Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 221 Geothermal Reaction
The next day, Ted and his two companions, along with Muradin, Jinli, Clara, and Mr. Swarlow, formed a team and went to the place where they encountered the horned hippogryph yesterday to re-investigate the place.

As for Clara's uncle Milhou, he was assigned to work at Hammer Castle. If he hadn't angered the horned eagle with an illusion yesterday, there wouldn't have been such a fierce battle. In the end, he wasn't injured.

I can’t stay here today no matter what!
As for the other dwarf brother, he was actually seriously injured.

Yesterday, the lightning beam from the horned eagle sent him flying three meters away.

Later, others found out that the hair on the brother's chest was burnt and the skin on his chest was covered with radiating electric shock marks.

Even after being treated by the dwarf physician at Hammer Castle, it took a week to recover.

Ted also gave me some dittany essence and healing plaster.

Just like this, yesterday that guy insisted on going to the doctor after drinking at a party... He is really a man of steel and hardy drinking!
But he definitely can't join the team today. He has to stay and recover from his injury.

……

When they arrived at the place where the battle took place yesterday, everyone began to investigate.

Ted asked Ansu to take off to see if there was anything unusual.

The dwarves also took out strange instruments and dug holes in the ground to detect any anomalies.

Clara stretched out a strange magic device, which looked a bit like a radar display, and began to scan around with a beeping sound.

Not to mention, in the end it was An Su who grabbed the head-sized instrument and flew into the sky to increase the detection area, which resulted in some results.

Clara fiddled with the green checkered display screen and said, "A little over a kilometer to the northwest, there's a place with a wrong temperature!"

"The temperature is wrong?!" Jerry wondered.

"That's right. We didn't find any other abnormalities, but we discovered that the temperature in that place was a few degrees higher than other places." Clara explained.

"Should we go and take a look?" Jin Li looked at Swarovski.

Swarovski stroked his beard and said, "We have been looking for the whole morning, and this is the only thing that seems amiss around here. Let's go and take a look. If there is nothing unusual, then this area is ruled out."

But, you know what, there really is something strange!

It was a deep pit, a cave formed by the collapse of a mountain cavity caused by long-term crustal movement or groundwater erosion, commonly known as a tiankeng.

Ansu flew down for a while, about a hundred meters, and actually found several bright fire elements at the bottom of the dim sinkhole below!

This thing is similar to the Stone Element, which is an elemental life form made of stone.

The fire element's entire body is covered in flames. It is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, bright at the top and dark at the bottom. Its lower body is like an inverted cone-shaped dark red gas, floating about half a meter high.

The entire fire element looks about 6 to 9 meters tall, some are bigger and some are smaller. The levels range from level to level , and the higher the level, the bigger it is.

An Su also found a huge abandoned nest on a platform halfway up the mountain in this deep pit. It was made up of branches, weeds and feathers, and was three meters in diameter!
You can also see some bones of small creatures and a lot of feces.

It seems that this is the nest of the horned eagle.

It was originally well hidden halfway up the mountain in the tiankeng, but for some unknown reason, it got into a fight with the neighbor downstairs, was outnumbered and burned, so it ran away.

As a result, they encountered Clara and her friends, who were in a rage. In addition, the inappropriate illusion of Clara's uncle Milhous not only failed to scare the Hippogryph away, but angered it instead. They beat it up!

Ted told everyone what happened next.

Something is definitely wrong here.

Mr. Swarlow concluded that this was an abnormal phenomenon. What is certain is that there were no fire elements here last month!
After all, this place is less than a day's journey away from Hammer Castle. The dwarves and gnomes have lived here for seven or eight years, so they naturally have a deep understanding of the surrounding environment.

For example, as for this horned eagle, although the dwarves are not sure of its nest location, they do know that in recent months a flying monster has been lurking in the east, but no one wants to mess with it.

This thing requires a team of elites to wear the right equipment, bring various targeted items, and design a plan to win it. There is no need to waste this effort.

