Chapter 2168 Dark Flame Werewolf <TOC> Chapter 2170 Elemental Self-Destruction
Translator: SumTLMan
The two scouting puppets both shattered, and the manner in which they broke was initially a red screen.
This is definitely not a coincidence. It could only be an attack in the same manner. Since they were flying at low altitude, and the surface of the Lava Lake had no towering flame columns, it must be the work of elemental creatures hidden in the lava lake.
Angel wasn’t surprised by this situation. He was prepared for the puppets to be damaged, but it was a pity that he couldn’t detect who was behind it.
Unaffected by the puppets’ damage, Angel calmed his slightly fluctuating emotions and continued controlling the scouting puppets.
Thirty seconds later, three low-flying scouting puppets simultaneously turned to a red screen.
Even though Angel never shifted his attention, he still couldn’t figure out what happened to the puppets and why the screens turned red without any warning.
A few seconds later, the three scouting puppets that turned red shattered and were discarded.
Angel was still immersed in confusion when he discovered that more scouting puppets were attacked.
But this time, it wasn’t the low-flying ones but the high-flying scouting puppets. Five high-altitude puppets were surrounded, and the attackers’ appearances entered Angel’s view.
These were creatures with green flames all over their bodies.
About two meters in length, their front halves were cat heads and front paws of phoenix cats, while their back halves completely turned into segmented worms, dragging a long tail without hind legs or wings. Yet, they could still fly mid-air at very high speeds.
Moreover, these elemental creatures were gregarious. Just five scouting puppets, each was surrounded by over thirty such creatures, leaving them no escape.
“They look like Taso worms, but a fire elemental version,” Angel pondered internally.
Taso worms are magical creatures living in dense forests, half cat and half worm, also capable of flying mid-air. They prey on eagles, attacking with cat-like claws and emitting deadly toxic mist.
“These fire elemental Taso worms, engulfed in eerie green flames, couldn’t be toxic fire creatures, could they?”
As Angel thought this, a scouting puppet was sprayed with green fire by a flame Taso worm. The affected puppet flickered twice before completely shutting down.
Another scouting puppet was rendered useless.
Through a nearby puppet, Angel saw the one sprayed with green fire was not burning but was corroded and invaded by the green fire like a flesh-eating maggot.
Although Angel couldn’t probe the true nature of the corrosive damage, the current situation suggested that these flame Taso worms were likely toxic fire creatures.
Toxic fire creatures are also a type of fire elemental being.
As the first puppet was corroded by the poisonous green flame, the remaining four, surrounded, followed suit one after another.
Angel thought of fleeing, but the number of flame Taso worms was overwhelming, and their speed was no less than the scouting puppets. Even with Angel’s incredible reaction speed, the maximum limit of the puppets hindered real speed, making escape impossible.
Resigned, Angel gave up on these four and continued observing other scouting puppets.
The deeper into the lava lake, the more dangerous it became.
The low-flying scouting puppets were persecuted again, turning to a red screen without warning, followed by the shattering of two puppets.
Even though Angel probed from different directions towards the inner parts, any low-flying puppet encountered this situation.
The low altitude above the entire lava lake is the hunting range of some unknown fire elemental creature.
Currently, only two of the low-flying scouting puppets remain.
Angel still has these two flying at a low altitude, not because he is unwilling to ascend, but because the dangers of the high altitude are no less than those of the low altitude.
The danger of the low altitude is invisible, while that of the high altitude is glaringly obvious: groups of fire elemental creatures densely packed, chasing the remaining four high-flying puppets, including the previously mentioned Taso Worms and other flying fire element birds.
It can be said that, as of now, there is no safe place for the scouting puppets.
Angel can only try to weave through the smoke, hoping to obscure his vision, but it’s not very effective, because fire elemental creatures also live in the smoke, such as the Black Flame Fish.
Even though the Black Flame Fish’s attack power is not strong, due to the increasingly dense and active fire element energy, a single bubble it spits out is not something the scouting puppets can touch.
