The Primal Hunter

Chapter 1021: A Hot Way Down Chapter 1021: A Hot Way Down

One of the nice quality-of-life features the Prima Vessel had was the ability to teleport one to the core chamber of any given planet it was on. This was to give the World Leader easy access to the Planetary Pylon so the natives could claim it once they’d defeated the Prima Guardian.

However, if one had to get to the core chamber the traditional way, it all became quite a bit harder. Traveling all the way from the surface to the core was quite a distance, with winding paths all throughout, and while planets tended to have cave networks leading all the way from the surface, that didn’t make it easy to go there, much less find the optimal path.

This did result in the core having quite tough natural defenses, as most wouldn’t even dare try to reach it. Especially now with the local World Leader having the Vessel to teleport themselves and others down there to intercept any potential invader who was aiming at it. Finally, actually doing anything to a claimed Planetary Pylon was hard. Far harder than doing something to an unclaimed one, or if it was still only a Planetary Core.

Jake knew all these things, yet as he was considering what to do, he still decided that he would go the extreme route. With determination to end the conflict between himself and Yip’s former Chosen once and for all, Jake made some final preparations as he finally entered the planet’s atmosphere, no longer bombarding it from the outside.

Once in there, he began flying down while summoning arcane orbs in his wake which began to slowly fall toward the ground. They were all made out of stable arcane mana except for a small spark of destruction in the middle that would activate after a set period of time. He even shot some of these orbs in random directions, with the goal of having them serve as distractions from what he was actually doing, perhaps even making them think he was still on the surface.

What’s more, the orbs even benefitted from his stealth skill, making people not notice them even as they spread out throughout a large part of the planet, ready to explode once the set timer expired. Jake didn’t even aim them anywhere specific and was fine with them simply exploding in the middle of nothing, as the explosion itself should be good enough to serve as a distraction.

Still keeping an eye on any C-grades coming for him, Jake soon spotted a good place to start if he wanted to reach the core of the planet quickly. From what he knew about Ell’Hakan’s planet, it was rife with volcanic activity, and it didn’t take him long to find one of the largest volcanos on the entire planet. What’s more, from a distance, he could even see it was active.

Flying closer, he felt the presence of peak-tier D-grade elementals formed within due to the dense mana. Jake smiled when he released a quick Pulse of Perception, the result from it being pretty good.

Goes far down.

Jake had never been super into physics when young, but he did know some things. One of those was that some volcanos tended to reach a lot deeper into the ground than people thought, and if he remembered correctly, some of the deepest on Earth before the system had connected magma chambers nearly halfway to the core. While he was still guessing, he had a good feeling a massive volcano like this would also reach pretty damn deep.

That’s right... Jake’s plan was to use a volcano as a highway toward the planet’s core chamber by following the magma as far down as he could.

The prior times Jake had wanted to explore deeper parts of Earth, Jake hadn’t used a strategy like this, as it was pretty damn risky. Traveling through deep water was already a risky endeavor, so it shouldn’t need to be said that going through lava was even more dangerous.

Well, technically, most of his journey would be going through magma- seeing as lava was the molten rock above ground, and magma the molten rock below the surface.

Anyhow, risky for sure. Not just because the magma would get incredibly hot and suffocating but because of the beings that lived within it, especially in the deepest layers. The hotter it got, the less viscous it would become, nearly being reminiscent of water at its most extreme. At that point, Jake would also expect there to be a lot of powerful elementals around, most of them reaching the upper tiers of C-grade.

a late-tier C-grade, Jake didn’t believe anything could truly threaten him. From what Jake had briefly observed, the average level of monsters on Ell’Hakan’s planet was also lower than that of Earth, likely correlated with

a lot of his reasoning based on what he’d read and briefly spoken with others about, but in the

a layer of stable arcane energy just before impact. The lava was pretty damn viscous in the upper layers and far from easy to get through as

lava. The heat was far from able

significantly increased. Once there, he had to focus a bit more on not being burned, but he could also speed

for it being a fair deal hotter. Seeing through magma was also a lot harder, but Jake had enough Perception to make out his surroundings quite

every one he sent out, he continued to be pleasantly surprised. He kept finding new connecting paths to the magma chambers he was currently in leading further down, and all of them went nearly in a straight

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system would have melted, and Jake couldn’t help but consider how far he would have

a lot more powerful. The heat wasn’t even toward the top of the list of dangerous shit going on with stars, after all. Either way, it was a fun thought to dive into a star... alas, Jake would need to be a

satisfied with swimming in lava many thousands of kilometers beneath the surface

the mana. Jake had long stopped bothering with his stealth skill, and even if these elementals noticed him, he flew by too fast for them to do anything. Not that they wanted to do anything. In fact, in the brief moments some of them did notice him, they quickly veered away, instinctively knowing impeding his

moment. His stable arcane energy once

assuming it was a coincidence - just happened... and what went down on Ell’Hakan’s homeworld was one such cruel event. Or perhaps it was luck. No matter what, time

even five minutes after Jake dove into the volcano, the teleporter in the capital city on the planet lit up, and out walked Ell’Hakan, a serious look on his face as he didn’t hesitate to head for the throne room.

having little idea what was going on... but by the expressions on his follower’s faces, things weren’t

from beyond the skies. Arrows,” the general said, Ell’Hakan’s eyes opening wide. “They struck several cities, and we are yet

the attacks still ongoing?”

are less frequent now, but there are still attacks spread throughout, but they seem different from those prior,” the

the hunter to teleport straight to his planet and begin destroying the surface. It

of the Malefic Viper didn’t seem like the type who cared for causing civil unrest or killing the general populace, and it didn’t take Ell’Hakan long to conclude why he

I didn’t show, he slowed down. Likely to conserve resources. That means

for it. The Chosen knew Ell’Hakan gained power from his followers, so targeting them was almost likely directly attacking him. Ell’Hakan did also consider showing out in the

should use its full strength when hunting a tooth-snapper... and the hunter was no mere tooth-snapper. The hunter was just that – a hunter. He’d also clearly shown his capabilities to launch attacks from orbit, and the generals informed him