The red crystals within a radius of nearly 100 meters near the entrance of the cave have been mined by kobold slaves, leaving only the foundations of the red crystal clusters with faint dark red grains.
It was a bit hot inside the cave, and bursts of hot wind blew out from the bottom of the cave, carrying a very strong smell of sulfur.
Suldak wore a mask on his face, which blocked a lot of the sulfur smell, so the lava mine was not stuffy.
There are many pits inside the cave, and the ground made of accumulated volcanic rocks is not flat at all.
I walked nearly five kilometers into it alone, but it was a little hot near the lava pools. These lava pools seemed very stable, and the magma inside showed no signs of flowing out.
He walked into the cave for a long time before he found the ogre dismembering the salamander deep in the mine. The scene was a bit messy.
At this time, Gulitem was squatting behind a stone pillar. In front of him were two salamander corpses. Both salamanders were seven or eight meters long. The heads of the salamanders had been chopped off.
Stacked next to the stone pillar, the two salamanders looked painful when they died. Their faces were ferocious, with almost all of their sharp teeth sticking out. The bones in their lower jaws and eye sockets were all smashed, and there was a layer of volcanic ash on them.
Gulitem is holding a long and narrow skinning knife. He is holding the leather of a salamander with one hand and slowly dividing the leather and lizard meat along the white fascia. On the two pieces of salamander leather
There were no red crystal particles. This was no different from the salamander that Gulitem had hunted before, but it was not the mutated salamander he met the day before yesterday.
The ogre's hand shook slightly, and the skinning knife cut a little off, poking a hole in the salamander's skin at the front leg.
He calmly withdrew the skinning knife, rubbed the salamander leather with his hands twice, then tore off a little bit of white fascia from the salamander and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing hard while continuing
Skin the salamander.
Hearing the sound of footsteps behind him, the ogre immediately stopped what he was doing. He turned his head and glanced behind him, and found that Surdak was coming over. He immediately threw the unpeeled salamander onto the volcanic rock ground with a look on his face.
He said happily:
“Captain, why are you here?”
He kicked the fleshy salamander beside him and showed off to Suldak: "I just caught them. They came out of the rock crevice over there and I blocked them. I was about to cook a big one."
Pot offal soup.”
The ogre was right, the blood stains on the two salamanders had not completely coagulated.
“It looks like you can have a good meal,” Surdak looked at the two salamanders and said to Gulitem with a smile.
“I think I should walk further inside, there must be more salamanders inside.” Gulitem looked very excited.
He looked into the depths of the lava mine and expressed his ambition to Surdak.
Surdak used the 'Holy Light Technique' to heal the new wounds on the ogre's body, and warned him: "You must be careful when hunting alone. No one can help you when you are in danger, especially when you feel that you can't
Defeat the opponent, 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, no other salamander is my opponent." The ogre Gulitem leaned against the stone pillar, smiled "hehe" and said to Suldak: "Hey, Dark, you
Will that salamander escape again?"
“Maybe!” Surdak took out his skinning knife and continued the unfinished work of the ogre.
The skinning knife slowly traveled along the fascia, peeling off the salamander skin almost without any hindrance. Gulitem cut off a complete salamander leg for himself, and skillfully spread it on the volcanic rock floor.
The scroll of 'Fire Gathering Technique' was opened, and flames jumped out. The ogre skillfully placed the salamander's legs on the fire to burn, and then put all the salamander's internal organs into a large round-belly iron pot.
Muttered in his mouth: "I must catch it this time! By the way, take all the salamander meat and leather with you..."
Surdak couldn't stand the ogre's rough cooking techniques. After peeling off the skin of the salamander, he squatted next to the iron pot, rinsed the internal organs of the salamander with clean water, and began to turn the intestines. Except for a section of the salamander's belly,
There is almost nothing left except the digested sulfur.
“Are you so sure that you can catch the Salamander in the cave?” Surdak asked the ogre.
"Of course, I can smell the meat on them..." Gulitem said confidently.