Two minutes later, the four high-flying puppets were each caught by different fire elemental creatures, and a few seconds later, the fragments of the four puppets fell into the rolling magma, completely declaring the high-altitude scouting a failure.
However, the two remaining low-flying puppets are quite lucky, flying much further.
But within half a minute, the screen of one scouting puppet turned red and then shattered.
Now only one lone puppet remains, still striving.
After one minute, it’s fine.
Two minutes, three minutes… Five minutes later, it’s still fine.
Angel originally thought this scouting attempt was going to be a failure, but who would have thought the luck of this scouting puppet was so good?
He couldn’t help but raise his hopes again.
However, oftentimes the more hope there is, the less the hoped-for can bear the weight of that expectation.
Half a minute later, using the vision of the scouting puppet, Angel sees a pitch-black land appearing at the end of the rising smoke.
Angel is overjoyed, thinking he might have discovered the scorched earth on the opposite shore of the lava lake.
As long as the location of the scorched earth is confirmed, and then a coordinate without elemental creatures nearby is found, he could completely transport there using the Gateway of Fantasy.
However, just as Angel was imagining this in one second, his face darkened in the next.
The screen goes black, and the last scouting puppet is also damaged.
This time, unlike before, it wasn’t without warning. The killer of the scouting puppet was seen by Angel… It was that pitch-black scorched earth.
That wasn’t any land at all, but rather the shell of a giant turtle.
This giant turtle is also a fire elemental creature, but like the toxic fire creatures, it is a special type of fire element: a lava creature.
It seems there is no magma on the turtle’s shell, but its temperature is even higher than that of the lava lake. The scouting puppet was hovering above the turtle shell when it was steamed by the high temperature and then fell onto the shell and was damaged.
The only consolation is that, before the destruction of this scouting puppet, the giant turtle happened to turn its head, allowing Angel to confirm that this was not scorched earth, but a turtle’s back. This prevented Angel from unknowingly facing a giant lava creature when opening the gateway.
With the fall of the last scouting puppet, this scouting journey also comes to an end.
Although the target location was not scouted, it wasn’t completely without gain.
At least Angel confirmed that there are large groups of fire elemental creatures in the high altitude, unknown dangers in the low altitude, and a very powerful lava giant turtle.
These messages can provide significant assistance to Angel’s journey ahead.
The only regret is that no safe coordinates for opening gateways have been found.
Angel’s Gateway of Fantasy doesn’t necessarily require coordinates; it just needs a general distance and direction to open. However, nobody knows what lies beyond the gate, and to avoid danger, Angel won’t open it recklessly.
As for spatial displacement into the previously explored lava lake, this also carries certain risks.
The spatial displacement of the Gateway of Fantasy can be influenced by external energies. If there is an elemental creature with malicious intent on the other side, it could disrupt the space and cause anomalies in spatial displacement.
However, the likelihood of this happening is relatively small.
But even if the chance is minimal, Angel doesn’t want to gamble with his life.
…
On the cliff, Angel slowly opens his eyes.
He casually strokes Toby’s little head and playfully tugs at the pom-pom of the snow hat before turning to look at the thick black smoke in the distance.
“Let’s go.” With a light leap, Angel jumps down from the cliff.
He decides not to use scouting puppets anymore.
Scouting puppets are only extensions of sight; many things cannot be personally sensed. Like the recent sudden red screen of a few low-flying scouting puppets, it’s hard to find the answer just by looking.
He prepares to see for himself.
At least, based on the messages returned from the scouting puppets, Angel doesn’t think there are elemental creatures that can threaten him, except maybe the giant turtle is a bit difficult to deal with. If he really can’t handle it, he’ll just run away.
After landing, Angel continues forward along the scorched earth ahead.
Since this area has already been explored by scouting puppets, Angel doesn’t expect any danger and accelerates his pace slightly.
While walking, Angel also answers Toby’s questions about the region.
Toby, knowing they have arrived in another subsidiary world, isn’t too surprised. After all, no matter where they are, even in the Bottomless Abyss, as long as he is with Angel, it is an absolute comfort zone.
