Water Mage in the Flame Realm

Chapter 463 433: Hunger

"Swallowing the dragon, this is the only possible solution now. Swallow Lidzmat, then use his power... to bring all the dead back!"

Thinking of this, Andrew seemed to catch a glimpse of dawn in the boundless darkness of despair.

But suddenly, there was a sharp pain in his shoulder.

The moment Lidzmat turned his gaze back to Andrew after killing Catherine, he appeared right in front of Andrew.

A blow pierced directly through his shoulder! The momentum carried on, pushing Andrew fiercely onto the broken stump of Shire.

"Andrew, right? I know you."

Lidzmat said, "I deliberately left you for last because you are quite interesting. Your soul's aura doesn't even belong to this world?"

From his words, it seemed he had been secretly observing Andrew for a while.

He even sensed Andrew's identity as a transmigrator!

His voice was a naïve and innocent child's voice, but his tone was very mature.

"Cough, cough..." Andrew coughed up blood painfully, not only was his shoulder pierced, but his back also slammed heavily against the tree trunk, causing his insides to churn.

His feet were suspended in the air due to the height difference between the two, not touching the ground at all.

Andrew gripped tightly onto Lidzmat's wrist embedded in his shoulder, using it as a support point.

At the same time, Andrew silently sent the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge, created from the beam, into Shire's body behind him.

The Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge merged into the Water Tower Tree like water, then traveled along the trunk and roots, heading towards the underground Lake of the Ocean.

"Oh? Did you do something?"

Lidzmat seemed to have sensed something, frowning slightly, "What, even now, do you think you can turn the tables?"

This old dragon in its infant form was very different from Holigar, he was very cautious. As he spoke, he spread out his perception ability, trying to locate the source of the strange feeling from a moment ago.

Andrew's eyes could now barely keep up with Lidzmat's movements.

Before her death, Barbara had entrusted the "Fire of Life" to Andrew, along with the method to gain stronger pupil power and perception using the Fire of Life.

Andrew could "see": the perception ability of the other, was about to catch up with the rapidly descending Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge, about to discover Andrew's actions.

Sending the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge into the underground space was the crucial first step in Andrew's dragon-swallowing plan, inspired by Holigar yet distinct from it.

Andrew accelerated the descent of the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge, making it faster, even faster.

While enduring the pain, he opened his mouth with difficulty: "Why?"

In this way, he tried to divert Lidzmat's attention.

"What why?" Lidzmat said, then suddenly laughed, "You're quite interesting, I deliberately ate Catherine in front of you, before that, I killed everyone in front of you, seeing all this, aren't you afraid?"

"Afraid." Andrew spoke honestly, then continued to ask, "Why are you doing all this? Even if born an evil villain, there must be a reason, right? To rule the world? You've already accomplished that. To defeat the Warm Fire Commerce Association? You've done that too. Why must you go to such lengths, to... destroy this world?"

Originally, Andrew meant to divert the opponent's attention, yet now genuinely wanted to know: what was the reason behind all this?

It must be known that Lidzmat didn't just slaughter everyone on the battlefield, nor just eliminate the Plane Will attached to Shuangshuang.

In the wind blowing in from outside the desert, there was an increasingly strong bloody scent.

Just now, while battling the Plane Will, Lidzmat temporarily left the Wildfire Territory, killing even more people!

This level of slaughter could almost be termed biological extinction.

The death of the Plane Will further meant that in the near future, the entire Flame Realm would gradually collapse until utterly destroyed.

"Heh..." Lidzmat withdrew his perception tendril.

By the slightest margin, before retracting the tendril, he almost discovered Andrew's minor maneuver, just by a tiny bit.

Looking at Andrew, Lidzmat suddenly asked seriously, "Do you eat?"

"I... am not hungry."

Lidzmat's brow furrowed slightly, "Your language comprehension ability is somewhat flawed. I'm not asking if you eat now, do you think I would let you have a meal in this situation before I eat you? I've never played by that book. What I mean is—do you eat in general?"

"I eat."

"There you go." Lidzmat shrugged, still pinning Andrew against the tree with one hand, and raising an ice cream in the other, "This is my food." He gestured around, "This world is my food too. You say I destroyed the world? No no no, I have no grudge against the world, I just... have always been very hungry, never full."

This was the truth, Lidzmat had never been full.

He couldn't recall when it started, but in a year he remembered, he inexplicably began to feel unbearable hunger. The world said he not only slaughtered the Titans but even turned against his own race, being a sheer demon; Lidzmat never felt at fault.

"Because I never truly had any personal grudges against those clan members I killed and ate, I didn't hate them." Lidzmat's reasoning was simple, "I was just really hungry, and they happened to be very delicious food... that's all there is to it."

Eating was the only way to alleviate the unbearable hunger.

Each meal brought a power increase that Lidzmat didn't care for much, he really just wanted to be full.

Of course, as he kept eating, even without focusing on power growth, Lidzmat's strength naturally skyrocketed, with no bottlenecks in cultivation.

After defeating the Titans and the Dragon Race, he smoothly advanced to the Divine Level.

When he targeted the Human Race, he was initially blocked by the combined forces of Xu and Li, comparable to the Divine Level, but Lidzmat quickly changed tactics: he discovered that after reaching the Divine Level, he could further amplify the "constant hunger" into an "endless greed", combining this greed with his innate "Molten Rock Fire", which resulted in the "Fire of Extinguishing".

A tiny wisp of the Fire of Extinguishing, condensed into a "Seed of Greed", could make someone inherently greedy lose control of their desires entirely!

The Human Race, possibly due to intense inherent greed, became the most susceptible species. Fire Element Professionals were more vulnerable than Water Element Professionals.

This led to the birth of Earth Fire Professionals and also marked the origin of the Magic Guild.

Thus resulted... Liang, a Water Element Professional, being corrupted, treacherously killing Xu, allowing Lidzmat to effortlessly break the Water and Fire United defense of Xu and Li, a historically regretful event for Liang.