At this moment, Heavenly Fire finally realized there was something seriously wrong with this Blood Demon—was it really an Assassin?
Yes! But where did such overwhelming Strength come from? Was it from equipment or item buffs?
Impossible! She herself wore six pieces of Epic Equipment and wielded a Legendary Specialized Weapon.
She was already infinitely close to the “Second King Tier,” the eleventh rank that the gods had sealed away.
It was impossible for anyone to surpass her by equipment alone!
Although she couldn’t see her system panel, Heavenly Fire had learned from the gods that in this world, leveling up followed a point-allocation mechanism: with each level, you could only add points to one attribute.
There was no way to be an all-rounder.
Take Truth’s main account, for example.
Even though her Agility, stacked by various buffs, had reached over 9,000 points—standing above all others—her Faith was only at nine points, worse than even a low-ranked Priest.
If you didn’t allocate points to it, level was just a number.
But in the current situation, the Blood Demon was clearly a Magic Assassin.
She should have been crazily stacking Magic, Intelligence, and Agility—there couldn’t have been many extra points to put into Strength at all!
So Heavenly Fire was utterly confused: how was the Blood Demon able to match her head-on in Strength?!
You had to understand, since reaching the ninth tier, Heavenly Fire had been manically training her Strength.
Counting one point per level, she’d added nineteen points to Strength alone, not to mention the many buffs and equipment bonuses.
She easily had at least twenty-five or even thirty points.
Yet the Blood Demon was able to go toe-to-toe with her.
Her Magic Power even matched Heavenly Fire’s, and her Agility was several times greater—a level completely unattainable at the ninth tier!
And as if that wasn’t enough, this creature could read her battle intentions from start to finish! It was as if they’d fought hundreds of times before.
The moment Heavenly Fire raised her left pincer to unleash Gravity Shock, the Blood Demon instantly leapt behind her, perfectly dodging the attack.
When she tried to use Earthshaker to dive underground and create distance, the Blood Demon dodged Earthshaker’s control with her elongated tentacles, then grabbed Heavenly Fire’s tail to keep the fight close.
Even when Heavenly Fire finally managed to inflict Heavenly Fire—the curse even the gods dreaded—the Blood Demon decisively cut off her own burning limb to continue her assault, despite the debuff…
She hadn’t even used many Assassin skills! If anything, she’d been holding back against Heavenly Fire!
Yes, Truth didn’t know much about Heavenly Fire, the incarnation of the Disaster’s will, but she’d already fought eighty or a hundred Heavenfire Scorpions.
So, after their first collision, she immediately wrapped herself around Heavenly Fire’s pincers and tail, giving her no chance to cast magic, while at the same time casting a Curse highly effective against Heavenly Fire to suppress her regeneration.
You don’t even know I’m countered by a Soul-type Burning Blood Curse?! What kind of joke is this!
Unable to recover health quickly, Heavenly Fire panicked.
Just a few exchanges later, Truth had forced her crashing into the Volcano, keeping her suppressed in a near-dead state.
High-tier battles usually lasted hours, but less than half a minute had passed, and the Level 109 King Rank Heavenly Fire’s life force was already flickering like a candle in the wind.
She must be hacking!
And not only that—she’d even seen through all her trump cards! How the hell was this supposed to be fair?!
To this, Truth just shrugged. “Is having high stats hacking?”
After all, this wasn’t an arena where Players’ stats were capped for fairness; this was a free Dungeon where only ability mattered!
Actually, Truth’s base Agility was just over 4,500 points.
But with all sorts of passive and skill buffs, plus a bunch of “special extra points” earned from endless, stinky, convoluted side quests, she’d forcibly stacked Agility to 9,000!
She checked her other stats, too—except for Faith, which was useless to her.
Just like those notoriously hated yet addictively popular trash MMOs, in PVE Dungeons, Players could stack their stats however they liked, cleaving BOSSes so hard their IDs fell off.
But in PVP arenas, stats were capped to keep things fair, at most letting you buy a skin for a measly +10 Attack.
But here in the Disaster Dungeon, Huoyun Island, there was no restriction on any of Truth’s buffs.
She was a truly overpowered monster, able to crush the Final Boss Michael of Firefall Island without even using her full 9,000 Agility!
And since Heavenly Fire wasn’t system-classified as a Player, PVP restrictions didn’t apply.
This fight was a pure PVE showdown—no holds barred.
The reason Truth didn’t use Assassin skills was that she was afraid a second Stealth Attack would instantly kill the big scorpion.
The first Stealth Attack had been half-absorbed by Heavenly Fire’s Disaster Red Dress, so Truth immediately changed tactics, planning to capture this little scorpion alive.
After all, she was wearing the Tortoise Set—such a life-saving choice meant Heavenly Fire must have some resurrection trick ready.
