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.

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

holes, like scars it had

couldn't imagine what his fate would be if the

queen blade locust was next to

fire. So the

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

locust's heavy footsteps caused the lava to splash regularly, slowing her progress

queen blade locust and himself. He started to think he would escape successfully.

one quandary, he looked ahead and found himself facing another. His face grew pale, and his mouth

a shockingly huge creature

yet its body was at least ten

mane, with its giant head resting on its mighty front paws, and a scorpion-like tail wagging gently as it slept soundly.

lion!' screamed Zen

striking, yet terrifying name reverberated in

had never seen a fire scorpion lion before, but, he'd read about the creature. Based

animals in the world, especially the deadly weapon they had for a tail. Even the strongest masters of the nature refining level didn't have much

ancient times, but in

The crystal core in the fire scorpion lion was a very

in the Eastern Region, when a fire scorpion lion was exposed, it attracted thousands of people

was not interested in obtaining the crystal core of a fire scorpion lion. Right now, he only wanted to

fire scorpion lion's sleep was

of his predicament, Zen decided to attempt to go around the

what if he accidentally woke it up?

it would be his path

should I do? Venture ahead, or not?' wondered Zen,

a meal for the queen blade locust. So, forward was as

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

odor of the beast assaulted his nose. He managed

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

clenched his teeth to calm his pounding

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

fast, that Zen thought it would

scorpion lion curled up, resting his large head back on his front paws, fast asleep again.

but still holding his breath,