Agonizing wails echoed endlessly within the flames, but they quickly faded away, their lives completely devoured by the fire.
Such a terrifying scene was witnessed by the mother and son behind him. She looked at Qin Tian with utter disbelief in her eyes.
Too powerful!
Those terrifying, dangerous mutated sea beasts were like ants before him—effortlessly crushed.
Although most people had awakened abilities after the spiritual energy revival, and she had seen members of the Spirit Energy Bureau use their powers before—which were by no means weak—the gap between them and this young man was simply too vast!
Before she could think further, she saw the sky-full of flames scatter once more. Surging crimson roared and raged across the land, the scorching fire seeming to turn the surroundings into a world of flame.
In a daze, she looked at Qin Tian as if gazing upon a deity born of fire.
Such strength. . . After the shock, her eyes dimmed slightly.
If Sea City had such a powerful ability user protecting it, it probably wouldn’t have fallen to this state.
Qin Tian didn’t know what she was thinking. His gaze was cold, slaughtering the mutated beasts that came near with killing intent.
Right now, his heart was filled with rage and the desire to kill them all.
“Roar!”
Faintly, it seemed a crimson fire dragon emerged from behind Qin Tian. The flames around him surged once more, leaving only scorch marks and countless charred corpses on the ground.
Although the bodies of these mutated sea beasts could be eaten or used for alchemy, and burning them all to ashes was somewhat wasteful, he had long since stopped caring about such things.
In his eyes, every mutated sea beast here had human blood on its hands.
So they all deserved to die! They all deserved to be devoured by flames.
“Die!”
In Qin Tian’s icy voice, the already surging flames became even more ferocious, burning and devouring one mutated sea beast after another drawn by the commotion.
Afterward, those mutated sea beasts even began to feel instinctive fear and terror, starting to flee into the distance.
But Qin Tian gave them no such chance. The sky-full of flames rapidly invaded and wrapped around them, burning them to nothing.
“Help!”
“Help!!!”
“I’m here, I’m here!”
Sudden cries for help came from a room not far away. Qin Tian’s expression didn’t change as he transformed into a streak of firelight and moved over.
“Dragon Emperor, I finally get to see you.”
“You’re my idol!”
A handsome young man looked at Qin Tian, who was equipped with the Flame Dragon Armor, his eyes full of admiration.
“You. . .”
Qin Tian looked at the young man before him, somewhat surprised.
There wasn’t a single wound on this young man’s body—even his clothes were completely intact.
And his mental state was extremely good, so much so that he even had the mood to joke around.
“Oh, are you wondering why I’m totally fine and still so excited?”
The young man seemed to have noticed Qin Tian’s confusion. He scratched his head a bit sheepishly and said:
“After I awakened my ability earlier, I started thinking about whether a day like this might come.”
“So I paid someone to build me a basement.”
“Tons of food and everything, plus over a dozen generators.”
“I thought I’d have to wait at least a month before you guys showed up, but I didn’t expect you to arrive so soon.”
“It’s only been one night.”
“As expected of the Flame Dragon Steed!”
“By the way, Dragon Emperor, my name is Ye Changtian. Could you give me an autograph later?”
“. . .”
Qin Tian was somewhat silent, then nodded and said:
“From here on, are you going to keep hiding in the basement, or come with me?”
“Of course I’m coming with you, Dragon Emperor!”
Ye Changtian said without hesitation.
“Dragon Emperor, you have no idea—I saw on my surveillance that those mutated seafood are all crazy strong, absolutely insane.”
“With just my basement, who knows how many hits it could take.”
“I wouldn’t dare gamble on that.”
Before they mutated, they were just seafood. After mutating, a small crab was already a meter wide, the big ones three meters, and some even five meters!
Those crab claws were no joke either. One pinch, and he felt like his basement’s defenses would be done for.
“Let’s go.”
Qin Tian said no more. After speaking softly, he turned around and began searching for other civilians while eliminating the mutated sea beasts.
Time slowly passed. Qin Tian himself didn’t know how many mutated sea beasts he had killed.
But his expression was growing colder and colder.
Too many!
Sea City had far too many mutated sea beasts!
A million?
Maybe. But it was definitely not as simple as one or two million.
Not only the initial beast tide, but endless streams of mutated sea beasts were still pouring into Sea City from the ocean.
Behind Qin Tian, besides the original mother and son and Ye Changtian, there were now more than a dozen other people.
There was a thin, frail middle-aged man, panicked women, and even a pregnant woman who had missed the chance to escape because of her difficulty moving—her husband had even been ready for the whole family to die together.
But luckily, they had waited until Qin Tian appeared.
They followed behind Qin Tian, listening to Ye Changtian and some others describe information about him: one of Huaxia’s universally acknowledged four strongest, bearing the title of Dragon Emperor, the hero who had gained the recognition of the Flame Dragon Armor, the strongest in the Imperial Capital’s Spirit Energy Bureau. . .
These titles, along with the strength Qin Tian had displayed along the way, gradually shifted the way they looked at him from awe to worship.
A god walking out of flames—wherever he passed, no matter how many mutated sea beasts there were, they would be devoured by fire.
The flames even condensed into a crimson fire dragon, coiling above everyone’s heads, its might terrifying beyond measure!
“How fortunate that Huaxia has such a powerful person!”
“How even more fortunate that Huaxia doesn’t have just one such prodigy!”
Involuntarily, such thoughts appeared in their minds. But what followed was regret and sorrow.
Regret that Sea City had not produced such a powerful ability user.
Sorrow that the people of Sea City who died had not lived to see reinforcements arrive.
At this moment, Qin Tian, hidden behind the armor, frowned slightly.
Having used his ability continuously for so long, the total amount of spiritual energy in his body had decreased considerably. Moreover, being so close to the sea, the amount of water element far exceeded that of fire element.
As if sensing Qin Tian’s thoughts, a dragon’s cry seemed to ring in his ears.
Then, he perceived that his speed of absorbing fire element had increased by more than tenfold. He didn’t even need to actively absorb it—the fire element desperately rushed into his body on its own.
“Is this the power of the Flame Dragon Armor?”
Qin Tian was somewhat puzzled, but this was also a good thing for him.
At least for the short term, he didn’t need to worry about running out.
That being the case, a flash of red light passed through Qin Tian’s eyes.
“Hum!”
A heaven-shaking dragon cry resounded through the clouds. The aura around Qin Tian surged higher and higher, a powerful momentum rushing out in all directions.
