The barber didn't know how far he had come.

But he could only hear the clanging iron and quenching sound in his ears becoming clearer and clearer—and it was only after he got a little closer that he realized that it was the sound of quenching.

Finally, they saw a cave in the rock.

There are surprisingly no white fog clouds here...... From here, the view is wider.

At least if you look up, you can see the top floor of the cave that is at least seven or eight meters high. It also has bright red lines of the same color as the "River of Angry Sources" on the inside, and it is these bright red glowing lines that provide the light source.

"That's where the mentor is."

The strangulation subconsciously lowered his voice, and his back became a little more rickety.

Somewhat frightened by his attitude, the barber also lowered his voice: "Is the mentor only one disciple?" ”

"You're two of you......"

Strangler whispered, "There aren't many mages in the new generation. ”

"But the seven empty islands combined, there are dozens of people."

"Two months ago, it was sixty or seventy, but recently the number has started to gradually increase."

None of the seventy were sent by classmates.

It seems that the Crucible school is really not very popular.

"Speaking of which, you haven't told me yet...... How do I address my mentor? ”

"Just call the mentor. The mentor didn't tell me what his name was. ”

The two students whispered to each other as they finally approached the location of the Crucible's mentor.

It was an old man who looked rather short, barely under one and a half meters.

He has completely lost his hair, not even his eyebrows and other body hair.

He was shirtless with a dark yellow lizard tail behind him. The lower body is worn with very loose pants that even drag the floor of the trouser legs.

His skin glowed with a metallic glow, and he was holding a large hammer that was out of harmony with his size.

It was a hideous hammer entwined with metal thorns and full of needles. The height of the hammer was a meter high, and the inside of the hammer, which was densely entangled with metal thorns, shimmered with a dark red light.

The mere glance at the hammer made the barber's heart feel a tingling sensation.

And what the old man was beating......

It's a very slow beating heart!

The heart was full of wrinkles and even looked a little ugly. It was covered in dark red glowing lines, and its body had turned almost carbon-like black.

Just the moment he saw this instructor, the barber's face stiffened slightly.

There was an uncontrollable crackle of pale flames at the base of his pupils...... But it was only a moment.

Russell immediately took his place and forcibly suppressed the psionic power that the vessel of the gods had induced.

He himself could not use his ontological psionic abilities while becoming someone else, but the vessel of the gods was not limited to this. That's why he can transform again at will......

But the experience of Xiao Liuli and Paradise Bird told Russell...... When he resonates, the other party also has feelings.

Even the memories seen by both sides are exactly the same.

In order to avoid angering the other party, Russell immediately forcibly took the trumpet and kicked down the vessel of the gods. By the way, it also interrupted the psionic energy that became uncontrollable and became intense.

For some reason, Strangling suddenly felt a subtle change in the temperament of the barber next to him.

…… Like a little more cautious?

"Whew-"

I saw the old man stretch out his hand and hold the heart.

Then, he directly submerged it in the river of Fury.

A violent quenching sound sounded, and white smoke evaporated, being smoked out along the vertical passage.

Russell suddenly understood everything.

It turned out that the white mist outside covered the whole world...... Is it the exhaust gas that evaporates when it is quenched with the river of the source of anger?

"Mentor."

The strangler saluted the old man respectfully: "This is the junior brother I brought back, his name is the barber." ”

The old man didn't bother with the strangulation.

He just pulled his heart out of the river of rage.

With his big eyes open, squinting at his heart.

The heart, which was originally as black as charcoal, was re-quenched and turned bright red again.

The low throbbing sound was like a subwoofer, and it could be heard clearly from a distance of ten meters...... Even deafening.

He then grabbed his chest with his left hand and tore it open.

He put the heart back into his chest.

At that moment, Russell saw it clearly......

His chest was empty!

That is, he is striking iron without a heart!

And when the heart was placed in the chest, the old man's skin suddenly turned red like a warmed metal.

Dark scales emerge.

As if blowing, his whole body became huge, and the loose wrinkles on his body were completely filled by muscles, and even became swollen-

In the blink of an eye, the little old man, who was less than one and a half meters, had become a behemoth that was a head taller than the strangulation.

But that's not exactly a human gesture......

His entire body is covered in black lizard scale armor, and his face has changed to an anthropomorphic lizard face. His skin was covered with bright red lines, and his back was covered with a row of large, sharp bulges that appeared to be organs for heat dissipation, and a white mist was constantly emitted.

With a huge tail trailing behind him, he looks like a smaller Godzilla at the moment.

"New, apprentice......"

Metallic voices with muffled echoes rang out.

It's like cutting a chalkboard with your fingernails, and just hearing a sound makes you feel uncomfortable.

He leaned over to Russell and looked at him with his dark, unemotional golden pupils.

It was within a fist of Russell at the moment, and Russell could clearly smell the sulfur.

For that moment, Russell felt a fierce fear of being stared at by a predator. His body couldn't control the instinct of the spirit relatives at all, and he couldn't help but look at it.

"Fear."

A deep voice sounded slowly: "Fear is a good thing.

"Fear is fuel, it's the key......"

Russell's trembling gradually subsided as the giant lizard's head left Russell.

But soon, the lizard's tail pushed him two steps from behind Russell.

The young man with long blue ponytail staggered forward two steps before he stood firmly in front of the "mentor".

"You...... Why are you angry? ”

The tutor's dark golden pupils looked at Russell and asked in a low voice.

"I'm angry at this unjust world."

This is the third time Russell has answered this question.

The lizard's head heard this, and it was closer to Russell.

He asked another question.

A question that Russell hadn't thought of before......

"Do you believe in God?"

“…… I don't believe in God. But I believe in the light. ”

Russell was nervous and frightened, unable to think about the meaning of this question, so he could only rely on his inner thoughts to answer.

"Light?"

The lizard asked in a low voice.

"Hope, Love, and Justice......"

"Huh."

The lizard looked at Russell carefully, and tilted his head away in disinterest.

"You're not fit for the Forge Way."

"But ......"

Strangler couldn't help but speak.

The next moment, the lizard's tail whipped out of the strangulation in an instant.

He was embedded directly in the cave wall, and the lizard mentor's dark golden pupils were covered in dark red flames at some point.

"Don't ...... Interrupt...... I! ”

He let out a high-pitched, piercing roar of madness.

The loud sound made Russell's mind blank in an instant, and his body couldn't help but emit unstable lines like water waves.

With his rage, the cracks in the ground around him cracked, and bright red lava burst out.

The furious roar cracked and crumbled the walls of the cavern.

The river of fury also burst out several columns of water, which solidified into a new dark red ground after falling to the ground.

And after a frenzy without warning, the lizard suddenly calmed down again.

"But...... I can teach you.

"My name is Zhongxiang, you can call me Teacher Zhong......"

With that, he grabbed Russell and pressed him to the anvil that was still warm and iron-like.

His dark golden pupils stared at Russell, and he lifted the thorn hammer that had finally turned into normal proportions after he had grown.

"Coming...... Do you want to forge it? ”

Jungo chuckled under his breath and exhaled a sulphurous breath: "It's very refreshing...... Kittens. ”

The blue-haired youth's pupils constricted slightly.