The sky was shrouded in billowing smoke from the Pubao Mountain, and a large amount of volcanic ash formed thick clouds over the Pubao Mountain, not only a large amount of volcanic ash floating in the sky, but also the light around the entire Pubao Mountain was extremely gray.

There were hot rocks everywhere beneath his feet, choking smoke from some of the crevices, and a foul-smelling smell of sulfur everywhere.

The banks of the lava river were full of kobold slaves who were collecting sulfur mines, and Luke found two kobold slaves to lead the way in the sulfur mines, and the group was not bothered by the scorching volcanic rocks on both sides, the kobold slaves were very sensitive to the scorching volcanic rocks, and they walked on the volcanic rocks, as if they were not feeling the heat with the soles of their feet, but every time they used their keen breathing, they could sense how hot the rocks in front of them were.

The path to the volcanic rocks along the way is not very easy, and the lava river contains a large amount of hot magma, and from time to time the lava will explode from the bottom of the pool, and a large amount of red magma will splash out, and wisps of green smoke will come out wherever it is touched.

In addition to these kobold slaves, the most familiar with this lava river is not Luke, but the ogre Gulitham walking in the center of the team, and I don't know how long he has been squatting by the river of lava during this time, he remembers the landing points of some rock walls very clearly, and introduced Surdak to the location of hunting salamanders several times.

Listening to the ogre Gullittam's story, Surdak realized that the ogre had killed a lot of salamanders recently, and the source of these salamanders seemed to be the upper reaches of this lava river.

The two kobold slaves who led the way quickly led Surdak and his party to the entrance to the lava cave halfway up the mountain.

Standing at the entrance of the cave, Surdak discovered that the lava cave was hidden behind the waterfall of the lava river, which formed a huge lava waterfall on the stone cliff with a drop of more than 20 meters, and a huge lava pool under the waterfall.

And the two kobold slaves were not afraid of the lava waterfall splashing from time to time, and leaned straight towards the side of the lava falls.

The Surdak team endured the heat wave in their faces, the heat around them made Surdak feel as if the air inhaled into his lungs was on fire, and the two kobold slaves were also roasted by the heat here, but they did not stop or go around, but walked towards the stone wall below the magma waterfall against the edge of the magma pool, near which was some cooled and stacked volcanic rock.

The two kobold slaves easily passed through the gaps between the rock walls, and Luke, who was following Surdak, had dry lips that had been roasted by the constant heat, and his chestnut hair was withered and curled, and he poured the last sip of water from the water bladder he carried with him into his stomach, trying to relieve the heat around him, but he still couldn't stand the temperature here, and he seemed to be staggering when he walked.

Surdak hurriedly poured water from his water bladder on Luke, which made him feel better.

"Andrew, you send Luke out!" Surdak thought for a moment, fearing that Luke would not be able to bear the rest of the journey, so he commanded the native warriors.

Andrew agreed, paused to pick up the crumbling Luke, and walked quickly towards the edge of the lava river.

The kobold slave leading the way in front continued towards the waterfall.

The group walked forward against the rock wall, and found a narrow gap between the lava waterfall and the stone wall.

This narrow gap is obscured by the layers of volcanic rock next to the waterfall, and the mystery inside is completely invisible from the outside, and can only be seen by enduring the scorching heat and the surrounding lava splashing to the innermost side of the rock wall.

The two kobold slaves continued inside.

On one side was a stone wall, and on the other side was magma falling from the sky, and as long as this flow of magma splashed a little, the two kobold slaves would probably be roasted in an instant.

However, the magma looks viscous, and there seems to be no danger of splashing out of it, except that the surrounding temperature is very hot.

Next to the rock wall, Surdak can still faintly see some traces of sulfur mining, and the two kobold slaves probably originally found this place to collect sulfur ore.

The group of people who entered the back of the waterfall finally saw the huge karst cave mouth hidden behind the waterfall, this cave entrance is almost more than twenty meters high, and the width is forty or fifty meters.

There was no lava in the cave, but the heat made it look like a giant oven filled with the pungent smell of sulfur.

There are eye-catching light yellow lines on the surrounding stone walls, each yellow line is a condensed sulfur ore, and between some stone pillars on the inside of the cave, there are clusters of bright red red crystals, these red crystals are like a ball of thorns, and those sword-shaped rubies are some hexagonal crystals, crisscrossing in the cave I don't know how many.

Surdak didn't expect that the sulfur ore in this cave was just a few linear veins on the stone wall, and more clusters of red crystals in front of him, these red crystals can not only be polished into jewelry, but also a common magic material, and magicians can use these rubies to make magical objects.

There was a large patch of red crystal in the cave, which dazzled Surdak a little.

The kobold slaves finally stopped at this time, and the two kobold slaves cautiously peeked into the cave, looking cautious, as if there was some terrible existence inside.

Surdak also looked very vigilantly into the depths of the cave, and the light refracted by the magma waterfall and red crystal clusters at the entrance of the cave gave the cave some light.

Samira nudged him from behind Surdak and pointed to a large cluster of red crystals, which Surdak noticed swaying behind the red crystals.

"Hiss......"

A small sound came from there, and Surdak rounded a stone pillar to finally spot the salamander, hiding behind the red crystal cluster, sticking out a long tongue and licking the sulfur ore on the rock wall.

The ogre Gulitham also saw the salamander, and almost without any hesitation, he untied the bone-crushing stick from his back and walked towards the salamander.

The salamander heard the footsteps at the entrance of the cave, and its round body turned nimbly, and three pairs of blood-red eyes fell on the ogre, which opened its large mouth full of sharp teeth, let out a low roar at the ogre, and then rushed towards the ogre.

