73: Chapter 73: The Legendary Trio Appears and a Crushing Victory.

In the spectator stands, those demigods who prided themselves on being noble and extraordinary found their breathing becoming heavy.

Gazes mixed with jealousy, greed, scrutiny, and a trace of fear they were unwilling to admit even to themselves were fixed firmly on Su Chen.

It was as if they wanted to use their sight to dissect him from the inside out, searching for whatever terrifying secret was hidden beneath that mortal shell.

"Oh, you mean that?"

Su Chen's response was airy, every word stepping precisely on the taut nerves of the gods.

"Just good luck. I picked up a dying dragon by the roadside when I went out, modified it a bit, and I'm just making do with it."

These words were no different from a resounding slap across the face of every demigod.

A few deities with weaker mental fortitude felt a sweetness in their throats as a surge of blood rushed to their heads, their vision momentarily darkening.

Picked up by the roadside?!

Modified it a bit?!

Making do with it?!

What kind of roadside allows you to pick up a war monster with demigod-level combat power? You call this mechanical Bone Dragon, which can take on five at once and crush sub-dragon species, "making do"?!

This is too much!

This is blatant humiliation!

However, no matter how much their hearts churned like stormy seas, Su Chen simply stood in the center of that pure white space with a calm expression, not even bothering to spare them a glance.

His composure stood in stark contrast to the boiling malice around him, making him seem all the more inscrutable.

Just then, the cold, emotionless voice of the Tower Spirit echoed once again in everyone's consciousness.

"Third Floor, Guardian: Legendary Rank · Abyssal Flame Demon."

The moment the voice fell, the surrounding temperature soared abruptly.

After a violent spatial distortion, the pure white settlement space shattered. In its place was a boundless world of crimson.

Beneath their feet was no longer solid ground, but a sea of rolling, bubbling magma. The viscous magma made "gurgling" sounds, and every time a bubble burst, it splashed scorching sparks, filling the air with the thick scent of sulfur and burning.

A colossal creature was slowly rising from the center of the magma sea.

Its body was two hundred meters tall, composed entirely of flowing hellfire and obsidian-like scorched rock. With every movement, tons of magma slid off its body, merging back into the ocean below.

In its hand, it held a giant sword also made of flames. Runes flowed across the blade, emitting an aura strong enough to distort space, carrying a pure will to destroy everything.

Legendary Rank!

This prefix made the demigods in the spectator stands, who were just now fuming with rage, instantly calm down, replaced by a sense of gravity.

This was the nightmare of countless demigods.

It was a natural chasm on the path to the "top 10,000" rankings.

Any Legendary Rank existence possessed the qualifications to face the weakest tier of demigods head-on. And this Abyssal Flame Demon, in its own home field, would have its combat power elevated to an inconceivable level.

"Since I'm aiming for the rankings, there's no need to hold anything back."

Su Chen hovered in the scorching air, looking at the arrogant Flame Demon Lord who seemed like the ruler of the entire world, a cold arc curling at the corner of his mouth.

His heart was untroubled, focused only on his clear goal.

"For those six divine portfolio comprehension rewards, please..."

Su Chen's gaze suddenly sharpened.

"Die a bit faster."

"All forces, attack!"

With the issuance of his command, the entire world fell silent for a moment.

The next second.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Three distinct yet equally terrifying auras tore through the constraints of space, descending upon this magma sea simultaneously!

The entire trial space groaned under the impact of these three forces. The lines of laws were brutally squeezed and distorted, on the verge of collapse!

The first aura was as heavy and violent as a collapsing mountain.

A massive shadow large enough to blot out the sun crashed down, slamming directly into the scalding magma sea and kicking up towering waves of fire.

[Abyssal Thunder Beast - Titan]!

Its body, thicker than a city wall, moved through the magma as if on level ground. The hideous giant horns atop its head, capable of smashing the barriers of a divine kingdom, flickered with purple lightning. Without any fancy tricks, it directly met the flaming giant sword the Flame Demon swung down!