Truth didn’t want to kill her now only for her to revive at full strength a few days later, bringing other King Rank elites to point at her and shout:
“That’s the one!”
So, capturing her alive was the safest bet.
However, Heavenly Fire realized Truth was deliberately holding back. What did this mean—was she being humiliated?
Ha! Who would have thought that, as one of the Five Great Cataclysms, she’d be humiliated by a Demon one day…
If that’s how it is…
Under the onslaught of Truth’s six coordinated tentacle strikes, the suppressed stinger at the tip of Heavenly Fire’s tail suddenly glowed red.
In an instant, an overwhelming force blanketed the entire Huoyun Island!
“Hmm?”
Blood Demon Truth tilted her head. This aura… a Legendary Weapon?
At the same time, far in the distance, Ariel spotted the Legendary Weapon’s red glow and leapt to her feet, rushing away at full speed:
“Heavenly Fire-sama is using the Multidimensional Bow without hesitation—this is bad!”
Ariel remembered her Teacher saying that decades ago, Heavenly Fire-sama had battled a tenth-tier Great Octopus in Earthsea.
In the end, relying on the Legendary Weapon “Multidimensional Bow,” she’d vaporized all of Earthsea. Half the Continent had felt the aftershocks!
“Click!”
Now, Heavenly Fire revealed her ultimate weapon once again.
Her massive scorpion tail shuddered like a hot weapon being loaded.
Instantly, the entire Huoyun Island fell into a deathly silence.
“First of all, I am not a crawling beast!”
In the next second, a Heavenly Fire Beam capable of melting anything shot out from her tail!
Truth dodged at once, but a second Heavenly Fire Beam quickly followed, then a third, a fourth, a fifth… up to the twelfth!
A full twelve Heavenly Fire Beams fired at once, slicing through all of Truth’s blood webs and three tentacles.
With the beams so densely packed, Truth couldn’t block them and could only put distance between herself and Heavenly Fire for now.
But even after pulling away, Heavenly Fire didn’t stop firing.
The twelve beams reflected at impossible angles, chasing Truth relentlessly.
Heavenly Fire then used gravity control to levitate the surrounding rocks, her eight massive legs stabbing into the ground to wildly draw the island’s energy into herself.
Breaking free from Truth, Heavenly Fire immediately applied every buff she had.
Her aura grew stronger and stronger; crimson lava coursed over her body, and tough Celestial Fire Gems continuously formed on her carapace.
“Second… I am Disaster!”
As the will of Disaster, Heavenly Fire was no ordinary Heavenfire Scorpion. She was a Heavenfire Scorpion who could wear equipment—and had a Legendary Weapon to boot!
“Roar!”
Heavenly Fire let out a sky-shaking roar, sending another twelve beams shooting from all over her body.
Now twenty-four Heavenly Fire Beams formed a flawless net, suppressing Truth as she dodged in the air.
Heavenly Fire’s body temperature soared—wherever she passed, even the heat-resistant Firefall stones began to melt!
“Boom! Boom! Boom!”…
Powered by the entire island, Heavenly Fire’s health quickly regenerated despite the curse, and her magic was inexhaustible!
She could unleash skills at will—and could fire off twenty-four different skills simultaneously!
One second, it was twenty Heavenly Fire Beams.
The next, it was twelve overlapping gravity pulls and twelve high-tier flame waves, unleashing massive area-of-effect attacks!
This was one of the signature traits of the “Multidimensional Bow,” known as the Spell Gatling Gun: it could release twenty-four independent skills at once!
In just ten seconds, Heavenly Fire unleashed nearly two hundred skills.
The whole Huoyun Island trembled on the brink of collapse, its center almost splitting apart from the gravity distortions!
“Running away like a rat!”
“Where’s all that arrogance you had just now?!”
“Come face me head-on if you dare!”…
Heavenly Fire taunted the increasingly desperate Truth as she dodged above.
This was her home turf. With endless energy from Huoyun Island, she could keep casting high-tier spells until Truth’s magic was utterly drained!
In less than five minutes, under Heavenly Fire’s mad barrage, one of the explosions finally hit Truth, slowing her speed and scattering her body in midair.
Heavenly Fire then ramped up her casting speed to the Multidimensional Bow’s limit, bombarding Truth without pause:
“I’ll tear you to pieces!”
But as she blasted apart Truth’s clones in the sky, Truth’s real body suddenly appeared above Heavenly Fire, her liquid form weaving through a hail of attacks!
Heavenly Fire reacted fast, but Truth’s absurd 9,000 Agility let her tear through the firepower behind Heavenly Fire and, braving the searing heat, land another Stealth Attack.
This strike broke through all of Heavenly Fire’s fresh defenses—her half-recovered health bar was instantly emptied.
“Just how the hell do you have so many damn skills? Will it ever end?!”