Bzzt! Bzzt!
A giant fireball appeared in front of him. The fireball looked unstable as it kept expanding and shrinking. It kept making sizzling noises as it did so.
The fireball was not an elemental creature. It was just the surface of a level-0 cantrip called Candlelight.
In the outside world, Candlelight was just a small flame at the tip of one's finger, which could only be used to burn paper or light up oil lamps. But Angor's Candlelight turned into a giant, unstable fireball.
Angor observed the inner structure of the fireball carefully. It was indeed the essence of Candlelight, but it was affected by the extremely dense fire energy outside.
However, Candlelight's structure could only accommodate the size of a small flame. Now that it had grown several times bigger, it naturally became unstable.
Because of this, the fireball's energy level would definitely exceed that of a level-2 cantrip.
Angor waved a hand. The fireball in front of him turned into pure fire energy and melted into the environment.
He watched as the sparks drifted further and further away. He used Candlelight to check the density of fire elements around him.
He had already used Candlelight at least four times on his way here. The previous few times, he had upgraded the Level-0 Cantrips to Level-1 Cantrips, but this time, he had upgraded the Level-0 Cantrips to Level-2 Cantrips. The Fire Elemental Energy here was clearly denser than before.
This also meant that he was getting closer to the center of the fire zone.
"So the fire sparrows roamed around the area with the highest fire energy level?" Angor thought to himself and kept moving forward.
About ten minutes later, Angor saw a school of fish made of black flame in the dark smoke. The fish used the smoke as a "pond" and swam in the air.
Angor took a quick look and realized that they were all elemental creatures.
However, Angor was not interested in them. They burned with black flames and fed on smoke, so they must be special fire elemental creatures. Fire elemental creatures like these would be more suitable for fire wizards with similar abilities.
Angor was looking for a fire companion, which was the main type of fire elemental creatures, or something that could help with alchemy.
That fire butterfly was actually more suitable for him than the Black Flame Fish.
Angor glanced at the fish and decided not to disturb them. He even took a long detour to avoid them. Although these were only weak fire elemental sprites, there were simply too many of them. If they were as naughty as the fire butterflies from before, even if each of them only spat out a fireball bubble at him, it would be enough to make this pure fire domain boil.
Angor decided to keep a low profile until he found out more useful information.
After avoiding the smoke pond where the fish lived, Angor kept moving toward where the fire sparrows were. He calculated the distance he needed to travel. He should be very close to his destination. He should be able to reach it in half an hour at most.
Another 15 minutes later, Angor noticed that the road began to slope upward. It seemed that they had entered a highland.
However, the slope was only a few dozen meters. Soon, he reached a cliff.
Tens of meters in front of him was a vast expanse of thick smoke, and it seemed that there was no road. On the other hand, he saw the scorched earth and cracks on the ground that led him here.
Angor assumed that he had reached a small hill by chance. If he took a longer detour, he should be able to reach the bottom.
He stood in front of the cliff and did not jump down right away.
He was already very close to his destination. If he was outside, he could already see the general situation of his destination. However, there was too much smoke here.
Just in case, Angor decided to send out scouting puppets to check the location first.
He took out 20 scouting puppets from his bracelet. They were still designed with metal eyes and wings. However, they were not the ones from The Limpet. Angor bought them back in Floating Mech City. They had better detection range, better camouflage, and better defense. He bought a set of about 400 of them. These red-painted scouting puppets were suitable for high-temperature exploration.
Angor left his spirit signature on each of the puppets and placed several nightmare nodes on the metal skin of half of them.
The scouting puppets already had a camouflage function, but Angor still wanted to use them to see if the elemental creatures here could really see through his nightmare illusions.
With that done, Angor ordered the scouting puppets to enter camouflage mode and search for the target from different directions.
When all the scouting puppets were gone, Angor took out Toby from his bracelet.
He already noticed that Toby was awake when he took out the scouting puppet. When Toby sensed Angor's spirit signature, it immediately wanted to come out.
Angor did not refuse. Toby was strong enough, and it was better at running away than Angor. If they ran into something dangerous, Toby would be able to get a free ride.
Toby quickly hid inside Angor's chest pocket, leaving only his tiny head to peek outside.
It wasn't that it was afraid of fire. It was simply because it was wearing a snow velvet dress that it had bought in Sea Moon City. It was also wearing a snow velvet hat that had fluff balls on both sides. Such materials were most vulnerable to high temperatures. It would be a great loss if it got burned by the fire outside.
After hiding in his pocket, Toby looked around curiously. 'Wasn't I in the big city? Why am I here?' Where am I?
Toby really wanted to ask Angor, but Angor's eyes were closed. Toby knew that Angor was using the scouting puppets to observe the situation, so it did not want to disturb Angor.
Angor was indeed inside the scouting puppet's field of vision.
The scouting puppet was an extension of a wizard's eyes, so it could share its vision with Angor in real time.
At first, Angor did not see anything strange in the first few hundred meters. There was nothing but scorched earth and flames. There was not even an elemental creature.
However, when the scout puppet moved forward for another kilometer, he saw a lava lake that was glowing in orange light.
However, the lava lake this time was much bigger than the ones Angor encountered before.
It looked more like a sea of burning lava. Even when the scouting puppets moved in different directions, they still could not see the edge of the lake.
Angor's destination, however, was the deeper part of the lava lake.
Using the scouting puppet's vision, Angor could see that the lava lake was very peaceful. There were still boiling lava and rising flames, but compared to the lava lake that was filled with all kinds of flames, this place was too peaceful.
