bookbashuk Chapter 176 Fire Creatures
Chapter 176 Fire Creatures
Chapter 176 Fire Creatures
Dui took out the mithril box containing the flame crystal.
As soon as the lid was opened, a wave of heat emanated from inside.
The flame crystals inside emitted extremely high temperatures, like red-hot crystals, turning the space inside the box into a high-temperature furnace, where the air itself seemed to be melted and distorted.
Feeling the temperature around him rising rapidly, Dui quickly closed the mithril box again.
Fortunately, the mithril box became incredibly heat-resistant after forging; otherwise, it would have melted long ago if it had been filled with other metals or stones.
However, before closing the lid, Dui still took out a small piece of the flame crystal.
Although it was only a fire crystal the size of a baby's fist, it released heat at temperatures of several thousand degrees Celsius.
Suddenly, the spacious laboratory felt like a hot summer day.
Dui tried placing it on top of the iron block, and the iron block was quickly burned through.
When placed on thick stone bricks, the bricks cracked and melted, turning into lava.
Finally, it was placed on the body of the Balrog, and then everything was fine.
What surprised Dui even more was that the Balrog's body had turned into something like lava after it died, and especially after the magic crystal was taken away, it turned into a cold, hard stone.
However, after the flame crystal was placed on the body of the fire demon, the part of the fire demon that came into contact with the flame crystal gradually softened.
This softening is not caused by the high temperature of flame crystallization melting, but rather by restoring its activity and making it elastic.
Dui's eyes lit up immediately.
This change was beyond his expectations.
The revitalized body of the Flame Demon has become even more intriguing for study.
Unable to resist his curiosity, he opened the mithril box again, used his wand to double the size of the space inside, and then stuffed the Balrog's body inside.
The flame crystals inside the mithril box released temperatures high enough to melt the hardest metals instantly, but the fire demon was not burned when it entered.
Instead, his entire body regained its vitality, and flames erupted all over his body, as if he had come back to life!
Dui was also startled, but he was relieved after confirming that the Balrog had not come back to life.
Seeing that the Balrog was intact and even more active in the fire crystal, Dui simply put it together with the fire crystal.
The Balrog is essentially an elemental body formed from fire and shadow. The longer it dies, the more the fire element on its body will dissipate, eventually turning it into a pile of worthless stones.
Dui was naturally delighted that the flame crystal could now be preserved.
Once the Flame Demon's body has regained its vitality, its blood, resembling magma, will flow from the wound on its chest.
Dui collected it and put it into another mithril bottle, adding a grain-sized amount of flame crystal to prevent it from re-solidifying and petrifying.
He looked at the blood of the Fiery Demon in the bottle with great curiosity.
This should be considered divine blood; I wonder what its effects will be?
Without hesitation, Duit made an unexpected trip to find some test subjects.
Among them are common birds, reptiles, lizards, snakes, as well as several orcs, wargs, and trolls.
He tried injecting the blood of the Balrog into the experimental subject and observed the changes.
The result was either being burned to ashes or exploding and dying.
Clearly, none of these test subjects could withstand the molten lava-like heat of the Flame Demon's blood.
Until Dui remembered the bottle of Balrog's Heart fragments he had collected.
He started the experiment again.
Dui looked at the lizard in front of him and tried to implant a dust-sized fragment of magic crystal into the lizard's heart.
Then observe carefully.
The lizard didn't react at first after a fragment of magic crystal was implanted into it.
As time went by, Dui began to wonder if the fragments were too small to be effective.
The lizard began to turn bright red, and the cold-blooded animal's entire body became burning hot.
Upon seeing this, Dui injected a drop of the Flame Demon's blood into the lizard's body.
The lizard began to writhe in agony, struggling incessantly, until it gradually became on the verge of death.
Then suddenly his whole body burst into flames.
Just when Dui thought the lizard would be burned to ashes, the lizard suddenly jumped off the experimental table, rushed towards the burning fireplace not far away, and then plunged headfirst into the flames.
Then, to Dui's surprise, the lizard did not burn to death. Instead, it underwent a transformation in the flames, becoming multicolored and still burning.
The lizard remained in the flames, looking quite comfortable, and emanating magical energy characteristic of magical creatures.
Dui was pleasantly surprised by this unexpected result.
Originally just an ordinary creature, the lizard transformed into a magical being after being implanted with a fragment of the Heart of the Flame Demon and the blood of the Flame Demon.
He walked up to the fireplace and observed the lizard in the flames with great curiosity.
The lizard clearly remembered Dui, its body tense with alertness, and it sprayed a small spark at Dui.
Dui waved his hand to block the flames, looked down at it, and chuckled, "Oh, looks like you hold a grudge, little guy."
He then flicked his finger, causing the fire lizard to float out of the flames, ready to be taken to the experimental table for further study.
But to their surprise, once it left the flames, the fire lizard became listless, its flames gradually died down, and it grew weak.
Dui was surprised and put the fire lizard back into the flames.
The fire salamander recovered and became lively again.
After trying several more times, it was finally confirmed that the fire lizard truly could not be separated from the flame.
