This is a world of magma, and this is a paradise of fire.

This is another cave of great scope, and there is light in the cave. The outermost part of the cave is a circle of rocky ground six or seven meters wide, and in the middle is a huge magma lake, at the junction, the rock produces some kind of strange crystallization at high temperatures, blocking the invasion of magma on the rocky ground. In the boiling magma lake, bubbles constantly rise from the bottom of the lake and burst on the surface of the lake, and each time the bubble bursts, it brings a flame to the sky. The scorching heat filled the cavern, and even the light distorted in the hot air, casting a hazy hue over the surface of the magma lake.

In the hot world, it is not empty and monotonous, and a large number of fire elemental creatures wander in the magma lake, or frolic on the surface of the lake, or disappear into the lake. Deadly lava can easily kill ordinary creatures, but it is a paradise for fire elemental creatures.

The fire elemental creature has a peculiar appearance, with no legs on the lower body, or thighs, and completely turns into a ball of flame below the knees, floating on the surface of the magma lake. Above the knee are two thighs connected to form one, and the upper body is not much different from a human, but it is made entirely of magma and flames, and the boundaries between the various parts are blurred, and it often looks not much different from a ball of fire.

"The core of the element can give birth to elemental beings in an extreme environment for a long time, high temperature gives birth to fire elements, deep sea gives birth to water elements, deep underground earth elements give birth to earth elements, and lightning strikes for a long time give birth to gas elements. Lina looked at the fire elemental wandering in the center of the lava lake with a curious expression: "Although I have seen it countless times in books, this is the first time I have seen an elemental creature with my own eyes, it is really a beautiful color." ”

"Actually, you've seen elemental creatures, well, if nothing else. Pannis corrected her: "There are also on the ground." ”

"Seen?" Lina's eyes widened, and a surprised expression appeared on her dignified face, giving people a strange sense of amusement: "Why don't I know myself?"

"Sandman. Vivien stared at the elemental creature in the distance with a look of fascination, looking eager to grab one and study: "I guess it's the sandman, a variant of the earth elemental creature." ”

"Yes, the Sandman. Pointing to the fire elemental in the distance, Pennis explained, "These elemental creatures, as long as the core of the element is not destroyed, will not die, mortally wounded, will only fall into a deep sleep, and will wake up after a few decades. However, the elemental creatures that wake up will lose their memories of the past, just like the newborns. Fortunately, it was very difficult for elemental beings to be born, otherwise the continent would have been filled with them long ago. ”

"Lost memory, so they're all sane?" Catherine got to the point: "All elemental creatures are sapient?" I thought the sandmen were the exception. ”

"Newborn elemental beings have no intelligence. It can't be said that there is no wisdom, but it is very low, just like a newborn baby, most of them still act on instinct. In about forty or fifty years, there will be wisdom equivalent to a child who is three or four years old in human beings. In the magma lake in front of me, there are about fifteen or sixteen wise people in it, and the others are not adults. Pannis grabbed Vivien's wrist and prevented her from stepping forward to take a closer look, but felt that there was something abnormal in her wrist, and she didn't have time to think about it for a while: "Don't go over yet, although they are friendly creatures, they are too friendly, especially minors, who always like to play with other lives, and they don't know how to control their high temperatures, they will die." ”

Vivien didn't seem to like being touched by others, so she broke free of Pannis's hand, glanced at Pannis very awkwardly, and changed the subject: "Won't their sanity be affected by demonic energy?"

"No, it won't. Pannis ignored Vivien's grievances, "Elemental beings are the only beings that are not tainted by demonic energy, and the only creatures in the lower levels of the Weeping Cavern that can communicate. ”

"Hey, that bastard over there, if you don't bring your teammates to help, there won't be any creatures to communicate with in the future. "A bass-pitched female voice is in the distance, and her voice is low but attractive. The sudden sound startled several of the ladies into shock, and Rachel even pulled out his hedron gun to keep an eye on.

Pannis stopped Rachel and raised his voice to shout, "Why do we humans help you kids?" ”

"You're blind. A flame fell from the sky and turned into a human form in front of the five people: "Which eye of yours saw that we were teasing the children, we were fucking beaten." ”

The human form formed by the flame is exactly the same as that of a human, with long bright red hair, slender legs, a slender waist, and a full chest, and even beautiful facial features are clearly recognizable. Aside from the lava-colored skin and the faint heat, there is no difference between them and humans.

"Dilan, leader of the weeping cave fire elemental. Pannis introduced the two to each other: "They are Nelly's Adventure Party, and the other is a member of the Breonos Adventure Party, they are both new to this place, you should not have seen them." ”

"Hello Miss Dylan, I'm Catherine from Nelly's Adventure Group. Catherine greeted tentatively, "You're so pretty." ”

"Thank you. Hearing the compliment, Dilan was obviously in a good mood, and flicked the long flaming hair that was draped over his shoulders.

