What on earth is happening?

An Ya and the others from Wildfire Territory also want to ask this question!

The beast tide, which had an astounding momentum, was resolved just like that.

But the people of Wildfire Territory couldn't manage a smile.

Because the scene before them was even more terrifying than the collective charge of the beasts!!

The beasts... turned out to be people?!!!

Who could have thought that beneath the hottest and most scorching sunlight of the Inner Sea Desert, lay hidden the most sordid and filthy dark secrets of the Flame Realm!!

"Calm down, calm down!"

In Wildfire Town, An Ya kept telling herself, "The good news is, Andrew is fine, everyone else is fine too. No matter what's happening here, it's certain that it has something to do with Andrew! He helped us withstand it together—ugh!"

She continued to tell herself to be calm...

But witnessing up close a person crawling out from within a bloody fleshy egg, she couldn't help but bend over and vomit.

Outside Wildfire Territory, Andrew stood on the sand, clearly noticing that the faces of the people in the territory didn't look good.

But Andrew had no regrets about exposing the truth of the beasts so plainly in the sunlight.

Firstly, it was a situation forced by circumstance.

If they didn't stop the beasts, Wildfire Territory would surely suffer heavy casualties.

Secondly, some truths, no matter how cruel, must be faced head-on.

"I don't just want to show this to everyone present, I want the entire Inner Sea Desert and even the Flame Realm to see and understand the true nature of the beasts!"

A determined glint flashed in Andrew's eyes.

Ultimately, Rose and Fleur's siege of Wildfire Territory was part of the larger "Double Fire War" that now engulfed the entire Flame Realm.

Andrew certainly hadn't forgotten!

"Barbara's backing Warm Fire Commerce Association, and the Magic Guild, are locked in a deadly struggle across the Flame Realm..."

Andrew pondered, "In such a tense moment, if news suddenly spread that 'the Flame Warriors discarded by the Magic Guild were thrown into the Inner Sea Desert to become beasts', what impact would that have on the entire war?"

Anyone can figure it out: it would deal a devastating blow to the internal morale of the Magic Guild, especially the morale of its Flame Warrior faction!

This would have a much larger impact on the entire war than simply taking down Rose as originally planned, wouldn't it?

"Of course, the truth about the beasts must be exposed to the world; and Rose, he must still be killed!"

With that in mind, Andrew's gaze shifted towards a certain direction.

As the saying goes—

When the tide goes out, you see who's been swimming naked.

Now, the beast tide has receded.

Andrew doesn't even need to deliberately search, and Rose, who had previously hidden in the dark flow, was revealed on his own.

"How could this be? Why on earth is this happening?"

Rose was drenched in sweat, his face extremely pale!

He was the one most desperately wanting to shout "What the hell is going on"!

The difference was that most people's thoughts were: "The beasts were actually people?!"

Rose's thought was: "Dammit...I've been found out!!"

Yes, apart from Andrew, Rose was the only other one on the scene who knew the secret and truth of the beasts.

Rose had also visited the dark red world inside a beast.

Unlike Andrew, after discovering the truth about the beasts, Rose didn't think of freeing them but instead... chose to utilize his discovery to control the beasts!

This is how he earned the name Desert Speaker Rose.

This is why he held an unbeatable reputation amid the Sand Tide!

Earlier, how did Rose hide so well within the beast tide? It wasn't because he had simultaneously cultivated "Shadow Erosion Fire" while mastering the "Shadow Fire Series".

Rather, it was because: he had been hiding within the dark red world inside a beast!

Now, the beasts have reverted to their true form.

The dark red world naturally collapsed.

Rose was consequently squeezed out!

"Let go... let go! I... I told you to let go!"

Rose was struggling with someone at this moment.

It was a strong middle-aged man.

The very same beast Rose had concealed himself in, returning to human form.

The man still seemed dazed, his expression blank.

Out of some instinct, or perhaps out of rage at Rose for exploiting them in their beast state, this middle-aged Flame Warrior, upon returning to human form, clung tightly to Rose!

With Rose being held so tightly, his face turned white.

Yet no matter how much he attempted to activate "Desolate Language Magic", he could no longer control the re-humanned Flame Warriors!

"Damn it, you dead bunch already deceased, what's the big deal with me borrowing your bodies a bit? We're all from the Magic Guild, what's wrong with helping me out a bit?!"

Rose cursed and swore, a vicious glint in his eyes.

Suddenly, with a flick of his wrist, he released a "Shadow Fire Saber", part of the "Shadow Fire Series", to sever the arm of the middle-aged Flame Warrior holding him.

Rose was delighted, not expecting it to be that easy, cursing himself for losing his head. Seeing the beast tide reduced to its original form by Andrew's mysterious dance, he forgot that even without relying on the beasts, he was a formidable Tier Three Earth Fire Mage!

"Shadow Fire Series, Stealth!"

Rose immediately activated a stealth-type Earth Fire Magic from the Shadow Fire Series, "The mission has failed, Fleur has been captured by the enemy, but it's nothing! As long as I live, as long as I can keep living, everything will be negotiable!!"

However, just as his body began to fade, almost turning into a shadow ready to escape, he suddenly froze.

"Wha...t...?!"

Rose struggled to turn his head, only to see—

Andrew had somehow appeared behind him.

With a single hand on Rose's shoulder, Andrew used no magic but silently mobilized his magic power, entering "multiple state".

Then he channeled this extraordinary magic power, far surpassing that of a normal Tier Three Mage, into Rose!

In an instant, Rose felt his Earth Fire Magic Power was severely repelled, no longer able to be mobilized.

He looked at Andrew in disbelief: "Your... your magic power... how can it—"

Rose wanted to ask Andrew how his magic power was so abundant?

But only halfway through, he felt his entire body start to go numb, unable to utter another word.

This only added to Rose's internal horror: Is this really Tier Three? Since when did Tier Three have such powerful magic power?!

Previously, seeing Fleur easily subdued by Andrew, Rose felt a faint disdain.

Now he realized just how great the chasm was between Andrew and himself and Fleur!

"Don't... don't kill... me..."

With a flushed face, Rose exerted all his might just to utter these pleading words.

"You still want to live?"

Andrew looked closely at this man who, for some time, had caused so much trouble for himself, Barbara, and the people of Wildfire Territory.

Due to Rose's cowardly tactics, it was the first time the two were so close and face to face.

After a moment, Andrew nodded and said, "Okay, I won't kill you."

He let go of the hand holding the other's shoulder.

Joy flickered briefly across Rose's eyes, with a hint of malice and resentment, though he hid it well.

But his joy did not last long.

Because he discovered: Andrew had let go, but he still couldn't move!

All he heard was Andrew softly say, "He's yours now."

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