The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 370

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Chapter 370
Chapter 370
The Lava River normally required dropping stalactites to create stepping stones for passage.
I unleashed a massive torrent of water created through the Azure Dragon’s Orb across the Lava River.
Ssssshhhhh!
Thick clouds of steam billowed upward.
Lava typically explodes when meeting water suddenly, but fortunately, the lava here hardened into a solid surface instead of detonating.
Given that.
“I’ll continue building the bridge! We’ll push through the Second Zone while ignoring the monsters as much as possible!”
I immediately began sprinting across the hardened surface.
“Yes!”
Yul-ha and Team 1 followed my instructions without hesitation, moving the bridge in sync with me.
The ground created by the hardened lava surface wasn’t particularly stable.
With each stride, I felt the floor undulating beneath my feet.
Well, it couldn’t be helped.
Even though it had hardened solidly, only the surface was firm—it wasn’t anchored to anything, merely floating atop the lava itself.
So I couldn’t afford to linger here; I had to move as quickly as possible.
And as I did.
“Shaaaaa!”
“It’s a Lava Serpent!”
As expected.
Displeased with the hardening surface, a Lava Serpent emerged.
Normally, the strategy would be to defeat all of them on the dropped stalactite, then drop the next one, but.
“Ignore them as much as possible! We’ll keep running while blocking or intercepting their attacks!”
“Yes, Guild Master!”
Not this time.
I ignored the Lava Serpents and sprinted rapidly across the lava.
Of course, the Lava Serpents didn’t simply watch us pass.
They roared in pursuit and spewed lava at us.
Against their attacks.
– Activating 4-Circle water magic ‘Aqua Wall’.
I blocked them with Aqua Wall.
I was already using the orb’s unique skill, but I could perform double casting anyway.
I blocked the ranged attacks with Aqua Wall.
Boom!
“I’ll handle this one!”
“Leave the suppressive fire to us!”
The melee combatants of Team 1 intercepted the close-range attacks.
The ranged combatants targeted the Lava Serpents preparing powerful attacks, canceling their strikes.
At this moment, Yul-ha’s performance was far more impressive than I’d anticipated.
Crash!
A monster seemingly forged from lava—the Lava Serpent.
She leaped boldly toward such a creature, her blade slicing through the air with lethal precision.
With each swing of her sword, the cascading lava peeled away, and successive strikes carved into the creature’s core.
Watching her movements, I called out.
“There should be a breathing hole near the spine that isn’t covered in lava! That’s the Lava Serpent’s weakness!”
The moment I revealed its weakness.
Crash!
Her eyes sharpened even further as she leaped high into the air, descending with devastating force.
Slice!
“Shrieeeek—!”
She struck the Lava Serpent’s weakness with perfect accuracy.
To support her extraordinary performance.
– I activate the 5-Circle water magic ‘Aqua Boost’.
I cast the water-attribute support spell.
“Thank you!”
Her movements accelerated further.
But that wasn’t all.
Aqua Boost was a support spell that allowed her to temporarily ignore the lava and leap across its surface.
Understanding this, she not only bounded across the Lava River but ran along the Lava Serpent’s body itself, striking its weak points.
With Aqua Boost’s power infusing her blade with potent water attributes.
The number of Lava Serpents she’d defeated alone had already surpassed ten.
“Halfway there!”
The fortunate part was that the end was finally coming into view.
Of course, the others wouldn’t see it.
Only I, possessing Luke’s dark eyes along with my enhanced vision skill, could barely make it out.
Though considerable distance remained, the fact that I could see the far bank at all was hopeful.
However, the Lava River seemed unwilling to let us pass so easily.
“Shrieeeeeek—!!”
“What is that now?!”
“Its size is on a completely different scale!”
“That’s not even a ‘Serpent’ anymore!”
A new monster rose from the Lava River.
Like the other Lava Serpents, it was a snake-like creature forged from lava, but the problem was its sheer size.
As one of my teammates cried out, it couldn’t even be called a serpent—the very word for snake—at this scale.
Most troubling of all.
[ Twin-Head Lava Serpent ]
Those two heads.
The two heads forged from lava were utterly menacing.
The moment it appeared, it convulsed its belly.
Roooaaarrr!
Lava erupted simultaneously from both heads.
The scale and heat were incomparable to the lava spewed by other Lava Serpents.
If that lava fell, Team 1 and I would certainly be annihilated.
Given the circumstances.
– I activated the unique skill of the ‘Azure Dragon’s Orb’, ‘Azure Dragon’s Great Sea’.
I redirected the water stream from the ‘Azure Dragon’s Orb’s unique skill, which had been carving a path, toward the creature.
Roooaaarrr!
A torrent of water powerful enough to instantly solidify the lava ahead surged toward the falling magma.
The lava and water stream clashed fiercely, and fortunately I managed to block the creature’s attack somehow.
“Guild Master, the path!”
Originally, this orb’s water stream was being used to solidify the Lava River and create a forward passage.
Since I used that water stream to block the lava eruption, the path ahead would inevitably be blocked.
Moreover, the ‘Azure Dragon’s Orb’s power was completely exhausted from blocking that attack.
But that was fine.
I had already anticipated the orb’s power would run out, and I had planned to execute the next strategy regardless of whether the creature appeared.
[ Magma Turtle’s Shell Whistle ]
( Non-tradeable )
Type: Mount
Grade: Epic
Requirements: Level 600 or higher, Riding Skill Lv 60, Health 2,000 or above
Description: A whistle crafted from the shell of a Magma Turtle, a creature known to drift and survive in the lava regions deep within volcanoes.
