135. Turning My Scarred Body into Fmes

  She was like a phoenix, charging fearlessly into the midst of impostors, her left arm tightening from the intense pain before quickly spreading open like a wing, igniting the floor and ceiling. Bathing in fmes, she surged forward.

  The impostors scattered, panig, uo front the overwhelmiru. Four or five didn't escape in time, and as they climbed over seats, the exposed skin touched the sparks, causing rge ses of their bodies to melt like butter, their muscles burning aainfully until they died.

  Luo Zhi?Hidden calmly fitted a bayoo his rifle, gripping it with both hands. He thrust it toward Qiu Ran, whose body was burning fiercely, stabbing her in the abdomen and stopping her iracks.

  "Don't panic. She's just a spent force. A human body 't st long while burning—just put out the fire, a me devour her."

  Just as Luo Zhi?Hidden finished speaking, a hand grabbed the rifle.

  Smack.

  Luo Zhi looked up, seeing the woman's unreizable face burning in the fire, her flesh fueling the fmes.

  Qiu Ran opened her mouth but said nothing. The bayo melted in the high heat, and the wooden stock caught fire. Luo Zhi's pupils tracted, and he quickly dropped the bayo, pig up a fire axe from the ground. He turned and swung it upward toward Qiu Ran's remaini arm.

  Crack—

  Li Aozi tore open the door and stepped inside, just in time to see Qiu Ran's left arm fly off, nding at his feet.

  Losing an arm, Qiu Ran could no longer maintain her baumbling. Luo Zhi weighed the axe, swinging it again toward Qiu Ran's neck.

  Smack!

  The fire axe hit her right shoulder, causing Qiu Ran to pause, uo move closer no matter how hard she tried.

  Luo Zhi, smiling with a face identical to his, said in a voice just like his:

  "Now you 't move forward, you—"

  Before he fihe sharp axe melted, molten iron sliding down Qiu Ran's shoulder. The wound's edges were cauterized by the fire, stopping the blood. Her pupils merged with the fmes, uo see clearly, but the axe handle caught fire.

  The transmitted heat burned Luo Zhi's hands, f him to drop the handle. In the moment, Qiu Ran smmed into the impostor's chest.

  Bang!

  Her vocal cords were destroyed by the fire, and fmes spread as she advahe impnited just by being near her, the carriage's ceiling burned, and the seats and floorboards burst into fmes. They screamed, fleeing, but they fot the train eeding, with wind rushing from behind.

  "—No!"

  Luo Zhi's pupils shrank, his body ignited, uo stop Qiu Ran from pushing him into the carriage filled with fmmable materials.

  Boom—

  The rapid bustioed into an explosion, throwing Li Aozi to the ground.

  Fmes spread quickly, creating a sea of fire between Qiu Ran and Li Aozi.

  Li Aozi stumbled to his feet.

  "Cough, cough—cough!"

  He quickly picked up Qiu Ran's severed arm, ign the scorg heat that burned his palm. Using his neural tendrils, he extracted Qiu Ran's Omega Energy.

  If Qiu Ran lost her Omega Energy, her self-ignited fmes should stop—most Omega Energy effects could be ended by removing the energy or killing the host.

  This was the only way; maybe there was still a ce to stop it.

  The neural tendrils burned in the hundreds of degrees heat, pain spreading throughout his body. Li Aozi gritted his teeth, tinuously extrag Qiu Ran's geic sequence. What usually took moments in a battlefield now seemed like ay.

  Faster, faster!

  Without Omega Energy, he couldn't cross the fire, and Qiu Ran might extinguish her fmes.

  Li Aozi had never hated time passing so slowly.

  The residual heat twisted his neural tendrils, but the pain was nothing. As he tinued extrag, he finally heard the sound he had hoped for—

  [Omega Energy Pod Activated]

  [Extracted Omega Energy from Target]: [Spontaneous bustion]

  Rating: Omi (Ο, the fifteenth Greek letter)

  [Active Effect]:

  Mode One?Purify Impurities: es Omega Energy, tered on your palm, granting 'accelerated oxidation' to any theoretically fmmable object, ign surrounding oxygen levels to forcibly create high temperatures.

  If the target is a living being, it grants 'Burning State,' dealing 7% of the target's maximum health as spell damage per sed, with a corresponding slowing effect based oarget's [Willpower] attribute.

  Whearget is a carbon-based lifeform, spell damage verts to true damage.

  Mode Two?se the World: Immediately es 50% of Omega Energy, creating a 10×10 cubic meter field of extreme high temperature and high pressure in front of you, causing massive spell damage and sedary physical damage.

  After five seds, all oxygen in the field will be ed, with parts of the ground turning into 'va terrain,' sting up to 40 minutes.

  If a being with [stitution] below 10 points is within the field, regardless of other attributes, it grants [Ie];

  [Ie]: In this state, healing is ed, permaly redug 10 points of [stitution].

  argets killed by iion will turn to ash, with bodies forbidden from resurre.

  his state deals true damage to undead and carbon-based lifeforms.

  "You should live like fire, enduring through the long night, unquenchable."

  High-temperature and fme-type Omega Energy always had immense destructive power, but those who wielded them were oftele and kind.

  Like elephants and whales, though massive and powerful, they were gentle and friendly.

  The fmes in the carriage gradually died down. Dragging a long knife, Li Aozi hurried forward, seeing pools of bck tar with some hard fragments along the way.

  The air was filled with the pu stenoke and fire, like rotten eggs boiled in hot water, stinging the eyes and nose. His tear gnds immediately went to work, secreting tears to soothe the burning pain.

  Half-dead blobs of tar wriggled toward him. These burnt impostors could no longer mimid after struggling a few times, they disied into pieces on the ground.

  "Qiu Ran… Qiu Ran…"

  Li Aozi walked to the middle of the carge. The explosion had destroyed everything, windows shattered, and wind blew in, carrying white snow sand.

  There was no sign of life. In su explosioher impostors nor humans could survive. The wind howled through the shattered windows, making ghostly wails, but he didn't give up hope, searg through the fallen, brokes, his eyes sing every er.

  Finally, at the end of the carriage, he saw a kneeling figure.

  Qiu Ra, her body burned bck by the fmes.

  "Qiu Ran!"

  Li Aozi rushed forward, a surge of joy filling his heart. He dropped his on, his joy breaking through his restraint. Fetting caution, he k quickly, reag out to help her up.

  Crack—

  As his hand touched the charred body, Qiu Ran's outline colpsed, crumbling. The wind blew through, filling the carriage with bck ash.

  Li Aozi opened his palm, his hands stained with bck ash.

  —It wasn't snow but the ash of her burned body.

  The fire had taken Qiu Ran's life, and the wind scattered her remains, blending with the frost and snow, merging into the eternal night of the outside world.

  This was the introdu of Qiu Ran's [Spontaneous bustion] ability when she first appeared:

  You have the ability to indud accelerate oxidative heating to a certaient.

  The essence of fire is the phenomenon of bustion. Fmmable materials being rapidly and intensely oxidized by oxygen will cause fires, and you accelerate this process.

  Holy, no one would want to be your enemy because the pain of being slowly buro death by fire is far worse than other ways to die.

  However, this ability doesn't make you immuo fire damage. The maker of the fire oftes a bad end, and hopefully, you will too.

  ——————

  FAL