"Sizzle—"

Flames hot enough to instantly melt divine steel burned against Titan's thick chitinous shell.

Amidst the ear-piercing sound, only a few shallow scorch marks were left!

"Roar!!!"

Titan let out a sky-shaking roar. Its four legs exerted force as its massive body turned into an out-of-control siege beast. Pushing against that flaming giant sword, it actually forced the two-hundred-meter-tall Flame Demon Lord to retreat repeatedly!

The second aura was a silent yet pervasive green.

It was the breath of life, yet it carried the most extreme toxicity.

Countless dark green poison vines, thicker than water buckets, emerged from the void without warning. They ignored the high-temperature magma below that could incinerate all things; there wasn't even a trace of charring on the surface of the vines.

Like living giant pythons, they instantly coiled around the Flame Demon's retreating legs and its massive arm that wasn't holding a sword.

[Abyssal Poison Mother Tree - Rott]!

Its control, even in an environment that extremely countered its own attributes, remained overbearingly unreasonable!

The Flame Demon's massive body stumbled, pinned firmly in place.

And the third aura was a shadow of death from the sky.

Bio-Bone Dragon Theodore dove down from the heights, its mechanical skeleton reflecting a cold metallic luster under the dim red sky.

The massive psionic energy reactor in its chest entered an overclocked state at this moment, emitting a piercing hum.

Destructive deep blue energy gathered frantically in its mouth.

A highly condensed psionic energy breath turned into a pillar of light that pierced through the heavens and earth, tearing through all the heatwaves and poisonous mist along the way, pointing accurately and unerringly at the Flame Demon's head!

"Roar! Unfair!!"

The Abyssal Flame Demon finally let out its first and last roar since its appearance.

That voice was filled with grievance and unwillingness.

One-on-one, with the advantage of the terrain, it was confident it could burn any opponent of the same rank to death here.

But what was this?

These were three whole Legendary Rank combatants of the same level!

One freakishly thick-skinned tank in front taking all the damage.

One ignoring the environment in the back, coiling tightly to provide crowd control.

And another in the sky, frantically dealing damage to its vital points!

This was a one-sided gang beating with no suspense.

Titan's giant horns pressed firmly against the blade, making the Flame Demon unable to move.

Rott's poison vines tightened more and more, strangling deep into the Flame Demon's scorched rock body as green toxins began to corrode its fire core.

Theodore's psionic energy breath directly vaporized half of its head.

A mere thirty seconds.

Less than thirty seconds, even.

That Flame Demon Lord, who had just been so majestic and overbearing, was forcibly dismantled into a pile of burning fragments scattered in the magma sea under this practically perfect tactical coordination.

Finally, Titan raised its giant foot and stomped heavily on the location of the Flame Demon's core.

"Bang!"

The core exploded.

The battle ended.

[Clear Successful! Current Ranking: Demigod Ranking #3600!]

When this brand-new ranking replaced Su Chen's previous record and appeared clearly on the giant light-screen stone monument outside...

The spectator stands, which had been noisy and angry due to Su Chen's arrogance, fell into a deathly silence.

All sounds came to an abrupt halt.

All emotions instantly froze.

Every demigod seemed to have been hit by a petrification spell, frozen in place, their pupils shrinking to pinpoints from the extreme shock.

Even the goddess Maggie, who had maintained a proud posture while holding a golden wine cup, was now as pale as paper.

Her bright red lips were slightly parted, as if she wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a single word.

The wine cup in her hand slipped from her fingers, hitting the ground with a "clatter." The golden divine wine spilled everywhere, but she was completely oblivious.

Three great Legendary Rank believers!

And their coordination was tacit to an appalling degree!

Tank, control, DPS... this was a perfect battle squad!

All everyone realized that all their previous guesses and assessments were utterly wrong.

A monster rookie with True God-level potential had burst onto the scene!