The dwarves are even more aware of whether there are fire elements nearby.

Elemental creatures are not like magical animals, they are not normally seen.

And they won't migrate from other places.

This thing will only be born in the right place. Like the stone element that Ted and his friends encountered before, it was the result of magic power gathering in a certain place in the mountain stream for a long time, and it took many years for the stone element to be born.

After it appears, it will just hang around nearby and slowly "grow up". It won't go anywhere else.

This thing's IQ was also low, at least it didn't show any ability to communicate. It was like a robot that could only attack intruders.

If it was the fire elements that suddenly appeared recently, it would make sense for the Hippogryph to fight them.

There’s a fire downstairs in someone’s house? Aren’t you worried?

Ted suddenly remembered his visit to Castle Hammer yesterday.

He asked, "I remember Muradin saying that the efficiency of the furnace has been increasing in the past year. It is impossible to work without wearing a heat-insulating suit?"

"Yes! It's not that I don't want to take you for a tour, it's just that it's too hot there! I, a dwarf, can't stand it. It's like taking a bath in just a few minutes!" Muradin explained, almost swearing on his beard.

"Of course I believe you. But...it shouldn't be like this! We are on the border of the Scottish Highlands, not Iceland. How could the geothermal resources be so abundant? And they only appeared suddenly in the past year?!"

The dwarven furnace of Hammer Castle was dug more than a hundred meters down, using special rune magic to draw lava from underground to provide massive heat. And it was "living water"!
This skill alone earns the dwarves the respect of wizards.

This is mastering the core skills. If it were in the Muggle society, this would be the cheapest pseudo-clean energy!
If we build an underground power station and continuously utilize the underground lava, it would be better to attract American troops!

"Go down! Go down and take a look!"

How to get down is a problem. Even though the dwarves live underground, rope rappelling is no joke.

Ted used a rope to string everyone together, then cast Feather Fall on them one by one, and then used Transfiguration to create platforms on the edge of the cliff, allowing Ansu to grab the rope and float down layer by layer.

He wanted to just float down, but the dwarves were afraid of heights!

According to their words: I'd rather die quickly. Falling down so slowly would really kill me. I didn't even dare to open my eyes.

It took five or six minutes for them to land safely.

The three dwarves in the team were already sweating profusely.

Dwarf: It feels so good to have my feet on the ground!
This is a bottle-mouth-shaped space that is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. The bottom is much larger than the top entrance which has a diameter of thirty or forty meters.

Looking up, there was only a patch of light about the size of a human head. It was very dim and I couldn't see too far.

However, the bottom of the sinkhole is not humid at all, it’s even very hot!

This cave must have been very humid before, and there were even waterways on the ground that were washed out by water flowing on the rocks all year round.

But now, not to mention a drop of water, even the moss on the stones has dried up!

Not far away, there is a natural cave. At the entrance of the cave, there are several red, orange and golden fire elements wandering unconsciously.

Small Fire Elemental, Level 6, Elemental Creature...

Ember Guardian, Level 7, Elemental Creature...

Flamewalker, level 8, elemental creature...

Fire Soul, Level 9, Elemental Creature...

There are six in total!
Swarovski stared at the group of fire elements that stood out in the dim environment and said, "I'm afraid we have to go into that cave and prepare for battle!"

Ted quickly dissuaded him: "I have a way to inflict enough damage on them. Otherwise, with the lethality of these fireballs, we might end up with casualties."

Fire element is different from stone element. If nothing else, stone element is just a moving stone man. If you can avoid being touched by it, you won't get hurt.

But the fire element is flame!
If you get close to this thing, you will get burned. God knows if it will explode. If you touch it, it will cause severe burns over a large area. Compared with stone elements, they are much more dangerous.

So, Ted planned to solve them as cleanly as possible.

Thanks to the book friend "Yubing's Rod" for the 100-point reward! Thank you!

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(End of this chapter)