Only a wizard can stop a natural disaster like a volcanic eruption.
In particular, the scale of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius this time may be extraordinary. After all, it is not normal for a hundred-foot-long column of fire to spew out from the crater in any era.
If the lava from a volcanic eruption stretches for hundreds of miles, villages and crops may be destroyed.
Not only will it cause huge economic losses to the royal capital, but even the lives of many creatures near the volcano will be threatened.
The royal capital took this matter very seriously and immediately summoned all the magicians who could take action in the city.
The imperial army sent batches of wizards to Mount Vesuvius one after another.
Duke Levi and Erica are no exception.
After almost a whole day, everyone was a little tired after the long journey all night.
In the early hours of the morning, the team finally arrived at their destination and everyone rested on the spot.
Because of the collective evacuation of the Knights, all the people in Sanchel gathered outside the town.
Even livestock such as chickens, ducks, cattle, sheep, and even some cats and dogs were driven out.
Outside the town, there was chaos and confusion.
The villagers watched as a large number of troops and mages entered the town, and no one knew what was going on.
At this moment, the atmosphere around the camp was extremely tense.
Master Levi was one of the last few mages to arrive. When he got off the carriage, many mages from other noble families greeted him with smiles and came 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 Kingdom summons."
Baker thought back to the past and said to the Duke.
The Duke nodded and smiled in agreement.
"This must be your daughter, she is so pretty and graceful."
"No, no, that's an exaggeration."
Baker saw the badge on Erica's chest that symbolized a second-level wizard.
He pushed up 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 he was still happy to hear other famous wizards' comments about him.
No one hates compliments, especially Erica, who has been surrounded by compliments since childhood.
Duke Levi looked at his daughter with a smile, she was his pride.
"Haha, your daughter's magical talent is really something that old guys like us envy."
The adults laughed at each other and slowly calmed down.
In the magic profession, there is almost no one who doesn't know each other.
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 the nobles.
It is difficult for civilians to even find a second-level magician.
At this moment, a silver-white figure appeared in front of everyone.
Duke Levi took one look at her and knew that she was the second daughter of the Delin family.
He is currently serving as the leader of the Royal Knights in the capital.
"Gwen Delin is here to report."
When the mages saw Gwen coming up to them with a gloomy face, their hearts seemed to tighten. Could it be that the current situation of the volcano is not optimistic?
"My dear mages, since the abnormal changes in the volcano yesterday, it has remained relatively stable so far."
Gwen tightened her grip on the silver sword, 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 expending a lot of energy to confront the natural disaster head-on.
At this time, Erica was standing beside Duke Levi and watching 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 Templar, and she was a little shocked. She didn't expect that the leader of the Knights Templar was a woman.
She didn't know Gwen, let alone that Gwen was Victor's fiancée, but Gwen knew her.
Gwen had naturally heard of this genius magic student who was known throughout the country.
Not to mention that because of the last incident with Victor, she remembered Erica very clearly.
Gwen looked at the blonde girl in front of her and muttered to herself:
"Is this the daughter of Duke Levi? She is so beautiful. No wonder Victor was so impulsive to confess his love to her."
Gwen had only seen Erica in newspapers before, and when she met her in person this time, she was also amazed by her temperament.
Just the first sight of her makes you feel like you're falling in love.
"So, Knight Commander Gwen, what happened to the volcano?"
Gwen briefly told Duke Levi about the Knights' investigation after they 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 hundred-meter-high column of fire erupted?"
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, standing there in a daze, not knowing what to say.
Duke Levi fell into deep thought as he listened to Gwen's story. Like the mages, he didn't know what was going on.
Gwen remembered something and said:
"This time we applied for a wizard to accompany us. He went to the top of the mountain before us, saying that he was going to investigate something, but he disappeared and his whereabouts remain unknown until now."
"What?"
Now they were all stunned. After all, such words were too likely to arouse suspicion.
Erica was also startled when she heard this, as if she realized something, and for the first time she took the initiative to ask:
"Who is that mage?"
Gwen looked at him suspiciously and replied:
"You should know him. He is Victor Cravener."
The moment this name sounded, there was an uproar among the mages.
Several mages who hated Victor seized this opportunity and said righteously:
"It must have been Victor who did it!"
"That's right! He has done other bad things before, this time must be his doing as well!"
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 confused, but he still persuaded the other mages:
"Everyone, please don't worry. The most important thing now is to prevent the volcano from erupting and minimize the possible damage!"
Hearing the Duke's words, many mages stopped arguing.
As Levi said, at this point, finding the mastermind is not important at all.
The most important thing is to overcome the current difficulties.
"Ahhh!!!!"
As he was speaking, a roar suddenly came from the volcano.
Now, everyone could hear it clearly.
The mages all looked towards the top of the volcano, silent and unable to utter a word.
Is that voice a living being?
