"Why?"

Gwen was a bit puzzled.

Victor had come along with the Knights, only to propose that he wanted to split up and act alone at this time.

She didn't quite understand why Victor would want to follow the Order along if he didn't need the Order's shelter.

Or rather?

What exactly was his purpose for coming to Mount Vesuvius?

"I'm going to head to the crater first."

That's what Victor said.

Under Gwen's heart of justice, all lies would have nothing to hide.

But he wasn't lying, which meant that Victor did intend to make a trip to the crater.

Gwen remembered again Victor's reasoning for going along in the first place.

"Could it be, that the kind of demonic creature you were talking about, is on the crater?"

"Well ......"

Victor was silent for a moment, and at that moment, in his heart, he thought of the figure of that monstrous demonic beast.

Thus, he replied.

"Sort of."

...... What do you mean by sort of?

Favorably, the other party hadn't lied, Gwen was a little curious, but she wasn't someone who liked to pry into other people's privacy.

This was an extinct volcano after all, and Victor had said that he was very familiar with the terrain of Mount Vesuvius.

It should, without any problems.

Gwen nodded and agreed to his request to leave the team.

"I will take the initiative to find you guys after I finish my business."

As soon as Victor's words fell, a magic formation with blue twinkling stars appeared under his feet.

The blue light flashed and his figure disappeared without a trace.

A large living person disappearing directly in front of him put Gwen in a bit of a trance.

There was a knight who had watched the entire exchange between the two, and when he saw Gwen who was still in a daze, he couldn't help but walk over to Gwen and ask, ''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 finished, that knight continued, "It's normal for couples to have conflicts, I also often quarrel with my wife, but our son is eight years old."

"Quarreling at the head of the bed and making up at the end of the bed, there's no such thing as overnight enmity between husband and wife."

The more Gwen listened to him, the redder her face became.

"Cut the crap! Hurry up and get going!"

She cursed at the knight and hurriedly left.

"Hey? Knight Commander Gwen! I didn't say anything wrong ah ...... Alas, the girl's family nowadays, are just pretentious, this look is what I said."

What that knight said afterward, Gwen no longer heard too much.

She blushed slightly, like a little girl who had been told what was on her mind.

But in reality, she knew better than anyone else.

Between her and Victor, there was no relationship whatsoever.

Just as she would never fall for Victor, there was no way Victor would fall for her.

Gwen straddled the white horse, thinking a little bleakly in her mind.

If nothing happened, she would probably end up marrying Victor.

After all, the marriage contract between the two families had been set long ago.

Gwen was the second daughter of the family, and for the family's decision, she could only obey and could not change it.

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Gwen didn't want to marry anyone, not to mention that the previous Victor made her feel very bad.

'How could I, possibly, marry an asshole like that.'

This thought flashed through her mind, and she suddenly recalled last night's events.

He was like an elegant aristocrat, acting like a gentleman in every line.

Not even knowing when it was, he even gave up the only bed to himself.

And she woke up only to find Victor sitting quietly in a chair looking at the obscure magic book all night.

She felt guilty, but Victor turned the tables on her and told her that the mages had their means of resting and just needed quiet around them.

Is he ...... considered an asshole?

Gwen couldn't help but think in her mind.

Aspiring to be a knight of absolute justice, Gwen hadn't hated anyone.

Even if that person was Victor.

''I should have been pretty quiet last night, right......''

Shaking off those superfluous thoughts in her head, she raised the silver sword in her hand and swung it forward.

"Depart!"

......

A blue rain of light fell out of thin air, forming a teleportation spell in mid-air and revealing Victor's figure.

He opened his eyes, and the scenery around him had produced a noticeable change.

The surroundings were barren to the point where there was almost nothing left but a few scattered pieces of charcoal-like rocks standing on the hillside.

The location he was in now was halfway up the volcano, quite a bit ahead of the Knights.

Here, was the maximum range that teleportation magic could be used.

Wanting to teleport to the top of the mountain in a single breath was decidedly not quite realistic.

Seeing that no one was around, Vega, who was on his shoulder, conversed with him at the top of her voice, pulling her voice.

"Why did you choose to separate from them?"

"The Knights' route should be the same as yours, and traveling with them will get you here sooner or later."

Victor pressed its head, explaining that

"There is no need for their company."

"There are some things that I'm going to investigate on my own, and there's no need for anyone else to know about them."

