A natural disaster like a volcanic eruption can only be stopped by a mage.
In particular, the scale of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may be extraordinary. After all, a hundred-foot-long pillar of fire erupting from the crater is not normal in any era.
Once the volcano erupts and the lava stretches for hundreds of miles, villages and crops may be destroyed.
Not only will it cause huge economic losses to the royal capital, but the lives of many creatures near the volcano will also be threatened.
The royal capital attached great importance to this matter and immediately summoned all the mages who could act in the city.
The imperial army sent batch after batch of mages to Mount Vesuvius one after another.
Duke Levi and Erica are no exception.
After almost a day, everyone was a little tired from the long overnight journey.
In the early morning, the team finally arrived at their destination, and everyone rested in place.
Because of the collective evacuation of the Knights, everyone in Sancher gathered outside the town.
Even domestic animals such as chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, including some cats and dogs, were driven out without exception.
Outside the town, everything was in chaos.
The villagers watched a large number of troops and mages enter the town, and no one knew what happened.
At this moment, the atmosphere around the camp was extremely tense.
Master Levi was one of the last batch of mages to arrive. When he got off the carriage, many mages from other noble families greeted him with smiles and took the initiative to join him.
"It's been a long time coming, Duke Levi."
A white-haired nobleman walked toward Duke Levi on crutches, followed closely by noble mages from other families.
"Long time no see, Mr. Baker."
Duke Levi responded politely.
"I'm afraid we haven't seen each other since the last kingdom summons."
Baker recalled the past and said to the Duke.
The Duke nodded and smiled in agreement.
"This is your daughter, she is so graceful and graceful."
"No, no, that's too much praise."
Baker saw the badge symbolizing a second-level mage pinned on Erica's chest.
He pushed up his glasses and continued:
"Sure enough, your daughter has already reached the second level."
"It seems that what the academy said is true."
Erica knew that these were just polite courtesies between adults.
But I was still a little happy to hear their comments about me from other famous mages.
No one hates compliments, especially Erica, who has been surrounded by compliments since she was a child.
Duke Levi looked at his daughter with a smile, that was his pride.
"Haha, Ling Qianjin's magic talent is really the envy of us old men."
The adults laughed at each other and slowly calmed down.
There are almost no strangers in the mage profession.
Duke Levi is one of the few third-level mages, and the remaining third-level mages are also nobles.
In the Kalencia Empire, high-level mages are almost monopolized by nobles.
It is difficult for civilians to even show up as a second-level mage.
At this time, a silver-white figure appeared in front of everyone.
Duke Levi glanced at her and knew that this was the second daughter from the Delin family.
Currently serving as the leader of the Royal Knights in the capital.
"Gwen Dolin came to report."
When the mages saw Gwen coming to them with a gloomy face, their hearts seemed to be tightened. Could it be that the current situation of the volcano is not optimistic?
"Dear mages, since the abnormal changes occurred in the volcano yesterday, it is still in a relatively stable state so far."
Gwen clenched the silver sword in her hand, sweat dripping from her forehead.
The mages breathed a sigh of relief when they heard her news. The white-haired mage patted his chest, and his hand holding the cane relaxed a lot.
In this way, they only need to take precautions here instead of spending a lot of energy to confront natural disasters.
At this time, Erica stood beside Duke Levi and watched all this quietly.
"Father, who is this...?"
Duke Levi whispered in Erica's ear: "This is the current leader of the Royal Knights."
Erica nodded. She was a little shocked when she saw the leader of the Knights for the first time. She didn't expect that the leader of the Knights was a woman.
She didn’t know Gwen, let alone knew that Gwen was Victor’s fiancée, but Gwen knew her.
Naturally, Gwen had heard about the magical genius student who was known to everyone in the country.
Not to mention that because of the incident with Victor last time, she remembered Erica completely and clearly.
Gwen looked at the blond girl in front of her and muttered in her heart:
'Is this Duke Levi's daughter? It's so beautiful, no wonder Victor is so impulsive to confess his love. '
She had only seen Erica in newspapers before, but this time she met her in person, Gwen was also surprised by her temperament.
Just looking at someone for the first time will make you feel like you are falling in love.
"So, Knight Commander Gwen, what happened to the volcano?"
Gwen briefly told Duke Levi about the investigation after the Knights arrived at the volcano.
.....
"What? You said you heard a loud roar when you were halfway up the mountain?"
"After the Knights investigated the top of the mountain, the temperature of the volcano immediately rose? And a pillar of fire that was a hundred meters high erupted?"
Baker and other third-level mages were stunned when they heard this, and asked each other:
"What's happening here?"
"I don't know, do you know?"
"I don't know either, I've never heard of it."
Several mages looked at each other, dumbfounded and didn't know what to say.
Duke Levi also fell into deep thought while listening to Gwen's story. Like the mages, he didn't know what was going on.
Gwen thought of something again and said:
"This time we applied for an accompanying mage. He went to the top of the mountain before us, saying he was going to investigate something, but he disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown to this day."
"What?"
They were all stunned now. After all, such words could easily make people suspicious.
Erica was also stunned after hearing this, as if she realized something, and for the first time she proactively asked:
"Who is that mage?"
Gwen looked at him doubtfully and answered:
"You should know him, he is Victor Cravener."
The moment this name rang out, there was an uproar among the mages.
Several mages who hated Victor seized this opportunity and said righteously:
"It must be what Victor did!"
"That's right! He has done other bad things before, and this time must be his handiwork too!"
Everyone present knows Victor's 'notoriety', and they will show no mercy once they have the opportunity to slander the other party.
Duke Levi was also at a loss, but he still persuaded the other mages:
"Don't worry, everyone. The most important thing now is to prevent volcanic eruptions and minimize the possible losses first!"
