Once upon a time there was a greedy snake.

Chapter 406 The Best Hunter, The Best Prey
As the old man swung his arm, a flaming spear shot out with a whoosh.

Throwing spears is the oldest form of hunting, and any creature that has evolved arms can do something similar—the Ignivas have seen many more and better weapons during their travels in the Astral Plane.

But in the end, they still chose to use the ancient javelin.

After all, in the records of the Ignivas, their great serpent god had revealed to them the secrets of battle.

The core of combat is throwing what you have in your hand; the only difference is probably what you throw.

Whether it's your own fist, a blade held in your hand, a spear, or a fireball, they're all essentially the same thing.

The specific forms of expression will differ.

Therefore, among the many weapons, the Ignivas ultimately chose javelins.

Simply because this ancient weapon is the most convenient to use.

It is also the best able to bear their will.

"boom--"

The spears had only flown halfway when they burst into flames, and the originally ordinary bone spears instantly transformed into blazing spears.

These blazing spears were all embedded in that giant hand with ten fingers, and no matter how the giant hand moved around, these spears could hit its target accurately.

However, these alone are not enough to defeat Upo Salas.

If you could get a little closer, you would see that those flaming spears were not so much piercing the giant hand as they were piercing an invisible protective layer.

The giant hand itself was unharmed; instead, a ring on the giant hand shattered with a bang.

Next came the second ring.

If the explosion of the first ring was due to bearing too much damage, then the explosion of the second ring caused a raging storm throughout the entire warp. The violent storm scattered all the projectiles and, as if it had a mind of its own, rushed straight towards the formation of the Ignivas.

Kanun Saman, the wind spirit and bodyguard of Upo Salas, is an unconscious elemental spirit who instinctively destroys everything around him.

The fierce wind shattered the spear, turning the fragments into fine sand.

The wind, carrying fine sand, is sharper than a blade.

"spread!"

Without any instructions, the Ignivas instinctively dispersed, flames engulfing their bodies and burning them completely before the fine sand could cut them—but the immense force of the storm still struck the Ignivas, sending them flying backward.

An invisible and formless storm cannot be burned away by even raging flames.

Upo Salas, with just one move, completely overwhelmed the Ignivas.

"Now it seems that I shouldn't have just regarded you as collectibles. The value of you Ignivas is much higher than I thought."

A giant hand with ten fingers raised, and blasphemous words that made people dizzy and disoriented spewed from its gaping maw.

"Perhaps I should create a special display case for you... using your home planet, how about that?"

The third ring shattered, and an endless stream of water suddenly surged forth. Then, the water spiraled and twisted, forming a huge vortex.

The water spirit Kalias Vendu, the emperor of a certain extremely cold planet, possesses a civilization completely different from carbon-based life forms, and takes pleasure in tearing flesh apart.

Now, the water has merged into the wind.

The wind, infused with water, became heavier, and the water, carried by the wind, became swifter. As the two intertwined, the sharp water blades instantly tore through everything around them.

Along with the fiery shields on those Ignivas.

Even though the scattered Ignivas had increased their firepower as quickly as possible, the two elves' practice suppression still caused them to bleed for the first time.

"But there was no fire."

It was at this moment that the white-haired and bearded Ignivas man spoke up. "He should have brought out the fire as well. After all, under normal circumstances, he should have thought that since it's all fire, our fire certainly wouldn't be able to kill the fire spirit."

"But he still didn't take them out; he only deployed these two."

"Why is that? Is it because it's unusable?"

"Or does he already know that the fire spirits' fire is far inferior to the Ignivas' fire?"

As he said this, the white-haired Ignivas man raised his arm.

In an instant, his hair and beard were burned off by the flames, and even his skin and flesh were filled with flames. With this simple action, the old man was actually burned into a human torch!
Flesh and bones were burned to ashes, replaced by pure flames.

"Watch closely, boys, this is the future of us Ignivas!"

The fire-man raised his arm, and the omnipresent wind and water instantly vanished.

That was a momentary, complete incineration.

Fire cannot kill the wind, nor can it kill the water?
What a joke.

If it were an ordinary person, this way of thinking would be acceptable, but in the eyes of the Ignivas, such a thing never existed in the first place.

If the firepower is strong enough, it can burn everything.

Ultimately, no matter what kind of competition it is, it all boils down to a competition of mindset.

When it comes to fighting spirit, the Ignivas have never been afraid of anyone.

"And you."

The fire-man turned his head and looked at the giant hand with ten fingers.

Did you just say that we are very valuable?

"what about now?"

……

Upo Salas fell silent.

Although it shouldn't have such emotions given its level of existence, at least at this moment, it did feel what could be called fear.

Ultimately, it has never been the kind of entity that engages in direct combat, nor has it ever truly taken action itself.

It's really not good at this kind of fighting.

So, the fourth ring also shattered.

However, unlike the previous three rings, the shattering of this fourth ring caused the giant hand to instantly begin to wither, and the gaping maw that had been in the palm of the hand closed as if it had never existed.

In the end, only a withered hand remained, lying on the ground.

It seemed to be saying that something had indeed appeared here just now.

This caused the leader of the fire-men to fall silent.

"It's a fake hand. Its real body has never been here. The ring we just saw was a remote control device for transmitting consciousness."

"It's not that it was deceived, it's that we were deceived."

"We've been tricked."

As he said this, Fireman turned to look at the passage he had just passed through.

Sure enough, the cracks that the Ignivas had just torn open had been completely sealed off at some point.

(End of this chapter)