Overturned Tower

Russell immediately guessed what the rules belonged to "Volcano of Rage".

If we say that the wilderness was originally a boundless desert with no end in sight...then this "Volcano of Rage" is climbing upwards, but it still cannot reach the end.

Because the "Tower of the End" is a place that can never be reached.

It only exists as a "coordinate"... That is to say, this mountain cannot be climbed at all.

But why is it "angry"?

"...Speaking of which, what about strangulation?"

Obviously, both of them followed the path of anger and entered the volcano of anger, and the strangulation was faster than Russell.

But after Russell entered, he lost the figure of the former directly.

But at this moment.

Russell heard a loud bang behind him—

Behind him, in the "hole" some places downhill, suddenly columns of lava pumped out!

Even though they were far away, a clear and palpable heat suddenly surged from Russell's back.

"...Could it be?"

Russell realized something and heard something. He turned around and sprinted downward.

The ascent is not easy, but the descent is just as difficult.

The gravel and boulders lie on the road at an angle that does not conform to the rules of physics. If you can't descend smoothly, you will fall very easily.

If it was Russell's own body, there would be no need to think about these things at all.

But the blue song robin's body is much bulkier.

—An ordinary body that can't even dodge bullets is really weak.

Russell sighed.

He didn't know how long he ran before he got close to the surging lava columns.

They didn't flow down.

Instead, it maintains a columnar shape and is solidifying at a slow speed.

Arriving here, he finally saw what was happening below.

strangle is fighting something.

It was a four-clawed monster made of shadows and shaped like a hyena.

But they have no heads, and there is a scarlet one-eyed inlaid on the neck.

There are four of this kind of beasts—they are surrounded by the strangulation, and they have not done it for a long time.

This is because strangulation has a **** fire flowing through it.

Those scarlet flames flowed out of his eyes continuously, like weeping.

They burned like gasoline, swept across the half of the body, forming a flame armor that could only cover the chest. There is also a little "blood fire" from the legs down to the feet, but it is much less.

The bloodfire didn't burn Strangler's skin at all, not even his mane.

Obviously, these flames are a great deterrent to these shadow monsters-but the flames can't burn his back, so he is constantly pacing and spinning, trying to avoid exposing his back to them.

And at this moment, Strangling saw Russell running down from above.

He froze for a moment.

It was that moment of surprise that made the strangulation a flaw.

The monster behind him suddenly stretched its body and rushed over fiercely.

The blood-red pupils on the neck suddenly widened, protruding from the pupils was a huge blood-colored mouth that was bigger than his body, made entirely of blood, with ferocious bone fangs inside.

Stranding immediately reacted, turned around and stretched out his **** flame-burning hand to the side, grabbed the "neck" connecting the huge mouth and the eyeball, and pulled it out together with the eyeball.

After the eyeball was separated from the body, the shadow beast immediately dissipated into the air.

But at the moment when the strangulation was shot, two shadow beasts rushed over from his left and right rear respectively—

"-pon-pon!"

Huge gunshots rang out one after another.

Russell took out his shotgun and fired two consecutive shots without hesitation!

This is exactly the gun that was used by the mercenary leader in the captain's room, with a choke attached!

From the perspective of strangling, the densely packed projectiles are like a horizontal iron rain, rushing toward the face.

Of the constricted projectiles, one of them was blown up with the first shot. Yu Bo also knocked the second one backwards and sent it flying.

The second shot went the other way, blasting the eyeballs of the Shadow Beast on the other side of the "Strangling", completing the kill instantly.

Only then did Strangler fully realize what had happened.

The blue-haired young man was holding a bursting shotgun, and at a distance of about 20 meters, he made two consecutive support shots centered on the strangulation, one left and one right...but the strangulation in the middle was not injured at all. .

That's a shotgun!

Such a good marksmanship—if it wasn't for the dream world where chips and prosthetics cannot be used, Strangler would have thought that the opponent was using an auxiliary aiming system.

"Good marksmanship!"

And strangling was not in a daze.

While admiring, he stretched out his right hand towards the repelled shadow beast.

The blood-red flame was like a living thing, forming a thick tentacle, which pierced through the one-eyed shadow beast in an instant.

The blow was not without cost.

The **** flames that made up the armor on Strangling's body faded instantly, and became the material of this tentacles—or "living whip".

"Is your marksmanship okay?"

Russell put away the shotgun and walked slowly towards Strangling.

"Brothers are awesome!"

Hanging exclaimed: "You saved me once, barber!"

Russell skillfully revealed a perfect smile that belongs to an idol—this is Xiao Liuli's muscle memory.

He asked back without fear: "Are you still a **** now?"

"-Feel sorry!"

To Russell's surprise, the seemingly domineering strangler turned out to be a completely embarrassing guy.

Hang Ling admitted his mistake very simply: "I was wrong, brother. If you still feel uncomfortable with that sentence, brother will buy you a drink after you go out! Good product limited by the company!"

"Easy to do."

Russell was not greedy for credit, but just nodded reservedly.

"Run first, you can't stay here for long."

Hang did not immediately explain to Russell what had happened to him. Instead, he pulled Russell's arm hard, signaling him to run up the mountain quickly.

They didn't take two steps, Russell saw that the lava columns gradually solidified, and the surrounding ground began to gradually become hot.

"what is that?"

Russell asked loudly.

"My instructor called this the Pillar of Wrath. It's not just the Way of Wrath. Except for the original wasteland, there are similar 'timing devices' in all areas."

