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The temperature of this layer of natural underground passages has risen significantly, and it is no longer suitable for ordinary magical beasts to survive, but there are a large number of fragments on the cave walls and ground of the passages. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Darko was shocked from the bottom of his heart, this natural passage is not a mine, obviously no one will dig it, carefully identify the past, he immediately took a breath of cold air, these traces turned out to be tooth marks. This place is still among the iron ore veins, and the hardness of the rock is not to mention the fact that the monster that can leave gnawing marks on the walls of the cave made of iron ore can imagine how sharp its teeth are.
Darko hesitated, but quickly relented to continue exploring the underpass, he had to find a safe place to hide, and if he abandoned it, he didn't know how long it would take to find the next one. He checked his gear and continued cautiously along the underpass, finally seeing the originator of the trails when he reached a fork in the road. It was a shiny black, and they crawled on the scorching stone walls of the passageway, unaffected by the heat. This kind of Dakko was recognized, he had seen it in his anatomy class at the Academy of Magic, but at that time he was only dissecting a worm corpse, and now he was facing a living monster that could threaten his safety.
This kind of third-order demonic beast is called Spitfire. This is a common mutated insect-like monster that prefers to reside in places with a strong fire element. They have four long, powerful arthropods, a pair of powerful blades in their mouths, and a fire element stored in them, allowing them to spit out flames to attack when they encounter enemies. The fire-breathing bodily fluids have a strong fire attribute magic, so Darko decided to kill a few of them, first, to clear the territory he occupied, and secondly, to collect some magic materials.
Because of its pro-fire element, this fire-breathing prefers to inhabit places where the fire element is abundant, and this geothermal underground passage is a suitable place. Darko had seen this in the crater outside the mine, and now he realized that it was probably the same group of fires. In other words, the outer crater is likely to be connected to this mine!
"If there is a volcanic eruption, will it affect here?" Darko was shocked, but then thought of so many eruptions in it, and he didn't know how long he had lived there, but he didn't see them escape. Many monsters have the talent of anticipating dangers, especially those in danger like the fire-breathing fire that lives in the crater, and are usually able to run away in advance when natural disasters strike.
So Darko relieved himself and began to use the Ice Moon to clean up the fire. Under Darko's instantaneous Ice Moon attack, Spitfire had no time to escape, they had a limited distance to breathe fire, and the flames could hardly hurt Darko even if Darko moved carefully and quickly. Magicians are most afraid of magical beasts with high agility and long-range attacks, the flamespray distance of the fire-breathing is not enough, and the speed is not very fast, as an intermediate magician, Darko is very handy at picking them up in one-on-one situations. As a result, five Spitfires were harvested by Dakko with blades and bodily fluids, which were so sharp that they could be used as ordinary weapons with a wooden handle. The body fluids of the fire attribute can be refined into potions, but the body fluids that can be collected in the body are pitiful, and the five are only a few tens of milliliters, but it is better than nothing, and Daktronics is all packed in empty reagent bottles and put into the space ring.
After clearing out this well-connected, similar transportation hub, Daktronics tried his best to let go of his mental power and explore the natural underground passages on this level. This underground passage is open in all directions and irregular, it is like a labyrinth, and you still need to explore it independently. Daktronics marked the passage when he came, and he looked in one direction to explore the past.
The labyrinthine underpass is a maze of twists and turns, and there are many side roads, and to prevent getting lost in them, Daktronics makes a mark at intervals. After dealing with the four Spitfires again, Darko noticed that the temperature around him was getting higher and higher, presumably from the direction he was heading. The walls of the cave have also turned jet-black like volcanic rock, and it looks like the heat of the magma melted through the cavern during an eruption, making the two interconnected.
Darko continued to explore in the direction where the heat came from, hoping to find his way out through the crater. After all, it is not absolutely safe in this cave, and in case you are chased by the killers of the Vitamin Guild, it is important to have a way out. Darko walked towards the passage where the scorching breath was emerging, the temperature gradually increased, such a temperature was too high for ordinary people, even as an intermediate ice magician, he was sweating profusely, and he had to cast a frost armor spell on his body to block the heat wave. Although the Frost Armor Technique has poor defense, it is superior to the Ice Armor in terms of cooling, and its constantly volatile frost mist is able to absorb a large amount of heat.
Darko thought of an enchantment-type magic, a fourth-level protective flame enchantment, which Darko had never tried before, but there was a spell for this spell in the book. Darko took out the "Encyclopedia of Natural Magic" and spent more than ten minutes familiarizing himself with the spell, and with a series of incantations, he successfully released the magic.
