Chapter 180: Transforming Lava Spirits: The Fire Dragon Blocking the Path

Lava Zone, outer region.

Tang Zheng raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead and let out a heavy breath: "I only had to counter the resurrection magic once; I thought it would happen a few more times."

During the third time he resurrected Quinaise, Tang Zheng had sensed that the Slane Theocracy was also using resurrection magic.

Their reaction speed was far superior to the leader of the 【Zuranon】 alliance.

Tang Zheng had been constantly guarding against the possibility that the Slane Theocracy might use a higher-rank resurrection magic.

His passive ability, "Magic Pre-preparation," still held the "Seventh Rank Magic: Resurrection" he hadn't used last time.

Of course.

Looking at Ya'la'er and the others not far away, who were still shouting non-stop, everyone's faces were filled with the joy and madness of surviving a disaster.

But thinking about it, that was impossible!

It had been over 600 years since the Six Great Gods; even if such high-level magic scrolls or items truly existed, they had likely been exhausted long ago.

Tang Zheng did not believe the Slane Theocracy would use such trump-card magic items or scrolls for the sake of a single Quinaise.

Let alone Ninth Rank, the Slane Theocracy might not even be willing to use Seventh Rank magic.

"Regarding the items left behind by the Six Great Gods in your Theocracy, which ones do you know of?" Tang Zheng looked at the controlled Quinaise and asked again.

After each resurrection, he could ask three new questions. Since Quinaise's intelligence on certain key issues was also limited,

Tang Zheng could only pick the most important ones to ask. Just as Quinaise was answering the third question:

Hum—

'Magic "Object Location" detected. Requires Mental-type Caster Level (22–28). Current conditions not met.'

'Magic "Clairvoyance" detected. Requires Mental-type Caster Level (29–35). Current conditions not met.'

"It's started. I need to speed up my actions." Tang Zheng pulled his black robe, scanned the information on his attribute panel with an expressionless face, and refocused his attention on Quinaise.

Sword strike, death!

Questioning for Theocracy intelligence!

Resurrection again!

Repeating this process, Tang Zheng's mana quickly began to bottom out, and Quinaise reached the point where he could no longer be resurrected.

At this moment, Quinaise's level had already dropped to level four or below level three.

Tang Zheng could clearly perceive that the other's body could no longer withstand the power of this resurrection magic. He had processed the gray-robed mage's corpse last time to save mana.

This time, he had no intention of saving any mana.

"Resurrection!"

Triggering the final opportunity for the 【Mad Mage】 profession skill, a sacred white light enveloped the other.

Quinaise's corpse could no longer withstand the power of the resurrection magic, and his entire body began to turn into bubbles and decompose on the spot!

In a moment.

The corpse on the ground had completely vanished.

"Finally finished." Tang Zheng's expression relaxed, and he raised his hand to wipe his forehead, which was covered in sweat from the high-temperature environment.

"Time to evacuate this place."

Tang Zheng stood up. From Quinaise, he had obtained quite a bit of intelligence about the Slane Theocracy, giving him a clearer understanding of their situation.

As the strongest nation among all human countries, they indeed exceeded Tang Zheng's initial expectations.

"But before leaving..."

Tang Zheng raised his arm, flipped his palm, and took out the magic rings, magic necklaces, and other items he had stripped from Quinaise from his item box:

"It's a pity to lose these high-quality magic items."

"Third Rank Magic: Composite Element Summoning: Wetland Element Spirit."

Splash!

A mass of mud rapidly condensed out of thin air on the ground, forming a lump of mud about 160 centimeters tall, without hands, feet, or a head.

As soon as the Wetland Element Spirit appeared, in this high-temperature environment, the water vapor on its body evaporated at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming white steam.

"Element Attribute Change—Fire!" Tang Zheng activated the 【Mad Mage】 passive.

The Wetland Element's mud-like body began to squirm in an irregular state, and a touch of red flame emerged from the mud, quickly covering its entire body.

However!

Just as Tang Zheng thought he had succeeded, the Wetland Element, which was already half-transformed into fire, suddenly paused, and signs of collapse began to appear. "What's going on?"

Since it could be transformed, it proved that the passive ability should be applicable to element spirits.

Suddenly.

Tang Zheng noticed that only half of the Wetland Element Spirit's body had turned into fire, and his heart stirred: "Element Attribute Change: Fire, Earth!"

Boom!

The Wetland Element Spirit stopped its collapse. The fire element and earth element powers fused, a high temperature surged, and a heatwave rolled out in all directions.

The next moment!

The Wetland Element Spirit transformed into a Lava Element Spirit, with magma flowing all over its body.

"So that's how it is."

"Element spirits summoned using 'Composite Element Summoning' cannot be transformed into a single element spirit; they can only be transformed into a dual-element composite element spirit."

Looking at the Lava Element Spirit before him, Tang Zheng's eyes lit up. This was much stronger in terms of endurance than a single element spirit.

With a wave of his palm.

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All the magic rings, magic necklaces, and other items were tossed onto the Lava Element Spirit all at once.

The Lava Element Spirit held these magic items and moved toward the deep lava flow.

Tang Zheng watched this scene, a look of heartache appearing on his face. The value of the magic items on Quinaise was extremely high.

It was just that.

After discovering that "Clairvoyance" could use object-locating magic, Tang Zheng had no choice but to discard these magic items from Quinaise.

The Lava Element Spirit had extremely high resistance to high temperatures and easily reached the edge of the lava sea, tossing all the magic items into the lava.

Boom!

But at that very instant, a giant wave of magma surged in the lava sea, and an organ resembling a giant palm or a lantern flew out from the magma.

Before the Lava Element Spirit could react, it was dragged into the magma sea below.

Splash—

The magma surged and rolled.

A giant fish monster, over fifty meters long and covered in thick, hard, fire-red scales, leaped out of the magma.

Bang!

A pair of indescribable, red eyes, larger than those of a normal human, looked toward Tang Zheng's position, then fell from mid-air, crashing heavily into the magma sea, once again kicking up a huge wave of magma.

Following this was a scorching heatwave.

"Lava Ruler: Sun Anglerfish."

Tang Zheng raised his hand to block his face, squinting his eyes.

The massive size of over 50 meters made even Tang Zheng feel a sense of shock when facing a giant creature, especially its ability to swim freely in the magma.

It made Tang Zheng full of wariness.

The creature's level reached around 47lv. With his current strength, he did not think he would be a match for this Sun Anglerfish.

Fortunately, the Sun Anglerfish could not move on land and could only live in the lava. As long as he didn't get close to the magma sea, it couldn't do anything to him.

Tang Zheng turned to leave, but stopped after taking only a few steps.

In the sky not far away!

A red shadow was rapidly approaching. In just a few breaths, this red shadow had arrived in front of Tang Zheng.

A figure over 20m long, flapping its wings, descended from mid-air and blocked Tang Zheng's return route.

With the appearance of this figure, a heavy sense of pressure filled the air, and even the temperature in the outer area, which wasn't very high, rose by several degrees.

The red scales and that unusually striking size all indicated what this creature before him was!

"Surface Ruler: Ancient Fire Dragon!"

Tang Zheng's expression was extremely ugly as he stared at the dark red scales on the creature's long neck—the mark of this fire dragon's advanced age.

Damn it!

Why would it appear here? The Ancient Fire Dragon was only mentioned in passing in the original work and should never have appeared at all.

"Human, hand over the precious magic items you carry." The Ancient Fire Dragon's crimson eyes looked at Tang Zheng with greed and a hint of caution.

In its perception.

This human in front of it possessed a surprisingly subtle mana, as if in a state of readiness.

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