GA: Chapter 132: A God Walking Out of the Flames — The Abilities of the Flame Dragon Armor
Agonized screams rang out continuously within the fire — then fell silent one by one as the flames consumed everything, leaving no life behind.
The mother and child behind him witnessed the entire scene. She stared at Qin Tian, her eyes full of something she couldn't put into words.
He was terrifyingly strong.
Those horrible, dangerous mutated sea creatures — in front of him, they fell like ants being swept aside without effort.
The spiritual revival had awakened abilities in almost everyone. She had seen Spiritual Energy Bureau members use their powers before, and they were no weaklings — but compared to this young man, the gap was enormous.
Before she could think any further, she watched the sweeping flames scatter outward again — surging crimson fire raging across the land, scorching heat seemingly intent on turning everything around them into a world of pure flame.
In a daze, she looked at Qin Tian — and what she saw was a god standing in fire.
Power like that...
The shock faded, and a dim shadow settled in her eyes.
If Haicheng had an ability user this powerful protecting it, things surely wouldn't have come to this.
Qin Tian had no idea what she was thinking. His gaze was cold and empty as he cut through the mutated creatures that kept pressing in, killing with nothing but fury and the intent to end them.
Right now, his heart held nothing but rage and the need to destroy every single one of them.
"ROARRR!"
Faintly, it seemed as though a crimson fire dragon was materializing behind him, rising from the surging flames at his back. The fire around him swelled again — and where it passed, nothing remained but scorched earth and blackened, charred bodies.
The bodies of these mutated sea creatures could have been eaten or refined into medicine. Burning them all away like this was a waste. But such considerations had long since left his mind.
In his eyes, every mutated creature here had been stained with human blood.
So they all deserved to die. Every last one of them deserved to be swallowed by fire.
"Die."
At his cold, flat word, the already raging flames became something more absolute — devouring creature after creature that was drawn by the noise and light, burning each one to nothing.
After a while, the mutated sea creatures began to sense something in their instincts — fear — and started retreating toward the distance.
Qin Tian gave them no such opportunity. The endless fire swept out, encircled them, and finished what it started.
"Help!"
"Someone help me!"
"I'm here — I'm over here!"
A voice calling for help broke through the noise, coming from a building not far ahead. Qin Tian's expression didn't change. He became a streak of fire and moved directly toward it.
"Dragon Emperor — I finally get to see you in person."
"You're my idol!"
A clean-featured young man looked at Qin Tian in the Flame Dragon Armor with pure admiration blazing in his eyes.
"You—"
Qin Tian looked at the young man and felt a flicker of surprise.
Not a scratch on him. His clothes were completely intact.
And his mental state was perfectly fine — he even had the composure to joke around.
"Oh, you're probably wondering why I'm totally unharmed and somehow in a great mood, right?"
The young man seemed to read his confusion and scratched the back of his head with mild embarrassment.
"Well, after the ability awakening, I started thinking — what if something like this actually happened?"
"So I paid to have someone build me an underground bunker."
"Stocked it with tons of food, and over a dozen generators."
"I figured it'd be at least a month before anyone came — I didn't expect you to show up this fast."
"It's only been one night!"
"That's the Flame Dragon Steed for you!"
"Oh, right — Dragon Emperor, my name is Ye Changtian. Think I could get your autograph sometime?"
"..."
Qin Tian was quiet for a moment, then nodded.
"From here — do you stay in the bunker, or come with me?"
"Come with you, obviously!"
Ye Changtian didn't hesitate for a second.
"Dragon Emperor, you have no idea — I was watching through the security cameras, and those mutated sea creatures are insane. Every single one of them."
"My bunker? I genuinely don't know how many hits it could take."
"I'm not willing to find out."
They were crabs and lobsters before the mutation — harmless seafood. After? Even the small ones were over a meter. The larger ones pushed three meters. Some were hitting five.
And those claws looked like they could punch through his bunker's walls in a single strike.
"Let's go."
Qin Tian said nothing more than those two words. He turned and resumed his work — locating survivors, eliminating the mutated sea creatures in his path.
Time passed.
Qin Tian himself had lost count of how many mutated creatures he'd destroyed.
But his expression kept growing colder.
There were too many.
The mutated sea creatures in Haicheng — the sheer number of them was simply too great.
Millions?
Maybe. But not just one million or two. The number was far beyond that.
It wasn't only the initial beast tide either. From the ocean, a continuous stream of mutated sea creatures was still pouring into the city.
Behind Qin Tian, beyond the original mother and child and Ye Changtian, more than a dozen other survivors had gathered. A gaunt middle-aged man. A woman on the edge of panic. Even a heavily pregnant woman who had been unable to move fast enough to escape with the others — her husband had already resigned himself to the idea that their family would die here.
But they had been fortunate enough to wait until Qin Tian found them.
They followed behind him, listening as Ye Changtian and a few others pieced together what they knew about him — one of Huaxia's four recognized top-tier powerhouses, bearing the title of Dragon Emperor, a hero acknowledged by the Flame Dragon Armor, the strongest member of the Capital's Spiritual Energy Bureau...
Those titles, combined with what they had witnessed with their own eyes, slowly transformed the way they looked at him — from awe, into something closer to reverence.
A god walking out of fire. Wherever he passed, no matter how many mutated sea creatures there were, the flames consumed them all.
And the fire itself began to coalesce — shaping into a crimson dragon that coiled through the air above them, its presence so tremendous it pressed down on everything below.
Thank heaven Huaxia has someone this powerful.
And thank heaven Huaxia has more than just one genius like this.
The thought rose in their minds unbidden — followed almost immediately by regret and sorrow.
Regret that no one like this had been standing over Haicheng.
Grief for the people of Haicheng who had died before help arrived.
Behind the armor, Qin Tian's brow furrowed slightly.
He'd been sustaining his ability for a long time. The spiritual energy reserves in his body had dropped considerably. And being this close to the ocean meant water elements vastly outnumbered fire elements in the surrounding environment.
As if sensing his concern, something like a dragon's cry resonated in his ears.
Then he felt it — the rate at which he was absorbing fire elements had multiplied more than tenfold. He didn't even need to draw them in. They were rushing toward him on their own, pouring into his body as if compelled.
"Is this the Flame Dragon Armor's ability?"
Qin Tian didn't fully understand it, but it was welcome regardless.
At least he wouldn't need to worry about running dry any time soon.
With that settled, a glint of red passed through his eyes.
"ROARRR!"
A world-shaking dragon cry tore through the sky. The aura around Qin Tian surged higher — tremendous pressure radiating outward in every direction.
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