"Sleep in the earth!" Arnold roared, slamming his fists into the ground.
Instantly, the ground within a five-hundred-meter radius seemed to be stirred by an invisible giant hand, transforming into a boiling quagmire.
Countless thick rock hands burst forth from the mud, each palm center opening a blood-red demonic eye, emitting an eerie and terrifying light.
Seeing this, Marcus immediately condensed gold sand into a surfboard shape.
His figure, like a golden lightning bolt, weaved back and forth through the dense forest of rock hands, skillfully dodging every attack.
However, seven demonic eyes locked onto him simultaneously, and then, seven heat rays capable of melting steel shot towards him like lasers.
"gold sand Mirror Corridor!" Marcus clasped his hands together, and in an instant, eight gold sand prisms formed, like eight indestructible shields, protecting him in the center.
The heat rays continuously refracted between the mirrors, eventually reflecting back, instantly incinerating twelve rock hands, the scorching high temperature distorting the surrounding air.
Marcus seized this fleeting opportunity, instantly disassembling his surfboard into thousands of sharp sand spikes, which rained down on Arnold.
The Orc Warrior, however, neither dodged nor flinched, a strange smile playing on his lips, as a vortex-shaped hole suddenly opened in the rock on his chest, and a powerful suction instantly drew all the sand spikes into his body.
"Thanks for the meal," Arnold's voice was low and cold, and then, his abdomen glowed with an earthy yellow light, and the swallowed sand spikes, enveloped in scorching lava, spewed out like cannonballs.
Marcus reacted extremely quickly, pointing both hands skyward, and surging gold sand rapidly condensed into a pyramid-shaped shield in front of him.
The moment the lava and sand made contact, a violent explosion occurred, flames shot skyward, and the rolling thick smoke quickly obscured the entire battlefield, blurring vision.
The golden bull horns on Arnold's head glowed with a grayish-brown light, and a substance as black as ink and as thick as asphalt spewed from the tips of the horns.
These eerie liquids rapidly permeated the ground, and in the blink of an eye, three hundred and sixty-five mysterious earthy yellow incantations abruptly appeared on the ground within a three-hundred-meter radius, exuding an ancient and powerful aura.
Marcus felt a bad premonition; just as he was about to leap up and escape this strange area, he found a heavy pressure on him, making his steps as heavy as if filled with lead.
"Gravity manipulation?" Marcus's face was grim; under the multiplied gravity, he had to lower his body, all his blood rushed downwards, his legs felt numb, and his head spun incessantly.
His gold sand armor groaned under the immense pressure, making a grating sound as if it could shatter at any moment.
"Earth Vein Curse Binding, Thousand Mountains Suppression!" Arnold roared, his pupils instantly transforming into two burning lava spheres.
Beneath Marcus's feet, a five-layered, nested brown magic array slowly appeared, emitting a mysterious light.
Immediately after, thick stone shackles slowly rose from deep underground, wrapping around his limbs like pythons.
Each chain seemed connected to a pressure source deep within the earth's mantle, and the powerful force transmitted rendered Marcus immobile.
"gold sand Shell!" At the critical moment, Marcus decisively injected a large amount of magic power into his armor.
In an instant, the armor's color became increasingly bright, and the humanoid sand sculpture rapidly solidified in place, while his true body transformed into fluid gold sand, seeping out of the armor's cracks like water.
He reformed tens of meters away, successfully escaping the range of gravity's suppression.
But before Marcus could even catch his breath, Arnold's attack had already arrived, with a rock spike array launching simultaneous assaults from eight directions.
Sharp rock spikes shot towards Marcus like lightning, bringing with them a whistling wind.
"Multiple Sand Substitute!" Marcus's pupils contracted, and he used the sand to replace his position three times in a row.
Each time he reformed, he intentionally left a large amount of magic power in the sand grains of the substitute, like burying a series of time bombs.
When the fifth rock spike pierced his substitute's position, all the scattered sand grains suddenly erupted with dazzling gold light!
The violent chain explosions instantly engulfed Arnold, with flames soaring skyward and shattered rocks flying everywhere.
However, at the moment of the explosion, the Orc Warrior suddenly transformed into liquid rock, rapidly seeping into the ground like a puddle of black water, disappearing without a trace.
Seeing this, Marcus immediately plunged his hands into the sand, muttering, "Desert Horned Viper!"
In an instant, the scattered gold sand on the ground began to flow, and three hundred sand snakes, condensed from gold sand, rapidly drilled underground, tracking Arnold's whereabouts like agile fish.
Less than two seconds later, the sand snakes, moving astonishingly fast underground, found Arnold's figure.
The snake swarm wildly twisted its body and charged towards Arnold; however, just as they were about to make contact with Arnold's true body, the golden bull horns emitted an earthy-brown light, and all the sand snakes instantly solidified into stone statues.
Marcus, who was controlling the sand snakes on the ground, was startled and quickly backflipped into the air.
Right where he had been standing, a gigantic rock dragon head burst out of the ground, its fangs grazing his forehead and cutting off a few strands of hair, which slowly floated in the air.
"Got you!" Marcus roared in the air, flinging out a sand chain that wrapped around the dragon's horn like a long snake, using the momentum to swing onto the rock dragon's back like a pendulum.
His right hand instantly transformed into a diamond sand drill, piercing into the rock dragon's spine with immense force.
The rotating gold sand drill had astonishing destructive power, easily tearing through the rock layer.
However, just when he thought he had succeeded, the entire rock dragon suddenly disintegrated into a storm of sharp stones, with countless sharp rock fragments shooting in all directions like bullets.
Arnold's true body emerged from the flying debris, his right fist covered in scorching lava, carrying a destructive power that directly shattered Marcus's breastbone.
"Cough... that punch had some kick!" Marcus coughed up a mouthful of blood, looked down at his completely pierced chest, and managed a weak smile, but his broken body suddenly turned into a sand waterfall, enveloping his opponent like a surging tide: "Elemental Transformation - Sand Burial Coffin!"
The flowing gold sand quickly enveloped Arnold's entire body, rapidly contracting inwards, attempting to crush him into a pulp.
The Orc Warrior, however, showed no fear, immediately unleashing his magic power, and an earthy-brown light mixed with shattered rocks spread outwards.
In an instant, tens of thousands of rock shards spewed from his pores, scattering all the gold sand covering his body.
Marcus, in a disheveled state, reformed his body using the distant gold sand, creating a slight distance.
Arnold's face was ferocious as he violently tore open the rock armor on his chest, revealing a pulsating Earth Core Heart.
That heart was like a small sun, emitting scorching light and powerful energy.
Lava rapidly flowed through his veins throughout his body, eventually slowly condensing into a ten-meter-tall lava giant above his head.
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