Artificer Adventure Guide

"Hu~"

In just a moment, the snake's body was covered by flames.

However, the snake's body was not burned by the flames, but began to change in the flames.

Carl retreated quickly as if he was facing a great enemy.

But the enemy, who had turned into a fire snake, seemed to have noticed Carl's intention to escape.

It shrank its body and compressed itself into a snake ball wrapped in flames.

"Boom!"

As the flames covering the outside exploded, a medium-sized fiery red snake was born from the fireball.

Its general appearance was similar to the previous one, except that there were more flaming flesh manes on its back.

As soon as it was born from the fireball, it rushed towards Carl impatiently.

The snake belly with a faint glow of fire crawled quickly on the ground, and the ground was left with a winding trail of scorched earth by its extremely high body temperature.

This appearance was really terrifying, and Carl did not dare to face its edge for a while.

"Why do you still have the second-stage transformation? Are you also an elite monster?"

Seeing the fire snake chasing him, Carl ran directly to the tunnel from which he came.

He felt that the other party's current state should be considered an elemental creature. In this case, the underwater environment must be unfavorable to the other party.

"Plop!"

Jumping directly into the underwater tunnel, Carl let the power armor sink down and made a universal gesture to the fire snake hovering on the water.

I don't know if it was angered by Carl's gesture, but the fire snake actually dived down.

Its scalding body temperature instantly vaporized part of the groundwater, and then it actually "swam" towards Carl.

The enemy has chased here, and it would be impolite for Carl to run any further.

A thunder battle fist was thrown, and the ultrasonic wave created layers of ripples underwater.

The resistance under the water made Carl's attack much slower.

But I don't know if this fire snake burned its brain or something, and it actually rushed straight towards Carl's fist.

It would have been fine if it hadn't hit him, but after the collision, the fire snake immediately showed its fear.

Its physical strength was far from Carl's opponent, and it could only barely tie with Carl when he was not wearing power armor.

Now Carl had no worries?

Grabbing the opponent's flesh mane, Carl fired three thundering fists at the fire snake's head.

These three attacks were really accurate and fierce. After three hits, the fire snake was no longer moving.

Just when Carl was thinking about whether to be more cautious and cut the opponent into pieces, a wisp of rich fire element scattered from the fire snake's body and was intercepted by the Khyber Dragon Crystal on Carl's chest.

Carl's spirituality increased instantly, which also meant that the soul of the opponent in this battle had gone to the land of the dead.

Looking at the snake corpse left in his hand, Carl was entangled for a while, and finally took it back to the giant mine cart.

...

"Are you sure this is edible?"

In the kitchen of the giant mine cart, Hope reached out and poked the fire snake steak in front of him, and it seemed that he was a little afraid to try it.

On the other side, Carl chewed the snake meat with a subtle expression on his face.

Because the fire snake has a very high body temperature, Carl is not worried about any parasites or bacteria, so he simply ate a piece of it raw.

The taste of this fire snake meat is like shrimp, but it is not easy to chew with teeth.

As for the taste... it is unexpectedly good.

'It has a slight sweet aftertaste, but there is no special taste other than that. '

Carl made an evaluation of the fire snake meat in his heart and swallowed the snake meat in his mouth.

"Do you want me to help you process it? The stove over there may be able to roast this meat."

There are also species similar to the beasts that Carl encountered just now in the Fire Element Plane, and their appearance is similar to the other party.

But that kind of fire snake is an elemental creature, and when it dies, it will only leave some crystals of the fire element.

As for the origin of this thing... it is either a hybrid of ordinary snakes and fire snakes in the Fire Element Plane, or it is something made by the livestock dragon pattern family.

Of course, Carl is more inclined to the former. After all, it seems that the people of the Kovare Continent have not yet found a stable portal for this dungeon and developed it.

Looking up at Carl, Hope took a deep breath, then grabbed the steak and took a bite.

Her well-trained teeth tore off a piece of the steak directly, and as she chewed, Hope's face showed a subtle expression similar to Carl's just now.

"Not bad."

After swallowing the fire snake meat, Hope gave her own evaluation.

Then, she raised her head again and said to Carl: "Let's go over there again later!"

"What do you want to do?"

Carl frowned and looked at Hope, his tone was a little stern.

The other party will soon enter the menstrual period again. What if something goes wrong when going out to fight at this time?

"Didn't you just say that such a fire snake increases spirituality a lot? I should be upgrading soon."

Non-casters are not sensitive to the results of their spiritual accumulation, or intuitively speaking, they can't see whether their experience bar is full or not.

Although Hope has a certain ability to cast spells, she still cannot accurately control the spirituality to upgrade her professional core.

Seeing that Carl's total level is now 4, but she, who was one level higher than Carl before, is now one level behind him. How can Hope accept this?

She has been training hard during this period, but it may be that she lacks the spiritual fluctuations and stimulation from real battles, so she has not made a breakthrough until now.

Seeing that the prey of fire snake seemed to be very suitable for her, she immediately wanted to follow Karl to catch the fire snake.

She couldn't defeat the goblins in the forest who were conservatively estimated to be level 6 and above, but she still had no problem with these fire snakes.

Looking at Hope who was looking at him longingly, Karl gradually lost his battle.

"Well, if you feel uncomfortable in any way, jump back into the underwater tunnel immediately. Let's talk first. The environment there is still a bit harsh. I think you..."

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"Isn't this nice?"

In the high-temperature and high-pressure lava cave, Hope wore the armor newly made for her by Karl, holding two brand-new battle axes in her hands, and stood on the rock with a contented look on her face.

He looked so relaxed and at ease, as if he were home.

"Ah~, I almost forgot that you are a tiefling, and you are also a tiefling who has inherited the racial characteristics of hellfire."

Holding the helmet of his power armor, Karl only remembered this now.

"Haha! I just discovered now that my bloodline is not useless. Follow me! I have already seen a creature similar to that fire snake!"

After jumping off the rock, Hope waved to Karl, and then rushed out at the lead.

The two broad battle axes did not affect her movements at all.

While Karl was catching up, Hope waved his arm and threw one of the battle axes at a fire snake that had almost grown to a [large] size.

The battle ax mixed with fine gold easily cut through the scales of the fire snake. The large fire snake that was resting immediately stood up, then circled and twisted, and swung a snake tail sweep towards Hope and Karl.