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"Extend the impact point two hundred meters behind! Fire three rounds! Then, the mobile unit withdraws along the predetermined route. Overspark! Those two dogs are yours!"

"Leave it to me!"

Overspark gripped the control handle of his mechanical chocobo tightly, large drops of sweat dripping from his forehead—although he enjoyed a high reputation both in Gnomeregan and among the Tinkers, that reputation was based on his skills, and this was his first time as a proper frontline commander entrusted with such an important task!

"Infantry regiment! Activate camouflage systems and take cover against the walls! After we withdraw, lay traps according to the pre-arranged plan!"

"Yes!"

————————————————Guremeng charging forward——————————————————

"Boom—Boom—Boom—"

The Incinerator Guremang's heavy body moved forward slowly but actually quickly with the movement of his legs. Each step he took caused the ground to tremble slightly, and each stride made the flames on his body shine even brighter.

Closer, closer, the Incinerator Guremang could already see those tiny mortals. Although it had been hit by several more frost cannonballs, causing damage and damage to part of its outer shell, so what? The Incinerator Guremang was convinced that as long as it charged into the mortals, these poor little things would be reduced to charcoal amidst screams, just like tens of thousands of years ago, and then crushed into dust.

Then, it saw those little things actually controlling those inexplicably made things, turn around... and run away? And they were pretty fast?

"mortal!!!"

Enraged, Guremang didn't hesitate to quicken his pace, abandoning his two lava hounds that were connected to his soul, and chased after Tannis, the elemental tanks, and the motorcycle unit, speeding away. Just as the two lava hounds were about to catch up with their master, Overspark controlled two golems to block their path.

"Your opponent is me."

——————————————Tannis is going for a drive————————————————

"Don't go full throttle! That thing's only slightly faster than a bicycle at best! If it goes too fast, it might not be able to catch up and could turn back to attack Overspark, the Tinker! That would be a fatal mistake before the infantry finishes laying the mines! Keep firing slowly! Don't let it lose 'hatred'!"

Tannis controlled her motorcycle, cruising along the relatively flat ground of Molten Core at a speed just slightly faster than Glemang's. Every now and then, she would use the small cannon on the back of the motorcycle to fire a burst of freezing bullets at Glemang. Although these bullets were nothing more than mosquito bites to Glemang's robust body, there was no doubt that Tannis's actions perfectly added fuel to the fire for Glemang.

"Burn in the wrath of the Incinerator, mortals!!!"

Realizing he was just a hair's breadth away from catching up with Tennys and the others, Glemang clasped his hands together as he ran, gathering the scorching magma in them and gradually shaping it into a sphere. However, before Glemang could throw the magma projectile, a main cannon shot from the elemental tank caused his hands to suffer an accidental cooling, instantly freezing most of the magma that had detached from his body.

"Roar!!!"

Enraged, Gulemag hurled the semi-solidified magma ball at the Ratchet mobile force, only to watch helplessly as it was smashed into pieces mid-air by one of the very things it had initially burned. Realizing that using a magma ball was impractical, Gulemag attempted to concentrate its fire elemental power to unleash several instant-cast fireballs, but a barrage of freezing projectiles combined with elemental fire retardants created a low-concentration area of ​​fire element around it, effectively extinguishing its plan. It tried to stop and properly gather its fire element to cast a powerful fireball, only to find that Tannis and her group were simply too fast, disappearing from its fireball range in mere seconds…

So, Gulemang, with its simple mind, abandoned the idea of ​​using any tricks and focused solely on the pursuit. As time went by, it found itself getting closer and closer to Tannis and the others; its incinerating aura was almost able to catch their tails...

"Burn me to ashes, mortals!!"

The instant the incinerating halo touched the tail of the elemental tank, the Incinerator Gulemang, who had endured to the limit, felt an emotion called 'excitement' once again after tens of thousands of years. Driven by its reckless impulse, its incinerating halo almost turned into a visible energy entity, surging into the distance wave after wave.

"Gala!!!"

The moment Guleman activated the Incineration Aura, the main cannon of the Elemental Tank, the cannon behind Tannis's motorcycle, and the cannons on all the motorcycles fired simultaneously. The resulting frosty mist intercepted the spread of the Incineration Aura, forcing the Incinerators, who had already exhausted some of their strength, to adopt a defensive stance.

"All turn!!"

With Tannis's command, and reflected in the pupils of the Incinerator, Guremang, the mortals it was chasing, riding those strange and wonderful things, gracefully made a ninety-degree turn and sped off in another direction. The Incinerator roared, trying to turn back, but it quickly realized that because it had tried too hard to catch the tail of Tannis's convoy, it was now unable to stop in the short term!

