Chapter 183 Fire Fox

<Elysia POV>

After splitting off from Shaman, Elysia was sending explosive fire spears at the dark elves' houses, getting the attention of all the elves in her area.

Finding a small park for her to group all of the elves in one place, Elysia waited for them on top of a tree.

Hearing the rabid growls below and seeing a massive crowd form, Elysia was ready to begin slaughtering.

Flicking her spear, she entered her hybrid fire-fox form and the ends of her hair turned into fire. Her fox features also became more prominent, with her hands and feet gaining fur with the same fiery effect.

'So I can combine this fire transformation and my [bloodline arts] that I got back in Ebonscale.' After fighting the skeleton knight in Ebonscale and transforming into what her family calls their true form, Elysia's bloodline power was unlocked, allowing her to enhance her speed and power.

'Still have more to find out, but that diary my mother gave me might have some hints.' Elysia saw in her system menu that there were many more bloodline arts she could learn, but she had no idea how to get them.

'Anyway, I have a show to put on.' Elysia smiled and jumped off the tree she was on as the dark elves were now too close.

Spinning in the air Elysia dived directly into the crowd of elves while coating her spear in condensed fire.

The elves thrusted their weapons into the air to catch Elysia, but she was too fast for anyone to do anything. Slipping past the weapons of the elves, Elysia squeezed her way into the crowd while hitting the ground with her spear.

The condensed fire that was on the spear exploded, turning all nearby elves to ash and giving Elysia space. She also released all 6 of her tails as she realised her increase in power came from how much of herself she transformed into a fox. Each tail shared the same trait of the tips being on fire, however, the top of the flame had a slightly blue hue to it.

'Is my flame getting hotter?' Elysia was aware that as her fire grew hotter, it would change to a blue colour, but no matter how much she tried, she couldn't get her flames hot enough.

'Maybe it's because I recently went up a tier, anyway I can't waste any time.' Elysia hadn't tried ever since getting tier 6, so she thought it might be now possible to get a blue flame, but because the dark elves were fast approaching, she didn't have time to think.

​ Pivoting on her feet, Elysia slashed across the chest of a few dark elves killing them.

Moving the spear behind her, she blocked the blow of an elf. She then used the thin fire coating on her spear to send a small fire spear into the elf's head. Not even getting a second of reprieve, Elysia now had a group of 5 elves all jump at her at the same time.

Stabbing her spear into the ground, a wave of fire spewed out from the hole it created, which stopped the 5 elves from getting closer. Leaving her spear in the ground she dashed to the first elf and using her claws, pierced through the chest of the elf.

The elf's body burned from the inside and was discarded to the side like trash. Elysia then moved on to the other elves, killing them with her bare hands. She would grab them by the head, slice their necks and crush their body. A crazed look appeared on Elysia's face as she spilled blood.

Her flames also started to transform a little as now the small blue tint was turning red with each kill.

Once she finished off the group of 5, Elysia didn't keep still and dashed towards where the majority of the elves were. Still using her bare hands Elysia was ripping through the elves not caring for her own safety until finally, her flames turned completely blood red.

[Element fire has evolved]

[Fire -> Blood fire]

Getting a system notification, Elysia completely ignored it and continued to shred through the bodies of the dark elves. However, now her flames were much more volatile and any elf that came close felt their blood boil.

This did not stop the elves from attacking and due to the sheer amount Elysia was now surrounded by, their attacks were finally landing. Getting slashed across the back and her various limbs, Elysia was taking a lot of damage, but this did not stop her. She continued to rip elves' heads off while her flames consumed their bodies.

One effect of her flames that instantly became apparent, was that the fire had a life-leaching property. After the flames burnt one of the elves' bodies, the wounds on Elysia's body would be set on fire and slowly the wound would close.

Red flames arose from all around Elysia as they burnt the corpses of everything she killed and the only thing left was the guards. For some reason they had stood back, but Elysia didn't care about what they were doing. Knowing her hands wouldn't go through their armour, Elysia went back to her spear and pulled it out of the ground.

Once her hand touched the spear, red flames instantly coated it, violently thrashing around.

The group of at least 10 guards all brandished their spears, infusing them with wind. Little did they know it would only fuel Elysia's flames even more.

The guards got into a circular formation and surrounded Elysia to block off any means of escape.

Standing still, Elysia did not move and carefully watched over the guards, waiting for their next move.

Not being patient some of the guards began to make their move while others kept the circle. 4 out of 10 charged at her and a small whirlwind appeared at the tips of their blades. Elysia erected a fire wall all around her and when the spears connected with the wall, the wind caused an explosion. In the split moment of contact, Elysia was able to forcefully take over the mana in the wind and use it to further amplify the fire, causing the explosion.

The elves were blasted back, but were not killed. However, it was evident by their now burnt forearms that they took a lot of damage.

The fire wall came down and at the tip of Elysia's blade was a highly condensed ball of fire. The elves instantly could tell it was dangerous, as the ambient mana in the air was erratic and kept getting sucked into the ball she was creating.

Knowing what was coming would kill them, they all rushed at Elysia in an act of desperation. They attacked with everything they had, sending whatever wind attacks they could all the while trying to close the distance. Elysia didn't even bother blocking the wind attacks, which were weakened anyways from their mana getting sucked out of them. In the end, they only left small cuts on Elysia's body.

Raising her spear to the sky, Elysia was close to completing her attack, but now the dark elves were close enough to hit her. Still not caring, she let their spears stab her. Blood spewed out from her body as she coughed up blood from her internal wounds.

"Got you." Smiling Elysia slashed down, hitting the ground with the condensed ball of fire. Things went silent for a moment until a loud boom echoed out, followed by red fire engulfing the area.

All the guards were killed in an instant and thanks to their bodies getting burnt by the blood fire, Elysia's wounds were already closing letting her escape mortal danger.

Elysia, who was in the middle of the blast, was completely unaffected and instead was embraced by the flames, making her feel stronger.

Once the flames dissipated and the area cleared up, everything in the proximity was black or turned to ash, making it look like a wasteland.

Elysia slowly let go of her flames, changing back to her normal half human form. Once back to normal, Elysia fell to her knees as the amount of mana she used in a short period of time was exhausting and she needed a moment to recover her strength.

"That was fun." Falling on her back, Elysia took a moment to embrace the feeling of victory and let her body recover.

"Wait, I wasn't supposed to do big attacks like that oops." Elysia remembered that Shaman explicitly said to avoid doing any larger scaled attack that would attract attention.

"Oh well, just means more fighting, but I should probably get to the centre." Elysia didn't mind, but she knew there were going to be more waves of dark elves coming soon.

"Hope Shaman is still preoccupied, I can already hear the lecture." Elysia felt shivers as she knew how scary Shaman can be when it came to doing things right.

'I wonder if we can just clear it today.' Elysia thought for a moment. So far, the dungeon wasn't hard. Although the guards posed a threat as they are more intelligent, with the 4 of them it seemed easy.

'Only one way to find out.' Elysia got up from the ground after somewhat recovering from the exhaustion and made her way to the centre.