A natural disaster like a volcanic eruption could only be stopped by a mage's intervention.

Especially this time, the scale of the Vesuvius Volcano eruption could be extraordinary, after all, something like a hundred-foot-long column of fire spewing out from a volcanic crater was not normal no matter in any era.

Once the lava from the eruption stretched for a hundred miles, when the time came, villages and crops could be destroyed.

Not only would there be a very huge economic loss to the royal capital, but even the lives of the many creatures near the volcano would be threatened.

The royal capital took this matter very seriously and immediately summoned all the mages in the city who could act.

The imperial army sent one batch of mages after another to Vesuvius Volcano.

Duke Revy and Erica were no exception.

After almost a day, the long journey through the night left everyone a bit tired.

In the early hours of the morning, the group finally reached their destination and everyone rested in place.

Because of the collective evacuation of the Knights, everyone in Sanchel Town gathered outside the town.

Even domestic animals such as chickens, ducks, cows, and sheep, including some cats and dogs were driven out without exception.

Outside the town, the whole thing was a chicken-flying mess.

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 tense to the extreme.

Mage Revy was one of the last few mages to arrive, and when he got off the carriage, many of the mages from the other noble families greeted him with smiles and took the initiative to come up to him.

"It's been a long time, Duke Revy."

A white-haired nobleman walked towards Duke Revy on his crutch, closely followed by noble mages from other families.

"It's been a long time, Mr. Baker."

Duke Revy responded politely.

"I'm afraid we haven't seen each other since the last Kingdom Summoning."

Baker thought back to the past and said to the duke.

The Duke nodded and smiled in greeting.

"This is your daughter-in-law, isn't it, she's standing tall."

"No, no, I'm flattered."

Beck saw the badge symbolizing a second-rank mage pinned on Erica's chest.

Pushing her glasses, she continued.

"As expected, your Qianjin has already reached this stage of the second rank."

"It seems that what was said over at the academy was true."

Erica knew that these were nothing more than courtesies amongst the greats.

But there was still some joy in her heart to hear from other prestigious mages what they had to say about herself.

No one would hate compliments, and Erica was even more so after living with them since she was a child.

Duke Revy smiled as he looked at his daughter, that was his pride.

"Haha, your daughter's magical talent is truly the envy of us old men."

The adults snorted at each other and slowly calmed down.

Within the mage's line of work, there was almost no one who didn't know each other.

Duke Revy was one of the few third-order mages, and the remaining few third-order mages were likewise all nobles.

In the Calencia Empire, high-rank mages were almost monopolized among the nobles.

It was difficult for a commoner to even appear as a second-order mage.

At this moment, a silver-white figure appeared in front of the crowd.

Duke Revy glanced at her and knew that this second daughter was from the Delin family.

She was currently holding the position of the head of the Royal Knights in the royal capital.

"Gwen-Delin has come to report."

When the mages saw Gwen coming to them with a downcast face, their hearts felt like they were clenched, could it be that the volcano's current condition is not optimistic?

"Lord Mages, since yesterday's volcano produced an abnormal change, so far, it is still in a relatively stable state."

Gwen gripped the silver sword in her hand tightly as beads of sweat dripped from her forehead.

The mages breathed a sigh of relief at her news, the white-haired mage patting himself on the back and relaxing his grip on his cane considerably.

This way, they would only have to take precautions when they got here, instead of expending a lot of energy to fight the natural disaster head-on.

And at that moment, Erica was standing beside Duke Revy quietly watching it all.

"Father, is this ....?"

Duke Revy whispered in Erica's ear, "This is the current head of the Royal Knights."

Erica nodded her head, she was still a little shocked when she saw the head of the Knights for the first time, she didn't expect the head of the Knights to be a female.

She didn't know Gwen, much less that Gwen was Victor's fiancée, but Gwen knew her.

The magic genius student that no one in the country knew about, Gwen had naturally heard of her.

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Not to mention the fact that because of Victor's incident last time, I made her remember Erica completely and clearly.

