Chapter 188: Hatchery

With the successive fall of the two Tier 3 lava giants, the violent energy in this underground cavern weakened by a notch.

But Jie Ming and the other two wizards didn't have a moment to rest.

Because the situation on the battlefield didn't subside immediately because of the death of the leaders, but instead, like a powder keg that had been ignited, entered a more crazy state!

The lava giants around not only didn't feel fear because of the death of the two leaders, but became increasingly violent!

Their eyes burned with more intense anger, and they let out deafening battle roars, as if they had lost their minds, rushing toward the three human wizards regardless of everything!

The number of lava giants in this burrow was unimaginable.

"Damn! Are they crazy?!" The Tier 2 wizard was shocked; the spiritual power that was not much left was consumed rapidly again.

Jie Ming had no fluctuations in his eyes.

The scene of lava giants rushing up in dense crowds was indeed terrifying, but for Jie Ming, the pressure brought by these lava giants was still not as good as that Tier 3 lava giant.

Most importantly, what he was best at was facing this kind of large-scale battle without strong enemies exceeding himself.

He spread out the energy bullets of the "Great Light Aspect," like an energy torrent, blasting all the lava giants trying to approach mercilessly.

High-frequency sound wave suppression and the downgraded version of "Magma Annihilation" were cast in turns, each one instantly disintegrating the Tier 2 lava giant elite units among these lava giants, turning them into scorched black debris filling the sky.

The Tier 1 wizard hid behind the two, barely using healing wizardry to recover himself, and occasionally supporting with small-scale damage wizardry.

But his weak attacks were just a drop in the bucket for the massive amount of lava giants.

However, even Jie Ming didn't expect that the number of lava giants in this burrow would be so exaggerated.

It seemed that lava giants were constantly drilling out from the depths of the earth's veins or rock wall cracks in the depths of the burrow, and then rushing toward the few people with teeth and claws.

The three wizards could only continuously and mechanically launch attacks, clearing as many of these fearless enemies as possible before being submerged by the violent lava giants.

They continued to clear for nearly half an hour, and the lava giants' near "suicidal" charges in the entire huge underground cavern finally gradually stopped.

Confirming that no more lava giants were rushing out from the depths of the earth's veins or rock wall cracks, even Jie Ming relaxed slightly.

Lifting the "Acceleration" that had been making his soul ache, Jie Ming let out a long sigh of relief and felt a bit tired.

Slightly sensing the reserves of the three metal-disk-like energy storage talisman wizarding tools in the center of the Great Light Aspect.

Fighting the Tier 3 lava giant just now only consumed half the energy of one talisman wizarding tool.

But these low-level lava giants in front of him forced him to consume the reserves of a whole metal disk.

The most uncomfortable thing was that the battle just now was too dangerous, and the three of them didn't have time to hold back, so they could only use their full-force attacks.

So after fighting such a hard battle, they didn't even get much useful harvest.

"I hope the intelligence the Tier 3 lava giant knew can make up for this loss."

Jie Ming sighed and turned to look at the direction of the Tier 3 lava giant.

At the same time, the panting Tier 2 wizard also raised his head.

The two looked at each other and nodded, both understanding that the other had the same idea.

The two walked toward the positions where the two Tier 3 lava giants died tacitly, but after arriving at the positions where the lava giants died, Jie Ming's face was a bit ugly.

The soul of this Tier 3 lava giant he blasted just now, because of the delay of the previous intense battle, had completely dissipated.

It didn't even leave a single soul fragment that could be soul-searched.

"Do targeted destructive wizardries also have strong lethality to souls... that's right..." Jie Ming figured this out and couldn't help but feel a bit annoyed. "Bad luck, didn't get the intelligence in the soul."

Glancing at the Tier 2 wizard next to him, that guy was already cursing loudly now, looking like it was the same situation.

Jie Ming felt some regret in his heart, but didn't have too many waves.

After all, in that kind of desperate breakout and life-and-death battle, survival was the first priority.

Moreover, for him, this wasn't too big a loss.

Because of the particularity of the talisman wizarding tools, for Jie Ming himself, it was at most consuming some spiritual power and energy reserves; these things could be recovered at any time.

At most, it was losing some time and potions.

On the contrary, the other two wizards had almost exhausted their family assets in this battle, but didn't expect to have no harvest at all, which could be called a heavy loss.

After the Tier 2 wizard calmed down, the three rested slightly, replenished some spiritual power, and then set off again.

After all, this battle consumed so much, they definitely had to see if there was anything in the burrow that could make up for the loss.

