When the volcano first erupted, Duke Anthony, no, probably King Anthony, was attending the celebration of his newly appointed duke.

Since Eliss left, the lives of the nobles of the entire Elise Royal City have almost reached the apex of the entire continent.

A large number of spices and a warehouse full of gold coins attracted countless merchants from neighboring countries to trade. They brought the population and food that the Kingdom of Elis urgently needed, and they came from thousands of miles away, and almost every nobleman who remained was rapidly expanding the entire family because of this huge profit.

King Elise took with him a large number of nobles, and their domains were redistributed. The new King Anthony was decidedly less harsh than Elis, and these domains were generously distributed to each lord who swore allegiance to him. Nearly every one of these new lords would hold lavish feasts in their homes, and many of them would hand out free bread and bread to passers-by in the streets of their colleagues, following the example of the previous King Elise—while they were enjoying themselves so much, the King of Elise was trudging southward, and it is said that thousands of people died from plague and disease alone.

The most talked about topic of all the nobles at the banquet was how long their old king could walk this way. Of course, they didn't care about the safety of the king, or the other nobles who had left, let alone the safety of the commoners—they were just worried about what would happen if the resistance of the Xiaoyang Sect was too fierce and the old king regretted it and finally came back? Do you want these new nobles to return to their original positions? This is of course impossible.

But as time passed, the interval between the news from the front became longer and longer, and the news became better and better—King Elise was a good hand at war. Along the way, the Little Yang Sect barely managed to hinder Elis's army. When everyone finally learned that King Elis's army had passed through the Citor and headed straight for the mountains to the south, almost all the lords who heard the news cheered.

The Duke of Anthony's celebration was the end of a series of celebrations - they had learned that the Duke of Elis had entered the damned mountains! The herald had just reported back the latest news that there was nothing but stones, caves, and bats on that damn mountain, no spices, no gold...... The whole team is almost going to mutiny because of this bad news.

On the eastern horizon, before the disturbance, King Anthony was listening to the priest of the Great Sun Sect, ridiculing King Elise about the dinner they were having today: "...... Probably bat vegetable soup with a little sugar and pepper. The bats in those caves are going to be unlucky, 200,000 people, I wonder if there are so many bats enough for everyone to eat? ”

"Don't they have an oracle that makes cookies?"

"Haha, if they still have cookies! Maybe they can put bats in flour and make bat patties, which will be the national dish of the new Elis Kingdom! ”

"Hahaha!"

All the nobles laughed happily, even King Anthony, who had always been more restrained, shook his head lightly and smiled. He was right, he thought. This should be the most clever scam ever performed on the entire continent! He ruined one of the most powerful kingdoms.

The king put down his glass and prepared to go out to get some air—the good news was always so restless. What is Elise doing now? He must have been in a cave somewhere, using every punishment he knew of against the four liars who had deceived him. Maybe he's still thinking about walking back...... But he can't come back, and the entire Elis Kingdom has now taken refuge in the Great Sun Sect, and the new Holy War Army of the Great Yang Sect has gone to the Incisor Fort. Can the current Elise still organize a battle on a larger scale than the Xiaoyang Sect's Holy War? I am afraid that his soldiers and his people are already preparing to riot because of hunger and discontent.

If Elise had fled alone, or with a few nobles, he would have given him the status of a duke. Thinking of this, he couldn't help it, he wanted time to pass faster—he really wanted to see what Elis, who had always seen no one in his eyes, would look like when he knelt down in front of him and called him king. Oh, and his ambitious son, Prince Elis......

Anthony went to the door, called his squire, and prepared to ride to the hunting ground to relax and digest the excessive food and drink at the banquet.

"Dhoni, bring two more dogs, I heard that there are a lot of rabbits in the hunting grounds here......"

But his guard did not turn his head to listen to his instructions, and his eyes were looking to the east, the horizon that was almost blackened—as if there was some pretty girl there.

Anthony followed the guard's gaze in that direction, and there were indeed a few maids with plates—but the maids all seemed to be standing still, looking further east.

