While Asue-chan doesn't have any special abilities like us, however since [Earth Lord - Variant's] often mine in areas such as volcanoes, her race has the highest base heat resistance among us all.
Give her a few heat resistant pieces of equipment, and she will be fine.
Since the rest didn't have any abilities or high heat resistance they'll have to use magic items. They wore [Ice-cold Underwear], [Cooling Long Cape], [Heat Proof Combat Boots], and used a magic potion [Cooling Liquid] that envelops their body in a thin liquid of mucus.
This seemed to substantially reduce the heat.
But even with all this, Irofu-chan still looks rather lifeless. She'll have no choice but to give it her best shot.
After finishing our preparations, we got off the Skeleton Centipede and only managed to advance a few meters before we were attacked. The attackers that suddenly jumped out of the ground are known as [Lava Dungeon Army Fish].
Freely swimming in lava and magma, this fish is a species of Armored Fish, reaching lengths of 1 meter and is clad in heavy armor composed of red hot magma. Even without its rush attack, it has fearsome destructive capabilities. Its armor is hard enough to deflect any half-hearted attack while also dealing damage itself. Furthermore, if dozens of them were killed, hundreds more will rush in. Within the outer layers of [Flames of Fire Dragon Mountain], it's known as the most obnoxious monster.
We heard that about a third of the deaths in the early levels of Fire Dragon Mountain were caused by this monster.
Naturally we had a wonderful time.
Due to the fact there were 9 demons here, the usually abundant experience was distributed among us. But since they came by the dozens, they make leveling very efficient. Furthermore, they were also very tasty.
Yum, grilled fish is the best.
Ability learned: [Traverse Lava]
With this ability, I can now swim in lava. In addition, this ability can also be used in various other locations where there is no lava. I have to say, this is quite a good start.
Now then, in order to fill in the blanks of my mental map, why don't we travel in a clockwise direction along the [Border Area]?