Let's try being more cautious going forward.
Ever since learning how versatile wood magic is, I've been gradually feeling more and more invincible.
I'll probably get myself killed before long with this attitude.

I'll just quickly check out the thing that Furby was pointing to before and retreat immediately if things get too dangerous.

(Hmmm?)
Someone has littered inside the cavern.

I've spotted some discarded items on the floor.

It's just a wooden board and some chains? Huh? I recognize these actually.
Where have I seen these before?

Hmmm... was it at Elena's-

(Ah!)
My chauffeur flew past the junk on the ground that I was trying to inspect.

Furby took it upon himself to grab my wooden arms with his talons and take off flying.
Even though I can move perfectly fine by myself now...
I've currently got a neat aerial view of this large cave that we're in thanks to that though.

He's flying towards the direction that he was pointing at before.

"Interesting! Up ahead! Look!" (Furby)

Wh- why are you talking like a caveman?!

Or rather, how are you even talking like a person all of a sudden?!

(!)

Turns out my language recognition was on the verge of levelling up.

I can understand bird now.

(Oh!)

Furby was right, there is something interesting up ahead.

We arrived upon the scene that Furby had spotted in the distance.

There are craters everywhere and the corpses of several large creatures in the middle of all the carnage.

(What happened here?)

Seems like we came upon the aftermath of an epic fight.

One of the corpses is larger than the rest. It seems like that one was the strongest of the group.

Actually, this looks a lot like the type of demon that would've owned a domain.

I focus on the domains section in my status to check on something.

The amount of domains I need to assimilate has gone down quite a bit.

(Hmmm...)

Something is wiping out all the powerful demons but not taking over their domains.

Isn't this great news for me actually? This could speed up my hunt for a full potion drastically!

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(Another enormous demon's corpse.)

We arrived upon an ominous crevice going further down into the cave.

Right outside of the crevice, a giant cow-like demon corpse was blown to smithereens.

I'm assuming it was supposed to resemble a cow because the only thing still recognisable is the bottom portion's hooves of whatever this demon was supposed to be.
Maybe it was a minotaur? ...I would've liked to see that actually.

Along the way here we found a dozen other corpses, blown to pieces in a similar fashion.

Seems like something dangerous has set their sights on wiping out all the demons here.

Should I even bother going further down into the cavern?
I could just wait around until whatever is exterminating all the demons has finished their hunt.

...

This does kind of feel like someone is stealing my kills though...

I should probably head back...

Hmmm... lets at least get a look at what's causing all this carnage before I go!

I'll let my morbid curiosity get the better of me for now. I'm sure it'll be fine as long as I retreat in time.
Presence detection should alert me if anything tries to sneak up on me anyway.

"Let's go further down Furby!" (Scarecrow)

"Okay..." (Furby)
Furby made a reluctant but agreeable bird sound that I intuitively understood now. 

(Oh!)

Somehow I've already managed to level up my magic speech as well!

"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled... peppers." (Scarecrow)

Language skills really are imperative for a day to day life in another world.

Furby gave me a bewildered look.

 

We jumped into the steep crevice and slid down a rocky slide for a good couple of minutes.

When we came out on the other side, we were greeted by a beautiful lush turquoise underground jungle.

This must be the third layer.

There weren't any trees in sight, just long fluorescent vines dangling from the ceiling of the enormous cave we just fell into. 

The vines stretch out towards the sky, towards a ceiling that's not even visible anymore, partly due to a thick fog hanging over the cavern ceiling.

And undoubtedly, right in front of us is a ginormous body on the ground.

It looks like one of the creatures you often hear of in fiction.

"A phoenix?" (Furby)
Furby took the words right out of my mouth.

Blue flames are still burning bright on the unmoving body of the bird.

Yup. It's dead.

And going off of the name, it sounds like this demon was important too.

It probably owned 1 of the 3 domains I was supposed to take over here.

This is just making me all the more curious about what is bulldozing through this cavern.

*BANG*

The echo of an enormous explosion could be heard in the distance.

A shockwave swept across us.

"Let's check it out!" (Scarecrow)

Furby picks me up and takes off towards the source of the noise.

◇◆◇

 

Furby and I arrived at what appeared to be the finale of an epic fight.

*BANG BANG BANG*

Enormous explosions cover an even larger creature that looks like your typical dragon.

The giant blue dragon-like creature opens its mouth and produces an enormous blue flame that scorches the surroundings.

Furby quickly backs up, because our bodies could barely stand the heat.
Parts of my body have caught fire.

Even though we're fairly far away from the battle, we're forced to back up.

I use water magic to splash water onto ourselves.
The fires that had begun to appear on my body are put out.

"Wah!" (Furby)
Suddenly getting splashed with water seemed to startle the near level 100 bird.

The dragon closes its mouth and inquisitively looks in front to check on whatever it was desperately trying to barbeque.

"Glass! Weird!" (Furby)
Furby already recovered from his surprise bath and was looking at something.
Seems like he's able to see something in the distance.

I look in the direction Furby seems to be inspecting.

In the middle of the black-scorched earth, I can see a tiny shape.

It's shimmering. It does seem to be some sort of reflective material.

Did the dragon's opponent turn to glass or something?

"Fwu fu fu..." (???)

An odd old man's laugh echo throughout the surroundings.

"FWAHAHA!!" (???)

I try to focus on the tiny shape.

"I spent a vast amount of my fortune on developing this unbreakable body!" (???)

It looks like a tiny humanoid made out of glass...

"Listen and listen well you daft dragon!" (???)

"You'll have the honour to be destroyed by the strongest magician in history!" (???)

"Alcazar Prestos!" (Alcazar)

Ball-shaped glass vials filled with a thick liquid split off from Alcazar's body and begin to float around him.

"Let's see what kind of explosion is produced from the blood of a flame mother demon!" (Alcazar)