"Ma'am! You can't go past that!"
The voices of the surrounding knights attracted the attention of many people, and everyone looked over there.
It was an old woman who tried to break through the knights' blockade and enter the stronghold.
"Someone has angered the Volcano God! Someone must have angered the Volcano God!"
She shouted across the guarding knights:
"It's all over! We're all finished!"
The mages looked at each other, and Duke Levi waved his hand and spoke to the knight.
"Let her in."
"yes!"
The knight stopped trying to stop him, and the old man quickly broke free from the knight's hand and limped over with his crutches.
"Grandma, what is the volcano god?"
Duke Levi asked her kindly, but the wizards around saw the old woman's crazy look and started to talk about it:
"This old woman looks crazy, what can we get out of her?"
"What volcano god? I've never heard of it."
"I'm afraid she's here to disrupt order, Duke Levi, so you better drive her away quickly."
Duke Levi did not listen to the mages' advice, but 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 flame-burning demon under a volcano. That seal made the volcano god angry, causing the volcano here to erupt."
"But after that eruption, the volcano remained quiet for hundreds of years."
"The volcano is now causing disturbances again. It must be that the sleeping volcano god has become angry again. It is about to break through the seal and burn the sky and the earth to ashes."
Many mages present were stunned and quickly stepped forward to speak.
"Don't worry about it, Duke. It's just some myths circulating among the people."
Duke Levi's expression was extremely solemn.
He smelled a familiar scent in this story.
At this time, Erica glanced at the top of the mountain.
She touched her chest as if she was thinking, turned around and spoke to Duke Levi.
"Father, I want to go to the top of the mountain and take a look."
"I feel something... at the top of the mountain."
"no!"
Hearing Erica's request, the Duke waved his hand and said in a very tough manner:
"Erica, I can promise you a lot of things, but this one 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 stand on my own."
"Unless you are stronger than me, I will never allow you to step into the crater!"
Seeing Duke Levi like this, Erica could only remain silent.
This is totally asking too much.
Her father has been immersed in the third-level magic for more than thirty years.
Everyone said that if a new fourth-level holy mage could emerge, that person would definitely be Levi Du Crox.
Erica thought that she couldn't even surpass Victor, so how could she possibly skip two levels and reach the fourth level?
But...
Erica felt a little tight in her chest.
She heard a voice amidst the roar just now.
"Some voice said it hurts."
And Duke Levi has already begun issuing orders to the mage team.
The movement of the volcano became more and more obvious. The third-level mages formed their formations, and the second-level mages served as assistants and took turns to cast magic.
They will draw a magic circle to summon powerful war magic to cover the entire Mount Vesuvius before the volcano erupts.
At that time, whether it is magma eruption or something jumping out of the volcano.
They must all be eliminated!
...
"Finally...are you hurt?"
Vega looked at Victor with dull eyes, in disbelief.
His current condition is not good.
Half of the windbreaker was burned off, and flames continued to burn at the wounds on the body that were attacked by the lava.
However, this was only the first time Victor was injured after a day of fighting...
Monster, that's the only evaluation it can give.
Although he was facing a disaster that was like a natural calamity, he was able to fight it for a whole day and even injured it.
During this time, he was only injured once.
This was because he was a little distracted and was scratched by the amazing pillar of fire.
This one blow alone caused him to suffer considerable damage.
If he had been hit entirely by the pillar of fire, I'm afraid even his bones wouldn't be found now.
"It's really too much of a stretch..."
However, being injured is definitely not good news. It means that Victor's energy has decreased and he is tired.
The ongoing battle gradually made it difficult for him to concentrate.
"Why not just forget it and teleport away while we still have enough magic power."
Vega persuaded in his ear, although it knew that Victor was not the kind of person who would give up easily.
But his condition is not optimistic.
Victor didn't answer him, but just cast a magic bUff with fire resistance on himself to stop the burns, while dodging a shocking pillar of fire.
"If I leave now, this monster will rush out of Mount Vesuvius in an instant."
"That's when all the lives will be ruined."
"Vega, do you understand?"
Vega was stunned.
After saying this, Victor remembered that Vega was an evil god, so he continued:
"I'm sorry, I forgot you shouldn't care about this."
"But I care."
Victor threw away his broken and completely ruined windbreaker.
Let it drift in the wind and fall into the lava.
The windbreaker turned into sparks in the air and then disappeared completely.
"I don't want to be a good person, but I also don't want this unstoppable beast to break out of its cage and be labeled a world destroyer by the world."
Guldun's health had been reduced by one third, which was his proud record.
As long as he can break the defense of the monster, there is no boss that he cannot kill.
Victor looked at the angry Guldun with the same determination as at the beginning, and became even more excited.
Only in such a high-intensity battle did he seem to find himself again.
"It's just an injury. I haven't lost yet."
Because, this is a battle that involves his dignity as a power leveler!