Chapter 281: Balor the Fire Demon King
Brian stood up slowly, a sharp pain sweeping through his body, especially the injury on the left side of his chest, which seemed to be more serious.
Before, he could barely move with his left hand, but now he can't even move. Even if he just moves his fingers, he will feel the pain as if his whole arm is immersed in a sea of fire.
However, this made Brian feel relieved. If he felt it, it meant that his arm was still there. It would be more tragic if he didn't feel anything at all.
He resisted the mental sting in his mind and shook his head vigorously. He felt that the soul tremor caused by the instant legendary spell was gradually fading away, and he felt relieved.
He obtained the legendary spell "Collapse Singularity" from a mind flayer lich of the Shining Order using the Book of the Forgotten.
Although this spell belongs to the necromancy school, in the Arcanist's field of expertise, it also belongs to the destruction branch of the creation field, so it is relatively easy for him to get started.
Otherwise, he would not have been able to easily use the metamagic specialty "Spell Instant" to release it instantly and catch the Prince of Shadows off guard.
Aware of the dangerous situation he was in, he did not dare to waste time and quickly used the curse fire in his body to use its healing power to quickly recover from his injuries.
As the curse fire surged with hot and stinging energy, rushing towards all the limbs and veins in his body, Brian suddenly felt a breath representing life energy, which was moving at a speed visible to the naked eye. Treat your own injuries.
Thinking of his next actions, he took advantage of the healing time to quickly bring up the system bar and allocate all the experience points gained today to the curse fire to increase the level.
Nearly 150,000 experience consumption allowed him to raise the curse fire to level 10 in one go.
The reason why he cannot continue to improve is not because he does not have enough experience points, but mainly because his 16 points of physical fitness can only increase his curse fire level to level 10.
If you want to continue to improve your level, you can only find ways to increase your physical attributes.
Brian did not think too much about the physical attributes. Instead, he focused on the attributes of curse fire and quickly checked the new abilities gained after leveling up.
After the curse fire is upgraded to level 6, he can release curse fire bullets and curse fire beams more accurately. At level 7, he can use the curse fire to gain the ability to fly at a speed equal to his own movement speed.
The level 8 curse fire not only allows him to release 5 curse fire bombs at one time, but also allows the curse fire to contact living creatures and absorb their life energy to replenish his own health.
This seems to be a relatively evil ability, but Brian knows that this is the beginning of the curse fire gradually showing its true characteristics.
Because its essence is to absorb life energy from various sources on the main material plane, and then release life energy, or erupt with destructive energy that can swallow everything.
When Brian saw the abilities brought by level 9 and level 10 curse fire, a smile finally appeared on his face.
This is the other manifestation ability of curse fire besides curse fire bullets and curse fire beam.
They are the Cursefire Crown and the Cursefire Vortex.
The Cursefire Crown is one of the most famous ways of manifestation. In addition to giving the Cursefire operator an ability similar to an anti-magic shield and immunity to physical damage caused by all non-magical weapons, the summoned crown It can also be maintained by absorbing the life energy of living creatures.
The cursed fire vortex summons a vortex that can be freely controlled and actively absorbs any magic and flames that come into contact with it. Once enough magic and flames are absorbed, it will be overloaded by the vortex itself. , and erupted with powerful destructive energy.
After checking his attributes and feeling his gradually recovering physical strength, Brian immediately began to take stock of his situation.
Although he possesses curse fire, which makes him immune to the damage caused by fire, he still feels a burning breath spreading in the air in this spacious underground space.
Even the temperature of the ground has risen for some time. If an ordinary person stood here, it would be no different from standing on a red-hot iron plate.
The dark space exuded a strange aura, and the air began to be filled with a sense of suffocation and depression.
The light of the flame emerged.
A breath full of killing, death and destruction suddenly spread.
As the iron chains collided with each other in the inner space of the floating city, Brian saw the reflection of the fire and a huge and twisted figure.
A hunger for killing from the depths of his soul filled Brian's mind, making him tremble. Suddenly, he seemed to see a terrifying scene of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
A drop of cold sweat slid down Brian's cheeks that were flushed by the firelight, and was quickly evaporated by the high temperature inside the space.
He looked startled, quickly came back to his senses, raised his guard, and looked at the twisted fire shadow that gradually appeared in his sight.
In fact, even if he didn't check, he knew who was being held here.
The ruler of the sixth pyre on the 21st floor of the Abyss, the demon lord Carlum, is also known as the Balor Fire Demon King.
In the bottomless abyss, the chaotic power will gather and condense over time, eventually forming a ruthless and exquisite dark grace.
They constantly change and eventually take shape, giving birth to unique demons as powerful as gods. This is how the Demon Lord is born.