Vega was wondering, looking at Victor, he looked like he had been planning this for a long time.

Remembering the way he looked interested when he heard about Vesuvius, it was hard for Vega not to suspect that the other knew something.

One man and one bird walked on Vesuvius, which had erupted once before.

But after that time, Vesuvius lost its power to erupt and became a dead volcano.

The inhabitants of the lower part of the mountain established a town here, and it has been several hundred years since then.

After centuries of exposure to the wind and sun, the ground here has long since formed a lime-like charcoal, full of cracks and weathered volcanic rocks.

Want to see any plants here? That's a bit difficult.

But after hundreds of years, no one is worried about the volcano erupting again.

The volcano was roughly a few hundred meters high, and he quickly reached the lot at the top.

The further he went towards the top of the mountain, the more Victor could feel the extremely dense flame element.

Not only him, Vega also had the same feeling.

It turned its head and glanced at Victor with somewhat subtle eyes.

"Interesting, I want to take apart your head to see how you thought of coming here."

"You found a 'Calamity'."

Victor looked very flat and Vega realized that he had known there was something here.

Calamity.

To be precise, this was the exact name of the Furnace Wraith recorded in history.

There were six types of Calamities in the world, corresponding to the six magical elements.

Wind, Wood, Fire, Earth, Water, and Thunder.

And right now this Vesuvius Volcano is sealed with the Calamity of Fire, Gulleton.

Its body is as huge as the sky, the fire of the furnace poured all over the body as if the fire of the devil god.

The reason why it can be called a plague is because once they appear, they will cause natural disasters and chaos in a side of the land, so powerful that it is frightening.

Their existence was only bad for any living creature, not good.

This was the 'Calamity', just as its name suggested.

"I'm curious, what are you doing here looking for it when it's 'sleeping' fine here?"

Vega asked Victor as he looked at the Gulleton under the crater.

"Collecting some interest in advance."

Victor stood on the crater, looking down into it.

It was so deep that one wondered if anything even existed inside.

Blazing air shot out of the crater, and an amazing amount of heat hit his face.

His eyes suddenly became very hard.

The cold wind mixed with the blazing air blew his trench coat, and at this moment, standing at the highest point of the volcano, even Vega's voice beside him was hard to hear.

"Hey hey, what are you standing here for, are you going to jump from this place?"

Victor didn't respond and Vega was silent for a moment.

"You... don't... would... really... want... to... jump... do you?"

Its one-word inquiry didn't do half as much good.

For Victor had spoken to it.

"Hold fast!"

And with that, he made a long leap toward the volcano, which was a hundred meters deep.

"You should have consulted me instead ！！！！！"

The baked reddish rock scenery around them continued to fall, and Vega held Victor's clothes in its beak in a death grip.

At this time, it even forgot that it was still a bird with wings all the time.

The image in front of his eyes kept on turbulence, and finally .....

After a white light flashed, the two figures disappeared into the air.

......

"After being a god for so long, it's the first time I've ever felt so crazy."

When Vega opened his eyes, it was as if he had arrived in another dimension.

It was pitch black all around, and the only thing visible to the naked eye was the floor.

"It's so dark, Victor? Victor?"

Victor was right behind it, seeing the raven wake up before picking it up and putting it on his shoulder.

Vega was just about to ask Victor to light a fire to illuminate the surroundings, and before it could utter a word, a loud snore rang out in the darkness in front of it.

It was going to deafen the raven's ears.

"Damn, who is this snoring, uh ......"

Vega stopped talking.

It met the source of that snoring, or rather ......

It was right in front of Vega at this very moment, sleeping with its eyes closed.

How should I describe it appropriately?

It was like a giant pillar that rose to the sky.

It seemed as if it was as tall as a mountain, shocking and frightening.

The Calamity of Fire, Gulleton, just appeared in front of them.

A cold sweat broke out from Vega's head, and the fur on his head looked a lot brighter.

"Kid, do you want to challenge it?"

"No kidding! I'm just an ordinary bird now, I can't help you with anything!"

Without looking at it, Victor pinched a flame at his fingertips, illuminating the front.

It also illuminated the beast's true form.

"Don't say that."

"You're the biggest help in my ability to defeat it."

In the next second, Wind Breath's snoring stopped.

The huge red eyes opened like amazing light bulbs.

"ow ho ho ho ho ho ho!!!"

It looked down at the two ants with a roar that resounded throughout Vesuvius.