Chapter 92: Ambushed by a Mysterious Beast of the Miquilo Tribe (Tenth Update)

One Beast was not afraid of fighting Mirei-Ro Beast in a life-and-death battle, but he did fear that Mirei-Ro Beast would refuse to fight him.

He had to remember that he was now in Burst Mode. The flaw of Burst Mode had already been mentioned before: it could not be sustained in prolonged combat. So if Mirei-Ro Beast kept evading him, hiding until One Beast's Burst Mode time limit expired, hiding until One Beast had no choice but to cancel Burst Mode, then Mirei-Ro Beast would truly have succeeded. He would have won.

After all, if matters dragged on that far, One Beast would certainly no longer have enough digital energy left to withstand Mirei-Ro Beast's attacks.

As for ending Burst Mode first and then, when he encountered Mirei-Ro Beast again, entering Burst Mode once more to fight him—was that possible? Of course it was. But the key question was: would Mirei-Ro Beast give him that chance, allow him to enter Burst Mode again? One Beast did not know, but he suspected the answer was very likely no.

And so, at this moment, One Beast found himself unexpectedly at a loss against Mirei-Ro Beast. If this had been during his peak, how could some small fry like Mirei-Ro Beast have ever made his expression so grave?

Not to mention fighting him head-on—even if One Beast truly stood before Mirei-Ro Beast and allowed him to attack at will, those attacks might not even be able to break through his defenses.

"Dragon Beast, burn down this jungle for me."

At last, One Beast gave the order to the tardy Dragon Beast. Dragon Beast did not know why One Beast wanted this, but he was only a digital beast and had no desire to think too deeply about it. Thus, he immediately opened his mouth and exhaled a deep crimson blaze into the jungle.

There were countless trees in the forest, which meant there was little to stop Dragon Beast's flames. Even Mirei-Ro Beast, if he did not stop the fire before it reached an uncontainable scale, would not be able to halt it.

Of course, if Neptune Beast had been here, one great tidal wave would have been enough to extinguish the forest fire, no matter how vast those flames were.

While Dragon Beast's fire raged through the jungle, One Beast withdrew from Burst Mode.

Although there was a good chance that Dragon Beast's flames would force Mirei-Ro Beast out, the process would take a long time. After all, the jungle was no small place. If Mirei-Ro Beast only emerged at the very end, driven to desperation, One Beast did not even know how long he would have to wait. If he kept Burst Mode active the whole time while waiting, then by the time Mirei-Ro Beast appeared, he feared he would no longer have enough digital energy to deal with him.

Time passed by in minutes and seconds.

Yet Mirei-Ro Beast's figure never appeared.

In the end, Dragon Beast's flames consumed the entire jungle, but still there was no sign of Mirei-Ro Beast.

If Mirei-Ro Beast had truly been burned to death by Dragon Beast, even One Beast would have been astonished. Under what circumstances could a living thing be burned to death? Naturally, it would have to be bound in place, or else the fire would need to be faster than the creature's speed of escape. Only then would it be possible.

Of course, there was also the possibility that the creature was not bound and the fire was not faster than it, yet it simply refused to flee and was thus burned alive. But the odds of that were far too low.

Looking at the jungle reduced to ashes, One Beast's brow remained tightly furrowed. In the end, he still did not quite believe that Mirei-Ro Beast had simply died like that. Eventually, his gaze fell upon the mountain in the distance.

If he had to choose between Mirei-Ro Beast perishing in the sea of fire and Mirei-Ro Beast fleeing to that mountain, One Beast felt he would still choose the latter. No matter how he looked at it, Mirei-Ro Beast did not seem like the kind of fellow who would submit without resistance.

Thus, to guard against any mishap, One Beast first entered Burst Mode again. Then Demon Lord Might transformed into wings, carrying him toward the mountain.

And yet, just then—just as One Beast reached the middle of the jungle that had been scorched by Dragon Beast—a six-sectioned staff with eight edges burst up directly from below.

This is bad!

At the sight of that weapon, One Beast knew he had still underestimated Mirei-Ro Beast. He had actually remained in the sea of fire and never fled. Though One Beast did not know what means he had used to survive, there was no denying it: he had indeed survived.

"Boom!"

As that eight-edged staff came surging up, One Beast slashed at it with his sword, sending it flying away at once.

Confused, the weapon surged toward One Beast again the very next instant, crashing directly into his Sword of Destruction.

At that moment, One Beast could feel wave after wave of shock force spreading toward him from the point where the eight-edged staff and the Sword of Destruction met.

Boom!

In the end, One Beast still fell victim to Mirei-Ro Beast's trick, and his figure was blasted backward.

Confused, this was Mirei-Ro Beast's skill. By striking the ground with the eight-edged staff, Mirei-Ro Beast could generate shock waves to attack his enemies. But just now, Mirei-Ro Beast had used One Beast himself as the ground, striking him with the eight-edged staff to unleash shock waves against him.

Since Mirei-Ro Beast's attack power was stronger than One Beast's, and because this move likely carried some other special effect, in an instant One Beast's health was stripped down by eighty percent. It was truly terrifying.

But One Beast also knew very well that the reason he had not been killed instantly was not only because this was a solo challenge, which made Mirei-Ro Beast somewhat weaker. The main reason was the shield of the Red Tyrant Beast.

The moment he sensed the shock waves traveling along the eight-edged staff, One Beast had already determined that this move was not something he could withstand at all. Thus, he immediately transformed Demon Lord Might into a defensive form and actively released the fiery wall of the Red Tyrant Beast's shield to cover his body, narrowly saving his life.

Even so, his health now hung by a thread like a butterfly in the wind. Though he still had twenty percent of his life remaining, he absolutely could not endure Mirei-Ro Beast's next strike. Worse still, because of that previous blow, he no longer had the strength to shift his own footing.

The moment One Beast was blasted backward by Mirei-Ro Beast's attack and fell to the ground, the eight-edged staff surged toward him once more. And all One Beast could do was stare helplessly as it came racing at him, unable to do anything else.

Then, at the very instant when the eight-edged staff was only a centimeter away from One Beast, the unexpected finally happened...