Nameless King

Chapter 102 The Underground Flame

"I'll go there." Suddenly Wain said.

He didn't want to wait another few hours for Clovis to finish the bridge. It was too long and tedious. Moreover, Wain realized that there were definitely enemies down there, which meant he could spend this time to his advantage and get a little stronger.

'Hmm, after I've evolved, I'll probably need a huge amount of Soul Essence. Moreover, I need to find monsters from First Chronicle, but that might be problematic at the moment.' Wain pondered.

He was content to be the first person to start evolving. But, this Title had its big downside. Wain was too fast, he was ahead of 99% of the creatures living in this world, and it was like shackles for him that significantly slowed his progress.

But, Wain understood that this was normal. He couldn't grow any faster than he was at the moment. He had to wait a little longer before more powerful monsters appeared. However, his Title gave him unique bonuses that no one else had.

"Are you sure?" Gisle asked.

"Yes, that shouldn't be a problem. At the moment, among the creatures of Primary Chronicle, there are no enemies for me. I might only have a problem if I encounter First Chronicle monsters." Said Wain.

"I'm coming too." Said Zero.

"I'm also curious to know what's going on out there..." Mumbled Agnes thoughtfully.

Then Teresa joined their company. Grut and Gisle decided to stay upstairs. Gisle didn't need any more monsters anyway. He was already ready to evolve.

Grut didn't like to take part in the battle unnecessarily. He preferred guarding and protecting something rather than attacking it.

"As you wish, just don't get in my way." Proclaimed Wain and jumped down.

Zero, Agnes, and Teresa did the same. Except for Gisle and Grut, they were the only ones who could risk going into the massive roaster like that.

"I hope they come back soon..." Mumbled Gisle.

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The canyon was bottomless, so Wain tumbled down for quite a while. At the end of the way, he stuck his sword into the slope and slowly landed on the fiery ground.

"It's pretty hot in here." Mumbled Wain looking around.

At that moment he saw a message in front of him.

[You have entered the Nest Area - Magma Fields]

"It's been a long time since I've been to the Nests. It's interesting. Is there a king here too, or have the monsters yet to elect one?" Mumbled Wain looking around.

He saw a rather typical picture for a location with that name all around him. Around him was a red-hot land, small lava lakes, and oddly enough, trees with brown bark and bright red leaves. Lava flowed through them like veins charging the leaves.

'Hmm, maybe there's some kind of ore in this place. Considering how deep underground this Nest is and the conditions here, the ore could be very high quality.' Thought Wain and stepped forward.

This place was quite different from the park where the Samurai robots lived. It was much larger and desolate.

Not far from Wain, lava geysers were constantly exploding, and he could hear the magma boiling, but he had yet to encounter a single enemy.

"Where are these flames coming from?" Wain muttered, looking up.

He decided to come down here, also to deal with the rising levels of fire. Otherwise, the bridge would burn, and they would have to start all over again. Moreover, they didn't have enough wood to build two bridges.

Crackling.

Suddenly, Wain's first enemy appeared from beneath the ground.

This creature crawled out of the ground and looked like a fire slime. From the outside, this creature looked harmless, and to some extent, it was.

After all, the magma slime had no purpose of attacking anyone, but it wanted to consume another creature and get bigger. It was a natural instinct for these monsters.

"Let's start with the easy difficulty level." Proclaimed Wain and swung his hand.

The plasma sword headed toward the magma slime and instantly sliced it in two. Parts of the monster began to freeze, and Wain thought his opponents were finished. But, suddenly, the ice melted instantly, and two new slimes emerged from the two parts.

They were no different in size from their former version. This was a feature of slimes as a kind of monster. They could store energy in their bodies in an almost limitless amount and then use it at any appropriate moment.

This meant that if a slime had enough energy, it could make a hundred or even a thousand copies of itself. It was hard to call such an opponent strong, but it was problematic to deal with it.

Wain shrugged and swung again. For the next few minutes, he kept cutting dozens of slimes into pieces, but they kept increasing in number.

Gradually around Wain, there were about two hundred slimes, each the size of a person.

"This is beginning to bore me. How I hate tenacious opponents. There's no fun in fighting them. You hit them, cut them apart, freeze them, and they don't care. But, everything has its limits." Proclaimed Wain, and with a cold face, continued to cut the slimes.

Occasionally, magma slimes tried to attack Wain, but they were too slow to hit an opponent as fast as Wain.

Crackle.

Suddenly one of the slimes completely froze and no longer recovered. Wain smiled and swung his hand, sending his plasma sword to destroy the slimes.

The slimes realized that their energy reserves were starting to run low, so the monsters took the most obvious maneuver. Each of them jumped into the lava lake nearby.

"Fuck, are they playing hide and seek with me?! I'm going to blow this place apart," Wain muttered irritably, and electric charges began to build up around his arm.

He wanted to use Oblivion Thunder and destroy the lava lake along with the slugs but stopped at the last moment. Wain realized that because of this location's location, he could not use such a destructive skill.

"The slimes haven't popped up for a while. Maybe I should just move on. I have to find out the cause of the fire. I don't have time to play hide and seek with them." Mumbled Wain and headed on his way.

But, suddenly, there was a massive burst of lava in the lake, and Wain saw a huge fire crocodile climbing out of the lake. It hunted for slimes, which ran away from it like rabbits.

'Unlike in the park, there are some pretty different monsters here.' Thought Wain looking at the furious crocodile.

It was unhappy that hundreds of slugs had jumped into its lair. The crocodile was fast and strong enough to catch up with each slug and swallow them.

'It took me so long to cut them open, but I ended up making lunch for that reptile with my own hands. It's pretty ironic.' Thought Wain.

The monsters attacked not only humans but other monsters as well, and in that, they were very much like humans. But given that most of the monsters were of different races, that wasn't surprising. Even members of the same race could attack each other for many reasons.

When the fire crocodile ate all the slimes, he stared at Wain. A powerful aura emanated from him, which showed that Wain had a huge amount of Soul Essence hidden in his body.

Wain was the preferred target for any predator who quickly wanted to become stronger. However, when Wain looked coldly at the crocodile, it instinctively realized that it would not be able to handle such a strong opponent.

Monsters usually acted risky and rarely cared about their own safety, but they were not suicidal. Every one of them wanted to become stronger and take the throne at the top of this world.

Most monsters, just like humans, attacked the weak and avoided the strong. It was a safe way to gradually become powerful.

Whooosh.

Suddenly Wain pointed his hand at the crocodile, and there were vibrations in the air. The monster instantly tried to retreat and dive back into the lava lake, but Wain wasn't about to let it do that.

Click.

There was a loud click, and a kinetic bullet slammed into the crocodile's head. It exploded like a watermelon, and the crocodile's decapitated body fell to the bottom of the lava lake.

Then the white soul flew toward Wain and penetrated his body.

Wain immediately crushed the soul and looked at the flames above.

"It's gradually getting bigger. I need to speed up. I wonder what Zero and the others are doing? They seem to have come down here, too."