These demon lords lead one side with cunning and brutal means, and each plans how to overpower the other heroes and finally rule the entire Abyss.
Many scholars who have done countless studies on the Abyss believe that the Abyss is not a simple plane. It has a very unique will. However, unlike the will that ordinary people understand, the will of the abyss does not Thinking ability is more of a collection of pan-consciousness.
Because this will acts entirely according to instinct, and its instinct is chaos and evil.
The will of the abyss is similar to a god, but the difference is that it does not require belief, and no one will believe in it. It represents more of the bottomless abyss itself, representing absolute chaos and destruction.
So, when a demon is promoted to become a demon lord, the will of the abyss will visit the demon and randomly give them a unique form, or some evil and powerful knowledge.
This is why many demons have been living in killing and destruction since they were born. They have no time to learn at all, but they can acquire a lot of knowledge that even the most knowledgeable wizards are amazed by.
Callem, the Lord of Balor and the Fire Demon, was born in this form.
The Balor Fire Demon King who once ruled the 21st layer of the Bottomless Abyss and the Sixth Cremation Pyre was buried in the deepest part of Mount Doom for thousands of years and was never successfully killed.
During the Netheril Empire, the great arcanist Thorend accidentally discovered the sealed demon lord while exploring the bottomless abyss.
Thousands of years of suppression have greatly reduced the strength of this demon lord. The great arcanist Thorund brought him to the main material plane by soul confinement.
Then, when Thorund was building his own floating city, in order to make his floating city strong and solid, he mobilized the power of the earth's veins and sealed the Balor Fire Demon King Callum in At the very center of the overturned mountain peak, the demon lord's flames merged with the power of the earth's veins, and combined with the magical energy of the Mithron core, the floating city of Sacros was comparable to a real floating fortress.
Brian had never witnessed what the floating city looked like at that time. He probably knew that this floating city had the strongest flight speed and ultra-long-distance endurance.
It can be seen from this that the great arcanist regards the Lord of Balor as a recyclable engine system for free.
It is said that the floating city of Sacros was the last floating city to rise into the sky during the Netheril Empire. It was also the germination of the great arcanists starting to build multi-functional floating fortresses.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. The great arcanist who lived here was only a few years old when the magic network collapsed and he fell into the sea of fallen stars.
It is for this reason that Sacros becomes the most complete floating city among countless fallen floating cities.
As hot flames rose from the dark inner space, the shuddering and suffocating figure of the demon lord Carlum clearly appeared in front of Brian.
This is a huge monster with blazing fire all over its body. It has a pair of curved and ferocious devil horns, and behind it are wide devil wings that slowly spread out.
Even in the bottomless abyss, Balor Balrog is the leader among the tanar'ri demon tribe. He is also a high-level demon who has inherited the power of 'chaos and fire', and he is the absolute ruling class. Standing at the top of the demon clan, second only to the demon lord.
They are still one of the few high-level demons born with divine-like powers, and have always been the main force in the bloody battles in the abyss.
What's more, the demon lord who is known as the 'Barlow Fire Demon King' appears in front of him.
Even though the other party has been sealed for thousands of years, causing its own strength to be greatly weakened, the terrible pressure it brings also makes Brian feel a sense of instinctive fear in his heart.
And what's different from the ordinary Balor Fire Demon is that the demon lord's exposed dark red skin is covered with dense scars like spider webs.
The criss-crossing scars follow every breath of the demon lord, and the strong muscles flow back and forth like waves, and they are like a volcano that will erupt hot magma at any time, emitting hot and bright high temperatures.
Although in the Abyss, the strength gap between the many demon lords is uneven, there is the demon prince Demogorgon who is as powerful as a true god, and there is Ertu who is so weak that he was hacked to death by a double-sword ranger. .
But the demon lord in front of him allowed Brian to judge just by his momentum. His strength was probably at least in the middle of the demon lord group.
The temperature is gradually rising.
The demon lord's entire body is like a ball of blazing flames, and any creature that comes close to him will be continuously harmed by the flames.
A magical light flashed.
Brian, who is immune to fire damage, had to put up a magic shield to resist energy damage at this time to isolate the scorching flames.
As the flames weakened, a pair of heavy shackles appeared in Brian's sight.
He saw these shackles with a silver-white metallic luster, bound to the hands of the demon lord. On the wide demon wings, there were also barbs connected to dark red iron chains. And passed.
At the feet of the demon lord, Brian also saw an altar engraved with a nine-pointed star array, with a rusty dark red iron sword stuck upside down on the nine starlights of the array.
Obviously, the demon lord was sealed here by some powerful means. Even though thousands of years have passed, the other party still cannot break free of the seal here.
"Mortal!"
