Only mages can stop natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions.
Especially the scale of the Vesuvius eruption this time may be extraordinary. After all, a hundred-foot-long pillar of fire spewing out of the crater is not normal in any era.
Once the lava from the volcanic eruption stretches for hundreds of miles, villages and crops may be destroyed.
Not only will it cause huge economic losses to the capital, but even the lives and safety of many creatures near the volcano will be threatened.
The capital attaches great importance to this matter and immediately summoned all the mages who can act in the city.
The army of the empire sent batches of mages to Vesuvius one after another.
Duke Levi and Erica are no exception.
After almost a day, the long journey overnight made everyone a little tired.
In the early morning, the team finally arrived at the destination and everyone rested on the spot.
Because of the collective evacuation of the Knights, all the people in Sanchel Town gathered outside the town.
Even livestock such as chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and some cats and dogs were driven out without exception.
Outside the town, the whole place was in chaos.
The villagers watched a large number of troops and mages enter the town, and no one knew what was going on.
At this moment, the atmosphere around the camp was extremely tense.
Mage Levi was 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 come up to him.
"It's been a long time, Duke Levi."
A white-haired noble walked towards Duke Levi with a cane, followed closely by noble mages from other families.
"Long time no see, Mr. Baker."
Duke Levi responded politely.
"I'm afraid we haven't met since the last time the kingdom summoned us."
Baker recalled the past and said to the Duke.
The Duke nodded and smiled in agreement.
"This is your daughter, she is so beautiful."
"No, no, it's an exaggeration."
Baker saw the badge of a second-level mage pinned on Erica's chest.
He pushed his glasses and continued:
"Sure enough, your daughter has reached the second stage."
"It seems that what the academy said is true."
Erica knew that these were just politeness between adults.
But she was still happy to hear other famous mages' comments on her.
No one hates compliments, especially Erica, who has lived in compliments since childhood.
Duke Levi looked at his daughter with a smile, which was his pride.
"Haha, your daughter's magic talent is really enviable to us old men."
The adults laughed at each other and slowly calmed down.
In the field of mages, there are almost no strangers.
Duke Levi is one of the few third-level mages, and the remaining few third-level mages are also nobles.
In the Karencia Empire, high-level mages are almost monopolized by nobles.
It is difficult for civilians to even have a second-level mage.
At this time, a silver-white figure appeared in front of everyone.
Duke Levi took a look at her and knew that this was the second daughter of the Delin family.
Currently serving as the leader of the Royal Knights in the capital.
"Gwen Delin is here 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?
"My Lord Mages, since the abnormal changes in the volcano yesterday, it has remained relatively stable so far."
Gwen clenched the silver sword in her hand, and sweat dripped from her forehead.
The mages were relieved to hear her news. The white-haired mage patted his chest and relaxed his hand holding the cane.
In this way, they only need to take precautions when they come here, instead of consuming a lot of energy to confront the natural disaster head-on.
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. It was the first time she saw the leader of the Knights, and she was a little shocked. She didn't expect that the leader of the Knights was actually a woman.
She didn't know Gwen, let alone that Gwen was Victor's fiancée, but Gwen knew her.
Gwen had naturally heard of the magic genius student who was known to everyone in the country.
Not to mention that because of Victor's incident last time, she remembered Erica clearly.
Gwen looked at the blonde girl in front of her and muttered in her heart:
'Is this the daughter of Duke Levi? She is so beautiful, no wonder Victor was impulsive to confess. '
Before, I had only seen Erica in the newspaper. This time, when I met her in person, Gwen was also amazed by her temperament.
Just looking at her at first sight, you will feel like you are falling in love.
"So, Knight Commander Gwen, what happened to the volcano?"
Gwen briefly told Duke Levi about the investigation of the Knights after they came to the volcano.
.....
"What? You said you heard a 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 hundred-meter-high pillar of fire was ejected?"
Baker and other third-level mages were stunned and asked each other:
"What's going on?"
"I don't know, do you know?"
"I don't know either, I've never heard of it."
Several mages looked at each other and stood there, not knowing what to say.
Duke Levi also fell into deep thought after listening to Gwen's story. He didn't know what happened just like those mages.
Gwen remembered something and said:
"This time we applied for an accompanying mage. He went to the top of the mountain before us, saying that he was going to investigate something, but he disappeared and his whereabouts are still unknown."
"What?"
Now they were all stunned. After all, such words are too easy to make people suspicious.
Erica was also stunned after hearing this, as if she realized something, and for the first time took the initiative to ask: "Who is that wizard?" Gwen looked at him in confusion and answered: "You should know him, he is Victor Cravener." The moment this name sounded, there was an uproar among the wizards. Several wizards who hated Victor seized this opportunity and said righteously: "It must be Victor who did it!" "That's right! He has done other bad things before, and this time it must be his handiwork!" Everyone present knew Victor's "notoriety", and once they had the opportunity to slander the other party, they would not hold back. Duke Levi was also at a loss, but he still persuaded other wizards: "Don't worry, the most important thing now is to prevent the volcanic eruption and minimize the possible losses first!" Hearing the Duke's words, many wizards stopped arguing. As Levi said, at this point, it is not important to find the mastermind. The most important thing is to overcome the difficulties in front of us.
