special medicine, my body will break down sooner or later."
Her body had undergone countless modifications, and it had long since surpassed the limits of a normal living being.
She had to rely on medicine just to maintain it.
The modifications were so drastic that she couldn’t even maintain the skin below her neck.
The Magic Bandages had become her external skin.
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