Compared with the underground world of the dark crypt, the volcanic lava caves here are more dangerous and terrifying.
The lava channels here are all cracks and lava flow channels opened in the solid mountain after violent geological activities, and there are great uncertainties in them.
Maybe when you are walking in a certain red passageway, you will be scorched to your bones by a sudden blast of flames blowing out from the gap in the side wall. It is also possible that if you take a wrong step, you will fall into a bottomless rift, and fall into a certain ecstatic lava pool.
Although the volcano has gradually entered a period of rest, in some parts, intense geological activities still exist. If rumbling subsidence happens right next to you, you are likely to be squeezed into a meatloaf by a suddenly closed cavern or misplaced rock formation.
Therefore, when walking here, you must pay more and more attention to the stability of the rock formations around you.
Absolute safety does not exist, and each apprentice must be careful to avoid being involved in sudden geological changes.
Dangers do not only exist in volcanic geological changes, but more dangers come from the alien creatures living in this area. Fire spirits, lava dogs, lava monsters, salamanders, flame imps, flame guards...there are only dozens of flame creatures with names, and the remaining unknown alien creatures are even more difficult to count.
These flame creatures who live on fire and eat fire regard this volcano as their home, and have built a unique food chain in this molten world. The one at the top of the food chain is naturally the terrifying molten core giant. They are like a group of flame giants with extremely high intelligence, possessing terrifying elemental abilities not weaker than human wizards.
It's a pity that their daily life is too dependent on the environment, leaving the volcanic world, their strength will continue to decline. Therefore, all the molten core giants live in the deepest part of the underground volcano, which is difficult to see from the outside world. It can be said that with the ability of a wizard apprentice, it is not enough to enter the area as deep as the volcano world, so it is impossible to have any intersection with them.
And in Volcano World, the bottom of the food chain probably belonged to those nasty flame imps. They are similar to a goblin in appearance, but their skin has turned red. They also have no flesh and blood, but the product of the combination of a group of original flames and some broken consciousness.
They twittered and shuttled through the lava channel, looking for areas densely populated with fire elements. They will also spontaneously attack any outsiders who enter the area, and the way they attack is extremely simple flame arrows. Once they find that they can't beat their opponents, they will just jump into a lava fire pool or hot flame stream, and then run to another place in an instant.
Once a treasure hunter lets go of a flame imp, his surroundings will be overwhelmed by groups of flame imps within an hour or three quarters.
But these raging flame imps are extremely poor. Take great pains to destroy them, and you'll only reap a pile of volcanic ash, no other loot. The price/performance ratio of Lie Yan Xiaogui is far inferior to that of Huo Ling. Although the fire spirits are also at the bottom of the food chain in the volcanic world, if they are eliminated, they can still get some broken elemental cores, which is much better than the nothingness of the flame kid.
The Flame Imp has flame arrows and flame teleportation. If it is placed outside, it is also a difficult elemental creature. But in this volcanic world where fire resistance is generally abnormally strong, their weird abilities are basically ineffective against other flame creatures.
This is the fundamental reason why they are reduced to the bottom of the food chain!
Greem didn't choose to go with others, but he drilled into a lava tunnel on his own, and quickly walked all the way down. There has never been a straight road here, and there is no regular-shaped passage, everything is circling in response to the terrain, and there are many forks.
The volcanic world is like a super huge beehive, with rugged roads and connected passages and caves one after another. Walking inside, if there is no way to identify the path, it is easy to get stuck in the maze until the food and water are exhausted and you die of heat.
But of course Greem doesn't have this problem. Even as he got deeper and deeper into the volcanic world, his flesh and blood became active and agitated, excited by the richness of the fire element particles here. Even if the elemental protection is not supported here, the misty red light lingering around his side is unlikely to hurt him, but can bring him considerable benefits.
However, for the sake of manners, he still had to prop up the high-temperature force field to protect his clothes from being ignited by the high temperature here. After all, he is a human being, but he doesn't have the habit of rushing like a flame creature!
There is no map, and there is no need for a map. Greem did not hesitate at all before the hundred and ten forks, and strode forward all the way, heading straight for the depths of the ground. And what guides his direction is the concentration of fire element particles in the air! He didn't come here to hunt for treasure, but to "take a bath", so he would go wherever the fire element particles were more concentrated.
The rough and winding road may deceive him, but the fire element particles floating in the passage will not deceive him, so he came to a small lava fire pool almost without any deviation.