The demon lord also noticed Brian reflected in the firelight, staring at him like pupils of jumping flames, and the ancient demonic language echoed in the sealed space:< br>
"You are the fifth mortal to appear here, and you are also the weakest! Even Lamorak and Martik can't kill me, let alone you!"
"Mortals, don't make fearless attempts!"
"Come here, use your wisdom to release me, and I will give you everything you want! Including the entire floating city!"
After hearing the demon lord's words, Brian's expression did not change at all.
Because he didn't pay attention to the other party's words at all. After all, demons always break their promises and will not abide by any contract rules.
Even those legendary spellcasters who talk and laugh with the devils will try their best to avoid having any transactions with this group of demons with chaotic nature.
Besides, Brian's purpose here was to take his life, not to release him.
The moment he releases this capricious existence, the first person to die is himself. He still has this self-knowledge.
——"Ma Youfu Micrometeor!"
Brian waved his hand, and dozens of fist-sized bolides flew away.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." The extremely penetrating bolide exploded into clouds of magical flames on the demon lord's chest.
A trace of blood oozed from the demon lord's chest, which was scratched by the bolide, and then healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Although this attack was like scratching an itch for the demon lord, his hatred and furious nature made him roar.
He spread his wings, raised his strong right leg like a ram's foot, and took a step forward.
A flash of magical light exuding silvery white luster.
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light erupted from the nine-pointed star altar, and the nine rusty iron swords inserted upside down on the altar trembled and buzzed.
The demon lord groaned in pain and quickly retreated.
Out of the corner of his eye, Brian noticed that there were slight cracks on the surface of the altar, which meant that as time passed, the demon lord was likely to really break through the seal.
"Damn mortals! Damn Thorend!!!..."
The demon lord looked up to the sky and let out a roar. Although his huge body was restrained by iron chains and barbs, It doesn't mean that he has really lost all his attack power.
As the chains and shackles made a crisp clattering sound, a long whip burning with hot flames appeared out of thin air, and with a high temperature that could distort the air, it was whipped towards Brian.
The flaming whip came with the roaring hot wind. It was as flexible and cunning as a dancing fire snake, instantly blocking all Brian's escape routes.
The flaming whip, which is more than ten meters long, is as thick as an ordinary human thigh.
For an attack of this magnitude, even if you have a magic shield that is immune to fire damage, you cannot underestimate the pure and powerful physical attack contained in it.
——"Ice explodes with rage!"
Brian's eyes condensed, and a wide ice sword condensed and took shape.
“Bang!”
The moment ice and fire collided, the ice sword in Brian’s hand suddenly exploded, spraying out cold blue and white energy.
In an instant, the cold air centered on Brian, freezing everything around him, and then melted at a speed visible to the naked eye, causing white steam to rise.
Obviously, in the first round of confrontation, both sides looked like they were testing.
As the smoke dissipated, Brian saw that the flames on the flaming whip in the demon lord's hand seemed to dim a bit.
This made him realize that the demon lord had definitely sealed most of his strength.
Although the demon lord was like a living target at this moment, allowing him to attack at will, Brian had no intention of attacking recklessly.
After all, the sealed demon lord is still a demon lord.
This is a being who has mastered divine power. No matter how he was sealed here, he is not an existence that he can touch casually.
What's more, the seal here seems to be loosening.
While Brian was on guard against the Demon Lord, he was quickly thinking about how to kill the Demon Lord.
In his plan for the floating city of Sacros, he had already put the demon lord on his death list.
The only way is to kill the demon lord and use the huge energy generated by the "Burning Explosion" after the opponent's death to detonate the leyline energy in the entire internal space. The Shadow Temple above will also be destroyed in this disaster. .
The destructive energy generated by the "Burning Explosion" after the death of the demon lord, even the true gods dare not underestimate, let alone the temples and floating cities in the material world.
This series of chain reactions will instantly affect the Shadow Demon Network Stone, and eventually affect the Myser energy core placed in the Haunted Soul Tower, causing the entire floating city to lose power and fall to the ground.
The main reason why he knows so clearly is because this thing actually happened in the game world, and the initiator was the Harper leader Storm Silverhand.
In Brian's original plan, he planned to let the Harper leader complete this dangerous task, but after his strength was upgraded to the legendary realm and he obtained the curse fire, he suddenly changed his mind. , decided to take matters into his own hands.
“Hoo!”
The whip of flames turned into a flame again and struck.
Brian did not resist forcefully, but with a thought, he used a flash spell to completely distance himself from the demon lord.
"Roar!"
The demon lord who was trapped in place by the chain saw the enemy who had escaped from his attack range. His chaotic nature made him instantly angered, and the flames burning around him were also angry. suddenly surged.
"Mortal, you can't escape!" A cruel sneer appeared on the ferocious face of the angry demon lord.
——"blasphemy!"
