28: Chapter 20 Fla River_1 28: Chapter 20 Fla River_1 This is a world of liquid magma, a paradise of flas.
This is another vast cave, awash in light.
The outermost part of the cave is a ring of rocky ground, six or seven ters wide, with a large lava lake in the center.
At the boundary, the high temperature causes the rocks to form peculiar crystals, preventing the lava from eroding the rocky ground.
Bubbles continuously rise from the bottom of the boiling lava lake, bursting at the surface.
Each burst sends a trail of flas surging towards the sky.
The scorching heat perates the entire cave, even distorting the rays of light in the air, draping the surface of the lava lake in a haze of colours.
In this world of high temperatures, it is not empty or monotonous.
Nurous fire elental creatures wander in the lava lake, frolicking on its surface, or disappearing into its depths.
The lethal lava that can easily kill ordinary creatures is a paradise for fire elental creatures.
The appearance of fire elental creatures is quite unique.
They have no legs below the knees, or rather no thighs at all.
Everything below the knees is entirely transford into a ball of fla, floating on the surface of the lava lake.
Above the knees are two thighs, fused together.
The upper body is not much different from humans, except that it’s entirely made of lava and fla, and the boundaries between body parts are vague, often looking like a ball of fire.
“Elental creatures can be born in extre environnts around the Elental Core.
High temperatures give birth to fire elents, deep sea births water elents, deep underground births earth elents, and being struck by thunder for a long ti births air elents,” said Lina, curiously looking at the fire elent floating in the center of the lava lake, “Although I’ve read about it countless tis, this is the first ti I’ve seen an elental creature with my own eyes.
They have such beautiful colors.”
“You should have seen elental creatures before, um, if nothing unexpected happened,” Pannis corrected, “There are so on the surface.”
“Seen?” Lina’s eyes widened in surprise, an odd amusent sparked across her composed face, “Why don’t I know about it?”
“Sand People,” Vivian’s adoring gaze fixated on the elental creatures in the distance, as if eager to hold one for study, “I guess it’s Sand People, a variation of earth elental creatures.”
“Yes, it’s the Sand People,” Pannis pointed to the distant fire elents and explained, “These elental creatures, as long as their Elental Core isn’t destroyed, they won’t die.
If they are fatally wounded, they’ll just fall into a slumber, and in a few decades, they’ll wake up again.
However, the reawakened elental creatures will have lost their previous mories, like newborns.
Fortunately, the birth of elental creatures is difficult, otherwise, the Continent would already be filled with them.”
“Lost their mories?
Does that an they have divine wisdom?” Catherine seized the key point, “Do all elental creatures have wisdom?
I thought the Sand People were an exception.”
“Newborn elental creatures don’t have wisdom.
It’s not that they don’t have wisdom, it’s just really low, like a newborn infant, mostly acting on instinct.
After about forty or fifty years, they’ll have wisdom equivalent to that of a three or four-year-old human child.
There are probably fifteen or sixteen wise ones in this lava lake we’re seeing now.
The others aren’t yet matured,” Pannis said, grabbing Vivian’s wrist to stop her from approaching for a closer look, but then noticed sothing strange about her wrist and didn’t have ti to think, “Don’t go there yet.
Although they’re considered friendly creatures, they’re really too friendly.
Especially the immature ones, they always like to play with other life forms and they do not know how to curtail their high temperatures.
It’s lethal.”
Vivian appeared to dislike being touched by others.
She violently shook off Pannis’s hand and glared at him awkwardly while steering the conversation elsewhere, “Isn’t their divine wisdom affected by demonized energy?”
“No,” Pannis ignored Vivian’s dissatisfaction, “Elental creatures are the only creatures that cannot be tainted by demonized energy.
They’re also the only communicable creatures in the lower layers of the Crying Cave.”
“Hey, you asshole over there, if you don’t bring your team to help, there won’t be any communicable creatures left,” a deep, female voice called from a distance, low but alluring.
The sudden sound startled the won; Rachel even took out her crystal gun for precaution.
Pannis stopped Rachel’s action and raised his voice, “You people are too busy playing with the kids.
Why should it be us who help?”
“Are you blind?” A streak of fire fell from the sky, forming a human shape in front of the five people, “Which of your eyes sees us playing with kids?
We’re being fucking assaulted.”
The human-shaped fire mimics the exact form of a human: bright red hair, long legs, slender waist, full chest, even beautiful facial features are discernible.
Apart from the charred skin color and faint high temperature, it does not look any different from an average human being.
“Dylan, leader of the fire elents in Crying Cave,” Pannis introduced for both sides, “They are from Nellie adventure team, as well as a mber of the Brenos adventure team.
They are all visiting here for the first ti.
You should not have seen them.”
“Hello, Miss Dylan.
I’m Catherine, from the Nellie adventure team,” Catherine tried to greet tentatively, “You’re so beautiful.”
“Thank you.” Dylan looked obviously pleased when she heard the complint, and she flirted with her fla hair that draped over her shoulder.
“She is beautiful.
This form is allegedly that of a female adventurer leader from fifty years ago, which she liked very much.
