Chapter 168: The Land of Flowing Fire (Part II)
What Jonah wanted to do was to carve out a temporary path in the lava and rescue the trapped heat-resistant puppets.Improve the end of the "Mushroom Farm Trident" attack star array, so that the three rays turned into an amazing spiral beam, his attempt was lucky to succeed, an orange-red spiral beam of light with the thickness of an adult's ** leg shot into the magma, and in an instant broke a red rolling path, the astrologer clenched his teeth tightly, and controlled the angle of the staff Sirafina with both hands, "Spiral Trident" From the middle of the lava river, a deep ravine is plowed eastward. "Boom!" the ray carved a huge gap in the bank of the Ekbatana River after leaving a two-hundred-foot drainage channel.
The slowly flowing lava to the southeast diverted, and the puppet was propelled by a stream of lava due east, gradually breaking away from the main avenue of the River of Fire. The ten-foot-deep drainage trough was quickly filled with viscous magma, and the puppet stumbled eastward, approaching the newly opened riverbank pass as the magma flow accelerated. Lava began to flow into the Ecbatana River from a new gap, and the boiling water emitted a thick steam," ...... Now, Arsai!" yelled Jonah. Lieutenant Morrell in the front seat pulled the reins, "Miss Nancy" flew over the puppet's head, and the astrologer turned his head and looked anxiously at the other flying beast.
"Ordered. The Oriental stood on the back of a hovering camel eagle, holding the hilt of the famous sword "Gluttony" in his right hand. The cavalry controlled the beast as it approached the riverbank, and the eagle's feathers began to ignite small flames, but obedience curbed its natural fear, and the beast rushed straight towards the burning river.
"Go!"
The pale cyan sword light as cold as water cut through the scorching air, and Jonah, who was hundreds of yards away, felt a chill down his back, as if his skin had been burned by the cold sword qi. The camel eagle fluttered its wings and flew, "Fortunately, Brother Jonah." Asai spat out the braids in his mouth, a bright smile on his smoky and blackened face.
"Click...... Boom!" A smooth crack appeared in the foundation of a boulder standing on the bank of the river, and the boulder began to tilt slowly, and then rolled down with a bang, smashing straight into the middle of the newly opened drainage channel, making an earth-shattering loud noise, and immediately splashing the sky with fiery red stars. The flow of magma was truncated. The puppet's pressure immediately lessened, and it clumsily clung to the rocky rocks of the riverbank, the lava flowing into the Ecbatana River as the level of the liquid gradually decreased. Finally, its left foot was pulled out of the lava and stepped onto the dry, icy rock face, the lava attached to its body crackled and fell to the ground, immediately cooling and turning into black particles, the puppet stood up straight, slowly raised its charred right arm, and made a declaration of victory to the sky.
"Hooray!" the Florerians shouted in unison with a deafening cheer.
The two camel eagles climbed into the sky one after the other, and the riding beast under the seat of Asai was obviously injured by the high heat, and its wings flapped more and more slowly. The cavalry turned to Asai and said, "Lord Swordsman, we are in trouble, my 'old Lily' has used up the last bit of physical strength and cannot fly anymore. ”
The Oriental smiled bitterly, "Then what do you want me to do? I have some high-protein snacks with me, but Miss Lily likes to eat human food?"
Lieutenant Morrell's "Miss Nancy" also slowed down its climb, and the sky above the lava was filled with turbulence of hot steam, and every flap of its wings was a grueling battle with the air. "Morrell, they can't do it, go help!" Looking back at his partner's predicament, Jonah gave instructions without hesitation.
"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel Jonah. The captain of the flying cavalry lowered his head and stroked the strong neck of the camel eagle, and Miss Nancy stopped flapping its wings, and immediately fell like a lump of lead, and in a few seconds it fell to the same height as old Lily, and the rare black camel eagle spread its wings and let out a long chirp, and two flaps of its wings stabilized its body in the air. Superior flying skills failed to compensate for the exhaustion, Lieutenant Morrell threw the cable and dragged another camelhawk forward in front, "Be careful!" A whistling volcanic bomb nearly hit them, and Jonah fired a spiral trident, which exploded the volcanic bomb head-on.
"Pretty flowers, Brother Jonah!" the optimistic Oriental gave a thumbs up.
"You're still smiling......" The astrologer lowered his staff and looked apprehensively at the sky. Rounding the plume of smoke, Miss Nancy's flight attitude became crooked, and it seemed that she could no longer rise into the sky.
At this moment, the sound of wind and shadows appeared overhead, and twelve heavily armed camel eagles bearing the coat of arms of the Royal Fireblade Cavalry Regiment appeared beside him, and their powerful wings supported the two exhausted riding beasts, "The Fourteenth Flying Cavalry Regiment has been ordered to come and meet you, Lieutenant Colonel Jonah." A lieutenant officer sitting on a saddle saluted with reverence, "You are the bravest man I have ever met, Lieutenant Colonel Jonah...... In addition, Lieutenant Colonel Sardis was very angry...... Good luck!"
