Wizard's Journey

Chapter 211 Volcano

Everywhere you look, it's crimson.

Under the relentless baking of this sun that never sets, there are no plants on earth that can grow using liquid energy.

The fiery red iron sands stretched to the horizon, and the crimson reefs seemed endless, as if one were in a furnace of heaven and earth.

Flying in such a harsh environment, the air is heated and turbulent, causing a startling distortion of the distant view. The sensory system, which relies on collecting light and sound, will be greatly weakened, even to the point of being "nearsighted and blind".

Green transformed into a blazing fireball, vanished in a flash, and flew away into the distance.

Such a fire-rich environment would be a huge burden for an ordinary wizard, who would have to constantly maintain their defensive magic to resist the scorching heat. However, for Grimm's incarnate body with its fire element resistance, super physical resistance, and passive basic elemental resistance, this harsh environment is nothing more than that.

Like a demon walking in flames, Grimm's grey-white Face of Truth marched forward against the scorching wind.

One day later.

After a long flight through a sky distorted and refracted by the air, we finally arrived at the volcanic cluster that was our mission objective.

Towering volcanoes, thousands of meters high, are covered with traces of lava flows on their summits, slopes, and surrounding areas. Tiny volcanic rocks are everywhere, and the pungent smell of sulfur permeates the air.

"It's so hot! Young Master Green, let's hurry up and finish recording the geographical information map of this wretched place, then go wander around the Shadowlands." The myna complained listlessly, and its feathers began to show a semi-distorted, childlike drawing pattern.

Green didn't speak, but landed directly on a crater emitting thick black smoke and looked into the crater.

call!

A billowing wave of heat and black smoke rose up, Grimm's long golden hair flew wildly and scattered in disarray, the Mask of Truth blocking part of the heat wave.

After the myna bird ate the ashes, it let out a shriek and disappeared from Green's shoulder.

goo goo goo...

Beneath the crater, the magma was not as pure as that in the lava lake. It seemed that the magma had been contaminated by something, as bubbles rising from the bottom of the magma continuously spewed out plumes of black smoke. The black smoke, along with the rising heat waves, rushed into the sky and gradually dispersed, eventually gathering into shadowy clouds in the distance.

Bending down, Green picked up a red stone from the crater and examined it closely with his eyes beneath the Mask of Truth.

"Fire crystals are indeed everywhere in this world, and Amonro hasn't mined or utilized them at all. Although this fire crystal is less pure in energy, it could still be sold for at least a quarter to a fifth of a low-grade magic stone in the wizarding world."

After careful analysis, Green's eyes lit up with surprise.

A quarter of a low-grade magic stone is nothing to a formal witcher like Grimm, but the key point is that fire crystals are almost everywhere here, and you can even just bend down to pick them up.

Thus, Green made a decision in his heart.

After completing the mission here and returning to the space fortress, we'll trade several soul slaves with extremely high fire resistance to collect fire crystals here. If this demon-hunting expedition can continue in this world for a hundred years, the number of fire crystals collected alone will likely be astonishing.

A surge of magic coursed through him. Grimm took out a crystal ball and simultaneously opened the mission scroll. A flash of green light disappeared in an instant.

The crystal ball floated into the sky, emitting a layer of green rays. After quickly scanning its surroundings from the top of the volcano, the light went out.

Green put away the crystal ball and flew towards the other volcanoes in the volcanic cluster.

The monotonous colors and scenery were extremely boring, and as the main body of the Fire Crystal World, this volcanic group had far too many volcanoes. Green had to record all the volcanic terrain of this mountain range, one after another.

During the boring flight, Green couldn't help but observe the wisp of natural elemental soul collected in the crystal ball, while also trying to understand some knowledge about the natural elemental soul of chimeras.

After seventeen days of monotonous and tedious recording of the volcanic mountain terrain, Green stopped when he saw the situation in the volcanic crater before him.

Below this crater flows pure, scalding lava, which, though constantly bubbling, emits no black smoke.

Ok?

Due to the wizard's keen sense of the natural environment and the rules of the world, Green instinctively sensed that things were different here. Even the fire crystals in the crater were more pure in energy than those in other craters, which was obvious.

Perhaps we should investigate the reasons behind this?

Thinking this, Green, having finished recording the terrain information, did not leave. His body suddenly burst into blazing flames, which spread outwards. He erected a wizard's shield, and the rolling, inextinguishable flames, aided by the dense fire element around him, seemed to come alive as they burned fiercely.

Carefully, Green flew down from the crater.

Glug, glug, glug...

Bubbling continuously rose from the pristine lava pool. Green descended nearly a thousand meters from the crater, and when he was less than a hundred meters from the lava pool, an opening with obvious signs of human carving appeared on the scorching rock wall.

The cave entrance is an irregular oval shape, about ten meters high and about thirty meters long. The stone walls are smooth and the bottom is not visible.