But when they acted again, Jie Ming could clearly feel that the attitude of the two wizards toward him had undergone a earth-shaking change.

Especially that Tier 2 wizard, who even appeared somewhat restrained.

After all, the two wizards weren't blind in the battle just now, and they knew very well how exaggerated the combat power Jie Ming showed was.

This Tier 2 wizard knew very well that if they were to fight head-on, he probably wouldn't be able to hold on for a few rounds under the opponent.

Jie Ming also realized this, but he didn't care about this for the time being, but focused on another thing.

Just before, his Tier 5 space jump wizarding tool, this powerful wizardry capable of penetrating spatial barriers, was actually perfectly interfered with by the power inside this burrow!

This undoubtedly indicated that some kind of extremely special and strange existence was hidden here.

If there could be any special harvest, then this trip might still be profitable.

During the search, a strange feeling lingered in the hearts of the three.

This burrow, after the previous violent slaughter, had become abnormally "clean"!

Except for the lava giant remains all over the ground and the destroyed plants, there were simply no residual lava giants along the way.

Unlike the small and medium-sized strongholds Jie Ming had cleared before, even if the head-on battle ended, there were still some sporadic individuals hiding.

When they walked further, they couldn't even see the corpses of lava giants.

Now this burrow gave people the feeling that it was as if all the lava giants had "spontaneously" died in that round of battle just now, without leaving a single survivor!

This made Jie Ming increasingly curious.

Although lava giants were a kind of elemental creature, they were essentially creatures.

They had independent consciousness, would engage in social activities, and naturally would also fear death.

This kind of near self-destructive charge seemed extremely unreasonable.

And, judging from the battle just now, the proportion of Tier 2 lava giants in this burrow also seemed very wrong.

In a general lava giant stronghold, the number of Tier 2 lava giants was rare, accounting for a very small proportion.

However, in the battle just now, the number of Tier 2 lava giants actually reached one-tenth of the number of Tier 1 lava giants!

This proportion was much higher than the common situation outside, and even higher than the elite proportion during the landing battle!

"This place is definitely not simple..."

The three wizards all felt this creepy weirdness, and they acted even more cautiously.

Not far from that plant "plantation" was another "farm" where lava giants raised livestock.

That was a few areas enclosed by special rocks, inside which were raised some otherworldly creatures that could survive in high temperatures—they had rock-like keratin layers covering their body surfaces, and their body shapes were similar to huge lizards, lying on the ground gnawing on those red leaves.

These creatures were clearly the "food" source for the lava giants.

Every time Jie Ming walked a distance, he would turn on the "All-Purpose Eye," sensing any uncoordinated spatial fluctuations around him.

Then Jie Ming would advance toward the area where the uncoordinated spatial fluctuations were denser.

Hard work pays off.

The three advanced ten-plus kilometers one after another, and Jie Ming finally discovered a trace of anomaly in the depths of a hidden rock wall.

The spatial fluctuations there were extremely weak, but carried a kind of twisted gravity.

Following this fluctuation, the three soon arrived at an extremely secret tunnel extending deeper into the underground.

The size of the tunnel could even be called narrow, completely different from the style of the lava giant's nest before.

Going deep along the tunnel, after walking not far, a spacious empty room appeared in front of them.

In the darkness, a strong energy fluctuation rushed toward them, carrying the primitive breath of life.

When seeing the things inside the empty room, even the experienced Tier 2 wizard, as well as Jie Ming, a knowledgeable logistics-type wizard, had expressions of uncontrollable shock on their faces!

That was a lava pool that looked like it was built by humans.

It was not large in its entirety, about ten-plus meters in diameter, regular in shape, and the edges were surrounded by carefully carved rune rocks.

However, what was most surprising was the liquid inside this lava pool.

Although these liquids were also extremely viscous and steaming with rolling heat, their color presented a weird and bright crimson, looking not like melted rock, but rather like real blood!

A rich and complex breath of life, as well as some kind of primitive fluctuation, emanated from the lava pool.

Although it was the first time Jie Ming saw it with his own eyes, he recognized the origin of this thing at a glance—this was precisely one of the unique "resources" of the lava giant clan: Hatchery!

The fragments of words from those biological wizards in the wizard camp when discussing the reproduction mode of lava giants immediately surfaced in his mind.

Lava giants had no gender, and their main reproduction method was the more primitive "autonomous fission."

The production process was also very simple; a lava giant only needed to separate a fragment from its core and throw it into a lava pool with relatively abundant energy.

That fragment carrying the life imprint could grow into a brand-new lava giant very quickly under the nourishment of lava power.

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