America: The Cremator

Chapter 211 What did you feed me? It's so hot!

Su Long retreated to the edge of Elena's territory, steadied himself, and looked down at his bare shoulders.

The dark gray thread had just sliced ​​his arms into pieces of tomahawk bones and flesh, leaving a trail of sashimi on the ground.

The powerful regenerative ability immediately repaired the damaged body. Red muscles grew rapidly in mid-air, and broken bone fragments were restored to their original state. In just a few seconds, Su Long's arms grew back.

He shook his hands, then interlaced his fingers and clenched his fists, allowing the power to flow through his body again.

Having defused the attack of the Great Devourer, Surong immediately looked at Elena behind him.

At this moment, the goddess statue within her domain had collapsed into a pile of rubble, scattered across the floor of the hall.

Elena stood in front of the pile of rubble, her face pale, and the light from the lantern in her hand flickered.

Looking at the pile of rubble, Su Long asked, "Elena, what's wrong with your domain? It can't even withstand a single attack—is something wrong?"

Elena wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, looked at the rubble on the ground, and said with a hint of helplessness, "Su, I'm not sure either."

"The statue has actually collapsed many times. Every time it is subjected to a slightly stronger attack, it will collapse directly."

"Moreover, every time this statue collapses, I have to mobilize a large amount of spiritual energy to reassemble it."

"After so many times, I feel that the goddess I've created isn't quite real."

Elena recalled the sluggish feeling she had when controlling the domain, and continued, "It felt like the entire domain was just a hollow sphere, lacking the power to support the rules of the domain."

After listening, several keywords came to mind.

Lantern, nurse, light, treatment.

These words immediately reminded him of Florence Nightingale, the original owner of the lantern.

Florence Nightingale has always been seen as a merciful goddess, carrying a lamp and patrolling the wounded soldiers' camp in the darkness of the Crimean War.

But Su Long knew that this woman had more than just a compassionate side.

He looked into Elena's eyes and shared his insights: "Elena, perhaps you're right, the entire field is indeed missing something."

"If I'm not mistaken, then your domain is currently lacking the imagery of a sacred relic."

"In the legends left behind by Florence Nightingale, she created more than one sacred object. Besides the lantern in your hand, there was another one."

Elena looked puzzled: "The other one? What's that?"

Surong then recounted that history: "You're missing a hammer."

"Back then on the battlefield, when faced with a desperate situation of wounded soldiers and a shortage of supplies, military officials refused to open the locked logistics warehouses."

"Nightingale simply asked someone for an entrenching hammer, grabbed the hammer, smashed down the door of the supply depot, and stole the supplies to rescue people."

"Later, she often carried a hammer and a lantern to patrol the wards, and the hammer, like the lantern, became a sacred object."

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"Elena, the mercy and redemption of the lantern alone will not work in this damned underworld."

"You need to know that when facing a monster like the Great Devourer, you can't hold your ground by just defending. You also need the courage and strength to smash the enemy."

His tone was firm: "When you reassemble the idol this time, don't just have her holding the lamp; add a hammer to her as well, and try to recreate Nightingale's glory on the battlefield."

Upon hearing this, a light flashed in Elena's eyes. She closed her eyes and began to fill in the missing piece in her field.

An even more dazzling holy light burst forth from the lamp wick, and the pebbles on the ground began to float upward under the guidance of the holy light, and the outline of the goddess began to reconstruct.

Su Long ignored her, turned around, and faced the enormous figure at the other end of the hall.

"You hold the hammer first, I'll hold down this skeleton."

After saying that, Su Long snorted coldly, his spiritual energy surged, and purple-gold flames burst forth from beneath his feet, the fire waves spreading outwards along the ground.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

With a deafening roar, countless heavy, massive black crematoriums rose from the purple-gold sea of ​​fire behind Su Long, scorching the surrounding air until it was extremely distorted.

Immediately afterwards, all the metal furnace doors of the crematoriums popped open at the same time.

"Clang!"

A tremendous clanging sound echoed through the hall, the furnace brimming with destructive power.

Lava, radiating a dazzling purple-gold light, spewed from the furnace mouth, and within seconds, a massive amount of magma transformed into a giant wave several meters high.

Su Long pushed his arms forward, his eyes fixed on the giant devourer in the other end of the restaurant.

"go!"

