My beast can't be a demon.

Balrog, a spiritual beast with dual attributes of fire and rock.

A creature that lives in volcanic magma, its body is a rock core with a flame.

It has the racial skill of expanding its body by absorbing surrounding rocks.

Moreover, as its size increases, its various attributes will increase, and the damage caused by its skills will also increase significantly.

Under the leadership of the staff, Zhou Lu came to the Albus Volcano Secret Realm through the secret realm gate.

There is a dedicated area for exams.

What Zhou Lu needed to do was defeat the only Balrog in this area.

The level B exploration certificate exam is more difficult than level C.

During the C-level exam, the battle venue was carefully arranged. The beast master can find an environment that restrains the opponent's spiritual pet according to local conditions.

For this exam, the venue is randomly selected and will completely test your familiarity with secret realms and spiritual beasts.

After explaining some precautions to Zhou Lu, the staff stepped aside.

Fortunately, there are still safety officers for the B-level exam.

A third-level beastmaster will always protect you secretly and will come to your aid if the situation goes wrong.

Of course, if the security officer takes action, your exam will be considered a failure.

Hanabi had never seen a volcano.

As soon as I arrived here, I looked around curiously.

The temperature in the volcanic area was very high, and Hanabi rolled the leaves into the shape of a container. After a while, the container was filled with transparent liquid.

These are the mucus secreted by Hanabi.

After evolving, Hanabi's mucus also underwent some changes, from its original viscous form to something similar to clear water.

"Master, Tu." Hua Huo handed the leaf to Zhou Lu.

Zhou Lu readily put his hand in and smeared the liquid on his body.

These juices have a very good fire-proof and heat-insulating effect, and the areas applied on the body may even feel a little refreshing.

The taste also tastes sweet and sour, with a hint of grass, a bit like the sweet stalks of sorghum.

After a quick application, the previous hot feeling is gone.

The juice can only last for about half an hour. After all, Zhou Lu can't secrete this liquid autonomously like Hanabi.

"Okay, let's go there." Zhou Lu said to Hua Huo, "The Balrog should be active near the crater. First spread your branches to look for enemies."

With Hanabi's current strength, there is no need to be cautious when facing Enma.

Although Zhou Lu would be habitually cautious, he would not belittle himself to the point of denying Hanabi's strength.

In volcanic areas, the sky is always gray due to the perennial volcanic ash cover.

Hanabi doesn't need vision to discern the road very well.

But Zhou Lu can't, unless he activates empathy.

However, Zhou Lu is actually not used to the 3D-dizzy feeling of co-sensing, so except for situations where he is required to control branches during battles, generally Zhou Lu will not start co-sensing in such a place.

Fortunately, the passivity of empathy still allows Zhou Lu to borrow part of Hanabi's perception.

This allowed Zhou Lu to barely move forward in the gloomy environment, but he couldn't help but feel a little regretful.

The exploration certificate examination only allows the beast master to bring his initial spiritual pet. Otherwise, if he summons Benben, he will not need to move forward so carefully.

When Zhou Lu took Hanabi to the crater, several observers were observing Zhou Lu's movements.

They are considered the judges of the exploration certificate examination.

Since the Class B exams are all conducted in a secret environment, monitoring equipment cannot be set up, so observers are required to film the exam process of the candidates.

Each candidate's test video will be verified by a dedicated person afterwards to avoid cheating.

"Isn't this guy afraid of the Balrog at all?" One of the observers was secretly surprised when he saw Zhou Lu rushing forward with all his heart.

As a relatively powerful fire-based spiritual pet, the Balrog is definitely a huge test for grass-based spiritual pets.

Therefore, exams with Balrogs are often called Death Examination Rooms.

But Zhou Lu looked like he was afraid of the Balrog.

This is clearly the feeling of being impatient to fight the Balrog.

"Let Lao Yu be prepared." The leader of the observation group sent instructions over the intercom, "This kid is not afraid of death at all. Sooner or later, something will happen. Let him be ready to rescue at any time."

Yes, although the exam is safe, there is no reason to take the initiative to find the Balrog with a grass-type spiritual pet.

At this time, what you should do is to first find favorable terrain nearby to lay traps, and then wait for opportunities to guide the Balrog into the preset traps.

