Flame Continent, Lunar New Year 988 of the Bright Calendar, Ice and Snow Festival.

Southwestern of the Empire, the second mountain range on the continent, Mount Birkas.

Because of its abundance of black iron ore, Birkas Mountain is also known as the Black Iron Mountains.

A few thousand meters deep in the mountain range is the city of orcs, the Dark City, as the largest black iron vein in the continent, the orc clan has been rooted here for thousands of years.

"Ores, wait for us!"

At the entrance of Mine 618 in the Undercity, a group of young orcs were running forward with mining hoes and bamboo baskets on their backs. Today is the biggest festival on the entire continent -

Snow Festival!

This day is also the annual coming-of-age day of the orcs, and the orcs who have reached the age of sixteen hold a coming-of-age ceremony today, and the coming-of-age ceremony task of the teenagers is to pick up the mine hoe for the first time and mine the black iron ore with all their might!

At the forefront was the tall and extremely strong Aures.

"Little cubs, work hard! Be sure to earn the Medal of Bravery! Especially you, Aures! An adult orc with a cross scar on his head laughed.

Ores smiled and raised his fist, "Don't worry, Uncle Kurier, I'm going to break the record!" ”

"Okay, stay safe!" Orc Kuril said with a smile.

"Captain Kurir, I'll bet on a black loaf, Oreis can't break the record!" Beside him, an orc, who looked a little thinner, said.

Kuril's eyes widened, "Bet on it!" Oris has been training me since I was three years old! ”

"Bartol's body was only tempered at the age of five, and besides, that kid was born a strong man!"

"Brute force alone is not enough! I'm more optimistic about Segro, that kid is as clever as a cunning goblin! ”

"Yes, Captain, you have to think about it! The current record was set by the patriarch when he was young! The other orcs exhorted.

"Compared to the patriarch, the patriarch's words...... Oris isn't much worse! Captain Kuril said stiffly.

"Hahaha, come on, come on, I'll bet on three black bread!"

"I'll bet five!"

Amid the commotion, the young orcs had already rushed into the mine.

As one of only three mines, Cave 618 is the most abundant and safest mine in black iron. Even so, black iron ore is becoming increasingly hard to find, and mining has to avoid pesky vampire bats and the dangerous fire demons that often roam the mines, but this is the season when most of them are dormant.

"Hey! Orris, let's take a look, who gets the most points? ”

"Good! Segro! Without looking back, Oris knew who it was, because he was the only one in the younger generation who could keep up with his speed, "Huh? Where's your mine hoe? ”

Segro pulled two hammers out of his clothes as if by magic, "This is my mine hoe!" ”

"Hammer?"

"You don't know, do you?" Segro said triumphantly, "Mining does get courage points, but hunting the fire demon gets even more points!" Rather than boring mining, I would like to join the hunter in the future and become a professional firedemon hunter! ”

"I prefer mining." Oris grinned, and then added another sentence in his heart—

Because you won't understand what black iron means to us.

"Hmph, okay! When you encounter the Fire Demon later, don't rob me! Segro grimaced and rushed into the corridor next to him, his voice coming from afar, "By the way, maybe only you don't know, the fire demon's trophy is its flame stone!" ”

Ores smiled and shook his head, this guy obviously didn't want to take advantage of him, so he deliberately came over to reveal the news!

Following the captain's instructions, Oris found a mine that looked pretty good.

Although black iron ore is difficult to find, it is even more difficult to mine. Hard ore, with a small hoe, it would take an adult orc three hours to mine a full basket!

After an hour of mining, Ores, who was as strong as Aures, had to stop, exhausted and resting against the rock wall. Unlike the others, he likes black iron ore, because Uncle Kuril said that the flame of smelting black iron is as warm as the sun! It's completely different from a torch, a warm flame! Whenever he thought of this, he felt as if Uncle Kuril could see the sunlight, and saw the sunlight shining on his face through thousands of meters of rock walls.

But what does sunshine really look like?

In a trance, the depths of the mine seemed to slowly light up, and this light became brighter and brighter, illuminating the pitch-black mine as if it were day.

At the same time, there was a faint sound of fighting in the corridor on the left, accompanied by a piercing howl.

Wrong! Problematic!

Oris decisively picked up his hoe and rushed towards the fight.

Within a few steps, Oris spotted the source of the bright light, and countless firedemons were howling out of the depths of the mine. In front of the fire demon, dozens of orc teenagers were resisting and fleeing.

Oris recalls what he learned from Uncle Kuriel.

Fire Demon, an elemental second-order demonic beast, has a gentle personality and mostly wanders alone in the depths of the earth. The adult body is three meters tall, and the body surface is covered with rock fragments, and the flame stones inside exude an abundance of fire elemental energy. When angry, the whole body is fiery red. Innate ability, Flame Spray. The risk of individual individuals is low, and the danger of groups is extremely high!

However, how could there be so many fire demons! Aren't most of the fire demons dormant in the cold winter?

"Aures, run!" Segro brandished his hammers and ran towards him.

"What did you do?" Oris also wielded his hoe, trying to fend off the flames of the firefiend.

"It's not the stupid ones in the back!" Segro said angrily: "I just wanted to hunt the fire demon alone, and that stupid guy of Bartoll actually rushed directly into the fire demon's lair with that group of guys!" Do they have heads just to look taller? ”

"Segro, you fart!" The orc fat man Bartol also ran back at this time, "Before we entered the scorching canyon, we saw a large group of fire demons rushing over!" ”

"Oh no, we're surrounded!"

"Oops!" Segro looked around, "It seems that it's really not the fat man's reason, these fire demons took the initiative to attack the orcs!" Could it be that the last hunt angered them? It shouldn't be! ”

"We can't run away!" The young orcs had desperate eyes in their eyes.

The speed of the Fire Demon is not slow, and coupled with the attack interference of the flame jet, all the orcs may be killed here today!

"Then let's fight!" Oris tightened his hands tightly, "There are a total of thirty-six fire demons, we have more than a hundred of them, fight with them!" ”

"Orres, in fact, there are less than eighty of us." Fat Bartoll was worried.

"Then one for two, I'll deal with one myself!" Before Oris could finish speaking, he had already rushed forward.

"Fight!" The teenagers followed Aures, charging at the Firefiend.

The speed and strength of the fire demon are comparable to that of the orcs, and the rock fragments on the body can resist most attacks, the only key point is the flame stone on the chest, under the blow of sufficient strength, the flame stone is subjected to a strong vibration, and it will be temporarily extinguished, and the fire demon at this time loses energy support, and it will be shattered and died in an instant.

Rumble!

The fire demon collided with the orc boys, and the orcs' line was torn apart in an instant. After all, these orcs have just come of age, and they don't have the strength of adult orcs, and they don't have the right weapons and equipment.

The battlefield immediately turned into a one-sided slaughter of orcs by the Fire Demons!

Kill! Kill! Kill!

Oris dodged the Flame Demon's rock arm, and the mine hoe in his hand slammed into the flame stone, and the flames on the fire demon's body were extinguished, leaving only a dark red flame stone to fall to the ground.

At this time, an orc boy was burned to charcoal, and the wails of the clansmen were everywhere. Half of the orc boys fell in an instant, and the fire demons they killed, plus the one they had just killed, were only three!

I'm going to kill faster! Faster!

Vivid red slowly covered the field of vision, and Orris's already red orc eyes turned blood-red. A blood-red light overflowed his eyes, outlining a blood-colored crescent moon on his forehead, and the blood moon emitted a misty red light, and Aures's entire body was bathed in crimson.

Bloodline Awakening!

Orc royal blood! Crimson Moon!