Li Wei condensed an orange-red Fireball in his palm.

The light of the fire was dazzling.

It was like holding a small Sun in his hand.

The Shadow Attendant rushed over to join the battle.

"Shadow Claw!"

The Shadow Attendant ambushed the Lava Serpent from behind to draw its attention.

The Lava Serpent, which had been captivated by the Fireball in Li Wei’s palm, was attacked and immediately shifted its focus to the Shadow Attendant.

It twisted its body, relentlessly attacking the Shadow Attendant.

WHOOSH!

The Lava Serpent spat a gout of flame to incinerate the Shadow Attendant.

The Shadow Attendant quickly fled.

Suddenly, a tail shot out from the flames.

The Lava Serpent’s tail coiled around the fleeing Shadow Attendant, dragging it back in front of it.

The Lava Serpent tightened its entire body, constricting around the Shadow Attendant to crush it.

KR-KR-KRACK! SNAP!

The Invisible Armor on the Shadow Attendant was shattered by the immense force.

PUFF!

The Shadow Attendant instantly dispersed into a cloud of black mist, slipping through the gaps to get away from the Lava Serpent.

WHOOSH!

A dazzling Fireball fell from the sky, hurtling toward the Lava Serpent.

Sensing the danger, the Lava Serpent hastily coiled up, protecting its head in the center.

KABOOM!

The Fireball struck the Lava Serpent, causing a massive explosion.

In an instant, the entire volcano shuddered.

RUMBLE! GURGLE!

The volcanic activity grew even more intense.

Li Wei’s single Fireball Skill had advanced the volcano’s eruption timeline.

’A few more of those, and the volcano might just erupt on the spot.’

As the fiery light faded, it revealed the Lava Serpent below, battered and bruised from the blast.

The Lava Serpent’s vaunted Fire Resistance was as Fragile as paper before the overwhelmingly powerful Fireball Skill.

If Li Wei hadn’t intentionally spared its life, a slightly more powerful Fireball Skill would have blown it to pieces.

The previously arrogant Lava Serpent now lay on the ground like a dead snake, barely clinging to life.

Li Wei descended. The Lava Serpent twitched, wanting to escape.

The Shadow Attendant, which had just fled, immediately rushed forward and drilled into the Lava Serpent’s body.

Li Wei heard the Shadow Attendant cry out.

It seemed to have been burned by the Lava Serpent’s body heat.

The Lava Serpent thrashed about, rolling back and forth on the ground, trying to expel the Shadow Attendant from its body.

Eventually, its struggles grew weaker and weaker, until they stopped completely.

A black light flashed in its flame-filled eyes.

The Shadow Attendant had successfully taken control of the Lava Serpent.

Li Wei looked up, as if he could see the invisible Surveillance Demon Eye watching the area.

The previous scene had unfolded within the smoke, so the audience outside hadn’t noticed anything unusual.

When the dust and smoke cleared, the Lava Serpent was revealed.

The Lava Serpent bowed its head to Li Wei in submission, appearing to have been thoroughly defeated by him.

The spectators outside were all astonished. They hadn’t expected the Armored Man to have such an ability.

Defeating or killing a Magic Beast is easy; taming one is hard.

Magic Beasts are naturally vicious and unruly. Even if defeated, they will only flee.

They won’t submit.

Unless they are defeated by a more powerful Magic Beast.

Magic Beasts rarely submit to humans.

This involves the bloodline suppression that exists among Magic Beasts.

Magic Beasts naturally submit to other Magic Beasts with stronger bloodlines.

Humans don’t have Magic Beast bloodlines, so they cannot gain a Magic Beast’s recognition and submission.

Everyone began to speculate whether the Armored Man possessed some kind of special bloodline.

The Shadow Attendant controlled the Lava Serpent to retrieve the prey. After Li Wei took the Demon Core, the Lava Serpent ate the prey to recover from its injuries.

Li Wei led the Lava Serpent toward the summit.

All the Magic Beasts encountered along the way became food in the Lava Serpent’s stomach.

The Lava Serpent’s injuries were also recovering rapidly.

Rapidly healing injuries by eating is one of the basic abilities of a Magic Beast.