Well, there seemed to be a red sunset on the horizon, a crimson like wine, and the color of that sunset was strange, like a pillar of light, and there was a large cloud of black smoke underneath the red—no, it wasn't sunset, the king realized, a fire?

Like many of the lads around him, Anthony quickly climbed upstairs, ready to take a closer look at what was going on in that direction. If it was a fire, he had to organize manpower to put it out - he didn't want the bustling royal city to be destroyed.

But Anthony had just entered the house, and before he could reach the steps upstairs, he heard the exclamations of the people on the roof outside: "Oh my God! Hide in the house! ”

His bodyguard, Doni, also rushed in at this time, found the king, and said to him, "Your Majesty, please follow me, it is dangerous outside." ”

"Dhoni, what's going on outside?"

Doni's face stiffened for a moment, then he replied, "Meteorites, countless meteorites, come to the basement!" ”

The new ducal palace contained freshly dug basements, similar to those that Anthony had dug in his mansion, to avoid possible catastrophe – which most of the nobles had converted into storage rooms when news of King Elis's deception broke. What Anthony entered at the moment was a pantry filled with wheat, potatoes, and vegetables, as well as some pork marinated in spices. There were already a lot of people hiding inside, all of them were nobles who were still drinking and laughing in the banquet hall just now, and when Anthony came in, everyone's eyes were on him.

Most people, like Anthony, weren't sure what was going on. They had to send the guards out to learn more about the situation and report later.

A total of four guards were dispatched, and the faces of all four of them were pale and pale, and their reports were completely the same - it was raining fire in the sky outside! The whole of the royal city of Elise had now been set on fire, and even in this mansion, the duke's stables, hunting grounds, and labyrinth of woods under construction, had been set on fire.

"Then don't you hurry up and put out the fire!" The duke's face flushed with anxiety.

Anthony looked at the four guards, they were all battle-hardened people with the duke, even in the face of hundreds of strong enemies on the battlefield, they would not show the horror on their faces at this moment. He soon understood that it was certainly impossible to put out the fire.

"Seal the entrance!" Anthony calmly gave the order, "From now on, no one can enter or leave this room without my orders. ”

As soon as the basement door was locked, everyone suddenly felt a violent tremor, as if the whole house, the whole earth was shaking. Then they heard a loud bang overhead—the basement ceiling was smashed open even a small crack. Through this gap, everyone clearly saw that the place where they had just held the banquet had become a sea of fire, the dark red, cream-like magma was slowly flowing on the luxurious carpet, and the scorching smell of the wool carpet when it burned made everyone in the basement feel hopeless.

"Quick, plug the gap!" Anthony immediately gave the order.

The entire ground was filled with screams, mixed with the whistling of huge objects as they swept through the air. Anthony was familiar with this sound, and when he bombarded the city walls with a trebuchet, the sound of the stones coming out of the air - after years of experience in warfare, Anthony could even judge the speed, distance, and type of trebuchet of the stones from the sound alone.

But at the moment, the whistling sound literally sent chills down his body, and their speed was faster than Anthony could imagine, and each one was almost half a house—Anthony could scarcely imagine what kind of force could make such a huge object produce such speed in the air. When these meteorites fell to the ground, it was as if their hearts were also broken by this shock. Anthony had no doubt that as long as such a stone landed on top of their heads, it was completely impossible to stop them from the stone and wood above them.

This made him sound again, and once he asked an oracle when he was still at home, directing the workers to build the basement, and the oracle smiled and said to him, "It will be useful." ”

Anthony recalls the look in the way the oracle looked at him as he spoke—a look that made him uncomfortable, a look at a dead man, like seeing a prisoner with a noose around his neck.

A few minutes ago, Anthony thought he was the winner of the game, but now, his opponent's hole cards were revealed.

Elise is such a lucky old fellow...... Anthony sat down on the pyre in a daze, the screams and screams outside seemed to be gone, and all that remained in his mind was the last look that the oracle had left him.

Is this God's punishment for his betrayal? For the first time, Anthony realizes that he has made the biggest mistake of his life, and that mistake may never be corrected.