It was dark in the belly of the mountain, and when the waterfall that blocked the space disappeared, a dark vertical passage was revealed above.

But in the originally dark passage, there was a faint light at this time.

"It's fire!"

The closest player screamed and ran.

He had barely ducked back into the crowd when a blazing flame fell from the sky and rushed down into a pool of water that had been evaporated, sending out a large puff of heat.

"Crackling ......"

After the residual water vapor on the rock wall was evaporated, the rock began to make a cracking sound, and before everyone could react, a huge pillar of fire fell vertically from the passage above, burning violently below like a flamethrower.

"Wow!"

As he stood closer, and relying on his shield to not hide behind the mage's barrier, his beard was burned by the flames, and he screamed and slapped the flames above with his hands.

"Don't go out yet, wait here for a while."

Xia said to the panicked crowd:

"The flames won't burn here, and they will stop soon, don't panic!"

As soon as she said this, the players calmed down a bit.

Of course, some people were still very calm, such as Agnes and Lorraine, who were also startled by the huge pillar of fire, but were not as frightened as the others.

"Smack!"

A piece of rubble fell from the air and made a noise as it fell to the ground.

"The fire seems to be gone."

Several team members looked upwards and found that it was dark again.

"Captain...... You don't want us to climb up from this place, do you? ”

The team member carrying a bundle of rope had horror in his voice.

"Don't worry, I've already sent someone to scout the pattern of the flames, and the waterfall here will be cut off once in about seven days, and then the flames will appear intermittently, and it won't be normal until half a day later. We had half a day to climb up from here. ”

Xia comforted him.

The way to pass the waterfall is mentioned in the manual, although she can't remember it so clearly, isn't there still a little Lori in black?

"Are you sure?"

It was Lorraine who spoke, and he walked up to Natsu's side, looked into her eyes and said.

"Of course."

Natsu pointed a finger to the dark passage:

"Look, the waterfall has been cut off. But the flow of water has not completely disappeared. ”

As she spoke, the sound of water evaporating began to sound on the rock wall again, and it was not long before the rock wall where the waterfall hung was rushing down a very gentle trickle, slowly wetting the dried rocks.

"The rock wall is still very hot, so let's wait for the water to cool down a little before going up, and try to climb to the top in half a day."

"Sister Xia, you just said that these flames erupt intermittently, what if we encounter them while climbing the cliff?"

Agnes asked quietly.

"There are places to hide for a while. Don't worry. ”

Natsu touched her head with her unstained hand.

"The wind mage took the ropes and put them in place; Everyone also do their best to prepare the climbing tools I asked you to bring, and in a while, I and all the Dharma students who can fly will protect you below, so that it is triple insurance, there is no need to be afraid at all! ”

Xia gave instructions to the crowd:

"Although there is relatively plenty of time, everyone should move quickly!"

Several wind mages immediately flew up with those ropes, and Xia instructed the students who had not used tools on how to use them, and everyone was nervously busy.

"Captain. The temperature of the rock face has cooled down, and the rope is ready! ”

A wind mage shouted down from above.

"The length of the rope is limited. I'm going to have to work hard a few more times, all the team members, let's get moving! ”

Xia didn't use the sound transmission this time, but shouted it out vigorously, inspiring everyone with his voice.

"It's a bit like a volcanic rock, but with a slightly different composition...... Yes. Is this obsidian? It's so strange how it could be in such a place...... No, no, it seems to be a bit similar to the geological structure of the crater, right? But obsidian usually occurs in lava layers, and it should belong to the breccia zone......"

At the bottom of the climbing line. A petite girl kept talking something, stopped from time to time to observe the rock wall, and then smashed a piece with a small hammer and placed it in her package.

"Sara, hurry up! You've reached the end, and you're almost halfway there. ”

Above her, a student from the science and technology department shouted.

"I know, I'll go up when I get some rock specimens, this is a precious alchemy material......

"Ah——!!h

At this moment, there was a sudden exclamation, and one of the trainees slipped his hand and did not grasp the rope, and the rock under his feet happened to loosen a piece and fell down from above.

"Let me come!"

Natsu and several flying magicians had been paying attention to the movement above, and when she saw someone falling, she said something hurriedly, waved her wings and flew up.

Then he made a hovering in the air and grabbed the falling team member from the side, successfully slowing down the momentum of the fall.

"Can you hold on?"

Because it was a girl who fell, Xia picked her up horizontally and asked with concern.

“…… OK. ”

The girl lay in her arms in horror and said in a trembling voice.

Natsu noticed that her body was shaking violently, so he hugged her for a while, and waited until many people had climbed to a sunken hole before flying over and putting her down.

"Thank you......"

