Chapter 494 - Crimson Dragon
The journey was a long and arduous one. After approximately an hour, and a few turns, Lin Li spotted ahead of him a glow that seemed like the end of the secret passageway. However, Lin Li did not dash towards it immediately. He felt that it would be too reckless to do that. Indeed, as he moved closer to the end, Lin Li was met with more and more traps that grew increasingly complicated. Hence, it took him more than half an hour to finish the last part of his journey.
When Lin Li reached the end of the passageway, he was really jubilant… until the smell of something hot and pungent rushed up his nostrils. Lin Li saw bright and yellow lava bubbling underneath his feet. He was standing in the tunnel of a spacious underground cave.
This was a world of fire. There was a huge concentration of fire element, and it was as though he had stepped into a natural magical domain filled with flames. The fire element here was so strong that it suppressed the other elements. Lin Li even had difficulty activating his mental strength in that environment.
Wait a minute. This is not a place that the Amethyst Turtles could live in. Could it be that Osric had other magical beasts more suitable than the Amethyst Turtles to act as the energy source for the magic gears? Lin Li could not help but feel that he was in a strange place.
While the lifespan of the Amethyst Turtles was extremely long, they needed a particular environment as well. Being magical beasts with the water attribute, the Amethyst Turtles should be placed in an underground river where they could live for more than 100,000 years. In such an environment that was suffused with fire element, however, Amethyst Turtles would not be able to survive.
It was impossible for Osric to commit such a mistake or fail to capture a Legendary-level Amethyst Turtle. There had to have been a more suitable choice for Osric. However, as Lin Li went through his entire memory bank, he could not think of any magical beast with fire attribute that had a longer life than the Amethyst Turtle.
Among the seven major elements, the fire element was the most vigorous one. Hence, fire attacks were always the strongest among other types of attack at the same level. Their violent nature caused the magical beasts with the fire attribute to have a shorter lifespan as compared to those with the water attribute.