After hearing the Duke's words, many mages stopped arguing.
As Reevy said, at this point, finding the person behind the scenes is not important at all.
The most important thing is to get over the immediate difficulties first.
"Ouch!!!!"
As he spoke, a roar suddenly came from the volcano.
This time, everyone heard clearly.
The mages collectively looked at the top of the volcano, silent and speechless.
Is that voice a living thing?
"Ma'am! You can't go there!"
The voices of the surrounding knights attracted the attention of many people, and everyone looked over there.
It was an old man trying to break through the knights and walk into the stronghold.
"Someone has offended the volcano god! Someone must have offended the volcano god!"
She shouted through the knights guarding her:
"Everything is finished! We are all finished!"
The mages looked at each other, Duke Levi waved his hand and said to the knight.
"Let her in."
"yes!"
The knight stopped blocking him, and the old man quickly broke away from the knight's hand and limped over on crutches.
"Grandma, what is the volcano god?"
Duke Levi asked her kindly, but the mages around him saw the old man's crazy look just now, and started talking about it:
"This old woman looks crazy, what can she ask?"
"What volcano god? I've never heard of it."
"I'm afraid she's not here to disturb order. Duke Levi, it's better to drive her away as soon as possible."
Duke Levi did not listen to the wizards' persuasion, and looked at the old man kindly and asked.
"Mother-in-law, if you have anything to say, just tell me."
The old lady looked the Duke up and down, changed her previous crazy look, and began to speak mysteriously:
"Hundreds of years ago, someone sealed a flaming demon god under a volcano. That seal made the volcano god angry, causing the volcano here to erupt."
"But after that eruption, the volcano never moved at all for hundreds of years."
"Now that the volcano has caused strange movements again, it must be that the sleeping volcano god is angry again. It is about to break through the seal and burn the sky and the earth."
Many mages present were stunned when they heard this, and quickly came forward.
"Duke, don't worry about it, it's just some folklore myths."
Duke Levi's expression was extremely solemn.
He smelled a familiar scent in this story.
At this time, Erica glanced at the location on the top of the mountain.
She touched her chest, as if thinking, turned her head and said to Duke Levi.
"Father, I want to go to the top of the mountain to see it."
"I felt... something at the top of the mountain."
"no!"
Upon hearing Erica's request, the Duke waved his hand and shouted with a very strong attitude:
"Erica, I can promise you many things, but this matter is non-negotiable!"
Erica was unwilling to give up and continued to beg her father for permission: "Father! I am already a second-level mage, and I have the ability to stand alone."
"Unless you are stronger than me, I will never allow you to step onto the crater!"
Seeing Duke Levi like this, Erica could only remain silent.
This is simply forcing someone to do something difficult.
Her father has been immersed in the third-level mage for more than thirty years.
Everyone said that if a newly promoted fourth-level holy mage could emerge, then this person must be Levi Du Croy.
Erica thought that she couldn't even surpass Victor, so how could she possibly directly cross two levels to reach the fourth level?
But......
Erica felt a little tight in her chest.
She heard a voice amidst the roar just now.
'Something said it hurt. '
Duke Levi has already begun to issue orders to the mage team.
The changes in the volcano became more and more obvious. The third-level mages set up a formation, and the second-level mages took turns delivering magic as assistants.
They want to draw a magic circle and summon powerful war magic to cover the entire Mount Vesuvius before the volcano erupts.
At that time, whether it is magma erupting or something jumping out of the volcano.
We must also eliminate them all!
...
"Finally...are you hurt?"
Vega's eyes were dull, looking at Victor in disbelief.
His current state cannot be said to be good.
Half of the windbreaker was burned away, and flames continued to burn in the wounds on the body that had been attacked by magma.
However, this turned out to be just the first time Victor was injured in a day of fierce fighting...
Monster, that's all it can say about it.
Although he was facing a disaster that was like a natural disaster, he was able to fight it for a whole day and even injure it.
During this period, he was only injured once.
This was because he was a little distracted and was scratched by that astonishing pillar of fire.
Just this one blow caused him to suffer a lot of damage.
If he had been completely hit by the fire pillar, he might not even be able to find his bones now.
"Sure enough, it's still too reluctant..."
However, being injured is definitely not good news. It shows that Victor's energy has declined and he has fallen into fatigue.
The continuous fighting gradually made him unable to concentrate.
"How about forget it and teleport away while you still have enough magic power."
Vega persuaded in his ear, although it knew that Victor was not the kind of person to give up easily.
But his situation is not optimistic.
Victor didn't answer him, he just waved the bUff with magic fire resistance on himself to stop the burn, while dodging an astonishing pillar of fire.
"If I leave now, this monster will rush out of Mount Vesuvius in an instant."
"That's when the real loss of life will come."
"Vega, do you understand?"
Vega was stunned.
After saying that, Victor remembered that Vega was an evil god, so he continued:
"Sorry, I forgot that you shouldn't care about this."
"But I care."
Victor threw away the broken and completely scrapped windbreaker.
Let it drift in the wind and fall into the lava.
The windbreaker turned into little sparks in the air and disappeared.
"I don't want to be a good person, but I don't want this unstoppable beast to break out of the cage, and then the world will put a hat on my head called the Destroyer."
Gullerton's blood volume has been reduced by one-third, which is his proud record.
As long as he can break through the defense of Warcraft, there is no BOSS that he cannot kill.
Victor looked at the angry Gullerton as firmly as he did at the beginning, and became even more excited.
Only in such a high-intensity battle did he seem to have found himself again.
"It's just an injury. I haven't lost yet."
Because this is a battle that puts his dignity as a power coach on the line!
