Water Mage in the Flame Realm

Chapter 447 425: First Meeting After a Long Time

Little Sophie stuck out her tongue, but she wasn't afraid. She just smiled and said, "I'm happy, after all, Andrew is still alive! Aren't you happy... Uncle Ivan?"

The owner of the large hand was indeed Ivan. His relationship with Aunt Sofia had become steady, and now he treated little Sophie as if she were his own daughter.

Ivan placed little Sophie back on Xiao Ha's back.

It wasn't just him and little Sophie—the entire elite force of Hunting Wasteland City had come along with Ivan.

And this was one of the reasons why Andrew could relax his body and openly say he couldn't defeat Holigar, yet still say his side would not lose.

Andrew finally got in touch with Ivan!

He also understood why he couldn't reach Ivan before: it was simple—Ivan was in seclusion, breaking through.

Ivan had been troubled by a "lung injury" and the "Earth Fire Curse," having exceptional talent and combat power, but he could never cross the threshold that all the Desert Hunters could not cross.

Andrew cured his lung injury and helped him break the Earth Fire Curse.

Ivan was no longer a Desert Hunter but became a truly complete Deep Blue Guard.

On the path of cultivation, he was like a beast freed from its shackles, unstoppable.

Before the Royal Court negotiation, he had already reached Tier Nine and touched the threshold of the Realm of Magic.

After the Royal Court negotiation, Andrew disappeared, and news was grim. An Ya, in her pain, successfully united with the Southern Retreat Land.

Ivan, after a heavy drinking session, steadied his mood, secluded himself, broke through, and reached the Realm of Magic in one go!

"You're back?" Ivan said to Andrew through the Soul Whisper Channel.

"I'm back! Sorry for not explaining before I went to help President Beiru with a task." Andrew replied through the Soul Whisper.

"It's fine, don't worry about it." Ivan grinned, his voice filled with energy, clearly transmitting to the top of the Dragon Stone Tower, "After the battle is over, let me punch you twice, then I'll forgive you."

"Haha, alright, alright!" Andrew laughed as well.

Just a few simple words, no need to say more. In both the Flame Realm and the Water God Realm, besides Barbara, no one understood each other better than Ivan and Andrew.

As they spoke, Ivan was already leading the Desert Hunters to the frontlines.

"Oh? Another one at the Realm of Magic?"

Holigar raised his eyebrows, genuinely surprised, then sneered, "The gap between the Divine Level and the Realm of Magic isn't something numbers can bridge. And you guys..."

His gaze passed over Ivan, looking at the Desert Hunters behind and beside Ivan, including little Sophie and Xiao Ha, "A bunch of riffraff not even complete professionals, who gave you the courage, to appear before an Earth Fire Scholar?"

Besides Ivan, who had broken through the Earth Fire Curse, completing himself and regaining the identity of a Deep Blue Guard, the others were still considered Desert Hunters, bearing the Earth Fire Curse passed down from ancient times.

Back in the day, the Dragon of Greed, Lidzmat, drove the Water Mages out of the Flame Realm. The Deep Blue Guards, who were also of the Water Element, risked their lives to turn into a massive Teleportation Gate to ensure the Water God's safety. The remaining surviving Deep Blue Guards were sealed with much of their Professional Power by Lidzmat's "Earth Fire Curse," regressing into Desert Hunters.

"Hmm?" A Desert Hunter suddenly changed his expression, looking up.

In the sky, quietly appeared patches of the "Molten Rock Fire," one of the Eight Strange Fires, pressing down like leaden clouds.

The Earth Fire Curses inside all the Desert Hunters present were deliberately activated by Holigar, and the Cursed Power erupted!

Yet Andrew's voice sounded again, surprisingly with a hint of laughter, saying, "Go ahead."

Silvia, Pasha, Natalie, and other Water Mages had quietly appeared at the forefront of Ivan and the other Desert Hunters' ranks.

