Chapter 54: The Remaining Kindling
After leaving the auction house, Rowan bought some tools at the grocery store, then turned around and went down the drain.
The last time he entered the sewers, he also had to carefully avoid the slime swarm and pick out the lone hunter.
But this time, he's here to capture the slime!
After getting used to the smell of the sewer, Rowan found a group of [Fluid Slimes] nearby.
Fluid Slimes look disgusting like mud, but they are not very aggressive, they feed on the fluid of the sewers, and can break down and digest most of the dirt.
But Rowan's target is not these [Fluid Slimes], but the [Native Slimes] hidden in the [Fluid Slime] group!
The appearance and habits of the Primal Slime and the Fluid Slime are not much different, they are just smaller and move at a lower speed, so they always cling to the Fluid Slime and move with the group.
As soon as they approached the [Fluid Slime], a foul smell suddenly hit, they can decompose the dirt in the sewers, but before it completely decomposes, the dirt will remain in their bodies, and it is highly compressed, and the stench is terrible!
Rowan held his breath tightly and released the [Firedemon Slime], which was a weakened version of the [Great Fireball] against the waterway covered by the [Fluid Slime]!
Where the fireball landed, the explosion sounded.
Slimes in the waterways were either blown away by the impact of the explosion, or fled in terror.
After just a few minutes, all that remained of the waterway was palm-sized sludge.
These [Primal Slimes] that fell from the [Fluid Slime] forgot the fear of explosion after just seven seconds, and entered a state of heartless and lungless peristalsis.
Luo Wenqiang endured the stench, and used the net basket he had just bought to fish on the water, and he took advantage of the situation to catch a basket full of [Native Slime].
After seven seconds of struggle, the [Primal Slime] stopped moving as if resigned to its fate.
Rowan counted carefully, and in this basket alone, he actually caught thirteen [Native Slimes]!
"Thirteen, that should be enough......"
Thinking like this, Rowan prepared to reflexively go back, after all, the sewers were dark and dirty, and it was definitely not a good place to go.
However, just as he was about to include the [Firedemon Slime] in the Hunter Badge, he felt the will to "refuse" from his pet for the first time!
"This slime, which is basically unconscious except for foraging instinct, would refuse my orders?!"
Luo Wen's heart was slightly frightened, and in order to seek the reason, he put part of his consciousness into the [Fire Demon Slime], and instantly entered the state of [Human and Pet Unity].
After his consciousness dominated the body of the [Fire Demon Slime], Rowan suddenly felt a call from afar, as if a baby was calling for a distant mother, and as if a mother was calling for a wanderer to return home.
The concept is vague, but it is full of a feeling of intimacy like a mother and child.
Rowan thought for a moment, and then followed the guidance of this feeling to the depths of the sewers.
The previous fireball explosion attracted a large number of slimes, but they were dangling in the distance, and they just didn't dare to approach easily.
In their eyes, the current [Flame Demon Slime] should be like the King's Landing, exuding the aura of awe of the high-ranking to the low-level.
Under the suppression of this aura, except for some more stubborn slimes who were still hanging behind, more slimes chose to stay away.
Rowan was able to make his way all the way through without hindrance!
Gradually, he walked faster and faster, and when he suddenly looked up at a certain moment, he found an arrow pointing forward on the wall!
He was all too familiar with the dark red arrows hidden in the shadows, wasn't this the signpost that guided the Flame Demon Cultists in the first place?
By this time, Rowan had fully guessed the origin of the call, so he became more composed, and his pace of progress was no longer hesitant.
After another ten minutes or so, the auditorium for sacrificing to the fire demon appeared in front of his eyes!
With [Roar of Fire] blasting open the collapsed passageway, Rowan walked out of the flying dust and stood in front of the Fire Demon statue again!
The statue had been destroyed, its entire upper body had fallen diagonally, both of its arms had been broken, and a large hole had been dug in its chest, as if it were a necessary ritual for some kind of heresy trial.
Rowan didn't understand it and didn't want to know about it.
His attention was all on the dry pool of lava beneath the statue!
The lava pool was charred and blackened, and it was sealed with a black gel, which seemed to have some symbolic meaning.
Rowan closed his eyes and took a sharp breath.
He would never forget the shock he felt when he saw the Fire Demon Cultists line up and walk into this lava pool one by one.
"We were born from the flames, walked on the flames, went through thousands of fires, burned all the dust of the world, and gained eternal life in the flames!"
The sound of pious chanting echoed faintly in his ears, and the phantom shadow of fire gradually appeared in his eyes, and there seemed to be someone dancing in the lava pool......
Luo Wen recalled Teacher Yue Ru's father, Yue Yun, in an instant!
It was this Yue Yun who personally pushed the disciples into the fire, and in the end, even himself was burned to death in this lava pool.
"If Flame Demon Morlock hadn't chosen Yue Ru because he was greedy for a better body at that time, how would things have evolved?"
Luo Wen's brows frowned slightly, and the illusion in front of him disappeared in an instant, he was not confused by this illusion from beginning to end, and naturally he would not be affected by it.
But as you can imagine, there's something in the lava pool that tempts him to jump into it!
Quickly taking three steps back, Rowan manipulated the [Firedemon Slime] to accumulate strength, and then spewed a large fireball at the lava pool.
"Bang!"
The explosion sent rubble to pieces, but nothing changed in the lava pool.
Luo Wen's heart shook slightly, and he used [Deep Analysis] on the black gel in the pool.
[Frozen soil: Black soil that completely blocks flames. 】
[Hidden Message: It can absorb a certain amount of heat and convert it into an energy source that gathers the ice element, and is a kind of magical soil that burns colder and colder in the flames. 】
"To a certain extent...... Does that mean that if the temperature is high enough, it can be destroyed even with fire? But that temperature ceiling must be unimaginably high. ”
Rowan condensed the [Crystal Blade], turned it into a spear, and then cut the [Frozen Soil] with the tip of the spear, and finally cut it open with ease!
This is the soil of the flames, and as the flames burn it, it freezes and its hardness increases.
But before it was frozen, it was as hard as dry earth.
"Good stuff!"
Even if nothing is found this time, this [frozen soil] is enough to make people happy!
Rowan cut it into pieces and put them into the Hunter's Badge piece by piece.
Soon, most of the frozen soil in the lava pool had disappeared, and the smooth bottom of the pool was finally revealed.
The bottom of the pool is carved with a red six-pointed star, and a flame gradually rises after losing the pressure of the frozen ground.