Chapter 17: Making up after a quarrel.

Chapter 17: Making up after a quarrel.

"Why?"

Gwen was a bit confused.

Victor had come with the knight order. But at this time, he actually proposed to separate and act alone.

She didn't quite understand. If Victor didn't need the protection of the knight order, then why did he follow the knight order to act.

Or?

What was his purpose in coming to Mount Vesuvius?

"I want to go to the crater first."

This was what Victor said.

Under Gwen's heart of justice, all lies will be exposed.

But he didn't lie. This showed that Victor really planned to go to the crater.

Gwen remembered Victor's reason for accompanying them at the beginning.

"Could it be that the kind of monster you mentioned is on the crater?"

"Um..."

Victor was silent for a moment. At this time, in his heart, he thought of the figure of that terrifying monster.

So he answered.

"Sort of."

... What does "sort of" mean?

But the other party still didn't lie. Gwen was a bit curious. But she wasn't a person who liked to pry into other people's privacy.

After all, this was an extinct volcano. And Victor had also said that he was very familiar with the terrain of Mount Vesuvius.

There should be no problem.

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

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

As soon as Victor finished speaking, a blue magic array with twinkling stars appeared under his feet.

With a flash of blue light, his figure disappeared without a trace.

A living person disappeared directly in front of her. Making Gwen a bit dazed.

A knight watched the whole conversation between the two. Seeing Gwen who was still in a daze, he couldn't help but come over and ask Gwen.

"Knight Captain? 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 speaking, the knight continued:

"Oh, it's normal for couples to have conflicts. I also often quarrel with my wife. But our son is already eight years old."

"Making up after a quarrel. There is no grudge between couples that lasts overnight."

The more the knight said, the redder Gwen's face became.

"Shut up! Hurry up and set off!"

She scolded the knight and left in a hurry.

"Oh? Knight Captain Gwen! I didn't say anything wrong... Alas, girls nowadays are just so delicate. This clearly shows that I was right."

What that knight said later, Gwen didn't hear clearly.

Her face was slightly red. Like a little girl whose mind was guessed.

But in fact, she knew better than anyone.

There was no relationship between her and Victor.

Just as she would never like Victor. Victor couldn't possibly like her either.

Gwen got on the white horse. Thinking a bit sadly in her heart.

If nothing unexpected happened, she might still marry Victor in the end.

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

Gwen was the second daughter of the family. For the family's decision, she could only obey and couldn't change it.

Gwen didn't want to get married. Not to mention that Victor in the past made her feel very bad.

'How could I marry such a jerk.'

With such a thought flashing through her mind, she suddenly remembered what happened last night.

He was like an elegant noble. Every move was like a gentleman.

Even without her noticing, he gave her the only bed.

And when she woke up, she found Victor sitting quietly on a chair reading that obscure magic book all night.

She was very guilty. But Victor said to her in turn that they mages had their own ways of resting. As long as it was quiet around, it would be fine.

Was he... a jerk?

Gwen couldn't help thinking.

Aspiring to be an absolutely just knight, Gwen had never really hated anyone.

Even if this person was Victor.

'I should have been very quiet last night...'

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

"Let's go!"

...

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

He opened his eyes. The surrounding scenery had obviously changed.

Around was desolate to the point that there was almost nothing. Only a few scattered pieces of coke-like stones stood on the hillside.

The place where he was now was on the mountainside of the volcano. Much ahead of the knight order.

Here was the maximum range where teleportation magic could be used.

It was indeed not very realistic to teleport to the top of the mountain in one go.

Seeing that there was no one around, Vega on his shoulder started a conversation with him in a loud voice:

"Why did you choose to separate from them?"

"The route of the knight order should be the same as yours. If you travel with them, you will arrive here sooner or later."

Victor pressed its head and explained:

"No need for their company."

"There are some things that I need to investigate by myself. There is no need for others to know."

Vega was very strange. Looking at Victor's appearance, he seemed to have planned for a long time.