The magma wave, carrying devastating power and intense heat, crashed towards the giant devourer with overwhelming force.

The Great Devourer looked at the massive wave of lava that nearly filled the hall, raised its four arms, and flicked its withered fingers repeatedly.

Two, four, ten — dense, dark gray threads burst forth from its fingertips.

These threads intertwined in mid-air to form a giant net, which crashed head-on into the overwhelming wave of lava.

"Hiss hiss hiss—"

"The sound of cutting erupted."

The once seamless magma wave was sliced ​​into dozens of segments both horizontally and vertically the moment it came into contact with the dark gray grid.

Neat and orderly grid patterns are prominently displayed on the surface of the purple-gold waves.

Hundreds of smooth cuts appeared in mid-air, and the momentum of the magma's forward advance stalled.

The Great Devourer seemed to want to use the same tactic to dissipate this attack like the previous idol.

Su Long looked at the tsunami that had been cut through the grid, a mocking expression on his face.

Magma is a fluid, unlike flesh and blood, which can be easily made into sashimi.

As the saying goes, you can't cut water with a knife!

He suddenly clasped his hands together, his fingers interlocking.

"Gather!"

The magma fragments that had been suspended in mid-air, under Su Long's urging, once again emitted a frenzied boiling sound.

Within the cut, new purple-gold flames surged wildly.

The magma fragments tumbled violently in mid-air, and the cuts were filled in the blink of an eye.

Boom!

The reconstituted magma tsunami crossed the boundary line between the two territories, and the purple-gold fire wave directly crushed into the territory of the Great Devourer. The giant wave, which was more than ten meters high, descended with unparalleled pressure.

The giant devourer's four eyes were fixed on the churning lava, its shrunken chest heaving violently.

Immediately afterwards, its two huge mouths opened wide, the movement so large that its jawbone made a piercing cracking sound, and its entire jaw dislocated and fell down.

The skin on both sides of its cheeks also tore outwards rapidly, spreading all the way to its neck, and the mouth area occupied most of its entire head in just a few seconds.

Suron could no longer see the head of the Great Devourer; all that remained in his sight were two colossal abyssal monstrosities covered in sharp fangs.

A violent suction force swept out from the gaping maw of the abyss.

This suction force created a vacuum zone in the hall, forcibly drawing away the air and forming a visible gray tornado.

The tornado swept up all the mess on the floor of the hall and headed straight for the throat of the Great Devourer.

The giant wave of lava from Suron was also dragged toward the throat of the giant devourer by this suction force.

The purple-gold fire wave, which was originally pushing forward, was forcibly stretched into a long strip at the front.

The viscous magma was held firmly by the suction force and plunged straight into the giant mouth of the giant devourer.

The giant devourer began to gulp the magma voraciously, completely ignoring the thousands of degrees of heat emanating from it.

For it, this was just a steaming hot liquid meal.

The massive amount of purple-gold magma was continuously pulled by the suction force and forcibly drawn into a thin, constantly rolling noodle.

The purple-gold flames poured continuously into its throat, and the sound of swallowing echoed in the empty hall.

Sulong did not stop him at all, and directly cut off the subsequent output of the crematorium, allowing the giant devourer to absorb all the remaining fire waves in mid-air.

After swallowing all the magma, the Great Devourer's body underwent an exaggerated transformation.

Its originally shriveled body began to swell wildly, and an enormous belly bulged out, then sank heavily downwards.

Its belly was stretched to an extremely thin layer, with a semi-transparent texture. Through that thin layer, one could clearly see that its stomach contained a massive amount of purple-gold magma.

The magma surged violently inside its belly, constantly pounding against the stomach wall. With each churning, it scalded large patches of charred blisters in the stomach.

At the same time, the giant devourer's own powerful regenerative ability caused the charred parts to fall off and regenerate, barely maintaining the integrity of the stomach.

It let out a burp, and its two enormous mouths slowly closed, the dislocated jawbone rejoining.

Then, he stared at Su Long with the eyeball on his palm and said with a smug sarcasm, "This hot feeling... your cooking skills are not bad."

Surong looked it up and down at its comical appearance. Because it was filled with heavy magma, the giant devourer was now having great difficulty moving.

Four slender arms could barely grip the floor tiles, supporting her enormous belly that seemed ready to burst at any moment.

Su Long crossed his arms and said, "Oh ho, you love to eat so much?"

