Two or three hours later, Balliard arrived at the crater of the Hearth Village. Under the suppression of the fire demon's will, he had to climb the volcano, which was as difficult as ordinary people.

Even more, in such a hot environment, more time and energy need to be wasted. Otherwise, at the speed of an extraordinary person, how much time will it take to climb a mountain that is only two kilometers?

The crater in Hearth is different from what Ballard imagined. The crater is all filled with cooled magma. This is no problem. As far as the temperature of Freljord is concerned, the lava at the top should still be normal.

Lava, that's weird.

But, how come there are so many...skeletons on top of these cooled lava?

"It's like a battlefield."

Balliard picked up a weapon from a skeleton. The weapon should have looked like a sword, but now only half of the hilt and half of the blade were left.

He tried to use the sword as a medium to summon the dead soul of the corpse, but he didn't get a response and died.

"Clang-"

Balliard heard the sound and looked back, and found a corpse standing up with its bones falling. At this time, the corpse was lowering its head to pick up its own bones, and saw Balliard looking at it.

He came over and touched his head awkwardly.

"Live?"

Balliard looked like he had seen a ghost, but he himself was the ghost king, right?

"..."

After staring at each other awkwardly for a few seconds, the corpse seemed to realize something. He picked up the weapon in his hand. After feeling the feel, he threw the thing out and hit Valliard. That's right... it was him.

Falling bones.

"...What are you trying to express?"

Valliard caught the bone. Judging from the position where it fell and the missing bones on the body, it should be a rib. Although it has been broken several times and is not the original size, there is no doubt that it is a rib.

.

A corpse has no heart and liver, so it offers ribs instead? Sure enough, as the king of the undead, he is more popular with the undead. However, this corpse picked up a broken spear from the ground and charged at Valliard.

"Okay, is this some kind of welcome ceremony?"

Balliard didn't take this skeleton to heart at all. Who is he? The monarch of Shadow Island, he can't control humans and other living creatures, and he can't control a small skeleton?

However, in his surprised eyes, the broken spear was inserted into his body. It did not penetrate the dead man's plate armor, but a huge impact force was released on Baliard's body.

"I knew there was... a ghost in here!"

Balliard fell to the ground, and the corpse holding the broken spear was obviously unable to accept it. It was shaking around Balliard, not knowing what to do.

And what about Balliard? He quietly observed the crater with his own shadow. These corpses were not undead creatures, but some artificial intelligence, intelligent robots made with skeletons as bodies - who? So idle?

Soon, Balliard heard the fire demon's words. It was Bi who had nothing to do and built some robots.

The Demon of Fire, at a small level, is the will of the flame, but at a large level, it is the beginning of civilization. It was the flame that allowed the ancient people to give birth to their own civilization.

Therefore, the Fire Demon will have a full understanding of many things about civilization. For example, this robot is actually a technique studied by students in a certain academy by spreading beans to form soldiers. The original idea was to seal soldiers in soybeans.

Then release the soldiers in certain places where it is inconvenient to enter large numbers of troops.

But unfortunately, there is no oxygen inside, and the soldiers will basically die after entering and coming out. Therefore, the academy began to research artificial soldiers to replace soldiers.

And since soldiers are made by sowing beans, the artificial soldiers inside must be as good as human beings. Therefore, during that period, there were particularly many death row prisoners near the academy, and the death row prisoners would be handed over to the academy for processing.

The final result is to transform human corpses into robots. The robots here were made by the Fire Demon out of boredom. As for the corpses, there were always Iceborn who came here in ancient times to seek power.

"What should I do?"

Balliard didn't think that the Fire Demon would watch him block his nostrils. Although he could breathe in other places, it was not as convenient as the nostrils.

If the Fire Demon only had some power of "will" with its own will to infiltrate, Ballyard wouldn't have anything to worry about, but if the Fire Demon has a group of robot troops, it would be troublesome.

"How about this……"

Balliard suddenly jumped up and stepped on the ground violently. The dust and darkness stirred together, and the skeleton next to Balliard suddenly lost sight.

Robots should also use "eyes" to obtain vision, but it is not ruled out that they can use methods other than eyes, such as infrared sensing, so dust alone is not enough.

After the dust and darkness disappeared, the corpse looked around, but did not find where the previous human had gone. According to the will of the Creator, it and its kind must clean up all creatures that come here, unless they are related to the Creator.

Brand was not blocked by them. On the contrary, when Brand came here, there were still several corpses that were walking around to lead Brand to the place closest to the Fire Demon.

, that is, under this layer of cooled lava, the place where the flame energy is most surging.

At that place, it would be much easier to break through the cooling lava layer and enter the crater.

Did Valliard disappear? Of course not. He just "teared off" the outer layer of skin and flesh on himself, which actually turned his appearance into a dilapidated and decayed skeleton.

With the intelligence of these robots, they should not be able to tell the difference between him and them. In this way, Balliard can arrange the seal with peace of mind.