I blew the whistle exactly as I had planned.
“Coooooo.”
A bright red turtle materialized.
A turtle of considerable size.
True to its name as a Magma Turtle, it could swim across the Lava River and was large enough to comfortably carry about ten people.
Given this capacity.
“From now on, we’ll proceed by riding the Magma Turtle!”
“Yes!”
“Whoa!”
“What’s with this turtle…?”
I ordered Team 1 to board and positioned them on the shell.
Immediately after.
“Let’s go!”
“Coooooo.”
I set the turtle in motion.
In truth, its speed wasn’t particularly fast.
Though turtles could be swift in water, this Magma Turtle had its stat distribution focused more on size and stamina rather than speed.
However, summoning the Magma Turtle was the only way to transport all of Team 1.
I would have preferred to summon the ‘Lava Dragon, Volcano Drake’ that I had previously summoned in Mueldum.
But despite its name as a lava dragon, it lacked the ability to swim across the Lava River.
Splash!
Still, as befitted an epic-tier mount, the Magma Turtle diligently moved its fins and swam across the Lava River.
The problem was that its speed fell short of our running pace.
And so.
“Shrieeeek!”
The Lava Serpents.
Especially the Twin-Headed Lava Serpent pursued us rapidly, spewing lava as it came.
I could manage the lava somehow, but if they closed in and bit the Magma Turtle or struck it with their tails, we’d be in serious trouble.
So.
“We’ll defend against their attacks and begin our counteroffensive!”
“Yes!”
Now it was time for us to mount a proper counterattack.
As Team 1 prepared their assault, I unleashed my full magical arsenal.
Since Lava Serpents, like Lava Salamanders, wrapped their bodies in lava.
– I activate the 6-Circle water magic ‘Water Blaster’.
The magic I would use this time was likewise a water-attribute offensive spell.
Boom!
A tremendous torrent of water erupted forth, striking the approaching Lava Serpent with devastating force.
The Lava Serpent shrieked in agony immediately.
And with that, the lava composing its body hardened and solidified.
Just as its body had completely hardened.
Crack!
The immense water pressure from the Water Blaster shattered the hardened lava, and its body burst apart.
In this manner, I began eliminating the Lava Serpents one by one.
My attacks, precisely targeting their elemental weaknesses and vulnerable points, proved too much for the Lava Serpents to withstand, and they fell.
“Shrieeeek!”
“Shriek—.”
But one.
The Twin-Headed Lava Serpent was different.
Even when I used Water Blaster to harden the lava flowing across its body, it rapidly shook off the solidified lava and instead spewed lava at me in counterattack.
Despite being a 6-Circle magic spell, Water Blaster.
Even targeting its elemental weakness with 6-Circle magic proved ineffective.
At this rate, I suspected this wasn’t merely a named monster, but rather a boss-tier creature.
“Argh!”
“It’s getting closer and closer!”
“Shouldn’t we be blocking that? At this rate….”
The Guild members attacked desperately, but their efforts proved entirely futile.
Breaking through every assault, the Twin-Headed Lava Serpent closed in with terrifying speed.
As I blocked the attack and timed my counterattack.
‘Now.’
The moment the creature entered my calculated range.
I raised my palm not toward the creature itself, but toward the space above its head, unleashing a new spell.
– Activating 3rd Circle Wind Magic ‘Sonic Wave’.
Sonic Wave.
True to its name—a wave of sound—the powerful magic erupted outward, generating tremendous noise.
Crack, crack, crack!
The stalactites hanging from the ceiling.
The largest and sharpest among them.
Boom!
Severed from the ceiling by the Sonic Wave, it plummeted downward.
These were stalactites that fell with just a single arrow fired casually.
There was no way they could withstand the vibrations unleashed by Sonic Wave.
And so the falling stalactite.
“Shrieeek-!”
Descended directly onto the Twin-Headed Lava Serpent that charged straight at me with murderous intent.
Crunch!
“Shriek-.”
It pierced perfectly through the creature’s left head.
The stalactite didn’t stop there—it embedded itself into the Lava River’s bedrock, pinning the creature’s head in place so it could no longer pursue us.
But this wasn’t the end.
The Sonic Wave I cast was an area-of-effect spell.
And since I’d poured abundant mana into it, the wave of sound rippled outward across an enormous radius.
Crack, crack, crack, crack-!!
Every stalactite hanging from the ceiling came crashing down.
This cavern was particularly dense with stalactites.
As all of them began to fall.
“Shrieeek!”
“Shriek, gack-.”
“Shrieeeeek-!!”
The Lava Serpents pursuing us were pierced by the falling stalactites and met their end.
The descending stalactites didn’t merely pierce the creatures—they collided with one another, toppling and crushing the Lava Serpents beneath their weight.
From dozens of stalactites falling in this manner.
“….”
“….”
The pursuing Lava Serpents were completely annihilated.
At that spectacular sight.
“I just got a level up from that.”
“Can we really hunt like this?”
“Good grief, this is… absolutely nonsensical…”
“Did you plan for this as well?”
“No wonder you’re so renowned.”
Team 1 muttered as if entranced by something.
In the meantime.
“Guuuu.”
Following the peaceful Lava River where the Lava Serpent had vanished.
The Magma Turtle reached the end of the Second Zone.
It arrived at the ground that marked the Entrance to Zone 3.

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