After flying for a while, and killing some magma creatures, Leon finally found a bifurcation in that damn cave. Still, the scenario was repeating itself, so it was hard to know, but Leon was pretty sure that he flew for more than ten hours. It was insane, but it looked like he was on a cave very deep underground.

"It is a wonder I can breathe here... my coughing finally stopped, but it is still hard... and I'm hungry..."

Leon doubted that he could find anything to eat so close to a river of magma, eating the magma creatures was out of the question, so Leon couldn't help but worry about it. He could create water, so he wouldn't die of thirst.

"Now what..."

Leon had to choose, he could go to left or right, and unfortunately, it was impossible to know if he would find food or the end of that hellhole. Leon hesitated. It has been a long while since he had to choose a path so risky. He chose several fights with dangerous opponents, but he never felt like that in a dungeon-like cave. Leon could survive a few weeks without eating food, but most likely, inside that place, he wouldn't last for half of the time he was supposed to survive.

"Whatever, I will choose the left path as always..."

Although the steel spear decreased the consumption of mana, Leon couldn't save a lot of it, since he had to use mana again to repair the spear time and time again. Still, at least now he wasn't spending mana like crazy. That being said, Leon was feeling quite restless, for many reasons. One of them was due to the fact that he wasn't practicing any offensive spell like he was used to doing.

Congratulations! The skill Fire Resistance has leveled up.

You obtained 01 status points.

"... It looks like I will train my passive skills more while I stay in this damn place..."

Leon already was feeling hungry, but his stomach started to annoy him, even more, thanks to a loud grumbling. Since the day he landed on that island, he didn't remember feeling hungry at all. Even on Miebos, even though Leon hesitated, he ate a lot of three-eyed rats. It was disgusting, but Leon wasn't eating because it was tasty... it was because he had no other choice. Most likely, a single day hadn't passed since he was teleported to that hellhole, but Leon was already missing that disgusting meat.

"Oh boy... when did I become so weak-minded?"

Those thoughts disappeared when Leon saw something moving in the corner of his vision; he looked in that direction but found nothing. After a few seconds, he finally found a cockroach-like thing. It was a parasite... it was disgusting, and it was as big as Leon's hands. Still, it was the only thing Leon found so far, which wasn't a rock or made of magma.

"There is no way I'm going to eat that..."

Even though Leon said that he started to wonder for how long he would be able to keep that mindset. The thing had a red carapace and several small legs... just looking at it was enough to make Leon feel goosebumps. Still, Leon pierced the creature and stored it in a small earth box.

"I'm not going to eat this. I'm not going to eat this. I'm not going to eat this..."

Leon repeated those words like a mantra, but it was better to be safe than sorry... in case he doesn't find anything else to eat... just thinking of that was enough to make Leon feel like throwing up... Even the carapace of the parasite was hot enough to burn Leon's hand, so he didn't hold it for much longer. It was disgusting and hot, two very annoying qualities...

"I should have learned Cryomancy while I had the chance... maybe I should start now, once I find a peaceful place to stay."

Leon could only hope that he would find such a place, but it was pretty difficult to keep his expectations high after traveling for so long in an endless cave and above a river of magma that it looked like it had no end.

After flying for several hours, or at least Leon felt that had been the case, he found a dead end. He breathed in deeply several times because he was getting pretty pissed.

"I don't have time for this shit... I will open a path."

Using Geomancy, Leon started to dig upward. That skill and Earth Manipulation was really useful for that kind of thing, but since everything around was sturdy rocks that resisted the heat of that hellish place, things got a bit complicated. A little more mana was being used, but Leon ignored that.

After he dug ten meters, Leon decided to dig to his left side a little bit in order to create a place where he could stand, instead of doing that using magic and so he did. At first, the platform was pretty cool, but little by little, it got hotter.

"It is the hot air... and the constant approach of those damn creatures isn't helping."

Leon felt like covering those bastards in steel and hit the ceiling of the cave with their heads in order to give, but since that would cost more mana, he refrained from doing that. After a while, the hole Leon created was finally twenty meters long, but Leon found a weird layer of earth. It wasn't rough like the rocks around, and it looked quite... rubbery. It was too odd to be some kind of metallic substance... Leon used Appraisal and got shocked by what he saw.

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