The birth of an elental and its environnt were tied together by an inseparable relationship. For example, a fire elental can only be born in a place of flas while a water elental can only be born at a point where a river flows towards or a giant body of water. The strength of an elental is decidedly in large part by the environnt it grew up in because of the vast amounts of elental energy needed while growing up. Naturally, a purer source would produce better results.
The elental production rate of such a special location was fixed on a daily basis. An elental subsisted by absorbing a certain level of pure elental energies from their environnt. Only after eting the basic requirents would any further absorption lead to evolution. However, that wasnt to say that rely absorbing energies was enough to evolve, other requirents still held true as well.
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That Fire Elental Core you speak of, what does it do? Mo Na jumped onto my neck and curled her lips as if it was the most natural thing for her to do. Just two? Isnt that too little?
Those are the relics of the forr head and the forr forr head! The elental cried, clearly agitated by her callous disdain. However, he imdiately suppressed his anger upon realizing it: There are a wide variety of uses for a Five-stars Fire Elental Core. If you give it to your two subordinates over there, they will probably evolve right away into an Infant Fla Demon. Not only that, they would also gain the ability to transform into flas.
Transform into flas?
You dont even know that? The elental scoffed at . Once a Fla Demon reaches the level of Eight-stars, he gains a new ability called Fla Transformation. It allows the devil to temporarily transform his body into that of a fire elentals, gaining unimaginable destructive powers in the process.
Such a perk exists?
You really didnt know about that? He threw another disdainful look as if not knowing that was so sort of sin.
I, however, wasnt one to suffer such nonsense: If thats how youre going to act, then Ill just leave with my subordinates.
Naturally, things settled down from that point onwards and an agreent was reached with the promise of two such elental cores as a reward. Honestly, such a show of generosity on their part truly exceeded my own expectations.
With the deal settled, I asked the elental if he knew about a thod to reach Abaddon. His answer was a disappointing one to say the least but at the sa ti, it was only to be expected.
The entrance to Abaddon was most likely a closely guarded secret. The fire elentals themselves spent their entire lives in Purgatory, not because they couldnt leave the place but because they couldnt survive in areas with scarce fire elents.
Like how fish needed water and how humans needed oxygen, fire elentals needed a suitably rich environnt of fire to live in. Thanks to that, these elentals rarely left their territory. Even if they were left it, they had to first ensure that their destination possessed a sufficiently dense level of fire elents in order to support them.
Naturally, such denizens were clearly not cut out to be travellers so was it all that strange that they didnt know the entrance to Abaddon?
Normally, the mission of escorting the fire elentals would have been done by the Demon Fire Salamanders. However, their hands were tied at the mont and they could only spare that one salamander to be a ssenger. If they needed an escort, it would have to be that lone salamander. Should they encounter a large pack of Fire Devouring Fishes in the interim, they were dood. As such, the head of the fire elentals had no choice but to plead with us.
The temporary head of Raging Flas Lake was that fire elental whom Mo Na beat up. His na was Arca, an insufferably arrogant moron.
In total, there were over one thousand two hundred fire elentals living in Raging Flas Lake. Arca was one of the few Four-stars present in the settlent. Because he wasnt able to evolve into a Five-stars yet, he could only be considered a temporary head of the settlent. Should another fire elental make it to Five-stars before him, Arca would then be replaced by this new elental as the official head of the settlent.
However, that had nothing to do with us at all, zilch. As long as we ensured Arcas safety up till the mont he coughed up those two elental cores, our mission was completeahem, I ant Arca and his tribe.
With no ti to lose, Arca imdiately summoned his fellow fire elentals upon closing the deal. Just like before, a majestic pillar rose into the air and over a thousand fire elentals spewed forth from it.
Strictly speaking, the fire elentals were running for their lives right now and had no ti to dally about. Thus, the salamander promptly led the way to the safe zone while Arca marshalled his tribe.
That salamander was to be our scout for this journey. Should it discover any signs of fishes, it would imdiately let out a cry to warn us. That cry would then be translated by Arca after which we would act. Unless we encountered so kind of large group, it was mostly No.3 and Big 4 who took care of the fishes along this journey.
