Hogwarts Card System Chapter 221

  Chapter 221 Geothermal Reaction

  The next day, the three of Ted, along with Muradin, Jin Li, Clara, and Mr. Swallow, formed a small team to re-investigate the place where they encountered the Hippogryph yesterday.

  As for Clara's uncle, Millhow, he was assigned to work in Fort Hammer—if he hadn't enraged the Hippogryph with an illusion yesterday, there wouldn't have been a fierce battle. In the end he was unhurt.

   I can't stay alive today!

  The other dwarf brother, he was actually seriously injured.

  The Hippogryph lightning bolt yesterday sent him flying three meters away.

   Later, other people found out that my brother's chest hair was burnt, and the skin on his chest was covered with radial electric shock scars.

   After being treated by the dwarf doctor in Castle Hammer, it will take a week to recover.

  Ted also presented white fresh essence and healing plaster.

   That's it, that old man went to see a doctor after drinking at a party yesterday... What a hard-working man!

  But today I will definitely not be able to follow the team. He had to stay and recuperate.

  When we arrived at the place where we fought yesterday, everyone began to investigate.

  Ted let Ansu go into the air to see if there was anything unusual.

  The dwarves also took out strange instruments to dig holes in the ground to detect abnormalities.

  Clara poked out a strange magic device, a bit like a radar screen, and began beeping around.

   Not to mention, in the end Ansu took this head-sized instrument and flew into the sky to increase the detection area, which was rewarding.

  Clara fiddled with the green checkered display screen, and said, "A little over a kilometer to the northwest, there is a place where the temperature is wrong!"

   "The temperature is wrong?!" Jerry was puzzled.

   "That's right, I didn't find any other abnormalities, but I found that place was a few degrees higher than other places." Clara explained.

   "Shall we go and have a look?" Jin Li looked at Swallow.

  Swallow stroked his beard, "We've been searching all morning, and there's just something wrong with this area. Go and have a look. If there's nothing unusual, then this area has also been ruled out."

  But, don't tell me, it's really strange!

  That is a deep pit, a cave created by the collapse of a hollow in the belly of the mountain caused by long-term crustal movement or groundwater erosion, which is commonly known as a tiankeng.

   Ansu flew down for a while, about a hundred meters later, and found a few bright fire elementals at the bottom of the dark sinkhole below!

   This thing is similar to stone elements, which are elemental life forms made of stones.

  The fire element is covered with flames, wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, bright at the top and dark at the bottom. The lower body is like an inverted cone-shaped dark red gas, floating at a height of about half a meter.

  The whole fire element looks about 1.5 to 1.7 meters, some bigger and some smaller. Levels range from level 6 to level 9, the higher the level the bigger.

  Ansu also found an abandoned huge nest on a platform halfway up the mountain in this deep pit. Composed of many branches, weeds and feathers, the diameter is three meters!

   You can also see the bones of some small creatures and a lot of feces.

   It seems that this is the lair of the Hippogryph.

   It was well hidden on the hillside of this tiankeng, but for some unknown reason, it got into a fight with the neighbors downstairs, and was outnumbered, burned, and ran away.

  In the end, I met Clara and the others, who were angry, and Clara's uncle Milhow's inappropriate illusion, not only did not scare the Hippogryph away, but enraged it. Hit it straight away!

  Ted told everyone about the situation below.

   Certainly something is wrong here.

  Mr. Swallow concluded that this is an abnormal phenomenon. What is certain is that there were no fire elements here last month!

   After all, this place is less than a day away from Fort Hammer. The dwarves and gnomes have lived here for seven or eight years, so they naturally have a deep understanding of the surrounding environment.

  Like this hippogryph, although not sure about its lair, the dwarves do know that there is a flying monster that has been haunting the east in recent months, but no one wants to mess with it.

   This thing requires a team of elites to wear equipment, bring various targeted items, and design a plan before they can win it steadily. There is no need to pay for this.

