A Man Like None Other (Jared Chance) novel Chapter 5470

With a piercing cry, the golden flame phoenix unfurled its wings, then streaked into the horizon as a blinding ribbon of light—leaving only shimmering heat-waves in its wake.

Fire Demon Lord and Fire Spirit Lord were left staring blankly at each other, faces awash with shock—and, worse, with shame.

"W-Who in the realm was that?" Fire Demon Lord whispered, his voice nothing but ash-thin disbelief.

Terror shimmered in his eyes; whatever had spoken could have snuffed him out as easily as extinguishing a candle.

He knew—felt it in his marrow—that the mysterious voice could have ended his existence with a lazy flick of thought.

The Fire Spirit Lord drew a long, steadying breath, then spoke, every word grave and measured.

"I do not know. Yet I am certain that we just met an elder who has survived countless ages. His command of flame stands at a height our imaginations have yet to glimpse."

Another tremor of fear crossed Fire Demon Lord's gaze. He looked from the grim Soul Devourer at his side to the distant Fire Spirit Lord—and made a decision in the space of a heartbeat.

"Soul Devourer, we leave now," he said, voice stripped clean of its earlier swagger.

Soul Devourer blinked. "My Lord, do we depart... just like that?"

"Would you rather stay?" Fire Demon Lord's reply was cold iron. "Did you not hear that elder? Before him, we are mere kindling. If his mood changes, we would be ashes before we could raise a hand."

He spun without another word, cloak snapping through scorched air, and Soul Devourer hurried after him.

Two streaks of crimson radiance tore skyward, vanished beyond the cloud-line in a single breath.

Fire Spirit Lord watched those scarlet trails fade and made no move to follow.

He understood all too well that, as he was now, he could not hope to pin them down.

More pressing was the lesson seared into him by that unfathomable visitor: a reminder of how small he still was beneath the heavens.

He needed solitude—time to digest the revelations that still smoldered in his spirit and to rebuild his understanding of the way of flame.

A sudden jolt shot through him. That was the Inferno Devil's internal flame!

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