One Barnos after another resisted the tornado's pull, frantically beating their wings to get away, dodging the meteor fire rain, and seeking a slim chance at life in the onrushing high heat.
The surrounding volcanoes seemed to be tugged by it and began erupting on a large scale.
On the ground, the monsters locked in battle abandoned their opponents without the slightest hesitation, screaming in terror as they dashed toward solution caves, lava caves, and the areas beneath arched basalt.
The lava from volcanic eruptions was a small matter, but if one were struck by that meteor shower, then even with the constitutions of the monsters of the Elder's Recess, they would suffer no light injuries.
In such chaos, the entire Elder's Recess seemed to have reached the end of the world.
In the basalt zone far from the battlefield, Aki and the Flame Rathalos were stirred to their cores and could not help but throw back their heads and roar to the sky.
In another area, the Kushala Daora awoke from slumber and looked toward the distant scene, pensive.
And within a highland pit cave in the basalt, Lunastra gnashed its teeth—because this flame tornado was so very similar to the flame tornado whipped up by Kushala Daora's twister during its battle with Kushala Daora. At the thought of that hot-tempered iron fellow, Lunastra's mood worsened.
Even merely outside the flame tornado, such anomalies had already been caused.
Inside the tornado, the Savage Deviljho felt it even worse.
Even with full power unleashed, relying on the absolute suppression of other attribute energies by Dragon-element energy so that it would not be suppressed to death by the flame tornado, those flames that did not count as burning and the gale still bound its steps fast.
Moreover, the master of this world of flames was still hidden within the fire itself.
[Bzzz!]
Even the howling gale could not drown out that high-frequency sound that rang out once more.
The Savage Deviljho kept changing the direction it faced, trying to locate the source of the sound. It spat Dragon-element energy from its mouth, but after piercing through the flames, it found it had struck nothing again.
[Zzt!]
A faint sound of air being sliced suddenly came from behind. Logan's figure emerged from within the flame tornado.
On his twin wings, the Calamity Flame was driven by the airflow, compressed, and transformed into dazzling white!
His wings flapped somewhat stiffly, and upon closer look, they were trembling at a high frequency within the airflow.
Both wings turned into pure white wings of light, and in the instant the Savage Deviljho turned its head, they sliced upward from below, cutting through the air like blades.
The white radiance was the manifestation of extreme heat—scorching flame turned to blade—easily cutting through skin as hard as steel or iron. Even with the mutual neutralization of Dragon-element energies, it still could not stop the Heatblade Wings from slicing open the inner flesh and tearing apart muscle tissue.
Not a single drop of blood flowed, for before it could, the wound had already been heat-sealed in the intense temperature. The excess flesh and tissue were reduced to ash within the white light.
Only after the Savage Deviljho toppled over did it finally feel the intense pain. The wounds, which had congealed into cooked flesh, were forced open again by the surging Dragon-element energy. A great spray of blood erupted, instantly evaporated by the flames in the air.
"Rooaar!!!"
The painful roar, mingled with the howling of the tornado, entered Logan's ears.
At this time, Logan, who had struck successfully with one blow, was already waving his light wings and reentering the tornado.
Heatblade Wings—this was the new move Logan had developed during this period, based on the traits of Gale Wings, Marvel Scale, and Charred Body, designed to compensate for the weakness of his bipedal body's close combat capability underfoot and wing.
Gale Wings finely controlled airflow to compress the flames and achieve high-frequency vibration.
The flame body under Calamity Flame could further release highly flammable bodily fluid of even higher temperature.
The Marvel Scale provided defensive Dragon-element energy on the scales, isolating the backlash from the compressed Calamity Flame.
Thus was this new move's development realized.
And judging from how easily it broke through the Savage Deviljho's Dragon-element-imbued defense and dealt significant damage, this move's power even surpassed Logan's original expectations.
The damage dealt by this strike of Logan's would be almost fatal to an ordinary monster, at the very least greatly impairing its mobility.
But for the Savage Deviljho, its complex and numerous muscle groups, even when destroyed to such an extent, still did not affect its combat power; it even retained a trace of reason, and did not squeeze its own life force to obtain greater combat strength.
Yet that sliver of reason also began to vanish with the passage of time, under Logan's unceasing attacks, and amid the omnipresent Calamity Flame Twister.
Although the ever more saturated Dragon-element could help it offset most of the damage from the Calamity Flame, that Dragon-element energy at this moment was like scalding hot oil, constantly scorching every corner inside its body, and the wounds that would not heal for a long time tormented its reason.
Even though it was now on guard against Logan's heat-blade wings and did not suffer a blow as heavy as that first strike, when facing Logan, who came and went like a ghost within the sea of fire, it could only take a beating passively, utterly unable to form an effective defense; it could not even manage to charge out of the Calamity Flame Twister's area.
As the number of wounds kept increasing, the burning sensation inside and out and the sense of its life being threatened grew heavier and heavier; the Savage Deviljho's eyes were completely covered by blood-red.
All the wounds sprayed out large amounts of fresh blood in unison, and great quantities of Dragon-element energy gushed out along with it!
Within a mist of black and red laced with electric arcs, it was already impossible to tell what was blood and what was Dragon-element energy!
Under the mixture of blood and energy, even the omnipresent Calamity Flame could not clear it away at the first moment.
The faint smell of blood was inhaled by the Savage Deviljho into its nasal passages, which had already become burning hot.
At this moment, as if a key had opened some mechanism, the string in the Savage Deviljho called rationality finally snapped completely.
Its eyes were bloodshot, emitting a scarlet glow.
A great amount of life force turned into Dragon-element energy; its endocrine system lost all control; its metabolic capacity was cranked to the maximum; its blood production ran at full speed, madly replenishing the blood it had lost.
With a hoarse, skyward roar, the Savage Deviljho was like a demon emerging from the abyss; countless streams of Dragon-element energy surged out.
At the price of life force, in an extremely short time it in turn suppressed the flames beside it.
Logan, who had originally been diving down, instantly halted his figure; although Dragon-element energy was also circulating within his scales now, such dense Dragon-element energy was something he did not wish to touch.
Moreover, as the black-and-red mist spewed forth, even the sky-piercing Calamity Flames melted away like snow amid such quantities of Dragon-element energy. The enormous Calamity Flame Twister slowly vanished from bottom to top, and the apocalyptic rain of fiery meteors finally came to a stop. Only the thick clouds still remained; under the continuous rumble of thunder, the air pressure felt somewhat oppressive.
"It's begun? The Dragon-element Saturation State!"
Logan rose back into the air, the pure-white light wings slowly fading, reverting once more into wings burning with Calamity Flames.
Gazing down at the black-and-red mist that had replaced the Calamity Flames and now blanketed the entire field, he sighed inwardly that the Savage Deviljho had finally entered this state, and his expression also grew more cautious.
After all, this was a monster of Elder Dragon class—under favorable compatibility, even ordinary Elder Dragons were not the Savage Deviljho's match in a short span of time.
And the cost of this state was life—burning vast amounts of life force!
Each time the state was activated, its already out-of-control metabolism would edge closer to collapse.
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