"Your strength and I are much worse than Roland's, and going with him may not be able to help, but it may drag him down, so it's better to stay here and take care of the farmland, in case there are monsters such as fire bats running to make trouble, we can play a greater role here." Lyudmila told the truth.

Tonya listened to her best friend's advice and felt that it made sense, so she no longer insisted on walking together, but instead told Roland to be more careful and not to be brutal.

Before leaving, Roland first sorted out his weapons and equipment, and handed over those fragile items that could not withstand the scorching of lava - such as magic scrolls and potion bottles - to Lyudmila for safekeeping, and only kept the "Durandal" and "Black King Armor", two artifacts that could not be burned by the flames of the mortal world, and launched a "divine flight" towards the Balle Pass where the smoke rose hundreds of miles away, and flew above the crater in less than five minutes, and the thick smoke accompanied by the heat flow came to his face, making him feel slightly suffocated.

Roland took a deep breath and dived down, using the air currents from his high-speed flight to blow away the smoke that obscured his vision, and took a closer look at the scene in the crater.

Balreux has been dormant for 50 years, and the crater has evolved into a lake that stores rain and snow. Three years ago, Roland passed through this place on his way north, and when he climbed over the volcano, he stopped by the lakeside and was impressed by the clear and tranquil waters. Now that impression was completely overturned, and through the smoke, he saw a pool of red, piercing lava, which rose and fell violently like a boiling porridge pot, constantly bubbling and bursting with a strong sulfurous smell.

The pool of boiling magma was still rising at a visible rate, and the turbulent lava occasionally spilled from the crater rim and flowed slowly down the ridge, burning grass and trees in its pass, as if cutting a dark wound in the mountain until the magma cooled and solidified.

What he saw made Roland worried. If left unchecked, the crater will be filled with lava gushing from the center of the earth by tomorrow morning at the latest. If the lava lake on the top of the mountain bursts, all life within a hundred miles of the mountain will be wiped out. Naturally, the crops in the valley villages will not be saved, and the villages further afield will also be severely polluted by the spread of volcanic ash.

It was Valentina's mission to quell the volcano, and there was nothing Roland could do about it, but he felt that he could at least stop the situation on the volcano from deteriorating before Valentina arrived, such as stopping the lava that filled the mountain pass from overflowing.

The reason why the lava rises and falls violently and overflows the mountain pass is partly due to the impact of the continuous upwelling of the hot air underground, but the main reason is that a large group of monsters from the fire element plane are churning up and down in the magma lake, making it impossible for the lake to remain calm.

Whenever a bubble bursts on the surface of the magma lake, firebats fly out of it, flapping their wings and scurrying to the heights. At that moment, a half-human, half-lizard monster covered in crimson scales sprang up from the lava and pounced on the fire bat, and if it succeeded, it would thrust its burning prey into its wide mouth, biting it and splattering blood.

Roland made a cursory visual inspection, there were at least ten salamanders lurking in the lava lake of the crater, and there were four salamander nobles among them, all of whom were recklessly hunting fire bats as snacks, no wonder the fire bats did not dare to stay here for a long time and fled the volcano in groups. Roland originally thought that the fire bats attacked the valley village for hunting, but now he realized that these poor and hateful monsters were themselves prey to more powerful monsters.

Roland had never set foot in the fire elemental plane, only heard that it was a place full of volcanoes, lava, and extremely harsh environments, and that the biosphere of the fire elemental plane had little harmony at all, and if he couldn't occupy a relatively high position in the chain of preying and being preyed, it would be a kind of frightening torture to live. Perhaps it was precisely because of the cruel environment that most of the creatures in the fire elemental realm were born into the evil camp, and if it weren't for the "natural evil", they would not be able to survive and thrive in such a world where the law of the jungle preys.

The lava lake set off an unprecedented violent wave, the "Flute of Balreux" played again, a behemoth slowly rose from the lake, the cold facial line reminded Roland of the mythical "dragon" in his hometown, the hundred-foot-long snake body covered with ruby-like bright scales, at this moment the scales arranged symmetrically along both sides of the vertebrae were slightly upturned by the scorching air excreted from the body, and the heat flow shook the scales to make a whistle-like shrill scream.

"It turns out that this is the 'Yanlong Balle', this is the legendary 'Balle's flute'......" Roland had a feeling.

Balle's back appears to have physiological organs that assist in breathing, similar to pan flutes—or more appropriately the stomata that whales grow on the top of their heads. Just as a whale cannot swim in the sea forever and has to surface every once in a while to breathe, the dragon cannot breathe in magma, and every once in a while it has to surface the lake to discharge the exhaust gases in its body, absorb fresh air, and when it exhales, it will shake the scales attached to the surface of the stomata and make a sound similar to the long whistle of a whistle.

Yanlong Balle is undoubtedly at the top of the food chain in this small ecosystem. As soon as it surfaced the lava, the salamanders around it immediately stopped chasing the fire bats and trembled and crawled beside the dragon, as if serving a supreme monarch.

System Tip: Discover the neutral evil fire subspecies creature "Fire Bat" and challenge for level 3!

System Prompt: Discover the Order-Guarding Evil Fire Subspecies Creature "Salamander Civilian", challenge Level 6!

System Prompt: Discover the Orderly Evil Fire Subspecies Creature "Salamander Noble" and challenge Level 10!

System Prompt: Discover the chaotic neutral fire subspecies dragon creature "Flame Dragon", challenge level 20!

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Roland opens the "Pupil of Destiny" to stay focused, and scout the monsters in the lava lake one by one. In the end, he was slightly surprised by the results of the identification of the Flame Dragon Balle, this guy was born in the fire elemental realm, and he left a memorable notoriety on the volcano fifty years ago, but it was really surprising that it was not an evil creature.

Roland couldn't help but think of a passage he read in a certain book: those bad guys may not have any "motive for evil", maybe they are just simply stupid, and they can't tell what is good and what is bad.

"It's a fitting phrase to describe Yanlong Balle, this guy isn't as bad as we thought he was, but he's even more stupid than we thought." Roland muttered to himself.

The "Pupil of Fate" allows him to see Balle's attributes, 46 strength, 25 dexterity, 33 constitution, 25 perception, and 28 charisma - all of which are at or beyond the level expected of a quasi-legendary creature, except for intelligence...... Only a pitiful 6 points. It's in hand, please wait a while, after the content is updated, you need to refresh the page again to get the latest update!

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