After seeing the image Bliss sent back, Grim was 80% sure that the tall figure was the Thunder Dragon Armes, who had gone missing in the explosion.
It was obvious that in order to escape, Armes had transformed into a human form again, using this method to reduce the difficulty of the excavation. Through the blurry image, Grim could vaguely see that the humanoid Thunder Dragon Armes seemed to have brought its own "dry rations".
The skinny figure behind Armes looked very familiar to Grim, as if it was someone he knew. But according to Grim's memories, it shouldn't be that skinny.
But looking at the skeletal arms and legs of the figure, Grim could vaguely guess what was going on.
It had been more than twenty days since the explosion. Even a Grade 3 Thunder Dragon would have a hard time surviving in the underground without food or water. Moreover, when the explosion occurred, the Thunder Dragon was so close to the Spatial Furnace. It was impossible for it to escape unscathed.
If it hadn't used its Dragon Blood Barrier to resist the terrible void storm, it would have died a long time ago. Although he had survived, he was riddled with scars and his stamina was exhausted.
That was why the Thunder Dragon Armes was buried under billions of tons of solid mud and rocks. In order to save himself, the Tier 3 Thunder Dragon Armes had no choice but to capture his Tier 2 Dragonman Zacha, feeding on the latter's flesh and blood, barely hanging on until now.
Although the flesh and blood provided it with a certain amount of stamina and life force, it couldn't heal its serious injuries. But that wasn't a problem for it. As long as it had enough mana, the extraordinary physique of the Dragon race could heal any physical injuries.
Unfortunately, the Goblin Plane was a small plane with scarce resources and mana. The thin aura of mana was so torturous that it wanted to cry. After twenty days, not only did it not recover its mana, it even became weaker due to the "hard work" and "monotonous diet".
Without the nourishment of lightning, the injuries on Armes' body began to worsen, to the point where its body was about to collapse.
Even so, Armes did not give up hope of survival. Step by step, it moved towards the surface with its "flesh and blood". Wherever it passed, all the lizards, ants, snakes, flies, and other living creatures were unable to escape its hunt, and they became the condiments that supported it to continue.
Unfortunately, Bliss' Stinger Scorpion ended up in the Thunder Dragon's stomach because of this.
The Type 3 Thunder Dragon was still 612 meters from the surface, which meant that in such a cruel environment, it had actually managed to dig 400 meters from the ground with its steel-like claws.
This distance didn't sound too far, but it was a thousand meters underground!
In that area, a large number of metal tunnels and collapsed metal buildings were stacked on top of each other. It was extremely difficult to dig an upward passage from these metal 'mountains'. Even the soil, which was usually as soft as slag, would be as dense and hard as steel under the pressure of billions of tons of weight.
In all honesty, Grimm was completely surprised that Lightning Dragon Armes was able to accomplish this.
In Grim's expectations, he thought that these annoying bastards would use some special terrain to survive underground and wait for their deaths. It did not cross his mind that there would be a fellow who was so strong that he could dig it out with his bare hands and just the strength of his physical body.
If Grimm hadn't discovered it, it would have been able to escape with its life if Armes had been given another seven or eight days of time. Of course, that was if its injuries didn't worsen.
But now that Grimm had discovered it, the Thunder Dragon Armes' escape route was destined to be cut off!
Left with no other choice, Grimm sent Mary to keep Leicester busy while he returned to the goblin plane and brought Endor with him to the goblin camp.
In just two days, the Thunder Dragon Armes had dug another 170 meters upwards.
As if it had sensed the strong tremors coming from above, Armes stopped digging after a short pause. Instead, it started digging horizontally, as if it was trying to avoid the unknown forces above.
After losing one of its scorpions, Bliss became extremely cautious. He sent two scorpions to follow behind the Thunder Dragon, and they quickly moved underground along the tunnel. The remaining ten scorpions were scattered around the Thunder Dragon, and based on the movements it made when it dug, they didn't get any closer.
If the Thunder Dragon was still in its normal state, the scorpions would not be able to escape the Thunder Dragon's detection even with the thick mud and debris covering them.
But now, the Thunder Dragon was dragging its injured body, and its mental strength was extremely weak. For a moment, it didn't realize that it was being secretly watched by the enemy.
Until a cold and gloomy figure appeared beside it.
"Respected Dragon Lord, Grimm sends his regards!"