By the time the Incinerator finally stopped, Tannis and her group had already sped off in the direction they had come from.

"I want...your...souls to be burned to a crisp!"

Because of its extremely limited vocabulary, the Incinerator had no idea how to express its anger. It could only turn around and chase after the Incinerator while uttering old, worn-out curses. However, it was now a little more at ease than before. If it could catch up once, it could definitely catch up a second time. Besides, these mortals were actually running towards its lair in the Molten Core. Wasn't that just courting death?

After a pointless chase, the Incinerator, Guremang, finally realized it was about to catch the mortals again. Learning from its previous experience, this time the Incinerator didn't activate its aura. Instead, it used the power of flames to intensify its stomp, causing waves of seismic waves to travel through it. Then, it was delighted to find that the mortals' escape had stopped.

"It's over! Mortals!"

"Yes, it's over, Incinerator."

What reached the Burner's ears was Tannis's voice, deliberately amplified through a megaphone and spoken in the language of fire elementals. Before the Burner could figure out why this mortal was so arrogant, the exposed ice minefield had already appeared in front of it.

Farewell.

Watching Guremang rush into the minefield because he couldn't stop, Tannis gently made a button-pressing motion with her right hand.

"BOOM!"

65. Burning Metal

As Tennys pressed the button, the frost minefield beneath Gulemang's feet detonated in three waves within ten seconds.

The explosion of the first batch of frost mines froze Guremang's legs, causing the tall giant to break his feet and fall heavily to the ground.

The icy mist released by the second batch of landmines hit Gulemang, who was not yet completely down, causing the temperature of its body surface to drop suddenly to an extremely low temperature that was unbearable for any fire elemental creature, resulting in the armor in the direction Gulemang was facing being completely shattered.

The explosion of the third batch of landmines dealt a fatal blow to Gulemang. Thousands of frost spikes pierced through Gulemang's already shattered skin at incredible speed and entered its body. In less than a second, they sublimated into water vapor and gushed out from the cracks in Gulemang's body. This caused the temperature inside Gulemang's body to drop suddenly from over a thousand degrees to less than four hundred degrees, making it impossible to maintain the flow of its lava blood.

Despite Golemeng's best efforts to reignite its flames, the Molten Core was no longer the place it had been a day before, a veritable paradise of fire elementals. The amount of fire elementals Golemeng could draw into its body had become extremely limited, not to mention that Tannis's forces were continuously bombarding its body with frost-based ammunition!

Despite the fact that its body once contained magma heated to over 1,400 degrees Celsius, despite the fact that its lava armor remained intact and even finely crafted weapons could not cut through it, and despite the fact that its strength was so great that a stomp of its foot could cause a small earthquake, the flames of Goremang could only be extinguished in the cold under the endless frost attacks of the engineering forces of Ratchet. Its huge body disintegrated into pieces of slightly dark red rock.

The instant the flames of Guremang died out, the lava hounds that had been fighting the two arcane golems controlled by Oversbach also collapsed to the ground with a miserable howl. Hundreds of cracks burst open on their otherwise intact bodies in an instant, as if they had been dead for a long time.

"this?"

Looking at the scene before him, Overspark was slightly stunned. During the battle just now, these two lava hounds, which had almost no weaknesses, had troubled him a lot, but now they were dead so easily.

"Prince Kael'thas of Quel'Thalas's beloved pet is a phoenix, which can return indefinitely as long as its flames continue to rage. I think these two lava hounds may be something that Golemang brought back in flames, but a life given is still a life given, so when Golemang died, their lives also came to an end—come on, Overspark, the great tinkerer, we need to clean up Golemang's remains before the others arrive."

Tennys rode her motorcycle up to Overspark and gestured for him to follow her.

————————————A few minutes later——————————————————

What is this?

Looking at the several large, bright yellow metal pieces that had been unearthed from the fragments of Gulemang's body, a Ratchet infantryman asked in confusion.

"It must be some kind of ore ingot... Ah!!!"

Another infantryman tapped it with his finger as he spoke, and then he screamed in pain.

"What’s wrong with you?"

His colleagues quickly grabbed the soldier's hand as he struck the ingot, and were shocked to find that his dragon-skin glove had been burned through, leaving a large hole and burn marks on his skin.

"This...this...this ingot feels like it's still burning!"

The soldier who had been hammering the ore ingots grimaced as he sprayed himself with burn spray, while warily watching the culprits who had burned him—after all, they had just sprayed these things with freezing gas and elemental flame retardant, but the burns on his hands clearly told him that these things were still very hot!

