The fully mutated Su Rou stood eight feet tall in the center of the smoking courtyard, her pitch black scaled hide radiating waves of suffocating, acidic heat that melted the surrounding white granite into dark sludge.
Her red flame tendrils whipped violently through the sulfur air, while her massive black claw hovered over the ground, ready to spring.
Behind her, near the ruined library steps, High Priest Gui lay bleeding from his broken chest, his pale hands frantically attempting to draw a crimson blood rune on the stone floor to reactivate the central array pillar.
"Activate... the grand sacrifice..." Gui wheezed, his bloodshot crimson eyes fixated on the high battlements. "Feed the master..."
Ye Chen took a long, deep breath.
He closed his eyes for a fraction of a second, tuning