However, Balliard did not act rashly. He observed the way the corpse walked and imitated it. Although he turned himself into a skeleton, he had not experienced all aspects of the movement of a skeleton.

For example, the skeleton in front of me would look down every few steps, and after a few seconds, it would touch the back of its head, as if it was missing something but couldn't remember it.

Valliard is not in a hurry, he demands stability and cannot let Brand's plan succeed again. He only has this chance to solve the trouble caused by Brand once and for all.

Although the Heart of Frost is an artifact, the energy inside this artifact is not stable. There is no fire energy in the normal Heart of Frost, but there is in this Heart of Frost.

Coupled with the fact that Ornn hammered out a crack, Balliard was really worried about what he would do if the Heart of Frost was suddenly destroyed by these robots when he was setting up the seal.

Baliard is a transcendent person wearing the plate armor of the dead. The pure physical defense of most demigods is not as good as Baliard's. In addition, Baliard's extremely high divinity makes him almost immune to damage.

harm.

However, the skeleton's ordinary blow just now knocked down Balliard. The impact penetrated the dead man's plate armor and reached Balliard's internal organs. Although he did not have such a thing as internal organs, he had a power.

It's really uncomfortable to run around inside your own body.

The weapons of these skeletons should have been strengthened by the will of fire. They look ordinary, but in fact they are as powerful as artifacts. If these skeletons hit the heart of frost, it would be a big deal.

It has to be said that the way these skeletons walk is too slow. Balliard doesn't know where the hole leading to the crater below is, but it must be in the middle, so he heads towards the center

Go.

But at the speed he was walking at, imitating the corpse, it would probably take him an hour to get there. He used his shadow to search for the entrance while walking slowly.

About ten minutes later, he discovered the entrance, but at the same time, Brand also discovered his peek.

"Ballyard? Are you still here?"

Brand looked up at the entrance of the cave, with a bit of murderous intent in his eyes, and a very anxious look on his face. He was still undergoing the test of the Fire Demon and could not leave here.

Balliard will be here soon. Although he doesn't know Balliard's purpose, it is definitely not a good thing. He stretched out his hand, wanting to control the flames to cause some trouble to Balliard, but as if

The lava stirred up like a wave knocked Brand over. The fire demon didn't seem to like the students to be distracted in class.

Of course, Balliard didn't know that Brand had discovered him. He was still moving towards the entrance of the cave step by step. Although the speed was a bit slow, the skeletons that occasionally moved around him saw him and ignored him.

This is a good sign, which means that the skeletons have regarded him as a kindred spirit.

However, a foehn wind blew out from the entrance, and the huge wave of flames blew Balliard back a lot. If he continued walking at the same speed as before, Balliard would have wasted half an hour more.

hours of time.

"...It seems like I can't hide it anymore?"

Balliard discovered many skeletons, picked up his weapon, and walked towards him. Balliard did not dare to act rashly and continued to move slowly towards the entrance, pretending that he did not see the skeletons.

"Defective products must be destroyed."

A voice communicated with Balliard through spirit, and Balliard discovered that these skeleton robots could communicate.

"I'm not a defective product."

Balliard learned the way these skeletons spoke, imitated their tone, and defended himself. Defective product, defective robot?

He was not a robot, so how could he be a defective product? Balliard only thought that he had made a mistake in his disguise, allowing these skeletons to discover the problem.

Since it is a problem, Balliard needs to know where the problem lies so that he can escape and continue to pretend.

"The fact that you were blown up by the flame wave means that the condition of the fuselage has seriously declined and it has become a defective product and needs to be destroyed."

Several skeletons held Baliard up with their own weapons and led him towards the central area.

"I...accept destruction."

Balliard's eyes lit up. "Destroy" rather than "destroy". The robot's language was very strict. "Destroy" was an act of violence, while "destroy" was an industrial step.

If these robots are all from the same manufacturer, then where should the collected defective products be sent for destruction? The answer is - Fire Demon.

That's right, looking from this direction, these robots are going to send him to the entrance and throw Balliard in. Doesn't this solve Balliard's problem?

The foehn wind has been upgraded to a flame wave in this place, or in other words, the flame wave has weakened into a foehn wind in other areas at the top of Furnace Township. However, neither the flame wave nor the foehn wind appear with any regularity.

Balliard had no idea of ​​the next wave of flames.

When will the time come, with the help of these robots, Balliard will not be blown away in the flames and can reach the entrance as soon as possible.

Besides, although this wave of flames came out from the entrance, Balliard felt that there were flames gushing out from under his feet. The entrance was the entrance that Brand forcibly opened. Then, when everything here is cooling

When the lava has no entrance, does the flame seep out from the lava? Um...it feels a bit like a barbecue grill.

Not long after, Balliard saw the entrance from a distance. However, this was because the entrance was in a low-lying area, and he was held up relatively high by the skeletons, so it would take some time to get through.

But this period of time passed very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, Balliard appeared at the entrance. The surging flame energy poured out from under the entrance, and Balliard once again experienced the feeling of burning.
To be continued...