"what happened?"

What was happening here naturally attracted Tennys, who had brought Overspark. The two great tinkers from the Tinkerers Guild dismounted and walked over to the soldiers.

“Tannis, the great tinkerer, this metal ingot was found in the remains of Gulemanger. It was covered with both low-temperature gas and elemental flame retardant, and still retained a high temperature that could burn through dragon skin gloves. I suspect that its bright yellow color is not its natural color, but a phenomenon of light radiation caused by the high temperature.”

Despite the pain, the scalded soldier reported his discovery to Tannis.

"Your reasoning is correct, soldier. This thing maintains a temperature of around 230 degrees Celsius, no wonder you got burned."

Tannis lightly pressed her glasses a few times, quickly scanned the ingot in front of her, and obtained its basic external parameters.

"It's temperature-controlled? This... isn't quite right, and the marks on it don't seem to be naturally formed; they're more like the result of artificial carving."

Overspark also quickly scanned them, and the results made the dwarf tinkerer frown almost completely. Although he had dealt with some metals whose physical properties had been completely distorted due to various reasons, this was indeed the first time he had seen a metal that could maintain a high temperature and constant temperature.

"Well, we have limited equipment and can't analyze them further... We'll have to take them to the Tinkerman's Building for further research..."

Tannis snapped her fingers, opening a small portal that naturally allowed a bunch of small transport robots to collect all the scattered pyrometallurgical ingots and transport them back to the Tinker Tower. As the ingots left, the remaining body of Gulemang crumbled even faster.

"Huh, the solidification speed of this lava seems to have increased?"

Looking at the remains of Guremang solidifying at an even faster rate than before, Overspark asked a question.

“I suspect those things might be the core of Golemeng, which is why Golemeng truly ‘died’ after I sent them to Ratchet. This also explains your question—why there are marks on those metal ingots that don’t seem to have formed naturally.”

Tanis shrugged.

“Wait, Tannis, the Great Tinker, if we assume they are the core of the Guremeng... then doesn't that mean the origin of these metals might be…?”

Tennys guessed that Overspark had thought of something, and his expression immediately changed.

"Hmm, they might be metals from a fire elemental plane that we've never encountered before, and for which we have a significant lack of knowledge."

66. The Flame King's 'Loyal' Steward

Almost half an hour after Tannis and her men defeated Guremang, Varian's troops finally arrived. About ten minutes after Varian's troops arrived, Thrall also arrived with his troops.

"How much damage did you suffer?"

As Tannis handed Varian an iced energy drink she had just taken from the Elemental Tank's freezer, she glanced at the troops behind him.

"Thanks to Lord Fao and his Forsaken paladin forces, we only suffered a dozen or so casualties—that fire demon named Gehennas wasn't very strong."

Varian sipped his drink and observed Thrall's troops for a while, then frowned.

"High Chieftain Thrall, it seems your forces... are somewhat fewer?"

"He's not dead, but seriously injured. Archmage Romans took him to Darkforge City for treatment."

"The one you're dealing with is very strong?"

"We wouldn't call it strong, but we didn't expect that Shaslar had completely transformed into a fire demon that fights using arcane power. According to Archmage Romans, it should be called an arcane demon."

When Thrall said this, he looked helpless. Among a bunch of fire-wielding individuals, there was someone who used arcane power from beginning to end—no one could have predicted that. If Shaslar hadn't used arcane power in such a primitive way, repeating only a few moves, and hadn't been ultimately restrained by Romans and Thaurissan using a dimensional anchor, the final outcome would have been uncertain.

"That sounds tough."

After hearing Thrall describe the battle with Shaslar, even Varian, a seasoned veteran, was slightly taken aback. He knew very well what a monster capable of continuously using Blink and Uninterrupted Arcane Explosion meant. Fortunately, it had been defeated.

"Indeed, it's very troublesome."

Thrall downed the frozen drink Tanys handed him and slung the Doomhammer over his shoulder.

“Let’s go, let’s extinguish the last rune.”

————————————Below the cliff——————————————————

As Daelin poured the essence of water onto the last fire rune, a strange and inexplicable change suddenly occurred within Molten Core—although to the naked eye Molten Core still appeared to be Molten Core, the change was obvious to a shaman like Thrall or a grand druid like Naralex.

"I can feel the fire element receding rapidly, and other elements are pouring in."

With his eyes closed, Thrall subtly sensed the changes in his surroundings. In his elemental vision, the fire element, which currently occupied half the area, was receding at an alarming rate, leaving large swaths of empty space for other elements.

"The temperature has dropped again; it's only around 80 degrees Celsius here now."