Russell immediately guessed what the rules of the "Fury Volcano" were.

If the original wasteland was a desert with no end in sight...... Then this "Fury Volcano" is climbing upward, but it never reaches the end.

Because the Tower of the End is a place that can never be reached.

It exists only as a "coordinate...... In other words, the mountain cannot be climbed at all.

But why is it "angry"?

“…… Then again, what about strangulation? ”

Obviously, both of them followed the path of anger into the volcano of rage, and the strangulation was a little faster than Russell.

But after Russell entered, he directly lost the former's figure.

But at this moment.

Russell heard a loud bang behind him—

Behind him, in the "holes" some downhill locations, columns of lava were suddenly pumped out!

Even though they were far away, the heat was clearly felt from Russell's back.

“…… Could it be? ”

Russell realized something and heard something. He turned around and sped downward.

It's not easy to climb up, but it's just as tough when you rush down.

Gravel and boulders cross the road at an angle that does not conform to the rules of physics, and it is very easy to fall if you can't descend gently.

If it were Russell's own body, there would be no need to think about these things at all.

But the Blue Song Robin's body is much heavier.

- An ordinary body that can't even dodge bullets is really weak.

Russell sighed.

He didn't know how long he had been running before he approached the surging lava columns.

They didn't go down.

Instead, it remains cylindrical and solidifies at a slow pace.

Once here, he finally saw what was going on below.

Strangulation is fighting with something.

It was a four-clawed monster made of shadows and shaped like a hyena.

But they don't have heads, and their necks are scarlet with one-eyed.

There were four of them—they were around the strangulation, and they didn't move.

This is because the strangulation has a bloody fire flowing from its body.

The scarlet flames flowed from his eyes like weeping.

They burned like gasoline, sweeping through half of their bodies, forming a flaming armor that could only cover their chests. There is also a little "blood fire" from the legs down to the feet, but much less.

These blood fires did not burn the strangled skin at all, not even the mane on his body.

Obviously, the flames were a great deterrent to the shadow monsters - but the flames couldn't burn their backs, so he was constantly pacing and spinning, trying not to expose his backs to them.

And at this time, the strangulation saw Russell running down from above.

He was stunned for a moment.

It was that momentary surprise that made the strangulation flawed.

The monster behind him suddenly stretched its body and pounced fiercely.

The blood-red pupils around his neck suddenly widened, and from the pupils came a blood-colored mouth made entirely of blood, which was larger than his own body, with hideous bony fangs inside.

Strangler reacted immediately, turned and reached to the side with his blood-burning hand, grabbed the "neck" that connected the giant mouth to the eyeball, and pulled it out along with the eyeball.

After the eyeball departed, the shadow beast suddenly dissipated into the air.

But at the moment of strangulation, two shadow beasts from his left and right respectively pounced-

"-Peng-Peng!"

Huge gunshots rang out one after another.

I saw Russell take out his shotgun and shoot two shots in a row without hesitation!

This is the same gun that the mercenary leader used to carry the retractor in the captain's room before!

From the strangulation side, the dense projectiles were like a horizontal rain of iron, rushing towards the face.

The first shot of the retracted projectile exploded one of them. The aftermath also knocks the second one backwards.

The second shot reversed, bursting the eyeballs of the Shadow Beast on the other side of the "Strangulation", killing it instantly.

That's when the strangulation fully realized what was happening.

The blue-haired young man, holding a repeating shotgun, carried out two consecutive escort shots centered on strangulation, one left and one right, at a distance of about 20 meters...... But it didn't hurt the strangulation in the middle at all.

That's a shotgun!

Such good marksmanship - if it weren't for the fact that this was in a dream world where chips and prosthetics could not be used, Strangler would have thought that the other party was using a secondary aiming system.

"Good marksmanship!"

And the strangulation was not stunned.

He exclaimed as he held out his right hand to the repulsed shadow beast.

The blood-red flames were like living creatures, forming a thick tentacle that pierced the shadow beast's one-eyed in an instant.

The blow did not come without a cost.

The blood-colored flames that made up the armor on the strangulation's body instantly subsided, and they all became the material of the tentacles, or "living whips".

"Marksmanship is okay, right?"

Russell put away his shotgun and slowly walked towards the strangulation.

"Brother, awesome!"

"You saved me once, barber!" exclaimed. ”

Russell's face skillfully showed a perfect smile that belonged to an idol - this is the muscle memory that belongs to Xiao Ruri.

Without fear, he asked rhetorically, "Are you still a girl?" ”

"-I'm sorry!"

To Russell's surprise, it seems that the solipsistic type of strangulation is a completely faceless guy.

The strangler confessed his mistake very simply: "It was my mistake, brother." If you're still uncomfortable with that, go out and ask for a drink! Company-limited goodies! ”

"It's a gesture."

Russell was not greedy either, but nodded reservedly.

"Run, you can't stay here for long."

Strangulation didn't immediately explain to Russell what had happened to him. Instead, he pulled Russell's arm hard and motioned for him to run quickly up the hill.

They hadn't taken two steps before Russell saw the lava pillars solidify and the ground around them start to heat up.

"What's that?"

Russell asked aloud.

"My mentor called this the Pillar of Wrath. It's not just the Way of Wrath, there are similar 'timers' in all areas except the original wasteland. ”

Strangled is much stronger than the Blue Song Robin, and even when running briskly, he can speak very fluently: "Reset the timer for this area." ”

His low, roaring voice was clear enough to be heard by Russell behind him.

