Water Mage in the Flame Realm-Chapter 406 - 391: Abandoning the Human Form

"Sir Silver, is there something wrong?" Natalie asked softly.

She and her sister, Pasha, looked similar and had equally captivating figures, but their temperaments and personalities were completely different.

Pasha was more emotional, and at the moment, she was still looking around, trying to find Andrew’s whereabouts.

Natalie, however, was more rational and calm. She wasn’t among the higher ranks of the Water Mages, but she was the first on the scene to notice Silver’s anomaly.

Silver asked, "Natalie, did you see the teleportation gate?"

"Teleportation gate?" Natalie was taken aback. "What teleportation gate?" Not all Water Mages were aware that the teleportation gate meant to leave the Water God Realm had been carried by successive people of the Wilderness, and Natalie didn’t immediately grasp it.

Silver waved his hand, refraining from saying more, but thought to himself, "Something is not right."

Only a very few high-ranking figures among the Water Mages knew that once the Wilderness was killed, the teleportation gate carried by him would briefly appear and enter a "ownerless" state.

There have been instances in history where the previous Wilderness died, and the next Wilderness couldn’t immediately inherit the teleportation gate, almost leading to the Water Mages seizing it.

There was even a Wilderness who planned to let the Water Mages seize the teleportation gate on purpose, allowing the Flame Realm’s Magic Guild Headquarters to directly send forces to the strategic hinterland of the Water Mages through the gate. The plan almost succeeded!

In short, as soon as the Wilderness is dead, the teleportation gate should automatically appear, even if only for a short time in an "ownerless state."

The problem is, there is no such thing!

At least on the surface, there were no signs of any teleportation gate appearing on site!

"Wuu wuu, don’t die, Sir Lee!" The Water Mages surrounding the elderly warrior finally broke down in tears.

Meanwhile, quite a few Water Mages, like Natalie, noticed Silver’s unusual actions.

Silver’s iconic silver long hair fluttered.

This was a sign of her fully exerting her Magic Power.

She was the oldest female Water Mage, yet at this moment, she was more graceful and dazzling than any young Female Mage. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

A Tier Nine search-type Water Magic named "Shark’s Scent" had been pushed to its extreme by her.

However, the more she searched, the heavier Silver felt in her chest, as if a massive mountain was blocking her, making it hard to breathe.

"Shark’s Scent" couldn’t find any existence of a teleportation gate.

Not to mention finding it, there wasn’t even a shadow!

Completely unable to find any trace left behind by Andrew.

"It makes no sense; it’s completely unreasonable," Silver muttered as sweat appeared on her forehead, "Since Sir Lee has already killed the Wilderness, the teleportation gate should appear naturally. It hasn’t shown up yet; could it be—"

Silver turned her head with difficulty, once again gazing at the Wilderness atop the Great Wilderness War Chariot, whose head had been smashed.

Only to see the headless body of the Wilderness gradually shatter and collapse, seemingly truly dead.

Yet soon, Silver’s face suddenly turned pale.

"Hey, Silver, aren’t you going a bit overboard?" A fellow high-ranking Water Mage, who often disagreed with Silver, approached, "While Sir Lee is passing away, what are you looking around absentmindedly for?"

Silver ignored him, staring intensely in a particular direction.

The high-ranking Water Mage dissatisfied with Silver frowned, followed her gaze, and his expression changed too.

He saw—

As the "human part" collapsed, the Great Wilderness War Chariot beneath, which seemed lifeless,

Suddenly began exuding aura again, bit by bit, coming back to life!

Soon, more and more Water Mages noticed this anomaly.

"What’s going on, the Wilderness... isn’t dead?"

As everyone stopped crying, a thought difficult to accept flashed through more than one mind, "If the Wilderness isn’t dead, does that mean Sir Lee truly didn’t win? Even sacrificing life for one attack didn’t achieve victory? This... how is this possible?!"

Nobody wanted to accept the fact that "Sir Lee actually didn’t win."

Until a voice came out from the newly revived Great Wilderness War Chariot: "Lee, you old thing, what did you just say? You said ’it’s over?’ You even said ’in the end, Lee won over the Wilderness?’ Haha, hahahaha... what a joke!!"

This voice carried mockery and anger.

Who else could it be but the Wilderness?

That voice, like an invisible Heavy Hammer, struck harshly upon the chest of every Water Mage present.

The majority were too shocked to react, standing there in their original place, bewildered. Including the high-ranking Water Mage who expressed displeasure with Silver.

Silver was still the quickest to respond.

She no longer had the mind to think about "why the Wilderness isn’t dead".

In the face of overwhelming instinctual panic, she still managed to maximize her professional advantage as a top Water Mage, making the most correct reaction and judgment she could at that moment: "Disperse! Everyone, break up on the spot!"