The Water Element, one side is combat while the other is magical, should have been natural partners, just like Warm Fire Mages partnered with Crimson Knights, similar to how Earth Fire Mages paired with Flame Warriors—a classic, versatile combination.

But due to Lidzmat, from ancient times to the present, for countless years, the two groups had been separated for infinite eras!

Until now.

"You... you are..." Silvia and her group looked at the Desert Hunters opposite them.

"You seem to be—" Ivan and his group also looked at the Water Mages.

As it turned out, even if separated for who knows how long, even if one side had regressed into Desert Hunters, while the other had been forged in the Water God Realm's environment into something beyond the traditional Water Mages, they still had the intrinsic, deepest soul-level familiarity and warmth that naturally and swiftly revealed itself, surfacing uncontrollably!

Just like Andrew and Ivan needing no more words, Water Mages and Desert Hunters, even after an endless reunion, needed few words to understand each other's identities quickly!

"I'm Silvia." Silvia extended her hand.

"Ivan." Ivan also extended his hand, tightly shaking Silvia's.

"I'm Natalie."

"Oh, hello elder sister, I'm... I'm Little Sophie!"

"I'm Pasha—"

"Woof!" Xiao Ha extended his large paw to Pasha's hand.

Pasha: "??"

More and more Water Mages and Desert Hunters stepped forward towards each other: "Haha, nice to meet you, long time no see!"

"Really... missed you all so much!!"

Desert Hunters and Water Mages naturally approached each other, shook hands, hugged, and finally cheered!

The cheers soared to the sky, containing substantial great power, piercing through the leaden clouds formed by the Earth Fire Curse as if a hot knife through cheese, tearing them to shreds!

Every Desert Hunter present, including those still on the way behind, broke through the curse at that moment, restoring everyone's former identities—

Deep Blue Guard!

Thus, Desert Hunters and Desolate Beasts ceased to exist, becoming history.

And the Deep Blue Guard, along with the combination of Deep Blue Guard and Water Mage professions, made a triumphant return!

The fact proved that sometimes, strength, tier levels, and so on aren't absolute standards.

Holigar, as a Divine Level expert, didn't consider Ivan, Silvia, and others worth his attention.

But when the two Water Element profession groups were reunited, bursting with incredible joy, invigorating atmosphere and momentum, even the Divine Level Holigar couldn't help but feel a hidden shock.

Holigar turned to look south, where a large force silently arrived shortly after Ivan and the others.

It was none other than the eight elders of the Southern Retreat Land, leading their elite forces personally.

After establishing a formal cooperative relationship with Wildfire Territory, four of the elders had stayed in Wildfire Territory themselves, and now the remaining eight had arrived.

Compared to the lively reunion of the Water Element professionals, the humanoid aliens of the Southern Retreat Land were much quieter. The twelve elders quickly gathered, first nodding at An Ya, then bowing slightly to Andrew on the Dragon Stone Tower.

Andrew hurriedly returned the salute.

Holigar sneered, saying, "Really, the whole world gets so tense just because I want to eat that Andrew brat?! You've come too!"

As he spoke, Holigar no longer paid the newly arrived Ivan, the elders of the Retreat Land, and others any attention, turning his gaze once more: "Previously, my three avatars were suppressed by you for so many years, but that's all history now! This time, you'll get to see my true strength, this time, I'll make sure you concede completely—Beiru!!"

In the west, northwest, north, northeast, and east, five gigantic deep blue tower-shaped portals appeared simultaneously.

Each portal was as tall as the Dragon Stone Tower!

The five portals hummed as they all lit up at once.

Then a large group of figures passed through the portals, arriving at the scene.

President Beiru, leading the forces of the frontline, Crimson Battle Lance and Dragon's Nest, Northern Royal Court, Shield of Flowing Fire, and Warm Fire City, essentially the entire elite strength from the Warm Fire Commerce Association and the Flame Realm, had arrived.