The voice that suddenly appeared in the dark tunnel startled Thunder Dragon. It stopped digging and turned around. Its strange amber-like vertical pupils instantly caught sight of a small figure standing in the darkness in the distance.
Earth Elemental!
It was a low-tier Earth Elemental that was only at the level of an apprentice!
Its body was made of coarse mud, and it wasn't very sturdy. However, a pair of glowing red eyes were staring at it from its round head.
Damn it, those Magi are finally here!
Although it couldn't wait to be rescued, Armes still wanted to run into a group of goblins. No matter how many of those short and weak Goblins there were, even with the protection of Magic Machinery, they were no match for the Tier 3 Thunder Dragon.
However, the Magi that had appeared briefly before the war had become a huge problem for Armes.
If it still had its full strength, it wouldn't need to worry about these low-tier Magi. If it encountered them, it would just devour them in one gulp. It wouldn't even need to consider the threat they posed. But now …
Armes lowered its head to look at its scaly body. Looking at the wounds that were dripping with a putrid stench, it couldn't hide its solemn expression. Step by step, it walked towards the Earth Elemental.
"You're the one behind that explosion?" Although Armes was asking, his expression showed that he already knew the answer.
"My apologies, Your Majesty. We didn't set off the spatial furnace to deal with you, but to kill that brain monster. We didn't expect you to appear here … "The Earth Elemental's eyes glowed red, and it could faintly feel a strange spiritual fluctuation in its body.
Armes couldn't help but look downcast.
In its original plan, it didn't even consider entering this inferior plane of goblins. If not for the fact that the energy of the Planar Gate was slow to fill after sending a group of Drakonid scouts, it would not have relied on its extraordinary physique to force its way through the dimensional vortex in a fit of rage.
It was too late to say anything now.
How could it have imagined that it would encounter such a terrifying Void Storm in such a lowly and vile small plane? The intensity of the explosion of the spatial furnace was no less than throwing it into an energy storm in outer space.
To be honest, the fact that it could survive the explosion was a testament to the strength of its dragon bloodline, as well as its powerful physique.
Strength, luck, and experience. If it had been lacking in any of these three, it would have been blown to smithereens.
"Magus, I am Armes, a grade 3 dragon lord of the Lance Plane. If you can save me and let me go, I'll swear in the name of the Dragon God that I'll pay you back with five … no, ten times the amount of wealth you've shown me. "It was a rare sight to see the arrogant and violent Thunder Dragon Armes put on an amiable expression.
"Oh? You mean … you'll pay me ten times the value of a grade 3 dragon? "The Earth Elemental's muffled voice reverberated through the air.
Even though Armes' face was pale from the blood loss, he couldn't help but turn even paler when he heard the Earth Elemental's words.
Ten times the value of a grade 3 dragon?!
Even if Armes were to skin it alive and collect every drop of its blood and flesh, he still wouldn't be able to gather such a terrifying amount.
He'd only said those words to make up for the 'righteous' act of rescuing it, but Armes' words seemed to indicate that the Earth Elemental was already in his grasp.
It seemed that the Thunder Dragon God wouldn't be able to resolve such a huge rift through negotiation.
Wrath burst forth from Armes' heart. He thrust his once elegant but now filthy right hand into the earth elemental's chest and crushed its elemental core with all his might.
The thunder dragon was a variant of the wind elemental, which was incompatible with the earth elemental. Therefore, Armes chose to destroy it instead of devouring it.
As the elemental core was crushed, the one-meter-tall low-tier Earth Elemental quickly crumbled into a pile of dirt.
However, it was as if a war horn had been blown. In the next moment, Armes sensed the unique elemental energy of hundreds of Earth Elementals in the surrounding soil.
In the dark tunnel that it had just dug out, several Earth Elementals with the power of a Wizard kept appearing one after another. As soon as they formed, they charged at Armes with rumbling footsteps.
Armes didn't care about these small fries at all.
Its right hand, which was covered in mud and dregs, wriggled and transformed into a bony dragon claw. It clawed through the air, and every time it clawed, it would tear open the chest of an earth elemental and extract the elemental core from within.
Before the Earth Elementals could even get close to Armes, their cores were crushed and their bodies disintegrated.
However, just as Armes was about to gain the upper hand, it suddenly turned around and let out an angry roar.
The skinny Earth Elemental that had been hiding in a corner of the tunnel suddenly sank into the ground and disappeared.
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