Chapter 1074: Chapter 1061: Fusion (Cheating) Chapter 1074: Chapter 1061: Fusion (Cheating) “Kid, I can’t beat this guy. I’ve tried my best, and you’ve seen it. This thing just can’t be killed.”

After struggling for a while longer, the giant who indeed couldn’t defeat the ghoul finally thought of retreating, considering his own life more important than his pride. He rushed to Muria’s side, undeterred by the high temperature on his body that could melt any ordinary matter, grabbed him, then took large strides toward the outside of the Black Mist.

“Gaga, gaga, all your struggles are in vain, you fool. Why do you think you can escape my hunt?” Seeing the giant trying to escape with Muria, the ghoul cackled with delight in its voice.

In its eyes, Muria and the giant were already in the palm of its hand, unable to escape. It would become even stronger after devouring and merging with Muria’s power. It was only a matter of time.

“Thinking of running away at this time is too late.” Muria, held in the palm of the giant, looked at him and helplessly said, “You might as well continue fighting it.”

“But if I continue fighting, I will die.” At this moment, the giant was acutely aware, fully understanding what kind of bizarre creature he was up against—that he would be the first to perish in a battle of attrition.

“But running away is also a death sentence, so dying from exhaustion in battle would be somewhat more dignified.”

“We can escape.” Hearing Muria’s words, the giant, whom Muria thought had lost his fighting spirit, responded with determination, trying to inspire Muria.

“Just before this ghoul battle started, you also thought you could defeat it.” Hearing the giant’s firm tone, Muria spoke in a faint voice.

Hearing Muria’s words, the giant simply shut his mouth, no longer engaging with Muria, who was discouraging him.

At that moment, the wide iron-gray wings on the giant’s back unfolded, and his massive body instantly lifted off the ground, beginning to fly at high speed through the Black Mist.

But Muria’s words proved true, no matter how fast he flew within the Black Mist, all he saw was more mist, with no other change.

He couldn’t escape the domain of the ghoul, the giant realized this, and he also noticed that moving through the Black Mist drained his strength much faster than under normal conditions.

“Damn it.” After flying rapidly through the Black Mist for a while, the giant finally accepted his fate that he could not escape the Black Mist. He cursed out loud, landed on the ground, set down Muria, and then started furiously bombarding the surrounding mist.

“If I knew this would happen, why did I even bother at the beginning? When I told you to roll out before, wouldn’t it have been better for you to just escape obediently? Why insist on dying alongside this Yama kid?”

The ghoul’s form materialized in front of the giant, its eyes a mocking crimson.

“Enough, you’re after me, right? What if you let him go?” At that moment, Muria spoke, interrupting what the ghoul was about to say. It wasn’t that he was being noble but because he didn’t want the giant to see his secrets, fearing that the upcoming duel would shatter the giant’s beliefs.

“Arnold.” Hearing Muria’s readiness to sacrifice himself so that he could escape, the giant’s face showed anger, deeply moved by Muria.

“Rest assured, I will not escape. As long as I’m alive, I won’t let this ghoul lay a finger on you.”

Muria: “…”
Big brother, just go. What are you staying for, to see me cheat? Knowing too much is sometimes not a good thing.

“Gaga, gaga, don’t be modest. You both are going to die, it’s just a question of who goes first.”

A clump of dense black Qi appeared in front of the giant, and claws formed from the silent Black Qi lunged at the giant, perhaps because the giant was too drained of his strength.

Though the ghoul’s attack produced a lot of sparks against the giant’s flesh, it also left clearly visible claw marks on his body.

“Hmph!” This time, a trace of pain emerged on the giant’s iron-gray face, and he grunted and then swung his fist at the ghoul in front of him…

Before long, iron-gray blood spattered through the air. The ghoul, still in perfect condition, tore through the worsening state of the giant’s defense.

“Fool!” The ghoul’s body, which had coalesced into a human form, solidified completely from its feet, stretching and kicking out, hitting the giant, whose body was covered in claw marks, squarely.

Its kick instantly sent the giant’s massive body soaring off the ground, tracing a parabola in the air, and crashing down to earth, plowing a wide trench.

“Both incorporeal and substantial, not bad,” seeing the Ghost’s attack, Muria also nodded slightly. Through its battle with the giant, Muria had already grasped the characteristics of the power the Ghost wielded.