Pieces of ancient and powerful demonic words whispered from the mouth of the demon lord.
These evil words carry some kind of powerful magic power, and the air around is filled with an evil energy, making the surrounding darkness boil and causing different scenes to appear in the void, full of chaos and killing. , hatred, pain...
Affected by the blasphemous words, Brian was finally unable to maintain a calm and calm look. His expression was slightly distorted, and his body trembled involuntarily, as if he was bearing a huge pressure. pain.
"Hahaha... Cowardly and ignorant mortals dare to challenge me!"
The demon lord couldn't help laughing loudly.
However, the next second, his wild laughter immediately froze on his ferocious face.
Shining light surrounded Brian, and pure and sacred light burst out from his body, making his black hair glow faintly and his eyes as bright as stars.
"How is it possible that the aura of Tianjie Mountain is possible?" The demon lord's eyes widened in surprise, and he muttered in disbelief, "What a strong sacred aura."
A touch of fear filled him It was like a flash of fire in his eyes.
Brian took a deep breath to calm down the sequelae caused by the blasphemous words.
He had actually been mentally prepared for the demon lord to unleash his best attack method, "blasphemy". Even so, he was still a little unprepared for the sudden attack.
At this moment, he can only be grateful for the powerful abilities that come with the blessing of Tianjie Mountain, otherwise, how could he dare to face the demon lord directly.
[Good Protection Barrier (Supernatural Ability): After activation, a shining light group surrounds you, protecting yourself and other people within the spell range, and resisting attacks from evil creatures. This aura is like a "spell invalidation barrier" that can eliminate the effects of any spell below level five.
In addition, the creatures in the aura are protected by the double-strength "anti-evil magic circle". The protected creature's physical resistance is increased by 50% and it gains a +5 resistance bonus on saving throws against attacks from evil creatures. It also protects them from possession, mind control, and physical contact with various summoned creatures.
Note: Each time you activate the good barrier, you must be in a fasting state, open your mind, and meditate in Tianjie Mountain for 24 hours before you can release it again. 】
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"Disgusting breath, go to hell!"
Scorching waves of air hit your face, the angry demon lord's eyes were blood red, and he roared, accompanied by The chains rattled, and his huge body suddenly erupted with intense energy, turning the entire underground space into a sea of fire.
Brian calmly held up the magic shield to resist the continuous flames.
Although he has many spells and characteristics that are immune to fire damage, the one who releases the flames is a demon lord, the king among the Balor Fire Demons. It is easy for him to burst out flames that ignore immunity.
——"Curse Fire Vortex!"
Then, Brian used his arcane fire, and with a thought, a flame vortex of about two meters, rotating like a storm, fiercely swallowed all the surrounding flames.
“Boom!”
The moment when the energy absorbed by the cursed fire vortex exceeded its own load, under Brian’s control, it hit the demon lord’s restrained body and exploded. Shining firelight.
Curse Fire, as a flame that represents the essence of primitive energy, is said to be able to devour all things and can naturally cause harm to the demon lord.
"Ah!!!"
With a howl that could pierce the eardrums, the demon lord's body was trembling, and there was a trace of fear in the eyes looking at Brian's cursed fire.
"Is it really the cursed fire that claims to be able to swallow all things?!" The demon lord's expression darkened slightly, and then he seemed to have thought of something, and a trace of greed appeared in his eyes:
"What a pity, you The power seems too weak!"
"Hahaha! Someone sent the cursed fire to me now! It belongs to the King of Balor Fire. Damn it!" The demon lord raised his head and laughed wildly, not caring about the huge pain caused by his crazy actions.
"Mortal, please remember my name! Standing in front of you is the 21st floor of the Abyss, the ruler of the sixth pyre, Calum, the Lord of Balor Fire Demon, and the future Lord of Eternal Flame!"< br>
"Let the flames burn your soul! You will be Callum's first sacrifice to conquer the bottomless abyss!..."
The demon lord roared like crazy. With a sound, he stepped forward suddenly, and the barbs that pierced his back were instantly tightened, and then drops of demon blood slid down the chain.
The crazy demon lord howled in pain, but still did not retreat. Instead, he tightened the shackles on his hands and took another step forward.
“Chi chi chi…”
The sound of flesh being torn was heard, and the surging flames around the demon lord became weaker. The huge demon wings were torn apart by the chains that restricted them, and a rather hideous wound was exposed on his back.
But this still did not stop the demon lord from struggling to move forward.
A flash of magical light exuding silvery white luster.
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling light burst out from the nine-pointed star altar, and the nine rusty iron swords inserted upside down on the altar trembled and buzzed.
Invisible sword light flashes.
Streams of blood spattered, and shocking bloodstains appeared out of thin air on the demon lord's burly body.
(End of this chapter)