After work, start to speedrun the other world-Chapter 67 - 39: Facing the Flame Giant

His hand was about to touch the Sword of Light when an anxious voice suddenly came from behind. Xi Mu turned his head to look and saw the dwarf loli approaching.

Her face bore an irrepressible fear but still, she came in front of Xi Mu, with a resolution as if she was ready to meet death.

Her faith overpowered her fear.

"It might be better not to do that, touching the Sword of Light doesn’t grant you mighty power but confronts you with the will of my god,"

she tried to persuade.

"Even if you manage to pull out that sword, you’ll definitely get infected by Sulter’s fire and become kindling... you’ll die!"

"If I don’t pull out this sword, won’t more people die?" Xi Mu asked with a smile, looking at the dwarf loli’s frightened expression, his smile suddenly became tender, "Little one, you now have ten minutes to run."

What... is this guy thinking?

The dwarf loli was slightly confused, completely unable to understand what this man was thinking.

After all, they were mortal enemies.

"Just to be clear, I’m not lying!" she said, backing away. Looking at the steadfast and gentle smile of the Knight, doubt deepened in her eyes.

But this man was about to die here; she needn’t know his thoughts.

The Sword of Light was a weapon of the Flame Giant Surter and thus represented the power of the Flame Giant Surter.

To hold the Sword of Light at the altar was to directly confront the will of the Flame Giant Surter, and the result was self-evident.

The Knight in silver armor would be burned to ash.

"Die here!" Turning around, the dwarf loli started to flee. Since this human insisted on seeking death, there was no need for her to stop it.

Once this human died, she could dig out the Sword of Light, restart the altar ritual, and the effect would be the same.

It would just delay the time to release the Flame Giant Surter.

This world was destined to be burned to ashes by the Flame Giant Surter; it was an inevitable conclusion that even the God of Omniscience couldn’t stop.

Meanwhile, seeing this, Xi Mu withdrew his gaze and looked at the Sword of Light on the altar, falling into a long silence as if he was struggling... reminiscing. 𝘧𝓇𝑒𝑒𝑤ℯ𝑏𝓃𝘰𝑣ℯ𝘭.𝘤ℴ𝘮

On the edge of the volcano, the Witch of Death sat elegantly in the void. Her sapphire-like eyes reflected everything inside the volcano’s mouth, where the Knight’s expression was conflicted but determined, seeming fearful yet reminiscent, yet deeply resolute.

After his death, give him a chance.

With her power, she could protect the soul of the Knight, preserving it as an Undead Knight after his body was incinerated to ash.

At the altar, Xi Mu bowed his head and took a deep breath, then took out a letter and handed it to a Knight nearby to deliver it to Letixia.

[Host... the favorability of the Witch of Death has suddenly increased!] came the system’s exclamation,[Could this be a bug?]

Its voice was filled with anxiety.

[Why would favorability increase while standing before the altar, but I have not detected any problems.]

Xi Mu: "..."

He ignored the system, simply mentally counting the seconds, his face revealing a resolution to sacrifice himself for a greater cause.

But his expression wasn’t too resolute; there was a touch of nostalgia, mixed with fear as if he had too many fond connections to this world.

Yet for the greater cause, he had decided to sacrifice himself.

And the reason for doing so was to increase the favorability of the Witch of Death, fooling her into granting him a higher level of deathly power when necessary.

The higher the favorability, the more deathly power traits could be unlocked.

Ten minutes later.

Hand gripping the hilt of the Sword of Light, the runes of the blood covenant appeared on Xi Mu’s wrist, his body temperature skyrocketing to unbelievable levels in an instant.

The lava beneath his feet started to churn, as if a volcano eruption could happen at any moment... no, it was about to erupt indeed.

Legend has it that the underground lava is the blood of the Flame Giant Surter, sealed within the earth’s core, his overflowing power melting the earth and turning it into flowing crimson blood.

The flames would erupt simply because the Flame Giant Surter was trying to break free from the seal of the God of Omniscience, seeking freedom to continue burning this world into ash.

However, Xi Mu was not interested in this background setting. What he had to do now was to confront the Flame Giant Surter directly.

Lava erupted, engulfing the altar, and also engulfing Xi Mu who had pulled out the Sword of Light. The scenery went dark as his surroundings suddenly changed.

Xi Mu stood on a tremendous chain, looking ahead, and in his view was a giant with closed eyes, whose majestic body surpassed mountains as if composed of magma and flame, constantly exuding an aura of destruction.

He felt like a tiny ant being observed and looked down upon by a human, their sizes not comparable in the slightest.

The Flame Giant slowly opened his eyes, insane red pupils that could incinerate everything, fixed on the insignificant human before him.

Merely being looked at was enough to kill most life forms, the madness to burn the world, something most lives could neither understand nor withstand.

This was also why he was chosen as the harbinger of Ragnarok, for he was the purest existence that sought to incinerate all.

And he had the power to do so.

"Seeing too much of it makes it less impressive," Xi Mu sighed out of boredom. The first time he saw the Flame Giant’s cutscene, he found it shocking, but after playing through the Ashen Route a few times, the Flame Giant Surter hardly impressed him.