Once the enchantment was released, it immediately improved the ambient temperature around Darko, not only reducing the heat, but also slowly converting it into mana into his body. But he took two steps and immediately made a bitter face, one of the defects of enchantment magic is that it can't move, and the protective flame enchantment he releases with a lot of mana can only act on a five-meter radius, and it has no effect when he walks out of this range.
Darko reluctantly stepped out of the enchantment and continued to move forward, thinking that he had ice mana in his body, but there was no good way to lower the temperature. Thinking of this, Darko had an idea, and released sixteen bends of ice moon one after another, surrounding him, spinning in circles, and sure enough, this brought a touch of coolness, and he felt a lot more comfortable. This is the control method of one of Darko's three real name abilities, with the help of this real name ability, Dakko can already control the sixteen bending ice moons at the same time, which is much stronger than before, but this is already the limit.
Darko clearly remembers that in the entrance test a year ago, Wendy was able to control fifteen wind blades at the same time, so what about her now? Darko suddenly felt that even if he had the assistance of his real name ability, he might not be much stronger than others. After all, the geniuses who can be sought after by everyone must have their own strong support.
Moving on, there was a T-junction ahead, and as soon as he stepped into the junction, he found a breath of fire on the left and right, encircling him in the middle. As if agreed, the two flames spewed flames at Darko as soon as they came up, enveloping him in flames. Dacko was startled and didn't control the control of his mental power for a while, and the dozen or so ice moons around him immediately flew out indiscriminately, hitting the cave wall and making patches of frost. Fortunately, the flying Ice Moon Technique also shot at the Spitfire, interrupting the rhythm of their spitting flames.
Even so, in a brief burst of flames, Darko's frost armor let out an overwhelmed moan, and when it lit up, it reverted to a free element. Although the fire-breathing beasts were only third-order demonic beasts, the flames they spit out at close range would still pose a certain threat to Dakota.
Darko thought of a few ways to do it, first he wanted to seal one of them with an ice cage, and then hit the other. But this idea was immediately rejected by him, and the ice cage took too long to cast the spell, and was burned to death before it could be ready. Darko, who had given up releasing the Ice Cage, was suddenly startled, and he realized that he had unknowingly released the Ice Cage, freezing the breathing fire on the right side. The ice cage was much smaller than normal, more of an ice cube than a cage, but the little ice cage froze Fire's forelimbs, making it impossible to move quickly. Dakolo was puzzled, and released the ice cage again, this time he felt it very clearly, consuming only one level of magic mana, and almost instantaneously released the Xiaoice block, this is a shrunken version of the ice cage!
Before he had time to think about it, Darko released two more small ice cages to freeze the head on the right side, and began to rely on his magic resistance to concentrate fire on the left side to attack the fire. After flipping it over, the one on the right had just melted the ice with a spewed flame, and Darko fought and retreated, staying out of range of the other fire-breathing magic attack, and killed it in a short time by flying a kite.
After the battle, Darko began to think about the shrunken version of the Ice Cage that he had stumbled upon, and he found that it was the control of his real name's ability, which allowed him to cast a reduced version of high-level magic with very little mana, and the cast time was short. Darko's heart moved, if the Ice Cage could release a shrunken version with a level of mana, what about other intermediate and high-level magic? If a group attack magic like Blizzard could also send out a shrunken version, wouldn't it be able to use it as a single magic in battle?
However, Darko tried, but failed to release a shrunken version of the blizzard, so he had to wait until later to study it later. Even so, with this new shrunken version of the Ice Cage, it also makes Dakko very proud, after all, sometimes what is needed is to cast spells quickly, and the power of magic is not very demanding, and the ability to control spells can send out a shrunken version of high-level magic, which undoubtedly provides more strains and options for Daktronic in future battles.
Raising his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, Darko began to notice the two Spitfires he had just killed, and he was also a little embarrassed by the encounter. These two Spitfires are noticeably farther away, and they are also smarter, and they even know ambush tactics. Darko walked over to the corpse and was surprised to find that it was slightly different from the one he had killed before, and its black blade had white patterns on it. Dakko used the ordinary fire-breathing blade he had harvested before, and instead of slashing hard, a gap appeared on the ordinary blade, which showed that the blade with white markings was sharper and tougher.