As he was speaking, he took a step forward.

"Aren't you afraid of getting an upset stomach?"

The giant devourer sensed something was wrong. The magma in its stomach began to boil violently and uncontrollably, and a temperature far exceeding that of before erupted from its body.

The thin layer of skin on her belly sizzled from the heat, and large patches of flesh began to carbonize. The body's natural repair mechanisms were far outpaced by the rate of destruction.

"What did you put in there! It's so hot!" it roared, scratching its belly painfully with its four paws, but not daring to scratch too hard for fear of tearing its belly apart.

Su Long raised his right hand, rubbing his thumb and middle finger together.

"There's nothing in it, just something to whet your appetite."

Snapped.

As the snap of fingers echoed through the hall, the light inside the Great Devourer's belly suddenly changed.

The deep red magma mass suddenly brightened, its color rapidly transitioning from deep red to bright red. Then, a blinding golden light tore through its translucent stomach wall.

The giant devourer opened its mouth wide in agony, trying to spit out what it had eaten, but the lava sealed its throat.

The bright golden light surged again in a very short time.

In a single instant, the light inside its belly transformed into an incomparably dazzling pure white.

After being compressed, the world-destroying fire exploded out of control.

The white light pierced directly through the body of the Great Devourer, illuminating all its internal structures and then vaporizing them all.

"boom--!"

Everything was filled with pure white.

The moment Su Long snapped his fingers, he had already retreated and returned to Elena's side.

The violent shockwave, mixed with heat waves of thousands of degrees, rampaged through the Great Devourer's domain, and everything within it was reduced to ashes in the pure white light.

The heat wave and shockwave lasted for a good ten seconds.

When the blinding white light finally faded, Su Long lowered his arm that had been blocking his eyes.

The magnificent European-style banquet hall and the two-headed, four-armed giant devourer vanished.

The space belonging to the Great Devourer had been flattened by the explosion. Above the ruins, the towering black crematorium stood firm, its purple-gold flames burning quietly on the ground.

Sulong's domain completely covered the entire area.

The giant devourer was completely detonated from within by the magma it had swallowed, blasting it to smithereens, leaving not even a trace.

Su Long squinted at the burning purple-gold sea of ​​fire in front of him and couldn't help but sigh, "The power of magma composed of world-destroying fire is already outrageous, but this guy is really courting death by swallowing it all."

Su Long turned his head and saw that the goddess statue, tens of meters tall, once again stood deep within the hall in Elena's domain.

The statue's design has undergone a dramatic transformation; her right hand is now holding a lantern aloft, while her left hand is holding a rough sapphire hammer upside down.

The hammerhead was covered with mottled dents and even dried bloodstains. This weapon, when combined with the solemn and compassionate goddess statue, created a striking visual contrast.

Su Long looked him over and nodded in satisfaction.

"This time it was good, it got the feel right, holding a lantern in one hand to save people and wielding a hammer to smash the door in the other, that's the Nightingale of yesteryear."

Elena felt the power flowing within the domain, let out a long breath, and then looked up at Su Long.

"Thank you, Sue. With this hammer, I feel that instability has disappeared, and the entire domain has become very stable."

"I feel that the goddess we see now is the real and complete one."

Su Long nodded.

"That's good. As long as it's useful. By the way, I've already found out the whereabouts of Nightingale's sapper hammer relic."

"After we get out of here, I'll see if I can find a way to get that hammer for you. That would definitely be a great help in improving your strength."

Elena's eyes lit up with joy, and she nodded solemnly.

"it is good."

Then, she turned her gaze to the still-burning ruins ahead.

"Su, what about the Great Devourer? Did you completely eliminate it?"

Su Long's expression gradually darkened.

"To be honest, the current situation doesn't seem like it's dead."

Su Long's retina was completely clear; no experience points were added, no new entries were dropped, and the system remained silent.

Once the Great Devourer dies, the system will inevitably perform a settlement. When he killed Valak's clone, the system gave a settlement prompt.

Since that's the case, the Great Devourer is a bizarre creature at the peak of A-rank. Even if what was just blown up was only one of its clones, the system should still give it some experience points.

The system's current response can only mean one thing.

The explosion just now didn't damage the core of the Great Devourer at all; in fact, they might not have even touched its actual body.

Just then, the sky above them moved.

Elena immediately gripped the lantern tightly and looked up.

