Overturned Tower

Russell immediately guessed what the rules of the "Raging Volcano" were.

If the original wasteland was an endless desert with no end in sight... then this "Raging Volcano" is climbing upwards, but never reaches the end.

Because the "Tower of the End" is a place that can never be reached.

It only exists as a "coordinate"...that is to say, this mountain cannot be climbed at all.

But why is it "angry"?

"...Speaking of which, what about strangulation?"

Obviously both of them followed the path of anger and entered the volcano of rage, and the strangulation was faster than Russell's.

But after Russell entered, he lost sight of the former.

But that's it.

Russell heard a loud noise behind him——

Behind him, in the "hole" some way downhill, lava pillars were suddenly pumped out!

Even though he was far away, clear and palpable heat suddenly surged from Russell's back.

"...Could it be?"

Russell realized something and heard something. He turned around and darted downward.

The climb up is not easy, but the rush down is equally difficult.

The gravel and boulders lay across the road at angles that completely defied the laws of physics. It would be very easy to fall if you could not descend smoothly.

If it were Russell's own body, there would be no need to consider these things at all.

But the bluebird's body is much bulkier.

——An ordinary body that cannot even dodge bullets is really weak.

Russell sighed.

He didn't know how long he ran before he got close to the rising lava pillars.

They didn't flow down.

Instead, it maintains a columnar shape and is solidifying at a slow speed.

Once here, he finally saw what was happening below.

Strangler is fighting something.

It was a four-clawed monster made of shadows and shaped like a hyena.

But they don't have heads, and their necks are inlaid with scarlet single eyes.

There were four of these beasts - they gathered around the strangulation area but did not take action.

This is because blood-like fire flows through Strangler's body.

Those scarlet flames flowed out of his eyes continuously, like crying.

They burned like gasoline, sweeping over his body and forming a flame armor that could only cover his chest. There is also a little "blood and fire" from the legs down to the feet, but it is much less.

These blood fires did not burn the strangled skin at all, nor even the mane on his body.

Obviously, these flames are a great deterrent to these shadow monsters - but the flames cannot burn his back, so he is constantly pacing and spinning, trying to avoid exposing his back to them.

At this moment, Strangler saw Russell running down from above.

He was stunned for a moment.

It was that moment of surprise that caused the flaw in the strangulation.

The monster behind him immediately stretched its body and pounced ferociously.

The blood-red pupils on his neck suddenly opened wide, and a huge bloody mouth that was larger than his own body was revealed from the pupils, with ferocious bone fangs inside.

Strangler reacted immediately, turned around and stretched his hand burning with blood-red flames to the side, grabbed the "neck" connecting the huge mouth and the eyeball, and pulled it out together with the eyeball.

After the eyeballs left the body, the shadow beast immediately dissipated into the air.

But at the moment when Strangler took action, two shadow beasts rushed towards him from behind him on the left and right -

"——Peng——Peng!"

Huge gunshots rang out one after another.

Russell took out his shotgun and fired two shots without hesitation!

This is exactly the gun with the restrainer mounted on it that the mercenary leader used in the captain's room!

From the perspective of Strangler, the densely packed projectiles were like horizontal iron rain, rushing toward his face.

The restrained projectiles exploded one of them with the first shot. The aftermath also knocked the second one backwards.

The second shot was reversed, blowing out the eyeball of the shadow beast on the other side of the "strangle", killing it instantly.

Only then did Strangler fully realize what had happened.

The blue-haired young man, holding a repeating shotgun, fired two consecutive supporting shots centered on the strangulation, one to the left and one to the right, from a distance of about twenty meters... but did not injure the middle one at all. strangled.

That's a shotgun!

Such good marksmanship - if this were not in a dream world where chips and prosthetics cannot be used, Strangler would have thought that the opponent was using an auxiliary aiming system.

"Good marksmanship!"

And Strangler was not stunned.

While admiring, he stretched out his right hand towards the repulsed shadow beast.

The blood-red flame was like a living thing, forming a thick tentacle that penetrated the shadow beast's one eye in an instant.

The blow was not without cost.

The bloody flames that made up the armor on Strangler's body faded instantly and turned into the material for this tentacle - or "living whip".

"Are you good at shooting?"

Russell put away the shotgun and walked slowly towards the strangulation.

"Brother is awesome!"

Strangler praised: "You saved me once, barber!"

Russell's face skillfully showed a perfect smile that belongs to an idol - this is Xiao Liuli's muscle memory.

He asked without fear: "Are you still a girl now?"

"--Feel sorry!"

What surprised Russell was that Strangler, who seemed to be a self-centered person, turned out to be a completely shameless guy.

Strangler admitted his mistake very simply: "I was wrong, brother. If you are still uncomfortable with that sentence, brother will treat you to a drink after we go out! Good products limited to the company!"

"Easy to do."

Russell was not greedy for merit and just nodded reservedly.

"Run quickly, we can't stay here for long."

Strangler did not immediately explain to Russell what he had encountered. Instead, he pulled Russell's arm hard and motioned him to run up the mountain faster.

Before they took two steps, Russell saw the lava pillars gradually solidifying, and the surrounding ground gradually becoming hot.

"what is that?"

Russell asked loudly.

"My mentor calls this the Pillar of Wrath. Not just the Way of Wrath, there are similar 'timing devices' in all areas except the original wasteland."

