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.

wall next to him, "sizzling," as the fiery magma that had just

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

Zen was more cautious. He couldn't imagine what his fate would be if the fire of

the queen blade locust was next to the lake.

but, she was also afraid of fire. So the queen blade locust pursued Zen

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

of the queen locust's heavy footsteps caused the lava to splash

elated at the growing distance between the queen blade locust and himself. He

found himself facing another. His face grew pale,

shockingly huge creature blocking his

looked like a lion, yet its body was at least

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

screamed Zen in his head.

terrifying name reverberated in

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

in the world, especially the deadly weapon they had for a

fierce beasts were widely distributed throughout the world in ancient times, but in the Eastern Region currently, they were threatened with

scorpion lion was a very masculine

scorpion lion was exposed, it attracted thousands of

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

the fire scorpion lion's

attempt to go

accidentally woke it

it would be his path to death.

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

the queen blade locust. So, forward was as good a choice for him

scorpion lion, and thumping tail, Zen took a deep breath before he started to step

the beast assaulted his nose. He managed to

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

step, he clenched his teeth to calm his pounding

only three steps away, the fire scorpion lion suddenly rolled over,

thudding so fast, that Zen thought it would burst from his

yawn, the fire scorpion lion curled up, resting his large head back on

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