Grass-type spiritual pets are originally the most suitable for making traps, and this approach is the most sensible when faced with attribute restraint.

What a nonsense...

The young observer thought silently in his mind.

Hope you don't get hurt.

With this thought, he continued to move forward behind Zhou Lu.

This volcano is not very high.

After a while, Zhou Lu brought Hua Huo to the vicinity of the crater.

Due to year-round activities, a red "lake" composed of magma has been formed here.

The magma kept rising upwards, and when cooled by the air, it turned into a gray-black hard shell. Then it was swallowed up by the red magma that followed, and was melted by the high temperature again.

Among these surging magmas, a small and cute fireball was bouncing happily on the surface of the magma.

This is the Flame Demon.

It's just the Flame Demon in the normal standby mode.

"Hua Huo, find a way to lure it out." No matter how confident Zhou Lu is in Hua Huo's strength, it is impossible for Hua Huo to fight with the fire-type spirit pet on the high-temperature magma.

Hua Huo quickly executed Zhou Lu's instructions.

Several flying branches rushed towards the Flame Demon who was playing happily under Hua Huo's command.

The little Flame Demon's perception is very sharp.

Although the flying branches have become very small under the effect of [Lilliput Country], it still sensed the existence of these branches at the first time.

Why are there insects here?

The little Flame Demon was a little confused.

No matter. Anyway, the master's order is to stay here and play, and then defeat those blind guys.

Just when the little Flame Demon was muttering in his heart, the branches hovering above his head were released by Hua Huo [Lilliput Country].

Then, these branches quickly grew larger, and huge leaves grew out.

What is this doing?

The little flame demon watched these branches roll their leaves into the shape of a gun barrel.

Zi——

Transparent water jets spurted out from these leaves.

It sprayed the little flame demon directly in the face.

After spraying, the branches flew upwards quickly.

The little flame demon was stunned for a long time, and finally determined that he seemed to be humiliated.

Too much!

He actually took water to spit at me!

The little flame demon chased after him angrily.

The flames on his body suddenly rose.

As the flames heated the surrounding air, the little flame demon flew up on the hot air.

It soon found the culprit - a plant that looked like a Venus flytrap.

How dare a grass-type spirit pet humiliate me like this!

The little flame demon rushed up without saying anything.

Flame collision!

However, just when it was about to hit the other party, the Venus flytrap suddenly turned into countless vines, like a net bag, tightly wrapping the flying flame demon.

Boom!

With a wave of heat rising, the little Flame Demon crashed to the ground.

Hanabi originally wanted to use poisonous vines to poison the little Flame Demon.

This is what it is best at.

However, the Flame Demon is now in standby mode, with only the core part of its body.

The temperature of this part is so high that even with the protection of mucus, the vines of Hanabi were burned off in an instant.

Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

The Flame Demon, realizing that he had been fooled, floated up from the ground angrily.

With the surge of its power, the surrounding stones soared into the air.

The flames burned the rocks and turned into magma.

The stones quickly accumulated around the Flame Demon, and in an instant, a small giant of nearly ten meters was formed.

A basketball-sized fireball turned into a three-story-high magma giant in a short time.

It has to be said that the Flame Demon species is really magical.

Moreover, this is only a third-level Flame Demon.

When the Flame Demon evolves to the fourth stage, its size will double.

It is said that the Flame Demon of the Quasi-God stage can swallow a mountain in an instant and turn it into its own body.

Roar!

With a roar, the Flame Demon also found Zhou Lu and Hua Huo not far away.

"Hua Huo, are you okay?"

Thanks to the juice of Hua Huo, although the surrounding environment has become hot, Zhou Lu's body surface feels more than 30 degrees.

Although it is also very hot, at least it is not so uncomfortable.

Of course, the premise is that you have to bring breathing equipment for activities in the volcanic area, otherwise this heat wave will burn your respiratory tract and lungs through your breathing.

When Zhou Lu briefly checked the strategy before coming here, he had seen people who withdrew from the exam due to injuries.

It can only be said that the human body is still too fragile.

Hua Huo heard the words of his master and naturally patted his chest.

The Flame Demon's size has become larger, and it is certainly aggressive.

