Chapter 20: The dignity of a top player!

Chapter 20: The dignity of a top player! 

Only mages can prevent natural disasters like volcanic eruptions.

Especially this time, the scale of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius may be extraordinary. After all, the appearance of a hundred-foot-long fire pillar spewing out of the crater is not normal in any era.

Once the lava from the volcanic eruption stretches for hundreds of miles, villages and crops may be destroyed at that time.

It will not only cause huge economic losses to the capital but also threaten the lives and safety of many living beings near the volcano.

The capital attaches great importance to this matter and immediately summoned all mages in the city who can act.

The imperial army sent batches of mages one after another and went to Mount Vesuvius one after another.

Duke Levi and Erica were no exceptions.

After almost a day, the long journey overnight made everyone a little tired.

In the early hours of the morning, the team finally arrived at the destination. Everyone rested on the spot.

Because of the collective evacuation of the knight order, all the people in the town of Sanchell gathered outside the town.

Even livestock such as chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep, including some cats and dogs, were driven out without exception.

Outside the town, it was a scene of chaos.

The villagers watched large numbers of troops and mages enter the town. No one knew what had happened.

At this moment, the atmosphere around the camp was extremely tense.

Duke Levi's mage team was among the last few batches to arrive. When he got off the carriage, many mages from other noble families greeted him with smiles and took the initiative to approach.

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

A noble with white hair walked towards Duke Levi leaning on a cane. Following closely around him were noble mages from other families.

"Long time no see, Mr. Baker."

Duke Levi responded politely.

"We probably haven't seen each other since the last kingdom summons."

Baker recalled the past and said to the duke.

The duke nodded and 迎合 with a smile.

"This must be your daughter. She is really graceful."

"Where, where. You are overpraising."

Baker saw the badge symbolizing a second-level mage pinned on Erica's chest.

Pushing his glasses, he continued:

"Sure enough, your daughter has reached the second-level stage."

"It seems that what the college said is true."

Erica knew that these were just polite remarks among adults.

But hearing their evaluations of herself from other famous mages still made her happy.

No one dislikes compliments. Erica, who has grown up in praise since childhood, is even more so.

Duke Levi looked at his daughter with a smile. That was his pride.

"Haha, your daughter's magic talent really makes us old men envy."

The adults chatted and gradually calmed down.

In the mage profession, there are almost no strangers.

Duke Levi is one of the few third-level mages. The remaining third-level mages are also nobles.

In the Calensia Empire, high-level mages are almost monopolized by nobles.

It is difficult for even a second-level mage to appear among civilians.

At this time, a silver-white figure appeared in front of everyone.

Duke Levi took a look at her and knew that this second daughter of the Drin family was currently serving as the head of the Royal Knights in the capital.

"Gwen Drin reports."

When the mages saw Gwen coming to them with a gloomy expression, their hearts tightened. Could it be that the current situation of the volcano was not optimistic?

"Honorable mages, since the volcano showed abnormal changes yesterday, it has been in a relatively stable state so far."

Gwen clenched the silver sword in her hand. Sweat dripped from her forehead.

The mages breathed a sigh of relief when they heard her news. The white-haired mage patted his chest. The hand holding the cane also relaxed a lot.

In this way, when they arrive here, they only need to prevent rather than spend a lot of energy to confront the natural disaster head-on.

At this time, Erica was standing quietly beside Duke Levi watching all this.

"Father, who is this....?"

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

Erica nodded. She was shocked when she saw the head of the knight order for the first time. She didn't expect the head of the knight order to be a woman.

She didn't know Gwen and didn't know that Gwen was Victor's fiancée. But Gwen knew her.

As a magic genius student known throughout the country, Gwen had naturally heard of her.

Not to mention that because of the incident with Victor last time, she clearly remembered Erica.

Gwen looked at the blond girl in front of her and muttered in her heart:

'Is this the daughter of Duke Levi? She is so beautiful. No wonder Victor impulsively confessed his love.'

She had only seen Erica in the newspaper before. This time, seeing her in person, Gwen was also amazed by her temperament.

At first glance, people will feel like falling in love.

"Then, Knight Captain Gwen, what exactly happened to the volcano?"

Gwen briefly told Duke Levi about the investigation of the knight order after they came to the volcano.

.....

"What? You said you heard a huge roar when you were on the mountainside?"

"After the knight order investigated the top of the mountain, the temperature of the volcano immediately rose? And a hundred-meter-high fire pillar was also ejected?"

Baker and other third-level mages were stunned and asked each other:

"What's the situation?"

"I don't know. Do you know?"

"I don't know either. I haven't even heard of it."

Several mages looked at each other and were stunned. They didn't know what to say.

Duke Levi also fell into deep thought as he listened to Gwen's narration. Like those mages, he didn't know what was going on.

Gwen remembered something else and said:

"This time we applied for an accompanying mage. He went to the top of the mountain before us to investigate something. But then he disappeared. Until now, we still don't know where he is."

"What?"

Now they were all stunned. After all, such words were too easy to arouse suspicion.

Erica was also stunned when she heard it. As if realizing something, she took the initiative to ask for the first time beside her:

"Who is that mage?"

Gwen looked at him doubtfully and replied:

"Everyone should know him. He is Victor Clevenna."

The moment this name was mentioned, there was an uproar among the mages.

Several mages who hated Victor seized this opportunity and said righteously:

"It must be something done by Victor!"

"That's right! He has done other bad things before. This time it must be his doing!"

Everyone present knew Victor's "notorious reputation". Once there was an opportunity to slander him, they would not show mercy.

