"Whew~ Finally ran out without any problems."

Erica was very happy.

She knew that she would never be able to get rid of Gwen if she used normal means.

To prevent being caught, she purposely started preparing her teleportation magic early.

Waiting for the moment when Gwen didn't come back to her senses, it was instantly unleashed!

Very fortunately, Professor Victor had taught her how to properly use teleportation magic the first time he came to the academy.

Although she couldn't go dozens of kilometers away in a single teleportation like a third-ranked mage, a range of a few kilometers was still doable.

"I'm afraid Gwen will still think I'm going to teleport far away."

Instead of teleporting towards the top of the mountain, Erica crossed a few kilometers halfway up the mountain, the equivalent of running to the other side of the mountain.

The surrounding landscape remained somewhat barren and unchanged.

Erica began to walk toward the top of the volcano, and the higher up she went, the more she could feel the temperature around her rise much higher.

She hadn't gotten very far and she was already feeling hot and dry.

The rocks around her were emitting water vapor, which was evaporated by the heat along with the moisture in the air.

As they walked further up, they could even see all sorts of rock fragments that had burst due to the heat.

Erica was terrified at the sight around her, but she continued to walk up the mountain against the heat.

At the same time, she didn't forget to add a few anti-heat statuses to herself.

She was a mage and knew that this was a phenomenon caused by the fire elemental surplus on the volcano.

"I knew it, this is not a simple volcanic eruption."

"How could a normal volcanic eruption draw out so many magic elements."

Erica certified her suspicion that the only way to see more was to go up the mountain.

And father, they only knew how to use magic to isolate everything, they hadn't thought at all about the root cause of the problem.

"Deadheaded old mages."

She muttered twice, then turned her thoughts back to Victor, who was also a Third Order Mage.

The youngest Third Order Mage, no one could surpass his record until now.

'Was the volcano's disturbance ...... really caused by Victor?'

Ka-la-

While she was thinking, the sound of a stone being trampled rang out from behind her.

"What the hell!?"

She turned around violently to look back, a red hedgehog burrowed out of the earth, its body wrapped in faint flames, and rushed straight towards Erica.

"Second level magic creature! Flame Hedgehog."

Erica rubbed out a spell with her hand and aimed it at the magic creature.

[Second-rank magic, water cannon]

With that said, a huge water bomb kept spinning up in Erica's hand and instantly burst out.

The fire hedgehog was knocked back dozens of meters away and landed on the ground on all fours.

The flames on its body completely evaporated as if it were charcoal.

It was dead.

The strength of a level two demonic creature was naturally no match for an elite mage who practiced year-round.

It was reasonable to be killed in seconds.

"So simple."

Erica couldn't believe it, this was the first time she had defeated a demon in the wild.

It turned out that she wasn't weak either.

She was proud of her bravery.

Vesuvius Volcano was a dangerous place.

The fire-type magical creatures had a wider range of differentiation.

The higher you go, the more demons there are.

Not only that, proportional to the number, there was also the strength of the demons.

In the beginning, she was able to deal with them easily, but at the back, it started to get a bit overwhelming.

The closer to the top of the mountain, the stronger the monsters became.

Erica was able to barely manage it, but she always felt something was wrong.

"It's clear that these magical creatures have all been recognized during the academy, but why is there such a huge gap between their strength and the strength told in class?"

Another Flame Hedgehog's popped out of the ground, and this time, Erica used several spells to completely resolve it.

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Compared to the previous magic creature, its claws became sharper and the flames on its back grew more intense.

Naturally, the aggressiveness became a bit stronger as well.

"These demonic creatures, they've been strengthened?"

This thought flashed out within Erica's mind.

"The dense fire element around them has made them stronger."

It wasn't a coincidence that the fire element had become dense.

She had the intention to walk up the hill some more, as Erica felt that there would be the answer she wanted at the top.

But the terrifying temperatures had begun to make Erica feel a bit dazed, and the progressively more powerful magical creatures had deterred her.

Even the magic was becoming unable to withstand the heat of the flames.

Erica stood still, deciding to take a break and think of a way to get to the top of the mountain.

Suddenly, she remembered the only bottle of magic potion left in her bag.

She looked at the magic potion and looked up again in the direction of the mountaintop.

An aura came to her.

"I have a way!"

Meanwhile, on the other side of the mountain.

Gwen kept sprinting towards the top of the mountain even though the temperature around her was hot enough to make her sweat like rain.

The silver sword in her hand was like ice, cutting off one demonic creature after another that blocked her way.

"First Victor, and now the duke's daughter."

"How is it that every one of them likes to ask for trouble."

Didn't she want to go after Victor?

No, of course, she wanted to, to be precise, she was going crazy thinking about it.

She wanted to find Victor and confront him face-to-face about whether or not he had caused the volcano's anomaly or not.

If the other woman said yes, then the next second her fist would be in Victor's face.

However Gwen had to follow orders, she had to protect all the mages and protect the inhabitants.

"Victor ...... you wait."

Gwen flew and cut off the heads of the demons that stopped her and ran towards the top of the hill like nobody's business.

Soon, she too encountered an obstacle.

In front of her, an amazing amount of magma gushed out between the cracks in the volcano's surface.

It was as if, the volcano was bleeding from an injury.

In this way, she could not continue forward at all.

The burning heat of her armor was too much for her to bear, and she could only take a few steps back, looking at the top of the mountain and pondering a solution.

......

"Seriously injured ...... it, definitely seriously injured."

Vega continuously lamented.

In front of it, the shell of the Fire Calamity fell off, and a shocking volume of magma flowed out of the wounds on its body.

