Chapter 1187:- Last Stage of Absorption [I]

Chapter 1187: Chapter 1187:- Last Stage of Absorption [I]

The cultivators within the city, especially those with powerful sensory abilities, noticed something even more frightening. The heat was not evenly distributed throughout the city. The closer one moved toward a particular location, the more unbearable the temperature became.

And that location was the City Lord’s mansion; the Harrington mansion.

Once they discovered the source, none of the cultivators dared to approach or question what was happening. In fact, some of the weaker cultivators who had initially attempted to move closer were forced to retreat after feeling their bodies rapidly overheating.

Since this terrifying phenomenon was coming directly from the residence of the Harrington Family, everyone wisely decided to maintain their distance.

Meanwhile, around the forty-five-minute mark, the situation within five hundred meters of the Harrington mansion had become genuinely dangerous.

Every exposed source of ordinary water within that area had already evaporated. Small ponds had dried up, containers of water left outside had become empty, and even moisture on the ground had completely disappeared.

The surrounding air had become so dry and scorching that breathing itself was becoming uncomfortable for ordinary people. Harrington ordered every servant to immediately leave the Harrington Mansion and go somewhere safe for now.

Dry grass began catching fire without anyone touching it. Leaves curled inward and turned brown from the heat. Wooden objects exposed to the temperature became dangerously hot, while anything dry and easily flammable could suddenly ignite without warning.

Fortunately, Malakor Harrington had already anticipated the possibility of the heat spreading beyond the mansion and had prepared people to prevent the situation from getting out of control.

Several cultivators capable of using water-element magic and skills had been stationed throughout the surrounding area, constantly extinguishing fires before they could spread toward nearby buildings.

However, even these cultivators were beginning to understand just how abnormal the situation had become. Whenever they released large amounts of water to extinguish the flames and cool the surroundings, the water would begin producing clouds of steam almost immediately. Within five to ten seconds, the wet ground would become completely dry again.

Then, only moments later, the same grass that they had just extinguished would become dry and crisp before catching fire once more.

The cultivators had no choice but to repeatedly cast their water spells, extinguishing the same areas again and again. Some were already sweating heavily and consuming mana at an uncomfortable rate, yet none of them dared to stop. If they let the fires go unattended for even a short time, several could spread at once and become much harder to control.

By now, the area surrounding the Harrington mansion had become dangerous enough that ordinary people could no longer safely approach it. Most concerning, the temperature was still rising.

As the temperature surrounding the Harrington mansion continued to rise at a terrifying rate, the overall temperature throughout the entire city also kept increasing. Malakor Harrington soon realised that they could no longer simply sit back and wait for Aditya to finish his cultivation.

If things continued at this rate, the consequences would become disastrous.

Even if the entire city did not catch fire, the extreme heat alone could end up killing a large number of ordinary people. Cultivators possessed stronger bodies and could use their mana to endure such extreme temperatures for a long period of time, but the ordinary humans living throughout the city did not have such abilities.

The temperature had already reached a dangerous level for them.

If it continued rising for another ten or twenty minutes, Malakor did not even want to imagine what kind of situation the city would be facing.

Realising that they needed to act immediately, Malakor stood up from his seat and looked toward Boris.

"I’m going outside. I’ll order my men to construct a mana barrier around the entire Harrington mansion. If we can completely isolate the mansion using a powerful enough barrier, we should be able to contain most of the heat inside and prevent the temperature throughout the city from rising any further."

Boris immediately understood what Malakor was planning and nodded his head in agreement.

"I’ll come with you."

With someone as powerful as Boris helping them, the strength of the mana barrier could be increased considerably. At this point, containing the heat had become far more important than making the people inside the mansion comfortable. Everyone gathered here was either a cultivator or could be protected by one. The ordinary citizens outside did not have that luxury.

Seeing the two old men preparing to leave, Aditya’s uncle, Wahid, could no longer remain seated either.

"I’ll help as well."

Malakor did not refuse his offer.

The stronger they could make the mana barrier, the more effectively they could contain the terrifying heat being released from the mansion. Their objective was not simply to prevent the flames from spreading anymore. They needed to trap as much of the heat as possible within the barrier itself and stop it from continuing to spread throughout the city.

Even if doing so turned the area inside the barrier into an unbearable furnace, that was still preferable to allowing the heat to continue spreading and endangering countless ordinary lives.

Without wasting another second, Malakor, Boris, and Wahid immediately headed outside to begin constructing the mana barrier around the Harrington mansion.

『Ding! 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』 absorption — 74.7%』

『Ding! 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』 absorption — 74.9%』

『Ding! 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』 absorption — 75%』

While Aditya continued absorbing the enormous amount of fire-element mana from the 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』, he was also experiencing an unimaginable level of pain.

The System was forcefully helping his body absorb fire-element mana at a rate that far exceeded his natural absorption capacity. With Aditya’s actual cultivation talent, absorbing everything contained within the 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』 should have taken him several days. Yet with the System’s assistance, that entire process was being forcibly compressed into around an hour or an hour and a half.

Naturally, his body was paying the price for such an unnatural absorption speed.

An overwhelming amount of fire-element mana was continuously being forced into his body before he could properly adjust to the previous wave. There was barely any time for his body to adapt before even more energy came flooding inside him.

The resulting pain was beyond anything Aditya had expected.

He was in so much pain that he could no longer properly think about anything. His mind had become almost completely blank, leaving him capable of doing nothing other than gritting his teeth and enduring. Every instinct within his body was screaming at him to stop, yet Aditya stubbornly refused to let even a single scream escape from his mouth.

The System continued announcing the absorption percentage inside his mind, but Aditya could no longer properly hear its voice. The notifications had become distant sounds buried beneath the overwhelming pain consuming every part of his consciousness.

Still, he knew that he was getting closer.

He could feel his cultivation rapidly approaching the boundary separating the Fifth Order from the Beginner Sixth Order.

Every single part of Aditya’s body felt as if it were being destroyed from the inside. His internal organs felt like they were being cooked alive. His skin burned continuously, while every muscle, bone, and cell in his body felt as though it was being flooded with molten fire. Even the blood flowing through his veins felt like it had begun boiling.

There was no escape from the pain. The temperature continued increasing, and with every additional percentage of the 『Crimson Sun Annihilation Orb』 that was absorbed, the suffering became increasingly difficult to endure.

Aditya could feel himself approaching his limit. But he also knew that he could not allow himself to lose focus.

If his concentration broke for even a second, there was a possibility that he could lose consciousness. If that happened while such an enormous amount of fire-element mana was being forced into his body, the entire absorption process could be disrupted.

That was something Aditya absolutely refused to allow. He had already endured this much. He would endure until the very end.

Meanwhile, the room in which Aditya was cultivating had already transformed into an environment that no ordinary living being could survive. The temperature inside had risen to an absurd level, reaching several times the temperature found on the surface of the sun.

Everything that could burn had already been reduced to ashes long ago.

Yet at the centre of this unimaginably hot environment, Aditya remained seated in his meditative position, completely engulfed by raging Crimson Flames.

His body was suffering beyond its natural limits, but his consciousness stubbornly remained intact.

He was getting closer and closer to the boundary of Beginner Sixth Order.

Around another 10 minutes later, the absorption percentage had reached 88.5%. Aditya wasn’t aware of what percentage he had absorbed. At this point, he was in so much agony that his mind could not register anything that the system’s voice was saying to him.

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