Translator: AnubisTL
Its eyes burned with subterranean fire, radiating a scorching, malevolent light. In its hand, it gripped a war hammer forged from solidified lava, each swing unleashing searing waves of heat and billowing clouds of ash.
The aura emanating from this being clearly marked it as a second-tier being!
The battle erupted almost instantly!
Without a word, the Underworld Demon Elder swung its massive Molten Lava War Hammer, its earth-shattering force aimed directly at the trio.
Molten lava dripped from the hammer, instantly scorching the rock walls black wherever it struck.
"Watch out!" Victor shouted, rapidly waving his staff-shaped spell artifact. A sturdy earth wall materialized instantly.
However, the war hammer's terrifying momentum and fiery power shattered the earth wall in an instant, forcing Victor to stumble backward, his defensive spell faltering.
Taking advantage of the opening, Amy unleashed a barrage of fireballs at the demon elder.
Yet when these fireballs struck the demon elder's rock-like skin, they merely stirred a negligible ripple, like pebbles tossed into a lake, failing to breach its defenses.
The demon elder roared, causing the ground to tremble. Sharp spikes of rock and fire erupted from the earth, forcing Amy to dodge.
The demon elder's strength and defense far exceeded their expectations. Amy and Victor's attacks proved utterly ineffective against it!
Although they were only first-tier wizards, wizards typically held a significant advantage when facing transcendent entities from other planes.
Moreover, they had independently developed offensive spells that should have been capable of inflicting some damage on ordinary second-tier beings.
"Something's wrong with this thing's condition. I'll take it!"
Jieming only sensed the anomaly as the demon elder drew near. The elder's "vibrations" resonated strangely with the surrounding mineral veins.
This suggested that the demon elder's power was connected to the entire mineral vein system, making it impossible to assess as a typical second-tier being.
Just before the demon elder's war hammer crashed down, Jieming stepped forward, shielding Amy and Victor, and activated all four layers of his defensive spells.
The Underworld Demon Elder's attacks were rendered nearly ineffective by Jieming's layered defenses. Each strike felt like hitting cotton, unable to truly reach him.
While defending, Jieming's rune-imbued magical artifact on his wrist continued firing relentlessly. Energy bullets poured forth like a surging tide, each one precisely targeting the demon elder's vulnerable joints and neck.
The energy bullets proved slightly more effective than Amy's fireballs.
Though each energy bullet inflicted damage, the demon elder's formidable physique allowed him to rapidly regenerate, the wounds healing at a visible rate as if they were mere scratches.
Amy and Victor, who were assisting Jieming in buying time, adjusted their attack strategy, desperately searching for the demon elder's weaknesses, but their efforts remained largely futile.
"This won't work!" Victor gritted his teeth. "His regeneration is too fast!"
A glint flashed in Jieming's eyes.
"Restrict his movements!" he barked, simultaneously drawing a spell artifact from his robes—a cold, metallic device that radiated an icy aura.
This artifact was a Fourth-Tier Offensive Magical Artifact he had specifically purchased from the academy.
Without hesitation, Amy and Victor simultaneously unleashed their alchemy and offensive spells, channeling their mental power without restraint to amplify the spells' potency to its maximum!
Victor's wind blades coalesced into a massive hammer, its crushing force precisely targeting the Underworld Demon Elder's leg joints and arms.
Having learned from their earlier probing that the demon elder seemed immune to fire, Amy focused entirely on alchemy, manipulating the surrounding rock to form a series of stone walls that relentlessly compressed the creature.
"ROAR!!" The demon elder roared in agony.
Restrained by the overwhelming force and the crushing stone walls, its massive body swayed slightly, its movements now sluggish and clumsy.
In the instant the demon elder was immobilized, Jieming completed his preparations.
His powerful mental power surged into the fourth-tier magical artifact in his hand, instantly locking onto the Underworld Demon Elder's chest—its vital point!
[ Energy Convergence Ray ].
A blinding light erupted from the artifact's tip, coalescing into a crimson ray radiating destructive energy.
A crimson beam sliced through the dim air of the mine, striking the Underworld Demon Elder's rocky chest with pinpoint accuracy in less than the blink of an eye.
There was no thunderous roar, no explosion.
Only a chilling, crackling "zzzz" sound.
The scarlet ray instantly burned through the demon elder's rocky hide, piercing its flesh and bone.
With Jieming's strained manipulation, the red beam flicked downward and vanished.
The demon elder's massive body stiffened abruptly, the molten fire in its eyes extinguished in an instant.
Thud!
The colossal Molten Lava War Hammer slipped from its grasp, crashing heavily to the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust.
The demon elder's towering, three-meter-tall frame split in two at the waist, collapsing lifelessly to the ground.
The jagged edges of the severed halves still smoldered with black, charred crusts, a testament to the ray's terrifying power.
Amy and Victor exhaled in relief, but their relief turned to alarm when they saw Jieming's condition. They immediately went on guard, casting reconnaissance spells to survey their surroundings while vigilantly guarding his side.
"It's alright," Jieming reassured them, his voice strained. "I'm fine, just a bit drained."
Jieming put away the fourth-tier magical artifact, his face slightly pale.
While using the fourth-tier magical artifact had consumed a significant amount of mental power, it wasn't enough to exhaust him so completely. The real drain came from the final, minute adjustment to the spell.
Given the demon elder's strength and its demonstrated symbiotic connection to the mine, a simple penetrating wound from the ray—unless aimed directly at the head—wouldn't be fatal.
In desperation, Jieming had forced the fourth-tier spell to oscillate slightly up and down.
Ray-based spells were already the most difficult type to control, and forcibly manipulating an already-formed offensive spell was far more challenging than controlling a spell like "soul search."
He immediately took out a vial of magic potion and drank it, his complexion quickly improving.
"Thank goodness for your artifact," Victor said, visibly relieved. "We'd have been in real trouble without it."
Jieming shook his head. "Our current strength still makes activating fourth-tier artifacts too slow. Be careful—this thing is clearly a demon elder, yet it brought no subordinates."
"Scouting reveals an energy concentration point nearby," Amy said, pointing deeper into the mine. "The energy fluctuations suggest it's some kind of altar. That's likely what drove this creature into a frenzy."
Before she could finish speaking, the altar deep within the mine, guarded by the demon elder, suddenly began to tremble violently!
(End of the Chapter)
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