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 past his back, burned a large hole in the

with holes, like scars it had gotten from

what his fate would be if

was next to the

insect, but, she was also afraid of fire. So the queen blade locust pursued Zen around the lake's shoreline.

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

to her plight, the quaking of the queen locust's heavy footsteps caused the lava to splash regularly, slowing

queen blade locust and himself. He started to think he

than Zen was almost free of one quandary, he looked ahead and found himself

of him was a shockingly huge creature

its body was at

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

lion!' screamed Zen in his head.

striking, yet terrifying name reverberated in his mind.

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.

for a tail. Even the strongest masters of

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

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 refining. It

characters in the Eastern Region, when a fire scorpion

of a fire scorpion lion. Right now, he only

scorpion lion's

to attempt

he accidentally woke it up?

it would be his

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

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

thumping tail,

of the beast assaulted his nose. He managed to handle the smell as he walked

Twenty steps away.

Ten steps closer.

Another five steps.

took each step, he clenched his teeth

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

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

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

little, but still holding his breath, Zen continued to tiptoe