The titan behind Kael instantly sprinted forward with a wide grin, lifting the giant axe on its shoulder with a blurring slash.

SPLAT! BOOM!

Kael's face paled as he fanatically looked around, not even noticing the incoming attack as other titans had also sprung into action.

Right in front of Kael's eyes, the young bandit from before turned to him with a face fully covered in tears and snot. Kael tried to run to him, but the next second, SMASH!! His body vanished, replaced by a cub the size of a car, covered with long spikes, a low audible voice echoing as it landed. "I am sorry, Vani… I can't kiss you ever again."

"Nooo!" Kael screamed as the giant nonchalantly lifted the massive cub, also turning toward Kael.

Kael noticed other slaves, all in similar positions, dying like ants…

The grey-haired, beautiful girl's fingers trembled violently as she fanatically shot thick pink slime from both her hands, covering all limbs of the giant in sticky slime, as the muscular man with a four-foot-wide shield and long sword attacked it. Instantly, the sword shattered on impact with the giant.

The giant barely looked at the pink slime before walking forward at a leisurely pace, the sticky slime tearing with every step as he slashed ahead with a twenty-foot-tall, sharp sword, cutting both the grey-haired woman and the man, with four more slaves in range, cleanly in half, their upper bodies falling as their legs still stood straight.

The beautiful, grey-haired woman's fingers tapped the ground in a precise manner as her eyes leaked. Her upper body was playing a piano chord…

The fingers soon stopped moving.

Kael froze completely, his body trembling, his willpower shaken. Everywhere he looked, it was death.

Shen's fists clenched with a painful expression as another clone of him appeared beside him. The clone leapt toward Kael in a blur, kicking him with all its strength as Kael's body shot forward like a cannon.

"GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" the clone shouted before the slash meant for Kael instantly sliced the clone into billions of white particles.

Kael blinked, his face turning red with anger. Both his arms caught brilliant, violent red flames, the missing arm replaced with one made of orange flames as he finally returned to his senses.

He swung his right arm forward. More than fourteen tall pillars made of bright red flames crackled into existence, shooting up from the ground like volcanic eruptions, their flames growing piercingly bright as they expanded, hitting two to three giants each, brightening the entire dim hallway as they towered over even the forty-plus-feet-tall giants.

The Overload Alyndra himself had vanished from his original spot, now sitting in the same position, much farther away from the flames, his expression far more serious, as if the flames posed a threat to him.

"The ever-burning, forever-bright Spirit of Flame, I thank you for accepting this wretched soul's… two decades of lifespan for multiplying [Ember Embracing Flame]'s level by four hundred for ten minutes," Kael muttered under his breath, confirming the contract, as Shen and the surviving slaves stared at him with widened jaws.

Kael's signature skill was said to be the worst among all C-Class Heroes. [Talk to]. It granted the ability to speak with one of the ten Holy Spirits, Agoni, but every conversation required lifespan in return.

It could have been far more respected if it could have been used to gather secrets of the universe. But the spirit was not just disregarding Kael, it was completely ignoring him. If Kael talked, he simply paid a massive portion of his lifespan to have a one-sided conversation with himself.

Kael was one of those who considered it useless too, until a B-rank monster wiped out his entire squad. He begged Agoni hopelessly, and it actually granted him power in exchange for just a month of his life. Ever since then, this skill had been Kael's ultimate trump card, one he had never used until now.

Shen's body instantly split into four clones, grabbing all the survivors, like Sasha, and grouping them together, distancing them from Kael's violent flames.

ROARRRRRR!!

Thirty titans hit by the violent flames of the pillars cried in incredible pain, burning from the inside as Kael's face remained expressionless, his flames burning the remains of fallen slaves as well, letting their physical bodies rest, at least.

His flared eyes locked onto the pink-haired handsome man. Kael's irises glowed violently before catching fire, burning deep red as all his limbs and body were embraced by red flames as well.

Kael reinforced his legs with Arcana, which also had an enhanced effect, and almost teleported right in front of Alyndra as the tall flame pillars attacked the remaining titans, as if they had minds of their own.

Alyndra still leisurely sat on the ground with his back against the wall, watching Kael's fist, burning with flaring, widespread red flames, growing bigger and bigger, reaching just ahead of his forehead before it completely froze.

The next second, Kael's eyes widened as his fist's force reversed itself, as if he was not the one hitting, but being hit, while Alyndra simply smiled at him.

BOOM!

With an audible sonic boom, Kael's body flew across the narrow hallway, passing the flame towers, Shen, and the slaves.

Kael expected incredible pain from the crash, only for his body to pause mid-flight.

"We meet again, Kael."

Kael's face instantly brightened to its limit. He could never forget the voice of his savior. As he turned around, he saw mesmerizingly deep, jewel-like bright red eyes glowing in the darkness.

Lucien.

So much weight lifted from his chest.

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