Strangler's physique is much stronger than "Blue Songbird". Even while running at a fast pace, he can speak very fluently: "Reset the timer for this area."

His low, growling voice was clear enough to be heard by Russell behind him.

"The dream world...doesn't it...have no concept of time?"

Russell asked while running quickly.

The extra energy spent climbing the mountain made him panting.

"That's right. So the timing method in the Way of Anger is the 'cooling down cycle'..."

Strangler stopped mid-explanation.

He glanced back at Russell and realized something.

So he crawled in front of Russell like a real lion: "You are running too slow, climb up."

"……May I?"

Russell was eager to try.

"It's okay, just remember to sit tight."

The white lion roared in a low voice: "Also, don't scratch my mane...remember to grab my necklace."

Since you asked for it yourself...

Russell rode on the white lion without hesitation.

The next moment, the white lion suddenly became huge as if it was inflated.

He transforms into a true "white lion" - but ten times the size of a normal lion!

It was a huge monster crawling on the ground, three or four stories high!

It took a slight step forward and was more than forty meters away. The strong wind blew against Russell, causing him to hold on to the animal tooth necklace around his neck to prevent it from being blown off.

They quickly moved away from the previous area, and the surrounding ground became less hot.

"It's almost done here."

The strangulation slowly stopped, and he uttered words: "It's about to be reset."

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground not far behind them suddenly collapsed!

The ground and the solidified lava pillars all turned into lava in an instant. And after they fell back again, the terrain turned into a completely different look.

Only then did Strangler breathe a sigh of relief.

His body quickly shrunk and he put Russell down.

After that, Strangler continued what he said before: "As long as those things are completely solidified, the area with pillars around them will be reset."

"Where did those things come from?"

"It's anger. When you are 'angry' in all areas where the path of anger belongs, various styles of 'pillars of anger' will immediately rise around you. The height and scope of the pillars are equal to the total anger of everyone in the entire area. related.

"But anger will subside, just like hot lava will also cool. Once the lava has completely cooled, it means that the anger has subsided. The area will be reset to a state where it will explode at a touch."

Strangler apologized to Russell again: "I'm sorry, brother. I just waited for a long time and you didn't come, but the shadow came. I thought you were disobedient and chose another path... so I couldn't help but get angry. "

"...No, it doesn't matter. You rescued me too."

Russell was a little subtle: "However, I thought that mages who walked on the path of anger would be more unreasonable."

When he first saw the strangulation, he thought he was a completely irrational madman.

Looking at it now, he is indeed not a normal person. But it’s fairly easy to understand—his actions are actually logical!

"You guessed it right."

Unexpectedly, Strangler agreed with Russell's statement: "You see me as rational because I also chose the 'Way of Temperance' and the 'Way of Contemplation' at the same time, so my [anger] will not spread to In myself. Controlled anger, this is the characteristic of our school."

"...Is that flame a spell? It's called 'Rage'?"

At this point, Russell suddenly became excited: "Can I learn it too?"

"This is the most basic spell of the Way of Wrath. You have already arrived at the Wrath Volcano, and you will definitely have learned it when you leave... But the spell form of 'Wrath' between us is definitely different."

Strangler advised quickly: "You must not direct your 'anger' at yourself. Without the suppression of the way of contemplation and the restraint of the way of temperance, it cannot distinguish between friend and foe, and cannot be restrained and formed.

“You just project your anger—and as long as your anger isn’t over, it won’t go out.”

"From what you're saying, it seems that there are other derivatives of anger?"

Russell asked.

"Of course. But not all derivatives will become useful, and the 'wrath' of the incompetent will only make them more incompetent. The skills of combining Tao and Tao are the secrets passed down among our mages.

"The name of our school is called 'The Furnace', which emphasizes harnessing the hammer of pain and the fire of anger to brew great things. The school that is directly hostile to us is the 'Embers'. The successors of the Embers school are the madmen of the 'Eternal Reincarnation' The boss."

Bai Shi said something quickly, as if he missed it and it was too late: "Do you know the headquarters of the White Lion Group? If you don't know, I will tell you now - on Road 302 in Area F of the Regeneration Factory Area, go to the end That’s it. If you have time, come over and let’s meet... I’ll be there these days. If anyone stops you, just say ‘melting pot’...”

"Are you leaving?"

Russell guessed why the strangulation suddenly became so urgent.

Because he also suddenly had a premonition that he was about to wake up from his dream.

"Same to you, brother. You just fired."

Strangler showed an extremely scary and kind smile: "As long as you fight in the dream world, you will be ejected at any time.

"The flow of time here is not linear. If we can't make an appointment to enter the dream world together, I don't know when we meet next time. It's too late to explain now. Come to me tomorrow. I'll tell you what I just said in person. What is it, and the follow-up of the Melting Pot School..."

Before he finished speaking, his figure suddenly faded.

And at the moment when he realized that Strangler was "kicked offline".

Russell also felt that the world around him immediately became blurry... as if he was about to wake up, and reality and dreams overlapped.

The entire dream world is rejecting him——

It seemed like it was just a moment, and it seemed like there was a period of blank time in consciousness.

When Russell regained consciousness, he realized that his hands and feet were still tied together.

In the upper right corner of his perspective, there is a time mark:

【6：15】

"...It's six o'clock."

Russell murmured, taking the bandage off himself.

He looked up and out the window.

It was what he was familiar with...the dim sun and the gray sky.

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