Gwen looked at the blonde girl in front of her and muttered in her heart that

''Is this Duke Revy's daughter-in-law? It's really pretty, no wonder Victor had the urge to confess his love.''

Previously, all of them had only seen Erica in the newspaper, this time when they met in person, Gwen was also stunned by her temperament.

Just looking at someone for the first time would give one the feeling of falling in love.

"So, Knight Commander Gwen, what exactly happened at the volcano?"

Gwen briefly told Duke Revy about the investigation the Knights did after they came to the volcano.

.....

"What? You said you heard a roar coming from halfway up the mountain?"

"After the Knights investigated the top of the mountain, the volcano's temperature immediately rose. And a hundred-meter high pillar of fire spewed out?"

Beck and the other third-ranked mages heard it and asked each other.

"What is this?"

"I don't know, do you know?"

"I don't know either, I've never even heard of it."

Several mages looked at each other, frozen in place, not knowing what to say.

Duke Revy also fell into deep thought as he listened to Gwen's narration, he was just like those mages who didn't know exactly how it was.

Gwen remembered something else and said.

"This time we applied for an accompanying mage, he went to the top of the mountain ahead of us, saying that he was going to investigate something, but in the end, he disappeared, and until now he doesn't know where he went."

"What?"

Now they were all confused, after all, these kinds of words, it was too easy to make people suspicious.

Erica also froze when he heard it as if he realized something, and for the first time, he took the initiative to open his mouth next to him and inquired, "Who is that mage?"

Gwen gave him a puzzled look and opened her mouth to reply, "You all should recognize, he is Victor Klevena."

The moment this name rang out, it immediately caused a furor in the mages' pile.

Several mages who hated Victor seized this opportunity and said righteously there, "It must be Victor who did this!"

"It is! He's done other bad things before, so this time must be his handiwork as well!"

Everyone present knew Victor's 'notoriety', and once they had the chance to discredit each other, they did not hold back their words.

Duke Revy was also at a loss, but still advised the other mages, "Everyone, don't be in a hurry, the most important thing right now is to prevent the volcano from erupting, and minimize the possible losses first!"

Hearing the Duke's words, the numerous mages stopped arguing.

Just as Revy had said, at this point, finding the person behind the scenes was not important at all.

Getting through the immediate difficulties first was the most important thing.

"Ow roar ！！！！"

While speaking, a roar suddenly came from above the volcano.

Now, everyone could hear it.

The mages collectively looked towards the top of the volcano, unable to say a word in silence.

That voice, was it a creature?

"Lady! You cannot go over there!"

The voice of the surrounding knights drew the attention of many, and everyone looked that way.

It was an old woman who was trying to rush past the knights' interception into the stronghold.

"Someone has angered the Volcano God! Someone must have angered the Volcano God!"

She shouted from across the escorting knights there.

"It's all over! We're all finished!"

The mages looked at each other in disbelief as Duke Revy waved his hand and said to the knight, "Send her in."

"Yes!"

The knight no longer blocked, this old man quickly broke away from the knight's hand and limped over on his crutches.

"Granny, what is the Volcano God?"

Duke Revy asked her kindly, but the surrounding mages, seeing how crazy the old man had just looked, murmured in a chorus.

"What can this old woman ask with her crazy look?"

"What Volcano God? I've never even heard of it."

"I'm afraid she's not here to disturb the order, Duke Revy, let's get rid of her quickly."

Duke Revy didn't listen to the mages and looked kindly at the old man and asked.

"Granny, if you have something you want to say, just tell me."

The old woman looked the Duke up and down, and changing her previous crazy look, she mysteriously began to say.

"Hundreds of years ago, someone sealed a flame-burning demon god under the volcano, and that seal made the volcano god angry, causing the volcano here to erupt."

"But after that eruption, the volcano never moved half as much for hundreds of years."

"Now that the volcano has once again caused a disturbance, it must be that the sleeping Volcano God has once again become angry, and it is about to break through the seal and burn the sky and the earth all to the ground."

The many mages present all listened in awe and hurriedly stepped in.

"Duke, don't worry about it, it's just some folklore myths that have been passed down."

