Natsu's fist was faster than thought.
A flash of fire, and a heavy punch wreathed in crimson flames slammed into the village chief's face, but it was like hitting sticky asphalt.
Natsu's fist was stopped dead by the old village chief's face, and the young man's expression turned ugly. Flames ignited his eyes, enhancing his perception, "Who exactly are you?"
The old village chief's eyes suddenly turned inky black, and the shadow beneath his feet transformed into a crescent scimitar, slashing upwards at Natsu.
But the wary Natsu flapped his fiery wings and quickly retreated to avoid it.
After opening a distance of several dozen steps, Natsu looked closely.
The old man's skin peeled away inch by inch, revealing a scaled, cyan face beneath. After losing its human skin, it resembled some kind of lizard monster.
It was barely one and a half meters tall, with a slender body covered in cyan scales. Short, sharp white bone spurs grew at its joints, its eyes were inky black, and its hands and feet had long, sharp claws. On the inner side of its right wrist, on one scale, there was a cyan star pattern.
"Such an observant little cat," the lizard monster licked its mouth, which split to its ears. First, it reverently raised its right hand and glanced at the star pattern on its wrist, then its inky black eyes looked at Happy, who was sitting on Natsu's shoulder.
"Too bad..."
"Too late!"
As soon as the words fell, Ezreal suddenly roared to the sky, and a dense black aura erupted from his body, turning into monstrous black smoke that spread in all directions.
The monster slowly tore off the last piece of human skin, revealing its true form covered in bone spurs, "This guy's soul has a problem, and his condition is very poor. It's impossible for him to resist my Shadow Puppet Art."
"But don't be sad, be Happy for him."
"Your friend will become a loyal servant of the Moon Demon."
Evil Wolf roared, and violent black smoke also erupted from its body. Under the stimulation of anger, the dark magic power within it was even more violent than usual.
But the lizard monster merely glanced at it, then took a step back, raised its hand, and pressed its five fingers together, its sharp, knife-like nails pointing at Ezreal's neck, "I think you need to calm down, little dog!"
"You shouldn't have disturbed Comet's sacrificial ritual. Although I don't like this guy who just joined the church and is so impatient to advance, he is, after all, preparing the sacrificial ritual to please my Lord."
The lizard monster crossed its arms, straightened its body, and its ferocious face and uncomfortable lizard body had a peculiar elegance under the moonlight.
"But it's perfect, using a Mage's soul as a sacrifice, the Moon Demon will surely be pleased."
"You're courting death!" Natsu's roar shattered the night sky, and the ten-meter wave of fire from his wings erupted behind him.
Evil Wolf's fangs gnashed, and its fifteen-meter-long body was coiled like an arrow ready to be shot.
Seeing that the two of them actually intended to attack, the lizard monster's mouth split to its ears, and its eyes gleamed with cold light: "The moment you make a move, your companion will..."
"Roar—!" Evil Wolf's roar, accompanied by a black hurricane, swept across the entire area. The moment the sound wave attack spread, hundreds of black energy chains burst out of the ground.
The impact from the roaring sound wave directly caused the lizard monster to let out a muffled groan, blood overflowing from its mouth and nose, and its internal organs trembling.
Immediately after, hundreds of black energy chains bound him tightly in place like a wrapped zongzi.
"Fire Dragon's!"
"Iron Fist!"
Accompanied by a roar, Natsu transformed into a crimson meteor and dove down. The flames condensed in his right fist actually showed a molten color, that was destructive high temperature!
The lizard monster's inky black pupils suddenly contracted, but it had no time to dodge and was hit head-on by the flame-wrapped fist.
The flaming fist, carrying an aura of destroying everything, smashed into the lizard monster's chest. The ground instantly cracked like a spiderweb upon impact, and the soil within a thirty-meter radius was blown away by the air current, with gravel and turf raining down into the night sky.
The monster let out an inhuman shriek, its entire body like a meteorite struck by a meteorite, directly blasted into the ground. A cylindrical pit, five meters deep with charred edges, was left on the ground, and sizzling flame patterns still remained on the pit walls.
When Natsu retracted his fist, the ground was still violently shaking, and the rustling sound of crumbling rocks came from the bottom of the pit.
Half of the lizard monster's body was embedded in the mud at the bottom of the pit, its cyan scales on its back shattered into dust, revealing its rotten flesh-like body beneath. Several bone spurs were broken from its lower back, and black blood dripped from the fracture into the soil.
But the next second, the seemingly miserable lizard monster suddenly opened its eyes, and a black aura suddenly erupted from its body. This black aura wrapped around its body and flew out along the edge of the pit, then landed behind Ezreal.
The black aura condensed into the lizard monster's perfectly intact body. It once again raised its hand and pointed its fingers like a knife at the back of the golden-haired youth's neck, its eyes filled with murderous intent.
"You will pay the price for your actions!"
Just as its fingertips were about to exert force, it suddenly noticed white, ceramic-like crack patterns appearing on Ezreal's neck—those patterns were frantically devouring the black aura!
"Impossible!" This sight made the monster's eyes widen. It instinctively wanted to retreat, but the previously out-of-control Ezreal suddenly backhanded and grabbed its wrist.
The black aura surging around the golden-haired youth's body briefly paused, and then a giant white runic magic circle opened beneath his feet. After rotating clockwise once, Ezreal's body erupted with light more dazzling than the sun.
The black aura enveloping him and the black aura continuously gushing from within him instantly melted away like snow, as if encountering a natural enemy.
"You played a trick on me, do you think you can leave alive?" Ezreal's eyes blazed with white light. He turned around, and the murderous intent in his eyes was more intense than ever before.
"Amaterasu!" Ezreal roared, grabbing the lizard monster's right hand and yanking it hard, actually tearing off the opponent's arm. White bone fragments mixed with blood sprayed out.
But before the lizard monster could even scream, Ezreal's left hand, shining with brilliant white light, opened and pressed against the lizard monster's head, smashing it heavily onto the ground.
The violent physical strength mixed with Amaterasu blasted a large hole in the ground.
Immediately after, above Ezreal's head, nine layers of pure white magic circles bloomed in succession in the night sky, each filled with ancient runes.
The magic circles rotated wildly clockwise, and the moonlight paled before the formation, completely dispelling the shadows within a hundred-meter radius.
The lizard monster let out a shrill wail, its body scales peeling off in the white light.
"Super·Destruction Death Ray."
The nine magic circles simultaneously collapsed into pinprick-sized points of light, and then expanded into a light pillar that pierced through heaven and earth within a thousandth of a second.
Natsu quickly flapped his fiery wings to get away from the attack range, but some of the feathers on his back still vaporized in the strong light. Evil Wolf dug its front claws firmly into the ground to avoid being blown away.
The light pillar was like a divine punishment from heaven. Within a hundred-meter radius, rocks and soil were directly vaporized into a glassy chasm.
When the light dissipated, Ezreal slowly stood up, the lizard monster frozen in the pit with a painful and horrified expression.
A night wind blew, and its body turned into black dust and scattered, not even a single complete bone could be found.
Ezreal swayed and took two steps back, his face as white as a corpse.
He forced a weak smile at Natsu, the white light in his eyes slowly extinguishing: "A little hungry... do you have any skewers left...?"
Before he finished speaking, he fell backward, caught by Evil Wolf, who pounced and wrapped him with its tail.
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