In just a moment, the snake's body was covered in flames.

However, the snake's body was not burned by the flames, but instead began to change in the flames.

Carl retreated quickly as if facing a formidable enemy.

But the enemy, which had transformed into a fire snake, seemed to have sensed Carl's intention to escape.

It shrank its body and compressed itself into a snake ball wrapped in flames.

"boom!"

As the flames covering the outside exploded, a medium-sized fiery red snake was born from the fireball.

Its general appearance was similar to that before, except that it had a flaming fleshy mane on its back.

As soon as it was born from the fireball, it rushed towards Carl impatiently.

The snake's belly, with a faint glow of fire, was crawling rapidly on the ground, and its extremely high body temperature left a winding trail of scorched earth on the ground.

The sight was so terrifying that Carl didn't even dare to face its edge for a moment.

"Why do you have a second stage transformation? Are you considered an elite monster?"

When enemies come, we must fight back; when water comes, we must block it with earth. Seeing the fire snake chasing him, Carl ran straight towards the tunnel he came from.

He felt that the other party's current state should be considered an elemental creature. In this case, the underwater environment would definitely not be conducive to the other party.

“Plop!”

Jumping directly into the underwater tunnel, Carl let the power armor sink and made a universal gesture to the fire snake hovering on the water.

I don’t know if it was angered by Carl’s gesture, but the fire snake suddenly dived down.

The scalding body temperature instantly vaporized some of the groundwater, and then it actually "swam" towards Carl.

The enemy has chased here, and it would be impolite for Carl to run away.

A thunderous fist was thrown out, and the ultrasonic waves created layers of ripples underwater.

The underwater resistance made Carl's attack much slower.

But I don’t know if the fire snake’s brain was burned out or what, it actually rushed straight towards Carl’s fist.

It would have been fine if it hadn't collided, but after this collision, the fire snake immediately showed its cowardice.

Its physical strength was far from being a match for Carl, and it could only barely tie with Carl when he was not wearing power armor.

Now, what worries does Carl have?

Grabbing the opponent's flesh mane, Carl fired three thunder punches at the fire snake's head.

These three attacks were so accurate and fierce that after three attacks, the fire snake was no longer moving.

Just as Carl was thinking about whether to be more cautious and cut the opponent into pieces, a wisp of rich fire element scattered from the fire snake's body and was intercepted by the Khyber Dragon Crystal on Carl's chest.

Carl's spirituality instantly increased, which also meant that the soul of his opponent in this battle had already gone to the Land of the Dead.

Looking at the snake corpse left in his hand, Carl hesitated for a while, and finally took it back to the giant mine cart.

…

"Are you sure this is edible?"

In the kitchen of the giant mine cart, Hope reached out and poked the fire snake steak in front of him, seeming a little afraid to try it.

Across from him, Carl was chewing snake meat with a subtle expression on his face.

Because the fire snake has an extremely high body temperature, Carl was not worried about any parasites or bacteria, so he simply ate a piece raw.

The taste of fire snake meat is like shrimp, but it is not easy to chew with teeth.

As for the taste...it was surprisingly good.

After evaluating the fire snake meat in his mind, Carl swallowed the snake meat in his mouth.

"Would you like me to help you with that? The stove over there might be able to cook the meat."

There are also species in the Fire Elemental Plane that are similar to the beast Carl just encountered, and their appearance is similar to the other one.

But that kind of fire snake is an elemental creature, and when it dies, it will only leave behind some crystals of the fire element.

As for the origin of this thing...it's either a hybrid of ordinary snakes and fire snakes from the fire elemental plane, or it's something created by the Livestock Dragon Pattern Family.

Of course, Carl is more inclined to the former. After all, it seems that the people of Khorvaire have not yet found a stable portal and developed this dungeon.

Looking up at Carl, Hope took a deep breath, then grabbed the steak and took a bite.

The well-trained teeth tore off a piece of the steak directly. As Hope chewed, a subtle expression similar to Carl's just now appeared on his face.

“Not bad.”

After swallowing the fire snake meat, Hope gave his own evaluation.

Then, she raised her head again and said to Karl: “Let’s go over there again later!”

"What do you want to do?"

Carl looked at Hope with a frown on his face, his tone somewhat stern.

The other party will soon enter the menstrual period. What if something goes wrong if he goes out to fight at this time? "Didn't you just say that a fire snake like this will increase its spiritual power a lot? I should be upgrading soon."

Non-spellcasters are not sensitive to the results of their spiritual accumulation, or to put it more intuitively, they cannot see whether their experience bar is full or not.

Although Hope has a certain ability to cast spells, he still cannot accurately control his spirituality to upgrade his professional core.

Seeing that Carl's total level is now 4, but she, who was one level higher than Carl before, is now one level behind him. How can Hope accept this?

She has been training very hard during this period, but perhaps due to the lack of spiritual fluctuations and stimulation from real combat, she has not made any breakthrough until now.

Seeing that the fire snake seemed to be a suitable prey for her, she immediately wanted to follow Carl to catch the fire snake.

She couldn't defeat the goblins in the woods, who were conservatively estimated to be level 6 or above, but she had no problem defeating these fire snakes.

Looking at Hope who was looking at him longingly, Carl gradually lost the battle.

"Well, if you feel uncomfortable, jump back into the underwater tunnel immediately. Let me make it clear first, the environment there is still a bit harsh. I think you..."

…

"Isn't this good?"

In the high-temperature and high-pressure lava cave, Hope was wearing the protective gear that Carl had just made for her, holding two brand new battle axes in her hands, and standing on the rock with a comfortable look on her face.

He looked so relaxed, as if he had returned home.

"Ah~, I almost forgot that you are a tiefling, and you are a tiefling who inherited the racial characteristics of hellfire."

Covering the helmet of his power armor, Carl only remembered this now.

"Haha! I just realized that my bloodline is not completely useless. Follow me! I have seen a creature similar to that fire snake!"

Jumping off the rock, Hope waved to Carl, then rushed out first.

The two large battle axes did not affect her movements at all.

As Carl caught up, Hope swung his arms and threw one of the battle axes at a fire snake that had almost grown to [Large] size.

The battle axe mixed with refined gold easily cut through the scales of the fire snake. The large fire snake that was resting immediately stood up, then coiled and twisted, sweeping its tail towards Hope and Carl.

(End of this chapter)