"Hmm? This smell... That's right, it's Amonro's sweat. So Amonro actually built a cave here? Sure enough, there's some secret hidden inside this volcano." Green sneered, somewhat pleased with his previous correct judgment.

With a surge of magic, a ball of black flame ignited with a "boom," instantly forming a five-meter-tall giant of greed flames behind Grimm. The black flames flickered erratically, and the lightning armor twisted and contorted in response.

Roar!

The giant of greed had two enormous mouths on its belly and back, one howling and the other roaring, the sound waves spreading into the cave and soon echoing back, suggesting that the cave was not as deep as Green had imagined.

With an expressionless face, Grimm leaned on his magic and walked step by step into the depths of the cave. The Flame Giant followed closely behind Grimm, its two snail-like eyes looking in different directions. The elemental greatsword in its hand swayed with each step, and the power of lightning crackled.

The high-purity fire energy crystals on the surrounding stone walls glittered, but Green did not show much interest, and continued to explore the interior of the cave with unwavering determination.

Since the cave is not deep and Green did not sense any high-level life forms, it proves that there is no fatal danger here, at least not for Green's abilities.

After traveling about two hundred meters, the three-headed Amonro suddenly appeared, staring at Green as if facing a formidable enemy.

Huh?

With a soft exclamation, after realizing that the three golden Amonroes did not pose a significant threat in terms of their life level, Green began to carefully observe these three slightly different Amonroes.

The most eye-catching feature is the bone tail behind the three golden Amonro heads, which is burning with golden flames. It looks like three flexible soft swords and whips, and the golden flames are like glass, bright and dazzling.

"Wizard outsider? You will experience the wrath of Amonro!" A golden Amonro, with eyes like those of a hawk, threatened Grimm through soul communication.

"Amonro's wrath?"

Hehehehe...

With a low, sinister laugh, Green didn't even speak. In an instant, three fire bats formed and flapped their wings as they flew toward the three Amonroes.

Beneath the surface of truth, Green's eyes shone with wisdom, displaying unparalleled calmness and rationality.

These three golden Amonro actually took the initiative to meet the fire bat. The Amonro at the front swept its long tail, which was burning with golden flames, and the fire bat actually turned into sparks and disappeared with a "poof".

This?

Green looked on in astonishment.

The golden Amonro, which had instantly dispersed the Green Firebats, snorted and its eagle-eyed eyes flashed with a cold light. With a "whoosh," it transformed into a golden afterimage, leaping dazzlingly from the top of the cave as if unbound by gravity, and attacked.

Green glanced coldly at the golden Amonro, ignoring it, and instead looked at the second firebat, stretching out his hand and clenching it tightly.

"burst!"

With a deep shout from Green, a boom resounded, and before the long tail of the golden Amonro, burning with golden flames, could disperse the fire bats, the rolling flames engulfed them.

As for the last fire bat, it suddenly accelerated, and with a "poof," the concentrated burst of fire also engulfed the last golden Amonro.

call out!call out!

Two intact golden Amonro emerged from the flames, and Grin's fire magic attack had no effect whatsoever!

"The Amonro with the Glazed Flame Physique? And this golden flame, a wondrous flame energy that seems to perfectly suppress other flame energies. Then what is the purpose of these three golden Amonroes here...?"

Green looked up, and the golden Amonro, which was rapidly approaching from the top of the stone wall, leaped up and transformed into a golden fireball that shot towards Green, his eagle eyes filled with an indomitable and domineering aura.

snort!

With a cold snort, an astonishing gravitational wave suddenly surged from the ley lines beneath Green's feet. The golden Amonro, which looked like a golden fireball, let out a startled howl and was pulled to the ground with a thud.

The gravity was chaotic, and Green's clothes and robes fluttered without wind. He stretched out one leg, as if kicking a ball, and the golden Amonro let out a wail as it was kicked away by Green. With a "whoosh," it flew more than ten meters and crashed into the stone wall, convulsing.

hum!

The elemental greatsword of the Greedy Flame Giant blocked a golden Amonro, whose golden flames, which could easily dispel the fire bat magic, were of no use against the water and thunder elemental greatsword.

call……

Suddenly, the giant of greed opened its huge maw on its belly and spewed out a beam of black flames, engulfing the golden Amonro.

Seeing the situation was dire, the last golden Amonro surprisingly nimbly bypassed Grin and the Greedy Flame Giant, attempting to escape the cave. Grin sneered, and with the incredible gravity of his hands, the Amonro had nowhere to run and was pulled back, the green python threads rapidly wrapping around it.

"Hmph, it seems we can skip the step of going back to the Origin Fortress to trade and collect Fire Crystal Slaves."

After chuckling softly, Green pondered, "These three golden Amonroes are at most at the worker ant level of mechanical puppets, yet they have an astonishing ability to suppress fire energy. It seems that this cave, or rather this volcano, must hold some secret."

Green slowly walked deeper into the cave.

(End of this chapter)