Chapter 633: Group Battle

After entering the valley, Lingyun and his party, led by Dewalin, walked in the direction of the cave.

When they arrived before the cave, they could not help but gasp.

In front of the cave, a crater several tens of meters wide had appeared, and within the crater, lightning continued to flicker. Even the Natural Power released by Andiya was repelled by the Thunder Power inside the crater.

"Thunder?"

Seeing the Thunder stuck in the center of the crater, Dewalin jumped up at once. He moved his short legs, ran quickly into the crater, gripped the Thunder with both hands, and lifted it up.

Andiya did not pay attention to Dewalin, who had run into the crater, but instead walked slowly to the front of the cave. Before the cave, a golden-red arrow was stuck in the ground, and wisps of light overflowed from the arrow's body, forming an Array at the cave entrance.

The Array flickered with a faint light, and no matter how the Demon Qi inside the cave churned, it could not shake the slowly rotating Array.

"Lord Andiya, shall we go in now?" Dewalin, carrying the Thunder, came to Andiya's side and asked.

"Let's go!" Lingyun was the first to pass through the Array and walk into the cave.

"Did you bring what I gave you?" Andiya asked, looking at the people behind her.

"We brought it!"

"Then let's go!"

As the party walked into the cave, the Demon Qi inside immediately rushed toward them frantically, as if it had smelled the scent of blood.

"Hum—"

Emerald light rose simultaneously from the bodies of the Dwarfs and the Spirits, turning into a barrier to block the invading Demon Qi.

Invisible Protective Qi Shields rose around Chen Jing and Su Wanyue simultaneously; with the reinforcement of Lingyun's Source Power, the Demon Qi had no possibility of invading.

"I'll lead the way; we must get to the Magma World as quickly as possible!" Dewalin ran at the very front, moving his short legs.

Under Dewalin's guidance, the group shuttled rapidly through the cave, advancing toward the Magma World.

This underground world had been excavated with countless passages over the many years of the Dwarf Race's management; if not for Dewalin's guidance, it would have truly taken Lingyun and his party a great deal of Kung Fu to reach the Magma World at the deepest part of the cave.

"Lingyun, don't you feel that something is wrong?" Chen Jing looked at the surrounding rock walls and said to Lingyun with a frown.

"It is indeed a bit wrong. The intensity of the Demon Qi in here is much stronger than in Luoxia Valley, but we haven't seen a single Strange Beast formed from Demon Qi along the way. This is the most wrong part," Lingyun said.

Andiya had clearly also noticed the wrongness; she gripped the Scepter in her hand, and there was a trace of doubt in her eyes as well.

"The entrance to the Magma World is ahead."

After winding through the cave, Lingyun and his party appeared on a huge plaza, and at the end of the plaza was a massive gate. Standing on the plaza, one could see the Demon Qi permeating the gate and constantly overflowing.

"Behind the gate is the Magma World. When the Demon Qi first appeared, I evacuated all personnel and sealed the gate. But looking at it now, it seems to have been of no use," Dewalin said.

"If we fight in this place, won't the cave collapse?" Lingyun asked.

"It's difficult. This place has undergone the reinforcement of generations of Dwarf Kings; even if my father used the Thunder with all his might, it would take an hour to make the cave collapse," Dewalin said.

"Then prepare for battle," Lingyun said.

"Prepare for battle? Lingyun, are you saying that there are Strange Beasts behind this door?" Andiya asked.

"You could say that, and furthermore, our first enemy is this door!" Lingyun opened his hand, and the Purification Light shot out from his palm and landed on the gate.

"Sss—"

The gate twisted all at once, a shrill beast roar suddenly erupted from within it, and then the gate began to soften, eventually condensing into two Metal Exotic Beasts that lunged toward Lingyun and his party.

"Get lost!" Dewalin flashed, and the Thunder in his hand, wrapped in lightning, struck out two hammer blows as fast as the wind, knocking the two Strange Beasts away.

After the gate turned into Strange Beasts, the others looked inside the gate and could not help but gasp. Behind the gate were dense, scarlet eyes. After the gate disappeared, the things hidden behind it finally revealed their true faces.

They were Rock Giants, each a full three or four meters tall, and scorching magma flowed over their bodies. From the aura emanating from them, it could be seen that the strength of these monsters was, without exception, at the Saint Domain level.

Upon seeing Lingyun and the others, the Rock Giants roared one after another, then surged out of the gate and charged toward Lingyun and his party.

"Lingyun, where did these monsters come from?" Chen Jing asked with a frown.

"This is the greatest ability of Demon Qi. Demon Qi can erode inanimate objects and fuse them together to form Strange Beasts. These Rock Giants must have been formed by Demon Qi fusing the rocks and magma in the Magma World," Lingyun explained. "However, there is a major drawback to fusing these non-living things: these Strange Beasts can only rely on instinct to act and do not have very high intelligence."

"Prepare to engage!" Dewalin, who had knocked down the two Metal Exotic Beasts with his hammers, roared, and the Thunder in his hand was raised once again, smashing the Strange Beasts that had just climbed up back onto the ground.

Hearing Dewalin's command, the Dwarf Heavy Infantry moved at once; they lined up, their heavy weapons flashing with cold light, and charged at the Rock Giants pouring out of the gate.

"Attack!" The Great Elf Envoy standing beside Andiya raised a hand, and the Elf Warriors simultaneously took the longbows from their backs and released a wave of arrow rain at the Rock Giants.

However, this wave of arrow rain did not cause much damage to the Rock Giants. The rocks on the Rock Giants' bodies were extremely hard and could block the sharp arrows. Moreover, the magma on the Rock Giants' bodies suppressed the power of the Natural Power.

The Dwarfs charging at the front also encountered a problem. The Dwarfs, who had lived around the Magma World for a long time, had great resistance to high temperatures; their brute force combined with the heavy weapons in their hands could easily Shatter the rocks on the Rock Giants' bodies. But with the reinforcement of the Demon Qi, the shattered rocks would reorganize in a very short time, which made these Dwarfs quite frustrated.

"Brothers of the Dwarf Race, you are responsible for smashing the rocks on the chests of these Rock Giants. Elf Warriors, your target is the Magic Core revealed after the rocks on the Rock Giants' chests are shattered. As long as that core is destroyed, the Rock Giant will collapse."

After carefully observing the entire battle situation, the Great Elf Envoy immediately changed strategy, and his voice spread throughout the entire plaza.

Seeing the Rock Giants' offensive gradually being suppressed, Chen Jing and Su Wanyue looked at each other and also jumped into the battlefield.

Amidst a violent roar, the two Metal Exotic Beasts turned into a pool of molten iron under the Thunder. The Demon Qi within the Metal Exotic Beasts also completely vanished under the powerful Thunder Power.

Just at this moment, a chilling roar erupted from the gate, causing the movements of those fighting in the field to stall.

"The Guardian Beast condensed from Demon Qi has appeared," Lingyun said in a deep voice, staring at the hollow gate.