Thinking of his interested look when he heard about Mount Vesuvius, Vega couldn't help but suspect that the other party knew something.

A person and a bird walked on Mount Vesuvius. There was an eruption here once.

But after that, Mount Vesuvius lost its eruptive power and became an extinct volcano.

The residents at the foot built towns here. Up to now, it has already had a history of several hundred years.

After hundreds of years of wind and sun, the ground here has already formed a stone-gray coke 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 has worried that this volcano will erupt again.

The volcano was about several hundred meters high. He soon reached the top area.

The closer he walked towards the top of the mountain, the more clearly Victor could feel that extremely rich fire element.

Not only him, Vega also had the same feeling.

It turned its head and glanced at Victor with a subtle look in its eyes.

"Interesting. I really want to open your head and see how you thought of coming here."

"You actually found a 'calamity'."

Victor's expression was extremely calm. Vega understood that he already knew there was something here.

Calamity.

To be precise, this is the specific name recorded in history for the furnace monster.

There are a total of six calamities in the world. Corresponding to six magic elements respectively.

Wind, wood, fire, earth, water, and thunder.

And the one sealed in this Mount Vesuvius is the calamity of fire, Guledon.

Its huge body is as if reaching the sky. The furnace fire pours all over its body. Like a fire demon god.

The reason why it can be called a calamity is that once they appear, they will cause natural disasters and chaos in one place. So powerful that it is terrifying.

For any living being, their existence only has disadvantages and no advantages.

This is the 'calamity', just as its name suggests.

"I'm curious. It is sleeping well here. What are you looking for it for?"

Vega looked at Guledon under the crater and asked Victor.

"Collect some interest in advance."

Victor stood on the crater. Looking down from a height.

It was so deep that it was even doubtful if there was anything there.

The scorching air sprayed out from the crater. The astonishing heat rushed towards him.

His eyes suddenly became very resolute.

The cold wind and the scorching air mixed together and blew his windbreaker. At this moment, standing at the highest point of the volcano, he could hardly even hear Vega's voice beside him.

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

Victor didn't respond. Vega was silent for a while.

"You, won't, really, jump, will, you?"

Its questioning word by word had no effect at all.

Because Victor had already said to him:

"Hold on tight!"

After saying that, he jumped into the volcano with a depth of hundreds of meters.

"You should ask for my opinion first!!!!"

The red-hot rock scenery around kept falling. Vega bit Victor's clothes tightly with its beak.

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

The picture in front of him kept shaking. Finally...

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

...

"After being a god for so long, this is the first time I have felt so crazy."

When Vega opened its eyes, it seemed to have come to another space.

It was pitch black all around. Only the floor was visible to the naked eye.

"So dark. Victor? Victor?"

Victor was behind it. Seeing the crow wake up, he picked it up and put it on his shoulder.

Vega just wanted Victor to light a fire to illuminate the surroundings. Before it could say anything, a huge snoring sound rang in the darkness in front of it.

It was almost deafening to the crow's ears.

"Damn it. Who is snoring? Uh..."

Vega stopped talking.

It saw the source of that snoring sound. Or rather...

At this moment, it was right in front of Vega. Sleeping with its eyes closed.

How should it be described?

Like a towering pillar rising into the sky.

It was as tall as a mountain. Making people feel shocked and fearful.

The calamity of fire, Guledon, appeared in front of them like this.

A cold sweat appeared on Vega's head. The hair on its head seemed to be much brighter.

"Kid, do you want to challenge it?"

"Don't joke! I am just an ordinary bird now. I can't help you with anything!"

Victor didn't look at it. Pinching a flame with his fingertips, he illuminated the front.

It also illuminated the true appearance of this giant beast.

"Don't say that."

"You are my greatest help to defeat it."

In the next second, the snoring stopped.

The huge red eyes opened. Like astonishing light bulbs.

"Roar!!!!"

It looked down at the two ants. With a roar, it resounded throughout Mount Vesuvius.