Chapter 688: Purify and Ascend in the Burning of Molten Lava!

"Ugly things... let the burning lava purify you and grant you ascension!"

Knight raised his hands high into the air.

A massive lava fireball, five meters in diameter, condensed above him before being hurled with tremendous force toward the densest cluster of Twisted Tree Spirits.

The lava fireball arced through the sky and descended from above, its thousands of degrees of heat causing all the Twisted Tree Spirits below to reveal expressions of sheer terror.

On their twisted trunks, mouths gaped open, letting out instinctive roars.

Some Tree Spirits, in their panic, lashed out with their vines at the incoming lava fireball, desperately attempting to intercept it or deflect it elsewhere.

Knight watched the Tree Spirits' desperate struggles, and a vicious smile spread across his lava-cracked face.

His right hand extended level, aimed directly at the lava fireball.

Just as the fireball reached the point directly above the Tree Spirits' heads, Knight's right hand clenched into a fist.

"Lava Burst... now... EXPLODE!"

In that instant.

The colossal lava fireball burst apart like a water balloon crushed in someone's grip, and scorching magma instantly blanketed an area dozens of meters in every direction.

It scattered into fiery red droplets that rained down upon the Twisted Tree Spirits.

This magma possessed unparalleled stickiness and penetrating power, and every single Tree Spirit became coated with countless splatters of lava.

Under the extreme heat, flames erupted.

The small droplets converged into masses, then transformed into raging infernos that ignited every Twisted Tree Spirit.

Goting and Merlin manifested flaming whips in their hands, standing guard beside Knight.

The Bronze-tier Ascetics transformed into living flames, launching continuous attacks on the Twisted Tree Spirits with the three as their core.

The ground boiled with molten lava, and thick black smoke mingled with a potent sulfur smell, blotting out the sky.

This group of Molten Believers had completely unleashed the nature of the Molten Demons within them, recklessly releasing their inner rage and pent-up energy.

Under their influence, the entire battlefield became a furnace of flames.

And those Twisted Tree Spirits were nothing more than fuel at the bottom of that furnace.

As they burned, they ignited even more of their kin.

Just as Knight and his group were preparing to continue harvesting the remaining Twisted Tree Spirits...

He suddenly looked up at the sky.

There, in the space between the two mirrored continents of the Reversal World, nine sword-like missiles streaked through the air, trailing plumes of flame as they flew into the distance.

"So it's begun?"

Knight looked at Goting and Merlin beside him.

"Speed it up. The Leader should have located the enemy's position."

"Haha, no problem!"

"This is what real combat feels like. Damn, this is incredible!"

Goting and Merlin roared with laughter.

It had been a long, long time since they'd experienced combat like this.

Under Knight's leadership, they were performing at an unprecedented level today.

The power of their lava far exceeded anything before.

And these enemies happened to be Tree Spirits, which they counter perfectly, so much so that the two of them were already getting carried away.

At that moment, Knight noticed over a dozen objects flying through the air toward them, landing all around their position.

The moment they hit the ground, they charged straight at them.

Looking closer, they turned out to be small Tree Spirits less than a meter tall.

"Careful!"

The words had barely left his mouth when these Tree Spirits self-destructed amid shrill squealing sounds.

Their juices splashed onto Knight, and the lava on his body underwent a chemical reaction in an instant.

His body stiffened, and the lava emitted an eerie green glow.

Although he quickly returned to normal, the Bronze-tier Ascetics weren't so fortunate.

Screams of agony rang out, and Knight turned to look.

On the Ascetics' bodies, wherever the juices had splashed, green flames had risen.

These green flames spread at terrifying speed, threatening to engulf their entire bodies.

"Hmph!"

Knight snorted coldly.

He raised his right hand, and a flame ignited in his palm.

Unlike before, this flame glowed with a reddish hue.

It was the life energy he had gathered through his newly comprehended [Blood Burn].

He hurled this flame toward the Ascetics.

The Ascetics were engulfed in the red flames, and the rapidly spreading green fire was immediately suppressed.

It shrank step by step until, under the encirclement of the flames, it was completely extinguished.

Knight's gaze followed in the direction the small Tree Spirits had come from.

There, deep within the mass of Twisted Tree Spirits, stood a colossal Tree Spirit over thirty meters tall.

Compared to ordinary Tree Spirits, this giant one appeared far more ancient.

Those exploding small Tree Spirits had been hurled over by this very creature.

It stared at Knight, opened its gaping maw, and let out a furious roar. The next moment, dozens of vines rose from its canopy, coiled around over a dozen small Tree Spirits, and hurled them over once again.

The small Tree Spirits shrieked shrilly as they flew through the air.

But Knight's flames had already surged back to life. He strode forward, charging straight at the giant Tree Spirit.

Fireballs ignited the small Tree Spirits mid-air.

Goting and Merlin lashed their flaming whips, charging forward closely behind Knight.

"Leader, the situation isn't looking good."

Yu Yuan looked at the information and images sent by Alpha.

He couldn't help but draw a sharp breath.

Those six ancient forests that had been struck by Tak's beams had all come to life.

Truly, genuinely come to life.

One after another, towering ancient trees pulled their roots from the ground, bearing twisted, ferocious faces as they left the forests and surged toward the city.

The trees in those forests were already ancient and mighty, and some special species had canopies that blotted out the sky itself.

Now that they had all been animated, each one stood forty to fifty meters tall, enough to make even Yu Yuan feel a sense of dread.

"Alpha, take down Tak's High Tower immediately. Since these Tree Spirits were created by him, as long as we capture him, we might be able to deal with these Tree Spirits."

"Understood, Leader!"

The launch countdown echoed in Alpha's ears as well.

"Launch Vehicle 1, countdown: 3... 2... 1... FIRE!"

Launch Vehicle 1's smoke engulfed the ground as the tactical nuclear missile erupted skyward with a torrent of flame.

But it wasn't over. Fifteen seconds later, Launch Vehicle 2's nuclear missile completed its launch.

Inside the Command Armored Vehicle, Alpha watched the crystal lighting up once more on that high tower, his eyes narrowing slightly.

"Launch Vehicles 3, 4, and 5, on my command. Target coordinates: the high tower. All fire."

"Sir, yes!"

As the final three tactical nuclear missiles soared into the sky, all the Warriors of the Pioneering Group received Alpha's order to prepare for battle.

Everyone knew this would be an unprecedentedly brutal fight, and they all steeled themselves for it.

Habaar wore an excited expression.

"Baku, I finally get to test out my new ability!"

Baku flexed his hands and grinned as well.

"Yeah, I'm looking forward to it too."

His gaze turned toward the direction of the forest.

The entire Pioneering Group mobilized at Alpha's command.

On the main battlefield, Knight led the Molten Believers in a charge straight toward the giant Tree Spirit.

Everywhere they passed, the ground transformed into molten lava.

"For the Lord of Molten Flame, let the lava purify this world!"

Knight shouted his battle cry.

He plunged his hand beneath the magma, and a longsword forged from condensed lava materialized in his grasp.

"The Lord of Molten Flame grants me power!"

"You dogs of the Blood Duke, taste the temperature of lava!"

He swung the longsword with all his might at the trunk of the giant Tree Spirit...