Mt. Doghead is a half-asleep volcano with a huge crater lake on its top. The water of the lake flows down through the cracks in the mountain, forming streams of greater or lesser sizes.

Some streams flow through the cracks in the mountain into the lava hell, and then turn into huge water vapor currents that erupt from the cracks in the foothills and mountainsides.

Beside a gap that was more than two meters wide and four meters high, Gu Mingdi Sanxian gave up thinking about the formation principle of this lava hell and why there was enough oxygen in it for people to enter, and began to concentrate on dealing with the group of kobolds in front of him.

Because of the water flowing into it, the lava hell has formed a unique ecosystem. It's a bit like a crater at the bottom of the deep sea, with some amazing fungi growing in some places where the water is not very high and the temperature is not very high.

These fungi smell similar to rotten eggs because of their sulfur content, and humans will not eat them except for using them as a potion, and only the kobolds and fire slimes that live here will feed on these fungi.

The kobolds use the lava hell where these fungi grow as their farm, and in their limited intelligence, any human who enters it is an enemy who comes to steal from the farm and must be killed.

Moreover, these kobolds live in this place where the fire element is rich all year round, and they have evolved into creatures with high fire resistance, and they are far less affected by the influence of foreign humans in the lava hell.

Alan obviously didn't want to be held back by these kobolds, so he asked Gu Ming to guard the gap.

His vision was very accurate, and he saw that the strength of Gu Mingdi Sanxian was enough to complete such a task.

Pigafitta led the people to the outside of the gap, and the people around him were all good masters.

Charles had Ganaro let out the news that Alan was here to find the Flame Excalibur, so the news spread among those who had the strength to compete.

An invisible blade of wind dissipated in front of the leader, Pigafitta, and the group of kobolds in front of him were all cut in two.

Pigafitta's expression suddenly became serious, and there were masters guarding the road here.

He stepped on the corpse of the kobold and walked to the mouth of the gap, and then had a question mark on his face.

A man wearing a broken felt hat covering his face stood against the mountain wall next to the gap with a sword in his hand, the murderous aura on this person's body was enough to make the legs of ordinary adventurers tremble, obviously a master who did not know how many lives he had in his hands.

Such a master is extremely difficult to deal with, especially someone like Pigafitta who is preparing to enter the lava hell, and it would be unwise to waste his strength here.

It's just that next to this master is a stone box, and the rock wall above the stone box has been cut out of a flat plate, on which is engraved "Ticket Office".

Pigafita walked over and asked, "What is this gentleman called?"

The person collecting the ticket said in a hoarse voice, "Uchiha Rico." ”

The corners of Pigafitta's mouth twitched, and she asked again, "Can we go in?"

Uchiha pointed to the box next to him with his chin.

Pigafitta asked, a little displeased, "Why?"

The Uchiha said emotionlessly, "You know why you're here." ”

Pigafitta's eyes narrowed, he hadn't figured out where the news of the Flame Excalibur had come from, he had just come to try his luck at first, and it wasn't until Eren and the scabbard appeared last night that he confirmed the authenticity of the news.

It's not that he didn't think that the news came from Charles McGardenen, but the recent rumors about Charles's current situation are really ...... Gee...... I don't even dare to draw a book like that.

"Whoa!"

A handful of gold coins fell from Pigafitta's hand into the cash chest, and he led his men into the lava hell.

Then a few more people came over, and they all ended up putting money in the cash box and going to the lava hell.

Ru looked at the gold coins in the box and nodded with satisfaction.

Alan said not to let the kobold in, and he did, but Alan didn't ask him not to let people in.

In the afternoon, no one came over, and after cleaning up a group of kobolds who were not afraid of death, Ru took out the letter that Eren had given him and read it.

Skipping the part of the sincere apology, someone carefully read the part where Allen wrote the source of the information.

The content of that part is distilled as follows: Alan met Lena back then, and in several exchanges later, Alan learned that someone and their family kept a horn of Empress Catherine, and this horn could release the sealed demon that could destroy the world, so Alan started the task of asking for that horn.

After reading the letter, Ru stood there silent for a long time.

The first thing that was confirmed was that Eren was a fool and was being used as a gunman by that Lena.

The second is that the layout of the demon Lena is not ordinary, from someone's family being targeted to have accidents one after another, to the disappearance of the eldest prince of the Bibrach Kingdom by the demon disguised as a demon and cooperating with the fishman of Osmu, and now Lena is recovering the old and sick king in the Rybach Kingdom, it is obvious that Lena is in the next big game of chess.

As the sky gets darker, Ru cooks dinner by the mouth of the gap while thinking about Lena's purpose and her own countermeasures.

If you analyze it from the perspective of the demonic Kuyavia Kingdom, you can speculate some of Lena's purposes.

Demons can work with fishmen to drain the strength of the elves, who are close allies of the demons.

Infiltrating the upper echelons of the royal family on the human side can indirectly affect the national policy of these countries.

And the Maccaden family was targeted......

If all the members of the Mecaden family including himself die, Alexei, the then crown prince of the Rurik Kingdom, died when he was attacked two years ago, and if the demon king Nicholas II was killed again, the Rurik Kingdom would be in chaos.

At that time, if the human countries infiltrated by demons began to attack the Rurik Kingdom from the east, the Rurik Kingdom would inevitably suffer heavy losses, and it would be found that the westernmost Kuyavia Kingdom would be able to easily pick peaches.

Then the human race was injured because of the battle with the demons, so at this time, the enemy of the overseas continent suddenly landed, and the human side was over.

While eating dinner, Ru deduced that this was the most in the interests of the Kingdom of Cuyavia.

After the Kingdom of Kuyavia digested the Kingdom of Rurik, at that time, the human race and overseas enemies were probably defeated, so it was not impossible for the Kingdom of Kuyavia to occupy the entire continent, and at worst, it would be to gnaw a piece of meat in the east first.

And humanity is facing the face of life and death...... Ru someone sneered and looked at the sky that had darkened.