The Fire Origin Beast crazily shook its body, raised its head, and roared, causing its sound to shake the surroundings violently.
Aiden's eardrums almost burst out in an instant. Blood flowed out of his ears automatically which made him panic.
At this time, the Fire Origin Beast continued to roar, and its body suddenly shot out rays of hot light.
"Boom!"
As if Aiden was its target, he felt a huge impact on his body, and the next instant, his body was suddenly sent flying.
He landed on the ground and rolled out a few meters. His body was directly pierced by the scorching rays of light, leaving many bloody holes. The pain was most likely even worse than the explosion that he was caught upon before!
It was also at this moment that Lucas sprung up from behind the gigantic shield. His legs seemed to be stepping on some kind of magnet as he rose in the air. His bloodthirsty eyes stared indifferently at the crazily roaring Fire Origin Beast. He was filled with pride and arrogance. Holding onto a longsword, he roared.
"Dark Clouds Scattering Sword!"
Lucas's arms immediately fell as he slashed the sword. A dazzling ray of light shot out like a real dragon from the sword blade, instantly increasing in size countless times, and forming a terrifying silver-white shadow. It extended its four claws, ferociously rushing towards the Fire Origin Beast, covering it completely!
Suddenly, a silver-white light covered everything in a large area, leaving only this one color. It was so eye-catching!
"Chi!"
This ray of light began to shrink as it shot toward the Fire Origin Beast.
The Fire Origin Beast was terrified. Terror could be clearly seen in its intelligent eyes. Its body started to tremble. This was because Lucas's attack was terrifying, so much so that it was enough to split the clouds in the sky.
The Fire Origin Beast dug its four hooves fiercely into the ground, leaving deep scars as it tried to brace itself. Its entire body trembled uncontrollably. Its fear was palpable.
However, Lucas's sword strike was too powerful. It transformed into a massive dragon of silver light, swirling above the beast's head with unstoppable force. The radiant dragon coiled around the Fire Origin Beast, enveloping it entirely.
"Roar!"
Despite its desperate resistance, the beast could only let out an agonized roar before the overwhelming attack crushed it completely.
The Fire Origin Beast's body flared up once again, emitting blinding red flames, so intense that the surrounding temperature soared to a level that could incinerate anything. Everything flammable in the area was reduced to ashes, while the previously yellow ground, scorched by its every step, began to smoke and crumble into blackened charcoal.
But that wasn't all. A terrifying surge of energy gathered in the beast's silvery-white eyes, condensing into two brilliant beams of light. These beams were filled with destructive power as they shot out with explosive force. They seemed to be capable of slicing through anything in their path.
In an instant, they hurtled toward the dragon formed by Lucas's sword strike, threatening to tear it apart.
Lucas's eyes were filled with endless battle intent. With a cold face, he roared and slashed out with his sword again.
The dragon formed by the runes on the sword curled up and compressed strongly before turning into a ball of light. The ball of light was not big, but as it flew through the air, illuminating the dark forest as bright as day!
The two scarlet light beams were like gigantic waves as they pierced through the sky, the dragon formed from the runes on the sword also smashed down. Following that, the moment this terrifying light beam came into contact with the dragon, it instantly dissipated its might and was slowly devoured by the dragon, becoming shorter and shorter. At the same time, the dragon was getting closer and closer to the Fire Origin Beast!
The Fire Origin Beast finally started to tremble. It lost its courage to fight and dared not face the terrifying dragon. Hence it immediately turned around to flee. Unfortunately, the dragon was too fast and was even faster than lightning!
"Aowuu!"
The Fire Origin Beast shrieked miserably. Its entire body congealed into a ball of fire, desperately resisting the dragon. In the end, it was unable to resist and lost its life.
When the Fire Origin Beast died, the dragon also transformed into countless fragments of energy and dissipated in this air.
As for Lucas who was standing on the giant shield, his eyes suddenly dimmed, and his entire body was drenched in sweat. His vision went black, and he felt his hands go soft. Then he fell down from the top of the shield with a plop, not moving at all.
If one looks closely, one will find that the sword used by Lucas to unleash the previous attack had many cracks on it. With just a slight push, it would shatter into pieces.
He managed to kill the Fire Origin Beast only by reinforcing his sword with runes. Though he relied on the power of runes, it was still an impressive feat. After all, Lucas had slain a terrifying Star Beast on the verge of breaking through to the Blue Spirit Stage with just his Level 9 Second-tier strength. One could only imagine the tremendous amount of energy he expended to unleash that terrifying attack.
After unleashing his last attack, he lacked the strength to even lift a hand.
It was at this time a bloodied figure shakily walked over from afar. It was Aiden.
His entire body was pierced through by the ray of light, his flesh and blood were charred and he was in a terrible state. But he still stubbornly walked back and looked at Lucas who was lying on the ground.
Only after finding Lucas and confirming he was still alive did Aiden feel a wave of relief wash over him. He laughed softly, his tension easing, but moments later, his body began to tremble uncontrollably. His laughter quickly turned into a harsh, ragged cough, leaving him gasping for breath.
Lucas stared at Aiden. His heart felt strangely warm. He understood why Aiden was laughing. He suddenly felt the distance between him and Aiden being closed in an instant. He also accepted Aiden as his one true friend at this very moment.
He naturally knew that the reason why Aiden was injured like this was because he had run back here recklessly to help him fight against the Fire Origin Beast. Aiden could have left, but he had chosen to fight in order to help him.
Lucas knew his own trump card and that he wouldn't die no matter what, but how could Aiden know that? When he came back, he probably didn't even think about his own life and death!
No matter how heartless Lucas was, how could he not be moved?
Even though Aiden was unable to help him in the slightest in the end, just him not running away and coming back with the intention of helping by facing a beast several levels above him was enough for Lucas to feel deeply moved and grateful.
Aiden was very tired and heavily injured, so he leaned over a tree. But just as he was about to sit down and catch his breath, he heard rapid footsteps.
His heart suddenly shook as he stiffly twisted his neck. He looked back and felt a chill in his heart.
Dozens of figures suddenly appeared behind him. There were six Star Warriors in the second tier. The rest of the twenty-odd people were all Third-tier Star Warriors!
Aiden was at a loss. For a moment, he didn't know what to do. His heart went completely cold.
The two of them were severely injured and they didn't have any strength to fight anymore. The group coming over was powerful enough to crush them easily because of their current horrible state.
This was simply a dead end!
At this time, one of the leading Second-tier Star Warriors glanced at the huge corpse of the Fire Origin Beast on the ground, and his eyes lit up. From the corner of his eyes, he looked at Aiden and Lucas. Then his mouth raised as he sighed and spoke: "I was just thinking about how to deal with this Fire Origin Beast, but I never thought that it would actually get killed by someone here."
These people all sneered, their eyes full of contempt as they looked at Aiden and Lucas.
No one noticed that Lucas's eyes were cold and harsh. He calmly stuffed a tiny white ball, the size of a bean, into his mouth and slowly chewed it.
"Although I don't know how you two trash managed to do it, however, since we have come, everything here is ours!"
"As to not let the words get out of this forest, we have to kill you two!"
The leading Second-tier Star Warrior said indifferently while glancing at Aiden and Lucas with cold eyes. He did not take them seriously at all.
"Kill them!"
As these words left his mouth, two Level 7 Third-tier Star Warriors immediately rushed forward, looking at Aiden and Lucas with disdain and ready to kill them.