After hearing the joy shouted by the knight at the front of the team, Wang Xu subconsciously lowered his head, turned sideways slightly, and looked down towards the gap between the rotating stairs.

I saw that more than ten meters down from Wang Xu's own location, there was a space covered with volcanic ash, and I didn't know how thick the volcanic ash was below, anyway, Wang Xu couldn't see the ground at all, let alone whether there were other more sinister mechanisms and traps on the ground below the volcanic ash.

Although Wang Xu's mind was still full of doubts, others did not have so many thoughts.

"Poof, poof, poof, poof, poof......" The knights all jumped from the top of the stairs to the volcanic ash, looking at the knights who jumped into the volcanic ash but were still unharmed, Wang Xu also jumped down the stairs with confidence.

Since no one has been here for thousands of years, the volcanic ash accumulated on the ground is too thick, and the thickness is instantly lower than everyone's waist and eyes, and the shorter ones are buried in the volcanic ash to their chests.

Maybe it's because this place was one of the exits of the abyssal demons to the ground in ancient times, so the space here is quite spacious, and fifty or sixty people standing here don't feel the slightest sense of urgency.

"Here...... There's a hole here!" Illuminated by the light of the peachwood sword, a knight waved his right arm high, beckoned everyone, and shouted, "There is a hot wind blowing from this hole, this may be the exit!"

Hearing the knight's shout, Wang Xu turned his head to look at the hole he was pointing to, only to see that on the curved obsidian wall, there was a circle of silver metal arches more than two people high, and on the lintel of the metal arch, there were many dense black runes.

Wang Xu had seen similar runes before, and knew that their contents were not curses or anything like that, but magical runes carved into the surface of the metal by dwarven craftsmen in order to increase the hardness of the metal.

Except for Wang Xu, who knew those runes, everyone else couldn't understand what those runes were, thinking that they were curses, so they were all hesitating, hesitating whether they should walk into this weird metal arch?

At this moment, the sound of "click, click......" sounded all around, and everyone turned their heads to look in the direction where the sound came from, only to see that all the floors on the entire spiral staircase had shrunk into the curved wall.

Seeing this situation, everyone understood that there was no turning back, and they could only move on, and they could only enter the metal arch.

"You let me go," Warren, who was carrying Wang Xu behind his back, whispered in Wang Xu's ear: "We don't need to run away anymore, I can deal with the rest of the way by myself." ”

"Hmm," Wang Xu let go of his left hand that was holding Warren's arms, shook his shoulder, and put Warren down, but after seeing that the surrounding volcanic ash was buried in Warren's chest at once, Wang Xu asked in a low voice, "You...... Is it really possible?"

"It's fine. Warren smiled slightly, and took two steps through the ash, it seemed that he could still move slowly through the ash.

"That's good. Wang Xu squinted his eyes and watched all his movements, then pursed his lips slightly, smiled, and then nodded at Warren, agreeing with him.

"Everybody listens to me. Wang Xu shouted, and after attracting everyone's attention, he continued to shout: "The runes on the metal arch are the words of the dwarf clan, not the curse of the demons, those runes are used to consolidate the metal structure and enhance the hardness of the metal, there is no other effect, we can enter the arch, but we still have to be careful, maybe there will be some mechanism inside." ”

After listening to the first half of Wang Xu's words, everyone had already taken steps and was about to enter the metal arch, but then they heard the second half of Wang Xu's words, and they began to hesitate again.

"Listen, you follow me," Wang Xu took a step, moved his waist, squeezed away the volcanic ash below his waist, walked to the door of the metal arch with difficulty, turned back to the crowd and said: "Pay attention to my actions, I go, you will follow, I stop, you will stop, if I shout, you will follow me forward, if I shout back, you will quickly retreat, understand?"

"Understood. Everyone replied in unison, and it was obvious that after the ordeal of the revolving staircase just now, Wang Xu's prestige in the entire team had become even higher, and he was even about to surpass Warren.

