The Balrog's wailing was met with a chilling punch from Hextech.

"Snapped!"

The sonic boom-inducing punch slammed into the Balrog's head, slamming its skull into the ground. The stone floor shattered and bulged, instantly creating countless cracks that stretched for tens of meters away.

But the Flame Demon did not die.

Even with its head smashed in half, it still retained a strong vitality, frantically absorbing the surrounding hellfire in an attempt to repair its broken body.

"Pretty meaty, huh?" Hextech said with a forced smile.

His punch dealt around 18,000 damage. Even though the Flame Demon had strong physical resistance, its body would still suffer at least 10,000 damage. If it could withstand two of his punches and survive, this Flame Demon must have at least 30,000 health points.

Unfortunately, the Hextech ARAM system only digitizes his own data and cannot digitize other objects, which means he can't see Balrog's health bar.

However, it couldn't hold out for long. By this time, the Flame Demon's arms had already been smashed and its head had completely exploded. It had no power to resist, and even if it wanted to control the flaming sword, it had no way to exert any force.

Hextech's giant hand grabbed its upper body and slammed down with punch after punch.

At this moment, without the attack bonus from Heart of Steel, his base attack power was only a few dozen points, but the Fire Demon could only let him beat him up.

"You are humiliating me!" The fire demon's angry and fearful voice came from its chest.

As a demon of hell and a loyal servant of Kalodos, it participated in two invasions of humanity and once joined forces to kill the strongest human warrior, the paladin. At least several thousand humans have died at its hands, and it has never been trampled on like this by humans.

Do not!

This is not human!

How could a human being over six meters tall possibly exist in the world!

"Who are you?!" the Flame Demon howled incessantly, its heart filled with even greater terror.

Although he didn't want to waste time, Hextech had to wait for Heartsteel to cool down. With his normal attack power, it would take him several days to kill this Balrog.

"I am human," Hextech said.

"You can go back to hell and tell your colleagues!"

"Let them resent me and fear me."

Hex paused, then chuckled, "Oh, right."

"You're just an ordinary demon who never got a real name."

"One cannot be reborn in the abyss after death."

"Farewell, you scumbag demon."

The next second, a third scarlet heart steel mark lit up on the Balrog's shoulder, indicating that it had finished charging up!

"Bang!"

Another heavy punch landed squarely on the Flame Demon's chest.

[Heart Steel +3]

With a muffled thud, the upper body of the Balrog exploded instantly, and the flames surrounding it were completely extinguished, leaving only an empty, pitch-black suit of armor, devoid of any life.

Hextech tossed the armor aside; this Balrog's health was truly substantial, probably exceeding 30,000.

This is just the health of an ordinary demon. How terrifying would the health of a true demon, a demon lord, a seventy-two demon gods, or even the ruler of hell be?

Hextech is unimaginable.

Even the modified UFSAT warriors and elite crusaders have a maximum of only three to five hundred health points, while ordinary humans have only ten or twenty.

An ordinary fire demon, however, possesses over 30,000 health points and is immune to most conventional human weapons.

No wonder, it often takes hundreds of elite crusaders and clergy to kill an ordinary demon.

Just then, a pitch-black staircase appeared out of nowhere in front of Hex.

Hextech wasted no time, stepping into the second level of the spire, where the surrounding scenery instantly changed.

The golden flames on the first level were completely transformed into eerie, emerald-green hellfire.

The moment the green flames scorched him, Hextech's skin turned charred at a visible speed, and his health plummeted!

-100, -100, -100...

The amount of health lost per second is ten times that of the first level!

At this rate of attrition, even with nearly 200,000 health points, he could only last for a little over half an hour on the second level.

The sense of urgency is growing stronger!

Hextech frowned, not daring to delay for the slightest, and immediately rushed deeper into the second level.

The emerald green flames surged wildly, almost completely obscuring all vision.

The surroundings were completely chaotic, and the road ahead was completely obscured.

"Come out!" Hex roared, his voice piercing through the flames. "You dare not face me?"

"Even that stupid fire demon down there has more guts than you!"

"I'm all alone!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a rustling sound came from deep within the flames.

A human-faced demon with wings on its back and a body resembling a giant, fluttering moth slowly emerged from the green flames.

It flapped its wings, scattering large amounts of eerie green phosphorus powder, which landed on the green flames, splashing up sparks.

The next second, something strange happened—

The raging, emerald-green hellfire around them vanished instantly, replaced by a tranquil, verdant garden, lush with flowers and plants, showing no trace of the horrific nature of purgatory.

The human-faced demon brought its enormous face close, its expression shifting between surprise and fear: "Human? Are you sure?"

"Aside from your appearance, you have no other human characteristics."

"I've never seen a human over six meters tall who can ignore the fires of hell!"

"However, you can't get through like you did on the first level!" the spider-faced demon said warily. "Because this is my world!"

It suddenly spread its wings, the large moth wings extending infinitely to both sides, as if to completely envelop Hextech.

Phantom Night Demon.

Hextech recognized its identity.

This is a relatively rare common demon in Hell, most skilled at creating illusions, and also an extremely troublesome opponent.

As a strategy guide streamer, Hextech has a deep understanding of its stats and mechanics.

When this dungeon was first released, the illusionary mechanics were so tricky that countless players' elite teams were routed and their defenses were breached.

It wasn't until Hextech figured out its underlying mechanics and created the first low-star operator walkthrough on the entire internet that a crooked way to clear the game was found, which also made him a minor celebrity.

The ability of the Night Demon is to create extremely realistic illusions, capable of conjuring up various scenes and even other monsters.

However, it is just an ordinary demon and cannot invade the brain or spy on real memories like the True Name Demon. It can only confuse its opponents with vague illusions.

This is precisely why its traps are, in a sense, difficult to defend against.

They can conjure seemingly weak hellhounds to lull players into a false sense of security, while their true form lurks in the shadows, or they can conjure powerful fire demons to mislead players into unleashing their full power, resulting in wasted resources.

It can also create illusions that are exactly the same as the real thing. The illusions have the same health and attack as the real thing, and can even attack. In the early stages, it is difficult for players to distinguish them. Often, after going to great lengths to kill the illusion, another illusion will appear one after another, and they will eventually be worn down to death.

Back then, players didn't have dedicated debuff operators in their teams, making this stage incredibly frustrating. It wasn't until Hextech found a solution that they used low-rarity operators' anti-buff skills to probe for illusions.

If the target's buff is successfully removed, it will reveal its true form.

If the buff remains unchanged, it's an illusion.

Although Hextech no longer has the anti-buff skills from the game, he's not worried.

Because he immediately noticed a growing red dot shimmering on a green plant in the corner of the garden that resembled a man-eating flower.

The things conjured by the illusion cannot accumulate layers of Heart Steel, nor can they bear the imprint of Heart Steel.

This is just like when the secret agent Ling Ling Fa saw the huge feet of the Black and White Impermanence—it was incredibly eye-catching.

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