This was the Calamity of Fire, and a large amount of magma was flowing out of its body.

That was its "blood".

"What a horrible guy."

Vega kept sighing.

It was talking about Victor.

[3rd level magic, Rainstorm Rip]

[3rd level magic, sandstorm mudslide]

Formations of various colors hovered in the sky, and the five formations continued to output magic in the air.

The volcano below also continued to churn with lava, and bits of lava crumbled out of the surrounding rock walls.

Victor kept casting spells, replenishing various negative gains on Gulleton's body.

After the damage had accumulated to the point of serious injury, Gulleton's movements became incomparably slow, and even the chance to graze Victor no longer existed.

This battle was enough to change Vega's perception.

It didn't care about the burning feathers on its body, and it didn't even blink its eyes.

"It can't be, it's going to win the fight, right?"

If Victor won, then it was willing to call Victor the strongest human it had ever seen.

No, that wasn't right.

Even if Victor didn't win, he was already unimaginably powerful.

To be precise, what he possessed was not crushing strength.

The gap between Gulleton and Victor was like a heavenly rift.

It was huge and powerful enough that it only needed to attack Victor once to kill him completely.

However ......

It couldn't do it.

It was clear that Victor needed to win it countless times, and it only needed to win once.

But this kind of battle with a huge gap, it was hard for Victor, to turn the impossible into the possible with his own hands.

After nearly three days and two nights of fierce fighting, Gulleton only grazed Victor once.

On the contrary, Victor?

In the middle of the battle, he was leisurely and relaxed.

Gulleton's attacks seemed to slow down tenfold in his eyes, and he didn't even need to teleport to avoid some of the non-essential attacks.

Just by taking a few steps, he could dodge them just right.

The injuries he had suffered earlier didn't seem to affect his state but instead galvanized his fighting spirit.

In the time since his injury, his magic was utilized even more smoothly!

Finally! Someone was the first to fall into a weakened state.

The one who was weakened wasn't Victor, but Gulleton.

For the first time, Calamity, which was impossible for humans to defeat, was forced into a desperate situation by a human.

Its blood level had dropped to thirty percent, and that was an absolute state of weakness.

The shell was also no longer glowing, and its strength and speed had been reduced by a lot.

Vega was dumbfounded, it couldn't even graze Victor for a moment in that amazing state it was in just now.

And now, it was in a weakened state again.

Doesn't it mean that Victor won steadily?

Vega looked over at Victor, only to realize that his opponent didn't think so.

Instead of relaxing, he had a grave expression and stood in a strict stance.

He also mouthed the words.

"That attack, it's coming."

That attack? Which attack, huh?

Vega froze, and then an amazing vibration startled the air, causing it to almost lose control of its balance.

The volcano shook wildly, and even the ground trembled.

The earth gradually fell apart, the lava gradually came to a halt, and a giant object began to slam into the sky from underneath the volcano's layers of lava.

The entire volcano shook, and Gulleton's eyes were like two suns emitting a hot light.

Pillars of sky rushing fire broke through the layers of lava, melting the rocks and covering the sky.

Countless flints wrapped in magma fell everywhere like a meteorite.

"[Inferno Break's Indignation]."

Victor knew exactly what it was and slowly said the name of Gulerton's final move.

Vega cursed under his breath as he dodged the roiling flints that were falling rapidly in the air while looking at the pillar of fire in front of him that was about to break through the diameter of the crater, "Fire Calamity! You can't fucking afford it!"

How can you dodge this kind of thing?

"Dodge?"

Victor sneered.

He had never thought of dodging!

Almost in the nick of time, Victor's eyes lit up with an amazing azure color.

Terrifying magical elements enveloped the entire bottom of the volcanic mountain!

Instantly, a phantom castle that covered the sky appeared in the air, as if it was going to completely suppress the entire mountain pass.

The castle lit up with multiple huge spell formations.

Buzz - buzz - buzz...

One ..... Two ..... Three channels!

A full three barriers of spell formations flew and began to construct, the formations linked with each other, and the lines of the three layers of spell formations gradually intertwined with each other, forming an ark lifting the sky in the center of the huge spell formation, like a holy tree bud blooming violently.

The endless power allowed Vega to feel the danger even above the volcano's midair.

The sun-shadowing phalanx slowly fell, breaking through the layers of hazy clouds, and at first, it seemed to reveal a large expanse of azure sky.

A powerful pressure enveloped all creatures except Victor.

The huge Gulleton's feet sunk into the ground for a minute, and it was difficult to raise his head.

Vega was also shaken down by this mighty pressure and coincidentally landed on Victor's shoulder.

"War magic! For fuck's sake, when the hell was it set up!?"

Vega looked at the huge phalanx that fell from the sky above.

Those flints carrying lava instantly faded away like small stones in front of the war magic.

Once again, he stayed on his shoulders, no longer able to spit out a single word.

One could only spit out in one's mind, ''Doesn't a war spell formation require a group of mages to be able to release it?''

''This pervert, a single person can release it, isn't that too much!''

In the next second, the pillar of fire that rose from the ground collided with the ark in the sky.

The two destructive attacks collided together, and Vega could no longer hear the sounds around him.

There were only dazzling waves of light and a heavenly aura.

The powerful collision of attacks even tore apart the sound completely, and the airflow broke through the mountain and crashed down crazily.

In a trance, it was as if it heard Victor's chanting that came into its ears.

"[Magic Imperial Capital - Fall of the Ark of the Apocalypse]"

Miso-!!!

White light rushed into the sky, enveloping everything-