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.

heard the stone wall next to him, "sizzling," as the fiery magma that had just skimmed past

like scars it had gotten

what his fate would be if

blade locust was next to

covered the giant insect, but, she was also afraid of fire. So the queen blade locust

was too big to dodge the bursts of flames. By contrast, Zen was more

queen locust's heavy footsteps

was elated at the growing distance between the queen blade locust

Zen was almost free of one quandary, he looked ahead and found himself facing another. His face grew pale, and his mouth fell

was a shockingly huge creature blocking his passage.

yet its body was at least

on its mighty front paws, and a

scorpion lion!' screamed Zen

striking, yet terrifying name reverberated in his

seen a fire scorpion lion before, but, he'd read about the creature. Based on their scorpion-like tails and high-temperature habitats, fire scorpion lions were

world, especially the deadly weapon they had for a

beasts were widely distributed throughout the world in ancient times, but in the Eastern Region currently,

on the brink of extinction was the ultra-rare crystal core in its body. The crystal core in the fire scorpion lion was a very masculine object used in pill and weapon

and reckless characters in the Eastern Region, when a fire scorpion lion was exposed, it attracted thousands of people wanting to hunt it down.

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

scorpion lion's sleep was

attempt to go

he accidentally woke it up?

it would be his path to

not?' wondered Zen, stuck between a rock and

back though, he was a meal for the queen blade locust.

an eye on the long fangs of the fire scorpion lion, and thumping tail, Zen took a deep breath before he

the unpleasant odor of the beast assaulted his nose. He managed to handle the smell

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

took each step, he clenched his teeth to calm his pounding heart.

away, the fire scorpion lion

that Zen thought it would burst from

resting his large head back on

a little, but still holding his breath, Zen continued to tiptoe forward.