Grinding EXP From Fireball Skill

Locks’s corpse fell to the ground.

Everyone stared in disbelief at the charred fragments scattered across the floor.

Punk’s expression was incredibly grim.

He had already placed a Magic Prohibition on Li Wei.

’Why could he still use Magic?’

Li Wei wasn’t using Magic.

It was Extraordinary Power!

It was Rule Power!

These powers were not within the constraints of Magic Prohibition.

Li Wei looked at Punk, and with a flicker of movement, he appeared before him, raising a hand to strike him down.

Punk’s heart leaped in alarm, and he panicked.

A figure moved to stand in front of him.

Li Wei’s movement paused for a moment. He quietly stared at the person before him.

"Erica, move."

Erica met Li Wei’s gaze for a long moment, then suddenly lowered her head, exposing Punk behind her.

A chill ran through Punk’s heart.

Li Wei lunged at Punk.

SHLICK!

A venomous stinger had pierced Li Wei’s abdomen.

A scorpion tail had emerged from Erica’s lower back.

Caught completely off guard, Li Wei had been stabbed by the stinger at the tip of the scorpion tail.

He looked at Erica, bewildered.

Erica gave a strange smile. She looked at Li Wei, but the voice that came from her mouth was a man’s.

"Isn’t it heartbreaking? Isn’t it despairing?"

"Ahahaha! To think, you actually wanted to save her. How unexpected!"

"How does it feel to be killed by the one you trusted?"

Li Wei stared at Erica’s face, his expression growing grave. "Lo...cks..."

The deceased Locks had somehow appeared inside Erica’s body.

A look of agony crossed Li Wei’s face, but it wasn’t from physical pain.

It was the heartache of knowing Erica was dead.

He thought back to the moment Erica had left.

Li Wei was filled with immense regret. ’I should have stopped her from going back.’

At least if she hadn’t gone back, she could have had a dignified death.

Instead of being transformed by Locks into this... thing.

Becoming Locks’s new body.

Locks glanced at Erica’s body, then lifted Li Wei’s body up with the scorpion tail, muttering to himself, "What a pity. I was originally planning to let Erica grow for a while longer."

"Unfortunately, you forced my hand. If you hadn’t killed my previous body, I wouldn’t have had to activate Erica’s. She could have continued to live."

Then, his face twisted with excitement.

Erica’s face and Locks’s face seemed to overlap.

It was nauseating.

Locks was ecstatic, looking at Li Wei as if he were an incomparably beautiful work of art.

"It’s all right. Erica is dead, but I’ve obtained an even better body."

"Don’t worry, I will absolutely transform your body into the strongest one possible."

"Such a magnificent body... I will be sure to make full use of it."

"Li Wei, I have to say, you constantly shatter my expectations and bring me wonderful surprises."

"I hope that after I obtain your body, you’ll be able to surprise me even more."

Locks coveted Li Wei’s body immensely.

Especially after Li Wei had displayed such extraordinary power.

An overwhelming impulse to possess Li Wei’s body had taken root in Locks’s heart.

Punk, standing behind him, was completely dumbfounded.

Punk couldn’t even process what had just happened.

Li Wei reached out and gripped the scorpion tail embedded in his abdomen.

Locks’s expression turned playful.

"You don’t actually think you can turn this around, do you?"

"Do you know what this is? Scorpion Venom. One of the ten deadliest poisons in the world."

"It can even poison a Legendary Giant Dragon to death."

Locks’s expression suddenly grew serious as he remembered something.

"Oh, oh, oh, I remember now. You’ve been poisoned by Scorpion Venom before."

"But... the Goddess’s Tears you relied on are gone. What can you rely on now?"

Locks sneered.

During the exchange tournament between the five great Mage Towers, Li Wei had encountered an Alchemist with the Biochemical Demon class.

That person had used Scorpion Venom.

At the time, Li Wei still possessed the Goddess’s Tears.

Locks had been watching from the sidelines and naturally knew how events had unfolded.

More importantly, that Biochemical Demon had also been one of his modifications.

The Scorpion Venom that person possessed was merely a leftover byproduct from his modifications.

But now, the Scorpion Venom inside Erica was the pure essence he had extracted from scorpion remains.

It was capable of killing even a Legendary Professional.

Besides the Goddess’s Tears, there was almost no other way to neutralize Scorpion Venom.

The Holy Flame blazed.

Golden flames erupted from the wound in Li Wei’s abdomen.

They scorched Erica’s scorpion tail.

A look of astonishment appeared on Erica’s twisted face.

"What is this?"

’Flames?’

’Weren’t they supposed to be suppressed by Punk’s power?’

The status effect immunity, an Extraordinary Trait of the Holy Flame Lord, kicked in.

The damage from the Scorpion Venom was already greatly reduced against his Elemental Body.

Coupled with the Holy Flame Lord’s immunity to status effects, the impact of the Scorpion Venom on Li Wei was weakened even further.

The Poison Rule Power attached to the Scorpion Venom was also neutralized by Li Wei’s High Level Flame Rule Power.

In reality, the Scorpion Venom that Locks had been so confident in hadn’t had much of an effect on Li Wei at all.

Instead, it was Erica’s death that affected him more deeply.

The Holy Flame surged.

Furious flames burned in Li Wei’s eyes, and his hair transformed into a blazing inferno of golden fire.

Locks twisted his head toward Punk behind him and roared, "Do something!"

Punk hurriedly formed hand seals to cast the Magic Prohibition Technique.

Streams of Magic Prohibition Power fell upon Li Wei, but the flames on his body didn’t weaken in the slightest.

Punk immediately realized the problem.

He screamed in terror, "This isn’t Magic!"