The ice crystal mixed with Su Ran’s magic essence raged within its body, but the awakened Earth Fire leader could do nothing about it.
The cold had already frozen its flesh and blood, gradually spreading from its neck to other parts.
It was precisely because of the Earth Fire leader’s considerable size that the ice crystal created by Su Ran couldn’t quickly spread throughout its entire body, only adhering to and spreading from the wound.
The ground around the Earth Fire leader had become pitted and uneven, its flesh, blood, and magic essence all frozen.
An intense feeling of discomfort in its mind stimulated its nerves, making it stomp its claws on the ground, trying to alleviate the pain in its body.
From the gaps in its scales, a considerable amount of gray mist billowed out.
If Su Ran hadn’t immediately used a gust of wind to leave the area after striking the Earth Fire leader, she might have come into contact with this mist.
Watching the mist gradually distort the surrounding air as it came into contact with it, Su Ran realized that this was the fire poison that had entered Liang Bo’s body.
However, even if this fire poison were to get close to her, it would be frozen by the cold air emanating from her body and wouldn’t be able to penetrate her magic essence shield.
After breaking through to Sequence Two, Su Ran’s witch ability seemed to have endowed her magic essence shield with the properties of ice.
Su Ran wasn’t sure if this special change was related to the evolution of her witch ability.
But from the current situation, it was definitely a good thing for Su Ran.
Su Ran hadn’t found any traces of liquid magic essence on the Earth Fire leader, and she had also previously landed a sneak attack on it, weakening it to an acceptable level.
She was now eighty percent confident that she could finish it off.
She did as she said.
Su Ran crept up behind the Earth Fire leader without making a sound.
She was thinking of copying her previous move and striking the Earth Fire leader with her sword again.
However, just as Su Ran thought she could successfully approach the Earth Fire leader…
Her scalp tingled, and without much thought, she rolled to the side.
A sharp, air-tearing sound reached Su Ran’s ears.
The Earth Fire leader’s strong and powerful tail had grazed the top of her head.
If she hadn’t instinctively dived to the ground just now…
At this moment, even if she were wearing her witch set and had her magic essence shield, she could have easily been knocked dizzy by the huge impact of its tail.
Su Ran saw a very human-like look of regret flash in the Earth Fire leader’s eyes, and she cursed herself for being careless.
From the moment it had started to compete with her for magic essence, she could have sensed that the Earth Fire leader possessed a certain degree of intelligence.
Su Ran hadn’t expected its actions to have a deceptive element to them.
Since the idea of a sneak attack was out, Su Ran no longer needed to hide her intentions.
Su Ran took a step forward, putting a large distance between herself and the Earth Fire leader.
In the gap of its movement, two icicles shot out from her side.
At the same time, Su Ran directly used magic to draw in the nearby water vapor, to increase the material for making ice crystals.
The two icicles successively attacked the Earth Fire leader, but were shattered by its raised claws, leaving a few cracks on its scales.
However, after realizing that the Earth Fire leader possessed a certain degree of intelligence, Su Ran also began to treat it as a human.
She had hidden a trick in what seemed to be a casual attack.
Hidden within the shattered icicles were ice crystals left by Su Ran, continuous and carrying a frosty chill, containing Su Ran’s magic essence.
The purpose of the ice crystals was specifically to agitate the wound Su Ran had left on the enemy’s neck.
Two consecutive icicles shattered in front of the Earth Fire leader.
With the supplement of magic essence, the frost covering its wound increased by a third, gradually spreading towards its forelimbs.
The Earth Fire leader retreated several steps in a row, turning its body to the side to protect its wound.
It needed a quiet moment to heal its wound.
If it didn’t do this and continued to let the wound come into contact with the ice crystals, its forelimbs would also be frozen in a short while.
It was a little angry.
If it hadn’t been successfully ambushed, it wouldn’t have become so passive now.
If this dragged on, it would only lead to a dead end.
So, the Earth Fire leader hardened its heart, and a dense amount of magic essence instantly exploded from its body, accompanied by a dense amount of blood energy and flames appearing nearby.
A streak of red light appeared in the air, continuously absorbing this overflowing magic essence.
“Not good!”
Su Ran’s expression changed.
This Earth Fire leader was planning to burn its bridges and forcefully use its own magic crystal to achieve the effect of quickly compressing liquid magic essence.
After doing this, even if it succeeded, its magic crystal would also crack, thus affecting its future path.
Immediately, two icy vines appeared by Su Ran’s side, pointing straight at the magic crystal in mid-air.
Besides the icy vines, she also drove her magic essence to release several wind blades, to clear away the gray mist around the icy vines.
The magic essence in Su Ran’s body was being consumed without any regard for the cost.
She had to stop the Earth Fire leader from completing the step of compressing its magic essence, no matter what.
After seeing the icy vines used by Su Ran, the Earth Fire leader’s eyes showed terror and panic.
Its huge body ignored its wound and desperately tried to stop the approach of the icy vines.
It felt a threat from this strange ice crystal.
Its own flames couldn’t even make a dent in the troublesome ice crystal.
Although it sensed a strong aura of death from the icy vines, in order to survive, the Earth Fire leader couldn’t care less.
As long as it entered Sequence Three, then there was still a chance.
Now was not the time to worry about the wound.
The Earth Fire leader had already bet everything on advancing to Sequence Three, its crimson eyes were bloodshot.
It let out a fierce roar and charged straight towards Su Ran’s position, wanting to crush her with its physical advantage.
If it were anyone else, after consuming all the magic essence in their body, they would be facing a small, mountain-like Earth Fire leader charging at them.
But unfortunately, it had encountered Su Ran, and a Su Ran who was holding the Ring of Pride.
The moment she had consumed all the magic essence in her body, the Ring of Pride had already replenished it for Su Ran.
An ice crystal longsword in hand.
Facing this kind of enemy covered in scales, Su Ran was accustomed to using a sharp longsword.
The Earth Fire leader’s body had already blotted out Su Ran’s sky and earth.
“Hoarfrost!”
An intense cold bloomed from where Su Ran was, and the almost tangible frost merged with the ice sword in her hand.
In a blink of an eye, Su Ran’s body disappeared.
In the Earth Fire leader’s eyes, only an ice sword was left, aimed at it.
A violent fluctuation came from the air.
The two icy vines released by Su Ran bombarded the Earth Fire leader’s magic crystal, leaving a crack on its surface.
For a moment, the Earth Fire leader’s figure paused.
The damaged magic crystal implicated its main body, making it want to retreat.
But no matter how it wanted to escape, being locked by the hoarfrost, it had to face Su Ran’s attack!
The ice sword came down from above with an unstoppable momentum, wanting to cut the Earth Fire leader in two.
The Earth Fire leader let out a miserable scream.
Frost gradually climbed up its scales, making creaking sounds.
Finally, it shattered everywhere, revealing the flesh and blood underneath.
Under the effect of the cold, the flesh and blood gradually turned from bright red to a bewitching purple.
Having lost its magic crystal, the Earth Fire leader lost most of its combat power and was cut in half by Su Ran, who still had a surplus of magic essence.
The blood on the corpse was frozen by the frost, and even the ground was not spared.
Before Su Ran could even get close, a loud bang came from mid-air.
The overburdened magic crystal had exploded!
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