Water Mage in the Flame Realm

Chapter 464 434: Planes

"So you did all this just because you're hungry?"

Andrew glared at Lidzmat, "You treated all living things other than yourself as food, devoured so much, and yet you still say you've never been full?"

Insatiability—it's terrifying.

Listening to Lidzmat's words, from his tone, it seems he wasn't born with this "insatiability," right?

"When did you start feeling you could never be satisfied?" Andrew pressed on.

Meanwhile, the Seven-Colored Rainbow Bridge finally followed the roots of Shire, successfully reaching the Underground Space, and with a "whoosh," flew into the Temple on the central island of the Lake of the Ocean.

On the ground, Lidzmat didn't directly answer Andrew's question, only smiling as he said, "You Water Mages' abilities are quite similar, I didn't expect even the words you say are almost the same."

When the Fire God was plotted against and killed by Liang, thus breaking the union of water and fire between Xiu and Li, Lidzmat had no more concerns and immediately re-emerged, launching a hunt against Li and her subordinates who were Water Element Professionals.

Before Li's death, she asked almost the exact same question as Andrew.

The difference was that when Li asked, she was extremely furious!

Furious at Lidzmat's claim of "slaughtering countless living beings just because of eternal hunger."

Even more furious was Lidzmat's nonchalant, as-it-should-be, utterly dismissive attitude towards life when he spoke those words.

In fact, if not for that anger causing a slight deviation when Li created the Water God Realm before dying and used it as a weapon for a fatal strike at Lidzmat, Lidzmat might have been killed outright instead of just seriously injured.

But alas, there is no if.

"Why are you avoiding my question?" Andrew stared at Lidzmat, continuing to ask, "When exactly did you start feeling insatiable? You weren't like this from birth, right?"

Lidzmat still didn't answer, he stared into Andrew's eyes, surprisingly not catching much anger in them.

He couldn't help but ask back, "Aren't you angry?"

He seemed intrigued: "I said I killed all your family and subordinates just to satisfy my bottomless appetite, and you're not angry?"

Andrew was silent for a moment, then gritted his teeth and laughed harshly, "Why be angry? Though I don't know the reason for your insatiability, having this trait means you stand against all living things in the universe, against all planes. You are a life enemy, a plane enemy!"

"So?"

"So you're done for, you're doomed!" Andrew declared loudly, with extreme conviction, "From the moment you stood against all life, you were destined to fail!"

The universe contains countless planets.

When a planet gives birth to life, it qualifies to be called: a plane.

Planes that once had life but no longer do are called "Dead Planes."

Planets with great potential to give birth to native life in the future are called "Potential Planes."

And the rare few planes capable of nurturing extremely strong life forms, powerful races, and mighty upper-tier professionals are praised as: Main Planes.

As his professional practice deepened, Andrew gradually began to sense that besides the Flame Realm and the Water God Realm, there were other planes in the universe.

Andrew could even vaguely sense the direction of Earth!

Lidzmat is inherently the enemy of planes, therefore the enemy of life.

Life is justice. Standing completely opposed to life, Lidzmat represents pure evil.

And throughout history, evil never prevails over righteousness!

Andrew firmly believed this!

"—Puhaha! Hahahahaha!" Lidzmat was stunned for a moment, then suddenly couldn't help but burst into laughter, continuing to laugh uncontrollably, "You're killing me with laughter! What are you saying? Evil not beating justice? What kind of logic is that? Is it something from the plane your soul comes from?"

Lidzmat laughed for quite a while, finally catching his breath, licking his lips, "Alright then, after eating you, I'll follow your soul's trace to your plane of origin, and see what it's like! Just to witness your so-called 'evil never prevails over justice!' Haha!"

Going to Andrew's soul's homeland, Earth, is precisely why Lidzmat deliberately left Andrew for last.

Back then, after being heavily injured by the Water God, dragging his wounded body back to the Fire God Realm, rather than being suppressed, he chose to enter a slumber himself.

First, to heal.

Second, to digest.

Just like the first time he went on a killing spree, devoured all the Titans and Dragon Race, disappeared for years before reappearing in the world, after each meal, he needed time for thorough digestion and absorption to fully convert what he ate into strength progress, enabling him to devour better with greater power.

During his slumber, Lidzmat occasionally woke up, commanding the Magic Guild to find more food for him.

By the time he awoke today, not only had he long been healed, but his power had surpassed the Divine Level, breaking into the Creation Realm—or rather, the Realm of Destruction—when fully recovered, especially after killing the Plane's Will, this Flame Realm had no subsequent value for Lidzmat.

To put it simply, having consumed the world's will, the Flame Realm had no better food to offer.

The Water God Realm was too young a newborn plane, offering scarce high-quality ingredients.

Lidzmat naturally thought of exploring: maybe the home plane of Andrew, this intriguing ingredient he had been quietly observing, would have more delicious offerings!

Andrew said Lidzmat becoming the enemy of life meant he was doomed to fail.

Yet Lidzmat instead believed that he had finally grown strong enough to transcend this Flame Realm and embark on a brand-new interstellar foraging journey!

"You can't do it!"

Andrew alone said, "I won't give you the chance! Although you're destined to perish as the enemy of life, if I let you go, countless more lives would suffer before you die. So I absolutely won't give you the chance!"

Lidzmat chuckled, "At this point, where do you get the confidence to still spout such fearless boasts?"

While speaking, he temporarily put away the ice cream in his hand and took a step forward, opening his mouth wide.

The reason he exchanged these words with Andrew was, firstly, an interest in Andrew as food, and secondly, to prepare to trace Andrew's soul trajectory to his home plane while consuming him.

Now, Lidzmat was ready.

As he stepped forward and opened his mouth, his neck remained in its giant infant form, but his head reverted to his true form: the head of a giant dragon with a wide-open maw!

Gulp—Lidzmat bit down hard!

Pinned on a stump, Andrew had already lost all ability to resist, yet at this moment, he seemed to regain some strength, temporarily releasing the opponent's wrist that had pierced his shoulder, instead raising both arms to firmly grip the opponent's upper and lower jaws.

Due to Andrew's interference with his arms, Lidzmat bit down at a slant when he truly chomped down.

He bit into Andrew's other shoulder.

Blood flowed. Andrew's face turned pale, shivering with pain, clenching his teeth couldn't stop it.

Yet Lidzmat instead released his bite, the dragon's head turned back into a human form.

He frowned, looking down at his feet.

Only to see: his feet somehow had become wet.

The originally dry sand was rapidly becoming moist.

The weather remained clear, with no rain.

The change was coming from underground.

An immense amount of water was surging up from beneath the desert, and soon Lidzmat wasn't just "wet underfoot," but both his feet were submerged.

The Inner Sea Desert seemed to be restoring its former appearance, that enormous freshwater lake from ancient times: the Lake of the Ocean!