Established Pinnacle: The Enigma

Middle Realm

Orange Continent, Desert Region

Within the Middle South, it was that time of the week the "Flute of Brilliant Summers" played out once again. Everyone, within the Desert Region sent out their representatives to discuss this matter once again.

It's been fifty two weeks, meaning fifty two torture sessions of experiencing intense Summer. Even in Winter, there were four times when the weather seemed to have changed.

Being a Desert Region, winter here was only warm and not cold. But during the day of the Flute of Overwhelming Summer, it was so hot that even Deities felt like they were at the central core of the sun.

At first, the Flute was played randomly as if to pass time. Until the sorounding major Deities, begged their Deity Kings to do something. The three Deity Kings finally visited the place where the sound originated from.

When all the Deities thought their time of suffering was gone. The Deity Kings came back all battered and almost clotheless. The snake goddess being a sight to behold even, almost being 100% naked.

From then on, the Flute only played once a week, even though it was still torture, but that was better than before. It was as if the suffering of the god kings alleviated their suffering.

Unfortunately, they still couldn't bare with it and finally begged the snake goddess, who seemed to be the only one who got close to the place, to talk to the great being responsible.

"...Why me out of all of them? That crocodile head and that senile cat are stronger than I am. Why did they nominate me?! Just because I managed to get in two layers more than them and now they think this mysterious being favors me? Bullshit!! Complete, and utter bullshit!!"

One would doubt that this was the monologue of a Deity King, a peak Divine Deity with higher authority over other Deities compared to other Divine Deities of the same level. Their authority could even overpower other Divine Deities.

To put it in short, they had the strength and divine might that was only one inch away from breaching the realm of the God's of olden days, the might of their ancestors and their predecessors.

But right now, this certain kind of Deity, was complaining and fearful of another being? How could that even be possible? Well it was happening right now.

The last time she went in that place, she could only go in for seven layers, before she felt like she would burn to ashes. And that was only thanks to the fact that she had [Fire Immunity] and [Tough Skin].

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Suddenly, a beautiful tune rang out from within that place and the sorounding temperature began increasing. From the average 36°C all the way to 72°C in an instant. Then from 72°C to 90°C in the next second.

And the more closer one got to the place, the hotter it would become. It must be known, it was 90°C and she was still far from the layer furthest from the center.

Gritting her teeth, the snake goddess, Rani, immediately slid forward. Luckily no mortals lived around this place anymore, thus there death toll was low.

Using all her strength, she instantly appeared hundreds of miles deep into the area, in just a millisecond, immediately at the end of the fifth layer. The temperature here was a whooping 88 000°C. No wonder those two old fools couldn't handle it.

Ordinary Deity Kings like them could naturally tank at least 50 000°C with their divine power. Which was ten times the temperature at the surface of the sun.

While ordinary Divine Deities could only take 35 000°C, while Deity Lords and Higher Deities could tank 19 000°C and 11 000°C each respectively.

Lesser and Greater Deities being 5 000°C and 7 000°C respectively. Whilst Saints had something around a thousand or below. They couldn't even bare the temperature of the Sun.

Clenching her fist, Rani pushed on once again. Using all her strength, will and effort, she managed to breach the seventh layer and enter the eighth.

Her speed was around the speed of light, which was not disappointing for a Deity King, but there was a pressure here that seemed to be pushing her back... with nothing but sheer heat!!

And because of that, her body was close to burning up by now, even her Fire Immunity did not help at all.

The temperature was above 30 million degress. The heat was a whooping 30 million degrees celsius. A terrifying number even to Deity Kings related to the Sun like herself.

Even an ancient Deity King of Old would not take such a temperature lightly even if they are proficient in flames or the likes. Only an Ancient Sun Deity would dare, and luckily, her diluted Bloodline was of such Origins!!

She could still take up to 50 million degrees normally. As for why she pulled back last time, she didn't want to go back completely naked. Especially when her body was way more charming than other female Deity Kings.

Boom~

Her body suddenly ignited. But with the soul of a Deity King, she wouldn't die that easily. At least it would take a few more seconds.

And with will and pure determination, Rani wanted to meet the powerful being beyond the first layer. Such a being proficient in fire, was like an idol to her!!

Perhaps it was an ancient deity or above. She continued to push on using all her might towards the ninth layer. The temperature was now a whooping 133 million degrees.

And... she might not live for more than a few seconds at this rate. Even Sun Deities could perish due to the intense flames you know.

But it was just near, almost there. Just a little bit more... and she could finally succeed. But... when abruptly, the first layer was breeched, the temperature immediately skyrocketed.

Boom!!!

300 million degrees!!!

The moment she sat foot into the first layer, her body exploded into flames, only leaving out a figure of nothingness within the towering flames of range spreading hundreds of miles.

Even her soul... was oblirated!!

What was worse, the fire was laced with a few glints of blue, which made it even worse to fight back. But Rani wasn't stupid, she came here for a reason. And those two fools sent her for a reason too.

Immediately, her soul and body reconstructed at a speed faster than a millisecond. Then, she inserted her hands into her burning flesh and spread her chest apart.

Opening it to reveal a gaping hole that seemed to house an illusory Universe. And out of it jumped a small snake that was less than thirty centimeters long.

With unpredictable speed, thousands of times faster than her base speed, she zoomed all the way towards the place far beyond the first layer.

Her thoughts were null, and empty, as the only thing the little snake had in mind, was to run and only run as fast as it could possibly go.

And within the central place where everything originated from, the intense heat and the blazing flames, the thing that she saw, was the creation of heaven and earth, no no no, it was pure destruction in the flash.

The land was nothing but orange-red liquid, so hot that the air a meter above was forcefully ignited. So hot that air did not exist, earth did not exist, water did not exist.

The fire burned so hot, it destroyed the other three elements, on a physical, spiritual and molecular level!! Everything here, was nothing but fire.

One might think that it was impossible, for fire to burn, oxygen was required. But here, such things were null. The fire was self-sustained by the person that set at the center of everything.

And within such an out of place Mythical Fire zone, there was a lone rock in the center, and there stood a young girl who looked jovial and fresh. The center of the everything.

Green hair, slightly tanned skin, blue-green robes that fit her body perfectly, accenting her small curves and medium sized breasts. A figure quite beautiful even amongst gods.

Even a Deity King who was more beautiful than others of the same level, Rani paled in comparison. Her small delicate lips were blowing onto the black Flute with professionalism.

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Just once.

Rani heard the tune only once at such a close distance and her body and soul were vanquished within an instant. Not even a atom of her entire being was spared.

And at the last moment, she felt a heat so high, that even someone of her caliber, with the ancient sun divine bloodline failed to defend against.

Even her [Primal Snake Form], that had True Resistance to Fire, and Immune to basically heat damage, was weak and helpless against such an attack of pure destructive flames.

+2 500 000 000°C