"Whatever......" Jonah relaxed his hands and feet and slumped on the back of the camel, his bravery exhausted at this point, and his body was filled with belated fear. The "Spiral Trident" was an immature attack star array, and the two designs had consumed eighty percent of the liquid level of the spirit pool, and there was still a lot of room for improvement. The key to this fateful plan was whether he could dig a 200-foot-long drainage channel in one fell swoop, and whether Arsai could cut through a hundred-ton boulder with a single sword, with many boulders standing on the banks of the river, and whether Arsay could cut through the hundred-ton boulders with a single sword. - Looking back, the astrologers seem to have a little more confidence in the Orientals than in themselves.
As the altitude climbed, the air cleared up, and the cheers of the pink-hated dwarves rang out. As soon as the hero returned safely surrounded by camel eagles, the deafening cheers increased by thirty decibels, "Hooray! Long live Jonah of Ecbatana!" shouted the Florean in a sharp, thin, and cohesive voice.
Jonah turned his head to look at Asai, and the East smiled brightly, "I don't know what that means? I guess first, the operator of that puppet is one of the members of the Elder's Church of Ecbatana, otherwise everyone wouldn't be so nervous, and second, 'Yona of Ecbatana' is a master-slave form rhetorically, it actually means 'Ecbatana of Jonah', which means that these little guys recognize that you are all the people of the Volcanic Country, congratulations, Baron Ecbatana." ”
"Alas, I didn't do anything ...... actually" The 17-year-old boy's face was a little hot, after all, he didn't conceive the feat of digging through the earth's crust to cast magma, but the worship of the pink-hat dwarf did make his heart flutter a little,—— this feeling of being admired turned out to be so beautiful.
Climbing to safety, the first thing Jonah saw was Lieutenant Colonel Sardis's fire-breathing eyes, and if the eyes could kill, the astrologer and Lieutenant Morrell would have been cut into ten thousand pieces of minced meat that could not be seen in shape. "Once we're back at the command post, we'll have to sit down and talk, Lieutenant Colonel Jonah. The officer of the cavalry regiment with two mustaches squeezed a sentence out from between his teeth, "I don't know how you do things in the Golden City, but in Punjab, on the southeastern border, we ......"
Seeing Jonah's embarrassment, Assay waved vigorously at the surrounding hot air balloons, "Hooray! Hurrah!" Under his command, the Florerians let out a raising cheer, which immediately drowned out the voice of Lieutenant Colonel Sardis. After the lieutenant colonel finished complaining, he realized that even he had not heard the golden jade words just now, and turned his head angrily and stopped talking.
The lava eruption lasted from four o'clock in the afternoon to half past ten in the evening, and finally the internal pressure of the volcano began to weaken, and the river of magma turned into a gentle and quiet river, and the magma above slowly cooled into a black crust, and then shattered and sank under the impetus of the lava, and from the height it looked like a red and black decorative tapestry. The landscape of the entire Ekbatana River has been completely changed, and the lava has built a wall of gray basalt, turning the left bank of the river into a large lake full of magma, and the lava is still flowing into the river, and the white columns of steam are rising into the air, and even at night, the area is still very bright, and the light of the red-hot magma can still be clearly seen even from a hundred miles away.
On the top floor of Ecbatana's sacred site, Heart of the Furnace, a grand feast has just begun. Jonah, Arsay, Lieutenant Colonel Sardis, Ambassador Tocharo, and all the members of the cavalry were invited to this belated dinner with an exception, and dozens of humans and hundreds of male Florean citizens gathered in the low-roofed room, and Lieutenant Colonel Sardis was sitting upright on a round bench, his turban almost touching the ceiling. Asai poked Jonah in the waist and chuckled, "You said that when he lowered his head when he ate later, wouldn't his turban be pelled in the face of the person opposite?"
"Hahaha...... Be serious!" Jonah laughed, quickly covering his mouth and glaring at the Oriental.
The Pink Hat Dwarf's table is a bit like a children's toy for a human being, and the table is filled with delicate dishes with fragrant aromas, and of course, the black gold gopher meat dish that Volcano is proud of. Before the longest-bearded elder announced the start of the feast, the Orientals had already secretly killed seven plates of dim sum, two baskets of bread, and a large pot of hot soup, "Whew...... Next, it's time to start eating. Asai patted his unresponsive stomach and carefully added a clean plate to the top of a stack of pocket plates beside him.
“...... These are the high esteems that the Presbyterian Church has paid to Lord Jonah on behalf of all Flores, while others have won the friendship of Ecbatana. The Elder's lengthy speech made Jonah a little distracted, and when he came back to his senses, the speech was over, and the elder raised his large glass: "Cheers to the peace of the volcanic land!"
"Cheers!" the humans lifted their glasses with two fingers and poured the contents into their mouths. Through the lookout window beside them, they could see that the magma in the crater had fallen a lot, quietly emitting a warm red light at the bottom of the bowl, the first master's space-time star array was completely exposed, and the emeralds on the pillars had been shattered, and this ancient star array that had been working for hundreds of years had finally completed its historical mission and could rest for a while.
Now, it's time to separate. Jonah stole a glance at his Oriental companion who was eating and drinking beside him, and a faint sentimentality appeared in his heart.