Chapter 599 - 323: A 10-Second Battle!
"Then we’ll go with you tomorrow."
"I’ll have a word with Harold and Chandler, they were just planning to return to Violet Castle first thing tomorrow to deliver the levitation organ of the Wandering Eye Tyrant ’Zergelos’. "
"The time needed to create a levitation device is quite significant."
"Should I inform the Dwarf Elders or will you? However, Her Highness Princess Dongni should first return to the Iron Hills to quickly turn the Eye Demon’s blood into a potion."
Leonore spoke eloquently.
"Since everyone has plans, your Highness, maybe just you and I should go?"
"Hmm? Just you and me? Wouldn’t it be...."
Leonore blinked her profound lake-blue eyes, just as she was about to say ’wouldn’t it be too risky’, but then recalled how Raine singlehandedly faced off against the Wandering Eye Tyrant ’Zergelos’ not long ago.
Having already taken down a legendary creature, would an Ancient Molten Earth Dragon of only challenge level sixteen or seventeen still be an issue?
"This... could work."
"How about we set off early tomorrow morning? The sooner we leave, the sooner we return."
Even the ever-graceful, poised, almost always eloquent Leonore was momentarily lost for words, hearing Raine speak as if he were simply going shopping.
"No problem." Leonore, snapping back to reality, gave Raine a complex look, then nodded.
...
The next morning.
Olsen Castle’s Banquet Hall.
"What! Mr. Rein, you’re heading to slay an Ancient Molten Earth Dragon later?"
Elder Grenum, in the midst of breakfast, suddenly coughed violently, as if the surprise had caused a large piece of ham to get stuck in his throat.
Meanwhile, Harold beside him managed to spill his glass of red wine.
Everyone else was utterly astonished.
They had only just slain the Wandering Eye Tyrant ’Zergelos’, and now Raine was going to slay a Molten Earth Dragon?
"Yes, my class is rather special, something you may not have heard of— I’m a Frost Lord. I suspect that the battle with the Molten Earth Dragon could be an opportunity for me to ascend to the Transcendent realm..."
Raine basically repeated what he had said to Leonore the night before.
"What! Mr. Raine, you’re not yet Transcendent?" Harold and Chandler exchanged glances filled with astonishment as they met each other’s eyes.
They had only known Raine for a few days and always thought he was Soladin Kingdom’s trump card.
While Raine’s aura wasn’t as concentrated as one might expect from a Transcendent, they assumed it was because they couldn’t perceive his true power due to their own lack of strength.
Realizing Raine was just at class level ten shocked them immensely!
"Special Class?" Princess Dongni said, looking at Raine with great curiosity, "A lord-type special class is indeed rare. In ancient times, our kind had a branch known as the Fire Dwarves, among which one ruler was a special class called the Flame Lord."
"Their combat power was extraordinarily strong; they slew an adult Red Dragon just after entering the Transcendent realm."
"But Mr. Rein," continued Princess Dongni with a smile, "seems to be much stronger, right?"
At Princess Dongni’s words, Raine’s eyes twitched slightly.
"The fighting ability of an adult Red Dragon is no small feat, and to kill the Wandering Eye Tyrant ’Zergelos’, it relied entirely on everyone’s united effort."
"Mr. Rein, will you be using teleportation to get there?"
"Yes."
"Then... count me in, perhaps?"
"Your Highness Princess Dongni, aren’t you supposed to return to the Iron Hills first?"
"Considering Mr. Rein’s strength, he should be back quickly, right?" Princess Dongni said with a meaningful tilt of her head.
"Then let’s go together, Mr. Rein!" At this moment, Elder Grenum looked at the other three elders, all showing signs of interest.
Moreover, with their own princess going, naturally, they couldn’t be absent.
"Alright!" Raine couldn’t help but smile wryly and nod.
Unexpectedly, it had turned into a team action.
Taking a group capable of facing a legendary creature to handle a challenge level sixteen or seventeen Molten Earth Dragon?
Will the Molten Earth Dragon flee at first sight upon seeing them?
This thought couldn’t help but pop into Raine’s mind.
....
After breakfast.
With a flash of blue light, everyone instantly vanished from their original location.
In the next moment!
They all found themselves within an underground tunnel.
With True Vision, Raine surveyed his surroundings, recalling the first time he encountered the Molten Earth Dragon Smalarg.
That time was fraught with danger, nearly perishing in the aftermath of its breath.
Shaking his head slightly, Raine looked ahead.
They were about seven to eight hundred meters from the Molten Earth Dragon’s enormous cavern.
Choosing not to teleport directly into that cavern, Raine was worried it might scare the creature away.
"It’s just ahead, let’s move."
....
A few hundred meters ahead, winding through underground passages, there was a vast, heat-infused, lava-dully glowing subterranean cavern.
It was the nest of the Molten Earth Dragon Smalarg.
However, at this moment, besides some Flame Minions and Flame Elements on the lava lake, Smalarg was nowhere to be seen.
Were one to view through the magma and see in it, it would be evident that Smalarg’s form wasn’t present there either.
But, by passing through the tunnel at the top right of the magma lake, another connection to the lava pool could be found.
And there Smalarg’s form was coiled.
Suddenly!
A pair of vertical pupils abruptly opened.
In an instant, from the once-calm, dark red pool in the center rose a massive hexagonal head.