He believes that one of the reasons why Wang Xu does not accept his recruitment may be that Wang Xu has not yet experienced the pleasure of holding power, if Wang Xu is accustomed to the happiness that power brings him, then as long as he gives him more power, he will definitely accept his recruitment and return to the griffin kingdom with him.

Unlike Warren's foresight, Downs and Thornton were a little dissatisfied, in their eyes, this team was obviously their own team, how could an outsider shout here, and there was no heavenly reason.

Although the two of them did have dissatisfaction, no one said it, after all, the situation is stronger than people, and they both understood that the half-elf with a very strange name, called Wang Xu, was indeed stronger than themselves in terms of strength, and in this unknown and sinister environment, the leader who could take everyone to live could only be the half-elf called Wang Xu.

"Let's go, let's go!" Wang Xu commanded the glowing mahogany sword to fly into the metal arch, illuminating the path inside, and then, taking a step, walked into the metal arch.

The volcanic ash in the arch is much less than the outside, and the thickest place can only barely bury Wang Xu's ankles, so here, Wang Xu's actions have not been disturbed much, although his flexibility has improved a lot, but Wang Xu still turned his head and shouted to the people behind him: "Stay away from me, at least five meters away from me, don't get too close, in case something happens to me, you still have a chance to escape!"

In this way, under the light of the peachwood sword, Wang Xu carefully observed all the things in the metal arch that might be traps, and at the same time led everyone all the way to the depths of the arch.

I walked for about five or six minutes, to say the least, I walked two or three hundred meters, but I didn't see a trap, and even the end of the arch couldn't be seen at all, Wang Xuxin said, I'll go, no wonder this cylindrical wall can be built so high, it turns out that this wall is so thick, wow, it's almost five hundred meters thick, if you want to build such a thick and high wall, it will take tens of thousands of people to work for decades, and the demons who built this wall are too good at tossing!

After walking for another seven or eight minutes, Wang Xu suddenly felt a hot wind blowing in front of him, and faintly, he could see an arched red circle of light not far in front of him from the soot-like volcanic ash that permeated the surroundings.

"It's over!" Wang Xu turned his head and shouted to the people behind him, and then smiled bitterly, and said in his heart, this wall is really invincible, it is more than 1,000 meters thick, and it is too fierce!

Only walked forward for more than ten meters, and clearly saw the end of the metal arch, Wang Xu's heart was excited, like discovering a new continent, although he was very excited, but his brain was still very calm, he still carefully observed all the details around the arch, he didn't want to be killed by the trap at the last moment.

After walking more than ten meters, Wang Xu finally came to the end of the metal arch, and after taking a step towards the metal arch, Wang Xu raised his eyes and looked around, here is a new world.

Underneath the metal arch is a staircase with only three steps, and a semicircular volcanic rock platform about the size of a basketball court is connected underneath the staircase.

Opposite the volcanic platform outside the metal arch was an even larger volcanic platform, which looked like it was about the size of a football field.

Between the two volcanic rock platforms, there is a river valley more than 100 meters wide and dozens of meters deep, and unlike ordinary river valleys, the valley bottom flows a river of magma.

Above the river of magma was a thin layer of mist, which rose to a high altitude and cooled, then solidified into patches of volcanic dust that flew with the heat.

Because of the volcanic dust, Wang Xu couldn't see clearly what was on the larger platform opposite, and could only vaguely see that behind the platform, there was a cliff that was so high that he couldn't see the top, and there seemed to be a gate or something like that on the cliff.

On the top of the magma river, there is a suspension bridge more than 100 meters long, this suspension bridge connects two large and small volcanic rock platforms, this suspension bridge is composed of six black oily, calf-thick metal chains, on these black metal chains, densely engraved with countless blood-red demon characters.

On top of the four horizontal metal chains, rectangular obsidian stone slabs are paved as the bridge deck, and many blood-red demon characters are also engraved on the bridge deck.

The remaining two metal chains, located on both sides of the bridge deck, were more than half a person tall from the bridge deck, and countless finger-thick black metal chains connected the obsidian bridge deck with the two thicker metal chains above.

