Apocalypse: Become stronger by absorbing flames at the start; my name is the Flame Emperor.

"what……"

A scream rang out.

The square-faced man swung his sword again, aiming at the other side.

Sudden.

A figure suddenly appeared from the side, with long fingernails that gleamed coldly, and reached out to grab his chest.

This is someone else's talent, cat's paw.

"when!"

The square-faced man quickly returned to defense, swinging his sword to block, the sword clashing with the menacing fingernails, sparks flying.

However, his sword only blocked one cat's paw.

The kidney, which had been stabbed by the dagger, was torn apart by another claw, and a large amount of blood gushed out.

Simultaneously.

The stone golem slammed its fist down on his sword, sending him flying.

"dad!"

"Cough cough..." The man coughed up mouthfuls of blood.

"Xiao Chan, your father couldn't help you escape. It's all my fault for meddling, cough cough..."

Blood kept trickling from the man's mouth.

"Dad, no, it's not your fault. It's all that old woman's fault. If she hadn't attacked you, none of this would have happened..."

"Go to hell!"

Just then, Liu Min swung his stone fist and smashed it at the two of them.

If the object hits them, both of them will surely die.

He knew perfectly well that villains die from talking too much, and he would never give his enemies a chance to breathe.

He believes in taking advantage of someone's weakness to kill them.

"The time is almost right."

Seeing how things had developed, Lin Yu decided to stop observing. He believed that the man should now be able to see through human nature and change his saintly mentality.

(Just to clarify. His father was cursed and couldn't survive, but the protagonist didn't know. He recovered in two or three days after being stabbed in the kidney. His father is such a saint; he can't change his saintly heart without experiencing the ugliness of humanity. He saved him this time, but he'll die again next time.)

Lin Yu flashed and appeared directly in front of the stone man.

He raised his right hand and casually caught the fist that was about to hit him.

Then flames erupted from his palm, and the terrifying power sent the stone man flying.

Lin Yu turned around and looked at the people kneeling on the ground around him.

His gaze was icy.

He recalled a famous saying from before the end of the world.

You can choose to remain silent in a corner, but don't mock or slander those who are braver than you, because the light they have earned will also shine upon you.

These words perfectly describe these people.

"Remember Dad's words, live well."

As the square-faced man spoke, he quickly placed his right hand on the little girl's back and whispered, "Daddy is giving you all of my strength."

Father's love is as strong as a mountain.

He had already thought of this idea before.

"Dad, no! I just want you to live." The little girl kept shaking her head, crying her heart out.

"It's no use. Dad didn't have much time left anyway. He was cursed by that person, so he wouldn't live for more than a few days."

"Cough cough—"

The man kept coughing up blood.

The injury he had just sustained was nothing serious. However, before he arrived here, he had been cursed and given only two or three days to live.

"Additional: Inheritance!"

The square-faced man shouted, holding the little girl tightly.

In that instant, his body erupted with terrifying energy fluctuations.

A blinding light enveloped the two of them.

The power emanating from the square-faced man transformed into rays of light, continuously permeating the little girl's body.

His own body slowly withered away.

"dad……"

A fierce roar came from the light.

This moment.

Lin Yu actually felt a strong sense of unease. He flashed away from the two of them.

This sudden turn of events was something he could not have foreseen.

As the light faded, the scene that greeted everyone sent chills down their spines.

All I could see was that place.

The square-faced man had turned into a skeleton, which was being held in the arms of a little girl.

His flesh, internal organs, and so on all disappeared, leaving only his bones.

Most importantly, black runes spread across his bones, firmly embedded in the skeleton.

This scene sent chills down everyone's spines.

"This is a forbidden technique, with the added benefit of inheritance."

Lin Yu's expression was moved.

This additional talent comes at the cost of sacrificing one's own flesh and soul to pass on one's power to others.

This process is extremely dangerous and has a very low success rate, less than 10%.

If an accident or rejection occurs, both of them will die.

"He only got stabbed twice in the waist, surely that doesn't warrant using such a forbidden technique?"

Lin Yu was somewhat bewildered.

