Primordial Expanse: I have the Strongest Talent!

Chapter 277: Soul fire

The invisible soul fire and the regenerative Phoenix Flames surged through Alex's body, creating a strange yet powerful synergy.

He could feel the purification effect making its way throughout his veins, and spreading throughout the rest of his body within seconds.

But he couldn't feel the soul fire at all once it entered his body.

It was like it passed through some sort of veil when it entered his skin, and when it was fully absorbed, it became undetectable.

For a few agonising moments, it was like a war raging inside his body.

The poison was relentless, burning through his organs, veins, and bloodstream. It didn't stop for anything.

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But the 30 seconds that Alex had remaining had already passed, but he was still alive.

The seconds continued ticking by, but the poison hadn't killed him yet.

The combined efforts of the soul fire and regenerative flames were pushing back with equal intensity.

Alex didn't know it, but his combination of fires was actually perfect for combatting this type of poison.

He had no clue what type of poison it was, but the Red Demons who were arrogantly standing nearby did.

It was a poison that attacked both the mind and the body, at the same time.

While Alex's organs were getting rapidly melted from the inside out, his soul was also undergoing a similar process, albeit slower because of how strengthened his soul was.

That was why it was considered the strongest poison against lower life forms.

Because basically nobody at those ranks had a soul as strong as Alex, or the proper defences to defend against such an attack.

Alex's vision blurred, and he could barely keep his balance as the battle waged within him.

His muscles tensed and spasmed, the pain almost unbearable, but he clenched his teeth and forced himself to stay upright.

His mind was a whirlwind of thoughts, but he focused on one thing only: survival.

Slowly, the weakness started to recede. The purification was working.

The soul fire was neutralising the spiritual aspect of the poison, while the regenerative flames were healing the damage it caused to his body.

Bit by bit, he felt his strength returning.

The elite, still watching from the sidelines, began to notice the change.

Rakul's smug expression faded as he saw Alex standing stronger, the colour returning to his face.

"Impossible…" Xulthar muttered, his eyes widening.

Even Vorkath hadn't seen this coming, and his face was scrunched up in a frown.

Not even he could survive an attack from such a poison, which was why he was so apprehensive about standing next to Rakul.

Gormak snarled, his bloodlust intensifying. "We need to finish him right now!"

But Alex wasn't going to give them the chance.

With a final push, he expelled the remnants of the poison from his body.

The pain and weakness were gone.

His Phoenix flames flared up around him, stronger and more vibrant than ever before.

"You underestimated me. Should have finished me off while you had the chance."

Vorkath just carried on his spectator mindset, while the three elite's faces hardened.

They became serious.

Before, they were just playing around.

But now, they were actually going to act like the team they were.

Selithia's death was the wake up call they needed to tell them that Alex wasn't just somebody they could toy around with.

And now, with Alex somehow surviving an attack from the strongest lower lifeform poison, things had gotten madly out of hand.

Instead of going at him one by one, they had to go at him together, if they didn't want to end up as the next Selithia.

Rakul nocked another arrow, this one looking just as deadly as his first.

Xulthar summoned a new wave of thorny vines, and Gormak charged forward, his two hammers gleaming with a menacing light.

Alex's eyes narrowed as he saw them coming in for the attack. His flames burned with the intensity of a sun, and Virtue's Edge glowed hot with an intense light.

'Time to end this.' he thought.

Rakul released his arrow, aiming for Alex's heart.

Xulthar's vines surged forward, seeking to entangle him, and Gormak leaped through the air, ready to strike with his hammers.

With a swift, fluid motion, he dodged Rakul's arrow, the poison basically sizzling away as it passed by him.

He swung Virtue's Edge, the blade cutting through the vines with ease.

The Phoenix flames surrounding his blade erupted, incinerating the vines before they could reach him.

Gormak's hammers came down, their lengths and flexibility being an unknown factor, as they could change at any time thanks to his talent.

But Alex did the unthinkable to these elites and completely disappeared from their vision, only Vorkath noticing what he had done, as he could see Alex appear behind Gormak from his vantage point on the rear of the battle.

Gormak couldn't react in time, and his hammers were too long and he had made them too rigid, so he couldn't swing them around in time either.

Virtue's Edge sliced through Gormak's chest, flames searing through the wound.

Gormak howled in pain, stumbling backwards.

But Alex had done something far more sinister than just burned him.

He had coated Virtue's Edge with a mixture of both Soul fire and his normal destructive flames, the Crimson flames masking the invisible flames hiding within.

Gormak didn't even realise it yet, but he was practically dead already.

Alex could control the target of his soul flames at will.

If he wanted them to purify, they would purify. If he wanted them to destroy, they would destroy.

And he had ordered them to cause havoc on Gormak's soul.

Gormak staggered and fell to the ground, dropping his hammers, and clutching his chest as the agony from Alex's sinister attack started to kick in.

The invisible flames wreaked havoc on his soul, like Alex had planned, leaving him vulnerable and disoriented.

His menacing roars turned into cries of torment as he struggled to comprehend what was going on.

He had never experienced an attack to his soul before, so this was a completely new, terrifying experience to him.