…
He had a cave barbecue with the ogre Gulitem deep in the lava cave, and when Aphrodite complained, he took fresh salamander meat to the Magic Guild and major high-end restaurants in Helensa City.
After all the salamander meat was sold out, Surdak walked back into the treasure chamber along the rock crevices.
Walking into the arched stone door, Suldak felt as if he had stepped into another space, 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 onto the stone platform. This time he saw the 'Quel'Sera' embedded in the red crystal, the saddle cover made of Thorium and the dragon eggshell filled with magic crystal.
Although still a little excited, through constant psychological hints:
‘Those are not mine!’
‘Those are not mine!’
‘Those are not mine!’
Suldak quickly calmed himself down. Looking at the war reliefs on the stone wall and feeling the killing atmosphere on the battlefield, Suldak felt that his blood was boiling again.
He glanced at the cast-iron chair and thought it might have been placed here by Duke Angus Bradbury.
Taking out the first magic crystal from the eggshell again, Surdak felt that learning dragon language might be a long process, so he walked to the cast iron chair and sat down, feeling a chill in his body.
, which immediately made Suldak energetic.
The magic crystal in his hand did not appear as a three-dimensional image as Surdak expected. Instead, at the moment he let go of the sea of spiritual consciousness, he felt a 'boom' and he seemed to be pulled into a virtual world.
In the space, the aristocratic woman in a red dress stood in front of him with a calm face, and her body released a powerful aura.
Suldak mustered up the courage to look her in the eyes.
The woman's eyes had a kind of indifference that looked down upon all living things, and the same was true when she looked at Suldak.
'I'm glad you are willing to learn these dragon runes. Each rune is a key to unlocking the shackles. Only by studying dragon language in depth can you have a deeper understanding of the dragon language curse and try to unlock it.
The blood curse on you... Once these magic crystals are taken out of this treasure house, otherwise I will leave several dragon breaths behind, which will instantly cleanse everything in this secret room, including you!'
It was the same opening statement as before. Only then did Suldak confirm 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 would make him feel more familiar than looking at a small three-dimensional 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 with great concentration, and even wanted to write every word in this rune.
Details are slowed down countless times just so that Surdak can see clearly.
That scene was also quite shocking, as if a huge building was rising from the ground in front of Surdak, and the lines of the runes were stacked up little by little, and it was so clear in front of Surdak's eyes.
The woman’s voice sounded in Suldak’s ears again:
"This is the first rune language. We call it 'El'. According to the pronunciation of our dragon clan, read it with me: 'El'. You can feel it. Engraving it on magic leather will give people extra power.
, allowing you to hit targets more accurately and see further..."
Suldak found that dragon language was not difficult to understand, but the strange sound made by a woman's throat could not be imitated by Suldak, as if the throat did not have that unique frequency and therefore could not make a sound.
For Suldak, it was like clearly understanding the pronunciation, but being unable to make any sound.
Suldak had a very similar experience with this kind of aphasia on the frontline battlefield in Handanar County in the Warsaw plane. At that time, he could clearly understand what the other party was saying and knew how to pronounce it, but he just
I was speechless, as if my body had closed a door.
He touched the dragon bone necklace on his neck. It was a very strange feeling. It was as if the dragon bone necklace was connected with the body and became a part of the body. Not only could the dragon bone necklace be felt with his fingers, the surface of the dragon bone necklace was very hard.
, and has a frosted texture.
At the same time, Surdak also realized the feeling coming from the dragon bone necklace...it felt a little itchy when he touched it with one finger.
Lord Johannes stood in front of Suldak and sounded the same scale again, but Suldak just couldn't follow it.
The woman repeated the pronunciation of the rune again.
A sacred aura passed through the dragon bone necklace, and Suldak read out naturally the next moment: 'El...'
The next step is to draw. Surdak thought this learning process should be very simple. In fact, until the spiritual power in Surdak's spiritual sea of consciousness was on the verge of exhaustion, he still could not draw the extremely simple runes. That
The symbol looks a bit like a simple bird head, or a fish swimming in the water.