The dark sky above the two of them emitted a dull friction sound, and the ear-piercing sound waves swept across the area, causing the ground beneath their feet to tremble.

Immediately afterwards, this thick "sky curtain" began to rise at an extremely exaggerated speed.

As the sky rose higher, a bright silver band of light appeared around its edges.

The band of light grew wider and wider, and outside light streamed in from all directions through the gaps, completely illuminating the area where the two were located.

Su Long squinted, his gaze following the bright silver edge. It was an extremely smooth metallic arc, reflecting the purple-gold flames and burning ruins.

He looked around and finally realized that they were now encased in an enormous circular base.

Moreover, what was rising overhead was not a canopy at all, but an inverted hemispherical cover!

Suron realized their current predicament.

Plate.

The two of them were, from beginning to end, just appetizers on the same plate.

Now, a hungry diner has just lifted the insulated lid on his plate, ready to officially enjoy this feast.

As the lid was completely lifted, a terrifying gust of air poured down from above, whipping up a gale on the ground.

Elena's hair was disheveled by the strong wind, and she immediately raised her lantern, creating a shield in front of the two of them.

Once their vision readjusted to the bright light, the two were able to see the view outside the plate.

On the outer edge of the plate sat a humanoid creature so enormous that its size defied common sense.

Its body blotted out the sky, like an insurmountable mountain. It wore an extremely sophisticated suit with a neat Windsor knot at the collar and a clean white handkerchief stuffed in its breast pocket.

This creature looked exactly like the giant devourer that had been blown to pieces by Suron earlier; its grayish-brown, shriveled skin clung tightly to its bones, and its eye sockets were two deep, enormous black holes.

But it was so big that Suron and Elena, standing on its plate, were smaller than two tiny flying insects.

It sat upright at the dining table, looking down at the two people on the plates.

The giant mouth stretched out in a twisted, grotesque grin, its dense array of sharp teeth interlocking, and thick, black saliva dripping continuously from its chin.

clack.

A drop of saliva, bigger than a truck, landed on the edge of the plate.

boom!

The spot where the saliva landed was corroded into a bottomless pit, and large plumes of white smoke rose up, turning into a highly toxic acidic lake, forcing Sulong and Elena to retreat repeatedly.

It was extremely hungry.

The enormous humanoid creature raised its hands and grasped the knife and fork placed on either side of the plate.

The knife and fork were made of a material that resembled some kind of skeleton, yet had a metallic texture. As it moved, the knife and fork moved slowly in mid-air.

The entire atmosphere groaned under the immense pressure of these two giant pieces of tableware.

It grinned maliciously, pointed its knife and fork at Suron and Elena in the center of the plate, and cut them off directly.

To the two men, the tips of the knife and fork were like two mountains falling from the sky, their massive size parting the turbulent clouds as they crashed down with a crushing force.

At the same moment the giant bone cutlery crashed down, Su Long immediately realized that what he had just blown up was just a small cubicle.

The area where the two of them were standing, and even the space beyond the plate, was all within the monster's territory.

They are now like meat on a chopping board with nowhere to escape.

Su Long lowered his center of gravity and suddenly spread his arms wide at his sides.

"Domain impact".

This is a new skill that evolved from "Domain Shock" when the domain attribute was upgraded last time. This is the first time it has been used to its full potential in actual combat since it was acquired.

A violent surge of spiritual energy erupted from Su Long's body like a flood, and a dark purple ripple spread outwards from his feet in all directions.

The ripples tore through the air, creating visible, transparent wrinkles, and wherever they passed, the air emitted a piercing sonic boom.

"Thump!"

The first ripple, braving the gale, collided head-on with the pair of knives and forks that fell from the sky.

The violent impact created a thick white mist on the surface of the cutlery.

The weight of the cutlery and the vibration of the area collided and clashed, and the huge surface of the cutlery erupted with a piercing buzzing vibration. The downward momentum was suddenly stopped by the impact of this ripple.

Seeing that it was effective, Su Long continued to use the Domain Shock.

"Again!"

The second and third purple-gold shockwaves followed closely behind, emanating from Su Long's body one after another.

The ripples rose one after another, shooting skyward and continuously striking the cutlery.

"Bang! Bang!"

The continuous heavy blows forcefully halted the downward momentum of the massive knife and fork, which were as large as mountains. The giant cutlery was thus held firmly in mid-air, unable to descend any further.

