Heart of Lava

On the Magical Beasts Mountain Range, the thunderclouds were still surging.

While the outside world was shocked by the raging thunderclouds, Copperfield, who was deep in the center of them, remained calm.

"Boom!"

Along with the ear-piercing sound of thunder, the lightning contained in the black clouds poured down.

Amidst the rumbling of the thunder, a deep harmonica sound rang out.

He opened his eyes again.

Copperfield was in front of the altar.

"Did I bet correctly?"

Copperfield let out a sigh of relief.

In the midst of that lightning, he definitely wouldn't have any chance of surviving.

"Aiya, look at my memory, I forgot to tell you."

Beside him, the sinister laughter of the skeleton from before suddenly sounded.

Copperfield turned around and looked at the skeleton beside him. His eyes were filled with killing intent.

"Aiya, don't be so serious. Look, you are not dead yet."

The skeleton did not seem to notice the intense killing intent in Copperfield's eyes. He continued to tease him.

"Aiya, don't draw your sword. Let's talk about this."

Copperfield paused and put Soul Slayer back. He knew that the skeleton was just speaking casually. With his current strength, he was definitely unable to harm the skeleton.

"Take that with you. It can help you hide the aura of Hell."

"After all, you know the power of Hell. It's not strange for it to cause some phenomena on earth."

"When your strength has reached a certain level, you will be able to completely hide the aura of hell that you carry. Before that, just use this."

As the skeleton spoke, it pointed towards the top of the altar.

Copperfield looked towards the direction the skeleton's head was looking at. There was a pitch-black necklace.

There was a blood-red crystal on the necklace. It looked like a magic crystal that was produced from the body of a magical beast. It did not look big, but the energy contained within it far surpassed any magical crystal Copperfield had seen thus far.

"You can wear it on your body. Also, this is something I used in the past. The soul power stored within it isn't sufficient. As for how to replenish it, hunting magical beasts is the simplest method. However, with your current strength, killing them is a little too slow for replenishment."

"There's a naturally formed treasure within the lava zone of the mountain range. It's called the Heart of Lava. It's formed from the accumulated fire-type energy within the lava. You can go and look for it."

"Places with dense fire-type soul power might exist."

Copperfield put on the pitch-black necklace after hearing this. He stared at the skeleton in front of him once again.

"There shouldn't be anything else to bother you this time. I'll take my leave first."

The skeleton changed his chatterbox attribute and disappeared as soon as he finished speaking.

Copperfield didn't stay any longer when he saw this. He turned around and left the altar's illusion.

When he was outside the illusion, Copperfield raised his head. The thunderclouds in the sky were still there.

It seemed that the thunderclouds knew that he was still alive and were still lingering around the mountain range.

Copperfield did not completely believe what the skeleton had said just now.

Whether this necklace could completely hide his own aura of hell, he still needed to try it out personally to find out.

If the necklace was useless, he could still return to the altar to save his life.

Copperfield played his harmonica, and the Magical Circle beside him flickered.

Amidst the black smoke, Nameless the knight appeared beside him once again.

At this moment, as he had summoned a creature from hell, his body emitted a thick hell aura. However, the thunderclouds in the sky remained unmoved, showing no signs of releasing lightning.

It seemed that skeleton was not lying to him.

Copperfield looked at the volcanic region in the distance.

He was prepared to go to the volcanic region to find the Heart of Lava first.

On the way, he was going to start hunting magical beasts to replenish the energy of the necklace.

For example, the tier 3 Berserk Thunder Bear was Copperfield's first target.

After witnessing the power of the thunderclouds at close range, Copperfield did not want to be targeted by the thunderclouds at all.

At this moment, in the volcanic region, "Hahaha, I've finally made a breakthrough!"

If anyone was there to see it, they would definitely be surprised.

That was because the creature that was laughing was actually a fire dragon that was over 30 meters long.

This fire dragon was trying its best to squeeze out of a hole that was slightly smaller than its body.

"How could I have forgotten about this before I started cultivating?"

After the dragon broke through in cultivation, their body size would undergo explosive growth. This dragon was about 30 meters in size. If nothing unexpected happened, it should have already evolved three times and its power should be around three-star.

After dragons broke through to four-star, some, with powerful bloodlines, could even speak human language.

Therefore, being able to speak not only represented the strength of this dragon but also the strength of his bloodline.

This was not only reflected in the dragons, but also in some of the magical beasts.

Dragons were not magical beasts. As early as during the industrial era of Titan, dragons had already existed. It was just that dragons were rare, and their territory was also too far away from human civilization, so the two sides did not have much communication.

However, after the 108th year of the industrial era, the magical beasts invaded on a large scale, and the territory of the dragons was also affected. Under the impact of the magical beasts, the territory of the dragons continued to shrink. The dragons, which were already small in number, were now becoming rarer and rarer.

This fire dragon's laughter had yet to end when its face suddenly stiffened. It raised its huge head stiffly and looked at the top of its head while trembling.

Above its head, a huge black thundercloud gathered. The energy undulations that flashed within seemed to be able to make living beings feel fear from their souls.

"I shouldn't have woken up yet. Hmm, I should cultivate first and go out to pamper myself."

After the fire dragon finished talking to itself, it headed towards the cave that it came out from. With a wave of its huge dragon claws, the gravel at the entrance of the cave flew in all directions.

It was afraid that if it went any slower, it would be targeted by the thunderclouds above its head.

That kind of terrifying energy fluctuation, who have known the moment it appeared in this mountain range.

...

About 500 kilometers west of the ruins of Titan City, in a small mountain range.

If one looked carefully, there seemed to be traces of human civilization in the mountain forest.

Next to a boundary stone, a figure dressed in a long black robe stood there. On the left side of the black-robed figure's chest, there was an exquisite badge.

He looked in the direction of the distant mountain range.

There, black clouds hid the sun and lightning surged.

"Young master... the contract should have been successfully signed."

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