However, on the other side, the Lord of the Flameless furrowed its brows. For the moment the green patterns had broken, why could it suddenly no longer sense the Flameless Fire?
“Shopkeeper, be careful!” Greerwu shouted out loud.
In the instant that the voice fell, Greerwu’s vision blurred… Did it faintly catch a glimpse of a light shadow descending from the shattered green patterns?
Greerwu shook its head, looked again, and saw no light shadow. But the shopkeeper himself was now completely motionless.
“Could it be that the fire has already eroded into the shopkeeper’s body?”
While Greerwu was filled with worry, the Lord of the Flameless suddenly launched an attack!
Greerwu thought the light shadow was an illusion, but it was unaware that the Lord of the Flameless had very clearly seen the light shadow entering the human’s body.
What the light shadow was, the Lord of the Flameless did not know, but it saw a strand of golden hair.
As the light shadow descended, the Flameless Fire ceased without cause.
Angel stood still in place, head bowed and silent, seemingly unharmed. But the Lord of the Flameless’s heart began to race—something it hadn’t felt in thousands of years.
The Lord of the Flameless hadn’t felt palpitations in a very long time, but now, they suddenly appeared.
And against a human who seemed no more significant than an ant!
This made it somewhat irate, and under the influence of some emotion, the Lord of the Flameless initiated an attack. At that moment, it had yet to realize that the long-absent emotion driving its behavior was known as unease.
Or perhaps, it was the inherent fear a living being feels towards its natural predator.
When Greerwu saw the Lord of the Flameless attacking the shopkeeper, it was startled, and a sour sensation spread from its heart to its nose. It believed that this time, the shopkeeper would surely not escape from his fate.
However, Greerwu had not considered why the Lord of the Flameless, with its status, would bother to personally attack a human who was so beneath it in power that they were worlds apart.
The Lord of the Flameless’s attack was composed of three stages: intimidation, energy, and physical force.
To terrify with fearsome intimidation, to incinerate with the Flameless Fire, and to conclude with overpowering physical strength.
Even the Lord of the Flameless itself didn’t realize that it was attacking a human—ordinarily unworthy of its attention—with such a serious approach.
Moreover, the human being attacked was in an utterly defenseless, motionless state.
However, the attack that the Lord of the Flameless thought was foolproof developed some discrepancies.
The intimidation had no effect on the human opposite, to the point where it doubted its own abilities, but upon seeing the young fire demon behind the human whose face was now reddening with fear, veins and sinews bulging on the forehead, it was certain that its intimidation was effective.
So why was this human unaffected?
With the impact of the intimidation being almost null, the second attack—the Flameless Fire—arrived next to the human, and as the fire made contact, the Lord of the Flameless’s gaze shifted abruptly.
It once again couldn’t feel the existence of the Flameless Fire!
Once might be a coincidence, but for this to happen again it meant that this human must have a way to counter the Flameless Fire!
Alarm bells rang in the Lord of the Flameless’s mind.
But since it had already made its move, there was no reason for it to retreat.
However, the Lord of the Flameless was now more cautious than before.
As it rushed towards Angel with its formidable physical body, Angel, who had been silent until then, finally lifted his head.
At the moment Angel looked up, the Lord of the Flameless felt an unprecedented level of alarm!
The human before its eyes… No, the Lord of the Flameless could no longer sense the presence of a human.
His visage seemed to change, covered in shadows, concealing all features, with the only familiar sight being the radiant golden hair.
But originally, his golden hair was but a short layer.
Yet now, behind this short layer, the faint silhouette of long hair appeared.
The Lord of the Flameless suppressed the rising feeling of alarm, its hand transformed into a blade, aiming to split the head before it in two!
But at that very moment, a light suddenly shone from the face previously obscured by shadows, revealing itself.
Bright and piercing, yet filled with a cold and icy gaze!