Step into the lava cave.

The red crystals within a radius of nearly 100 meters near the entrance of the cave had been mined by kobold slaves, and only the foundation of the red crystal cluster was still exposed to faint dark red grains.

It was a bit hot inside the cave, and gusts of hot wind blew out from the bottom of the cave, with a very strong smell of sulfur.

Surdak wore a mask on his face, blocking out a lot of the smell of sulfur, and the lava mine was not stuffy.

The cave is full of potholes, and the ground made of volcanic rock is not even flat at all.

I walked nearly five kilometers inside alone, but it was a little hot near the lava pool. These pools of lava appear to be stable, with no signs of magma flowing out.

He walked into the cave for a long time until he found the ogre dismembering the salamander in the depths of the mine, and the scene was a bit messy.

At this time, Gullitham was squatting behind a stone pillar, and there were two salamander corpses in front of him, both of which were seven or eight meters long, and the heads of the salamanders had been cut off by the same brush, stacked next to the stone pillar, and the two salamanders looked very painful when they died, with hideous faces, their sharp teeth were almost all supported outside, and the bones in their jaws and eye sockets were all smashed, and there was a layer of volcanic ash on them.

Gullit was holding a long, narrow skinning knife as he tugged at the leather of a salamander in one hand, slowly separating the leather from the lizard's flesh along the white fascia. The two salamanders did not have red crystal particles on their leather, which was no different from the salamanders that Gullitham had hunted before, but they were not the mutated salamanders that he had met the day before.

The ogre's hand shook slightly, and the skinning knife cut a little off, poking a hole in the salamander's front leg.

He calmly withdrew the skinning knife, rubbed his hand on the salamander's leather twice, and then tore off a little white fascia from the salamander's body and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing vigorously while continuing to peel the salamander's skin.

Hearing footsteps behind him, the ogre immediately stopped what he was doing, he turned his head to look behind him, and found that it was Surdak coming over, and immediately threw the salamander, which had not yet finished skinning, to the volcanic rock, and said with a happy face:

"Captain, why are you here?"

He kicked the fleshy salamanders around him and boasted to Surdak, "I just caught them, they came out of the rock crevice over there, and I blocked them, and I was trying to cook a big pot of mixed soup." ”

The ogre was right, the blood stains on the two salamanders were not completely congealed.

"Looks like you're going to have a good meal," Surdak said to Gullitham with a smile as he looked at the two salamanders.

"I think I should go inside, there must be more salamanders in there." Gulit looked excited.

He looked into the depths of the lava cavern and revealed his ambitions to Surdak.

Surdak used the 'Holy Light Technique' to heal the ogre's new wounds, and told him: "You must be careful when hunting alone, no one can help you when you encounter danger, especially if you feel that you can't defeat the other side, trust your instincts, withdraw in time, and wait for us to come back together to deal with them." ”

"As long as I don't meet that salamander, the other salamanders are no match for me." The ogre Gulitham leaned against the stone pillar, smiled hey, and said to Surdak, "Hey, Dark, do you think that salamander will still run out?" ”

"I guess so!" Surdak pulled out his skinning knife and continued the ogre's unfinished work.

The skinning knife slowly traveled along the fascia, and almost unhindered the skin of the salamander was peeled off, and Gulitham cut off a complete salamander leg for himself, and skillfully laid a 'fire gathering' scroll on the volcanic rock floor, and the flames 'soared' out, and the ogre skillfully set the salamander's legs on the fire and burned them, and put all the salamander's internal organs into a large iron pot with a round belly.

He muttered, "I'm going to catch it this time!" By the way, you can take all these salamander meat and leather with you......"

Surdak couldn't see the ogre's rough cooking methods, and after skinning the salamanders, he crouched down next to the iron pot, rinsed the salamanders' guts with clean water, and began to turn their intestines, which had almost nothing in their stomachs except for a single piece of undigested sulfur.

"Are you so sure you'll be able to catch a salamander in the cave?" Surdak asked the ogre.

"Of course, I can smell the meat on them...... Gullitham said confidently.

