Li Qingyu, filled with sorrow, silently murmured the name of Colonel Chu.

The witch Muxi watched the battle with great interest, wanting to see how the human race would react after learning of her existence.

Colonel Chu hammered Deathwing like a pile driver.

Deathwing... is getting beaten up...

Little White and Kiki... watched Deathwing get beaten up...

In an instant, the desert gradually quieted down.

Only the crackling of the flames and the booming of Colonel Chu echoed between heaven and earth.

Time passed second by second, just as Li Qingyu was about to establish a spiritual connection with Colonel Chu.

The sky gradually darkened.

A light mist, appearing from nowhere, filled the hot air.

The originally fiery red sky and the lava-covered earth seemed to have been ignited by an accelerant.

Gradually surging, fiery.

Li Qingyu looked around at the changes, completely bewildered.

Just then.

Countless burning rubble fell from the sky.

Some crashed into the desert.

Some of them fell onto the rice paddies.

Fortunately...

The firecracker-grown rice has extremely strong heat resistance and did not turn into a fire that spread to the entire camp.

Firecracker Rice Seeds

[Rank: B]

[When the ancient human scholar Pingping was cultivating rice seeds, she accidentally created a mutated variety that possesses extremely fast growth and reproduction rates, as well as extremely strong heat and cold resistance.]

However, due to the aggressiveness resulting from its mutation, it was sealed away by Academician Pingping.

【Want to eat me? No way! ~doo-doo-doo….】

but….

Even if the rice paddies can withstand the firecrackers, they won't be ignited on a large scale.

However... the rice that was directly hit by the fiery meteorite still couldn't withstand it.

Strong heat resistance does not mean complete immunity.

Looking around, the rice paddies were being set ablaze piece by piece as the fire rain fell.

Li Qingyu suddenly felt that something was missing.

It seems to be...

Li Qingyu was taken aback.

Has Colonel Chu's rhythm been disrupted?

Li Qingyu quickly looked towards the battlefield ahead.

Just then, they saw Deathwing with his head completely gone.

Like rice paddies set ablaze, it turned into countless ashes and slowly dissipated.

Until... completely disappear.

Only Colonel Chu remained standing there, his hand outstretched, grasping at the ashes, lost in thought.

And just then...

The thin fog around us instantly thickened.

The next second, Colonel Chu disappeared from Li Qingyu's sight.

Not only that.

As the fog thickened.

Li Qingyu's field of vision is also constantly shrinking.

It dropped from a kilometer to a hundred meters, and then to a few dozen meters.

Finally, only a few meters remained…

Even countless fire rains, blazing with intense light, could not illuminate the thick fog.

Li Qingyu couldn't even see the sunlight anymore, as if he had been stuffed into a room filled with mist.

Apart from the faint red color swaying in the mist, Li Qingyu could only see the firecrackers and rice paddies a few meters ahead.

Even when you're right in front of a traffic light, you can't see much further.

Only the occasional fiery meteors that struck the shield served as a reminder to Li Qingyu.

He is still in the desert; he wasn't teleported away.

Damn it...

What the heck is this?!

[Crimson: Hmm! ~Didn't I already warn you? Fighting a boss of the Overlord level isn't going to be this easy.]

【Crimson: Phase Two is here! ~】

P2! ?

Holy crap...

The witch issue hasn't been resolved yet, and the Boss has already lost his temper.

So, ...

How do I get through Phase Two? What about Deathwing?

We can't see anything right now, Crimson, you should give us some advice.

While questioning Crimson, Li Qingyu continued to silently recite Colonel Chu's name. Regardless of the Boss's stage, the one he needed to be most wary of was still that witch.

Perfect timing, let's summon Colonel Chu over to boost our sense of security.

[Crimson: Barring any unforeseen circumstances, Deathwing will not use his true form for attacks during this phase.]

[It's highly likely they're summoning minions to attack.]

Extremely high probability?

What the hell? What's wrong with Crimson? Have you been kidnapped?

Why are you speaking so reservedly?

[Crimson: There's nothing I can do... I'm just an S-rank baby, unable to accurately predict the behavior of a tyrant-level creature.]

Okay... it's about advancing to a higher level again...

But we don't have any money right now. Let's wait until we have more money at home.

At that moment, Li Qingyu suddenly felt that evolving Crimson first might not be a bad idea.

The province's deep red color, in three sentences, cannot be separated from advancement.

Finally, amidst the waves of sorrow brought on by the clinking of fingers, Li Qingyu heard the incredibly steady heartbeat of Colonel Chu.

"Boss, take a look at the virtual map."

There's a witch squatting there!