The sky was shrouded by the billowing smoke ejected from Mount Pudu, and a large amount of volcanic ash formed thick clouds over Mount Pudu. Not only was there a large amount of volcanic ash floating in the sky, but the light around the entire Mount Pudu was extremely dark.
There were hot rocks everywhere underfoot, choking smoke rising from some rock crevices, and the foul smell of sulfur everywhere.
Both sides of the river of lava were filled with kobold slaves collecting sulfur mines. Luke found two kobold slaves to lead the way in the sulfur mine. The group was not bothered by the hot volcanic rocks on both sides. The kobold slaves were indifferent to the scorching heat.
Volcanic rocks are very sensitive. When they walk on volcanic rocks, it seems that they are not feeling the heat with the soles of their feet, but with their keen breathing, they can feel how hot the rocks in front of them are.
The climb up the volcanic rock is not easy. The lava river contains a large amount of hot magma. From time to time, the magma will explode from the bottom of the pool. A large amount of red magma will splash out, and wisps of green smoke will appear wherever it touches.
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Apart from these kobold slaves, the one who is most familiar with this river of lava is not Luke, but the ogre Gulitem walking in the center of the team. I don’t know what he was doing in this river of lava during this time.
How long he had been squatting by the river, he clearly remembered the landing points of some rock walls, and introduced Surdak several times to the places where he hunted salamanders.
Listening to the ogre Gulitem's talk, Surdak discovered that this ogre had really killed a lot of salamanders recently, and the source of these salamanders seemed to be this river of lava.
upstream.
The two kobold slaves who were responsible for leading the way quickly led Surdak and his party to the entrance of the lava cave halfway up the mountain.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, Surdak discovered that this lava cave was actually hidden behind the waterfall of the lava river. The lava river formed a huge lava on the rock cliff with a drop of more than 20 meters.
The waterfall, below the waterfall is a huge magma pool.
The two kobold slaves were not afraid of the magma splashed from time to time by the lava waterfall, and leaned directly towards the side of the lava waterfall.
Surdak's team endured the heat wave that hit their faces. The high temperature around them made Surdak feel as if the air he breathed into his lungs was on fire. The two kobold slaves were also suffering from the intense heat here.
, but they did not stop or go around. Instead, they walked close to the edge of the magma pool and towards the stone wall under the magma waterfall. Next to the magma waterfall were some cooled and stacked volcanic rocks.
These volcanic rocks are piled up layer by layer to create various shapes. The two kobold slaves passed through the gaps between the rock walls easily. Luke, who was following Surdak, had already had his lips burned by the continuous high temperature.
His dry, chestnut-colored hair was also withered and curly. He poured the last sip of water from the water bag he carried into his stomach in an attempt to relieve the heat wave around him, but he still couldn't stand the temperature here and seemed to stagger when walking.
Suldak quickly poured the water from his water bag on Luke, which made him feel better.
"Andrew, send Luke out!" Suldak thought for a moment, worried that Luke would not be able to bear the rest of the journey, so he ordered the indigenous warriors.
Andrew agreed, stopped, picked up the shaky Luke, and quickly took him away towards the edge of the lava river.
The kobold slave leading the way continued towards the waterfall.
The group of people walked forward close to the rock wall, and unexpectedly found a narrow gap between the lava waterfall and the rock wall in front of them.
This narrow gap is blocked by the layers of volcanic rocks next to the waterfall. The mystery inside is completely invisible from the outside. Only by enduring the intense heat and the magma splashing around and reaching the innermost side of the stone wall can this gap be seen.
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The two kobold slaves continued walking inside.
One side is a stone wall, and the other side is magma falling from the sky. As long as this flow of magma splashes a little, the two kobold slaves will be roasted in an instant.
However, this kind of magma seems to be very viscous. Apart from making the surrounding temperature very hot, there seems to be no danger of splashing out.
