62: Is the flame coming to an end, or will the light rise again?

“Come out, Fire Finch! If you don’t, I’ll kill one person every minute.”

The Black-Haired Monster grabbed a beggar by the neck, then kicked him into mid-air.

At this moment, the beggar had regained consciousness from the monster's manipulation and was struggling desperately.

The Black-Haired Monster no longer cared about revealing its intelligence.

It absolutely could not let the Fire Finch escape.

Now that the Fire Finch’s stamina was exhausted, it was the best time to defeat the Fire Finch.

If it missed this opportunity, it would be difficult to find another one so good.

“This bastard, he really was hiding his intelligence!”

Jia Gu Yi Yan looked at the Black-Haired Monster, who was threatening him with human lives, and never considered not saving them.

That option was simply not in his choices.

Having been chosen by the Summoner, how could he watch lives perish before him without saving them?

If he did, he would probably no longer be qualified to transform.

This was the responsibility of bearing this power.

But if he rushed in to save them, it would be suicide, and he’d also hand over the Summoner…

Wait, the Summoner?

Jia Gu Yi Yan looked at the monster before him.

It possessed intelligence, yet hid it.

It also possessed a card and was incredibly fixated on him.

Unlike other monsters, its physique was remarkably similar to a human’s.

Combining all this, then deducing.

What was this monster's intention? If he were the monster, what demands would drive him to do this?

It was the Summoner.

This monster had intelligence and wanted the Summoner.

He obtained a natural element card, so he was obsessed with the power of the natural element card.

Jia Gu Yi Yan possessed Rainstorm E, so he understood.

Without a Summoner, one could only utilize a very weak portion of the natural element card’s power.

Therefore, this monster desperately wanted the full power of the card in its hand, and then thought of coveting the Summoner.

Since he knew of the existence of the Summoner and the armor.

It meant that he was hidden within human society, perhaps even holding a certain status within it.

Only then could he clearly know about the Summoner, the card, and some secrets behind them.

He had a humanoid form and intelligence.

But he didn’t want to expose his intelligence.

He… was one of the monsters hidden among humans, secretly ruling humanity!

The true Monster Race!

Jia Gu Yi Yan’s deduction was largely correct, but the final conclusion still had a deviation.

Wang Yixuan was merely a human who accidentally gained Monster Power, not a true member of the Monster Race.

Jia Gu Yi Yan confirmed that even if his deduction had discrepancies, they shouldn't be too significant.

In this situation, how could he save those people?

“10!”

“9!”

“Damn it, you bastard, you’re not giving me any time!”

Jia Gu Yi Yan would never give up on even a single life.

Since the First Generation passed the flame and light into his hands, he absolutely could not let this pure light and flame be sullied in the slightest!

“6, 5…”

“Wait!”

Jia Gu Yi Yan walked out!

He actually walked out directly, in human form!

The Black-Haired Monster stopped, then threw the beggar in its hand aside.

Then it rushed towards Jia Gu Yi Yan.

Kill this guy first!

Damn it, should he really not have rushed out?

This guy was too cautious; he didn't give him any room to maneuver at all.

Jia Gu Yi Yan had originally planned to use communication to buy time.

Since the opponent’s goal was the Summoner, they should want information related to the Summoner.

However, the opponent didn't give him a chance to speak at all.

It was simply to kill him first, get the Summoner, and then study it slowly.

He was so cautious that he didn’t seem like a villain at all.

How was he supposed to highlight his own wisdom now!

“Fire Finch!”

Crack!

“Combine!”

His stamina had not recovered at all, yet he had to transform again.

Jia Gu Yi Yan had no choice.

Flames instantly transformed into solid armor, enveloping Jia Gu Yi Yan’s body.

A strong sense of fatigue surged from his body, and Jia Gu Yi Yan didn’t even have the extra stamina to summon the Fire Finch Blade.

He could only parry the Black-Haired Monster empty-handed.

Relying on the Fire Finch Armor's speed, Jia Gu Yi Yan and the Black-Haired Monster constantly entangled each other.

Now, he could only engage in a war of attrition with this monster.

He noticed that as time went on, the monster's stamina was also being consumed.

Moreover, the natural element card in its hand was also continuously draining its strength.

The Black-Haired Monster seemed to have seen through Jia Gu Yi Yan’s intention and actually gave up entangling with Jia Gu Yi Yan.

Then, it attacked the unconscious beggar lying on the ground, wanting to repeat its old trick.

Either this life dies, or you come over and save this person.

You only have these two choices.

The Black-Haired Monster didn’t care how despicable its methods were.

But for Jia Gu Yi Yan, there was only one choice.

He forcibly activated the Basic Breathing Technique.

Flames surged from Jia Gu Yi Yan’s legs again, his body like a raging fire, leaving only an afterimage in place.

Just as the Black-Haired Monster's attack was about to land on the beggar's body, he scooped up the beggar by the waist and created distance.

But even so, his shoulder still took a hit, and he weakly knelt on one knee.

As for the nameless beggar who opened his eyes.

His father died of uremia, the treatment left his family in huge debt, his mother remarried, and his younger brother starved to death.

To escape the debt, he threw away his identity documents, secretly climbed onto a train, and eventually made his way to Lai Guang City.

One leg was crushed, he had no identification, no way to find work, so he amputated his own crushed leg.

He cleaned his own wounds.

From childhood to adulthood, he crawled and begged for over twenty years in Lai Guang City.

In these twenty years, no one ever treated him as a human being.

Even he himself didn't see himself as a person.

He rummaged through trash, waiting for others to give him pitiful scraps to survive.

He was bullied by other beggars who stole his alms, and hit on the head with a slingshot by mischievous children he encountered.

This was his life.

He didn’t know why he was still alive.

He was numb to death; it wouldn’t be strange if he died suddenly that day.

And now, without a doubt.

He was treated as a human being.

By this flaming Armored Warrior.

He couldn't even remember the last time he was treated as a person.

“You’re going to die here today for a stinking beggar.”

“Truly stupid beyond redemption. The Summoner and armor are wasted in your hands.”

The Black-Haired Monster looked at Jia Gu Yi Yan and finally began to mock him.

The more Jia Gu Yi Yan acted this way, the more annoyed it became.

It was the true Son of Destiny of this world, why was this guy so good at showing off!

Why could this guy show off so conspicuously?

Why could this guy use his own life to save others, to save a mere beggar?

Damn it, this hypocritical bastard must be putting on an act!

Disgusting, disgusting!

Jia Gu Yi Yan held the beggar and stood up.

He looked at the Black-Haired Monster before him.

This was truly the end of the road.

If it were the First Generation, he would probably be able to do better.

Perhaps the Summoner truly was wasted in his hands.

He should have been more cautious.

The Black-Haired Monster angrily cursed non-stop, while Jia Gu Yi Yan remained motionless, trying to recover his stamina.

However, while maintaining the armor form, his stamina had no chance to recover at all.

Every bit of stamina he recovered was completely absorbed by the armor.

At the very least, he had to get this beggar and the Summoner out of here.

He couldn't let innocent people be implicated because of him.

He couldn't let the light be extinguished in his hands; he had to fulfill the responsibility of passing on the flame.

This was what the First Generation did last; he had to do it too.

Jia Gu Yi Yan set his final goal for himself, staking his life on it.

The Summoner's flame gradually grew weaker.

But in the weak flame, a faint glimmer slowly emerged.