The girl was a magician, and after she put her down, she stood on the ground wiping her tears, and her personality seemed to be a bit introverted.

"Is everybody up? Remember to squeeze into the cave, although this time the flames erupted very shortly, and they should not rush inside, but there are still a few mages left on the periphery of the crowd just in case. ”

After settling the girl, Xia turned to everyone and said.

"Sara hasn't come up yet!"

A student from the department suddenly shouted in panic.

"I'll take a look."

Natsu flicked her wings and flew out, gesturing at the wind mages in the air, then squeezing her eyes at Agnes at the bottom.

The wind mages flew upwards. Agnes also winked at Natsu in the air, showed a mischievous look, and flew up with them.

"These rocks contain many minerals, some of which have a structural ...... of self-cracking, chipping, erosion and darkening"

Natsu landed beside Sharo, where the alchemy girl was still lying on her stomach staring at the rocks, with no intention of continuing to climb up.

"Gone. Sharo. ”

Natsu reached out and hugged her waist, trying to pull her down.

But Sharo immediately cried out:

"Don't don't don't don't!! I'm still close to figuring out the rock structure......"

Her movements were intense, startling Natsu and hurriedly letting go of her hand.

"Okay then, let's wait a few more minutes, can't it be too long?"

Natsu tugged at the rope that was hanging down, and someone on it immediately put the rope away.

"Hehe, thank you, Your Highness the Princess."

As soon as Sharo heard that he could continue his research, he immediately went up again. Take a closer look at the rocks.

After five minutes, she still lay on it and refused to leave, and Xia was a little anxious.

"I knew I should have borrowed Shizuki's magic energy watch, but it was too uncomfortable not to know the exact time."

At this moment, Stephanie suddenly shouted:

"Master, I've detected fire elemental fluctuations above!"

"Sharo, put your things away, you're leaving!"

She grabbed Sara's arm. Forcibly pulled her off the rock wall and flew upwards.

"Ahhh My specimens! ”

Sharo suddenly struggled violently in the air. Loud crying.

"Don't move...... Ah! ”

Natsu was hit in her arm a few times, and although it didn't hurt, it affected the movement of the flight.

"Master, let's go!"

Stephanie said as she suddenly looked nervously upwards.

Natsu's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly restrained Sharo's arm and rushed upward.

She had just flown to the point where she could see the entrance to the cave. Suddenly, a fire shone from above the pitch black.

The fire appeared so suddenly, that even Stephanie didn't expect it to come so quickly, and in an instant, the top of the trio's heads turned into a blazing hell.

"Deria! Pick up the good guys! ”

Natsu whispered into the cave, and then slammed Sara's body towards the entrance of the cave.

"Here we go."

Delia was very fast, and immediately appeared there when she heard the sound. Grabbed Sara's arm.

"Boom ——!!"

After a loud bang, a wall of fire appeared at the entrance of the cave, and Delia hid with Sharo in her arms, and several streams of fire rushed towards it against the rock wall, and were immediately stopped by the defensive spells prepared by the mages.

"Where's Natsu?"

Lorraine was the first to come up, and suddenly found that Natsu was not in the cave.

His face changed color and he lunged towards the hole!

"Lorraine, don't go! The captain should be fine. ”

Because he had been in Natsu's team and knew a little about her magical physique, Abner hurriedly grabbed Lorraine's arm.

"Let go!"

Lorraine's arm shook, and Albert suddenly fell backwards on his feet, knocking down several people around him.

"Give me back."

As soon as he rushed to the periphery of the crowd, he was pushed to the chest by Di Lia's palm, stopping the momentum.

"Get out of the way, I'm going to save her!"

Lorraine knew that Delia's strength was much stronger than him, but he still gritted his teeth and said, reaching out and taking out the big sword behind his back, with a desperate posture.

"Don't worry, she'll be fine."

Delia touched her ears and said absently:

"Even hellfire can't hurt her, what is this ordinary flame?"

Unlike the original huge pillar of fire, this intermittent flame quickly stopped erupting, and then everyone looked towards the entrance of the cave, only to see Xia flying in from the outside unharmed, but the shoes under his feet were gone.

"Really, why does the science and technology department only make clothes, but not shoes?"

She fell to the ground with a sad face, it was her new shoes.

"Sister Xia."

Agnes flew over and threw herself into her arms.

Although she knew that Xia was not afraid of flames, she was still a little worried when she saw the monstrous fire outside.

Seeing that Xia Anran was fine, Lorraine slowly put down the sword in his hand.

I saw that his face was covered with sweat, and I didn't know if it was because of nervousness or because he was roasted by the heat, and his chest kept rising and falling there.

Next to him, Delia wagged her tail with a smug expression. (To be continued......) R1292