Next to the rock wall, Surdak can still vaguely see some traces of sulfur mining. These two kobold slaves probably found this place originally to collect sulfur ore.
The group of people who entered behind the waterfall finally saw the huge cave entrance hidden behind the waterfall. This cave entrance is almost twenty meters high and only forty to fifty meters wide. There is an obvious huge stone platform extending outward from the entrance.
Go out and dive into the lava pool.
There is no magma in the cave, but the heat wave makes the cave look like a huge 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 inside the cave, there are actually clusters of bright red crystals.
These red crystals are like balls of thorns, and those sword-shaped rubies are hexagonal crystals, and there are countless of them crisscrossing the cave.
Surdak did not expect that the sulfur ore in this cave was only a few linear veins on the stone wall, and more of them were clusters of red crystals in front of him. In addition to being polished into jewelry, these red crystals are also a common
Magic materials, magicians can use these rubies to make magic artifacts.
A large piece of red crystal in the cave dazzled Surdak.
The kobold slaves finally stopped at this time, and the two kobold slaves cautiously peered into the cave, as if there was some terrifying existence inside.
Surdak also looked very vigilantly into the depths of the cave. The magma waterfall at the entrance of the cave and the light refracted by the red crystal clusters gave the cave some light.
Samira pushed Surdak gently behind him and pointed at a cluster of huge red crystals. Surdak suddenly noticed a short red tail swaying behind the red crystal.
"hiss……"
A subtle sound came from over there. Surdak walked around a stone pillar and finally found the salamander. It was hiding behind the red crystal cluster, sticking out a long tongue and licking the rock wall.
sulfur mines.
The ogre Gulitem also saw the salamander. Without any hesitation, he took off 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 around flexibly. Three pairs of blood-red eyes fell on the ogre. It opened its big mouth full of sharp teeth and roared at the ogre.
, and then rushed towards the ogre.
The salamander's body seemed to have dozens of light-colored rings. When it ran, these rings lit up one after another, and the hot fire element breath filled the air from its body, without waiting for the ogre to rush to it.
In front of him, the body of the salamander suddenly stopped, then opened its bloody mouth and sprayed a stream of flames towards the ogre.
Surdak knew that the ogre had continuously hunted more than twenty salamanders during this period and had rich combat experience.
Sure enough, just as the salamander was spitting out a tongue of fire, the ogre suddenly threw himself behind a stone pillar and escaped the flames. Then he walked around to the side of the salamander and relied on his physical strength.
, the bone-crushing stick in his hand was rounded and smashed towards the salamander's head, but his body was grabbing towards the salamander's tail.
Just when the salamander was shaking its head to avoid the ogre's blow to the head, the ogre Gulitem had already grabbed the salamander's tail. He decisively discarded the bone-crushing stick in his hand and held the fire tightly with both hands.
The lizard's tail, using itself as the axis, suddenly rounded the seven-eight-meter-long salamander and hit it against a rock.
The salamander's head hit the rock, and gravel suddenly flew into the air. Even though the salamander had rough skin and thick flesh, such a violent fall made it faint for a moment.
The ogre Gulitem did not give the salamander a chance to breathe at all. With the huge force of the collision, he rounded the salamander again and smashed it against the other side of the stone wall. A live salamander was eating people.
After the demon smashed it for more than twenty times, four of the eyeballs in the eye sockets were smashed, and the other two eyeballs flew out of the eye sockets and hung outside the eye sockets.
The Salamander's head was almost shattered by the fall. At this time, the ogre began to confirm whether the Salamander was completely dead. He found that the Salamander had no vital signs at all, and then dragged the Salamander's body back.
Surdak knew that Gulitem had a way to deal with these salamanders, but he didn't expect that it would be so easy for Gulitem to kill a salamander.
The two kobold slaves leading the way almost collapsed to the ground with fear, looking at the ogre in horror, fearing that the ogre would drop them to death.
