Chapter 59 Chapter 52: Flame Extinguished
The scorching blazes burned fiercely, the gathered light and heat sweeping and roaring like a ferocious tide. However, under the sword edge raised by the young girl, they were as fragile as thin satin.
The crimson blazing sword light burned and vanished. Under the sword light, the immense tide of flames collapsed, and the blazing fires fell.
Verafia swung the sword edge of fire, the burning sword light tearing across half the sky, cleaving downwards towards the Blazing Flame Tree standing behind the storm.
“Roar!!”
The Blazing Flame Demon Tree roared its final roar with all its might. However, the sound was far less powerful than before, mixed with immense fear amidst its weakness.
In the space almost completely engulfed by endless flames, the struggling tree vines launched their final attack at the young girl trapped within.
“I told you not to struggle so much in your death throes, what’s the point of suffering like this before dying… Oh well, I’m not petty. I’ll grant you release sooner.”
Verafia shook her head and said with a hint of disappointment. She waved her sword, and burning gold flames flowed along the blade. With every swing, large swathes of blazing fire were extinguished by her, along with the struggling branches and vines of her opponent, which were severed and fell to the ground.
In the rolling ocean of flames, everything around seemed to be burning, yet the young girl with golden long hair seemed to be strolling leisurely, casually extinguishing the last resistance of the Platinum Demon Tree.
Under the blazing sword light, the already dying Blazing Flame Demon Tree was weakened again and again. The girl’s sword swings prevented it from even self-detonating.
“Whoosh!”
The last remaining branch of the Blazing Flame Demon Tree was severed by the crimson sword light. Verafia raised her eyes and looked at the heavily weakened but still struggling treant, shaking her head slightly. She raised her flaming long sword and brought it down.
The bright red Lotus Flame swept out, its extreme high temperature far surpassing the resistance, completely erasing the last trace of life force from the demon tree. The Azure Crystal Fire Blast Tree trembled its incomparably miserable trunk one last time, let out a wail, and its massive body crashed heavily to the ground.
“This tree’s vitality is truly robust. It took so much effort from me at this stage…”
Watching the massive Blazing Flame Demon Tree fall heavily to the ground, the faintly burning Azure Crystal Flames on its body completely extinguished, Verafia waved her hand and dispersed the flaming long sword in her hand, her eyes lost in thought.
At this moment, having neared the life origin of the Dragon Crystal Flame Burst King Tree, Verafia could easily see that the aura on the opponent had a very similar connection to the Frost Barrier from before.
“Could it be that the guy who captured this demon tree here is the same dragon that watered it with its blood?”
Verafia turned her eyes, her pure white little hands supporting her cheeks as she speculated.
Verafia knew very well that such demon trees were mostly born only from the blood of dragons. This was also why she was able to extract a trace of dragon blood from the tree sap of the three Gold Rank demon trees before.
This was also why she had pulled Igort to a location in the Setting Sun Forest when she found out.
And for this already heavily wounded Blazing Flame Demon Tree to contend with her for so long, it could very well indicate that the quality of its life force was far from ordinary.
“Looking at it this way, this Blazing Flame Tree isn’t wild, but was raised by that dragon… However, that doesn’t seem right. Given this demon tree’s age of at least a hundred years, the dragon’s rank should only be around Platinum, right?”
A hint of confusion appeared on Verafia’s softly curved delicate face.
“Miss Verafia!”
A panting voice arrived.
Verafia turned her eyes to look at the young man running towards her. Igort was slightly out of breath, his black clothes stained with the green blood of a magical beast.
—This was likely the blood of a Silver Rank “little treant” that was blown near Igort by the exploding flames during the Blazing Flame Demon Tree’s desperate final attack. Although that treant attendant was also heavily wounded by the aftermath of the battle, its remaining strength was still enough to be considered an opponent of Igort’s level.
In the few breaths it took for Verafia to cleave down the flames, Igort Lintz Rantistorfen, the successor of the former Sword Saint Rotzair, the inheritor of the End, and the Phoenix maiden Verafia’s attendant, had fought an extremely fierce battle with this powerful treant that had followed the Blazing Flame Demon Tree.
If Verafia hadn’t suddenly noticed and casually thrown a fireball to burn this treant to death, Igort would likely have continued to fight for hundreds more rounds.
The young girl before him wore her dress as cleanly as ever, not a speck of dust clinging to it. Igort’s gaze couldn’t help but fall on her fair and exquisite little face, revealing a look of surprise.
“Eh, Igort, why are you looking at me like that? Is something the matter?”
Verafia noticed the young man’s gaze, and a look of confusion appeared on her turned face.
“Ah, it’s nothing… It’s just that I was thinking about how strong you are, Miss Verafia.”
Although Igort knew the young girl’s true identity and had witnessed her fighting prowess, Verafia’s performance just now had once again exceeded the boy’s imagination.
Igort turned his head to look at the massive remains of the Blazing Flame Demon Tree. Igort had never thought that a mere Platinum Rank Flame Burst King Tree would be a match for this Miss Phoenix.
However, what he never expected was that the young lady before him hadn’t even used her Phoenix innate bloodline and Platinum Rank power, but had merely used her displayed demonic power to so overwhelming defeat a Platinum Rank demon!
With Gold Rank strength, easily killing a Platinum Rank that far surpassed it! One had to know that the gap between Platinum Rank, which was above extraordinary, and Gold Rank was even greater than the distance between ordinary mortals and professionals!
Fighting across a rank without using innate abilities or bloodline… This was extremely rare even on the entire continent. What if she used her full strength?
Igort took a deep breath: Igort, calm down. You’re a seasoned individual, and this sort of thing has happened several times with this Miss Phoenix. There’s no need to be so surprised.
However, even though he thought this, Igort’s gaze towards the young girl couldn’t help but show its usual shock.
“Hmph, is this so difficult? I told you it was just a little treant!”
Seemingly very pleased with the boy’s shocked gaze, Verafia curved her eyes, crossed her little hands in front of her, and raised her delicate face triumphantly.
“But you asked about my strength… Well, of course, I’m the strongest in the world!”
PS: I originally planned to have the male protagonist show off as well, but then I thought he was just a supporting character, so I decided to just gloss over it.
