Chapter 6117 The Rebel Leader

Chapter 6117 The Rebel Leader

How could she possibly manage to burn the powerhouses that possessed the strength and the abilities to snuff out her resonance-empowered flames?

"It is not enough to possess stronger willpower." Isobel believed. "The Emperor Tree does not possess any willpower that comes close to my own, but it still managed to douse my flames."

She suddenly figured out the most fundamental reason why she failed to burn down the calamity plant.

"My King Killer Flames fail to live up to their name because they... aren't able to burn everything that makes strong enemies like the Emperor Tree so difficult to defeat."

Venerable Isobel thought back on what stifled her attempts to burn down her opponents.

What did transphasic energy shields and the Emperor Tree's own flame suppression methods have in common?

They both relied on energy to stop her fire from burning solid matter!

No matter whether it was warship hulls or the wood of the Emperor Tree, her flames were technically able to burn them all up given enough time.

The problem was that energy-based defenses and countermeasures continually stopped her from burning what she wanted.

The solution was therefore simple.

"I need to evolve my flames to the point where they can burn energy much more easily."

Power in this universe was based on energy. Without energy, nothing could be done. Only when someone possessed a huge amount of energy would they be able to change nature, win difficult battles and maintain dominance.

Venerable Isobel firmly set her sights on those who wielded a lot of energy and therefore power.

What if she became good at burning the energy that they relied so much on to remain at the top?

They would instantly lose the foundation of their strength and collapse!

Her eyes blazed with fire as she instantly fell in love with this idea. In a dwarf galaxy and environment where the focus had shifted from matter to energy, becoming good at countering the latter would grant her the qualifications to threaten every powerhouse of the new frontier!

Her fire did not necessarily need to burn any hotter. There was no urgent need for them to spread at a faster rate.

What Venerable Isobel truly needed in order to defeat the likes of the Emperor Tree was to gain the ability to burn its greatest strength!

The calamity plant's most important reliance in battle was its astounding command over wood energy. Its sheer size and mass allowed it to leverage far more wood energy than a more reasonably sized opponent.

However, Isobel noticed that while the Emperor Tree was able to command a monstrous amount of wood energy, it was actually really bad at refining it. The quality of energy under its command was terrible because it absorbed a huge amount of wood energy from the environment without spending enough time and effort into assimilating it. The calamity plant was too young. Its rapid growth in the past few years had resulted in a very unstable foundation that possessed a lot of inadequacies.

Yet just because it possessed a few glaring weaknesses did not mean that the Larkinsons were able to exploit them all. Venerable Isobel first needed to gain the power to burn the Emperor Tree's enormous reserve of wood energy in order to exploit the calamity plant's greatest shortcoming!

She grinned. "It just so happens that I know what to do now."

The transcendence glow truly lived up to its name, unlike the current state of her King Killer Flames.

Form should follow function. She already settled on the criteria that her flames had to meet in order to fulfill her desires.

Now, the most important decision she had to make was to choose an image that her flames should conform to. Only by visualizing something more specific than a simple fire would she be able to evolve her power and overcome her bottleneck!

How should she visualize the concept of a king killer?

"An assassin?"

No. She immediately rejected this image. She was not discreet at all and did not like to attack her enemies by surprise. Her compatibility with anything related to assassination was vastly inferior to the likes of Venerable Zimro Belson.

"What about a rebel leader?"

Nonetheless, Venerable Isobel pushed through because she was convinced that this was the best course of action!

The more she fixated on the image of the rebel leader, the more she began to resonate with the entire concept!

"I am on the right track!"

Her increasing intimacy of her choice of visualization spurred her on and convinced her to go all out at this time.

She actively attempted to remold herself to fit the image of the rebel leader in her mind.

As she began to leverage her willpower even further, she also began to surrender all form of control over her own flames.

She became utterly convinced that the only way to make her flames strong enough to burn the energy of the power was to let them go free and act on their true nature!

"Everyone and everything possesses desires. Even fire merely wants to sustain itself by burning everything within reach. Who am I to restrain it and tell it what the flames are allowed to burn?"

By ceasing to care about who or what her flames ended up harming, Venerable Isobel believed she was on the right track to elevate her power past her current bottleneck!

"It's not enough, though."

Unfortunately, her beliefs fell short of reality. She still felt that did not go far enough into liberalizing her own flames.

"What else do I have to do? Oh..."

Even now, her expert mech still maintained a state of control as she was in the process of recovering her resonance shield.

Despite her depleted state, her living mech should have been able to tolerate a lot more heat and flame. The expert mech was specifically designed to be as fireproof as possible!

"If I let go... I will burn my entire surroundings." The expert pilot briefly frowned. "I am no exception either. If I truly want to unleash my flames... I have to expose myself to them! Only by letting go in earnest will they truly evolve into the King Killer Flames that can end the tyranny of the Emperor Tree!"

Venerable Isobel did not question her decisions any further and immediately set about releasing her flames to the point of setting her own cockpit on fire!

"Kiroshi, let's light it up!"

"Ya ya!"

Her companion spirit reappeared by her side and began to use her own flaming form to light a fire in her own cockpit.

Under normal circumstances, Isobel would never think about burning her own expert mech, let alone trying to engulf her own body with her King Killer Flames!

This was not a normal circumstance, though. After becoming inspired by the guidance that led her to fixate on the image of the rebel leader, she fully committed herself to it in the hopes of catching up to Saint Tusa!

As the temperature in the cockpit rapidly rose, Venerable Isobel felt increasingly hotter and more excited!

"That is it! Burn! Burn it all down! Burn so that I may transcend from the ashes of my own corpse! Let my fire go free and burn anything without restraint! No longer shall I impose any control over my flames!"

The cockpit began to fill with smoke. Actual components started to burn and break down from all of the heat damage.

As the unrestrained flames slowly spread across the limited area and approached her cockpit chair, Venerable Isobel grinned with anticipation.

She believed with all of her heart that once the King Killer Flames spread to her own suited form, she would be able to undergo rebirth that would make her stronger than ever!

Her willpower already started to press against her bottleneck with far greater force than before!

She could feel her bottleneck loosening in real time!

"Almost there! Just one... more... push!"