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Chapter 1088 - Chapter 1088 Chapter 1090 King of Flames_1

Chapter 1088: Chapter 1090: King of Flames_1 Chapter 1088: Chapter 1090: King of Flames_1 Gazing at the opposite bank not far away, the robot Nafiboja showed a deep sense of regret in its eyes. This was the closest it had ever come to success, just needing to cross the Primordial Sea to reach the other side, where no existence could threaten it anymore. Unfortunately, its legs had stopped responding, no longer able to support its body.

Just as it was about to crash heavily into the lava, a dark shadow swept across from above, grabbing its neck and yanking it out of the lava.

Glancing at Song Jian behind it, with Flame Light Wings flickering, the robot Nafiboja couldn’t help but say, “I remember warning you, in this Primordial Sea, you shouldn’t use your flight ability. It’ll attract the Flame King…”

“Attracting the Flame King doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll die, but if we don’t use the flight ability, you’ll definitely die here!” Song Jian cut off Nafiboja before it could finish.

“You’re still thinking about completing the escort mission? Heh…” Nafiboja, with a mocking smile on its face, continued, “Among the three hundred and seventy-nine escort missions, you’ve come the closest to success. You should be proud, but to complete this mission might cost you your life. You have no idea how terrifying the Flame King is…”

“Are you saying this escort mission has no chance of success?” Song Jian asked, gazing down at Nafiboja as sparks flew off its body.

“Current success rate, 0.28%…” laughed the robot Nafiboja, “Next time, I will further improve the running and jumping capabilities of my legs…”

Before Nafiboja could finish, the lava in the Primordial Sea suddenly began to churn violently, and a muffled roar, faintly audible from within the lava, reached them.

“The Flame King has been alerted to our presence, you won’t be able to escape…” Nafiboja fell silent for a moment, then sighed and said, “Initially, you had the chance to leave this place. What a pity…”

At that moment, Song Jian was less than three hundred meters away from the opposite shore of the Primordial Sea, but soon he felt a spine-chilling threat emanating from the sea of lava beneath him.

Thud thud thud~

One after another, thick arms emerged from the churning lava, reaching for him.

These arms looked nearly identical, with blackish-brown wrinkled skin layered one above the other, covered by a thick layer of keratin tissue. Three fingers had evolved into bone blades, glinting with a metallic chill; the scorching lava trickled down the wrinkled skin and keratin tissue, making them resemble the arms of demons.

The arms moved deceptively fast, and in front of them, Song Jian seemed like a desperately dodging mosquito. The giant waves of lava lifted by the arms made him feel like he had nowhere to escape to.

“You won’t get away. The current attack strength is less than one-tenth of the Flame King’s power. When it fully awakens, there’s no chance you’ll escape!” said Nafiboja, its legs already useless and its body intermittently sparking, in a mechanical voice, “Leave me behind, and you could move a bit faster. While it’s not fully awake yet, you still have a chance to leap away. Forget about completing the escort mission, you have no chance this time…”

“Shut up!” Song Jian shouted as he raised his hand, and the Sky-breaking Sword appeared in his palm, swinging at the arm reaching for him.

A golden sword light spread forth, fiercely slicing a nearly one-meter-long gash into the arm, from which scalding dark red blood sprayed out. A muffled scream rose from beneath the lava as the severed arm trembled violently, flailing about uncontrollably in every direction.

“The more damage you cause it, the quicker it will awaken…” the robot Nafiboja continued to say.

“I said, ‘Shut up!’ If you can’t offer any better suggestions and only know how to throw cold water on everything, then please shut your mouth!” Song Jian appeared somewhat irritated. He wasn’t adept at aerial combat, and with his left hand out of commission, wielding the Sky-breaking Sword with only one hand limited him to 70% of his strength. Most importantly, these arms in front of him weren’t even the Flame King’s true body–without a target to lock onto, he couldn’t even deploy the Karmic Fire Red Lotus Sword Formation.

The way forward was completely blocked by a dense thicket of flailing arms. At a glance, there were at least a hundred arms obstructing his path, making it impossible for even the Flame Light Wings’ dodging capabilities to navigate through them.

“Since you won’t show your true self, I’ll force you out, Thousand Swords Art!” With a swing of his right hand, hundreds of Spirit Swords flew towards the thick mass of arms. In no time, a series of violent explosions thundered, and dozens of arms were severed, falling into the seething magma below.

Without activating the Red Lotus Sword Array, the ordinary Thousand Swords Art wasn’t particularly effective. Song Jian dodged the oncoming arms while waiting for the cooldown of the Thousand Swords Art ability.

An arm of the Flame King formed into a fist and smashed toward Song Jian, who swiftly fanned his Flame Light Wings and cast the Mysterious Moonlight Sword on another arm. His figure turned into a streak of light, dodging the attack.

In the moment he was about to pierce another arm, Song Jian immediately cancelled the skill and rapidly retreated.

Boom!

A loud explosion erupted, making the Primordial Sea within a radius of dozens of meters suddenly boil, the rolling magma gushing upwards and splattering a large area, enveloping Song Jian inside it.

Crack, crack~

A series of intense breaking sounds rang out as the robot Nafiboja’s body began to crack open, its torso tearing into palm-sized fragments that slowly fell into the magma. In the end, only a head remained, which Song Jian caught in his hand.

Song Jian’s heart sank, and he quickly opened the mission panel to check. The escort mission had not failed, much to his relief.

“Its most critical part must be the head. As long as I can get it out of Scorching Gorge, that should count as completing the mission, although the completion rating won’t be too high…” Song Jian thought to himself. He tried to put the head into his inventory slot, but a system prompt said it couldn’t be stored in the inventory. He had no choice but to give up and tightly grasped it in his hand.

This fiery outburst cost Song Jian over 2,000 Vitality Points, leaving him with a “Burning” condition that drained 230 Vitality Points per second for thirty seconds;

Song Jian took out a potion from his inventory to remove negative effects and quickly swallowed it, dispelling the Burning condition, then continued to launch attacks on the arms with the Thousand Swords Art.

Soon, dozens of the Flame King’s arms were severed by Song Jian and dropped into the magma, but even more arms emerged, waving within hundreds of meters all around, shrinking the space available for Song Jian to dodge even further.

Just then, Song Jian suddenly saw a gigantic eye emerge on the surface of the Primordial Sea beneath him. The eye was over thirty meters long with a large pupil in the center that emitted a gloomy light, staring intently at Song Jian as he flew and dodged in the air, like a beast eyeing its prey.

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