After that adventurer went missing, she borrowed this appearance,” Pannis thought for a mont and added, “Oh, before borrowing this appearance, her form was male.”
Three of the won stepped back in unison with an awkward look on their faces.
Only Lina’s bright eyes remained fixed on Dylan, “I understand, I understand.”
“It’s not what you’re thinking.
We elental creatures don’t have genders,” Dylan hurriedly explained.
Suddenly, she grabbed Pannis by the collar, “You bastard Pannis, are you going to help or not?”
“First, let off so heat.
You’re starting to smoke.” Pannis rescued their smoldering clothes, “What on earth happened?
Why did the children suddenly attack you?”
A look of desperation humanized Dylan’s gorgeous face, “A few hours ago, two strange people passed by here.
Those two people were very odd, their living breath was very weak, and they felt like two dead people, Not undead, but actual dead people.
We don’t know what kind of magic they used, but as soon as they left, the children started attacking us.
Colas said he felt like it was common illusion magic or mind magic that we creatures often used.
As long as we persisted till the end of the magic duration, we would be fine.
We didn’t want to hurt the children, so we could only passively defend in the lake.
So of our people are already injured.
Ah, you almost made forget again, damn it, are you going to help or not?”
“We will help,” Catherine responded before Pannis could, “But we can’t go down to the lake.”
“We can co out and et up with you,” Dylan did not hide his emotions, his face full of joy.
He opened his mouth and shouted toward the Lava Lake in a completely incomprehensible language.
With Dylan’s shout, thirteen eruptions erupted from the center of the magma lake, and bundles of flas fell from the sky, landing next to the five of them.
“Actually, you could have given us so ti to prepare.” Lina blankly watched the hundreds of juvenile Fire Elents who had lost their targets and turned their attention to them, and couldn’t help but complain in a low voice.
“Retreat to the cave entrance for defense.” Catherine issued the command and retreated to the previous cave entrance with the team and the adult Fire Elents.
“Be careful.” As they retreated into the cave entrance, the Fire Elents murmured, “Please don’t hurt the children.”
“You shouldn’t get hurt either.”
“Don’t use ice-attribute magic, or else the children will beco furious even if they wake up.”
“Our power will weaken once we leave the Lava Lake, so we can’t help you.”
“Elent, Fire Shield.” A bright shield ford close to Lina and Catherine.
Vivian panted and said, “The shield can absorb a lot of fire damage.
Be careful out front.”
“Divine Spell, Terrain Change.” Lina knelt on one knee and summoned a huge rock to seal the cave entrance, “This should block them off.”
The words had not yet fallen when a dull thunder-like explosion sounded from the other side of the rock.
In just a few minutes, the rocks sealing the cave entrance were blasted into pieces by a sky full of fireballs.
The shattered rocks, along with the rocks falling from the top of the cave, made it impossible for the five of them to lift their heads.
“Lina, we can’t block the path with rocks anymore.” Catherine shouted in the explosion, “If we keep blasting like this, the whole passageway will collapse, and we’ll all be buried underneath, no one can escape.”
“Then we have no choice but to fight.” Lina, looking at the many Fire Elents that had already rushed into the passage, empowered herself with divine power.
Wielding a glowing hamr, she charged towards juvenile Fire Elents.
Catherine held up the Falcon Shield in front of her, sending two attacking enemies flying with a charge, and moved to Lina’s side.
“Elent, Hurricane.” A violent hurricane sprang up in front of Catherine and Lina.
The strong impact blew the juvenile Fire Elents in the passage into the air where they landed outside the passage.
With the hurricane Vivian sent, the two lee girls advanced a few steps and blocked the entrance of the passage, keeping the Fire Elents outside the passageway.
“Boom.” The sound of Rachel’s Crystal gun echoed in the passage.
A mass of earth-yellow Crystal Energy shot out of Rachel’s gun.
Under the impetus of the earth-attribute Crystal Energy, two juvenile Elents flew a considerable distance and fell into the Lava Lake.
It took a while for them to crawl out of the lake and continue to attack the cave entrance as if nothing had happened.
“Creation, Spider Web.” Vivian’s magic staff pointed towards the outside of the passageway, and a spider web composed of Elents dropped from the sky, capturing a large number of Fire Elents, limiting their movents.
But only a few seconds later, the spider web turned to ashes under the high temperature of the Fire Elents.
“What a hassle,” Vivian grumbled resentfully, “Elent, Lightning Net.”
The electro-luminescent big net once again fell from the sky, shackling more than twenty Fire Elents.
This ti, it successfully restricted them for a full three minutes.
“Good thing this works.” Vivian swung her magic staff continuously, “Lightning Net, Lightning Net, Lightning Net.”
The seven successive electric nets controlled most of the juvenile Elents gathered at the entrance of the passage.
The remaining juvenile Elents in the distance couldn’t co close and could only throw fireballs into the passage from afar, which were intercepted by Catherine and Lina who were protected by the Fire Shield.
After casting the spells, Vivian leaned on her magic staff, guzzled down two potions, and sat down against the wall a little distance away, “I drank a ditation Potion.
I need to ditate for three minutes to recover my mana.
You guys carry on.” As she said that, she closed her eyes and fell into deep contemplation.
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