Degrade from Nobility to a Humble Slave

The cave was dark, with only the faint light filtering through the entrance behind him, making it difficult for Zen to see ahead.

He had no time to consider what could be hidden in the dark recesses of the cave with his biggest problem behind him and moving closer.

As she made her way into the cave, the queen blade locust smashed stalagmites and stalactites chasing after Zen.

Only the heavens knew whether or not the queen blade locust had a keen sense of smell or Zen was leaving marks behind him. Whatever the case, it seemed easy for the giant insect to find him, even in a maze of caves like this.

The further down they went, the thicker and more pungent the sulfur odor became.

As he rushed into a connecting cavern, Zen discovered a red light illuminated the spacious cave.

Before Zen was an underground lake of magma surging. One after another, dark red flames burst up from the lake only to explode in a 'poof'.

This was the fire of the Earth's core!

It was recorded in ancient times that the fire came from the Earth's core.

The weapon refiners much preferred the fire of the Earth's core, because it was more primal, raw than the fire of life vitality that was in the refiner's body. The fire of the Earth's core had a miracle effect when refining certain special magic weapons.

Undoubtedly, the sulfur smell emanated from this pool of magma.

"Boom, boom..."

A low sound of rumbling thunder echoed through the cavern.

The queen blade locust was getting nearer again.

"Damn!" Zen blurted out uneasily.

He saw a passage at the side of the lake of magma, and he ran over to it.

The bank of the lava lake was heated by the fire from the Earth's core. Therefore, the ground was like a hot frying pan under Zen's feet.

All he wanted was to run for his life right then, so, he went through the heat at high speed not turning back.

"Ka-blam!"

The sound of exploding magma spurted fire through the air, splashing it in Zen's direction.

Without hesitation, Zen dropped and rolled, avoiding being splattered with the fires.

magma that had just skimmed past his back, burned a large hole in

wall was pitted with holes, like scars it had gotten from years of

couldn't imagine what his fate would be if the

blade locust was

was also afraid of fire. So the queen

' thought Zen. She was too big to dodge the bursts of flames. By contrast, Zen was more flexible.

to her plight, the quaking of the queen locust's heavy footsteps caused the lava to splash regularly, slowing her

growing distance between the queen blade locust and himself. He started to think

was almost free of one quandary, he looked ahead and found himself facing another. His face

was a shockingly huge creature

yet its body was at

fiery red mane, with its giant head resting on its mighty front

scorpion lion!' screamed Zen in

striking, yet terrifying name reverberated in his

read about the creature. Based on their scorpion-like tails and high-temperature habitats, fire scorpion lions were easily

the deadly weapon they had for a

times, but in

animal was on the brink of extinction was the ultra-rare crystal core in its body. The crystal core in the fire scorpion

Eastern Region, when a fire scorpion lion was exposed, it attracted thousands of people wanting to

the crystal core of a fire scorpion lion. Right now, he only wanted to

fire scorpion lion's sleep

Zen decided to attempt to go around the fire scorpion

he accidentally woke it up?

would be his path

Venture ahead, or not?' wondered Zen, stuck between a rock and a hard

the queen blade locust. So, forward was as

long fangs of the fire scorpion lion, and thumping tail, Zen took a deep breath before he started to step closer cautiously.

he approached, the unpleasant odor of the beast assaulted his nose. He managed to handle the smell as he walked softly and

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

step, he clenched his teeth

only three steps away, the fire scorpion lion suddenly rolled

that Zen thought it would burst from his

fire scorpion lion curled up, resting his

still holding his breath, Zen continued to