Darko put away his contempt and unleashed the Ice Moon Technique to surround him again, and when he reached the sixteenth turn, he picked up his spirit and continued to move forward. As the temperature in the passage became even higher all the way forward, even with the double barrier of the Frost Nail Technique and the Ice Moon Technique, Dakko was still dizzy from the heat.
Darko somewhat guessed the reason for the abandonment of the mine, because the eruption of the nearby active volcano had made the geothermal heat very active, and the temperature of the lower layer was no longer suitable for manual mining, so the mine was abandoned. The heat caused problems for the Daktronics, but the Spitfire had no effect, and as the temperature rose, so did their number.
Darko's oncoming passage branched off into two branches, both of which were bursting at him. One on the left and two on the right. Darko noticed this and immediately retreated, and at the same time, a magic scroll of the earthen wall technique was thrown towards the passage on the right, and the passage was immediately sealed by the earthen wall. Just as he was about to take out the spitfire on the left side with one blow, he heard a clattering sound, and the earthen wall on the right side collapsed like a devastation, and the speed of the two spitfires behind continued to rush over without much impact.
Darko's surprise is not trivial, the earth wall technique is a third-level defensive magic of the earth system, even if the earth wall technique copied by Orlando is inferior, but it also has the power of second-level magic, but he didn't expect to be gnawed off by three times and five divided by two. After thinking about it, he immediately realized that even the rock wall of the passage was made of iron ore had been gnawed off, not to mention the earthen wall. Fortunately, this time Darko was mentally prepared, and the surrounding Ice Moon Technique did not lose control, and with a wave of his one hand, the Sixteen Bends Ice Moon immediately swept towards the flames. And the three flames also opened their mouths at this time, spitting out three flames. The Ice Moon and the flames collided together, sending out a brilliant mist fluctuation like glass, and the flames could not completely block Darko's Ice Moon Technique, and the fire breathing was finally hit by the Ice Moon. But apparently those ice moons had been weakened in the flames, and had not been able to kill the Spitfire entirely.
Darko retreated while fighting, and after he was promoted to an intermediate magician, the mana in his body was already very abundant, and he was able to release first-level magic with ease. Even so, he was busy enough to deal with three Spitfires at once. And at this moment, the frost armor technique on his body suddenly trembled, and then turned into a little crystal and dispersed, and it was directly dissipated by the high temperature. Magicians usually keep their defensive magic on their bodies at all times when dealing with enemies, so as not to be approached. At this time, the Spitfire on the left side was close to a very dangerous distance, Dakko hesitated for a moment between attack and defense, and saw that the two Spitfires behind him were one in front and one behind him, and this one was even faster, and rushed towards Dakko at great speed, and as soon as he entered the attack distance, a wave of fire hit him.
Darko's fighting skills finally came to light at this point, and he did not retreat, but advanced, and his regiment rushed through the fire-breathing attack. Both Spitfire and Darko are relative charges, which instead shortens Darko's time in the flames. Darko rushed through the flames, not attacking the one in front, but passing it directly through two ice moons and hitting the two behind. Those two were already at the end of their crossbows after the battle just now, and they were immediately turned over and killed by such an attack by Darko.
Darko landed a tumble, casually lifting the fire-breathing corpse he had killed, and blocking upwards. With a crisp sound, the shiny carapace was immediately cut in half, and it turned out to be the one in front of the fire, turning around and attacking Darko. Although Spitfire is not fast, it is quite agile to turn, and it is the Spitfire in front of him who quickly turns around and attacks Dakko with a sharp blade, which is more threatening than Spitfire's magical attack, Spitfire's physical attack.
However, when this blow passed, he could no longer move. A blade that was also black and red was stuck in its abdomen, and Darko hid under the corpse, which was almost caught in two, and stabbed the blade through the gap between its limbs.
Darko slowly stood up, and after a series of battles, he was already a little exhausted, so he decisively gave up his plan to continue to explore the exit. The heat not only caused him to be physically exhausted too quickly, but it also caused a lot of effects in the battle, where the ice element was scarce, and the speed and power of ice magic were weakened. Although the way back is important, safety is more important in comparison. Loading the three fire-breathing bodily fluids and blades into the spatial ring, Darko returned the way he came.
The Mercury plane is full of demonic beasts below the fourth order, and Darko thought that he could kill boldly and without scruples, and he didn't have to worry about provoking any high-level demonic beasts that he couldn't defeat. Unexpectedly, in such an environment, he would not be able to exert his full strength, and he was blocked by a third-order demonic beast like Spitfire, which really hit his confidence.