Free Web NovelChapter 794: Chapter 384: Purgatory Island
Li Ang stopped the others who were ready to help: "Let An do it herself, try her new moves."
"How did she get stronger again?" Zoe pouted, staring at the back of the White Wolf, still mindful of her rivalry with Andasu.
The attacker on the deck was a Tier Six dragon called the Blazehound Wyvern, which Li Ang had not encountered before, feeling like a unique species of the Lupus Island Country.
In terms of power form, it was similar to Farina’s Blazing Winged Dragon, but much smaller in size, only over four meters long, with a skinny, emaciated body, like a hungry ghost from hell.
Even so, the Dragon’s Blood was still producing bright sparks in its emaciated torso, ready to erupt at any time.
Andasu began to accelerate around the wyvern, and upon noticing someone approaching, the demon immediately released black smoke to obscure its vision.
The Dark Element, like bandages, climbed over the young girl’s entire body with her movement, gradually wrapping her.
The black smoke seemed not to obscure the White Wolf’s vision; the darkness, while granting her power, would not become an obstacle.
Once she fully accelerated, she weaved in and out of the smoke like a phantom, each time accumulating increasingly dense Shadow Claw on her fist blade when exiting.
"Skaaa—!"
The wyvern flapped its wings, fanning the flaming black smoke into a wide-range attack. Enraged by pain from its wounds all over its body, a fierce flame breath followed the black smoke, seemingly trying to ignite all the firelight within into a blaze to burn the enemy ahead.
"Watch out!" Zoe exclaimed involuntarily.
The range of the wyvern’s breath attack was so large that it covered nearly half of the deck.
Andasu exerted force under her feet, instantly turning into a black shadow, and instead arrived beneath the demon, delivering a punch that made it stagger, abruptly interrupting its flame breath.
"Huh?" Zoe exclaimed in surprise: "Is she that strong?"
Although she couldn’t compare to large demons, the Blazehound Wyvern was considered a medium-sized creature, still a behemoth compared to a Yunxiang Race young girl.
Dealing damage is possible, but to shake a demon’s body with just strength, this situation was only seen before with ALulu.
Sure enough, the Shadow Wolf started overlapping, Li Ang thought to himself.
With these few exchanges, she probably stacked about three layers.
The Blazehound Wyvern raised its slender neck, its flame breath concentrated into an even hotter stream of fire, sweeping towards Andasu.
It went all out, the sinewy muscles all over its body generating immense power, whipping its head fast like a phantom. The fire stream was clearly concentrated at one point, yet formed a sweeping range attack.
The Beast Eared Maiden got grazed once, the shadows entwining her burst forth, negating the flames’ damage.
Hmm, one layer of the Shadow Wolf was consumed. Li Ang thought.
Andasu shattered a small vial hanging on her waist, the wind on the deck mixed with the sulfuric smell emanating from the Blazehound Wyvern, but within it appeared a slightly acidic, fragrant aroma.
The young girl enhanced by the fragrance, her twisting body seemed boneless, the blurry motion made it indistinct whether it was too quick maneuvering or an extraordinary body contortion beyond conventional understanding.
This bottle was likely the "Elusive Wolf Scent" among the three wolf scents, intended to enhance agility and dodge. Originally, Li Ang didn’t understand how it specifically manifested, but now he’s seen it.
The Yunxiang Race’s bloodline power, aided by the stimulus of the scent, allowed her to temporarily gain superhuman dodge ability.
And this ability could also be stacked with the Shadow Wolf’s power itself.
"Howl!"
The Blazehound Wyvern’s neck was struck by Andasu, forcibly flinging it to the side, its flame nearly reaching the young branches on the Eternal Summer, halted by Zoe’s sword slash with Water Blade.
This power increased again, Li Ang estimated, allowing her to surpass the previous stacking layers, compensating for the layer lost in negating damage.
Seizing this opportunity, Andasu launched her fist technique consecutively, countless Dark Fist Blades pierced into the wyvern’s neck, ultimately forming a constrictive loop.
This demon wreaking havoc amidst the clouds, clearly bloodthirsty by nature, had accumulated quite the "karma."
The Shadow Power bombarded and slashed, like numerous sharp blades chopping together, directly severing the wyvern’s neck.
The heavy body fell on the deck, spraying blood.
Andasu, without even glancing at the enemy, walked straight back to Li Ang.
She didn’t speak but slightly bowed her head.
Li Ang chuckled inwardly, raised his hand to muss her head, only then did the young girl let it go.
"I could also take down that monster!" Zoe growled, biting her collar.
"I know you can." Li Ang playfully messed up her hair, then pointed to Andasu’s waist.
"There’s a bottle of scent for recovery, would you like to test its effect?"
Unexpectedly, this obscure island of the Lupus Island Country turned out to be a medium-danger zone where demons attacked ships among the clouds, Andasu, freshly cultivated, didn’t have time to don the Nether Lamp Shadow Suit, battled amidst the scorching smoke, and even if not directly hit, got slightly scalded by the high temperature.
Since the "Elusive Wolf Scent" proved effective, indicating this perfuming was relatively successful, it’s likely the other two varieties can also be used.
The white-haired young girl nodded, taking out another bottle of wolf scent.
