Chapter 43, The Burning Plains
"Ahead should be the place where the Battle of the Crater erupted, recently known as the place of the Burning Plains, right?" On the second floor of a newly built hotel in Xiaohe Village, several young people looked at the dark land in the distance with no end in sight.
Today, Xiaohe Village is becoming more and more prosperous, and the remnants of the lava's violent nature continue to distort each other in the charred black soil burned by the lava from the volcanoes that Bahrain has triggered twice. Colliding with the unusually rich fire elemental power that filled the air, some twisted fire elemental creatures gradually spawned. This also brings wealth opportunities to adventurers who call home from all over the world!
A large number of adventurers were attracted by the endless killing fire elemental creatures on the Burning Plains, and as the closest human settlement to the Burning Plains, Xiaohe Village naturally became the most ideal place for these adventurers to resupply and rest.
The arrival of adventurers also brought business opportunities to Xiaohe Village. On the edge of what was once a dense forest, with Little River Village and the East Valley Lumberyard at its center, a new route to wealth is quietly emerging.
The werewolves quietly returned to the Ray of Heaven camp with the children kidnapped from Xiaohe Village. The mountain pass that had been sealed by the cooling of the lava was chiseled and quietly relocated in the shallow cavern** of the karst cave. The sturdy men quietly came to Xiaohe Village to exchange with the villagers for necessary living supplies.
Werewolves, adventurers, and spellcasters drawn to the crater are a mix, and the entire village of Creek is mired in a whirlpool.
"I wonder if we'll be able to make it to the crater and meet the adults there?" the other young man looked at the volcano at the end of the horizon with some trepidation.
These are all apprentice-level spellcasters who have awakened their arcane talents, and after the Holy See fully occupies this side of the world, the main force of the arcanists shrinks behind the Blood Sea Enchantment. For various reasons, the casters who were stranded outside the barrier became the saddest of the lost dogs.
The grey-robed jailers of the Inquisition were their worst nightmare. Some underground spellcaster organizations have quietly sprung up. These young men were members of the Light of Truth, a small underground spellcaster group nearby.
No one knew that the founder of this organization was the ruler of Talon County, Count George. For many young people who unexpectedly awaken their Arcanist talent after the Arcanist Turtle retreated into the Blood Sea Enchantment, the Leader of the Light of Truth, though mysterious, is their only beacon in this malevolent world.
However, as the power of the Holy See began to fully unfold in Talon County, this fragile underground organization had to announce its temporary dissolution in the face of the pressing Holy See.
Having lost the organization that once served as a beacon of life, the crater became a new option for many spellcasters who were hidden in the shadows.
"Tuk, tuk, tuk......" The strange knock on the door suddenly sounded.
Several of the already nervous spellcasters were instinctively startled, and then realized that this rhythm was the contact code of the light of truth.
Several people looked at each other silently, and in Dalon, which is now full of papal lackeys, danger hovers over them at all times.
Silently prepared to cast a spell, then someone said loudly: "Who?"
"Thomas!" a familiar voice sounded outside the door.
"Is Mr. Thomas?!" a young man cried out in surprise.
"Is it Alan?" asked Thomas, the Earl's messenger who had come to Creek Village outside the door.
"Yes, Mr. Thomas. Pierre, Clin, Gael and Jarvis are here!" The young man responded in surprise to Thomas outside the door, and hurried to the door to open the door.
Thomas dodged into the room with a quick stride and slowly removed his hood. For these children who can be said to have grown up under his guidance, Thomas always has a different feeling in his heart.
"Everything happened too suddenly, it's good that you're all right!" Thomas looked at a few young people seriously, "I saw a lot of organizational marks in the village, so I tried to find them all the way." ”
Thomas picked up the kettle on the wooden table, poured a few sips of water and moistened his somewhat dry throat, and then frowned: "It's just that you guys were too careless." Now the whole county of Talon is full of the dog's nose of the Holy See, if the Holy See finds clues......"
"Mr. Thomas, we don't plan to stay here for too long. Prepare some dry food and water, and set off for the Burning Plains!" Jarvis on the side quickly explained.
"How's the preparation?" asked Thomas, looking at the children.
"It's almost ready, but I've heard that some difficult fire elemental creatures have appeared on the Burning Plains!" Gail said with a look of frustration.
"Then without further ado, let's go now. Compared to the fire elemental creatures who only act on instinct, the dog's nose of the Holy See is the real threat!" Thomas nodded, and began to instruct the children to make final preparations.
As night fell, Thomas and his party quietly left Xiaohe Village. Step on the Black Land!
What was once a vast forest teeming with life is now completely silent. The rotting corpses were eaten away by the crows, leaving only scorched bones.
Scattered all over the land of black, hard volcanic rock, the power of the raging lava collided with the fire elemental from time to time, shimmering with a twisted energy brilliance in the air.
Occasionally, a flame erupted from a crack in the pitch-black earth, and the elemental power was unmistakably chaotic across the land.
"Be careful, the balance of the elements here has been completely disrupted. Our ability to cast spells will be seriously disturbed!" Thomas said with a solemn expression of blessing as he stepped on the black scorched earth and slowly walked towards the volcano with a few rookies.
"Whew...... Call...... Whew......"
The bellows-like sound of air currents resounded across the wilderness. The elemental fluctuations caused by the caster with the power of the ordered elements are so dazzling in this land of elemental chaos. In the eyes of elemental creatures, it is like a bright light in the night!
The sound of "whirring" is starting to get denser and denser!
"Prepare to cast a spell, we should be targeted by elemental creatures!" Thomas waved his hand with a serious expression, stopping the group.
As soon as the words fell, two half-human-tall fire elemental creatures had already appeared in sight!
"Attack!" Without the slightest hesitation, Thomas unleashed an ice spell first.
A glittering ice pick shot out of Thomas's hand towards the distorted fire elemental creature.
The ice picks streaked through the air, and the naturally emitted ice element collided violently with the fire element filled in the air, producing a seemingly beautiful light mark.
"Drink!"
Suddenly, a cloud of energy light erupted from the darkness ahead. In the moonlight, a burly man held a large sword forged of ice aloft and stabbed into the body of a fire elemental.
In the fierce elemental hedge, the fire elemental creature slammed into the air.
"Hey, mages, come here!" the burly man turned and shouted to Thomas and his party as the icicle plunged into another fire elemental creature.
"Let's go, it should be a bloodline knight!" Thomas heard this, and immediately led the rookies to walk quickly towards the burly man in front.