Having endured that strike, the earth beneath the fallen giant immediately soaked up the iron-gray blood flowing from his body. He struggled on the ground for a while but never managed to get up, as the power of the Ghost had already invaded his body, trying to assimilate him.

“Next, it’s your turn, Yama lad.” After defeating the giant, the Ghoul didn’t remember to finish off the giant but instead turned its attention to Muria, who had been calmly observing everything the entire time.

“I really didn’t want to use my source power, ah! It took me so long to gather even this little bit, and now I actually have to waste a trace of it on you.”

Muria watched the Ghost drifting towards him and sighed with some heartache for the source power he was about to expend.

“What is this?” Seeing Muria remain unfazed and confident, speaking things that made no sense, the Ghoul was a bit baffled. He couldn’t understand the meaning behind Muria’s words, so it paused mid-air briefly before continuing to drift towards Muria, now not thinking too much as it just wanted to swallow Muria whole.

“Merging a complete Balrog Lord Heart, dealing with this puny Ghost should be just about right.”

In the Reincarnated Body’s heart, the original self had already prepared everything and now infused a trace of source power separated from his hand into the Heart of the Flame Demon he was holding in his other hand.

The next moment, the Heart of the Flame Demon, radiating endless light and heat like the sun, melted, transforming into millions of light ribbons that merged into the heart contained by the original self.

Boom!

The sound echoing in the Black Mist, reverberating between heaven and earth, caused even the Black Mist that spread across heaven and earth to pause at this sound, including the Ghoul that was gradually approaching Muria, pausing in mid-air, and this time, it wasn’t his volition that caused it.

“What are you doing?” The Ghoul, which had already stretched out its Claws towards Muria, stared at the tiny Muria in astonishment because at this moment, a golden-red light began to shine from Muria’s chest area.

This light, causing the Flames patterns on Muria’s body to become even more radiant, also emitted an intimidating pressure that made one shudder.

“What do you think?” Muria looked at the Shadows before him, filled with ominous implications, and smiled. He found the sensation from this unreasonably enhanced way quite refreshing.

“You’re hiding your strength,” the Ghoul stared intensely at Muria because it realized that Muria, whom initially couldn’t pose any threat to it, was now making it feel terrified.

“If you want to think of it that way, you can,” Muria said, looking at the Ghoul starting to slowly retreat, his body beginning to expand. While speaking, scorching Flames surged out of his mouth.

“So what if I’m hiding my strength? Today, I’m definitely going to devour you.” However, after retreating a distance, the Ghoul abruptly lunged forward again.

Its body was a mass of coalesced Shadows, and now abandoning its human form, it tried to swallow the slowly enlarging Muria into its body.

“Get lost!” Muria, seeing the deathly Black Mist trying to envelop him, didn’t make any superfluous movements. Instead, he opened his mouth, releasing a minute fraction of the overwhelming power continuously emanating from his heart, threatening to burst his body, and created an intense stream of Flames.

Rolling Flames formed a Flame Column that blasted forth, instantly incinerating and reducing everything it touched in front of it to Void.

Ah—
This time, the Ghoul, partially incinerated by the Flames breathed out by Muria, let out a scream filled with pain as the dark mist trying to devour Muria instantly dissipated, tumbling in the air, continuously transforming into various shapes.

For an entity like it, the body wasn’t important, but the Soul was its fatal vulnerability; Muria’s Flames had just damaged its soul.

“Your Flames…” The Ghoul, hit by Muria’s Balrog Flame-infused flames, recovered from the pain of its soul being damaged after a few moments, and reconstituted its shape, its twin crimson eyes fiercely fixated on Muria.

“Only the Yama’s Fire of a Seventh Awakening or higher can harm the soul. Very well, you’ve hidden so much strength, but this only excites me more. By devouring you, I can definitely achieve my Seventh Awakening.”

“Utterly foolish!” At this moment, Muria’s entire body flickered with golden-red light from the flame patterns, and with each flicker, it signified the essence of the Balrog Lord’s Heart being transferred from Muria’s heart to every part of his body, undergoing earth-shaking transformations.

On his forehead, along with his original pair of horns, another pair of long horns slowly emerged, and his body continued to swell and enlarge, his muscles bulging with a powerful sense of strength, and behind him, two large lumps of flesh began to bulge…

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