However, this did not mean it was safe.
Angor had a feeling that there was more to this lava lake than met the eye.
Still, he had to do some scouting. He ordered 18 of the puppets to head toward the lava lake. Half of them flew at low altitudes while the other half flew at high altitudes. By doing this, he tried his best to avoid any possible danger.
Two of the scouting puppets were left behind on the shore.
Angor wanted to see if there was an elemental creature nearby.
When he was exploring the edge of the lava lake earlier, he saw a creature that was walking on its feet.
It was a fire-type creature in the shape of a werewolf with spikes growing out of its spine. Its body was covered in dark purple flames that looked like well-groomed hair. Its hands were very long, even reaching its knees. Its entire back was bent, and it walked very slowly.
However, Angor knew that this was only a facade.
An elemental spirit would never leave such a huge flaw. The Shadow Flame Werewolf looked slow, but Angor believed that it could move fast on all fours.
Angor wanted to see if there was a Dark Flame Werewolf.
Angor controlled the scouting puppets to approach the werewolf from two different directions.
One of the puppets was in camouflage mode, while the other was disguised by Angor's Nightmare Illusion.
The one that was faster than the other was only in camouflage mode.
The camouflage mode minimized the energy signature of the werewolf and allowed it to blend in with the environment. It would be hard to detect it unless it was carefully inspected.
The scouting puppet quickly arrived near the Dark Flame Werewolf.
When it was about a hundred meters away from the werewolf, Angor noticed that the werewolf glanced at the scouting puppet's direction.
Since Angor's vision was the same as the puppet's, he could see the Shadow Flame Werewolf's eyes as if they were looking at each other.
The werewolf's eyes were dark green. However, since it was an elemental lifeform, it did not have any organs. The so-called green eyes were actually burning green flames.
Angor could not read the werewolf's emotions. However, the werewolf kept its head down all the time. The only time it looked up was when it was looking at the scouting puppet. This meant that the werewolf had sensed the scouting puppet's presence.
Angor considered for a moment and decided to let the scouting puppet get closer.
The Dark Flame Werewolf didn't pay any more attention to the puppet until it was fifty meters away. The Dark Flame Werewolf's eyes were fixed on it.
No matter how Angor controlled the scouting puppet to move forward or backward, the werewolf's gaze was still fixed on it.
Angor was not "likely to be discovered" this time. He was definitely being watched.
Since he was already discovered, he might as well take a closer look. But just as this thought appeared in his mind, a black shadow suddenly appeared in front of the scouting puppet.
In the next image, which was also the last one the scouting puppet sent back, a pair of sharp claws covered in dark purple flames reached toward the scouting puppet.
Next, a cracking sound was heard.
The scouting puppet was crushed.
Angor was already prepared to see if the scouting puppet was damaged, so he did not feel bad about losing it. All he could think about right now was how fast the werewolf moved.
It had clearly been fifty meters away a second ago, but in the next second, a black shadow flashed, and in less than a second, the Dark Flame Werewolf appeared beside the scouting puppet. That kind of terrifying speed was simply terrifying.
"So I was right. The werewolf's slow movement was just an illusion."
Angor exclaimed and controlled the second scouting puppet to approach the werewolf.
Angor had high hopes for this scouting puppet since it used nightmare illusions to hide its presence. This was a good chance to see if a fire-type creature could sense the power of nightmare illusions.
As he was thinking, something unexpected happened.
A dark purple flame suddenly rose from the ground and charged at the scouting puppet.
Thanks to his quick reaction, he managed to dodge the attack just as it was about to hit the puppet.
However, it was only dodged by a hair's breadth. That dark purple flame still slightly touched the scouting puppet's wings.
At this moment, whether it was the heat-resistant skin or the most heat-resistant metal wing skeleton, all of them showed signs of melting, and it couldn't be stopped at all.
At this time, the second Netherflame rose from the ground, and its target was still the scouting puppet.
With one of his wings destroyed, no matter how fast he reacted, he had no other choice but to die.
Fortunately, before the scouting puppet sacrificed itself, Angor saw the culprit who created the flame.
Two hundred meters away, the Dark Flame Werewolf's long hands sank into the scorched earth. The werewolf lifted its head and stared at the scouting puppet in the distance.
The screen went dark. The scouting puppet was destroyed by the flame.
Angor stood in front of the cliff with a frown on his face.
The result was clear. There was no doubt that the Dark Flame Werewolf had discovered the scouting puppet concealed by the nightmare illusion.
Both the fire butterfly from before and the dark flame werewolf could see through the concealment of the nightmare illusion. Angor did not believe that it was a coincidence that he ran into two creatures with clairvoyance.
There was only one possibility. The elemental creatures here weren't affected by the illusion.
Which meant the six-tailed fox, the fire salamander, and the other elemental creatures really did notice him.
Angor felt a headache coming on. Illusions were his best camouflage method. Now that he couldn't use illusions, the Dark Flame Werewolf could also see through his optical camouflage.
It seemed that he couldn't do any more scouting in secret.
Angor sighed and focused on the scouting puppet's vision again. As for the Dark Flame Werewolf, he decided to put it aside for now.
When he reconnected to the scouting puppet's vision, he immediately noticed that two of the puppets' vision had turned completely red.
The two scouting puppets were arranged to fly at a low altitude.
While he was trying to figure out what was going on, the red color in his vision disappeared as well. He heard a gurgling sound, and his vision turned black.
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