Calamity Upon This World

Chapter 132: CH-132 Fighting Fire With Fire

Fear

An emotion the Kerberus didn't even know about.

After all, it was a S-rank monster and the strongest in its lair, with the sole purpose of protecting the ritual altar.

If anything, others were supposed to fear it instead of the other way around, and yet as he saw the boy who had entered the boss room, it felt afraid.

It wanted to abandon its duty and run, but due to the way it was born, it ignored its survival instinct and prioritised the protection of its master.

~Rawwrr~

The kerberus let out a fearsome roar to scare the white-haired boy, but instead of that, its roar had the opposite effect, as William said.

"No need to scream, little puppy," William taunted, and despite not understanding him, the Kerberus knew it was being mocked and unleashed its strongest fire attack at him.

Seeing the deadly attack capable of instantly incinerating most humans into ashes heading his way , William didn't do anything and instead just stood there, waiting for the attack to hit him.

BOOOOMMM!!

The entire room trembled from the shockwaves of the attack.

Dust and rubble rose in the atmosphere as the Kerberus relaxed, knowing that its attack had hit and the menacing human was dead.

However, all of its expectations were crushed as a voice came out from within the smoke.

"Too cold, little puppy."

As soon as his words fell, the smoke cleared and revealed William, who was standing there completely unharmed.

There wasn't even a single speck of dust on him, and even his clothes were fine.

This wasn't because William had dodged the attack or used some sort of defensive spell at the last minute, but rather because of his [Master of Fire] skill that he had gained after receiving the bloodline of a phoenix, which allowed him to be completely immune to fire and made him a master at controlling the element of fire.

The Kerberus looked shocked to see its strongest attack be unable to damage the boy.

A feeling of fear gripped its heart and told it to run to preserve its life.

The boy wasn't an enemy it could face, but despite his wishes, he couldn't run. After all, it still needed to protect the vessel of its master.

Unaware of the dilemma the monster was going through, William said.

"Let me show you what true fire magic looks like."

As he said, these eight palm-sized red magic circles formed around the Kerberus.

Long vertical pillars of flame emerged from the circle, reaching all the way to the ceiling and trapping the Kerberus within.

The Kerberus tried to use its teleportation skill to escape the imprisonment of flames, but before it could, the pillars exploded.

BOOOOOMMMM!!!

An explosion even larger than the one from the Kerberus attack occurred and destroyed the already-ruined room even more.

Once the smoke subsided, a badly burned, injured, and huffing figure of a once-three-headed dog could be seen.

Due to the attack, one of the Kerberus heads exploded.

"Not bad, right?" William asked, not expecting an answer.

"I call it (Hellfire Imprisonment) " William announced his newly created spell with pride oozing out of his tone, almost like he was expecting to be praised.

But instead of praising him, Kerberus just glared at him with a desire to devour him and launched chains at him.

Seeing this, William sighed as he used the massive wings behind his back to form a cocoon of protection.

~THUM!!~

The chains hit his wings but were unable to pierce through like Kerberus expected or wanted.

This was his [Wings of Phoenix] and just like Phoenix wings, they were indestructible and gave him flight abilities surpassing merely flying using magic like he had been doing in the past.

The wings could also be turned into blades to pierce the opponent, but William didn't see any reason to use this feature as the range required to use it was too short for his liking.

After being blocked, the chains caught on blue fire and were burned away almost instantly.

This was the [Blue Flame] ability he gained from his new bloodline, and it allowed him to manifest flames  much stronger than normal, and it could even burn things without a physical form.

At this point, William had mostly tried out all the new abilities he wanted to try and was finally ready to end the fight.

But before that, he had one main question.

"Are you really a S-rank monster?" William asked, expressing pure confusion.

It didn't make sense to him why a S-rank monster was so weak. Your journey continues at m v|l-e-NovelBin

William had always expected a S-rank monster to be an extremely tall wall, which would even give him some trouble to overcome atleast at his current young age.

But this was too easy; even if one took into consideration that he gained a divinely ranked bloodline and the massive buff in his stats, it still felt like a bit too much.

The Kerberus was furious at being insulted and wanted nothing more than to tear the arrogant human apart, but its survival instinct won over, and it instead used its teleportation skills to teleport near the unconscious Jasmine.

After getting close enough, it used its chains to entrap her and brought her near its mouth, but before biting, it stopped and instead looked at William smugly, almost like telling him that it had a hostage and to stop resisting.

~Flick~

In the very next instant, a bright blue flame erupted from inside his body and completely engulfed him, burning him alive.

And in merely a few seconds, not even the ashes of the beast were left as it finally died.

"How interesting," William muttered.

The spell he had just used was called (Internal Combustion) and was an improved version of his Set Your Heart Ablaze spell that he had used against the assasin at his birthday party.

But that wasn't the thing that interested him, but rather the amount of intelligence the Kerberus displayed despite not being a unique monster.

"So this is a S-rank monster."

William was really interested in S-ranked monsters and the level of intelligence and strength they possessed, but he knew now wasn't the time.

After all, it was finally time for payback against the one who had messed everything up.