"Why?"
Gwen was confused.
Victor came with the Knights, but now he actually asked to separate and act alone.
She didn't quite understand why Victor would follow the Knights if he didn't need their protection.
Or say?
What was his purpose in coming to Mount Vesuvius?
"I'm going to the crater first."
That's what Victor said.
With Gwen's righteous heart, all lies will be exposed.
But he wasn't lying, which meant that Victor did plan to go to the crater.
Gwen thought back to the reason why Victor came along in the first place.
"Could it be that the monster you're talking about is right at the crater?"
"Um..."
Victor was silent for a moment. At this moment, the figure of the monstrous monster came to his mind.
So he answered.
"I guess so."
...What does it mean to guess so?
But the other party hasn't lied yet, Gwen is a little curious, but she is not the kind of person who likes to pry into other people's privacy.
After all, this is a dormant volcano, and Victor also said that he is very familiar with the terrain of Mount Vesuvius.
There shouldn't be any problem.
Gwen nodded and agreed to his request to leave the team.
"I will come to you when I finish my work."
As Victor finished his words, a blue magic circle with twinkling stars appeared under his feet.
A blue light flashed, and his figure disappeared without a trace.
Gwen was a little dazed when a living person disappeared right in front of her.
A knight watched the entire conversation between the two and saw Gwen still in a daze, so he walked over and asked Gwen.
"Knight Commander? Did you two have a conflict last night?"
Gwen turned her head and opened her mouth.
"No, it's not what you think..."
Before she could finish, the knight continued:
"Oh, it's normal for couples to have conflicts. I often quarrel with my wife, but our son is already eight years old."
"A couple quarrels at the head of the bed and makes up at the foot of the bed. There is no such thing as an overnight grudge between husband and wife."
The more Gwen listened to him, the redder her face became.
"Stop talking nonsense! Let's go!"
She cursed at the knight and left in a hurry.
"Eh? Knight Commander Gwen! I didn't say anything wrong... Alas, girls nowadays are so pretentious. It's obvious that I was right."
Gwen couldn't quite hear what the knight said next.
Her face turned slightly red, like a little girl whose secrets had been revealed.
But in fact, she knows it better than anyone else.
There is no relationship between her and Victor.
Just as she would never fall in love with Victor, Victor would never fall in love with her.
Gwen mounted the white horse, thinking gloomily.
If nothing unexpected happens, she might end up marrying Victor.
After all, the marriage contract between the two families had been arranged long ago.
Gwen is the second daughter of the family. She can only obey the family's decision and cannot change it.
Gwen didn't want to get married, and what's more, she felt terrible about Victor in the past.
'How could I possibly marry such a bastard?'
As this thought flashed through her mind, she suddenly recalled what happened last night.
He was like an elegant aristocrat, and every move he made was like that of a gentleman.
I don't even know when he gave up the only bed to me.
When she woke up, she found Victor sitting quietly in a chair, reading the obscure magic book all night.
She felt guilty, but Victor told her that they, the mages, had their own ways of resting and all they needed was quiet surroundings.
Is he... a bastard?
Gwen couldn't help but think.
Gwen is determined to become a knight of absolute justice, and she has never really hated anyone.
Even if that person is Victor.
"I should have been quite quiet last night..."
Shaking off the unnecessary thoughts in her mind, she raised the silver sword in her hand and swung it forward.
"Set off!"
…
A blue rain of light fell from nowhere, forming a teleportation array in mid-air, revealing Victor's figure.
He opened his eyes and the scenery around him had changed significantly.
The surroundings were so desolate that there was almost nothing, with only a few scattered charred stones standing on the hillside.
He was now located halfway up the volcano, much ahead of the Knights.
This is the maximum range where teleportation magic can be used.
It turns out that it is not very realistic to teleport to the top of the mountain in one breath.
Seeing that there was no one around, Vega on his shoulder spoke to him in a loud voice:
"Why did you choose to separate from them?"
"The Knights' route should be consistent with yours. Follow them and you will get here sooner or later."
Victor patted its head and explained:
"I don't need their company."
"There are some things I need to investigate myself. There is no need to let others know."
Vega was very surprised. Looking at Victor's expression, it seemed like he had planned this for a long time.
