Read Novel Full Chapter 325: Destroy
Chapter 325: Destroy
"So it’s just this guy," Richard muttered.
The Star Dragon Formation might be nearly as large as the city itself, but to Richard, it posed no threat whatsoever.
"Let’s head out," the Fire Spirit Queen said.
She couldn’t leave until Richard did.
Fortunately, Richard nodded this time.
He lowered her from his lap before standing up.
The Fire Spirit Queen felt warm and strangely more at ease with their relationship after that brief embrace.
She was no longer quite as embarrassed.
The two of them left the palace, immediately drawing the gazes of the palace elders, who had been waiting since last night and were obviously wondering what the two of them had been doing alone inside.
Now that they were coming out together, the speculation only grew wilder, although some people could still convince themselves that they had merely been discussing magic, something that was quite common.
The middle-aged man with long hair, Justin, the Star General, could naturally see them from a distance.
His brows furrowed slightly when he saw the Fire Spirit Queen accompanied by a man.
"Greetings, Your Majesty..." he said respectfully.
Despite being enemies, he still respected the Fire Spirit Queen as a formidable figure.
"Your Majesty, who will be my opponent? I have already brought the key to the Spirit Ruler World," he continued, taking out a large yet transparent key.
The Fire Spirits exchanged glances upon hearing this.
Who would fight Justin and his army?
They had yet to decide, because they knew that a single army would barely be enough to deal with him.
Unfortunately, that was what the rules required.
"Richard..." The Fire Spirit Queen merely glanced at the man beside her before taking out an identical key.
"Take this key. The objective of the battle is to seize the opponent’s key," she said.
"Good..." Richard smiled and took the key.
He immediately stepped into the sky, appearing before the massive army.
"What?"
Everyone was stunned.
"He’s going alone."
"Is he the one who’s going to fight Justin?"
"This human is way too confident."
"Hey, the Queen herself asked him to do it."
"..."
The Fire Spirits were naturally doubtful. Even though Richard had performed an unprecedented miracle yesterday, proving his strength, fighting Justin and his formation of a thousand Lords was another matter entirely.
A single individual might not be enough.
After all, the power of that army could easily slaughter most Rulers.
"Who are you?" Justin asked Richard, narrowing his eyes.
He could vaguely sense a threat from Richard, but it only seemed to threaten his personal strength.
"Who I am isn’t important. What matters is that I’m the one fighting you and your army," Richard replied with a smile.
"You? Alone?" Justin was stunned.
"Yes, alone." Richard nodded.
"Brat, who gave you the courage to face all of us?" one of the elderly Lords beside Justin shouted.
His eyes widened at Richard’s claim.
"I have the courage because I have the strength," Richard replied.
"Enough nonsense. Let’s begin."
He moved.
His aura erupted, instantly shaking the space and even the land beneath them.
He summoned a transparent crimson spear—the spear of the Demon Flame Grand Sovereign.
Since he was in the Fire Spirit Kingdom, he wanted to use fire alone. That was why he chose a weapon specifically designed for fire-based power.
"Brat, you’re asking for death..." Justin finally roared angrily.
To him and the other Lords, fighting them without the support of a formation was practically an insult.
Rumble!
The Star Dragon’s hand moved to punch Richard, who looked no bigger than a speck of dust before it.
However, the moment the spear began radiating light, it instantly became the brightest thing in the surroundings, like a sun falling from the heavens.
"A Grand Weapon."
The spectators immediately recognized what it was.
Although Justin and the Lords within the formation frowned upon seeing it, they were still not afraid.
It wasn’t as though they had never fought a Ruler wielding a Grand Weapon before.
"Hmph!" Richard snorted and thrust his spear toward the Star Dragon’s hand.
Buzz!
Flames erupted from the spear and instantly merged with it, transforming into a gigantic flaming spear that was even larger than the dragon’s hand.
It radiated an imposing majesty infused with the aura of a Grand Sovereign.
The heat spread in every direction, causing even the ground to smoke.
Fortunately, Fire Spirit City was protected by a formation that activated instantly. Otherwise, countless people would have died from the heat alone.
The outcome quickly exceeded everyone’s expectations.
The flames burned the Star Dragon’s hand and even forced it backward.
"This..."
The Lords inside the Star Dragon could not have been more shocked.
Their combined power was actually being suppressed.
The heat of the flames was the problem.
It had reached a level that was extremely difficult for them to endure.
"Keep attacking!" Justin shouted.
ROAR!
The dragon roared, opening its enormous mouth as it attempted to swallow Richard whole.
"How bold!" Richard countered by sending the gigantic flaming spear straight into the dragon’s mouth.
However, he quickly discovered a problem.
The dragon’s mouth was filled with exploding stars of destruction, which detonated and annihilated the flaming spear.
"Brat, did you really think your flames were invincible?!" Justin shouted.
He was right at the dragon’s head, which continued advancing toward Richard.
"Hahaha, you’re going to die..." The old man beside him burst into laughter.
Richard had to admit that their strength was impressive.
Their combined power truly could not be underestimated.
However, the flames he had released so far were still within the limits of 90%.
His own fire affinity, on the other hand, had reached 93%.
Once it surpassed 91%, its quality became fundamentally different, making it extremely difficult for sheer quantity to overwhelm it.
After all, the formation relied on numbers.
Richard stopped holding back.
Blinding golden flames surged from his hand into the crimson spear.
Even the spear itself turned golden.
The golden flames were so dazzling that those beneath the Lords could no longer see Richard at all.
Even the Lords themselves quickly found their eyes stinging from the radiance.
Buzz!
Golden flames erupted from the tip of the spear.
If such a small amount was already this dazzling, then the sheer volume of flames now being released was on an entirely different level.
"Ahhhh..."
Several Lords inside the Star Dragon Formation screamed.
But the most terrifying part was the heat.
Those targeted by the flames felt as though even their souls were being burned.
The moment the flames touched the Star Dragon’s mouth, it began burning.
Then, the entire body of the Star Dragon started melting like wax.
"Run!"
Several Lords realized that they were facing a danger far beyond their ability to withstand.
None of them were willing to die without putting up a fight.
They immediately abandoned the formation and fled on their own.
The formation, which required a thousand Lords to maintain, naturally collapsed instantly.
"Damn it..." Justin’s eyes widened.
Naturally, he had no time to complain.
He immediately retreated.
"DESTROY!"
He roared.
Before the formation could collapse on its own, he chose to detonate it.
BOOM!
An overwhelming force of destruction erupted.
Anything it touched would be annihilated.
Even the shockwave alone shattered space.
Yet even that destructive force was easily burned away by the golden flames, as if it were nothing more than dirt being swept aside.
Although the explosion caused the golden flames to shrink drastically, fragments of the formation struck several Lords, turning them into ashes before they could even scream.
The largest fragment, meanwhile, engulfed Justin, who unleashed an endless radiance of starlight to resist it.
"Surrender the key unless you want to die!"
Richard suddenly appeared before him, the spear pointed directly at Justin’s neck.
Justin trembled.
"H-How can you be this strong as a Lord?" he stammered.
"You’re still talking? Do you want to die?" Richard replied.
"No... Take it..."
Justin threw the transparent key toward him before leaping backward.
He finally managed to escape the golden flames by releasing every ounce of strength he had.
He looked utterly exhausted, to the point that even flying seemed difficult for him.