Chapter 22: The Lava Giant
The deafening roar startled everyone. Felder bounced off the ground and pulled out his steel broadsword from his waist. Others also make fighting poses with weapons in hand.
There was a large area of magma on the ground near the edge of the cave in front of it, and the originally calm and viscous magma became boiling at this time, and the color changed from dark red to bright red or even gold. The magma continued to expand, and the activity in the middle part became more intense, and a large number of bubbles were coming out of it, as if something was coming out of it.
Old Neil's ruddy face turned pale, and the thick gloves that came off his hands did not cause any reaction. He stared at the lava and muttered, "Could it be...... How is it possible, doesn't it mean that those things are deeper underground?"
"What the hell is that, old man?" Felder shouted with his sword in both hands, his face nervous.
"I don't know, it's just rumored that there is a mysterious power in the depths of the Great Rift. Old Neil shook his head and replied.
As he spoke, the magma had spread into a pool of magma more than ten meters wide. In the center of the magma pool, a bucket-sized head was exposed, looking like a red-hot rock. Its dark red face had a pair of deep eyes that seemed to have lava flowing inside, and its mouth was like a rough crack that split its face and jaw in half, and orange-yellow viscous magma continued to leak out of it.
Everyone froze in place, watching the huge monster slowly emerge from the magma.
Old Neil is old Neil after all, with two hundred years of experience, and the unknown or death will not affect him much. It's just that he feels sorry for these children, if he hadn't instigated him to come and forge a sword, I'm afraid he wouldn't have ......
Old Neil was full of guilt, he looked at Felder and the others, and said, "While you can still walk away, you can hurry up and return the way you came." ”
"What are you kidding, old man, my sword is still in the furnace!" Felder looked at old Neil strangely.
"Vane!" Felder turned his head with a determined look in his eyes, a trust that had gone through life and death together. Vane nodded at him and didn't speak, but the calm look in his eyes was the most reassuring response.
Vane raised his sapphire staff, his mind quickly calculating how to use the magic herbs. Since he didn't expect danger in the mines, he didn't have enough magic herbs to cast a few intermediate spells and a few elementary spells. Vane expertly chanted the incantation, and the sapphire staff reacted instantly.
"Ace, wrap around it!" Elena said, raising her bow and drawing arrows from her back.
Eth's face turned a little pale, and her hand holding the staff trembled. But when she saw Simpson's tall back in front of her, and the other companions waiting for her, she began to quickly calm down.
The chanting of two distinct spells mingled together, blue and green glowing on the staffs in their hands.
At this time, the huge monster had already exposed most of its body, and was crawling out of the magma pool with a roar, and the mine began to shake slightly. It turned out to be a rock giant, no, it should be said to be a lava giant, and rock giants usually live on top of mountains.
Elena let go of her drawn bowstring, and the arrows flew out with a screech. At a distance of tens of meters, the arrow came in an instant, hitting the head of the lava giant. However, the arrows that could easily pierce through the Lava Cerberus only stayed on the surface of the Lava Giant's skin, and could no longer enter the slightest. After a few seconds, the arrow burned clean, as if it had never existed.
Eth's thorns followed, and thorns the thickness of her arms appeared from all sides, quickly climbing up the body of the lava giant. But no different from the arrows, the thorn vines quickly withered and burned, turning into a pile of ashes.
"This ......," Ace glared at the lava giant in front of her. The Lava Giant's body is not only as hard as rock, but also as hot as magma.
The bent staff in Vane's hand was full of blue light, and the air fluctuations caused by the leakage of mana blew his black hair up and fluttered rapidly. His black eyes showed great seriousness, and Vane was confident that this was the most powerful frost arrow he had ever cast.
Chilling frost arrows burst out from the top of the staff, sizzling and flying straight towards the lava giant, leaving a white mist in the scorching air. In an instant, the frost arrow slammed into the chest of the lava giant—several large pieces of reddish lava.
This impact is not painful for the Lava Giant. But in the next second, it was almost completely exposed to the magma pool's body and froze, and the ice mist began to spread rapidly from the place of impact, and in the blink of an eye, the entire chest of the lava giant was almost covered in frost. But the ice mist was still too weak, and it was already weak in the face of the lava giant's large, scorching body. The ice mist began to dissipate, from the periphery to the middle, and then vanished after a few seconds.
Vane's strategy was clearly correct, and against the Lava Giant, the ice magic would be most effective. Although he had been mentally prepared, he was still a little disappointed, he didn't expect the frost arrow he had cast with all his strength to be so unbearable. But he didn't give up, and the blue light lit up the staff's inscription again.
The furnace was still whirring, and a pitch-black liquid was already slowly flowing out of the outlet, gathering a thin layer of liquid metal in the mold. Old Neil paid no attention to the battle next to him, expertly adding some materials and carefully controlling the temperature of the fire.
The body of the lava giant has fully emerged from the magma, and it is about ten meters tall, as strong as a small mountain. Despite being cast by Eth, the Lava Giant still walked slowly, getting closer to the furnace. With every step the lava giant took, there was a violent vibration around it, and Vane was afraid that the mine would collapse before it could come over.
Elena's arrows didn't work at all, but she still commanded calmly: "Eth, continue to cast the Thorn Technique, you can block it for a while." "After the training of the Everfree Forest, Ise has grown a lot, she is no longer a crying little girl, and the magic of nature has also made great progress.
Ice arrows and thorns were cast on the Lava Giant, but for a few seconds at most, the spells were completely ineffective. The lava giant was already less than ten meters away from the group, and Eth unconsciously stepped back.
"Eth, don't stop!" With a shout, Felder surged at the lava giant.
The Lava Giant's head turned to Felder, and it let out a low roar, but ignored him, and continued to walk slowly towards the furnace as if it were an ant.
Felder felt a great humiliation, and with his sword in his hand, he nimbly avoided the lava giant's footsteps and came behind the giant. A wave of heat rushed in, the heat scorching his skin. Felder didn't have time to care if his hair was burned, he gritted his teeth and raised his steel greatsword with both hands, swinging it forward with all his might.