The longer you leave, the weaker the fire lizard becomes, and eventually it dies.
Seeing this, Dui simply summoned a flame, then wrapped the fire lizard in the flame and moved it to the experimental table, thus preventing the fire lizard from dying from weakness.
Dui used his wand to examine the fire lizard and discovered that it had indeed transformed into a magical lizard that could only live in flames!
Salamanders are not very powerful; the flames they spew are just a small cluster that can be extinguished even by an ordinary person.
However, Dui was not disappointed; the unexpected birth of a new magical creature was already a pleasant surprise.
He used a syringe to draw a little blood from the salamander and preserved it before putting it back into the fireplace flames.
Moreover, seeing that there was only one salamander, Dui simply decided to find it a companion.
So they did the same thing, using fragments of the Fire Demon's Heart and the Fire Demon's blood to transform another lizard into a fire lizard.
Watching the two salamanders in the fireplace flames, after some interaction, they actually started making some kind of sauce.
Dui was somewhat dumbfounded by this scene.
But then I started to look forward to it again.
If the fire lizards can reproduce, then all his hard work in this experiment will have been worthwhile.
Dui then stopped paying attention to the two fire lizards that were busy producing offspring and continued his experiments.
Anyway, these fire lizards would die if they left the flames, so he didn't need to worry about them running around or setting the room on fire.
The unexpected birth of the fire salamander filled Dui with anticipation for the upcoming experiments.
He immediately set his sights on a venomous snake.
The snake felt a chill run down its spine from his gaze, tensed its body, and assumed an attack stance, but its words were a barbed tongue that Du Yi could understand.
"Human, don't come any closer! I'm scared! I'm telling you, I'm very poisonous! Don't force me!"
Dui couldn't help but chuckle, and said in a snake-like voice, "Little guy, don't say I didn't give you a chance. You're just an ordinary venomous snake right now, with a short lifespan. Don't you want to become powerful and live longer?"
"Look at those two lizards! They're amazing now; they can even live inside flames!"
Dui immediately launched into a charade against the venomous snake.
The small-brained venomous snake was so confused that it couldn't remember anything except the promise of becoming stronger. So, it nodded in agreement as if possessed.
Then, as the humans in front of him sharpened their knives and walked towards him menacingly, it was too late to back down. He could only weep and think that his life was over.
For the larger venomous snake, Dui chose a larger fragment of magic crystal this time.
He implanted the fragment into the serpent's heart, then infused it with the blood of the Balrog, and quietly awaited the change.
The venomous snake writhed and twisted in agony on the lab table, its body swelling and cracking, revealing a fiery red color, as if magma were hidden within.
"Fire, I want fire!" (Snakes' language) The venomous snake, like a person thirsting for water, cried out to Dui for help.
Upon hearing this, Dui immediately unleashed flames at the venomous snake.
Enveloped in flames, the venomous snakes, like thirsty people receiving rain from heaven, began to greedily absorb the flames.
The snake then transformed in the flames, its shed skin burned away by the fire, and new grayish-white scales grew out, its eyes flashing red, as if burning with flames.
Looking at the venomous snake that had completed its metamorphosis, Dui examined it with some curiosity.
What abilities do you have?
The venomous snake examined its own body with some curiosity, then hesitated and said, "It seems I can make my body explode, generating immense heat to burn my enemies to death?"
Upon hearing this, Dui was speechless, unsure how to evaluate such an ability.
Is this what they mean by "self-destructing at the drop of a hat"?
"My venom seems to have changed too?" the snake asked, puzzled.
"How come it's different?" Dui asked curiously.
The venomous snake opened its mouth and bit a nearby rat, injecting venom.
After letting out a scream, the rat's body spontaneously combusted from the inside out, quickly turning into a pile of ashes.
Dui's eyes lit up when he saw this.
The abilities of this venomous snake after its metamorphosis are not entirely useless.
"There's one more thing..." the viper said.
"What is it?" Dui asked, even more eager. Could it be that the venomous snake had other abilities?
The viper said somewhat hesitantly, "I think I'm about to give birth."
"What?!" Dui thought he had misheard.
"I'm going to lay eggs!" the snake said.
Dui was instantly incredulous. "You were pregnant before?"
"This is my first time, I have no experience. I only had one encounter with a beautiful male snake before, who knew I would get pregnant~" The venomous snake twisted its body shyly and answered embarrassedly.
Dui was speechless. He had actually caught a pregnant female snake. His luck was simply unbelievable.
Venomous snakes—no, now it should be fire snakes—like salamanders, need to live in flames.
However, unlike the fire lizard, which cannot leave the fire for even a moment, the fire snake can stay away from the fire for about an hour.
The fire serpent, about to lay eggs, quickly crawled to a dark corner where there was no fire, and then forcefully produced seven snake eggs.
These snake eggs are red and emit extremely high heat.
Fire serpents cannot lay their eggs in flames, otherwise the eggs will explode like fire bombs.
Therefore, fire snakes need to lay their eggs in a cool, dark corner away from the fire, and then quickly crawl back into the flames within an hour to avoid dying.
(End of this chapter)