In the Fire Elemental Plane, all fire creatures were free to roam!
Unlike the relationship between the lords and their subjects in other material planes, the Tier 2 Lord of the Flames, Artes, only had control over the Dustfire Canyon. He did not have authority over all the fire creatures in the city.
Strictly speaking, the only things that truly belonged to Lord Artes in the entire Dustfire Canyon were his Lava Giant Guards and a 300-strong Fire Elemental Legion. The other fire creatures were considered 'free citizens' and were not under Artes' command or jurisdiction.
Hence, when the Tier 2 Lava Giant Captain angrily wanted to capture all the fire spirits for interrogation, it immediately incited the fury of all the fire creatures and caused them to riot.
The fire creatures that could appear in the Dustfire Canyon were not rookies. Most of them were Fire Spirits, Flame Spirits, and Fire Elementals that had evolved. There was no lack of Tier 2 and Tier 3 Wanderers among them.
When the Lava Giants began to rush into the city of fire one after another and capture the Fire Spirits that roamed freely, they immediately spread chaos to every corner of the city.
Grimm also took the opportunity to slip into a corner where no one was paying attention to. He took out a bottle of glistening blue Witchcraft Potion and gulped it down. A moment later, his body that was shrouded in flames suddenly became transparent. A few moments later, even the last part of his shadow disappeared without a trace.
Grimm, who had turned invisible, carefully snuck into the deepest part of the Dustfire Canyon where the Lord of the Flames, Artes, resided.
The Lord of the Flames, Artes, resided in that hall. Unlike other places, there was a lava pool that was half a mile wide in the center of the hall. The bottom of the pool of fire led straight to the depths of the earth. A stream of scarlet magma kept bubbling up, stirring up the entire pool of fire.
Lord Artes was currently half-lying in the lava pool, using a huge lava hand the size of a millstone to splash boiling lava on himself. When the shockingly hot crimson lava flowed wantonly on its rough and solid magma body, the copious flame energy seeped into its core through its rocky skin, making it unable to help but let out a light groan in pleasure.
The magma pool below it was not a natural magma pool in the outside world. Instead, it had made use of the special terrain of the Dusty Fire Canyon to block all the exits of the underground fire and guide the high-temperature magma from the underground to this place. That was how the magma pool was formed.
For a flame creature like it, only by immersing itself in the pure flame energy day after day and continuously absorbing it into its flame core could its strength grow bit by bit.
Due to the monotonous elemental characteristics of the Fire Elemental Plane, other than fire-type materials and rare treasures, there were almost no other materials to advance to the next rank. Therefore, the powerhouses of the Fire Elemental Plane could only accumulate knowledge day after day. They could not travel across the tens of thousands of planes to search for knowledge and resources that suited them.
After returning from his lord's place, Arthez stationed himself in the Fire Hall. He handed over the task of capturing and searching for human wizards to his subordinates while he enjoyed the blissful life of bathing in the high-temperature liquid.
Half a year passed in the blink of an eye!
Arthez was not in a hurry.
Just like most fire creatures, it had no concept of time.
Although its lord had assigned it a mission, there was no time limit for it to complete the mission. Thus, it could still enjoy its comfortable life as a lord while waiting for the mysterious wizard to arrive.
However, today, just as he was immersing himself in the magma pool, a violent flame fluctuation suddenly came from the distance of the city. Then, a deafening roar spread through the canyon and into the hall.
Hmm? What's going on?
Arthez suddenly stood up from the magma pool. Red, hot, sticky magma flowed down his sturdy magma body. The heat wave and flame flow of nearly ten thousand degrees Celsius instantly swept the entire Fire Hall.
Dong dong dong …
With heavy steps, Arthez arrived at the entrance of the Fire Hall. He stood on top of the stairs and looked down at the Fire City in the distance. Flames roared and fireballs flew everywhere. It seemed that chaos was spreading to the whole city.
"What's going on?" Arthez's thunderous voice echoed in the hall. "What happened in my territory? Why is there chaos? Where is Huolie? "
Two Lava Giants guarding the entrance of the hall knelt on one knee and reported. "My lord, Captain Huolie just sent a message. He found a fire spirit spy and is now capturing him!"
"Nonsense!" Arthez immediately became angry. "Almost 70% of the free people in this city are fire spirits. Does Huolie intend to capture them all? You, go and inform him to give up on the capture immediately. Let my city return to peace immediately … "
"Got it!" One of the Lava Giants replied in a low voice. He turned around and strode towards the city center.