"Dream Realm...... No...... Don't have a concept of time? ”

Russell asked, as he ran quickly.

The extra physical strength expended on climbing the mountain made him breathless.

"Exactly. So the timekeeping method in the way of anger is the 'cooling-off cycle'......"

The strangulation stopped halfway through the explanation.

He glanced back at Russell and realized something.

So he prostrated himself in front of Russell like a real lion: "You run too slowly, climb up." ”

“…… May I? ”

Russell jumped at the chance.

"It's okay, you remember to sit tight."

The white lion roared in a low voice: "Also, don't scratch my mane...... Remember to grab my necklace. ”

Since you have asked for it yourself......

Russell rode onto the white lion without hesitation.

The next moment, the white lion suddenly became huge as if it were inflated.

He became a real "white lion" - but ten times the size of a normal lion!

It was a huge monster crawling on the ground, three or four stories high!

It took a slight leap forward, and it was more than forty meters. The violent wind blew on Russell, causing Russell to grab the beast tooth necklace around his neck so that he could barely be blown off.

They sped away from the area they had been before, and the ground around them became less hot.

"It's pretty much the same here."

The strangulation slowly stopped, and he said, "It's time to reset." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the ground not far behind them suddenly collapsed!

The ground and the solidified lava pillars were all turned to lava in an instant. And when they fell back again, the terrain changed to a completely different shape.

It was only then that the strangulation breathed a sigh of relief.

He quickly became smaller and put Russell down.

After that, Strangulation continued with his previous words: "Those things, as long as they are completely solidified, the area around them with pillars will be reset. ”

"How did those things come about?"

"It's anger. When 'Angry' is in all areas of the Path of Wrath, various types of 'Pillars of Wrath' will immediately rise around you. The height and extent of the pillars correlated with the total anger of all the people in the entire area.

"But anger will subside, as hot lava will cool. Once the lava has cooled completely, it symbolizes that the anger has subsided. This area will be reset to a one-touch blast state again. ”

Strangled apologized again to Russell: "Sorry, bro. I just waited for a long time and you didn't come, but the shadow came. I thought you were disobedient and chose another path...... So I couldn't help but get angry. ”

“…… No, it doesn't matter. You rescued me, too. ”

Russell was a little subtle: "However, I thought that the mage who walked on the path of anger would be a little more unreasonable. ”

When he first saw the strangulation, he thought he was a completely unreasonable madman.

Looking at it now, he is indeed not a normal person. But it's easy to understand - his actions turned out to be logical!

"You guessed right."

Unexpectedly, Strangling agreed with Russell's statement: "You see me as sensible because I have chosen both the 'way of temperance' and the 'way of contemplation,' so that my [anger] will not spread to myself." Tempered anger, that's what characterizes our school. ”

“…… Is that flame a spell? It's called 'rage'? ”

Speaking of this, Russell suddenly jumped into excitement: "Can I learn too?" ”

"This is the most basic spell of the Way of Wrath. You've reached the Volcano of Wrath, and you'll learn it by the time you leave...... But the 'rage' between us, the spell form is definitely different. ”

The strangulation quickly persuaded: "You must not shoot your 'anger' on yourself." Without the suppression of the way of contemplation and the restraint of the way of temperance, it cannot be restrained and formed.

"You project your anger — and it will not be extinguished as long as your anger has not subsided."

"What do you mean, it seems that there are other derivatives of anger?"

Russell asked.

"Of course. But not all derivatives will be useful, and the 'rage' of the incompetent will only make them more incompetent. The technique of combining paths and paths is the secret that has been passed down from one mage to another.

"The name of our school is 'The Furnace,' and it emphasizes harnessing the hammer of pain, the fire of wrath, to brew something great. The school that is directly hostile to us is the 'Embers'. The successor of the Ember School is the boss of the madmen of Eternal Reincarnation. ”

The white lion said something quickly, as if it was too late to miss it: "Do you know the headquarters of the white lion group?" If you don't know, I'll tell you now - on Road 302 in Area F of the recycling plant area, you can go to the end. If you have time, come and let's meet...... I've been there for the past few days. If someone stops you, you say 'Furnace'......"

"Are you leaving?"

Russell guessed why the strangulation had suddenly become so urgent.

Because he also suddenly had a premonition that "the dream is about to wake up".

"You too, brother. You've just shot. ”

Strangler showed an extremely frightening and kind smile: "As long as you have fought in the dream world, you will be ejected at any time."

"The flow of time here is not linear, and if you can't make an appointment to enter the dream world together, you won't know when it will be when you will meet next time. It's too late to explain now, you come to me tomorrow. I'll tell you to your face what those things are and the follow-up to the Crucible School......"

Before he could finish his words, his figure suddenly faded.

And at the moment when he realized that the strangulation was "kicked off the line".

Russell also felt that the world around him immediately became blurred...... It's like waking up soon, reality and dreams overlap.

The whole dream world was rejecting him—

It seemed like it was just a moment, and it seemed like a blank time of consciousness.

When Russell came to his senses again, he realized that his hands and feet were still tied together.

And in the upper right corner of his view, there is a time marker:

【6：15】

“…… It's six o'clock. ”

Russell muttered, removing the bandage from himself.

He looked up at the window.

It was a familiar ...... The sun was dim, and the gray sky was in the sky.