"Burn a path?"
Everyone found it hard to believe.
"Does Lord mean using that huge fireball from before to roll out a path?", Bird Three asked in confusion, "But we're still so high above the ground. By the time that huge fireball rolls all the way down, it'll probably have gone out."
"That's right! Even if it doesn't go out, it'll probably shatter into pieces from the fall. Isn't that a bit..."
Although Bird One and the others all believed that their Lord was invincible, their limited understanding also told them that in this situation, relying on a single Great Fireball to burn a path seemed impossible.
Ethan only smiled without explaining. He simply raised the Starry Sky Stone Staff in his hand and pointed it into the air.
"Let the rain fall!"
Countless Great Fire Rain spells instantly fell toward the ground like a rainstorm.
Bird One and the others were stunned by Ethan's move.
'So... What Lord meant by burning a path isn't using a giant Great Fireball to roll out a path at all.'
'He is simply going to make it rain fire and burn away the spore slime below.'
Since the goblin world was underground, the light was already dim.
It relied entirely on glowing stones built into the goblin structures, or the lights in each household, for illumination.
So... the countless Great Fire Rain spells falling from above actually gave people the beautiful feeling of fireworks blooming.
Balls of fire fell one after another.
Each one that landed on the ground splashed into a burst of flames.
And the slime would instantly be burned back, retreating again and again.
A huge area of slime was immediately burned full of hole after hole.
Even so, it was still too slow.
Ethan looked at the slime below and frowned.
"Great Fire Rain!"
"Great Fire Rain!"
"Great Fire Rain!"
He cast the Fire Rain spell three more times in succession.
This was the limit of his mental power, and also the limit of the fire element in this area.
No matter what kind of magic was used, it required gathering a certain element from the air. For example, Great Fireball required gathering the fire element from the air.
But there was only so much fire element in one area. Once it was used up, it was gone.
He had to wait for the elements from other areas to slowly flow in, or for the other four elements to cycle and produce new fire elements before the fire element in the area could recover again.
But that was very slow.
So...
Casting Great Fire Rain four times in a row was already the limit of the fire element that could be gathered in this area.
But it had to be said... the feeling of casting Great Fire Rain four times at once... was that his mind had been drained dry, and his body had been drained dry.
But it was also... so beautiful.
Crackle! Crackle!
Countless fireballs rained down from the sky like a torrential downpour hitting the ground.
In an instant, they washed the entire sticky ground clean.
Fireballs of this intensity even burned away the remaining slime, along with the dried goblin corpses.
"It really... burned everything clean?"
Bird One looked at the clean ground below once more, completely dumbfounded.
Bird Two and the others nodded repeatedly, "Lord, since everything below has been burned clean, let us carry you down!"
After all, the only ones here who could fly were the three of them.
And where they were now was the edge of a cliff.
The "spirit lifts" left behind by the goblins already looked unreliable, and after this rain of fire, they looked even more battered.
If they broke halfway down, how dangerous would that be.
"No need. Just help me carry Daji down," Ethan flicked the cloak behind him and, looking completely at ease, stepped out into midair, "I'll walk the rest of the way myself!"
"Lord, be careful!"
"Ah!"
"Lord, there's a cliff below!"
When Bird One and the others saw Ethan step straight into empty air, they all cried out in alarm.
The next moment, each of them instantly transformed into birds, intending to rescue their Lord.
But in the very next second, they all stopped flapping in midair, frozen in place.
Because their Lord was already walking down.
Actually walking down the cliff, as though there were an invisible path beneath his feet.
Bird One and the others were all extremely curious how their Lord had done it.
They flew to the place where he had stepped and kept trying to touch the invisible path with their bird claws.
Unfortunately, they grasped nothing.
There really was nothing where their Lord had just walked.
Nothing existed there at all.
"How amazing!"
Everyone exclaimed.
Ethan, meanwhile, picked up speed and began running through the air.
The feeling of his whole body being light was truly wonderful.
But as Ethan became more and more skilled at controlling the cloak, he discovered that he could control the thickness of the air beneath his feet.
The thinner the air beneath his feet, the faster he fell.
The air beneath his feet, for short, foot air, the thicker the foot air, the slower he fell.
When the foot air became thick enough, his body would stop falling altogether and simply hover in midair.
But hovering consumed a large amount of air, greatly shortening the cloak's flying time.
That was why it could only keep him flying upward for ten breaths, while gliding downward could last as long as an hour.
It was really just a matter of how much air was used.
Flap! Flap!
Flap! Flap! Flap!
After the Birdfolk trio saw that their Lord could fly as well, they all let out a long sigh of relief.
Looking at their all-powerful Lord with eyes full of admiration, they felt their earlier worries had been unnecessary.
At the same time, they silently prayed that their Lord would land safely.
Following their Lord's instructions, two of them each grabbed one of Daji's hands and carried her through the air.
After Ethan flew down the cliff, however, he didn't land immediately.
Instead, he continued flying forward in the direction indicated by the Prophetic Statue.
Because... Flying was faster than walking.
But unexpectedly, the place indicated by the Prophetic Statue was actually inside the collapsed palace.
In one corner of the ruined palace, countless green vines had spread everywhere.
The red line pointed straight into the vines.
But before Ethan continued forward, he saw countless red exclamation marks, hanging all over the green vines like densely packed red fruit.
[Bloodsucking Vine: Once a human or animal touches the fine hairs on a Bloodsucking Vine, it will trigger the vine's attack. It will bind the target and suck its blood until death! Every Bloodsucking Vine is nourished with human blood.]
[P.S.: The Bloodsucking Vine's seed is buried in the main root beneath it. It must be removed the instant the Bloodsucking Vine withers. Once the Bloodsucking Vine has completely withered, the seed will die along with it!]L