"Ah!!!!!"
While speaking, a roar suddenly came from the top of the volcano.
Now, everyone heard it clearly.
The mages collectively looked at the top of the volcano, silent and unable to say a word.
Is that voice a creature?
"Madam! You can't go over there!"
The voices of the surrounding knights attracted the attention of many people, and everyone looked over there.
It was an old woman, she tried to rush past the knights and enter the stronghold.
"Someone has angered the volcano god! Someone must have angered the volcano god!"
She shouted across the guarding knights:
"Everything is over! We are all over!"
The mages looked at each other, Duke Levi waved his hand and said to the knight.
"Let her in."
"Yes!"
The knight stopped blocking, and the old woman quickly broke free from the knight's hand and limped over with a cane.
"Grandma, what is the volcano god?" Duke Levi asked her kindly, but the mages around her saw the old woman's crazy look and started to talk: "What can this old woman get out of her crazy look?" "What volcano god? I've never heard of it." "I'm afraid she's here to disturb the order, Duke Levi, you should drive her away quickly." Duke Levi did not listen to the mages' advice, and looked at the old woman 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 burning demon under the volcano. That seal made the volcano god angry, causing the volcano here to erupt." "But after that eruption, the volcano has not made any movement for hundreds of years." "Now the volcano has caused an abnormal movement again. It must be that the sleeping volcano god is angry again. It is about to break the seal and burn the sky and the earth." Many wizards present were stunned and hurried to speak. "Duke, don't worry, it's just some folk myths." Duke Levi's face was extremely solemn. He smelled a familiar smell in this story. At this time, Erica glanced at the top of the mountain. She touched her chest, as if she was thinking, turned her head, and said to Duke Levi. "Father, I want to go to the top of the mountain to have a look."
"I feel... there is something on the top of the mountain."
"No!"
Hearing Erica's request, the Duke waved his hand and shouted in a very tough attitude:
"Erica, I can promise you many things, but this matter is not negotiable!"
Erica was unwilling to give up and continued to beg her father for permission: "Father! I am already a second-level mage and have the ability to take charge of a situation on my own."
"Unless you are stronger than me, I will never allow you to step on the crater!"
Seeing Duke Levi like this, Erica could only remain silent.
This is completely forcing people to do something difficult.
Her father has been immersed in the third-level mage for more than 30 years.
Everyone said that if a new fourth-level holy mage could appear, then this person must be Levi du Croix.
Erica thought that she couldn't even surpass Victor, how could she directly jump two levels to the fourth level?
But...
Erica felt a little tight in her chest.
She heard a voice in the roar just now.
'What's the sound? It hurts.'
And Duke Levi has already started to give orders to the mage team.
The movement of the volcano is becoming more and more obvious. The third-level mages are in formation, and the second-level mages are assisting in delivering magic in turn.
They have to draw a magic circle and summon powerful war magic to cover the entire Vesuvius volcano before the volcano erupts.
At that time, whether it is magma eruption or something jumping out of the volcano.
They must be eliminated!
...
"Finally... injured?"
Vega looked at Victor with a dull look in his eyes.
His current condition is not good.
Half of the windbreaker was burned off, and the wounds on his body attacked by magma continued to burn with flames.
However, this was only the first time Victor was injured after a day of fighting...
Monster, it can only make such an evaluation of it.
It was facing a disaster like a natural disaster, but he was able to fight it for a whole day and injured it.
During this period, he was only injured once.
This was because he was a little distracted and was scratched by the amazing pillar of fire.
This one hit alone caused him a lot of damage.
If he was hit by the pillar of fire, I'm afraid he wouldn't even have a bone now.
"It's really too much..."
However, being injured is definitely not good news. It means that Victor's energy has declined and he is tired.
The continuous battle made him unable to concentrate.
"Why not forget it? While there is still enough magic power, teleport and escape quickly."
Vega persuaded in his ear, although it knew that Victor was not the kind of person who gave up easily.
But his situation was not optimistic.
Victor did not answer him, but waved his magic to buff himself with fire resistance, stopped the burn, and dodged an amazing pillar of fire.
"If I leave now, this monster will rush out of Mount Vesuvius in an instant."
"At that time, it will be a real disaster."
"Vega, do you understand?"
Vega was stunned.
After saying this, Victor remembered that Vega was an evil god, so he continued:
"Sorry, I forgot that you should not care about these things."
"But I do."
Victor threw away his broken and completely scrapped windbreaker.
Let it drift with the wind and fall into the magma.
The windbreaker turned into sparks in the air and dissipated completely.
"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 be labeled as a destroyer by the world."
Gulerton's health has been reduced by one third, which is his proud record.
As long as the defense of the monster can be broken, there is no boss that he can't kill.
Victor looked at the angry Gulerton with the same determination as at the beginning, and became more excited.
Only in such a high-intensity battle did he seem to find himself again.
"It's just a one-time injury, I haven't lost yet."
Because, this is a battle that gambles his dignity as a power leveler!