An hour later,
Kyle, Jian, and Alec were standing at the edge of a volcano. They could see lava and hot gas eruption from the top of the Volcano.
Alec and Jian's clothes were damped with sweat, Kyle was also sweating but compared to them he was in a better condition.
It took them an hour to reach a nearby Volcano. Alec wiped the sweat out of his forehead and looked at Kyle who was staring at the top of the mountain.
"Why didn't we encounter even a single Fire skeleton on our way?"
Jian stared at Alec. He was also thinking the same question. Before Kyle appeared every few minutes a fire skeleton would crawl out from a nearby lava lake or ground but it's been an hour, forget about seeing a fire skeleton they haven't even seen its shadow!
"What's that?"
Jian and Alec both looked at the place Kyle was pointing at and their eyes widened for a second. Under a large vertical red rock, they saw a patch of crimson flowers.
The flowers had four petals and they were emitting fire aura.
After seeing the flowers both Jian and Alec only had a single question in their heads.
Why the hell they didn't notice so many flowers?
After thinking for a while, Jian shook his head as he didn't know much about herbs but he was sure it was something good because the flowers were glowing.
On the other hand, Alec used the system appraisal skill on the flowers.
System Analysis:
'Name: Inferno flower'
'Age: 70 years'
'Rank: High grade'
'Usage: After consumption, they can heal burned skin within a second.'
Alec looked at the Rank of the flowers and raised his brow as he knew herbs were divided into five ranks;
Low.
Medium.
High.
Superior.
Divine.
In the outside world, low and medium-grade herbs were common but high-grade herbs were considered precious as they could sell for a large amount.
A superior grade herb was even rarer than a high grade herb and they would sell 10 times the amount of a normal high grade herb. Meanwhile, divine-grade herbs could only be seen in old textbooks as they were almost extinct.
Under Alec and Jian's gaze, Kyle approached the fire flowers and like a veteran, he immediately uprooted all the flowers and walked back toward Alec and Jian who were staring at him.
"There are a total of nine flowers."
Kyle gave three flowers to both of them and threw the remaining flowers inside the storage ring he was wearing.
If someone peeked inside the storage ring Kyle was wearing, he would probably faint from shock because there was a mountain of various herbs and fruits inside the storage ring.
Alec and Jian looked at the flowers Kyle handed them, even though Kyle uprooted the flowers very crudely, there wasn't a single harm present on the petals of the flowers.
They sighed and placed the flowers inside their storage rings before following behind Kyle who was already climbing the Volcano.
After another hour,
Alec and Jian's eyes were almost bulging as they looked at the large leafless tree in front of them, two beautiful yellow fruits were hanging on the tree's dry branches.
Even though the tree looked devoid of life, the fruits were ripe and glowing.
The tree was hidden inside a pit present between some rocks.
Jian looked at Alec and took in a deep breath.
"4th."
Alec nodded seriously. He was trying his best to suppress the shock present in his eyes.
In just 2 hours they found four treasures!
Was this even possible?
He thought back at how for the past whole week they hadn't even seen a single low-grade herb.
Wasn't Kyle just randomly walking beside them? So why the hell the difference was so huge?
Also, where the hell are the fire skeletons? Did they all die?
With a deep breath, Alec looked at Kyle who was walking toward them after taking the fruits from the leafless tree.
With a normal expression, Kyle gave both of them one fruit and started eating the other.
His action looked normal as he had done this hundreds of times.
With a blank expression, Alec and Jian divided the fruit and also started eating it.
A large amount of energy rushed inside their body, making them refreshed.
After leaving the leafless tree behind, all of them again started climbing the Volcano.
On their way, they gathered some more herbs. They even find a (D)-Rank skill core present inside a tunnel Kyle found 'accidentally'.
The skill inside the skill core was called 'Firery Wind'. It was an agility-type skill.
After thinking for a while both Kyle and Alec decided to give the skill core to Jian because both of them already had a high-rank agility skill.
After another hour, Jian and Alec were almost numb whenever Kyle saw or discovered something new.
All this while Bia who was sitting on top of Kyle's head would laugh from time to time seeing Alec and Jian's shocked expression.
As the three of them neared the Volcano top with sweaty foreheads, suddenly some fire skeletons emerged from the Volcano top.
Jian who always called the Skeletons ugly was so relieved seeing them that he almost had the urge to go and hug the Fire skeletons.
It was a very strange feeling. Never in his life, he would have imagined he would be happy to see some ugly skeletons!
Alec also sighed with relief when he saw some Fire skeletons charging toward him.
After Kyle appeared on this floor, the few fire skeletons that sometimes crawled out from the ground almost vanished into thin air like they never existed.
Kyle raised his brow when he saw both of them sighing with relief.
Without waiting for even a second, all three of them charged at the skeletons with a burning gaze.
Bia also started flying because she was tired after sitting for so long.
While everyone was focused on the few incoming skeletons, the ground shook, and like a tsunami, hundreds of fire skeletons crawled out from the Volcano top.
Their empty skulls were filled with lava as they stared at Alec, Jian, and Kyle with their hollow eyes.
Jian stopped in his tracks. His face had a smile that wasn't a smile at all.
"Ha. haha.. I never said I missed them. Why are there so many!"
Fighting ten or twenty fire skeletons at the same time was fine but fighting hundreds of them at the same time was not right at all.
Even Alec and Kyle stopped in their track and looked at the hundreds of approaching skeletons with shock.
"Hmm, how about running backward?"
Alec spoke and turned his head to look at Jian and Kyle, only to see nothing.
Kyle and Jian were already running down the Volcano.
Alec's eyes widened. He was betrayed just like that?
"Wait for me!"
Alec shouted and started running behind Jian and Kyle who were already a few meters ahead of him.
The skeletons looked at their fading image, and with a loud rumble, all the skeletons also started following behind the trio.
Meanwhile, at the sky, Bia blinked her tiny eyes as she saw hundreds of more skeletons emerging from the Volcano.
-'Wow, they are never-ending.'
