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.

fiery magma that had just skimmed

scars it had gotten from years of

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

blade locust was next to the lake.

exoskeleton covered the giant insect, but, she was also afraid of fire.

was too big to dodge

quaking of the queen locust's heavy footsteps caused the lava to splash regularly, slowing her progress even more.

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

ahead and found himself

a shockingly huge creature blocking his passage.

lion, yet its body was at least ten

covered with a fiery red mane, with its giant head resting on its mighty front paws, and a scorpion-like

screamed

yet terrifying name reverberated in his mind.

but, he'd read about the creature. Based on their scorpion-like tails and

the deadly weapon they had for a tail. Even the

throughout the world in ancient times, but in

core in the fire scorpion lion was a very masculine object used in pill and weapon refining. It was

a fire scorpion lion was exposed, it

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

fire scorpion

predicament, Zen decided to attempt to go

if he accidentally

be his

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

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

and thumping tail, Zen took a deep breath before he started

nose. He managed

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

his teeth to calm

steps away, the fire scorpion lion suddenly rolled over, stretching his long limbs.

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

up, resting his large head back on his

still holding his breath, Zen continued to tiptoe