Gulitem chuckled and dragged the salamander corpse to Surdak. He knew that Surdak's skinning skills were much better than his. Surdak did not delay, and immediately put the skinning knife at the entrance of the cave.
Peel off the skin of this salamander.
By the time Andrew retrieved the lava cave, Suldak had completely cut off the head of the salamander and was putting the salamander materials into the magic sealing box by category.
Such a big salamander filled all the boxes carried by Surdak in an instant. The ogre Gulitem was carrying two salamander spines in his hands, and the group stopped exploring the lava cave.
We followed the original path back to the mining camp at the foot of the mountain.
Luke was waiting anxiously in the camp at this time, and was relieved when he saw Surdak and his party returning to the camp.
After leaving the sultry lava river, adding some salt water, and resting for a while, Luke's physical condition recovered immediately. He was worried that Surdak would not be able to stand the heat of the lava river. Unexpectedly, the group of people were in the lava cave.
A salamander was caught at the entrance.
Gulitem couldn't wait to grill salamander meat in the mining camp.
Surdak, Luke, Andrew, and Samira walked into the work shed in the camp. Only then did Surdak tell Luke the news that the lava cave contained a large amount of red crystals.
Luke asked Suldak with some worry: "Dak, are you saying that there is no sulfur ore in that lava mine, only these red crystals?"
Surdak nodded and said: "There are also some sulfur mines on the rock wall, but not many."
"I don't know if this crystal is as valuable as the sulfur mine. Anyway, let's collect the sulfur on both sides of the lava river first!" Luke said.
"It should also be a kind of magic material, and in the hands of jewelry merchants, these red crystals can also be made into jewelry, which will be marketable." Suldak said to Luke.
Surdak also didn't know the value of these red crystals in the magic market.
Since the magic sealing box is filled with salamander meat, magic leather, heart and gland sacs and other materials, Surdak is worried that if he encounters another salamander again, the expensive magic materials on the salamander will no longer be available.
After all, he wouldn't be as wasteful as the ogre, and the group of people hadn't had a good rest when they arrived at the sulfur mine. They retreated from the mine this time mainly so that the team members could have a good rest.
Surdak carried a marching tent with him, and it was next to the camp. Luke directed a group of kobold slaves to set up the tent.
There are now nearly 600 kobold slaves in the mining camp. Luke has built a large slave camp nearby. Luke has promoted twenty small leaders among these kobold slaves. As long as these kobold leaders are allowed to manage
Those kobold slaves, the mining camp became orderly.
Surdak got into the tent and asked Samira and Andrew to guard outside the tent. Then he entered a meditative state, which made it much easier to call Aphrodite.
Aphrodite, who was in the city of Hiranza, immediately sensed Surdak's call. Aphrodite set up a magic summoning circle in the hotel room, and then summoned Surdak to the city of Hiranza.
In the garden hotel.
"Is everything going well at the mine?" Aphrodite, still dressed as a neutral young knight, stood by the window and asked Surdak who came out of the summoning circle.
"It's okay. I just hunted a salamander. I don't have that many magic sealing boxes, so I plan to take the salamander meat to Hellanza City and sell it while it's fresh." Surdak walked over.
At the table, he took off his mask full of volcanic ash, poured himself a glass of water and drank it.
"So, when you called me this time, you actually wanted me to summon you to Halanza City, and then you would bring the salamander meat here and sell it to the market?"
Aphrodite asked speechlessly.
"That's it! Without further ado, before the magic expires, I have to go to the Magic Guild to dispose of these salamander materials. We found a lava cave there. In addition to some red crystals, there are many
It may still be a salamander's nest... We will hunt salamanders next, and I must build a magic market here..."
After saying that, Surdak dusted off the thick layer of volcanic ash on his body with his hands, then opened the door and walked out of the Garden Plaza Hotel, and Aphrodite quickly followed.
The two called a magic caravan at the door and drove towards the Magic Guild...