Duke Revy's face was however incomparably grave.

He smelled a familiar flavor within this story.

At this time, Erica, however, glanced at the location of the mountaintop.

She touched her chest as if she was doing some thinking and turned her head to Duke Revy, "Father, I want to take a trip to the top of the mountain."

"I feel ...... something at the top of the mountain."

"No!"

Hearing Erica's request, the duke waved his hand and drank with a very strong attitude, "Erica, I can promise you many things, but this matter, there is no negotiation!"

Erica was unwilling to give up and continued to beg for her father's permission, "Father! I'm already a second-ranked mage, with the ability to stand alone."

"Unless your strength is stronger than mine, I will never allow you to take a step into the crater!"

Seeing Duke Revy like this, Erica could only remain silent.

This was completely forceful.

Her father had already been immersed in Third Order Mages for over thirty years.

Everyone said that if a newly minted Fourth Order Saint Mage could appear, then that person would be Revy-du-Chloe.

Erica thought about how she couldn't even surpass Victor, so how could she directly cross two ranks to reach the Fourth Order?

But ......

Erica was a little chesty.

She had heard a speaking voice amid the roar she had just heard.

''There's some kind of voice that's saying it hurts.''

And Duke Revy had already started giving orders to the mage team.

The volcano's disturbance was becoming more and more obvious, the third-ranked mages set up their formation, and the second-ranked mages took turns channeling their magic as aids.

They were to paint the spell formation and summon powerful war magic to cover the entire Vesuvius Volcano before it erupted.

At that time, whether it was a magma eruption or something jumping out of the volcano.

All of them are to be eliminated as much as possible as well!

......

"Finally ...... hurt?"

Vega looked at Victor with dull, incredulous eyes.

His current state was, to put it mildly, not good.

Half of his trench coat had been scorched off, and flames were constantly burning at the wounds of his body that had been attacked by lava.

However, this turned out to be only the first time that Victor had been injured under the fierce battle for a day ......

Monster, it could only make such a comment about it.

Facing a plague that was like a heavenly calamity, he was able to fight against it for an entire day and, in addition, injure it.

During that time, he was only hurt once.

This was still because he was a bit disoriented and was cut by that amazing pillar of fire.

Just that one cut alone caused him to take a considerable amount of damage.

If he had been hit by the entirety of the fire pillar, I'm afraid that he wouldn't even be able to find his bones now.

"Sure enough, it's still too much of a stretch, isn't it ....."

However, being injured definitely could not be called good news, it showed that Victor's energy had declined and he was in a state of fatigue.

The continuous fighting gradually made him unable to concentrate.

"Why don't we just forget about it and teleport and escape while we still have enough magic power?"

Vega persuaded in his ear, although it was clear that Victor wasn't the type to admit defeat easily.

But his condition was not optimistic.

Victor didn't answer him, but just dodged a stunning pillar of fire while buffing himself with flame resistance on his wielded magic to stop the burns.

"If I leave now, this demonic beast will instantly rush out of Vesuvius Volcano."

"At that time, that's when the real life will be destroyed."

"Vega, do you understand?"

Vega froze.

After the words were out of his mouth, Victor remembered that Vega was an evil god and continued, "Sorry, I forgot that you shouldn't care about that."

"But I care."

Victor threw away the trench coat that was shattered on him and had been completely scrapped.

Letting it flutter in the wind, it fell into the lava.

The trenchcoat turned into little sparks in the air and dissipated as much as it could.

"I'm not trying to be the good guy, but I also don't want to let this unstoppable behemoth break out of its cage and then have the world put a hat named Exterminator on my head."

Gulleton's blood had been cut down by a third, and that was a battle he was proud of.

As long as he was able to break the Wraith's defense, then there was no boss that he couldn't kill.

Victor was still as determined as he was at the beginning looking at the fuming Gulleton with even more excitement.

Only in such a high-intensity battle did he seem to have found himself.

"It's only one injury, I haven't lost yet."

Because this was the fight that bet on his dignity as a substitute trainer!