Salamander, a large elemental life form from the Elemental Plane of Fire.

They evolved from fire snakes and can be considered an evolved form of fire snakes.

"What's going on? Is this the leader of the Fire Snakes?"

As a semi-illiterate, Hope naturally didn't know who the salamander was, but the barbarian's sense of danger made her understand that the guy in front of her was not easy to deal with.

Newly born fire lizards have the strength of level 5, and as they continue to absorb fire element energy, the size of the fire lizards will continue to grow and their strength will further increase.

The size of the salamander in front of us is almost reaching the standard of "giant", which makes it a true aristocratic class among the salamander clan.

"That's a Salamander. Do you see the spear in his hand? These guys are one of the famous blacksmith races in the Fire Elemental Plane. It seems that our recent actions have angered him."

Salamanders are known as living forges, and many advanced smelting furnaces capture them to serve as heat sources.

Seeing the salamander, Carl's eyes under his mask seemed to sparkle.

He just happened to have some high-quality Khyber Dragoncrystal in his hand. If he could defeat this guy, he might be able to seal him in the dragoncrystal and use it as the elemental core of the power armor.

Carl and Hope were chatting animatedly here, but the salamander on the opposite side felt that it was being looked down upon.

Raising his spear, he shouted loudly and was about to attack Carl and Hope.

"I'll hold him back. You wait for your chance to attack!"

Carl quickly transformed the shield axe hanging behind him and chose a tactic that he had been honing for a long time recently.

"bite!"

Almost at the same time that Carl unfolded the shield, the fire lizard's spear hit the shield.

The powerful force caused Carl to retreat more than two meters, and his feet left two grooves on the ground.

This scene made Carl feel familiar. He seemed to have experienced a similar thing when he fought the fire snake for the first time.

On the other side, Hope used his frenzy to attack the salamander.

Even after growing bigger, Hope is still a little outmatched in front of this salamander, but at least her two battle axes can indeed pose a great threat to the salamander.

After the two of them hunted fire snakes for the first time, Carl added magic patterns to Hope's two battle axes, allowing them to cause greater damage to elemental life.

As he got closer to the salamander, Hope rotated his body, in this way applying more force to the battle axe.

"Clang!"

The axe was swung out and collided head-on with the fire lizard's spear.

Hope's left hand was numbed by the recoil, and the fire lizard on the opposite side looked to be feeling bad as well, and he almost couldn't hold the weapon in his hands firmly.

But compared to Hope's performance, his condition should be much better.

"That's quite a bit." (Fire Tribe language) Seeing that he didn't manage to take down the two guys in one go, the fire lizard praised in a low voice, then changed from sweeping to stabbing, and the spear attacked Hope's ribs directly.

Hope knew that he was no match for his enemy, so he raised his double axes and used the axe blades to block the opponent's spear tip.

At this moment, Carl on the side sheathed his sword again and combined the large shield and long sword together.

“Crack!”

The shield axe deformed, and Carl swung the weapon, leaving a deep wound in the fire lizard's abdomen.

The fire lizard that was wrestling with Hope was shocked, and then immediately found Carl who was about to continue attacking.

After mobilizing the fire element to repair its wounds, the fire lizard gave up the idea of ​​continuing the wrestling and instead rushed towards Carl.

Although the wound disappeared, the damage caused by the magic weapon was real, and the fire lizard's life breath was visibly weakened.

In its rage, the fire lizard's movements became much faster.

Before Carl could change his shield axe back, his attack had already arrived.

The whole body pivoted on the waist, swinging the shield axe.

"Boom-Woom-Woo-Om"

The shield axe collided with the spear shaft, and a huge buzzing sound echoed throughout the cave.

This time, the fire lizard simply dropped the spear in its hand. However, Carl was not affected at all because of the shock absorption of the power armor and the structure of the shield axe itself.

"Hope! Go!"

Calling Hope loudly, Carl didn't even bother to take a breath and rushed towards the fire lizard with shield axe in hand.

But the salamander is no fool.

Seeing that he was at a disadvantage, he immediately turned around and ran away.

But at this moment he suddenly realized that in order to chase Carl and Hope, he was already a long distance away from the lava river.

Just as he was stunned for a moment, Hope threw the battle axe in his hand.

The rapidly spinning axe directly cut off the snake's body below the waist and neck, but the injury was healed in an instant.

Carl directly used the mind detection that came with his psychic expertise, trying to understand the Salamander's intentions at this moment.

But the effect was better than Carl expected.

Large chunks of memories emerged in Carl's mind, and were then absorbed by psychic power and the Mind Flayer larvae plug-in. It seemed that he not only detected the other party's thoughts at the moment, but also obtained his recent memories.

However, these memories did not affect Carl's actions. As soon as his ability to discover the spell took effect, Carl prepared his spell.

Two bolts of lightning struck the fire lizard's back in succession. The opponent's elemental body was immune to the paralysis effect, but it still suffered the damage.

Carl and Hope's round of attacks weakened the fire lizard's life force to an extremely dangerous level.

If it were an ordinary creature, it would probably be dying by now.

But elemental life forms are more stubborn. They don't have any injuries and low vitality does not affect their actions.

Seeing that the other party was about to jump into the lava river, Carl could only do his best and leave the rest to fate.

After quickly reciting the spell, Carl once again cast the 0-level spell Lightning Pull.

The lightning struck the fire lizard that was about to jump in an instant, and a violent explosion sounded from the fire lizard's elemental body.

But this did not cause a fatal blow, and the salamander still did not die.

Looking at the salamander that was almost skin and blood left but was ready to jump into the lava river, Hope felt very unwilling.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hope acted completely on instinct! His broad feet stomped the ground, and Hope's huge body rushed towards the salamander that had already reached the bank of the lava river like an arrow.

All her attention was focused on the salamander, and her extreme concentration seemed to increase the strength of her soul.

At this moment, she clearly felt that her soul had broken through a certain barrier, and the spirituality that she had accumulated all along surged toward her professional spiritual core like a tide.

Her movements became faster.

As the fire lizard jumped into the lava river, Hope used the inertia of the forward rush to throw out the two battle axes in his hands.

"Shua"

The fire lizard's body was cut into three pieces in mid-air and never recovered.

His remains quickly turned into pure fire element and exploded. A gem-like high-purity elemental energy crystal fell on the surface of the lava river and floated quietly.

(End of this chapter)