At this moment, Hina, standing inside the ring of fire, was already completely dumbfounded.
She stood there in a daze, her beautiful eyes filled with disbelief.
Flames?!
There were actually flames surrounding Roya’s sword?!
Hina stared wide-eyed at the Engetsu in Roya’s hand, watching the crimson flames swirling around its blade.
Roya could actually control flames!
Hina suddenly thought of the Level One ferocious beast, the Brownback Giant Ape, which had been completely roasted earlier.
She had always wondered how that giant ape had died.
Now, it seemed…
Roya really had killed it!
Finally coming to her senses, Hina continued staring at Roya with an almost unbelievable expression.
In just one month, such a tremendous transformation had occurred in Roya!
Under Hina’s incredulous gaze, Roya had already slaughtered all the ferocious beasts that had charged through the ring of fire.
He then swung his sword at the beasts that were still burning and rolling around on the ground in agony, quickly cutting them down one after another.
Flames coiled around Engetsu’s blade.
Throughout the slaughter, not a single drop of blood remained on the blade.
Every drop of blood was instantly vaporized and dried up by the flames, leaving almost no trace of blood on the battlefield.
The crimson flames danced around the sword like fire spirits, resembling beautiful golden-red flowers.
They were beautiful.
And terrifying.
After cutting down the last of the dozen or so ferocious beasts that had attacked them, Roya swept his sword through the air, and the flames finally began to recede.
Only then did Hina slowly recover from her shock.
Even so, disbelief still lingered on her face.
Unable to hold back, she asked,
“You…
You’re really Roya?!”
“Who else would I be?”
Roya rolled his eyes at Hina.
It seemed that this girl had finally begun to understand what was going on.
At this moment, flames were still burning all around them.
Since they were in the middle of a forest, the fire had already ignited all the surrounding bushes and vegetation.
It was even beginning to spread toward the rest of the forest.
If it wasn’t contained, it could potentially burn across the entire island.
“If it keeps spreading like this, they’ll probably have to forcibly stop the examination.
But if it only burns a little…
it should be fine.”
“Then…
let’s continue hunting!”
A gleam flashed through Roya’s eyes.
He temporarily allowed the flames to continue burning before suddenly charging forward, bursting out of the sea of fire and rushing toward the other ferocious beasts nearby.
At this point, the ferocious beasts were all staring at the raging flames.
Their natural ferocity had gradually been suppressed by the fire.
In its place was an instinctive fear of flames.
When Roya charged out of the inferno wrapped in flames, looking almost like a human torch, several of the nearest beasts didn’t even dare approach him.
They immediately tried to flee.
“Flame Torrent!”
Seeing this, Roya was slightly surprised.
He lowered his head a little, the corners of his mouth lifting faintly, and gripped Engetsu with one hand before suddenly sweeping it outward.
Vwoom!!
A mass of scorching flames suddenly coiled around Engetsu.
With Roya’s sweeping motion, the flames instantly transformed into five fireballs and shot toward the nearest fleeing beasts.
The flames moved incredibly fast.
None of the beasts managed to evade them.
Some were struck directly, while others were grazed.
Either way, they were instantly engulfed in flames.
The beasts caught in the fire immediately began rolling around on the ground, howling in agony.
Yet no matter how desperately they struggled, they couldn’t extinguish the flames covering their bodies.
Fwoosh!!
As the beasts thrashed about, the flames ignited the surrounding bushes and trees.
In an instant, the entire area seemed to transform into a sea of fire.
This time, all the ferocious beasts finally lost their will to fight.
They tucked their tails between their legs and began retreating.
Some even turned around and fled directly into the depths of the forest.
But by this point, how could Roya possibly allow his prey to escape?
“Trying to run now…
It’s already too late.”
Roya let out a low chuckle.
A smiling expression unconsciously appeared on his face, making him look completely harmless.
That is, if one completely ignored the Engetsu in his hand, wrapped in blazing flames.
Whoosh!!
The next instant, Roya shot forward.
The flames surrounding Engetsu erupted once again, sweeping across the surrounding area.
The entire battlefield descended into chaos.
Every ferocious beast began fleeing in panic.
Some charged directly into the sea of flames.
Others, panicking and losing all sense of direction, slammed headfirst into trees and knocked themselves dizzy.
The flames continued burning more and more fiercely throughout the forest.
Roya stood alone with his sword in hand, the burning forest behind him.
It was as though he had an entire sea of flames at his back.
At this moment, almost no ferocious beast dared fight him.
Even the Level One ferocious beasts were trembling with fear in the face of this blazing inferno.
They had no intention of fighting and could only flee in panic.
The scene in the forest had completely transformed.
It had become one man wielding a sword, relentlessly hunting down a massive horde of ferocious beasts desperately fleeing for their lives.
Hina, who had been following behind Roya, had long since been rendered speechless.
The countless scenes of flames seemed to roar and thunder inside her mind as well.
Her eyes were filled with disbelief.
Was this really still Roya?!
If not for the scorching heat and terrifying temperature radiating from the burning forest around her, Hina might not have believed that this was real.
She would have thought she was dreaming.
Flames erupted in every direction.
The entire area seemed to have transformed into a vast sea of fire.
Wherever Roya went, a field of flames followed.
After all, this was a forest.
Here, fire was practically the ruler of everything.
If they were in an open area or a desert, achieving an effect like this would be extremely difficult.
Even if Roya’s flame ability were ten times stronger than it currently was, he probably still couldn’t accomplish the same thing.
Wherever Roya went, the ferocious beasts were routed.
Even the Level One ferocious beasts had no intention of confronting Roya with the raging sea of flames behind him.
They were slaughtered as they fled in every direction.
Using the overwhelming flames to sweep across the entire area—
Two…
Five…
Ten…
As the pursuit continued, the number of ferocious beasts killed by Roya steadily increased.
Ferocious beasts below Level Two couldn’t withstand even a single one of Roya’s sword strikes.
Even Level One ferocious beasts couldn’t withstand his flame damage.
Under Engetsu, they were quickly and forcefully cut down.
This practical combat examination, prepared for the recruits of the ordinary training camp, could no longer hinder Roya’s advance in the slightest.
Wherever he went, everything was swept away and burned to ashes.
As Roya continued his slaughter, the sea of flames also grew larger and larger.
Eventually, it attracted the attention of the other recruits in the forest.
Within the Forest
X Drake was fighting a powerful Level One ferocious beast.
He looked somewhat battered, while the Level One beast was already covered in wounds.
“Ha!”
The next instant, a sharp glint flashed through Drake’s eyes.
With a deep shout, he brought his weapon crashing down.
Bang!
The Level One ferocious beast slammed into Drake and sent him flying.
But Drake’s weapon had already struck the beast’s vital point.
The outcome was decided.
After somewhat laboriously killing a Level One ferocious beast, Drake exhaled and walked over to its corpse.
“A Level One ferocious beast.
I can hunt one even without using that ability.
It seems this examination won’t be much of a challenge for me.”
Drake nodded before preparing to continue hunting.
But at that moment, a strange expression suddenly appeared on his face.
He abruptly turned and looked in a certain direction.
Far in the distance, that section of the forest appeared to have turned crimson.
And the crimson glow was becoming increasingly intense.
“Is that…
a fire?”
A trace of surprise appeared in Drake’s eyes.
Looking at the enormous forest fire, which showed no signs of being contained and was instead growing increasingly fierce as it seemed to gradually swallow the entire forest, Drake’s expression slowly became grim.
“A fire this large…
there’s probably no way to contain it now.
It’s already affecting the practical combat examination, isn’t it?”
“How did such a huge forest fire suddenly start?”