Chapter 879 - Proceeding to Molten Fire City
Chapter 879 Proceeding to Molten Fire City
The Skettis Region.
The City of Oss.
Greem got off the ship at the closest public city to Molten Fire City– Oss, as was agreed in the contract.
Neither the old adept nor the young adept couple could be seen on the ship; they had probably gotten off the ship during the trip while Greem was meditating!
Greem’s massive Spirit swept across the flying ship and instantly picked up on everything happening within. In fact, even adepts who did not activate defensive forcefields could not escape his mental senses.
Ordinary First Grade adepts did not feel his spiritual scan. Only some more spiritually sensitive Second Grade adepts could faintly detect something odd in the air. Still, even these people could not capture the source location of this Spirit.
The adept in charge of the flying ship might have discovered something, but out of fear of the might of a Third Grade adept, he would not take any action as long as Greem didn’t cross the line.
There was much more to be done with regards to the development of the Crimson Clan!
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Molten Fire City.
After five days of continuous travel, Greem and the party finally arrived at the border of the volcanoes.
It was hard for ordinary carriages to travel through here. The Second Grade adept invited Greem onto a cave lizard, and they dove into a natural underground cave that had been further expanded upon.
Compared to the dark caves that Greem had been to in the past, it was clear that this place was highly developed.
Though there were large and small caves all along the way, obtrusive stalactites and stalagmites had been destroyed and taken away. Still, the rugged and uneven terrain made it extremely difficult for an ordinary person to travel. Only local creatures like the cave lizards could freely move through such an area with their unique abilities.
These cave lizards could even rapidly run across the ceiling and walls when they reached especially uneven areas. It was, perhaps, the main reason why Molten Fire City had tamed and modified cave lizards on such a large scale!
Greem could feel the temperature of the environment rapidly rise after he entered the cave.
In fact, he could even smell the suffocating scent of sulfur through the cracks and rifts all around them.
As a fire adept, Greem felt no disgust toward such a harsh environment; only an instinctual excitement and joy.
The Molten Fire City had modified the formerly dark underground area. Plenty of glowstones had been installed along the way, illuminating the cave with a dark red glow. There were nearly no subterranean creatures to be seen anywhere.
That was understandable.
As the main entrance and exit of Molten Fire City, it was only natural they would send adepts and apprentices to clear out the underground creatures regularly. As long as no underground creatures set up home nearby, there would be no large-scale activity around the area.
After traveling through these winding and uneven tunnels for two days, Greem and the other adept finally arrived at Molten Fire City. Of course, the organization had also set up four or five small outposts along the way. Judging from the population, they were almost at the scale of ordinary human villages on the surface.
Greem’s group had run into at least thirty or forty merchant groups along the way.
Their wooden chests and packs were filled with local products of Molten Fire City, from animal hides to herbs, ores, and ingots.
Unfortunately, there was no Queyras ore.
Greem was not surprised by this at all.
The value of Queyras ore was far, far beyond that of ordinary magical gemstones. If they were to be carted out for sale, Molten Fire City would never hire such a simple group to be responsible for it. Thus, the merchant groups he saw were only selling and purchasing inferior byproducts dug out from the mines.
The truly valuable Eternium and Queyras ores must have been kept in the hands of Molten Fire City. This ‘trash’ that came attached with the ores then became the precious products that the nearby human organizations would fight over.
It seemed Greem had to properly make contact with the leaders of Molten Fire City if he wanted to obtain Queyras alloy!