But as the adsorption of rocks increases, the temperature of its body surface also begins to decrease.

If the Flame Demon had remained the size of a basketball at the beginning, it might be a bit difficult for Firefly to deal with it.

But now...

Humph! It's great to be able to grow bigger!

If you grow bigger, I will grow bigger too!

With this thought, Firefly's body began to grow rapidly under the effect of [Crazy Growth].

When the Flame Demon saw Firefly, who had grown to a size similar to his own, he was also slightly stunned.

It was rare for him to see such crazy growth in other spirit beasts.

Although this skill is a basic skill that many grass-type spirit pets will learn, their crazy growth will not cause such a huge change in their size, right?

Just when the Flame Demon was confused, Firefly had already launched an attack.

Little Grass Grass would not be stupid enough to fight the Flame Demon in a melee.

Although it may not be defeated, fighting a ball of magma in a melee is clearly asking for trouble.

Rumble...

Accompanied by the shaking of the mountain, Firefly actually dug out a huge rock directly from the mountainside.

Damn!

The observers were dumbfounded when they saw this scene.

What is this!

The next second, Hanabi threw the stone towards Enma.

Enma was also confused when he saw this, but he still subconsciously took the stone.

Under the huge force, the Flame Demon took several steps back.

Every step it took back caused an amazing vibration.

However, before the Flame Demon could stabilize his body, Firefly had already thrown out the second stone.

This guy, where does he get so much strength!

The Flame Demon hurriedly used his skills and used his giant magma hand to barely pat the flying stone, changing the opponent's trajectory.

The stone fell into the magma.

Its volume was so large that even the boiling magma could not melt it at all for a while.

The Flame Demon, who was still frightened, had not yet recovered, and Firefly's third stone had already flown over.

Because of the long-term volcanic activity, there are actually not many independent stones on this mountain.

The stone melted into magma, although it cooled at room temperature.

In a sense, the whole mountain was formed as a whole after the magma cooled.

Therefore, the stone in Firefly's hand was not picked up anywhere, but it was cut from the mountain using the root system of the branch.

Looking at the stone that Hua Huo lifted, Zhou Lu also touched his forehead helplessly.

Although he was confident that Hua Huo could defeat the Flame Demon, he never expected that Hua Huo would have such a rough and barbaric way to fight.

But this is also correct.

Many of Hua Huo's methods have little effect in front of the Flame Demon whose body surface can burn through its mucus layer.

At this time, it is time for the most primitive battle.

Sorry, having power means you can do whatever you want.

With the increase of attributes, the size of the body that Hua Huo can control has also increased explosively.

Now it can perfectly control this ten-story-high form.

And with the huge size, the horror of the [Carrying] skill is reflected.

Surpassing the weight of one hundred times its own body, it is equivalent to a human lifting an object of nearly ten tons.

This is not only unimaginable for ordinary people, but even most behemoths cannot do this.

Hua Huo does not need to really lift an object that is one hundred times the mass of the current body. Just a few simple boulders have already knocked the Flame Demon dizzy.

Although the Flame Demon has the ability to melt rocks and turn them into its own body.

But no matter how it melts, it takes time.

It is obvious that Hua Huo will not give the Flame Demon time.

If the master had not said that this Flame Demon is someone else's pet and not to kill it, Hua Huo would have probably smashed the Flame Demon to death with a stone.

The owner of the Flame Demon is also a member of the observation team.

He was really terrified when he saw this battle.

In the end, he couldn't help but use the Beast Tamer Card to recover his pet.

Feeling the fear of the Flame Demon in the Beast Tamer Card, he looked at Hua Huo who was confused because he lost his target.

What kind of monster is this?

Zhou Lu saw the Flame Demon disappear in front of his eyes, and was briefly confused for a few seconds, and then immediately realized that it was the other party's beastmaster who recovered the pet.

Then, he heard a man's voice behind him.

"Congratulations, you passed the test."

Maybe because Hua Huo's performance was too shocking, his voice was a little hoarse.

"Ah... passed it just now?"

Hearing Zhou Lu's words, the other party almost vomited blood.

What else do you want?

Look at what your pet has done! In the battle just now, it almost dug out half of the mountain!