Versatile Mage: Invincible from the Fire of Disaster

Chapter 274 Snakes and Scorpions
The Airol Mountains are a mountain range rich in magic ore.

However, it is quite far from the town.

This type of ore, which contains powerful magical energy, is extremely attractive to demons. Therefore, the country's government has stationed a considerable number of military mages in this area, and there are even mercenaries from China.

The mine and the city are separated by a desert. The desert is not large, but it is connected to the vast desert outside, and demons will occasionally flood in!
The scorpion clan of monsters in the desert is extremely brutal, so few people except hunters would approach this place.

But this time, things seem a little off.

The Serpent Clan is divided into Serpent People and Scorpion People. Scorpion People generally have strength close to that of a leader, while Serpent People are at least warriors!
However, the lowly servants and monsters that ravaged Africa and proliferated there were hybrid monsters of snake people and scorpion people—snake-scorpion people, also known as snake-scorpion monsters!
This small desert was teeming with these servant-level serpent monsters!
The sheer number of them was terrifying, completely blocking the desert with their dense, intertwined appearance, some even twisted together in a particularly disgusting way!

That was an entire snake and scorpion tribe!

A venomous tribe with at least a monarch-level demon commander!

Lin Ming frowned as he looked at the distant mountain range and the serpent monster that had surrounded the entire mountain range!
It seems that it will be difficult to enter the mountains to find the Chinese mercenaries.

Even if the Fire of Misfortune is well-suited for group battles, it would still take some effort to defeat an entire demon tribe. Lin Ming doesn't have the time or inclination for that right now.

Find an opportunity to sneak into the mine and bring out the military mages belonging to China, since he is nominally their leader.

As for the rest, Lin Ming couldn't care less.

Moreover, there's no benefit to it at all; offending these vengeful people will only bring trouble upon yourself.

"Why did this suddenly happen! We've always lived peacefully with the Red Scorpion tribe! Why did the entire tribe suddenly attack us!"

A curse and a shout reached Lin Ming's ears.

Turning around, I saw a dark-skinned man in military uniform. Judging from his high-level strength, he should be a military mage stationed in this city of Aiji.

The serpent monsters are attacking the city. Although they are all servant-level demons, they will be instantly turned into fragments under the magic bombardment of the military mage!

However, every time a scorpion monster is blasted apart by magic, a new scorpion monster is pushed into the empty space by its overwhelming number of companions! The terrifying number of them renders the magic of the military mages completely ineffective, like a stone thrown into the sea!

Lin Ming is currently standing at the border between the city and the desert, within the safe zone, which is guarded by military mages.

But judging from his appearance, he probably won't last much longer.

His gaze swept across the entire city's security perimeter. Apart from the military mages, there were only hunters who wanted to go hunting but had been driven back by the terrifying Serpent Scorpion tribe.

However, among these people, Lin Ming discovered a special group.

Several women with fair and delicate skin, whose subtle glow clearly indicated to Lin Ming that they were not locals from Aiji.

The leader was a woman who was completely covered from head to toe, but her exposed eyes and voluptuous figure were enough to confirm that she was a beauty.

But what surprised Lin Ming was not her figure, but her cultivation level—super-level! It even felt like she was super-level in all elements!
And judging from the exposed body parts, he should only be five to four years older than me.

Such a young super-level mage!
This was the first time Lin Ming had seen it; he himself was considered to have cheated, so he didn't count.

Behind the super-level woman was a woman with flaxen hair and a delicate face like a legendary goddess. She wore a light blue robe and looked to be about the same age as Lin Ming, but her face was a little pale, as if she was afraid of something.

Behind the two men were many women, all of whom were top-notch in appearance, and they were all wrapped up tightly in the hot environment, standing out like cranes among chickens in an environment full of burly men.

Suddenly, the leading super-level woman turned around and looked in Lin Ming's direction, seemingly noticing Lin Ming's gaze.

Lin Ming saw a trace of lingering worry in the woman's eyes, but the rest was nothing but indifference.

After the super-level woman looked over, the flaxen-haired woman behind her also looked in Lin Ming's direction. She was somewhat displeased with Lin Ming's gaze, her eyes widening as she glared at him.

"Alright, Heidi, the most important thing now is to find Bochis and the others." The super-level woman moved her lips slightly, and her soft voice reached the ears of the flaxen-haired woman.

Heidi snorted and whispered, "You stinky man!"

Turning his head, he looked at the desert outside the city with some worry, a sense of unease rising in his heart.

"Could they have secretly run off to the desert?!"

Lin Ming also withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention to that group of people.

That group was clearly a predominantly female organization, and there are only two well-known predominantly female organizations in the world: the Parthenon and the Alpine Academy.

"Parthenon should have knights protecting it, and Alps Academy is a group of seasoned homebodies who never go out. I wonder where this women's organization has suddenly appeared from."

Lin Ming shook his head, and Nie Qingsi emerged from the shadows, instantly enveloping Lin Ming in darkness.

The breath gradually dissipated.

They then walked into the desert without anyone noticing.

Multicolored magical light fell from the sky!

The venomous monster spewed venom wildly and charged madly towards the city with its fangs!

But at this incredibly dangerous border, a man shrouded in shadow traverses magic and venom!
The dangerous venom and the magic containing destructive power couldn't touch him at all!

“Master, the mine should be not far ahead.” Nie Qingsi said to Lin Ming from the shadows, “The military mages in the mine should be fighting the Serpent Scorpion Tribe right now. We can sense obvious magical and demonic energy fluctuations.”

"Have you located the leader of this tribe?" Lin Ming nodded and asked.

While Lin Ming was observing at the city's border, he sent Nie Qingsi, a vampire with exceptional stealth abilities, to investigate.

"The leader of this scorpion tribe is a monarch-level red scorpion. He is currently confronting the military mage in front of the mine, but seems to be wary of something and has not made a move."

Nie Qingsi replied.

"How strong is the Red Scorpion?" Lin Ming looked up slightly at the center of the scorpion monster, a scorpion-man with six arms and a pale red scorpion tail.

That's not Red Scorpion, but the leader of one of the smaller tribes within the Red Scorpion tribe, yet he possesses the cultivation level of a Grand Commander approaching the Advanced Stage!
Therefore, it seems that the Red Scorpion is at least not a sub-monarch or minor monarch, otherwise it is unlikely that this scorpion-leading person would be allowed to command a small tribe.

After all, there are differences even among monarchs. If it were a monarch with extremely strong power, it would probably be difficult for me to deal with them now.

Nie Qingsi pondered for a moment and then replied.

"They possess at least the strength of a mid-level monarch. I cannot defeat them in a direct confrontation, but they can overcome a sneak attack."

Lin Ming frowned slightly. It was a mid-level monarch, and a red scorpion with potent venom at that. It was powerful, but if it wanted to escape, he probably couldn't stop it.

Let's go to the mine to rescue the people first.

Lin Ming shook his head, and his pace quickened involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)