The sun is scorching and particularly dazzling.

On the lifeless yellow sand, some poplars and cacti stubbornly grow in it, but the bare torso makes these desert plants seem powerless.

And in the desert, a small black shadow is walking fearlessly.

On the way to the Temple of Fire, Ronald had been on the road for ten days. Fortunately, those monsters are not very common, and after Ronald cautiously bypassed the activity area of the two Red Rock People, except for some ordinary beasts, he never encountered more tricky monsters.

However, the previous idea was confirmed.

The closer he was to the Fire Temple, the harder it was for him to condense his ice magic. Moreover, the condensation time was increased by equal amounts! It was about once every hundred miles, in other words, the time it took for him to condense his magic power had doubled again, from one second to two seconds.

According to the map obtained by Ronald, it is estimated that there will be a straight-line distance of two or three hundred miles when arriving at the Fire Temple.

It's not easy to do, is it really the realm limit?

Ronald raised his hand and wiped his lips, which were dry and peeled due to lack of water, with the back of his hand narrowing slightly.

The force of Irel's blockage was relatively less severe. But according to her, it also takes about a second to gather the magic. However, the use of stealth will not be affected in any way.

This fact made Ronald feel more and more that the Ifrit of the Fire Temple seemed to be set up to specifically target the ice magic.

Don't?

He couldn't help laughing out loud, a little sad.

He remembered a thousand years ago, when Ifrit was a flame elemental under the Black Dragon.

At that time, as the general of Lucifer, the king of all beings, he led his army against the army to which Ifrit belonged. As a result, Ifrit was chased and killed by himself and fled in a hurry, if it hadn't been for the black dragon's obstruction later, it is estimated that there would be no current Fire Temple.

But soon, the desire to figure out why Adela was revealing this information to himself inexplicably came to his mind. Ronald felt that these tangled threads in his brain were tangled together, but he couldn't solve the mystery. He wanted to calm down and peel back the cocoon, but he didn't always have more time.

Isn't it too impatient?The strength has not fully recovered, so I came to the Fire Temple to find ......

The smile in the memory turned into a helpless wry smile in the blink of an eye.

"What's the matter? Is there anything funny, tell me about it?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Hearing the curious tone in his mind, Ronald immediately put on a straight face and scolded the little goblin: "Concentrate on doing your thing." ”

A bone-chilling voice came from afar, alerting Ronald's heart.

"Stone man again, get ready. ”

He walked a few quick steps and hid under the red rocks.

In line of sight, six or seven hundred meters to the north, there was a small red dot wandering among the rocks.

From a distance, it looks small, but when you get close, the stone man is at least three or four meters tall. Moreover, Ronald also learned from those sources that even if this thing is broken, it can be reunited by some kind of magical power. When an ordinary adventurous party encounters it, it will be found that it is almost as if it cannot be defeated.

And Ronald didn't bother to spend a lot of magic to use the Eye of True Vision to find the weakness of the stone man. Therefore, when encountering these monsters, he is willing to take a detour in line with the strategy of avoiding them if he can. After all, his feet are fast, and after making sure that it is safe, he only needs to speed up his travel.

With this in mind, Ronald calmly observed for a while, and found that the stone man was just wandering in the area near the rock pile, so he made up his mind to bypass the monster's patrol.

The moment he grabbed the stoneman's turn, he immediately turned to the top of his body, and his speed suddenly increased, and he easily avoided the stoneman's sight and ran under another big rock.

After doing this a few times, he managed to get around it and moved on.

"Why don't you fly it, it seems to be only slightly more powerful than a salamander?" the leprechaun asked curiously as he waited until Ronald returned to his normal marching stance. During the time when Ronald was dodging, she had already quietly detected that this stone man contained a mixture of earth and fire magic, and the total amount seemed to be more than that of a salamander.

"It's not an ordinary area, it's too public, and it only makes us discover it faster. Ronald replied briefly, "Besides, we didn't come out to risk earning the Crystal Core. ”

The leprechaun asked no more questions.

In this way, Ronald continued to move forward cautiously. Along the way, they encounter three more salamanders and two rock men, but they are easily bypassed by Ronald, who is always on his guard.

And as time passed, the crimson sunset covered the entire sky, stretching the lonely figure below.

Ronald found that the landscape around him began to change, and instead of being completely desert and rocky forests, it began to mix with poplar forests and palm trees, revealing the shadow of an oasis. But on the yellow sand, there are also many corpses of beasts or monsters, and occasionally some vultures are noisy, fighting each other's beaks on the white skeletons.

He straightened his spine and looked out over the oasis.