……

After a cave barbecue with the ogre Gulitham in the depths of the lava cavern, and running to the Magical Guild and the high-end restaurants of Highland City with fresh salamander meat in Aphrodite's grumblings, Surdak re-entered the treasure chamber through the rock crevice.

Walking through the arched stone door, Surdak felt as if he had stepped into another dimension, filled with the breath of a dragon.

The fourth scale on his arm actually stopped growing at this moment......

Of course, this may just be his psychological effect.

Surdak walked up to the stone platform, this time he saw the 'Quirsella' inserted into the red crystal on the stone platform, the saddle cover made of Ser Silver and the dragon eggshell filled with magic crystals, although he was still a little excited in his heart, but through constant psychological hints:

'Those are not mine!' ’

'Those are not mine!' ’

'Those are not mine!' ’

Surdak quickly calmed himself down, looked at the reliefs of the war on the stone wall, and felt the killing atmosphere on the battlefield, Surdak felt that his blood was boiling a little again.

He glanced at the cast-iron chair and thought to himself that it might be Angus. The Duke of Bradbury put it here.

Taking out the first magic crystal from the eggshell again, Surdak felt that learning dragon language might be a rather long process, so he walked over to the cast-iron chair and sat down, and a cold heart spread to his body, which immediately lifted Surdak's spirits.

The magic crystal in his hand did not appear as a three-dimensional image as Surdak expected, but at the moment when he let go of the sea of spiritual consciousness, he only felt a 'boom', as if he had been pulled into a virtual space, and the aristocratic woman in the red dress stood in front of him with a calm face, and her body released a powerful aura.

Surdak mustered up the courage to make eye contact with her.

There was a kind of indifference in the woman's eyes that defied all living things, and it was the same when she looked at Surdak.

'I'm glad you are willing to learn these dragon runes, each rune is a key to unlock the shackles, only by studying the dragon language in depth, you can understand the dragon curse more deeply, and you can try to unlock the blood curse on your body...... Once you take these magic crystals out of this treasure house, or I'll leave behind a few dragon breaths that will instantly cleanse everything in this secret room, including you! ’

It was still the opening sentence from before, and Surdak was sure that the image in the magic crystal should have been prepared in advance.

It's just that he didn't understand how he was pulled into the magic crystal, of course, this is more than looking at a small stereoscopic image.

The woman stretched out a finger and wrote a huge rune nearly a hundred meters high in the void in front of Surdak, she wrote very slowly, and very focused, and even wanted to write every detail of this rune countless times slower, just so that Surdak could see clearly.

The scene was also quite shocking, as if a huge mansion was rising in front of Surdak, and the lines of the runes were stacked little by little, and it was so clear in front of Surdak's eyes.

The woman's voice rang in Surdak's ears again:

"This is the first rune language, we call it 'El', according to our dragon pronunciation, read it to me: 'El', you feel it, carving it on the magic leather will give people extra power, so that you can hit the target more accurately, and you can see farther......"

Surdak found that dragon language was not difficult to understand, but it was just the strange sound that came out of a woman's throat that Surdak couldn't imitate, as if the voice didn't have that unique frequency, so it couldn't make a sound.

For Surdak, he understands the pronunciation, but he just can't make any sound.

This kind of aphasia, Surdak had a very similar experience in the frontline battlefield of Handanar County on the Warsaw plane, when he could clearly understand what the other party was saying and clearly knew how to pronounce it, but he just couldn't speak, as if his body had closed a certain door.

He touched the keel necklace around his neck, it was a very wonderful feeling, as if the keel necklace was connected with the body and became a part of the body, not only the fingers could feel the keel necklace, the surface of the keel necklace was very hard, and there was a kind of frosted texture.

At the same time, Surdak also realized that the feeling came from the keel necklace...... One finger tickled it.

Master Johannes stood in front of Surdak and uttered the same scale again, and Surdak just couldn't read it along.

The woman repeated the pronunciation of the rune again.

A divine aura passed through the dragon bone necklace, and Surdak naturally read it out the next moment: 'El ......'

The next step is drawing, which Surdak thinks should be easy. In fact, until the spiritual power in Surdak's spiritual consciousness sea was on the verge of exhaustion, he still did not draw the extremely simple rune, which looked a bit like a simple bird's head, or a fish swimming in the water.

