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Chapter 176 Flame Creatures
Dui took out the mithril box containing the flame crystal.

Just by opening the lid, a wave of heat came out from inside.

The flame crystals inside emitted extremely high temperatures, like red-hot crystals, turning the space in the box into a high-temperature furnace, and the air was distorted as if it was burned.

Feeling the temperature around him rising rapidly, Dui hurriedly covered the mithril box again.

Fortunately, the mithril box became extremely heat-resistant after forging, otherwise if it was made of other metals or stones, it would have melted long ago.

However, before covering it, Dui took out a small piece of flame crystal.

Although it is only a flame crystal the size of a baby's fist, it releases heat of thousands of degrees Celsius.

For a moment, the spacious laboratory seemed to have entered the hot summer.

Dui tried to place it on a block of iron, and the iron was quickly burned through.

When placed on thick stone bricks, the bricks also cracked and melted, turning into lava.

Finally, it was placed on the body of the Fire Demon, and then nothing happened.

What surprised Dui was that the body of the Fire Demon had turned into lava since his death, and especially after the magic crystal was taken away, it turned into cold and hard stone.

But after placing the flame crystal on the body of the Fire Demon, the part of the Fire Demon that touched the flame crystal gradually softened.

This softening is not caused by the high temperature of flame crystallization melting, but by restoring its activity and making it elastic.

Dui's eyes suddenly lit up.

Such a change was beyond his expectations.

The activated Flame Demon's body has become more researchable.

He couldn't resist his curiosity and opened the mithril box again. He used his wand to double the space inside and then stuffed the body of the Balrog into it.

The flame crystals in the mithril box released a temperature high enough to melt the hardest metal instantly, but the fire demon was not burned when he entered it.

Instead, the whole body regained its vitality, with flames burning all over the body, as if it had come back to life!

Dui was also frightened, but he felt relieved after confirming that the fire demon did not come back to life.

Seeing that the Fire Demon was intact in the flame crystal and had become more active, Dui simply put it together with the flame crystal.

The Fire Demon is essentially an elemental body condensed from flames and shadows. The longer it dies, the more the fire element in its body will dissipate, and eventually it will turn into a pile of worthless stones.

Now that he can be preserved in the flame crystal, Dui is naturally delighted.

The Fire Demon's body has regained its vitality, and the Fire Demon's blood, like magma, will flow out from the wound on its chest.

Dui collected them and put them into another mithril bottle, adding a fire crystal the size of a grain of rice to prevent it from solidifying and turning into petrification again.

He looked at the Balrog's blood in the bottle and was very curious.

This should be considered divine blood. I wonder what effect it will have?
He did it as soon as he thought of it. Duit went out unexpectedly and specifically looked for some experimental subjects.

Among them were the common birds, reptiles, lizards, snakes, and so on, with a few orcs and wargs, and trolls.

He tried to inject the blood of the fire demon into the experimental subject and observed the changes.

The result is either being burned into a pile of ashes or exploding to death.

Obviously, these experimental subjects could not withstand the high temperature of the fire demon's blood, which was like magma.

Until Dui remembered the fragments of the Fire Demon's Heart that he had collected.

He started experimenting again.

Dui looked at the lizard in front of him and tried to implant a bit of magic crystal fragment the size of dust into the lizard's heart.

Then observe carefully.

After being implanted with a magic crystal fragment, the lizard did not react at first.

As time went by, Dui began to wonder if the debris was too small to work.

The lizard began to turn red, and as a cold-blooded animal, its whole body became hot.

Upon seeing this, Dui injected a drop of the Fire Demon's blood into the lizard's body.

The lizard began to roll over in pain, struggling constantly, and gradually became dying.

Then suddenly his whole body was ablaze with flames.

Just when Dui thought the lizard would be burned to ashes, the lizard suddenly jumped off the test bench, rushed towards the burning fireplace not far away, and then plunged into the flames.

Then a scene that surprised Dui appeared. The lizard was not burned to death. Instead, it underwent a transformation in the flames, becoming colorful and burning with flames.

The lizard stayed in the flames, looking comfortable, and emitting magical fluctuations belonging to a magical creature.

Dui was very surprised to get such an unexpected result.

The lizard, which was originally just an ordinary creature, transformed into a magical creature after being implanted with a fragment of the Fire Demon's heart and the Fire Demon's blood.

He walked to the fireplace and observed the lizard in the flames with great curiosity.

The lizard obviously remembered Dui. It tensed its body alertly and sprayed a small spark at Dui.

Dui waved his hand to block the flames, looked down at it, and chuckled, "Yo, it seems you still hold a grudge, little guy?"

Then he snapped his fingers and floated the fire lizard out of the flames, ready to take it to the test bench for further research.

But unexpectedly, once it left the flames, the fire lizard became listless, the flames on its body gradually died out, and it became weak.

Dui was surprised and sent the fire lizard back into the flames.

The salamander recovered and became full of energy again.

After trying a few more times, I was sure that the fire lizard really could not leave the flames.