This is also what distinguishes Magic Beasts from ordinary animals.

Otherwise, according to the normal laws of evolution, any creature would instinctively minimize the harm that hunting might cause.

Magic Beasts, however, are the opposite. They are more enthusiastic about battle, or rather, conflict.

Animals avoid conflict because an injury could lead to their death.

Magic Beasts aren’t afraid of injury because they can recover from them quickly.

GULP GULP!

The Lava Serpent swallowed a Flame Lizard.

The Magic Beasts killed by the Lava Serpent also counted for Points.

In the blink of an eye, Li Wei had already accumulated 95 Points.

’Not many. So far, the only Tier Two Magical Beast I’ve encountered is the Lava Serpent.’

’This whole area is probably the Lava Serpent’s territory.’

Hunting only Tier One Magical Beasts doesn’t yield many Points.

"Hee hee hee..."

The laughter of a child came from up ahead.

Li Wei looked up to see a Fire Elemental Elf standing on a rock, watching him.

Seeing Li Wei look its way, the Fire Elemental Elf turned and fled.

"After it!"

Li Wei ordered the Lava Serpent to chase the Fire Elemental Elf.

SHH SHH SHH!

The Lava Serpent was much faster than Li Wei, disappearing from his sight in an instant.

Li Wei hurried to follow it from behind.

After running for a while, he suddenly felt the Shadow Attendant’s Power Return to his body.

’Is the Lava Serpent dead?’

Li Wei was baffled.

’What happened?’

he asked the Shadow Attendant in his mind.

The Shadow Attendant replied, ’A trap.’

Li Wei stopped in his tracks.

SHH SHH SHH! WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

The Lava Serpent appeared before him once again.

This time, the Lava Serpent was wreathed in flames, looking much more ferocious.

The Lava Serpent was followed by three Fire Elemental Elves.

Each Fire Elemental Elf was half the height of a person.

Three Tier One Fire Elemental Elves.

Seeing this, Li Wei seemed to understand.

’The Fire Elemental Elves discovered the Lava Serpent was being controlled by the Shadow Attendant, so they deliberately lured it into a trap.’

’Then they helped the Lava Serpent break free from the Shadow Attendant’s control.’

’The Lava Serpent’s current burning state must have something to do with the Fire Elemental Elves.’

’As for why the Fire Elemental Elves would help the Lava Serpent...’

’The reason is simple: the Lava Serpent is the Fire Elemental Elves’ Guardian Beast.’

All the Magic Beasts on the volcano were the Guardian Beasts of the Fire Elemental Elves.

They protected the Fire Elemental Elves from harm by outsiders.

The Fire Element Magical Beasts and the Fire Elemental Elves coexisted in a symbiotic relationship.

"ROAR!"

The Lava Serpent let out a furious roar at Li Wei.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

The Lava Serpent opened its mouth and spewed a column of fire over thirty meters long.

Its firepower was twice as fierce as before.

Li Wei hastily retreated.

The Lava Serpent pressed forward relentlessly.

"Object Control Skill!"

Li Wei made a grasping motion, telekinetically grabbing a rock and flinging it at the Lava Serpent’s open mouth.

The Lava Serpent shut its mouth and whipped its tail, swatting the rock away.

Then, it suddenly lunged, pouncing at Li Wei.

In the heat of the moment, Li Wei instantly condensed a small Fireball in his palm.

BANG!

The shockwave from the small Fireball’s explosion propelled Li Wei several meters backward, allowing him to dodge the descending Lava Serpent.

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!

The Fire Elemental Elves, happy to stir up trouble, all spat Fireballs at Li Wei.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

The Fireballs hit Li Wei and exploded, engulfing his figure in fiery light.

A moment later, Li Wei shot up into the sky.

He hovered in mid-air, out of the attack range of the Fire Elemental Elves and the Lava Serpent.

Li Wei felt this was getting tricky.

’I originally thought the final circle would be a paradise for Fire Element Mages.’

’But I never expected the environment of the final circle to actually be a counter to Fire Element Mages.’

It was true that Fire Element Magic was much more powerful in a volcanic environment.

But the powerful Fire Resistance of the Fire Element Magical Beasts and Fire Elemental Elves completely nullified that advantage.