Surdak withdrew wearily from the sea of consciousness and found himself sitting in a cold cast-iron chair with the magic crystal in his hand.

When his mental strength was about to run out, Surdak leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest.

The cave was covered with gold, brimstone, and red crystal, except for a young knight sitting on a dark cast-iron chair on a high stone platform......

……

Regardless, Surdak had finally learned the pronunciation of the first runeword.

When he regained some mental strength a little and felt that he was no longer so tired, he rolled up his sleeves and looked at his arm, he found that the fourth scale on his arm really showed no signs of continuing to grow, Surdak breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that learning the language of runes can indeed curb the growth of scales.

Surdak didn't expect that the first rune would take seven days to learn before he finally stumbled and succeeded in drawing one.

This learning process is actually a bit slow, he studied quietly in the space in the sea of spiritual consciousness, it was not drawn casually, no matter how accurate the drawing skills could not complete the drawing of this rune, until the sixth day, Surdak understood the language of drawing runes, and he needed to control his mental power, and use his mental power to chase those lines in his memory, and construct those simple lines.

When the first rune successfully appeared in front of Surdak, the rune only lasted in front of Surdak for 3 seconds, and then disillusioned into a magical aura and dissipated into the void.

Even though it was only three seconds, Surdak could still feel that in those three seconds, his control of his body and his visual distance had improved significantly, but with the disillusionment of the runes, that wonderful feeling disappeared in an instant.

……

After learning the first rune, Surdak left the treasure chamber and went to the lava cavern to search for the ogre Gulitham, who hunted the salamander.

Surdak found Gullitham at the mouth of the lava cave, and the guy confirmed that his inference was correct.

Deep in this lava mine is a salamander's lair, but the lava cave inside is intricate, and there are magma pools everywhere, a large group of salamanders live in the depths of the cave, they usually feed on the sulfur ore in the cave, they will not easily leave the deep cave, the main reason is that the cave outside is full of red crystal clusters.

As salamanders try to make their way through the cave, these sword-sharp red crystals scratch their fragile abdomen, so a large number of salamanders are trapped in the depths of the cavern.

In just seven days, the ogre Gulitam actually hunted eleven salamanders, which was still the harvest after he felt that he couldn't eat it if he hunted too much, so he stopped it in time.

In order to prevent the meat of these precious salamanders from spoiling, the ogre Gulitham peeled out the meat of these salamanders and transported them to the lava waterfall at the mouth of the lava mine, and placed some meat racks here to bake the meat of these salamanders.

When Surdak found the hole, the ogre was sprinkling salt and peppercorns on the skulls of eleven salamanders, and if he hadn't shown up in time, Gulitham would probably have turned the salamander heads into a barbecue before they spoiled.

Surdak was a little worried about the sulphur mines, after all, Luke had returned to the village of Wall, leaving behind five villagers with little management experience, and they didn't even know what to do in the event of a conflict with kobold slaves.

So Surdak hurried back to the brimstone mine camp.

Gulit has been plentiful lately, and the kobold slaves in the Sulphur Mines have been able to drink delicious salamander bone broth almost every day, and the hunky ogre has become a hero to the kobold slaves.

Back at the sulfur mines, Surdak found that these kobold slaves were very honest, and the five villagers of Wall Village actually managed the camp side in an orderly manner, even the sulfur mines and red crystal mines were very neatly arranged, and piled up into several stacks according to the size, and a stone slab was placed in front of each stack of sulfur mines, which recorded the number of sulfur mines, and the management of sulfur ores on this side of the camp was actually more regular than when Luke was there.

Returning to the Brimstone camp, just in time for the kobold slaves to prepare for dinner.

Surdak was surprised to find that the six hundred kobold slaves were praying to the sky in unison before dinner, and was about to ask the villagers of the wall who were boiling the soup what the kobold slaves were doing, when he saw the curtain of a stone house in the sulfur camp gently lifted, and a woman wearing a long black dress and a light veil came out of the stone house.

Although the woman had a mask on her face and a black veil on her head, Surdak recognized it at a glance...... The woman was Selena.