For a first-tier evolver, being stabbed a few times in the kidneys is a minor problem; it will heal in a few days. It shouldn't have come to this, right?

Lin Yu looked at the little girl.

At this moment, she was radiating black magic.

"Why? They saved you, so why are they turning around and blaming the person who saved you?"

The little girl, holding the skeleton, was talking to herself.

If it weren't for these people, my father could have stayed with me for at least a few more days, and maybe he could have found a way to break the curse.

But now—

"Ah~"

"You all deserve to die, you all deserve to go to the eighteenth level of hell!"

The little girl suddenly looked up, and her entire pupil had turned pitch black, with no eyeballs at all, which was extremely terrifying.

"Forbidden - Fatal Fatality!"

She looked at everyone present and coldly uttered three words.

Lin Yu's expression changed drastically in an instant.

He pulled Xiao Li and Zhou An back quickly.

These three words were all too familiar to him.

This is a super talent belonging to the law of cause and effect of fate; only those with the most extreme and pure emotions can awaken it.

Once unleashed, it comes at the cost of one's own life and soul, stimulating physical potential in exchange for temporary future power.

"Why did you kill my father? Why?"

The little girl slowly stood up, her dark pupils staring at everyone.

"boom!"

A terrifying black magic erupted around the little girl, and she lost control, beginning to explode with power.

The pillar of magic light grew larger and larger, eventually obscuring her figure.

All anyone could see was a pair of cold, dark pupils radiating an eerie light within the constantly erupting pillars of magical energy.

The aura grew stronger and stronger, the magic power grew more and more intense, and the immense pressure forced everyone to prostrate themselves on the ground.

The little girl moved; she stretched out her right hand and pointed to where those people were.

"You will all die!"

"Go to hell!"

At her fingertips, a black energy ball began to condense, then grew larger and larger, instantly reaching the size of a basketball.

"call out"

The energy sphere transformed into a laser beam over a meter in diameter, striking everyone.

Where the beam of light passes.

The ground in the air-raid shelter cracked, and the walls were pierced.

Those people didn't even have time to make a sound before they were annihilated in the pillar of light.

"run!"

The stone man Liu Min was terrified at this moment. He turned around and ran away as fast as he could.

"You all must die too!"

The little girl turned her head, and a black beam of light burst forth from her palm. The terrifying energy wave carried immense power and destroyed everything.

"No……"

The desperate cries were instantly drowned out.

Then, a terrifying explosion occurred, and the energy wave destroyed everything.

The entire air-raid shelter shook violently and collapsed instantly under the force of this energy.

"It's over..."

Xiao Li and Zhou An trembled in the corner.

The aftershocks of the energy caused both of them to cough up blood.

"boom!"

At that moment, a terrifying surge of magical power also erupted from Lin Yu's body.

Left with no other choice, he could only explode in anger.

A raging fire appeared, engulfing the entire body.

He grabbed Xiao Li with one hand and carried Zhou An with the other, flames shooting out from beneath his feet, breaking through the top of the air-raid shelter and shooting out.

The sky collapsed and the earth cracked, with huge explosions ringing out continuously.

The entire air-raid shelter was reduced to a pile of ruins, as if it had been bombed by a missile.

This shows how terrifying the energy wave the little girl just released was, comparable to the power of several missiles.

"boom!"

As the rubble from the air-raid shelter exploded, a black figure rushed out.

That's a little girl.

The magical energy emanating from her continued to rise, showing no signs of stopping.

She was still holding her father's remains in her arms, carefully placing them aside.

"No, we have to interrupt her, otherwise her life and soul will burn out and she'll just die."

Lin Yu looked at the figure with a solemn expression.

[Forbidden - Fatal Tragedy]

This is a brief, ultimate sublimation achieved at the cost of sacrificing everything; it is borrowing power from the future.

After the brilliance fades, all that awaits is utter ashes.

Moreover, the process of sacrifice is beyond one's control; once it begins, it cannot be stopped until death.

No one told it to stop.

"Is there no one who can stop it? I want to try."

A glint of light shot from Lin Yu's eyes. He moved like an arrow, rushing towards the little girl.