After a while, when Arthez's order was carried out, the city that had just been in chaos immediately returned to peace. In the entire chaos, apart from the twenty to thirty fire spirits who were caught in the crossfire and beaten up by the Lava Giants, some buildings in the city center were also affected. They collapsed and a few shops were destroyed.
The Lava Giants would never compensate or apologise. That was why the fire spirits who regained their freedom could only curse angrily and run out of the Dustfire Canyon to find a place to recuperate.
Grimm, who had turned invisible, noticed the huge figure standing tall at the entrance of the Hall of Flames from afar. Judging from its intimidating aura and the attitude of the fire creatures around it, Grimm was 80% sure that it was his target.
It was the Grade 2 Lord of the Flames, Arthez!
Compared to human lords and kings, Arthez's defenses were crude and crude. If it was a human king, he would have built a castle with high walls on the outside and a large number of guards patrolling the interior. He would also have specially hired experts to protect him.
Even so, some kings did not feel at ease and set up many traps around their residences to prevent assassinations and sneak attacks from outsiders.
But this obviously would not work in the Fire Elemental Plane!
At the end of the day, Arthez was the strongest individual in the entire Dustfire Canyon. That was why he did not need too much useless trash around him.
Grimm circled around the Hall of Fire a few times in stealth mode, but he only found two Lava Giants standing guard at the entrance. The Hall of Flames was an open space supported by dozens of thick pillars of lava. The spacious space was enough for Grimm to enter and exit without any hindrance.
Bull Pen Cat!
Such a pillar of lava might be able to stop the Lava Giants, but to Grimm who was only three meters tall, it was as wide as a flat ground. Grimm avoided the two Lava Giant guards and entered the Hall of Flames from another direction. He squinted his eyes and silently sized up the Grade 2 Lord of the Flames, Arthez.
This was a Lava Giant that was five meters tall.
Its body was completely pieced together by huge pieces of lava rocks. Between the cracks of the rocks, dazzling red light that was blinding to the eyes could be seen. A stream of scarlet lava flowed slowly within it. Even if one was forty to fifty steps away, one could still feel the astonishing heat emitted from its sturdy body.
Blue light flickered in Grimm's eyes, and he used a strange magic spectrum to draw circles of red heat around his body.
Although Arthez did not deliberately increase his strength, the flame energy in his body had already formed a Flame Domain around him.
All creatures that stepped into the domain would have to bear fire damage of up to 68 degrees!
Strictly speaking, the Flame Domain that Grimm had activated was actually the prototype of a Flame Domain. The Magi must have obtained inspiration and knowledge from the Flame Creatures, and used magic to simulate a weaker version of the Flame Halo.
As he was worried that the flame energy in his body would be detected by Arthez, Grimm did not dare to get too close. He could only silently analyse and collect data on Arthez's strength from afar.
Based on the intensity of Arthez's flames and the aura he emitted, the A.I. Chip quickly projected Arthez's stats into Grimm's mind.
[Arthez] (Rank 2 Lava Giant, Flame Lord of Fiery Dust Canyon) [Basic stats: Strength 27, Vitality 24, Agility 7]
[Spirit 13 …]
Seeing that both Arthez's Strength and Vitality had broken through 20 points, Grimm's brows furrowed, and he began to worry.
From this, it could be seen that this Rank 2 Flame Lord had taken the path of a berserk attack. His Strength and Vitality had actually reached such a high level. With its 24 points of Vitality, even if it did not block Grimm's two to three Rank 2 spells, it would not suffer any serious injuries.
With its 27 points of Strength, it could probably shatter Grimm's Lava Shield with a single punch and punch a hole in his chest.
Moreover, there were two Peak Grade 1 Lava Giant guards outside the Flame Hall. If Grimm chose to ambush Arthez, he would not be able to kill him within a few seconds. Then, the guards would rush over to deal with him. At that time, Grimm would not be able to deal with such a powerful opponent while simultaneously dealing with the Lava Giant guards.
Grimm hesitated for a moment, then slipped out of the Flame Hall silently.
Of course, before he left, he secretly left an Eye of Witchcraft in a corner of the hall. Only then did he run into Fiery Dust Canyon and find a place to hide.
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