Duke Levi was also very confused. But he still persuaded the other mages:

"Everyone, don't be in a hurry. The most important thing now is to prevent volcanic eruptions and minimize possible losses first!"

Hearing the duke speak, many mages stopped arguing.

As Levi said, at this point, finding the mastermind behind is not important at all.

Getting through the immediate difficulties is the most important thing.

"Roar!!!!"

As they were talking, a roar suddenly came from the volcano.

This time, everyone could hear it clearly.

The mages collectively looked at the top of the volcano and were silent. Was that sound from a living being?

"Madam! You can't go there!"

The voices of the surrounding knights attracted the attention of many people. Everyone looked over there.

It was an old woman. She tried to break through the knights' interception and walk into the stronghold.

"Someone has angered the volcano god! It must be someone who has angered the volcano god!"

She shouted through the knights guarding her:

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

The mages looked at each other. Duke Levi waved his hand and said to the knights.

"Let her in."

"Yes!"

The knight stopped blocking. The old woman quickly broke free from the knight's hand and walked over limping with a cane.

"Grandma, what is the volcano god?"

Duke Levi asked her very kindly. But the mages around saw the old woman's crazy appearance just now and started discussing:

"This old woman looks crazy. What can we ask?"

"What volcano god? I haven't heard of it."

"I'm afraid she is here to disrupt the order. Duke Levi, it's better to drive her away quickly."

Duke Levi didn't listen to the mages' persuasion. He looked at the old woman kindly and asked.

"Grandma, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

The old woman looked up and down at the duke. Changing from her previous crazy appearance, she began to say mysteriously:

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

"But after that eruption, there was no movement from the volcano for hundreds of years."

"Now the volcano has caused abnormal changes again. It must be that the sleeping volcano god is angry again. It is about to break through the seal and burn the sky and the earth completely."

Many mages present were stunned. They quickly came forward and said.

"Duke, don't pay attention to it. It's just some folk myths and legends."

Duke Levi's face was extremely solemn.

He smelled a familiar smell in this story.

At this time, Erica looked at the position of the top of the mountain.

She touched her chest as if thinking. Turning her head, she said to Duke Levi.

"Father, I want to go to the top of the mountain and take a look."

"I felt it... At the top of the mountain, there is something."

"No!"

Hearing Erica's request, the duke waved his hand and shouted very firmly:

"Erica, I can promise you many things. But this matter is not negotiable!"

Erica didn't want to give up and continued to beg her father for permission: "Father! I am already a second-level mage and have the ability to handle things independently."

"Unless you are stronger than me, I will never allow you to step on the crater!"

Seeing Duke Levi like this, Erica could only be silent.

This was completely impossible.

Her father had been a third-level mage for more than thirty years.

Everyone said that if a new fourth-level holy mage could appear, then this person must be Levi du Chloé.

Erica thought that she couldn't even surpass Victor. How could she directly cross two levels and reach the fourth level?

But...

Erica felt a bit stuffy.

In that roar just now, she heard a voice.

'Something is saying it hurts.'

And Duke Levi has already started to give orders to the mage team.

The abnormal changes of the volcano are becoming more and more obvious. The third-level mages set up formations. The second-level mages serve as assistants and take turns transmitting magic.

They want to draw a magic array. Before the volcanic eruption, summon powerful war magic to cover the entire Mount Vesuvius.

At that time, whether it is lava eruption or something jumping out of the volcano.

They must also eliminate them all!

...

"Finally... Are you injured?"

Vega looked at Victor in a daze and incredulously.

His current state is not good.

Half of his windbreaker was burned off. The wounds on his body that had been attacked by lava were constantly burning with flames.

However, this was actually only the first time Victor was injured after a day of fierce battle...

Monster, it could only give such an evaluation.

Facing a calamity like a natural disaster, he could fight against it for a whole day. And, he injured it.

During this period, he was only injured once.

This was because he was a little distracted and was grazed by that astonishing fire pillar.

Just this one time made him suffer a lot of damage.

If he was hit by the entire fire pillar, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to find his bones now.

"Surely it's still too reluctant..."

However, being injured is definitely not good news. This shows that Victor's energy has decreased and he is in a state of fatigue.

The continuous battle made him gradually unable to concentrate.

"Why don't you just give up. While there is still enough magic power, quickly teleport and escape."

Vega persuaded him by his ear. Although it knew that Victor was not the kind of person who easily admits defeat.

But his situation was not optimistic.

Victor didn't answer him. Instead, he waved magic on himself to apply a fire resistance buff and stopped the burns. At the same time, he dodged an astonishing fire pillar.

"If I leave now, this monster will rush out of Mount Vesuvius instantly."

"At that time, it will be a real disaster."

"Vega, do you understand?"

Vega was stunned.

After saying that, Victor remembered that Vega was an evil god. So he continued:

"Sorry, I forgot that you should not care about these."

"But I care."

Victor threw away his broken windbreaker that was completely useless.

Let it flutter in the wind and fall into the magma.

The windbreaker turned into little sparks in the air and dissipated completely.

"I don't want to be a good person. But I also don't want this unstoppable behemoth to break out of its cage. And then be labeled as the destroyer of the world by the world."

Guledon's health bar had been reduced by one-third by him. That was his proud achievement.

As long as he can break through the defense of the monster, then there is no boss that he can't kill.

Victor still looked at the angry Guledon firmly as before and became even more excited.

Only in such a high-intensity battle did he seem to find himself again.

"It's just being injured once. I haven't lost yet."

Because, this is a battle that gambles on his dignity as a power-leveler!