There’s no concept of leaving the comfort zone.
Toby happily observes the different scenery around, while Angel starts pondering a question.
According to the information on the Tidal Realm map and the illustrations left by the Magic Painter on the large stone, the representative creature of this Fire Region should be the black fire monkey.
But why hasn’t he seen any monkey-shaped fire elemental creatures after walking for so long?
Or is it that what Feng marked on the map as “representative creatures” actually doesn’t refer to a widely existing type but to the strongest elemental creature in this Fire Region?
If that’s the case, it makes sense why he hasn’t seen any black fire monkeys yet.
As the strongest, they must occupy the best territories.
Thinking about it, if the black fire monkey is the king of the Fire Region, he should be able to see it in the area where the fire energy is most active.
And the area with the most vigorous fire energy is precisely where Angel is heading!
The reason Angel is contemplating this is because elemental creatures have extremely long lifespans. Since this black fire monkey was depicted by Feng in an illustration, it’s likely that it has seen Feng.
It might know information related to Feng.
“For instance, that so-called treasure left for those who come after.”
Thinking of this, Angel quickened his pace underfoot once more.
Circling around the area previously scouted by the puppet, where elemental creatures were detected, Angel arrived near the lava lake in five minutes.
Although he had already seen this lava lake through the scouting puppet, the real close-up experience still made Angel quite emotional.
Each time, he thought he had reached the extreme of the land of fire, but as long as he moved forward, there would always be more extreme environments waiting in the distance.
This boundless sea of fire, completely made of magma, is the new realm that challenges Angel’s limits.
Even the original Tan Continent, due to its impending collapse and the emergence of numerous magma lakes from underground, still could not compare to this place.
Such an extreme environment, for ordinary people, is definitely something to fear and avoid. But for those with extraordinary abilities, this is undoubtedly a paradise that excites them.
If the situation in Tidal Realm were discovered by the outside world, it is estimated that the entire Wizarding World would be shaken.
After all, naturally formed elemental creatures are too rare. And elemental creatures are companions that every formal wizard must have.
How should the Tidal Realm be dealt with in the future?
Angel shook his head, temporarily putting aside these issues. He would think about the future after he had fully explored the Tidal Realm.
Angel looked at the lava lake again, his expression much calmer.
What he needed to consider now was whether to travel through high or low altitude.
The situation in low altitude, as seen in the vision of the scouting puppet, was somewhat strange. There were occasional red screens and then damage.
But to Angel, this might be a kind of fire elemental creature that can fool the naked eye.
Elemental creatures themselves are made of pure energy, and it’s normal for energy creatures to be invisible, right?
Angel suspected that there is an invisible fire elemental creature in the low altitude area of the lava lake.
“Generally, such invisible creatures can only hide their appearance, the energy body itself certainly cannot be hidden,” Angel thought. To scout it was simple, just use mental power to sense it.
Angel directly released his mental power, probing towards the distant lava lake.
Worried that releasing mental power too far might encounter danger and not be able to retract in time, Angel didn’t fully release his mental power, but searched within a hundred meters radius around himself.
Within a hundred meters of his current location, there was nothing unusual.
Angel walked along the shore for about ten minutes and finally, he found a clue.
Sixty meters away from the shore, Angel saw a creature composed entirely of intense energy.
It was a fire elemental creature that the naked eye couldn’t capture, but whose energy fluctuations couldn’t be hidden.
In the vision of energy, its shape was clearly visible.
Its shape was very odd, like a bean sprout, with a transparent and slender tube overall, and a big head on top. However, there was nothing on the head except a mouth.
The tail of this “bean sprout” was rooted in the magma, and the specific situation was unclear.
Angel thought for a moment, summoned Eremy, and signaled him not to make a big fuss, but to stealthily enter the lava lake to see what the full picture of this bean sprout, which was protruding from the lake, was like.
Without hesitation, Eremy transformed into a shadow of flames and silently drilled into the rolling magma.
Chapter 2168 Dark Flame Werewolf <TOC> Chapter 2170 Elemental Self-Destruction