In sight, there seemed to be several small tents in tatters. Moreover, not far behind the oasis, there was a huge rocky mountain forest, nearly a thousand meters high and tens of thousands of meters long, completely cutting off his line of sight from continuing to snoop.

Call!

A faint sound of wind reached Ronald's ears. Immediately afterward, a fanged leopard running wildly in the distance, and several gray horned antelopes fleeing in panic, came into his eyes.

Next to a palm grove, the longtoothed spotted leopard leaped to its feet and successfully pounced on the horned antelope, which was fleeing in panic.

Baa!

The antelope let out a mournful cry and collapsed, spurting a large amount of blood from its neck.

Curiously, Ronald found that the long-toothed spotted leopard was not eating, but was carrying the carcass of the horned antelope and walking lightly towards the interior of the oasis.

Don't...... Domesticated?

Ronald's eyes narrowed.

"What should I do?" asked Iraire again.

Ronald's gaze was fixed on the corners of the small dilapidated tents that loomed in the sky, and he hesitated for a moment, his aqua blue eyes shining with an inscrutable brilliance.

With a hard heart, he finally made a decision: "Rest for a while, wait until evening." ”

Although she didn't understand it, Irel played around the neighborhood with a lot of interest. Soon, her attention was drawn to a few small, black, shiny pebbles in the sandstone pile, and she flew over happily, and began to dig through the sand, intending to dig the thing.

Ronald looked at the little goblin who was playing happily, and his mood suddenly improved. With a faint smile, he found a place in the shade and lay down.

It was soon dark, but Ronald just opened his eyelids, glanced at the bright night overhead, and continued to lie down and sleep. The desert night was extremely cold, but he didn't care about the freezing cold coming from his back.

When it was nearly midnight and the sky became groggy, Ronald changed his lazy sleeping position and quickly stood up. He gently patted the yellow sand off his back, and seeing that Irel was still sleeping on the palm tree, Ronald had no intention of waking her up.

Ronald took out the dagger, and his eyes immediately became extremely sharp. He slumped low, trotting lightly and nimbly, towards the oasis not far away.

Approaching the periphery of the oasis, he slowed down and cautiously stopped behind a grove of palms. He first probed for anomalous magic fluctuations nearby, and after making sure that there were no anomalies, he followed the direction of the headwind and quietly moved towards the spotted leopard in his sight.

In sight, the spotted leopard seen during the day was curled up outside a tent, its body slightly undulating.

In order to be able to kill with one hit, Ronald carefully condensed two ice swords.

It was the darkest time of the day, and he walked slowly so as not to accidentally make an unexpected noise as he moved. He had already observed during the day, and there were hardly any defenses.

About a hundred meters away from the spotted leopard, Ronald touched the palm tree and hid and began to observe the surrounding situation. Only the spotted leopard that was sleeping soundly, and the small village was quiet.

He condensed two ice swords, and quickly took half a step forward with his left foot!

Whoosh!

The two ice swords were thrown out by him one after another, and with a slight sharp sound of breaking through the air, they shot at the sleeping spotted leopard.

Burst!

Sensing the danger, the spotted leopard was already out of breath before it could make a sound. And its neck was nailed to the sand by two ice swords that pierced into the trachea almost simultaneously.

Ronald tiptoed over and soon came around the tent. He gently slipped a tether rope around the perimeter, and then the cat lowered itself and continued to sneak, so light that it barely made a sound.

Soon, a bald guard caught his eye.

He slowly reached behind the guard, and suddenly stretched out his right hand, covering the enemy's mouth, and twisted it.

In the next moment, the guard's head and body were torsionally twisted at a ninety degree right angle, and the vocal cords had been completely torn apart, and even the last scream could not be made, but he was unable to twitch a few times, and then stopped moving.

Click, almost inaudible throat cracking sound reached Ronald's ears at the same time, the big bald head with a crooked head was also lightly placed on the ground by Ronald.

After doing this, Ronald grabbed the dagger behind his back and prepared to start the sneak attack.

After infiltrating the tent circle, he first touched a tent in the far corner. Gently cut the burlap with the dagger, and then quietly burrowed in. He found five people in the tent, sleeping on blankets in all directions.

Ronald bent over and quietly walked over to the sleeping blacks, then crouched down and quickly covered the mouth of one of the blacks with his hand, and the dagger was smeared to his neck.

The blade silently slit the black man's throat. Before the blinding red plasma seeped into the ground, the black man had stopped convulsing.

Then, Ronald walked over the carcass and continued to walk forward with the cat, beginning to assassinate the next prey. Soon, all the blacks in this tent were dealt with by him.

After creeping out, he did the same, stabbing the black men in several other tents to death.

In less than ten minutes, Ronald was left with only the tent in the middle, which was obviously the leader's tent. (To be continued.) )