  The dwarves knew better about whether there was a fire element nearby.

  Elemental creatures are not like magical animals, which are generally invisible.

   And it will not migrate from other places.

   This thing will only be born in a suitable place.

  Like the stone element that Ted and the others encountered before, it was a place where the magic power had gathered in that mountain stream for a long time, and the stone element was born after many years.

  After it appeared, it would hover around and slowly "grow up". Would not go anywhere else.

  The IQ of this thing is also very low, at least it has not shown any ability to communicate. Like a robot that only attacks intruders.

  If it is the fire element that suddenly appeared recently, it is reasonable for the Hippogryph to fight them.

  Who's downstairs is on fire, don't worry?

  Ted suddenly remembered his visit to Fort Hammer yesterday.

  He asked: "I remember Muradin, you said that the efficiency of the big melting furnace has been getting higher and higher in the past year. It is impossible to work without wearing heat-resistant clothing?"

"That's right! It's not that I don't want to show you around, it's just that it's too hot there! I can't stand it even for a dwarf. It's like taking a bath on my body in a few minutes!" Muradin explained, almost pointing Own beard swears.

   "Of course I believe you. But...ordinarily it shouldn't be! We are here on the border of the Scottish Highlands, not Iceland. How could it be possible that geothermal resources are so rich? And it only appeared suddenly in the past year?!"

  The dwarf melting pot in Fort Hammer penetrated down more than a hundred meters, using special rune magic to draw lava from the ground to provide massive amounts of heat. And it's "living water"!

  With this skill alone, dwarves can gain the respect of wizards.

   This has mastered the core skills. If this is in Muggle society, this is the cheapest pseudo-clean energy!

  If this is to build an underground power station and continuously use underground lava, then it would be better to attract American troops!

   "Go down! Go down and see!"

  How to get down is a problem, don't look at the dwarves who live underground, but the rope slide is no joke.

  Ted used ropes to string everyone together, and then cast Feather Fall one by one, and then used Transfiguration to create platforms on the edge of the cliff, allowing Ansu to grab the rope and float down layer by layer.

  He wanted to float straight down, but the dwarves were afraid of heights!

  According to their words: die happily, falling down so slowly is really fatal. I dare not open my eyes.

   It took five or six minutes before they landed safely.

  The three dwarves in the team are already sweating profusely.

  Dwarf: It feels so good to be down to earth!

  Here is a bottle-shaped space with a narrow top and a wide bottom. The bottom is much larger than the entrance with a diameter of 30 to 40 meters.

  Looking up, there is only a piece of light the size of a human head, but it is very dim, and you can't see too far away.

   But the bottom of the tiankeng is not humid at all, even very hot!

  The cave should have been very humid before, and there were even water channels on the ground that had been washed out by water flowing on the stones all year round.

   But let alone a drop of water now, even the moss on the stone has dried up!

   Not far away, there is a natural cave. At the entrance of the cave, there are a few red, orange, and golden fire elements wandering unconsciously.

   Small fire elemental, level 6, elemental creature…

   Ember Guardian, level 7, elemental creature…

  Flamewalker, level 8, elemental creature...

  Fire Soul, level 9, elemental creature...

  A total of six!

  Swallow stared at the group of fire elementals who were particularly conspicuous in the dark environment and said: "I'm afraid we have to go into that cave and get ready to fight!"

  Ted quickly dissuaded: "I have a way to bring them enough damage, otherwise, with the lethality of these big fireballs, we might be wounded."

  Fire elements are different from stone elements. Among other things, stone elements are stone people who can move. If you can avoid being touched by it, you will not be injured.

   But the fire element is a flame!

   This thing will get burned if it gets close, and who knows if it will explode. But if you touch it, it will be a large area of ​​severe burns. Compared with stone elements, they are too dangerous.

  So, Ted intends to try to solve them as simply as possible.

   Thanks for the 100-point reward from book friend "Yubing の Rhodes"! Thanks!

  (end of this chapter)

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