Chapter 0125 Volcano World
Compared to the underground world of the dark cave, the volcanic caves here are more dangerous and terrifying.
The lava channels here are all cracks and lava flow pipes that are opened in the solid mountain after violent geological activities, and there is great uncertainty in them.
Maybe when you are walking in a red channel, you will be burned to a charred bone by a sudden stream of scorching flames blowing out from the gaps in the side walls. Or you may take a wrong step and fall into a bottomless rift and fall into a bone-eroding lava pool.
Although the volcano has gradually entered a temporary rest period, violent geological activities still exist in some parts. If the rumbling ground subsidence happens next to you, you are likely to be squeezed into a meat pie and meat sauce by the suddenly closed cave or the dislocated rock layer.
So when walking here, you have to pay more attention to the stability of the rock layer around you.
Absolute safety does not exist. Every apprentice must be cautious to avoid being involved in sudden geological changes.
The danger is not only in volcanic geological changes, but more dangers come from the alien creatures living in this area. Fire spirits, lava dogs, lava monsters, fire lizards, flame imps, flame guards... There are dozens of flame creatures with names, and the rest of the unknown alien creatures are even more difficult to count.
These flame creatures that live on fire and feed on fire regard this volcano as their home and build a unique food chain in this molten world. At the top of the food chain are naturally the terrifying molten giants. They are like a group of fire giants with extremely high intelligence, and they have terrifying elemental abilities that are not inferior to human wizards.
It's a pity that their daily lives are too dependent on the environment. If they leave the volcanic world, their power will continue to decline. Therefore, the molten giants all live in the deepest part of the underground volcano and are difficult to see in the outside world. It can be said that with the ability of wizard apprentices, it is not enough to enter the deep area of the volcanic world, so it is impossible to have any intersection with them.
In the volcanic world, the bottom of the food chain is probably those annoying flame imps. They look like a goblin, but their skin has turned red. They also have no flesh and blood, but are the product of a ball of original flame and some broken consciousness.
They chirp and shuttle through the lava channel, looking for areas with dense fire elements. They will also spontaneously attack any outsiders who enter the area, and their way of attack is extremely simple fire arrows. Once they find that they can't beat their opponents, they will jump into a lava pool or a hot flame flow, and then run to another place in an instant.
Once the treasure hunter lets go of a flaming imp, within a few moments, his surroundings will be flooded by groups of flaming imps.
But these flaming imps are so poor that it makes people outrageous. After all the effort to eliminate them, you can only harvest a pile of volcanic ash, and there is no possibility of other loot. In this regard, the cost-effectiveness of the flaming imps is far inferior to that of the fire spirits. Although the fire spirits are also at the bottom of the food chain in the volcanic world, if you eliminate them, you can at least get some broken elemental cores, which is much better than the flaming imps having nothing.
The Flame Imp has fire arrows and fire teleportation. If it were placed in the outside world, it would also be a difficult elemental creature. But in this volcanic world where fire resistance is generally abnormal, their strange abilities are basically ineffective against other fire creatures.
This is the fundamental reason why they have fallen to the bottom of the food chain!
Grimm did not choose to go with others, but drilled into a lava channel by himself, and quickly walked down the slope. There are never straight roads here, nor regular channels. Everything is circling and lingering in response to the terrain, and there are many forks.
The volcanic world is like a super huge beehive, with rugged roads inside, and connected passages and caves one after another. Walking inside, if there is no way to identify the path, it is easy to fall into the maze until the food and water are exhausted and die of heat.
But Grimm certainly does not have this problem. Even as he went deeper and deeper into the volcanic world, his whole body and blood became active and restless, excited and excited by the rich fire element particles here. Even if he didn't put up elemental protection here, the hazy red light lingering around him couldn't hurt him, but could bring him considerable benefits.
However, for the sake of his demeanor, he still had to put up a high-temperature force field to protect his clothes from being ignited by the high temperature here. After all, he was a human being, and he didn't have the habit of running wildly like a fire creature!
Without a map, and without the need for a map, Grimm didn't hesitate at all in front of a hundred forks in the road, striding forward all the way, heading straight to the depths of the ground. And what guided him was the concentration of fire element particles in the air! He didn't come here to search for treasure, but to "take a bath" here, so he would go wherever the fire element particles were more concentrated.
The rugged and winding road might deceive him, but the fire element particles floating in the passage would not deceive him, so he came to a small lava fire pool with almost no deviation.
