Age of Adepts

Two days later.

Greem silently assessed the flowing crimson light pouring through the light barrier at the entrance to the lava sea. He seemed to be able to faintly hear the rumbling of the coursing lava beyond the boundary.

“Lord Greem, we will be counting on your protection during this operation!”

The two Second Grade fire adepts sent by Molten Fire City were actually a pair of siblings: a brother and sister. The slightly older brother had a serious expression on his face and gave Greem a simple introduction on him and his sister. Meanwhile, the sister remained silent throughout, walking closely behind her brother as he and Greem talked.

However, judging from the looks she was sneaking at Greem, her personality was fairly lively. Her looks were somewhat decent as well.

“Mm, we will act according to the circumstances.” Greem replied and stepped into the light barrier first.

These two Second Grade siblings didn’t dare walk into the lava sea as simply as Greem had just had. Instead, they quickly chanted and cast some spells. It was only after applying a series of elementium halos and drinking a bunch of spirit regenerating potions that they dared to cross through the barrier carefully.

However, they didn’t remain quiet for long. The female fire adept suddenly opened her eyes and said with a surprised voice, “There’s movement at the mines! The flaming tiger seems to be destroying the walls of the mines.”

Greem opened his eyes, and an expression of thought appeared on his face.

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At this moment, a flaming tiger was furiously destroying the stone walls outside the underground mines.

Unlike the stone in other regions, the stone walls around the mines showed no signs of melting or disintegration, despite being soaked in terrifying lava. A large amount of metal mixed within it caused the volcanic rock here to be as tough as steel. It was also capable of resisting prolonged heat conditions, making it extremely difficult to destroy.

However, the tiger didn’t seem to mind.

He stood in the flowing lava, waving his claws formed of flames and smashed them again and again upon the steel-like walls.

As powerful as the Molten Fire adepts were, they could not protect the entirety of the mine and its dozens of kilometers of tunnels with runic arrays. That was why the runic arrays were mostly concentrated around the weak points of the mines, as well as its entrances and exits.

However, today, the flaming tiger that had been missing for so long went the other way. He did not try to sneak into the mine and instead chose to dig furiously at a spot in the mine where the adepts couldn’t defend.

The molten eternium he had absorbed over the past few months had caused his elementiumized body to appear somewhat different. The sharp flaming claws made of pure fire not only contained tremendous power whenever they struck, but also caused ferocious winds to ravage across the lava, demonstrating their horrifying physical power.

A single claw would cause a half-meter deep crater to appear on the sturdy wall, and the bottom of the hole would be filled with terrifying cracks. The flaming tiger continued to dig without any stop, claw after claw. Soon, he had dug out a massive pit that was seven or eight meters deep.

If he kept digging at his current speed, he would only need half a day to dig through another three dozen meters of rock and enter the tunnel.

That was clearly beyond the expectations of the Molten Fire City higher-ups. Even the Third Grade adepts behind the scenes could no longer sit still.

Two of the Third Grade adepts appeared simultaneously in the lava sea with an intense magical flux.

Unlike Greem’s transformation into an elementium form to merge with the lava, the two Third Grade adepts were a poison adept and an array master respectively. They were not suited for combat in the lava sea.

However, now that the plot had swerved away from their expectations, and the tiger had not entered the trap, the two of them could only reluctantly strike out and hope to draw the tiger into the trap.

Adept Karak and Adept Dorian stood in a giant rolling stone, pushing away all the lava in their way as they charged toward the tiger.

The two forces immediately broke out into a deathmatch outside the mines.

Rather than a fight, it was more the two adepts defending and trying their best to fend off the countless attacks from the Third Grade flaming tiger.

The power of the tiger, while he was in the lava sea, was shockingly high.

His three-meter body flickered about the stone ball, vanishing and reappearing. Every time he appeared, the tiger would be accompanied by a loud roar and ferocious claw attacks, causing the earth elementium on the stone’s surface to tremble uncontrollably.