"It's beautiful. It is said that this is the image of a female adventurer leader fifty years ago, and she loved it. Later, after the adventurer disappeared, she borrowed this image. Pannis thought for a moment and added, "Oh, before borrowing this image, she was in the form of a man. ”

The three ladies had strange expressions and took a step back neatly, only Lina looked at Dilan with bright eyes: "I understand, I understand." ”

"It's not what you think, we elemental creatures don't have a gender. Dylan explained in a panic, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Pannis's collar: "Bastard Pannis, do you help or not." ”

"You let go first, it's going to burn. Pannis saved the clothes that had begun to smoke: "What the hell is going on, how can the children suddenly attack you?"

Dilan's pretty face showed a look of anxiety with a human touch: "A few hours ago, two strange people passed by here. Those two people were very strange, the breath of the creatures on their bodies was very light, and they felt like two dead people, not undead, but dead. The two men passed by without knowing what magic was cast, and as soon as they left, the children began to attack us. Korath says that it feels like illusion or psychic magic for your normal creatures, as long as you hold on until the magic period is over. We didn't want to hurt the children, so we had to defend ourselves in the lake, and several of our clansmen were already injured. Ah, I almost made you forget again, bastard, do you help or not. ”

"We help. Catherine agreed before Pannis, "But we can't go down to the lake." ”

"We can withdraw and join you. Dylan didn't hide his mood at all, his face was full of joy, and he opened his mouth and shouted something he didn't understand at all into the lava lake. With Dilan's shout, the center of the thirteen magma lakes erupted, and beams of flames fell from the sky and landed on the sides of the five people.

"Actually, you can give us a little time to prepare. Lina stared blankly at the hundreds of young fire elementals here because she had lost her goal, and couldn't help but whisper a complaint.

"Retreat to the cave defense. Catherine issued an order, and returned to the cave with the group members and the adult fire elementals.

"Be careful. As they retreated into the cave, the fire elementals were still babbling, "Don't hurt the children's lives." ”

"Don't get hurt, either. ”

"Don't use ice magic, or the children will go berserk even if they wake up. ”

"We'll be weakened without the lava lake, and we won't be able to help you. ”

"Elemental, flame shield. A bright shield appeared on Lina and Catherine, and Vivien gasped and said, "The shield can absorb a lot of fire damage, you guys be careful in front." ”

"Magic, terrain change. Lina fell to her knees on one knee and summoned a huge rock from the entrance of the cave to seal the hole completely: "Stop them like this." ”

Before he could finish speaking, a muffled explosion sounded at the other end of the rock, and within a few minutes, the rock that closed the hole was blown to pieces in a fireball in the sky. The shattered stones were accompanied by the falling rocks from the roof of the cave, and the five people who smashed them couldn't lift their heads.

"Lina, you can't block the road with rocks anymore. Catherine shouted in the sound of the explosion: "If we continue to blow up like this, the whole passage will collapse, and then we will all be buried underneath, and none of us will be able to escape." ”

"Then it's just hard. Looking at the large number of fire elementals that had already rushed into the passage, Lina blessed herself with the power of the gods, wielding a glowing mace and rushing towards the young fire elementals. Catherine raised her irises in front of her and charged away from the two onrushing enemies to stand side by side with Lina.

"Elements, hurricanes. "A violent hurricane blew in front of Catherine and Lina, and the strong impact blew the young fire elemental in the passage into the air and threw it out of the passage. With Vivien's hurricane, the two melee girls took a few steps forward, blocking the entrance to the passage, blocking the fire elementals from the passage.

"Bang. The sound of the hedron gun rang out through the passage, and a cloud of earthy yellow crystals shot out of Rachel's muzzle. Under the impact of the earth-attribute crystal energy, the two juvenile elements flew directly out of a considerable distance and fell into the lava lake, and after a while, they crawled out as if nothing had happened and continued to impact the cave entrance.

"Creation, cobwebs. Vivien's staff pointed out of the passage, and a web of elementals descended from the sky, trapping a large area of fire elementals and restricting their movements. But in just a few seconds, the cobwebs turned into ashes under the heat of the fire element.

"It's a nuisance. Vivien muttered angrily, "Elemental, thunder grid." ”

A large net of flashing lightning fell from the sky again, enveloping more than twenty fire elementals, this time successfully restricting them for a full three minutes.

"Good thing it works. Vivien's staff waved continuously: "Thunder Grid, Thunder Grid, Thunder Grid." ”

Seven times in a row, the power grid controlled most of the juvenile elements gathered at the entrance of the passage, and the rest of the juvenile elements in the distance could not come together, so they could only throw fireballs into the passage from afar, and were stopped one by one by Catherine and Lina, who were blessed with flame shields. After the spell casting, Vivian leaned on the staff and poured down two bottles of potion, retreated some distance and sat down against the wall: "I drank the meditation potion, I want to sit for three minutes to meditate to recover the magic power, come on." As he spoke, he closed his eyes and fell into a deep meditative state.