Silver shouted: "Disperse immediately, disperse right now! Damn it, why are you all still standing there stunned, hurry up!!"

Silver knew all too well: with Wilderness revived and Li about to die, this battle could no longer continue.

Continuing to fight would be a path of death, a total annihilation.

The only thing they could do now was to run different ways, to run as much as they could.

To see if they could preserve a spark of hope!

Silver’s reaction was swift. The Water Mage leader beside Silver turned and left, rushing as fast as possible to the two most promising young seedlings among the younger generation of Water Mages, picking them up without a word and leaving.

The crowd seemed to awaken from a dream.

Some people frantically tried to carry Lord Li’s "corpse".

Some shouted, "Why run? Fight him!"

Immediately, someone shouted: "Are you crazy? Go, leave quickly! I’ll hold them off, for as long as I can!"

In the midst of chaos, Natalie first wanted to regroup with her sister Pasha.

However, as she took a step, she found her foot never truly landed, instead her body floated upwards.

The pure black Fire of Greed—

Yes, the Fire of Greed, that is the true name of the Fire of Extinguishing, a fire of pure greed concentrated to the extreme, capable of devouring everything, including fire, thus giving the illusion of "fire extinguishing fire", but in reality, what this fire could devour was far more than just fire—

A massive amount of Fire of Greed emerged with a hissing sound from the Great Wilderness War Chariot.

It was like a black hole forming on the ocean surface, with immense sucking and pulling forces freezing Natalie, Silver, and all Water Mages present in space, pulling them in slowly, like some terrifying underwater predator casting and retrieving its net, capturing prey!

The situation drastically worsened, sliding rapidly into the abyss.

Water Mages and Flame Warriors had been entangled in combat for so many years, generally on the defensive, but never giving up, showing incredible resilience. After the initial panic, most of them responded as best they could.

But the result was still utterly one-sided.

Too immense, the disparity in strength was just too vast.

"So all along, Lord Li was defending us against such monsters of this level?" Silver struggled desperately, never giving up, "Wilderness, how did you do it? Why... weren’t you... killed?"

Silver was still trying to buy a little time, to see if there might be any turn of events.

At the same time, she genuinely wanted to know: Clearly, Lord Li had shattered her head, clearly, there was no Life Aura, how on earth did she revive, and even manage to progress further in power?

If not mistaken, the current Wilderness, although not as powerful as the overwhelming strength Lord Li displayed at the last moment—when she stepped into the Divine Domain—was genuinely infinitely close.

Above Tier Nine is the Realm of Magic. Those who stand with one foot in Tier Nine and one in the Realm of Magic, with combat power infinitely close to the Realm of Magic, are called "War God Level". For example, the former "Female Assassin" Catherine.

And the Wilderness before them now, one foot still in the Realm of Magic, one foot already stepping into the Divine Realm. Though not truly at the Divine Level, indeed already infinitely close. Like the "War God Level" between the Realm of Magic and the Divine Level.

"How did you do it? Answer me! Answer!" Silver shouted with all her strength.

She had already been dragged before the ugly maw of the giant crab, about to be devoured alive.

Then came the voice of Wilderness, echoing hollowly from within the Great Wilderness War Chariot: "I must thank you, Li.

Strictly speaking, you did defeat me just now, I lost.

But you ultimately didn’t manage to kill me."

The voice of Wilderness grew louder, thundering: "At the last and most dazzling moment of your life, you shed your whale form and returned to human form, didn’t you? I did the opposite. I completely abandoned my human form, allowing my soul to fully merge into the crab form!

So I really must thank you, Li. You forced out this part of me, brought this version of me into being. Thank you."

Among the Water Mages, an elderly man seemed to sense something.

His life had been incredibly long, and his dying process was also slower than others.

But at this moment, the trend of his Life Fire gradually extinguishing was forcibly halted by him. He seemed to sense the crisis of the Water Mages, still trying to awaken himself with strong willpower to continue fighting.

"Still not willing to give up?" Wilderness said, "Do you so desperately wish to protect these useless trash around you? Humph, well then, I’ll fulfill your desire, let you and the trash you wish to protect die together."

The violent Fire of Greed that coiled around the immense crab body suddenly withdrew and disappeared.

Silver widened her eyes and saw: The maw of that monstrous crab opened, from which spewed the terrifying Fire of Greed, dimly, the pure black flame seemed to form into a shape like that of a giant dragon as it flowed!

The dragon-shaped Fire of Greed submerged Silver in an instant!

Then it engulfed all the Water Mages present.

Finally, it consumed the old man, seemingly just a step away from awakening and continuing the fight.