Recalling the interest he showed when he heard about Mount Vesuvius, it was hard for Vega not to suspect that the other party knew something.
A man and a bird are walking on Mount Vesuvius, which has erupted once before.
However, after that incident, Mount Vesuvius lost its power to erupt and became a dormant volcano.
The residents living at the foot of the mountain built a town here, which has a history of hundreds of years.
After hundreds of years of wind and sun, the ground here has long since formed a lime-gray char, full of cracks and weathered volcanic rocks.
What plants do you want to see here? That's a bit difficult.
However, after hundreds of years, no one is worried that the volcano will erupt again.
The volcano was about several hundred meters high, and he soon reached the top of the mountain.
The closer he got to the top of the mountain, the more clearly Victor could feel the extremely rich fire element.
Not only him, Vega also felt the same way.
It turned its head and glanced at Victor in a somewhat subtle manner.
"Interesting, I really want to open your head and see how you came up with the idea of coming here."
"You actually found a 'disaster'."
Victor looked very calm, and Vega understood that he had known that there was something here.
Disaster.
To be precise, this is the specific name of the Crucible Beast recorded in history.
There are six kinds of disasters in the world, corresponding to six magical elements.
Wind, wood, fire, earth, water, and thunder.
And now, Mount Vesuvius is sealing the disaster of fire, Guldun.
Its body was so huge that it seemed to reach the sky, and the fire from the furnace poured over its entire body, making it look like a demon in fire.
The reason why they are called disasters is that once they appear, they will cause natural disasters and chaos in a certain area, and they are so powerful that they are terrifying.
Their existence brings only harm and no benefit to any living thing.
This is the 'disaster', as its name suggests.
"I'm curious. It's sleeping peacefully here. Why are you looking for it?"
Vega looked at Guldun under the crater and asked Victor.
"Collect some interest in advance."
Victor stood on the crater and looked down into the crater.
It is so bottomless that one even doubts whether there is anything inside.
Hot air gushed out from the mountain pass, and the incredible heat hit me in the face.
His eyes suddenly became very determined.
The cold wind and the hot air mixed together and blew his windbreaker. At this moment, standing at the highest point of the volcano, he could hardly hear even Vega's voice beside him.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing standing here? Are you going to jump from here?"
Victor didn't respond, and Vega was silent for a while.
"You're not really going to jump, are you?"
Its questioning, word by word, had no effect at all.
Because Victor had already said to it:
"Hold on tight!"
After saying that, he jumped towards the volcano which was a hundred meters deep.
"Why don't you ask for my opinion!!!"
The red-hot rock scenery around him kept falling, and Vega held Victor's clothes tightly in his beak.
At this time, it even forgot that it was still a bird with wings.
The scene in front of me kept changing, and finally...
After a flash of white light, the two figures disappeared into the air.
...
"I've been a god for so long, but this is the first time I've felt so crazy."
When Vega opened his eyes, he seemed to have come to another space.
It was pitch black all around, with the only thing visible to the naked eye being the floor.
"It's dark, Victor? Victor?"
Victor was right behind it, and when he saw the crow wake up, he picked it up and put it on his shoulder.
Vega just wanted to ask Victor to light a fire to illuminate the surroundings, but before he could say anything, a loud snoring sounded in the darkness in front of him.
The crows' ears will be deafened by the noise.
"Damn, who is snoring, uh..."
Vega stopped talking.
It saw the source of the snoring, or rather...
At this moment, it was right in front of Vega, sleeping with its eyes closed.
How to describe it appropriately?
It's like a giant pillar rising into the sky.
It is as tall as a mountain, shocking and terrifying.
The disaster of fire, Guldun, appeared before them.
A cold sweat broke out on Vega's head, and the hair on his head looked a lot brighter.
"Boy, do you want to challenge it?"
"Don't be ridiculous! I'm just an ordinary bird now. I can't help you with anything!"
Victor didn't look at it, but pinched a flame with his fingertips, illuminating the front.
It also illuminates the true appearance of this giant beast.
"Don't say that."
"You are my biggest help in overcoming this."
The next second, Fengxi's snoring stopped.
The huge red eyes opened, like startling light bulbs.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
It looked down at the two ants and let out an angry roar that echoed throughout the entire Mount Vesuvius.