Like that, we safely made it through three days of fleeing. Suddenly, Arca stepped up to and sighed: You truly are an unusual devil.
I was playing horsey with Mo Na at that mont so I didnt pay much attention to his comnt and rely asked: Was that a complint?
You can take it as that. Was his irrelevant reply. He then shook his head and continued: Honestly, I was extrely worried that you would go back on your wordsafter all, with your Fire Devouring Fish weapons, our powersdont even co close to yours.
He finally admitted their weakness. Even though I hadnt been with him for long, I could tell that he was a prideful elental and admitting such was a big concession on his part. Truth be told, I knew their distrust of as well. The fact that he even asked this of was borne out of pure desperation. Besides, he most likely thought that if we really harbored any ill intent towards them, we could have done so by ourselves without waiting for the Fire Devouring Fishes to attack them.
Naturally, I would never do such a thing. That wasnt at all. I would never use my superior strength to bully the weak unlike the other devils. Normally, the most efficient thod would just be to trick the elentals into coming out and holding them hostage for the cores.
With enough strength, most devils would have probably done that.
Even with that salamander vouching for us, Arca was still worried about us reneging on the deal. Thats why the elentals adopted a scattered formation at the start. With such a formation, they could at least avoid a complete loss should we decide to ambush them.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, I was so kind of unique devil but it wasnt so for at all. Because I never considered myself a devil from the very start. From the standpoint of a normal human being, all I was doing now was accepting a mission, collecting the reward, thats all, nothing but a daily repeatable quest in a RPG.
In fact, my little baby suggested just such a thing with a wink of her lovely eyes. Her intentions were clear: rob them of the reward. She even tabled a viable plan of action to which I promptly rapped her on the head.
I told her then: Do unto others what you would have done unto yourself.
Mo Na rubbed her little noggin while giving a wrong look. Whats that supposed to an?
I tried to explain the underlying logic then: If I am stronger than you, does that an I can have my way with you?
Mo Na nodded her head as if it was the most natural thing to do and answered: If its Mama, she can do whatever she wants to Mo Na.
My mind was blown the mont she said that. Can I really do anything?
Ahemwhat I ant to say was thats how a normal devil thought of things. The strong ruled and the weak served that was their instinct. After all, not serving ant death.
The gathering spot the salamanders decided upon wasnt that far off from the Raging Flas Lake. It roughly took a week of travelling for us to reach it, during which we didnt encounter much problems. From ti to ti we would encounter so fishes but they were mostly lone wolves and easily taken care of.
For the most part, the terrain we passed through was a simple mix of giant sea of fire plus black stone and lava.
After spending ti with that salamander, I learnt that other than the Demon Fire Worms, Fire Devouring Fishes and whatnot, there was also another race living in the lava lake, the Dark Fla Snails. My inherited mories spoke of these black-shelled gastropods, which were basically infinitely tougher versions of the common garden snail, but because we didnt see any on our journey, I assud that they were so kind of rare species. It turns out that wasnt true at all.
The snails were a food source for the Demon Fire Salamanders and were often found at the edges of those strange platforms in the lava lake. Speaking of those platforms, they ca in a variety of sizes from big to small. The smallest could fit about ten people while the large ones were about the size of a basketball court. There was a wide gap between each platforms so they didnt look connected at all.
It was there the snails frequented, soaking in the lava while staying near the edges of the platform. Thanks to their shells being of the sa color as the platform, along with the natural barrier of lava, doing so afforded two layers of protection from their predators. That camouflaging was the very reason why I wasnt able to spot any snails till now.
Having seen them for the first ti ever, I found them to be surprisingly large. The smallest I saw so far was about the size of a human head in fact.
Because their shells were known for being hard as rock, the Fire Devouring Fishes rarely preyed on them. While the fishes had a formidable set of teeth, it would still take them quite so ti to chew through the shells of the Dark Fla Snails. Moreover, the snails themselves werent very aty or large once you removed their snails so the reward simply didnt match the effort required. With that much ti spent, they could have just hunted down several worms.
If even the Fire Devouring Fishes wouldnt touch them, it would seem like they had no natural predators within the lava lake at all. In reality however, that was simply a misconception on my part. Every living creature always had a nesis. For the snails, it was the Demon Fire Salamander.
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