This is not the depth of the volcanic world, but a natural depression. Therefore, when most of the molten magma retreated to the ground, a small part of the lava was trapped here, forming a small lava fire pool.
At this moment, a group of flaming imps and a lava dog are gathering here, floating up and down in the lava fire pool, happily dousing their bodies with hot magma.
Among these monsters, the status of the lava dog is obviously higher, and it occupies nearly half of the space by itself. And the rest of the Flaming Imps could only squeeze in the other half, never daring to take half a step closer to the Lava Dog.
Seeing the humans coming out of a passage, the lava dog with a stronger sense of territory was the first to jump out of the lava pool, blocking Greem's way forward, leaning slightly, and opened up the steaming flames. With a big mouth, he let out a threatening growl.
Is this Lava Dog
Greem stopped in his tracks, blue eyes flickering in his black pupils, he kept scanning the internal structure of the strange creature in front of him.
This is a flame creature comparable in size to the earth tiger in the previous life. Most of its body is poured from semi-molten hot lava, and the surface of the body is surrounded by scorching flames. When this lava dog opened its mouth wide to threaten Greem, the hot magma flowing down from between its fangs and sharp teeth even etched small holes in the floor in front of it.
This shows that the magma in its body is already more terrifying than the natural magma, and the fire element impregnated in it is more erosive.
A moment later, the biological information scanned by the chip was projected into Greem's mind.
Lava dog, a unique semi-elemental creature in the underground volcanic world, strength level: intermediate apprentice, physical data: strength 9, agility 13, constitution 10, spirit 8, individual abilities: fast dash, flame jump, flame breath, ferocious bite.
Some of these biological information were analyzed by scanning the body structure of the lava dog, and some were supplemented based on book materials. As soon as the information from the two was fused, it immediately presented all its secrets in front of Greem.
Such a lava dog, although the chip is marked with the strength of an intermediate apprentice, but in this special environment, it is still difficult for ordinary intermediate apprentices to handle it.
While Greem was quickly analyzing all the secrets of the lava dog in front of him, his silence had already completely angered the other party.
The powerful lava hind claws stomped vigorously on the floor, and the lava dog's sturdy body rushed over in the air, and hit heavily on Greem's temporary flame shield.
There was a dull loud bang.
The lava dog wiped the flame shield and flashed to Greem's side. Its heavy and vigorous body readjusted its direction with just a twist, and rushed towards him again. At this time, the four eye-catching and deep claw marks on the flame shield have not completely disappeared.
The Lava Dog hit the Fire Shield again!
This time, the flame shield could no longer withstand the attack of the flame claws, nor could it withstand the impact of the lava dog's heavy body, and it exploded into a sky full of flame debris.
With the swing of the Flame Lord's scepter in Greem's hand, a new flame shield shot out, and bounced off the lava dog that was attacking.
Greem frowned. It seemed that the basic flame shield could no longer adapt to the current fighting intensity. Even an ordinary lava dog can break it within two rounds, so it is conceivable that when encountering stronger flame creatures, the flame shield is not much stronger than soap bubbles.
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. Greem stood still and let the lava dog let go of his hands and feet to attack. It took nearly ten rounds to consume the flame shield to the verge of collapse.
After correcting some necessary parameters through battle, Greem didn't have the heart to "play" with this lava dog anymore. Following the throwing of an element crystal nucleus, a huge rock python that almost occupied nearly half of the space in the molten cave emerged from the ground.
Seeing this sudden intruder, Lava Dog still pounced on desperately, defending his home territory to the death. It's a pity that its self-righteous attack is a farce in front of the rock python, which has a huge advantage in size. Before it tore off a few pieces of rock from the rock python, it was bitten by the other party, and it slammed against the floor and ceiling of the cave a few times, and the lava dog was torn apart.
After the lava dog's body disintegrated, Greem picked up a flint that was still burning from the scattered lava fragments. This is the only valuable thing in Lava Dog's body!
Greem stayed where he was and began to process the flint, while the summoned rock python meandered towards the remaining flame imps.
Puff puff…
The continuous flame arrows rained down on the blue-gray rock snake head of the rock python, leaving only shallow pits the size of eggs. This kind of damage is not even scratching an itch for a rock python with a body of rock. It swam to the front, biting with its big mouth, slamming its long tail, crushing its body, and wiped out most of the flame imps in a short while.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining little ghosts jumped into the steaming flames of the lava pool one by one, and disappeared in an instant. The entire underground cave finally became quiet!