After looking at the surrounding environment, Wang Xu felt it carefully, and felt that it was too hot here, it was almost seventy or eighty degrees, but after experiencing the trial of the sulfur fire in the rotating staircase, Wang Xu was used to this kind of high temperature, and he didn't even feel anything.

The only thing that makes Wang Xu feel relieved is that the smell of sulfur here is not very strong, and it is estimated that the sulfur gas here has been evaporated by the high temperature of the magma river.

"Come here," Wang Xu turned around, beckoned to the crowd who were still in the metal arch five or six meters away from him, and added loudly: "It's a little hot here, you should be careful." ”

After speaking, Wang Xu walked down the three stairs and walked to this semi-circular volcanic rock platform, standing on the edge of the platform, Wang Xu looked down at the "gurgling" boiling magma river, he saw many half-human fire element creatures, frolicking and playing in the magma river.

After gasping for air, Wang Xu shook his head slightly, and sighed in his heart, fortunately, this platform is high enough, it is still dozens of meters high from the magma river below, if it is a little lower, that group of fire element creatures will be able to jump on the platform, in that case, a fierce battle is inevitable, after all, fire element creatures are the worst tempered and most belligerent among all species.

Not long after, everyone in the team came to the platform, and only the fainting Livka, like Sleeping Beauty, still slept sweetly on the door panel of the metasequoia wood.

The people who came to the top of this volcanic platform finally breathed a sigh of relief, and they all scattered.

Warren, Downs, and Thornton stood in the middle of the platform, seemingly discussing something.

Sangu walked to Wang Xu's side, put the giant tower shield on the ground, and lay on it panting, it seemed that he was really tired.

Some of the knights, like Sangu, sat on their steel shields, and several people gathered in a circle, chatting without saying a word about what they had just experienced.

There were also knights, standing on the edge of the platform, looking down at the fire elemental creatures that were frolicking and playing in the river of magma.

There was a knight who behaved very specially, he looked at the suspension bridge in front of him with dull eyes, his eyes stared at the blood-red demon words on the bridge deck, suddenly, as if he was attracted by something, he reached out and grabbed the chain handrail on the suspension bridge, stepped on the bridge deck violently, and slowly walked towards the opposite side of the suspension bridge.

"What are you doing!" After seeing a heavily armored knight walking on the very strange suspension bridge alone, Wang Xu immediately shouted: "Come back, don't go over!"

To be honest, Wang Xu didn't know what traps and traps were on this suspension bridge engraved with demonic words, but it looked quite terrifying, so Wang Xu had already reminded others earlier not to walk on that weird suspension bridge for the time being.

However, to Wang Xu's surprise, someone was so kind that he dared to go to the bridge alone, and he was really not afraid of death.

Wang Xu's shout attracted the attention of the others, and they followed Wang Xu's gaze to the bridge deck, and saw a knight walking slowly along the suspension bridge in the thick heat and dust of volcanic ash.

"Ah!" and the knight who was walking on the bridge suddenly squatted down, holding his head in his hands, trembling and howling in pain.

Suddenly, his whole body burst into crimson flames, and in an instant, his armor melted into molten iron, his clothes burned to ashes, and his flesh was also burned, leaving only a miserable white skeleton, and what was even more terrifying was that the skeleton still maintained the posture of the knight squatting and holding his head before his death.

Everyone was stunned, and they all looked at the skeleton in the middle of the bridge in amazement, forgetting where they were.

"I'll go, no. Looking at the knight's miserable appearance, the corners of Wang Xu's mouth twitched unnaturally, and then he continued to whisper to himself: "It seems that those demonic words are curses, as if they are only curses for foreign races, this drawbridge, after all, is the only way for demons to travel to and from the river of magma, and it is impossible for them to carve a curse that harms their own people on this road." ”

Just as Wang Xu was thinking about how to pass the cursed bridge safely, another knight also looked at the cursed bridge with dull eyes, and then slowly walked towards the bridge deck......