Worthless Profession: Dragon Tamer

Chapter 1055, Pyrrhic Victory

Translator: Silavin

Lu Fan distinctly sensed that the Ancient God Power within the Purgatory Overlord was plummeting at a terrifying rate. At least, ten times faster than during normal combat!

Clearly, she was now casting a Skill of immense power, the kind where if it failed to achieve significant effect, the Purgatory Overlord herself would almost certainly face inevitable defeat.

Lu Fan thus commanded all Pet Dragons to spare no effort, launching attacks on the Purgatory Overlord. Various Skills madly flew out, submerging her completely.

However, Lu Fan could sense that all those Skills were being incinerated to nothing by the flames erupting from the Purgatory Overlord. Not a single Skill actually landed on her.

The method of directly burning away all Skills using Ancient God Power, rendering herself Immune to Damage, was no secret to Lu Fan.

Previously, the Purgatory Overlord had repeatedly used this Ancient God Power to erase all the Skills that were about to hit her.

At this moment, although the Purgatory Overlord was accumulating power to unleash a powerful Skill, she had not neglected her own Defence.

Of course, this state of both protecting herself and accumulating power caused the Ancient God Power within the Purgatory Overlord to drain even faster.

“Die! Let’s see how you withstand this move!” The Purgatory Overlord’s voice transmitted from amidst the interwoven special effects of flames and Skills.

Immediately after, a thunderous roar erupted.

“Scorching Down Eight Wastelands!”

Following the Purgatory Overlord’s furious roar, flames exploded outward, dividing into eight paths extending outward.

As these eight flaming paths extended outward, all matter and Skills were devoured inside of it, instantly evaporating to nothingness.

Whether it was the ground of this Flaming Hell Dungeon Instance or the Pet Dragons’ Skills, all suffered the same fate.

These flames could incinerate everything in the world. To them, anything in this world was merely flammable material, possessing no resistance whatsoever. The only fate after contact was being burned to ash.

Not only that.

The eight flaming paths transformed into walls of fire. After extending outward for a certain distance, they began changing direction, as if alive, sweeping toward Lu Fan.

The eight fire walls twisted and turned, dividing the surrounding area into sections.

Although Lu Fan remained in Concealment, facing these towering fire walls closing in on him, layer by layer, he momentarily had no solution.

High temperature apparently served as another means of perception for the Purgatory Overlord. Lu Fan’s body temperature differed from the surrounding temperature, so even in Concealment, he was detected by her.

In an instant, the Purgatory Overlord had no intention of dealing with the Pet Dragons. Instead, she directed the continuously spreading fire walls to sweep toward Lu Fan and his Mirror Image Projections.

Unable to distinguish which was Lu Fan’s Mirror Image Projection, she could only deal with all of them together.

The eight fire walls completely seal off Lu Fan’s escape routes.

Soon, under the pursuit of the eight fire walls, Lu Fan was almost driven into a desperate situation.

Finally, one Mirror Image Projection was swept up by a fire wall, instantly melted into ash.

This scene made Lu Fan’s heart race with fear. Although the Mirror Image Projections had Lower Attributes than his true self, if a Mirror Image Projection was directly evaporated in one encounter, then if his actual body was caught inside this attack, he would most likely be unable to escape death as well.

However, Lu Fan also keenly discovered that after the fire wall dissolved his Mirror Image Projection, the energy it contained was clearly diminished by a large amount.

This fire wall would not consume additional Ancient God Power as time passed.

Only when its attacks struck an enemy would it expend the Ancient God Power poured into it, until it completely disappeared.

In that case, these continuously spreading fire walls were not without a solution. He only needed to keep feeding Mirror Image Projections into them to extinguish them, and there would not be any issue.

Just as Lu Fan conceived this idea, he suddenly discovered all fire walls abruptly changed direction, sweeping toward Xiao Cui.

Xiao Cui wanted to get close to Lu Fan, to protect him. She had no time to react before being engulfed by flames.

In that instant, pure Life Force was continuously released from Xiao Cui, Healing the wounds seared by flames.

As a Jade Dragon King, Xiao Cui was basically Immortal.

However, the flames created by the Purgatory Overlord’s Ancient God Power could even burn Xiao Cui’s Life Force.

Therefore, before the Purgatory Overlord, there was no true Immortal existence.

Apart from resisting her attacks with another Ancient God Power, any living being would be burned to ash by her flames.

Xiao Cui was no exception.

Amidst those mournful cries, Xiao Cui turned to ash and disappeared.

Another Pet Dragon had fallen, and this time, it was Xiao Cui, who could use Jade Mirror Image.

This was not good news for Lu Fan.

Without Xiao Cui’s Jade Mirror Image, how could Lu Fan use Mirror Image Projections to consume the power of the Scorching Down Eight Wastelands!?

Lu Fan would have to rack his brains.

At this moment, the Purgatory Overlord’s voice followed, echoing around them.

“Hehe, without that Support Specialised Dragon of yours, let’s see what you’ll do!? From the very beginning, the first target of my Scorching Down Eight Wastelands wasn’t you, but that Pet Dragon of yours. Now that you’ve lost four Pet Dragons. Are you truly willing to let all the rest die just to kill me? Even if you win in the end, it’ll be a pyrrhic victory. What meaning does it have?!”

Lu Fan did not respond.

At this moment, the fire walls continued spreading and sweeping toward him, with several more Mirror Image Projections devoured.

Because the Purgatory Overlord had already killed Xiao Cui, Lu Fan had lost his only method to break the deadlock. Naturally, the Purgatory Overlord’s next Skill would target Lu Fan himself.

Although Scorching Down Eight Wastelands had already significantly diminished in strength from killing Xiao Cui and the Mirror Image Projections.

But now only Lu Fan remained. For Lu Fan to escape from the Skill’s encirclement, it was nearly impossible.

The constantly silent Lu Fan, while retreating, made a move that shocked even the Purgatory Overlord.

Almost simultaneously, the Pet Dragons that had been evading the fire walls all abandoned evasion and flew toward Lu Fan’s location.

Their target was not Lu Fan, of course, but the Scorching Down Eight Wastelands surrounding him.

The Pet Dragons flew into the flames one by one, directly using their own bodies to completely deplete the flames’ Ancient God Power until they were completely extinguished.

In the blink of an eye, all Pet Dragons perished in the flames. Only Ye Sha still survived.

Thus, the Scorching Down Eight Wastelands Skill had been completely consumed.

The Purgatory Overlord’s Ancient God Power, accumulated over who knows how long, was now almost entirely depleted.