Moreover, the shockwave forcibly expanded Surong's domain outwards, and the purple-gold sea of ​​fire climbed wildly along the edge of the plate, vaporizing the acid dripping from the mouth of the giant devourer.

Soon, Suron's expanding fire domain completely enveloped Elena's domain.

He immediately shouted, "Elena! Try to control your domain, don't resist, let my domain enter!"

Upon hearing this, Elena did not hesitate for a moment and immediately released the edge of her domain, allowing the domineering purple-gold sea of ​​fire to pour in.

A massive amount of world-destroying fire surged into the Hall of Light.

The solemn white stone pillars were instantly melted by the high temperature upon contact with the flames, and then black crematoriums rose up from the ground.

The entire structure of the main hall was transformed into a giant, burning incinerator.

The flames climbed up the ground and coiled around the goddess statue, which was tens of meters tall, at the deepest part of the hall.

Purple-gold flames adhered to its surface, forming a flowing armor, and above the blurred face of the statue, a blazing crown of flames condensed.

The flames of destruction poured into the lamp wick, and the soft white holy light was immediately swallowed by the violent purple-gold light. The lantern held high by the goddess transformed into a giant torch capable of burning everything to ashes.

"Buzz—"

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Another, even thicker ripple exploded from beneath Sulong's feet, striking the suspended knife and fork skeleton.

The massive bone cutlery began to tremble violently, and in an instant, countless cracks appeared. The high-frequency resonance brought the two giant pieces of tableware to the brink of structural collapse.

Surong's eyes widened as he stared at the cracked knife and fork above him and roared, "Elena, use the hammer!"

Elena immediately understood, then made a fist with both hands and suddenly lowered her waist. At the same time, the statue of the fire goddess standing deep in the hall began to move in sync.

The massive body, tens of meters tall, suddenly leaned backward, raising the entrenching hammer held upside down in its left hand high above its head, the purple-gold flames attached to the hammerhead leaving a long trail of fire in mid-air.

"Break!" Elena shouted sharply, slamming her arms down with all her might.

The giant sapper's hammer in the goddess statue slammed down with tremendous force onto the steel plate on the ground of the domain.

"Boom!"

A massive sonic boom resounded throughout the hall, and a purple-gold shockwave, a thousand times thicker than any of the previous ripples, erupted from the spot where the hammer had fallen, rushing against the airflow towards the pair of trembling knives and forks.

"Snap—Bang!"

The bone cutlery, already in a state of high-frequency resonance, shattered completely the moment it came into contact with this shockwave.

The enormous tableware disintegrated in mid-air, turning into bone powder and fragments that flew everywhere, and was burned into ashes by the high temperature within the domain as it fell.

Outside the plate, the enormous, ravenous creature froze in shock.

It stared at its empty hands with its black, hollow eye sockets, unable to understand why its utensils had suddenly turned into powder.

Before it could even let out an angry roar, a sudden change occurred.

"boom!"

A burst of blood suddenly erupted from the Great Devourer's mountain-like left shoulder, with large chunks of grayish-brown flesh mixed with bone fragments flying outwards.

Immediately afterwards, a series of terrifying explosions erupted from its hands, chest cavity, and even its enormous head.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Each loud bang was accompanied by the forced tearing of large amounts of flesh and blood, which collapsed like mud, with massive amounts of blood spraying out in mid-air.

The entire space began to shake violently, and deep cracks appeared in the ceiling.

The giant devourer let out a piercing scream, its massive body writhing violently in the chain of explosions, its elegant suit blasted into countless tattered pieces.

It frantically waved its broken arms, trying to block the unseen attacks, but it was all in vain.

Elena looked up at the monster above, its body mangled and bloody, her face filled with astonishment.

She stopped what she was doing, and the goddess statue behind her also stopped.

"What's going on?" Elena looked at the bloody holes that had suddenly exploded on the monster's body, then looked at Sulong. "Why did this monster suddenly explode on its own?"

Su Long looked at the crumbling space above him and the firelight filtering through the cracks.

"It didn't self-destruct. This guy turned the entire building into his stomach; his true form had long since merged with the building outside."

He pointed to the orange-red flames that were spreading in along the cracks.

"The attack that just blew off its shoulder and head was clearly from the outside!"

"The American bombing has begun!"