Suldak tiredly withdrew from the sea of spiritual consciousness and found himself sitting on a cold cast iron chair, still holding the magic crystal in his hand.
With his mental energy about to run out, Suldak leaned on a chair and closed his eyes to rest.
The surroundings of the cave are covered with gold coins, sulfur and red crystals, with only a young knight sitting on the dark cast iron chair on the high stone platform...
…
No matter what, Surdak finally learned the pronunciation of the first rune language.
After he regained some mental strength 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 showed no signs of continuing to grow. Surdak breathed a sigh of relief and looked at it.
Learning the language of runes can indeed curb the growth of scales.
Suldak didn’t expect that he had to learn the first rune for seven days before he finally 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 precise the drawing skills were, he could not complete the drawing of this rune. Until the sixth day,
Only then did Surdak understand that to draw the language of runes, you need to control your mental power, use your mental power to chase the lines in your memory, and construct those simple lines.
When the first rune successfully appeared in front of Surdak, the rune only lasted for 3 seconds in front of Surdak, and then it disillusioned into a magical aura and dissipated in the void.
Although it only appeared for three seconds, Surdak could still feel that during those three seconds, his control over his body and his visual distance had improved significantly. However, as the runes disappeared, that wonderful feeling returned.
Disappeared in an instant.
…
After completing the learning of the first rune, Surdak left the treasure chamber and came to the lava cave to look for the ogre Gulitem who hunted salamanders.
Suldak found Gurlitm at the entrance of the lava cave, and this guy confirmed that his inference was correct.
Deep in this lava mine is a salamander's lair, but the lava cave inside is complicated and full of magma pools. A large group of salamanders live deep in the cave, and they usually feed on the sulfur in the cave.
They feed on minerals, so they will not leave the deep cave easily. The main reason is that the cave outside is filled with red crystal clusters.
If the salamanders want to pass through this cave, these sword-sharp red crystals will scratch their fragile abdomens, so a large number of salamanders are trapped deep in the cave.
In just seven days, the ogre Gurlitm actually hunted eleven salamanders. This was the harvest after he felt that he would not be able to eat them all if he hunted too many, so he stopped in time.
In order to prevent these precious salamander meat from deteriorating, the ogre Gulitum peeled out the salamander meat and transported it to the lava waterfall at the entrance of the lava mine. He also placed some meat racks here to treat these fire lizards.
The lizard meat was roasted, and the sulfurous lava waterfall roasted the dozens of salamander meat until they were golden in color, and they all looked so appetizing.
When Surdak found the entrance to the cave, the ogre was sprinkling salt and peppercorns on the eleven salamander heads. If he hadn't appeared in time, Gulitem would probably have killed the salamander heads before they deteriorated.
They also become grilled.
Suldak was a little worried about the sulfur mine. After all, Luke returned to Wall Village, and the five villagers left behind had little management experience. If there was a conflict with the kobold slaves, they would not even know what to do.
So Suldak hurried back to the sulfur mining camp.
Gurlitm has been enjoying a lot of prey recently, and the kobold slaves in the sulfur mines can drink delicious salamander bone soup almost every day. This big ogre has become a hero in the hearts of the kobold slaves.
Returning to the sulfur mine, Surdak found that these kobold slaves were very honest. The five villagers from Wall Village actually managed the camp in an orderly manner. Even the sulfur mines and red crystal mines were arranged very neatly and according to the rules.
There are piles of various sizes, and a stone slab is placed in front of each pile of sulfur ore, which records the quantity of sulfur ore. The management of sulfur ore in the camp is actually more disciplined than when Luke was there.
Back to Sulfur Camp, just in time to catch up with the kobold slaves preparing for dinner.
Surdak discovered that six hundred kobold slaves were praying to the sky in unison before enjoying dinner. Surdak was very surprised and was about to ask the Wall villager who was making soup where these kobold slaves were.
What I did was that I saw the curtain of a stone house in the Sulfur Camp being gently opened, and a woman wearing a long black dress and a veil came out of the stone house.
Although the woman had a mask on her face and a black gauze on her head, Suldak could still recognize it at a glance...that woman was Selena.