Chapter 386 385. The door was opened

A buzzing alarm sounded in the Golden Flame Castle.

The two most elite armed forces in the city, the Flame Guard of the Firebeard Clan and the Heavy Armored Corps of the Blacksteel Clan, quickly assembled and rushed towards the entrance of the Molten Dungeon fully armed.

Vimac Deepfurnace, the heir of the Deepfurnace clan and Thorin's eldest brother, stood at the window of the family tower, pulling at his carefully groomed beard, his expression becoming increasingly ugly.

His troublesome little brother caused such a big commotion on his first day in the Molten Dungeon?

Rather than the fact that the Molten Dungeon, which had been peaceful for hundreds of years, had an incident today, he believed that Thorin had caused some trouble again, such as accidentally triggering the alarm.

"Father will definitely skin him alive this time!" Weimark cursed softly. Although he often scolded his good-for-nothing brother, he couldn't bear to watch him suffer.

Vimak hurried in the direction of the army.

However, when he arrived at the dungeon entrance, he saw dwarven soldiers forming a shield wall, struggling to resist the large number of elemental creatures pouring out from the depths of the tunnel...

…

Bang!

Glenn used his shield to slam away a storm elemental that tried to squeeze into the passage, but soon a new elemental spirit filled the gap.

The two were trapped in the communication room, which was filled with violent elemental creatures outside. They could only rely on this narrow passage to defend themselves.

"It's over! I should have just run away!" Glenn shouted in frustration while fending off the attack.

Thorin swung his axe to smash a fire spirit that was trying to approach him, and apologized breathlessly: "Sorry! I didn't think to run first..."

"Forget it," Grum interrupted him. "It's my fault for not just dragging you away! Since the alarm has been sounded, let's hold on! Reinforcements might be arriving soon!"

After saying that, he couldn't help but continue complaining about the two people's bad luck: "The last time there was an accident in the underground city was over fifty years ago! Back then, it was just the underground fire forge's temperature went out of control and exploded. It was nothing like the life-threatening situation now!"

The two of them held onto the entrance to the communication room for who knows how long.

The healing potions he carried with him had long been used up, and his arms, which were wielding weapons, were shaking slightly from excessive fatigue, but the elemental spirits outside the door continued to flow in without any decrease.

"Damn it! What are those guards dawdling about for?" Glumm spat out a mouthful of blood. "It's such a short distance, we should be able to reach the destination by now!"

Their location was not far from the dungeon entrance, so reinforcements should have arrived long ago.

On the other side, Thorin no longer had the energy to curse. He could only lean against the wall and breathe heavily. The battle axe seemed particularly heavy in his hand.

At this moment, a violent vibration was heard!

An oppressive voice echoed throughout the dungeon like thunder:

"You damned bugs... Today, you will pay the price!"

Along with this roar, even more violent vibrations came from deep underground, and the gravel on the top of the passage fell down.

Obviously, the existence of sound possesses terrifying power.

"What...what is that?" Thorin's voice trembled involuntarily.

Glenn was in better condition, but his face was still pale. "Whatever it is, it looks like reinforcements won't be arriving anytime soon..."

Another elemental spirit drilled into the passage. The two looked at each other and saw the helplessness in each other's eyes. They didn't have much strength left.

A chill came from behind, and Thorin couldn't help but shiver.

He subconsciously turned around and was surprised to find that a familiar thing had appeared in the room!

Just as Thorin was stunned, the violent elemental spirit rushed over. Glumm summoned his last bit of strength and held on with his shield, roaring, "Stop being stunned! Even if you have to die, you must die like a warrior!"

"Death?" Thorin suddenly had an idea and began to search in his backpack. "Hold on! We might not have to die!"

"ah?"

Before Glenn could react, he was burned by the flames spewed out by a fire spirit and screamed in pain. The already damaged shield finally shattered completely.

Just when he was about to be unable to hold on, a magical force suddenly acted on him.

Thorin and Glenn's bodies began to shrink rapidly, and soon they turned into two little men.

Looking at the enormous fire spirit before him, Grumm couldn't hold back any longer. "What's your plan? Isn't this going to make me even more deadly?!"

However, Thorin grabbed him, turned around and ran back!

It was not until then that Glenn noticed that a palm-sized space crack had appeared in the corner of the room, and was constantly emitting a biting cold air.

The two narrowly avoided a heavy blow from the fire spirit and leaped into the rift. The moment they passed through, the place behind them was completely engulfed in raging flames.

Given the current size of the space rift, even elemental creatures would find it difficult to pass through this narrow rift.

The two survivors collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath, but they got up again not long after.

“It’s… so cold!”

The two dwarves huddled together back to back, and as their bodies gradually cooled down, they felt the biting cold!

"Are you kidding me? I finally managed to escape, but in the end I'm going to freeze to death?"

"Have you anything to start a fire?"

"How could that be possible?"

Puff——

Just as the two were cursing, a familiar figure appeared in front of them. To the shrunken dwarf, it looked like a Puji as huge as a hill.

Faced with the mycelial tentacles that were rolling over, Grum decisively dropped the warhammer in his hand.

He still clearly remembered the consequences of swinging his hammer at Puji in the Puji Dungeon!

Besides, he no longer had the strength to use his weapons and could only leave it to fate.

His only confusion now was: What exactly was this place? It looked quite different from the Puji Dungeon he had seen in human territory before.

…

Being opened up by a crack in another dungeon and brought to one's own territory... This was the first time Lin Jun encountered this!

Two little thieves also sneaked in!

Do you think you won’t notice yourself if you shrink?

Lin Jun immediately captured the two dwarves and dispatched several lizardmen to lead their Puji to guard the crack.

The high temperature coming from the other side of the rift is disturbing. I don’t know where it is connected to. It seems I have to interrogate these two uninvited guests.

Moreover, the crack seems to be getting bigger. Just in case, Lin Jun plans to dispatch more people to defend it.

He now only hoped that this was just an accident and not a precursor to an attack by some enemy.

The rift expanded very quickly, and when the reinforcements arrived, they just encountered the first elemental spirit passing through the rift.

The blazing fire spirit emerged from the crack, which was already half the size of a puff of fire, and wantonly spread its flames in all directions.

Then,

Without being attacked, the flames grew smaller and smaller, the temperature lower and lower... and finally, with a whoosh, they went out on their own...

(End of this chapter)