Hanglan's physique is much stronger than that of "Blue Robin". Even when he is running at a fast pace, he can speak very fluently: "Reset the timer for this area."

His low, growling voice was so clear that Russell behind him could hear it.

"The dream world...isn't it...there is no concept of time?"

Russell asked while running fast.

He was out of breath from the extra physical effort of climbing the mountain.

"Exactly. So the timing method in the Way of Wrath is the 'calm cycle'..."

Strangling stopped halfway through his explanation.

He glanced back at Russell and realized something.

So he crawled in front of Russell like a real lion: "You are running too slowly, climb up."

"…is it okay?"

Russell was eager to try.

"It's okay, just remember to sit still."

The white lion growled in a low voice: "Also, don't grab my mane...remember to grab my necklace."

Since you asked for it yourself...

Russell rode on the white lion without hesitation.

The next moment, the white lion suddenly became huge like it was inflated.

He becomes a real "white lion" - but ten times the size of a normal lion!

It was a huge monster that was crawling on the ground and was as tall as three or four stories!

It took a light step forward, and it was more than forty meters. The violent wind blew on Russell, and Russell grabbed the animal tooth necklace around his neck with all his strength to prevent it from being blown off.

They quickly moved away from the previous area, and the surrounding ground became less hot.

"It's almost here."

Strangling slowly stopped, and said: "It's going to be reset."

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground not far behind them suddenly collapsed!

The ground and those solidified lava columns were all turned into lava in an instant. And after they fell back again, the terrain became another completely different look.

Until then, Hang Sang breathed a sigh of relief.

His body shrinks rapidly and he puts Russell down.

After that, Strangling continued with the previous words: "As long as those things are completely solidified, the area around the pillars will be reset."

"How did those things come from?"

"It is anger. When you are 'angry' in all the areas where the way of anger belongs, various styles of 'pillars of anger' will immediately rise around. The height and range of the pillars are equal to the sum of the anger of all the people in the entire area." related.

"But anger will subside, just like hot lava will cool down. Once the lava is completely cooled, it symbolizes the subsidence of anger. This area will reset to the state of exploding on touch again."

Hang Hang apologized to Russell again: "Sorry, brother. I just waited for a long time and you didn't come, but the shadow came. I thought you were disobedient and chose another path...so I couldn't help but get angry."

"...No, it's okay. You saved me too."

Russell was a little subtle: "However, I thought that mages who walk on the path of anger would be even more unreasonable."

When he first saw Strangling, he thought he was a completely unreasonable lunatic.

Looking at it now, it is indeed not a normal person. But it's still easy to understand-his behavior turned out to be logical!

"You guessed right."

Unexpectedly, Strangling agreed with Russell's statement: "You see that I am rational because I also chose the 'way of temperance' and the 'way of contemplation' at the same time, so my [anger] will not spread to On myself. Moderated anger, that is the hallmark of our school."

"...Is that flame a spell? It's called 'Rage'?"

Speaking of this, Russell jumped up all of a sudden: "Can I learn it too?"

"This is the most basic spell of the Way of Wrath. You have already arrived at the Raging Volcano, and you must have learned it when you left... But the form of 'rage' between us must be different."

Hang Zhan spoke quickly and persuaded: "You must not slap the 'anger' on yourself. Without the suppression of the way of contemplation and the restraint of the way of temperance, it is neither enemy nor friend, and cannot be restrained.

"You project your anger—and as long as your anger isn't subdued, it won't go away."

"From what you mean, it seems that anger has other derivatives?"

Russell asked.

"Of course. But not all derivatives will become useful. The 'anger' of the incompetent will only make them more incompetent. The technique of combining Dao Dao and Dao Dao is the secret passed down among us mages.

"The name of our school is 'The Furnace', which emphasizes harnessing the hammer of pain and the fire of anger to brew great things. The school that is directly hostile to us is 'embers'. The successors of the ember school are the lunatics of 'eternal reincarnation' boss."

The white lion said something quickly, as if it would be too late if you missed it: "Do you know the headquarters of the White Lion Group? If you don't know~www.readwn.com~ I'll tell you now—in the F area of ​​the regeneration factory area Road 302, at the end of the road. If you have time, come here, let's meet...I've been there for the past few days. If someone stops you, you say 'melting furnace'..."

"Are you leaving?"

Russell guessed why the strangulation had suddenly become so urgent.

Because he also suddenly had a premonition that "the dream is about to wake up".

"You too, bro. You just shot."

Hang Sha showed an extremely scary and kind smile: "As long as you have fought in the dream world, you will be ejected at any time.

"The flow of time here is not linear. If you can't make an appointment to enter the dream world together, you won't know when we meet next time. It's too late to explain now. You come to me tomorrow. I'll tell you the things just now What is it, and the follow-up to the Crucible School..."

Before he finished speaking, his figure suddenly became pale.

And at the moment when he realized that the strangulation was "kicked off the assembly line".

Russell also felt that the world around him suddenly became blurred... as if he was about to wake up, reality and dreams overlapped.

The whole dream world is repelling him—

It seemed that it was only a moment, and it seemed that there was a period of blank consciousness.

When Russell regained consciousness, he realized that his hands and feet were still tied together.

And in the upper right corner of his perspective, there is a time mark:

[6:15]

"...It's six o'clock."

Russell murmured, taking the bandage off himself.

He looked up out the window.

It was the familiar... bleak sun, and gray sky.