260 Spear of Light Recognizes Its Master (1/2)

When Roland got up from the ground, he found that his surroundings were ablaze.

Roland covered his nose and left the burning forest.

In front of him was a huge crater with not only a bit of lava bubbling over at the bottom, but also a huge burning corpse.

It was burning very, very slowly, and only the very bottom part of it had burnt where it was in contact with the lava.

There was also a huge, milky white spear of light stuck in the corpse.

Roland immediately used a wide-range Ice Ring to freeze the magma at the bottom of the crater into a chunk of black rock, and the flames on the corpse disappeared, while the spear of light remained intact.

”I wonder if the Morphed dragon flesh and skin will have the same effect as a real dragon's.”

Roland stood at the edge of the crater and muttered to himself as he looked down at the huge dragon corpse that was already smelling somewhat like roasted meat.

He then took a moment to look at a few elves in the distance.

They were already almost on the verge of death. Their health was poor due to the White Maggot's ”feces poison” that they had been hit with, and then they were directly deafened by the loud explosion, simultaneously stunned. After that, they were sent flying by the heatwave that erupted close by and landed a dozen meters away, hitting trees like volleyballs.

The quest wasn't complete yet, and the huge dungeon boundary was still present.

In other words, it was necessary to go and end those elves.

As Roland tried to go over and do this, Hawk, who was the first to revive and had been running, roared, ”Don't fight over it with me, I'll end them! I've died twice and lost a level.”

The ground seemed to be shaking as a giant gorilla ran out of the flaming woods.

Roland also happened to not want to do anything to the unarmed elves, so he nodded to Hawk.

Hawk was still enraged at this point. He dashed and took off right in front of the crater. This jump took him at least twenty meters and landed him on the other side of the crater, then he roared and rushed into the woods on the other side.

Not long after, a system notification appeared.

Roland opened the system message interface.

Quest completed: Nature or Retribution.[a]

Received 2100 EXP.

Character level increased to level 6.

As expected of an epic mission, it gave so much experience.

He was instantly level six—the quest gave him a full bar of experience.

Then he looked at the spear of light stuck to the dragon corpse at the bottom of the crater, grew curious, and walked down.

The closer he got to this spear of light, which was at least three meters tall, the more uncomfortable Roland felt.

And as he got closer, it got louder.

But Roland still reached the dragon's corpse, and he climbed up its nearly two-meter tall body.

He was close to this spear of light, so close that there was only about half a meter between him and it.

Roland felt as though a substation was shoved into his head. The buzzing sound was so noisy, it was as if his brain was boiling.

Roland pressed one hand to his head, which made him feel better, then extended the fingers of his other hand and lightly touched the bright surface of the spear of light.

With a buzz, Roland's fingertips darkened a great deal.

Then he jumped off the dragon's body and went back to the crater's edge because he couldn't stand that noise in his head. It was driving him crazy.

Standing at the edge of the crater, that buzzing sound finally disappeared.

He looked down at the tip of his right middle finger, where there was a black patch, then he rubbed it with his left hand and the blackened epidermis fell to the ground, along with a red, cooked piece of fingertip flesh.

Roland froze for a moment and raised his finger in front of his eyes, finding that there was almost no flesh left at its tip. Through a thin layer of pink flesh, he could almost see bone.

Damn… a small area of superheated skin?

His magic resistance wasn't low—that spear of light… what the hell was it?