The fire vanished into Lin Mu's skin. Fire, Earth, and Metal elemental energy swirled into his cores, his body glowing faintly like an ember-stoked furnace.
"This heat is barely a snack," Lin Mu murmured to himself as he absorbed their attacks with ease.
A moment later, he crushed the lizards under the weight of a gravity field dense enough to rupture stone. The earth cracked, and the air shimmered with sheer force as the beasts were flattened like leaves in a storm.
Their remains were harvested with practiced precision.
The magma-spined scales of the lizards were especially useful. They could be used in refining defensive armor or even in stabilizing mid-tier formations that required strong fire affinity materials. Lin Mu added their Earth and Fire Qi to his cores without hesitation, feeling the elemental resonance within him strengthen even further.
Little Shrubby, however, had entirely different plans.
