great-warnovel Chapter 416 The Burning Wind Blows
Chapter 416 The Burning Wind Blows
Chapter 416 The Burning Wind Blows
Three days passed in the blink of an eye.
The fire has been relatively calm these past few days. Although it is still progressing steadily, there has been no explosion or further chain reaction of disasters.
Hermione and the fire watchers reappeared on the front lines of Fiendfire.
Each of these dark wizards now carries a leather suitcase containing the results of the past few days.
"Act only after you see my signal." The burning black flames were unbearably hot, and poisonous smoke rose up. At this moment, everyone was under the spell of the Bubble Head Curse, and it was difficult to see each other's faces clearly.
Hermione was indifferent to the fire watchers, even though they had been quite careful and attentive in serving her these past few days and had been very efficient in carrying out their orders. Hermione was quite displeased by their fanatical devotion to Grindelwald and the creed of the Mughalites.
Rain clouds rolled in again in the sky, accompanied by rumbling thunder and flashes of lightning.
Large raindrops swept back, falling into the scorched earth and raging flames, stirring up thick plumes of steam.
When not stimulated by external forces, the Fiery Blaze will spread in all directions in a dispersed manner. However, once it is blocked in one direction, its violent nature will be activated, and it will converge in one place, determined to burn the obstacle to ashes.
Based on the experience and deductions of the fire watchers over the years, it has been discovered that a raging inferno of this size has developed a somewhat unstable independent consciousness. The reason they dare not stimulate it on a large scale is because the convergence of the raging inferno would activate that consciousness.
It made the situation worse.
The enormous hydra that Hermione summoned with the torrential rain on her first day was a symbol of its manifestation. Fortunately, Hermione did not continue to fight it; after a brief encounter, the raging fire beast spontaneously dispersed and fell silent.
Fiendfire is, after all, a flame of destruction. Although it can manifest various ferocious beasts, its nature prevents it from forming a truly rational and orderly consciousness. The fact that an unstable core has now emerged is already a breakthrough in all the wizards' research and understanding of this flame.
To extinguish this wildfire that has spread across half of the South American rainforest, it is necessary to deal with this fiery consciousness. It has an almost inexhaustible supply of flames and is powerful enough that even Grindelwald himself would probably not be able to unleash enough power to annihilate it in an instant.
If it cannot be killed in one go, with the rapid replenishment of the fire field, this "Hell Hydra" can drag all the great wizards into a war of attrition until they run out of magic and are forced to flee.
This is why Grindelwald didn't believe Hermione could effectively solve the rainforest fires from the beginning.
The high temperature evaporated the rainwater, creating a sweltering environment in the air like a sauna. The raging black flames below constantly drove the water vapor upwards, making you feel like a steamed bun in a steamer.
Hermione had already taken to the air, and in this environment filled with black flames and white mist, she watched the black liquid flames gradually gathering below.
"They're here!"
In the sudden burst of flames, several snake heads shot into the sky, opening their massive jaws to tear at Hermione.
"It also knows how to launch sneak attacks—"
Taking advantage of the intense reaction between water and fire to launch an attack, this consciousness, though usually scattered and chaotic, once condensed, possesses the ability to think.
As he thought this, streaks of fluorescent blue radiant light swords materialized around him, automatically tracking each snake head as if they were sentient. The two would explode upon contact, with black and red flames and bright blue halos clashing against each other. The snake heads were not seriously damaged, but they were pushed far away.
Boom!
A thunderous roar erupted as hundreds of thin, snake-like electric nets intertwined and converged at a single point, instantly severing the neck of a severed snake.
The separated parts vanished in flames, but the remaining heads roared as if enraged.
In the blink of an eye, the lost snake heads regenerated amidst the writhing flames, and the wandering flames transformed into fiery serpents, swimming upwards into the air amidst the roars of the fiery behemoth.
The scorching wind was filled with black sparks, which swirled and rose upwards. Each tiny fire snake possessed the power of a raging fire unleashed by the fire watchers. They seemed weak but were actually swift and fierce. Anyone who was even slightly touched by them would quickly turn to ash. Most spells would only be burned to ashes.
Even though it was under a curtain of rain, the rising heat was even stronger, like hell climbing upwards. If you climbed even a little slower, you would become firewood to be fed into the furnace by the devil.
A hazy, dark light emanated from the black orb at the tip of Hermione's wand, causing the descending rain to pause mid-air, each drop of rain imbued with new power.
All curses have come to an end, and the Great Order Rune, carrying an unquestionable command, transforms the rain into countless severing swords, spiraling downwards to slay the myriad fire serpents one by one.
"Gather a little more, make that consciousness more complete." The fine rain, like a Muggle's metal storm machine gun, pounded dense craters into the body of the nine-headed fire serpent. Although the latter would replenish itself at an extremely fast speed, its provoked anger was also growing rapidly.
The flowing river of fire converged from all directions, and its already enormous size grew even larger amidst the ever-flowing black flames.
Its massive body, nearly 100 meters tall, stretched out, forcing Hermione to fly to an even higher place.
"That's about it."
The witch pondered for a moment, then raised her hand and launched a starlight into the sky.
The rhythmic flashes of blue light pierced through the rain, the black smoke, and the steam, and the fire watchers who had been waiting on the periphery for a long time finally received their command.
"action!"
At the leader's command, the silent black wizards, carrying leather suitcases, rushed into the fire from all directions.
Each of them wore a carved wooden Order rune around their neck, which Hermione had made from fragments of the Ancestral Tree.
The tips of the fire-watchers' staffs shone with a light that seemed to end all curses. Although their skill levels varied and they were powerless to extinguish such fierce flames, the slight, crystalline rainbow light released by the Order Seals helped them repel all the fierce flames from their bodies.
They quickly advanced through the fire, without facing the main body of the raging flames, which resembled a world-destroying demon serpent, and without being targeted unless they deliberately provoked the flames.
Everyone rushed to their designated positions as quickly as possible. The ferocious hydra's attention was completely drawn to Hermione, and it didn't notice that the scattered fire watchers had already formed a large circle around it.
The azure starlight changed its blinking frequency; this was Hermione's signal as she looked down upon the entire scene from high above.
They all opened the suitcases and laid them flat. Inside were nothing but silver metal rings that looked like fairy door knockers.
He removed the Order Seal from his neck, placed it above the metal ring, and then gently tapped it with his wand. A torrent of water erupted from the metal ring.
Like a dam releasing water, intense water pressure came from the other side of the silver ring, and jets of water shot out far away, forming a series of abrupt fountains in the fire.
These are the door keys that Hermione had them work overtime to make these past few days. They were inspired by the goblin door knockers, and the other end of each key was placed at the bottom of the riverbed in one of the major tributaries of the Amazon River.
If the Negro River alone cannot quell the vast sea of fire, then let's gather the water from the entire Amazon River basin!
Moreover, as these water streams pass through the silver ring, they are imbued with power by the seal of order. The myriad curses cast by each fire watcher act like filters, adding a spell to the water streams that suppresses the demonic fire.