The longer it was away, the weaker the fire lizard became, eventually dying. Seeing this, Dui simply summoned a flame, enveloped the fire lizard in it, and moved it to the experimental table, thus preventing the fire lizard from dying from weakness.

Dui used his magic wand to continuously test the fire lizard and discovered that it had indeed transformed into a magical lizard that could only live in flames!
The fire lizard's attack power is not high, and the flame it spews out is only a small cluster, which can be extinguished even by ordinary people.

However, Dui was not disappointed. The unexpected birth of a new magical creature was already a surprise.

He used a syringe to draw a little blood from the salamander and preserved it, then returned it to the fireplace flame.

And seeing that there was only one salamander, Dui simply decided to find it a companion.

So he followed the same method, using the fragments of the Fire Demon's heart and the Fire Demon's blood to transform another lizard into a fire lizard.

Looking at the two fire lizards in the fireplace flames, after some contact, they actually started to make a fuss.

Dui was a little dumbfounded by this scene.

But then I began to look forward to it again.

If the fire lizard can reproduce, then his hard work in the experiment will be worthwhile.

Afterwards, Dui no longer paid attention to the two salamanders who were busy producing offspring and continued with the experiment.

The fire lizards would die if they left the flames anyway, so he didn't have to worry about them running around or setting the room on fire.

The unexpected birth of the salamander made Dui look forward to the next experiment.

He set his sights directly on a venomous snake.

The venomous snake felt a chill in its chest when it was looked at by him. It tensed its body and made an attacking gesture, but its words were full of fierceness and snarl that Dui could understand.

"Human, don't come over here! I'm scared! I'm telling you, I'm very poisonous! Don't force me!"

Dui couldn't help but be amused by it and said in Parseltongue: "Little guy, don't say I didn't give you a chance. You are just an ordinary venomous snake now, and your lifespan is short. Don't you want to become more powerful and live longer?"

"Look at those two lizards! They're so powerful now! They can even live in flames!"

Dui just fooled the venomous snake.

The small-brained venomous snake was fooled into being dizzy and could not remember anything. He only remembered one sentence: it could make him stronger, and then he nodded and agreed as if possessed by a ghost.

Then, when I saw the human in front of me walking towards me with his knife sharpened, there was no chance to regret. I could only cry and think that my life was over.

For the larger venomous snake, Dui chose a larger magic crystal fragment this time.

He implanted the fragment into the heart of the venomous snake, injected it with the blood of the Balrog, and then waited quietly for the changes.

The venomous snake rolled and twisted in pain on the experimental table. Its body swelled and fine cracks appeared, revealing a fiery red color, as if there was magma hidden inside.

"Fire, I want fire! (Snake language)" The poisonous snake was like a thirsty person seeking water, calling for help from Dui.

Upon hearing this, Dui released flames directly towards the poisonous snake.

The poisonous snake, enveloped in flames, began to absorb the flames in big gulps, like a thirsty person encountering rain from heaven.

Then the venomous snake transformed in the flames. The shed snake skin was directly burned by the flames, and new snake scales grew. Its eyes flashed red, as if flames were burning in them.

Looking at the venomous snake that had completed its metamorphosis, Dui looked at it with some curiosity.

"What are your abilities?"

Viper looked at his body curiously and said hesitantly, "Is it possible for me to explode and generate enormous heat to burn the enemy to death?"

Dui choked up when he heard this, and for a moment he didn't know how to evaluate this ability.

Is this what they call exploding in front of you if you have a disagreement?

"My venom seems to have changed too?" the viper asked again in confusion.

"Why is it different?" Dui became curious.

The poisonous snake opened its mouth and bit a mouse next to it, injecting venom.

After letting out a scream, the mouse's body spontaneously combusted from the inside out and quickly burned to a pile of ashes.

When Dui saw this scene, his eyes suddenly lit up.

The abilities of this poisonous snake after its transformation are not entirely useless.

"There's one more thing..." Viper said again.

"What's the matter?" Dui was even more excited. Could it be that the venomous snake had other abilities?
The venomous snake said hesitantly, "I think I'm about to give birth~"

"What?!" Dui felt that he had heard it wrong.

"I'm going to lay eggs!" said the poisonous snake.

Dui was in disbelief for a moment, "You were pregnant before?"

"This is my first time, so I have no experience. I just had one encounter with a beautiful male snake before. Who knew I would get it~" The venomous snake twisted its body shyly and replied embarrassedly.

Dui was speechless. He actually caught a pregnant female snake. This was such incredible luck.

Venomous snakes, no, now it should be fire snakes, like fire lizards, need to live in flames.

However, compared to the fire lizard that cannot leave the fire for a moment, the fire snake can leave the fire for about an hour.

The fire snake, about to give birth, quickly crawled to a dark corner without fire, and then forcefully laid seven snake eggs.

These snake eggs are red in color and emit extremely strong heat.

Fire snakes cannot lay eggs in flames, otherwise the eggs will explode like fire bombs.

So fire snakes need to lay their eggs in a cool, dark corner away from the fire, and then quickly crawl back into the flames within an hour to avoid dying.

(End of this chapter)