394 Dark Iron Dwarves (1/2)

He could only compound a bottle of Rebirth to deal with this emergency. Rebirth Potion needed a total of four ingredients. Lin Yun looked around his pockets and quickly found three of the needed ingredients, but after a few minutes, he found out that he was missing the Blazing Flame Grass.

'Misfortune never comes alone!'

But soon, Lin Yun felt a warm aura within his Magic Array. This made his eyes shine. The Blazing Flame Grass was a very common herb that usually grew in hot environments, so it shouldn't be hard to find some around here.

Lin Yun patted the dust off his clothes and examined his surroundings. It seemed to be a naturally formed cave, a huge, naturally formed karst cave. It was very wide, and after some calculations, Lin Yun roughly estimated that this place was five kilometers away from the surface… Yet it wasn't dim at all...

He followed the warm aura forward and walked for roughly a dozen minutes before the scene in front of him shook him deeply. A huge palace was hovering in midair, fastened to the ground with countless thick chains, and the warm aura was coming from that palace.

What truly shook him wasn't the hovering palace, but the manpower needed for such a great feat of engineering. Even during the flourishing period of the 3rd Dynasty, if the entire country was focused on this project, it would still need at least ten years!

He walked to the hovering palace by following a thick chain. The heatwave coming from below made him frown. There was boiling lava emitting terrifying heat below. In a short few seconds, the high temperature made his robe stick to his body due to sweat, and his face flushed red.

Although the mana here wasn't as chaotic as earlier, there was still a lot of interference. In such circumstances, it would be very difficult for him to survive if he fell.

'Eh?'

With a quick glance, he discovered something.

There were four skeletons floating in the lava. These skeletons were a bit special, as they weren't human skeletons. With a careful look, Lin Yun noticed that they were emitting a gloomy dark-gold luster, and the people these four skeletons belonged to should have been about a meter tall when they were alive...

'Dark Iron Dwarves?'

Lin Yun frowned. He could confirm that these were the skeletons of Dark Iron Dwarves. They would spend most of their time working by a forge, so they naturally had extremely high heat resistance. It could be seen from these four skeletons. They remained there for at least a millennium and were floating in the lava, but they had yet to melt.

'But, how come Dark Iron Dwarves died in this place… After all, this is within the borders of Okland…'

The Dark Iron Dwarves were famous in the Nesser Dynasty. They were the servants of the Chromatic Dragons and they held the richest mineral resources on Noscent. They had the most advanced forging techniques, but unfortunately, the era of the Dark Iron Dwarves fell alongside the Nesser Dynasty, when the Dragons went to the void. Now, the Dark Iron Dwarves couldn't be seen in Noscent. They were already hiding underground and few people would ever meet one alive. Only the best auction halls of Noscent would see a masterpiece of a Dark Iron Dwarf from time to time, proving that the race had yet to become extinct.

'But, what happened to those four Dark Iron Dwarves? Is it related to the hovering palace?'

Dark Iron Dwarves were innate forging masters, so finding a hovering palace near them wasn't surprising at all, but their death put Lin Yun at a loss.

As he moved alongside the chain, Lin Yun paid attention to the lava below, and sure enough, the number of Dark Iron Dwarves' skeletons weren't limited to those four. After walking a few more minutes, he found a dozen more.

A heatwave suddenly rose up as a large, flaming bird came out of the lava with a sharp cry, flapping his wings, surrounding Lin Yun in countless flames.

'Flame Vulture!'

This abrupt change startled Lin Yun. He had had a strange feeling while going up the chain, as if someone had been spying on him, but he had been unable to find anything amiss, so he had been walking cautiously for the past few minutes. He understood when the Flame Vulture appeared. The Flame Vulture itself was a fire lifeform and had been hiding in the lava. No wonder he hadn't been able to find him...

That Flame Vulture wasn't very powerful. It was approximately only level 31. Had it been before, a magic beast of that level wouldn't have drawn Lin Yun's attention. But the environment here was very bad for Lin Yun. The mana was chaotic, greatly weakening his power, and the fall had also injured him.

He gently raised the magic staff and three Ice Walls instantly rose up in front of him, blocking the flames. At the same time, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel also rose up behind him and burst with mana, forming a flood of spells that engulfed the Flame Vulture. At this time, Enderfa came out of the Spell Wheel, and with his control, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel ruthlessly bombarded the Flame Vulture.

Lin Yun didn't know what Enderfa used the Variant Black Lizard Blood for, but after getting it, the Ten Thousand Spell Wheel's might did increase a lot. Just as Enderfa had said, it reached the level of a middle-rank True Spirit Magic Tool!