Her heart was yet to cease its pounding, at this moment, everyone could perceive the fragrance, though the slightly acidic and fragrant dodging scent had dispersed, the familiar smell now surrounded her.
Removing the cap, Andasu’s wrist flicked, scattering the fragrance from the bottle into the air. Instantly, a herbal, charred aroma began to spread.
"Huh, this smells a bit like a refreshing spice."
As she sniffed, Dorothy said, "Many nobles or office workers like to use refreshing spices in their incense burners, it feels quite similar to that."
"But the effect is much better," Li Ang replied.
Before their eyes, the redness and swelling on Andasu’s skin quickly faded away, some dead skin peeled off, and the burned parts turned back to a smooth, creamy tenderness.
"Huh, the soreness in my body is gone too."
Zoe jumped a couple of times, having practiced swordplay for a day, feeling her fatigue dissipate completely now.
"Indeed, it’s miraculous." Meimei nodded, as the usually heavy aura of gloom far beyond her years was lightened considerably due to the mental restoration provided by the fragrance.
Alulu, on the other hand, didn’t feel much as her body, stronger than a demon’s, seemed to never understand what fatigue meant.
"This one is called ’Re-refined Vitality Fragrance,’ according to the Yunxiang race traditions, its effect is to stimulate the body’s rapid self-healing, even eliminating deep-seated hidden injuries, and restoring energy as well."
"It’s truly miraculous," Farina praised, "Energy replenishment is extremely critical for casters."
On Nebis, the so-called "mana" is actually energy; how much energy one has determines how much magic power they can draw to consume.
Andasu felt a bit embarrassed because she only understood these traditions with Li Ang’s help and was still far from the complete form of a special profession.
"Alright, the effort was not wasted. We’ll test the third attack-type Wolf Fragrance later."
Li Ang walked to the edge of the deck and looked down. Amid the fire clouds, the scene of Lupus Island Country was blurry.
"Let’s conduct high-altitude reconnaissance on this island today, take a rest, and consider landing tomorrow."
"Ah? Not going down?" Zoe had already gripped her sword hilt tightly. After Andasu’s impressive display just now, she was eager to showcase herself too.
More importantly, rejuvenated by the Re-refined Vitality Fragrance, her energy was brimming, like a young beast with endless energy to expend.
Li Ang ignored this fellow, knowing that the more he talked to her, the more persistent she’d become and instead had Andasu take control of the helm again.
The Eternal Summer slowly lowered altitude and raised its shield.
As it pierced through the fire clouds, the scene of Lupus Island Country came into view, eliciting gasps from the young girls.
The entire island, one could say, resembled Purgatory.
There was more than one violently active volcano, and already solidified lava left thick, charred rock layers across the land, with rivers of lava resembling liquid flames flowing into the Inner Sea, stirring up a haze of steam, while the scorching heat by the water and the lifelessness on the land painted a completely apocalyptic scene.
"Can anyone even live on an island like this?" Zoe remarked with her mouth agape.
"Wow, I wouldn’t want to go down to a place like that." Livi clung to Li Ang’s back, disdainfully watching the flaming, scarred island.
"There’s no one, right?" Dorothy looked at Li Ang with suspicion, "Are you sure you didn’t mishear the request from that beast-eared swordsman? Is it really here?"
"There’s no mistake."
Li Ang was as puzzled as to how anyone could live on this island without ever leaving, but the other part of the information about it should be correct.
"The island where the Molten Mountain Star Soul resides, the Lupus Ancient Country..."
Li Ang pointed at a somewhat uneven slope, "There, that should be the city of the ancient country."
Everyone looked carefully and found many ruins of buildings buried in the solidified lava. This city was apparently destroyed by a volcanic eruption.
It was even worse than some ruins buried in volcanic ash; it was completely swallowed by the volcano’s power.
Li Ang recalled how Makena used magic guided technology utilizing molten soulstones, also extracted from islands with frequent underground activity.
But the Lupus Island Country... no, the country no longer exists, and the place can only be called Lupus Island now. The entire island here is likely to harbor far more astonishing power than the molten soulstone sites, and once it erupts, it could raise flames so amazing, that a magical disaster might even be triggered.
"Look over there!"
Alulu pointed towards a rocky depression covered in lava where a group of demons was residing.
"It’s Salamanders," Dorothy glanced at Li Ang.
A group of orange-red lizards was cosily sleeping together, and when the Eternal Summer flew across the sky, they lifted their heads, and their eyes filled with firelight constantly facing the direction of the flying airship.
"It’s hot down there, isn’t it? How do we get down?"
Seeing the condition of Lupus Island, even the usually rash Zoe started to ponder.
"We also have Salamanders," Li Ang said.
"Huh? Already hatched?!" Dorothy’s face lit up with a big smile as she hugged the captain, being very affectionate, and Zoe aside frowned repeatedly, tugging at her sleeve.
Calmly pushing away the half-elf, Li Ang explained, "Because they hadn’t fully grown before, I didn’t rush to tell you."
He didn’t expect that the Salamander, demons like these, would grow so quickly in the cultivation field, much faster than Sruder, having absorbed the power of the volcanic system and now grown large enough to ride on.
"Wow, the captain really predicts like a god." Dorothy said exaggeratedly, attempting to sidle up again.
