Chapter 21: The Cage and the Fire Dragon

Beside the fish tank.

The gray mist surged, with faint human figures emerging within it.

Carlos Radner narrowed his eyes slightly, trying to discern any clues from within.

Yet the mist seemed to possess some innate powerful barrier, rendering Carlos Radner's perception fruitless.

"A friend once gave me a transcendent piece of equipment, and I used it as a fish tank."

A slightly hoarse voice sounded in the mist.

"Actually, back then I thought I could raise goldfish or something in my spare time, but unfortunately, I never had any leisure time."

"I have to say, this fish tank of yours is pretty good."

"You didn't come here just to talk about such boring things, did you?" Carlos Radner casually clasped his hands together while gently stroking the ruby ring on his ring finger.

"Of course not."

"Then what is your purpose, sir?"

Carlos Radner could not confirm the identity of this mysterious visitor who had come uninvited, and naturally did not know whether the other was friend or foe.

"You."

Guné said succinctly.

Hearing this, Carlos Radner's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Me?"

"Yes, your head." Gune laughed with a hint of amusement.

Carlos Radner's face immediately darkened.

This mysterious person was ultimately an enemy.

"If you want to kill me, then I suppose you should have laid a careful trap, rather than foolishly entering my house directly."

As Carlos Radner's words rang out,

flames appeared at his feet, then quickly spread to his legs, torso, and then his arms and head were also engulfed in fire.

The flames burned out, Carlos Radner had vanished entirely, and the fire spread in all directions. The floor, desk, bookshelf, walls, and curtains all caught fire.

Even the fish tank beside Gune was quickly ignited; in less than two seconds, the fish inside had turned belly-up.

The entire house rapidly turned into a sea of flames.

"Dragon!" A ethereal voice, full of supreme authority, rang out sharply.

Roar—

A furious roar, as if from the abyss, exuded the deterrent force of a higher lifeform.

This deterrent might work on ordinary creatures, but for Gune, it was hard to say who was intimidating whom.

A flaming dragon quickly materialized from the rising flames and lunged at Gune, jaws wide open.

Gune lightly tapped his foot, nimbly evading the attack of the flaming dragon.

"Crunch..."

The flaming dragon's bite shattered the fish tank and the wall behind it into pieces.

The hard black stone wall was as fragile as tofu in the flaming dragon's mouth.

The shattered wall revealed the flame barrier inside.

"Dear guest from afar, I have already constructed a flame prison for you within this house. Enjoy the flames of the hellfire dragon!" The voice came from all directions, making it impossible to pinpoint Carlos Radner's exact location.

In fact, Gune had known upon entering that the house was filled with various arrangements.

Yet Gune still entered.

A Grandmaster was not easy to kill—Gune had learned this from many texts and from the words of other powerful beings.

Previously, when Gune was at the sixth rank of Transcendence, he already possessed the lethality of a Grandmaster.

But his methods lacked strangeness and diversity; if the opponent wanted to escape, Gune clearly had no way to stop them.

Now that he had ascended to the seventh rank of Transcendence, his methods for dealing with Grandmasters had undergone a transformative leap in strangeness and diversity.

Therefore, Gune took the initiative to enter, precisely to have a good bout with Carlos Radner, who was at the mid-stage of the seventh rank of Transcendence.

Only by continuously sparring with many Grandmasters and gaining an in-depth understanding of their various techniques could Gune better slay them.

"A seventh-rank fire elemental is not easy to deal with." After evading the attack, Gune's gaze swept over the fire dragon repeatedly.

"Roar!"

Having missed its target, the elemental fire dragon let out a furious roar.

Immediately after, it suddenly spat out a blast.

"Whoosh—"

A scorching, near-white flame burst forth from its mouth.

At the same time, six glowing swords, each one meter and twenty centimeters long, formed from the Light Sword spell, flew out together.

Normally, once a spell was cast, it would be directly sent to attack the enemy.

But these six light swords, after flying out, could be completely and easily manipulated by Gunei.

A domain caster, combined with the World Mystery, had control over the surrounding world.

This had also brought about a fundamental improvement in Gunei after his promotion to Grandmaster.

Once various spells were released, they were no longer one-time uses.

Instead, they became spells that Gunei could control and reuse continuously; as long as they didn't hit the enemy and weren't consumed, these spells could keep pursuing the enemy.

Just as the fire elemental dragon spewed flames,

Swish, swish, swish...

All six light swords flew into the fire elemental dragon's mouth, forming a pincer attack.

The fire elemental dragon's head was directly shredded, and its spewed flames were interrupted.

This wasn't the end; the six light swords followed the elemental's body, shredding it inch by inch.

In an instant, they had completely shattered the fire elemental dragon's massive body.

However, Gunei's expression did not relax.

Because Gunei sensed that although the fire elemental dragon's body had been shattered, it had not yet died.

For elemental creatures, having their bodies dispersed and then re-condensing was no problem at all.

Moreover, this was inside the Flame Prison, where burning fire energy was everywhere; the fire elemental dragon could repeatedly condense its elemental body to fight Gunei, again and again.

"Roar!"

With an angry roar.

A large amount of flame gathered again, and the fire elemental dragon re-formed.

Whoosh...

This time, as soon as it formed, a vast sheet of white-hot high-temperature flame spewed forth.

This instantly caused the temperature and flames of the entire flame prison to surge four or five times greater than before.

Gunie, who was within the flames and using some world principles to insulate against the flame temperature, now felt a strong fiery power beginning to penetrate into the Mechanical Angel battle armor.

"The power of the Light Sword Incantation is ultimately too weak; after all, it's only a high-level spell, and just second-tier. Against powerful beings at the Grandmaster level, it falls a bit short."

"Moreover..." Gunie's eyes narrowed slightly.

"The flame source core of this fire dragon is hidden very deep; the Light Sword Incantation's power clearly cannot reach it."

With a thought.

Under the interweaving of the principles of darkness and destruction,

with a "hum,"

a peculiar, semi-transparent crescent-shaped magic blade appeared beside Gunie.

It was about half a meter in length, with a dark golden glassy luster flowing over it.

This was the powerful mid-tier runic spell [Miasmic Erosion Blade], already at level six.

Under the enhancement of the dual principles, its power was already comparable to an ordinary forbidden spell.

As soon as the Miasmic Erosion Blade appeared, the flames within a two-meter radius were forcibly driven back.

"Chi!" A chilling piercing sound flashed past, and the Miasmic Erosion Blade directly penetrated into the body of the fire elemental dragon.

"Crack!" The fire dragon's flame source core was shattered directly.

"Roar!" With an unwilling roar, the fire dragon quickly dissipated.

At the same time,

three Miasmic Erosion Blades flickered beside Gunie and shot swiftly through the air toward the flame wall near the window.

Fighting the fire dragon was one thing; on the other hand, Gunie was also secretly searching for the exact location of that seventh-rank mid-stage Carlos Radner.