120: The first failed Death Scythe

The flames on the six fire men burned more and more vigorously, quickly reaching three meters, yet they didn't make the slightest sound.

Like six inanimate objects, they burned quietly, emitting an increasingly terrifying high temperature.

Tang Bo, who was closest, let out a painful scream and actually produced a surge of strength from nowhere, crawling up from the ground.

That was not an illusion.

With Xu Le's terrifying Spirit attribute, he sensed a ripple in the air carrying a healing Qi, restoring Tang Bo's injuries.

"There are still enemies!"

Xu Le cast "Divine Eye" to look at the six fire men.

[Magic Fire Puppet]

[Rank] Level 99

[HP] 154,000/154,000

[MP] 154,000/154,000

[Strength] 500+600

[Agility] 500+600

[Physique] 0

[Spirit] 7,000+8,400

[Talent] Elemental Body, Strength in Numbers

[Skill] Blazing Fireball, Meteor Fire Rain, Flame Clone, Flame Shield, Repelling Fire Ring, Blazing Explosion, Earth Fire Flowing Slurry, Adding Fuel to the Fire, Flint and Steel Spark, Poisonous Fire Embers, Raise Fire to Burn the Heavens.

[Elemental Body] The body is entirely composed of fire elements, and HP is determined by the Spirit attribute. Physical damage taken is reduced by 50%, and fire element damage is reduced by 90%. After water element breaks defense, damage taken is increased by 100%.

[Strength in Numbers] For every additional individual of the same kind, all attributes increase by 20%.

Xu Le was greatly surprised. Although the Magic Fire Puppet's attributes were only based on an SS-rank Growth Template, the two talents combined made their attributes not much inferior to his own.

More importantly, these were just Puppets.

The real enemy was still hiding and hadn't appeared.

Xu Le cast the "Mind Link" skill, his spirit spreading toward the surroundings, but he still didn't find the dark hand controlling the Magic Fire Puppets.

Blazing Fireball!

Six white fireballs spun rapidly. Even from ten meters away, Xu Le could already feel the terrifying high temperature.

As the white fireballs flew over, he judged their flight trajectories and hurriedly retreated ten steps.

Under the Puppets' control, those fireballs followed and turned, flying over at an even faster speed.

Xu Le's feet tapped rapidly, barely dodging the six fireballs, as a rain of fire began to fall from the sky.

He finally tasted how other monsters felt being bombarded by Nine Phoenix.

Can't dodge!

Kill these Puppets first; I don't believe the mastermind behind them won't come out.

Xu Le advanced instead of retreating and summoned Nine Phoenix.

"Hmph, smelly fire, how dare you hurt Master Brother! I'll burn you all to death!"

Nine Phoenix was very angry. With a shake of her body, nine Clones appeared and spat fireballs at the opposing Magic Fire Puppets together.

As for the attacks, it could only be said that relying on them alone, the battle would probably last for three days without a winner.

Xu Le commanded the divine statue to cast the "Divine Guidance" skill.

The fireballs filling the sky flew toward the divine statue, and the Magic Fire Puppets opposite immediately changed their tactics.

Mana surged, and dense crowds of small fire men appeared behind them. Fortunately, those small fire men were not of the same kind as the main bodies; otherwise, heaven knows how much the attack would stack.

Xu Le turned into a black shadow. In a few leaps, he was close to a Magic Fire Puppet. Just as he was about to throw a punch, a ring of fire suddenly flashed on the Puppet, knocking him back.

Before he could land, he had already sensed surging fire elements at his landing spot.

Boom!

Just as Xu Le landed, the fire elements on the ground suddenly exploded. Like a volcanic eruption, the entire ground spat out terrifying magma.

Against area-of-effect attacks, the effect of Divine Guidance was not ideal.

Xu Le, at the center of the explosion, was instantly blown away. Dense magma exploded against his body, making him sting all over.

The damage taken wasn't high, only seven or eight points, but his defense was broken—it really hurt!

Before he could land, surging fire elements gathered under his feet again; another wave of "Earth Fire Magma" was about to erupt.

Since he couldn't walk over, he would fly.

Xu Le flapped his wings and saw the Magic Fire Puppet he was about to attack spread its arms like an artistic youth embracing the sun, followed by flames falling from the sky.

Raise Fire to Burn the Heavens!

The Magic Fire Puppet's ultimate move!

Fire was everywhere in the entire space. The star robe on Xu Le's body couldn't withstand the damage; its durability plummeted, soon dropping below the red line and shattering directly.

Next were the other pieces of equipment on his body.

Except for the mythic-grade staff, the durability of his other equipment also plummeted. Fortunately, their surface area wasn't as large as the robe, so they were still above the safety line for now.

As for his other clothes, they had long since turned to ash.

"Damn it, a fight is a fight, what's with burning clothes?"

Xu Le complained in his heart.

If the opponent were a beautiful woman, maybe it would be a beautiful story.

But right now, Xu Le was so annoyed he wanted to kill someone.

Putting away all his other equipment, Xu Le ruthlessly cast "Reapers Scythe".

Boom!

The world suddenly changed!

A black scythe appeared, and the flames filling the sky were instantly annihilated. This could be considered an additional attribute discovered for the Reapers Scythe.

The scythe slashed down lightly, and the Magic Fire Puppet's health bar instantly dropped to the white line.

The scythe rose again, but unlike before, it didn't harvest a Soul this time.

Upon leaving, the scythe turned, and a speck of black light fell onto Xu Le.

The "Reapers Gift" skill leveled up again. Since it didn't hook a Soul this time, the scythe itself consumed its own power to increase all additional four-dimensional attributes by 100 points.

Even though it failed, it didn't forget to give The Gift.

If he didn't know the Reaper had ill intentions, Xu Le would have praised the other party for being a principled person (god).

Even the Reapers Scythe couldn't insta-kill the opponent. If Xu Le hadn't known the opponent's health, he might have been trembling with fear.

"Even nearly 2 million damage couldn't insta-kill it."

"It must be a mythic-grade item."

"If I can get it, I'll hit the jackpot!"

Xu Le blasted a "Mental Shock" at the low-health Magic Fire Puppet. Not only did it fail to kill it, but the opponent's health was rapidly rising.

The health bar, which was transparently white just a moment ago, actually rose to about 10%.

Impossible to kill!

He couldn't think of a way at all.

Anyone else would have broken down.

Xu Le, however, thought of Little Silly Crow and hurriedly released it.

After a noisy crow's cry, the world turned into darkness.

A blood-colored altar appeared, and the Magic Fire Puppet's rapidly rising health bar suddenly stalled, stopping at 20%.

Soul Sacrifice.

Xu Le thought it was a bit close and hurriedly followed up with an Earth Spike on the Magic Fire Puppet.

The Magic Fire Puppet sensed danger and wanted to dodge, but its feet were rooted; it couldn't move at all.

Swish!

The health bar dropped a chunk.

Then it was sucked into the altar.

Xu Le felt nine gray fragments appear in his hand.

These were the Soul fragments of the Magic Fire Puppet. After being purified by the divine statue, he could obtain its skills.

Xu Le glanced at the Magic Fire Puppet's dense list of skills again. If he gave them all to Nine Phoenix, wouldn't her strength increase by another large margin?

"Roar, roar, roar..."

Losing a companion, the Aura of the five Magic Fire Puppets weakened. Xu Le, without hesitation, used the "traceless ring".

All skills refreshed.

He chose to share Little Silly Crow's skill.

This time, he was going to get nine more Magic Fire Puppet fragments.