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 his back,

holes, like scars it had gotten from years of molten lava

aware of the danger now, Zen was more cautious. He couldn't imagine what his fate would be if the fire of Earth's core

the queen blade locust was next to

fire. So the queen blade locust pursued

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

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 he would escape successfully.

free of one quandary, he looked ahead and found himself

was a shockingly

a lion, yet its body was at least ten times bigger than a

beast was covered with a fiery red mane, with its giant head resting on its mighty front paws, and a scorpion-like tail wagging gently as it slept

scorpion lion!' screamed Zen

yet terrifying name

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

the world, especially the deadly weapon they had for a tail. Even the strongest masters of the nature

fierce beasts were widely distributed throughout the world in ancient times, but

its body. The crystal core in the fire scorpion lion was a very masculine object used

greedy and reckless characters in the Eastern Region, when a fire scorpion lion was exposed,

of a fire scorpion lion. Right now, he only wanted to manage to stay out of

loudly, the fire scorpion lion's

Zen decided to attempt to go around the fire scorpion lion.

accidentally woke it up?

would be his path to

Zen, stuck between a rock

meal for the queen blade

scorpion lion, and thumping tail, Zen

He managed to handle the smell as he walked softly and slowly.

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

took each step, he clenched his teeth to calm his

steps away, the fire scorpion lion suddenly

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

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

still holding his breath, Zen continued to tiptoe