This place is not considered the depths of the volcanic world, but there is a natural depression. Therefore, when most of the molten magma retreated back to the ground, a small part of the lava was retained here, forming a small lava pool.
At this moment, a group of flame imps and a lava dog were gathered here, floating in the lava pool, happily watering their bodies with the hot magma.
Among these monsters, the lava dog obviously has a higher status, occupying nearly half of the space. The rest of the flame ghosts can only squeeze in the other half, and dare not approach the lava dog.
Seeing the human suddenly coming out of a passage, the lava dog with a stronger sense of territory jumped out of the lava pool first, blocking Grimm's way forward, leaning slightly, opening the flaming mouth with flaming steam, and roaring intimidatingly.
Is this the lava dog?
Grimm stopped, with blue light flashing in his black eyes, constantly scanning the internal structure of the strange creature in front of him.
This is a flame creature comparable in size to the tiger on Earth in the previous life. Most of its body is made of semi-molten hot lava, and the surface of its body is surrounded by scorching flames. When the lava dog opened its mouth to threaten Grimm, the hot magma flowing from its fangs and teeth even eroded small holes in the floor in front of it.
This shows that the magma in its body is more terrible than the magma in nature, and the fire element contained in it has a stronger corrosiveness.
A moment later, the biological information scanned by the chip was projected into Grimm's mind.
Lava dog, a semi-elemental creature unique to the underground volcanic world, strength level: intermediate apprentice, physical data: strength 9, agility 13, constitution 10, spirit 8, individual ability: fast rush, flame jump, flame spit, fierce bite.
Some of this biological information was analyzed by scanning the body structure of the lava dog, and some was supplemented based on book materials. Once the information of the two was merged, all its secrets were immediately presented to Grimm.
Such a lava dog, although the chip marked it as an intermediate apprentice, in this special environment, it is still difficult for ordinary intermediate apprentices to deal with it.
Just as Grimm was quickly analyzing all the secrets of the lava dog in front of him, his silence had completely angered the other party.
The powerful lava claws stomped on the floor, and the lava dog's sturdy body pounced in the air and hit the flame shield that Grimm had opened temporarily.
There was a dull thud.
The lava dog brushed the flame shield and flashed to Grimm's side. With just a twist, its heavy and agile body adjusted its direction and pounced on him again. At this time, the four eye-catching and deep claw marks on the flame shield had not completely disappeared.
The lava dog hit the flame shield again!
This time, the flame shield could no longer withstand the attack of the flaming claws, nor the impact of the lava dog's heavy body. It exploded into flame fragments all over the sky with a bang.
As Grimm swung the flame lord's scepter in his hand, a new flame shield was ejected, which bounced the lava dog that was attacking.
Grimm frowned. It seemed that the primary flame shield could no longer adapt to the current battle intensity. Even an ordinary lava dog can break it within two rounds, so it can be imagined that when encountering a stronger flame creature, the flame shield is not much stronger than a soap bubble.
And the flame shield is indeed an upgraded and improved version of the flame shield, and its protective performance is more than five or six times stronger than it. Grimm stood still and let the lava dog attack freely. It took nearly ten rounds to consume the flame shield to the brink of collapse.
After correcting some necessary parameters through the battle, Grimm no longer had the heart to "play" with this lava dog. With the throwing of an elemental crystal core, a huge rock python that almost occupied half of the space of the lava cave drilled out from the ground.
Seeing this sudden intruder, the lava dog still pounced on it without hesitation, vowing to defend its home territory to the death. Unfortunately, its self-righteous attack was a farce in front of the rock python, which had a huge advantage in size. Before it could tear off a few pieces of rock from the rock python, it was bitten by the other party and hit the floor and ceiling of the lava cave several times, and the lava dog was torn into pieces.
After the lava dog's body collapsed, Grimm picked up a piece of still burning flint from the scattered lava fragments. This was the only thing of value in the lava dog!
Grimm stayed where he was and began to deal with the flint, while the summoned rock python swam towards the remaining flame ghosts.
Puff puff puff...
The endless fire arrows rained down on the blue-gray rock snake head of the rock python, leaving only shallow pits the size of eggs. Such damage was not even a tickle for the rock python, which was made of rock. It swam closer, bit with its big mouth, swung its long tail, and crushed with its body. It didn't take a long time to eliminate most of the flame ghosts.
The remaining ghosts saw that the situation was not good, and jumped into the raging flames of the lava pool one by one, and disappeared in an instant. The entire underground cave finally became quiet! chapter;
