Lava, a fluid rock, is only a little thicker than magma, not much different. The temperature is so high that you don't need to actually touch it at all, just getting close is enough to kill the creatures. Not to mention that with the toxic gases produced by the lava and the large particles floating in the air, the effective kill radius of this thing is much larger than it seems. Compared to the current heat, the heat just now was completely insignificant, the heat that seemed to roast people from the outside, and in an instant disintegrated all the will to resist. Faced with a hot current that should only exist in the deepest part of the crust, neither magic nor engineering is enough to compete with in this era.

"It's a trap! We've been fooled!" someone shouted, and the heat was too hot for Cheese to tell who it was. The scorching heat distorted the sound, sounding like it was separated by a film of water. The gray robe struggled to find the direction, his five senses quickly losing their effect, and the soles of his feet on the ground quickly lost sensation due to the heat. Can't stop, in this situation, life and death are only a matter of moments.

"Follow me! follow me!" the gray-robed roar carried the power of magic, and his eyes lit up, struggling to urge the spells buried in the robes to resist the heat. After he finished shouting this, he didn't care who heard and who didn't, so he could only grab the two people one by one with one hand nearby, and then run in a certain direction. His steps were flying, bouncing on the reddening crust, and finally he saw the depression before his feet could no longer walk. Cheese didn't care about anything else, first used the strength of his two arms to throw the two people in his arms into the depression one after the other, and then jumped himself and fell into it. Then, there was a series of rolls until he finally landed on the soft human body.

It took a long time for the gray robe to gradually regain his senses. He heard the cry first, which was good, indicating that there were still people alive. But immediately after, he smelled blood, which was not a good thing. You know, in that case, the dead person should have been directly evaporated by the high temperature, and there is no reason why there will be blood left. Thinking of this, he suddenly opened his eyes, and what greeted him was a dark space.

Turning on the lantern and emitting light, this space is not large, probably similar to the capacity of an ordinary horse-drawn carriage. At this time, in this space, in addition to the gray robe himself, four and a half people could be seen. The four whole people are Uni, Weiya, Luo Luo and the male in the source. As for the half-person, it is the woman in the source. Her waist seemed to have been severed by a guillotine, leaving only the torso of her upper body and her complex face mixed with joy, fear, and incredulity. Other than that, there was no figure of the old man with a pointed hat. In other words, they lost two partners. In just a few minutes, two excellent spellcasters left the team forever.

The cry came from Lolo and the living source, the former was crying with Yuni in his arms, and the boy she was holding looked dazed, as if he hadn't figured out what was going on. The latter knelt beside his sister's corpse and sobbed, trying not to let himself cry, but unable to suppress the twitching of his chest. Wei Ya hugged her knees, curled up to the side, staring at them blankly, looking at him a little as Cheese lit the lantern, but quickly turned her eyes away.

It's no wonder that no one expected this scene now. When it comes to life and death, it always comes so suddenly. One second, they were still thinking about how to get out of this place with the help of the rock turtle, and the next second, the way out of the trap turned into the deadliest trap. This wasn't a trap, Cheese knew. If others hadn't lost their ability to think because of fear and loss, they would have thought about it. Traps will not give the prey inside room to escape. The so-called three sides are not open, and the net is open on one side, which is something that only appears in moral stories. Real-life hunters are eager to make traps that even ants can trap, and the mesh is so small that even tadpoles can be fished out.

So what is it, if this is not a trap? As the lantern illuminates the room, a large number of pagan textures can be seen painted on the walls, thanks to which the few people who should have been submerged in the lava and evaporated not only survived, but even felt cool. This is the safe house, and the purpose of this is to ensure that the people inside are safe when the elemental creature outside turns into lava. The clay tablet was not a command spell at all, it was a map on the back of the rock turtle, and the strokes that were thought to be symbols actually came from a rough depiction of a raised cooling. And the purpose of its existence is to point out the location of the safe house.

The reason why it uses clay tablets is simply because each time the elemental creature is condensed into a different shape, and the map used last time will have no meaning to redraw next time. In vain, they studied for a long time, and they understood the meaning from the beginning. Thinking of this, Cheese's teeth clenched, and there was self-reproach in his eyes, just because of this stupid mistake, because of this self-righteous speculation, he lost two team members. One of them is still an old man with a pointed hat who has just had the possibility to open his heart and communicate with himself. The sorcerer, most likely in his possession, had information that could point to the Grey Tower's past, and he shouldn't have died like this. It is not clear, and the bones do not exist.

"I never expected to encounter elemental creatures. I thought they were just hypothetical existences. Wei Ya, who was holding her knees, said faintly. Her eyes were still dark, and she didn't know if she was talking to herself or who she was confessing to.

She wasn't to blame for that, because elemental beings were indeed a being based on conjecture. The casters of the theory of elements imagine that the material world in which people live is a mixture of substances, but they cannot give a definite answer as to the origin of these substances. Based on this, some have speculated that there may be elemental worlds, i.e. entire worlds made up entirely of a single or very few elements, and these worlds provide the elemental basis of the physical world.

Further developing this theoretical conjecture, people began to wonder whether such a world could have been inhabited. Scholars who support the existence of souls are positive about this, because they believe that as long as the soul flows into the elemental world, sooner or later it will find a shell that can accommodate it, and this shell is the so-called elemental creature. Elemental beings differ from those in the physical world in that their bodies are made up of a single element, in a sense very close to ghost water. It's just that in fact, ghost water also has a complex physiological structure, but this structure remains in a primitive state and has a high degree of deformation ability, which makes it seem that they can be perfectly integrated with the water body.

Elemental beings are more thorough than ghost waters, and due to the composition of a single element, they do not need the various structures of living beings in the material world to maintain their vitality, as long as they maintain a replenishment of the elements that make up the body, they are perfect. Of course, it is generally accepted among scholars that souls decay in their shells until they can no longer control their shells, which is reflected in living beings in the form of aging and the natural death it causes. Elemental creatures also have a lifespan, and in order to avoid the destruction of their souls, they will choose to devour other elemental individuals composed of the same element, and use the souls of the other party to strengthen themselves. In the process of this devouring, there are bound to be extremely strong individuals who are known as elemental princes or lords.

But all of the above arguments are completely closed-door, not to mention that the existence of the soul is one of the most profound questions in the world, and the theory of the elemental realm seems too simplistic and crude about the composition of the elements and their origins. As a result, not many casters actually believe in this conjecture, let alone the so-called elemental creatures that have been extended from the conjecture.

And yet, it appeared right before their eyes. To be precise, the members of the team who survived the return at this time were in the belly of this elemental creature.