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.

as 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

confidence to use this method, even if he had admittedly theorized a lot of his reasoning based on what he’d read

The lava was pretty damn viscous in the upper layers and far from easy to get through as Jake had to channel destructive arcane energy to

good pace, using his Sphere and pulses to find his way through the lava. The heat was far from able to bother someone of Jake’s level, at least not yet, and he quickly made progress as he got deeper

him long to reach the deeper layer, where the heat significantly increased. Once there, he had to focus a bit more on not being burned, but he

but Jake had enough Perception to make out his surroundings quite clearly, meaning he

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 line. After ten or so more minutes,

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above where any metal before the system would have melted, and Jake couldn’t help but consider how far he would have been able to dive

it had become 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

now, he had to be satisfied with swimming in lava many thousands of kilometers beneath the surface

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 path

avoiding Jake, who was still speeding up with every passing moment. His stable arcane energy once more proved its incredible power against

just happened... and what went down on Ell’Hakan’s homeworld was one such cruel event. Or perhaps it was

Ell’Hakan, a serious look on his face as he didn’t hesitate to head for the throne room. As he

was going on... but by the expressions on his follower’s faces, things weren’t good. They also all felt nervous telling him,

ago, attacks descended upon the planet from beyond the skies. Arrows,” the general said, Ell’Hakan’s eyes opening wide.

the attacks still ongoing?” Ell’Hakan

frequent now, but there are still attacks spread throughout, but they seem different from those prior,” the general continued explaining. “We have fortified

to his planet and begin destroying the surface. It was so odd he even doubted it was the Chosen for a second, but as he had the generals elaborate more, he became

who cared for causing civil unrest or killing the general populace, and it didn’t

he slowed down. Likely to conserve

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 open but

killed, and even a liogara 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 that many