Chapter 126
Once peace and quiet returned to this place once again, those disturbing Fire element creatures had long left the scene.
Dragging its heavy and long body, the Rock Snake was slithering around the outer perimeter and on high vigilance. Meanwhile, Greem took off all his clothes and while fully naked, walked into the lava pool step by step.
The boiling molten lava quickly flooded to his ankles, then to his calves and then his thighs. Whenever a bubble stirred up by his movement broke, steaming hot airflow with the temperature of at least few hundred degrees would burst out from it. And yet, it seemed like Greem couldn’t feel anything, as he continued to march deeper into the pool, allowing the sticky and scorching hot lava to devour his body, and eventually, his head.
Following the injecting of the frightful high temperatures into his body at a steady pace, Greem felt as if every single cell in his body was cheering and rejoicing. However, though the Fire element energy inside of his body was soaring at an incredible speed, he couldn’t felt the same pleasure he had last time, where both his body and Spirit were improving at the same time.
As if… as if this lava pool was lacking a fundamental element that allowed his Inferno Body to progress.
Greem stood up from the lava pool, wonderingly, he ran his eyes around the area. Finally, he couldn’t hold on anymore and asked out his question, “Chip, give this situation a thorough analysis. Tell me what is the reason that is preventing Inferno Body from continuing its progress?”
In next second, countless messages of analysis rolled off his vision, and disappeared at the end, leaving behind only the final conclusion. The most possible reason why this lava pool couldn’t accelerate the progress of the Inferno Body was that it wasn’t connected to the volcano core located at the deepest level. This lava pool was just a small region of leftover lava after all the lava had subsided to the underground, and it had lost direct connection to the core of the lava.
Seemed like it was meaningless for him to keep visiting the outer perimeter. Only by traveled deeper underground and finding the lava lake that directly connected to the core, would this trip be well worthwhile.
Magmakin was a humanoid monster who possessed an intermediate intelligence. The outer layer of its body was underground lava stone of all sizes, ordinary offensive magic spells could hardly penetrate this layer of extremely tough rock armor. Also, they were extremely cunning creatures, and would never act like the Lava Hounds who couldn’t even judge the overall strength between itself and its enemy.
The Magmakin liked to tenaciously defend the lava pool it took it as its home, and would never allow any outsider took a step into its territory. Also, its offensive methods were rather similar to that of a Fire element Adept. For example, it would use an endless shower of spells – Firestone Throwing, Ignite, Flamestrike or some other similar spells – when it fought. Frequently, it would use these Fire element spells that blotted out the sky and turned the lava cave into a sea of fire.
When Greem bumped into a fellow like this who hid in a far distance and kept launching long-range offensive magic spells, he had no choice but to command the Rock Snake to charge into the lava pool and engage the enemy in a melee fight. Though both Rock Snakes and Magmakins were Advanced Apprentice level creatures, as the Rock Snake had the advantage of a bigger body, it had a stronger strength compared to the opponent.
A fierce melee battle would always break out within the lava pool. Eventually, the final victor would always be the Rock Snake, who had a bigger body, a greater strength, and a better Physique.
Nevertheless, whenever an intense battle was over, the burly body of Rock Snake would always be slimmed down. After all, it was just an Earth element golem, thus, when fighting against the same grade opponent, in the opponent’s territory, just soaking its body in the lava pool would bring a huge damage to itself.
Therefore, every time after it killed a Magmakin, the rounded and thick body of Rock Snake would always slim down by at least three times.
The Rock Snake could defeat these Magmakins after a fierce fight, but when facing the Guardian of Flames, the outcome would be near impossible to predict.