The salamander's body seemed to have dozens of light-colored rings, and when it ran, these rings lit up one after another, and the scorching fire elemental aura diffused from its body, and before the ogre rushed in front of it, the salamander's body stopped suddenly, and then opened its bloody mouth and spewed a flame towards the ogre.

Surdak knew that the ogre had hunted more than two dozen salamanders in a row during this time, and he had a lot of combat experience.

Sure enough, just as the salamander spewed out a tongue of fire, the ogre suddenly pounced behind a stone pillar and dodged the flameshoot, and then he went around to the salamander's side, relying on his strength, and smashed the bone-crushing stick in his hand towards the salamander's head, but his body grabbed at the salamander's tail.

Just when the salamander swung his head to avoid the ogre's head, the ogre Gulitham had already grabbed the salamander's tail, he decisively discarded the bone-crushing stick in his hand, grabbed the salamander's tail tightly with both hands, and took himself as the axis, and violently rounded the seven or eight meters long salamander, and slammed it towards a section of rocks.

The salamander's head hit the rock, and the rubble flew all over the place, even though the salamander's skin was rough and thick, but such a sharp fall also made it faint in an instant.

The ogre Gullitam didn't give the salamander a chance to breathe at all, he used the huge force of the collision to smash the salamander round and slam it into the stone wall on the other side, and a living salamander was smashed more than twenty times in a row after the ogre slammed it more than twenty times in a row, and even four eyeballs in the eye socket were smashed, and the other two eyeballs flew out of the eye socket and hung out of the eye socket.

The salamander's skull was almost shattered to pieces, and the ogre began to make sure that the salamander was dead, and found that the salamander had no vital signs at all, so he dragged the salamander's body back.

Surdak knew that Gullitham had a way to deal with these salamanders, but he didn't expect it to be so easy for Gulitham to kill a salamander.

The two kobold slaves who led the way in front of them almost collapsed to the ground in fright, and the ogre looked at him in horror, for fear that the ogre would casually drop them to death.

Gulit smiled and dragged the salamander carcass to Surdak, he knew that Surdak's skinning skills were much better than his, and Surdak did not delay, and immediately the skinning knife peeled off the skin of the salamander at the mouth of the cave.

By the time Andrew retrieved the lava cave, Surdak had already cut off the salamander's head and was packing the salamander materials into the sealing box.

Such a large salamander was instantly filled with all the boxes carried by Surdak, and the ogre Gulitam carried two salamander backbones in his hand, and the group stopped exploring the lava cave and returned to the mine camp at the foot of the mountain along the same road.

Luke was anxiously waiting in the camp at this time, and was relieved to see Surdak and his party return to the camp.

After leaving the sweltering lava river, replenishing some salt water, and resting for a while, Luke's physical condition immediately recovered, he was worried that Surdak would not be able to stand the scorching heat of the lava river, but he did not expect that the group caught a salamander at the entrance of the lava cave.

Gulit couldn't wait to roast the fire lizard meat in the mine camp.

Surdak walked into the camp's hut with Luke, Andrew, and Samira, and Surdak told Luke the news that the lava cave contained a large amount of red crystals.

Luke asked Surdak with some concern, "Dark, are you saying that there are no sulfur mines in that lava mine, only these red crystals?" ”

Surdak nodded and said, "There are also some sulfur mines on the rock wall, but there are not many. ”

"I don't know if this crystal is as valuable as sulfur ore, anyway, let's light up the sulfur on both sides of the lava river first!" Luke said.

"It should also be a magical material, and in the hands of jewelry merchants, these red crystals can also be made into jewelry, and there will be a market." Surdak said to Luke.

Surdak also had no idea how much the red crystals were worth in the magical market.

Because the magic sealing box was full of materials such as the salamander's fresh meat, magic leather, heart and gland, Surdak was worried that if he encountered a salamander again, then there would be nowhere to put the expensive magic materials on the salamander's body, and he would not be as violent as an ogre, and the group had not taken a good rest when they came to the sulfur mine, and this time they withdrew from the mine, mainly so that the team members could have a good rest.

Surdak carried a marching tent with him, right next to the camp, and Luke commanded a group of kobold slaves to set up the tent.

Now there are nearly 600 kobold slaves in the mine camp, and Luke has built a large slave camp around here, and Luke has promoted twenty small leaders among these kobold slaves, and as long as these kobold leaders are allowed to manage the kobold slaves, the mine camp will become orderly.

Surdak got into the tent and kept Samira and Andrew outside, and then he went into a meditative state, which made it much easier to call Aphrodite.

Aphrodite, who was in the city of Highlandsa, immediately sensed Surdak's call, and Aphrodite set up a magic summoning array in the hotel room, and then summoned Surdak to the Garden Hotel in Highlandsa City.

"Is it going well in the mines?" Aphrodite was still dressed as a unisex young knight, standing by the window, and asked Surdak who came out of the summoning circle.

"It's okay, I just hunted a salamander, and I don't have so many magic boxes, so I'm going to bring these salamander meat to the city of Highlandsa and sell it as soon as it's fresh." Surdak walked over to the table, took off his ash-covered mask, poured himself a glass of water and drank it.

"So, you called me this time, in fact, you want me to summon you to the city of Highlandza, and then you bring the salamander fresh meat over and sell it to the market?"

Aphrodite asked, somewhat speechless.

"That's it! Without further ado, before the magic fails, I'll have to go to the Magic Guild to get rid of the salamander materials, and we've found a lava cave over there, which is most likely a salamander lair in addition to some red crystals...... We're going to hunt salamanders next, and I'm going to have to build a magic market here......"

With that, Surdak dusted off the thick layer of volcanic ash from his hand, then pushed the door and walked out of the Garden Square Hotel, where Aphrodite quickly followed.

The two called a magic caravan at the door and drove towards the Magic Guild......