Moving his eyes away from the map, Joshua shook his head.

In any case, the current dragon disaster has only threatened the Far South for the time being. Although he has been reminiscent of past memories, the current warrior is a lord of the north on the other side of the world. This war has nothing to do with him for the time being.

At present, for Joshua, the most important thing is to prepare to participate in the imperial capital celebration banquet that will begin in early April. This is not just a simple banquet. It can be seen from the prosecutor's open and secret hints that this celebration of all the nobles and strong men in the empire is undoubtedly of a deeper significance.

However, before setting off, he needs to handle all the affairs in the territory first.

Looking out of the city from a high place, the plains of black and green mixed with ice and snow, the land with fresh snow and the grass extending endlessly around. There are farmers farming in the fields not far away. At the end of the field of vision, you can see a hunting group ready to go riding a fast horse on the avenue, galloping towards the distant black forest.

“Prepare to set off.”

Standing at the top of the Lord's Mansion, Joshua looked into the distance for a while. Then, he asked Ying, who was standing beside him, to activate the solidified teleportation array. Accompanied by the rapid magic fluctuations, a piece of magic crystal placed at the energy supply became dim and irrelevant. The warrior and Ying, who was standing behind him, disappeared into the dark blue halo brought by the teleportation array.

The destination of this teleportation was the Black Forest Fortress, and Joshua's purpose was to explore the mysterious area in the Great Aes volcano.

No. 3 told him not long ago that the expedition team where Paladin Lorenda was located discovered a mysterious area deep in the Great Aes Volcano. There was a very thick concentration of magic energy and serious elemental disorders. Ordinary warriors could not even go deeper. They were eroded by elements on the outside, causing signs of initial melting of muscles.

With Lorenda's strength, he can naturally conduct in-depth investigations, but his exploration experience is far from mature and is not worth entrusting such a task. What's more, he is easily lost and enters the dense lava tunnels inside the volcano. Who knows if this guy can get out.

In fact, not only No. 3 is very concerned about this, but even Moria and Earl Virdanni in the distance have come to ask whether the news is true. Even the other two lords of the four northern lords, the Wilson family and the Cepesh family are extremely concerned.

Because that is the Great Eas Volcano, the source of life in the entire northern land is naturally the source of destruction.

The heat brought by the earth's vein lava and nutrient-rich volcanic ash gave birth to the largest mountain range in the north. The forest once covered all the areas of activity today and had a territory comparable to a small country. It is precisely because of this that some of the black forests were cleared and the northerners who built their homes on them also enjoyed the favors brought by this fertile land and never really felt sad about food.

But this was built upon the absence of the Greater Eas volcano.

According to the report of the detection team, the mysterious area contains so much magic energy and the density is so thick that even if it is not enough to detonate the volcano, it can cause huge damage similar to that carried out by the ancient dragon [Huang Black Dragon Albatlin] four hundred years ago.

"Ah, Lord Lord!"

After the teleportation ended, Qiao Xiuya and others felt a slight dizziness, and then shook their heads habitually and returned to their senses. The soldiers guarding the teleportation array found that it was their lord who was walking from the teleportation array, so they immediately hurriedly saluted.

Zorgen, Kili and Feng Fortress Guard trio, who arrived after hearing the news of Joshua and others, also quickly arrived at the teleportation array located in the central tower. The warriors who were communicating with the three were surprised to find that among the three, Zorgen seemed to have achieved a certain breakthrough after healed from the last serious injury. Now there are signs of advancement, and the strength of the other two people is gradually increasing.

"That's great, you guys are really fast to advance." He was not stingy with his praise.

In fact, this is also natural. You should know that since the last Black Tide, the Black Forest Fortress has been recuperating. Until recently, because Joshua's continuous dispatch of new troops to replenish new blood, it was considered to have completely restored its full-blooded state. But in fact, the strength of the Black Fortress is more than better than before, especially a large number of soldiers survived the battlefield between people and monsters. They all generally advanced once, and many of them became new silver levels.

Not to mention the silver-level knights, these powerful people will only gain even greater benefits when they survive.

With everyone's company, Joshua roughly inspected the entire Black Forest Fortress. He inspected the city walls, towers and material warehouses. After confirming that everything was in order, he smiled and encouraged his soldiers, and then took Ying and Lin to leave the Black Fortress and headed directly towards the volcano in the Black Forest.

"Master is leaving too fast..."

Following Joshua, Ying, who had almost run in small steps, looked at her younger brother sideways, as if she could communicate with her eyes: "I didn't eat anything, so I just left."

"There is nothing else. Do you have to inspect all the masters? Without so much time, the master's purpose is not here at all."

Rin shrugged and narrowed his eyes slightly. He understood Joshua's thoughts: "The things that go along the way are handled early, and the master also happened to go to do the main business early."

In fact, the distance from the Black Forest to the Great Eas Volcano was not far. Before evening, during the time when Joshua's weapons were chatting quietly behind him, they arrived at their destination.

The active volcano located in the core of the mountain range, the Great Eas Volcano is very spectacular and beautiful. The towering and powerful huge mountain stands on the world like a giant rising up the sky. Rolling smoke gushes out and flows into the endless clouds in the sky. A red halo that can be seen by the naked eye is flashing at the top of the mountain.

On the hills around the volcano, there is a simple camp surrounded by wooden walls, and this is where the exploration team where Lorenda is located is stationed.

Joshua naturally would not hesitate, so he simply walked into the camp directly and saw the Paladin and other members of the Exploration Team who were about to set out to survey at the gate of the Exploration Team camp.

Everyone was stunned when they saw Joshua again. They seemed to have never expected Joshua to come, and Lorenda was no exception. He had heard footsteps from outside before, and thought that other exploration teams had also come here. When other exploration team members saluted their lords, he greeted him happily: "Long time no see, my friend."

"Long time no see, do you feel okay in the Exploration Team?"

The warrior also asked, and Joshua could see that after polishing the bottom layer for several months, Loranda's heart has risen to another level, and it seems that he has initially explored his personal combat skills. However, when I came here today, I was not a discussion. After the greetings, Joshua began to ask about the specific situation of the mysterious area in the volcano.

"This is the case..."

Lorenda said everything he knew and said everything he saw and heard directly.

It turned out that they discovered that mysterious area because of an accident.

At that time, the exploration team where Lorenda was located was looking for open-pit veins around the volcano. This kind of vein that was extremely difficult to mine was considered a good deal even if it only produced iron. What's more, most of them contained precious materials, such as Mithril and Flame Iron.

Just as a few people passed through the jungle and passed by a hill, a sharp-eyed archer noticed that there was a layer of dark red rock on the ground at the foot of the volcano in the distance. It was scattered, but it had an inexplicable sense of pressure.

The whole team, including Lorenda, thinks this thing is extraordinary. You must know that it is definitely not a simple thing to make a group of warriors feel that it is powerful, so they plan to take some samples and take a look at the reserve scale of the red rock.

But when they arrived at the foot of the mountain and followed the traces of the red rock on the surface, they soon discovered a huge tunnel leading to the depths of the volcano.

The curiosity that no one can resist was that after Loranda released the light surgery, the exploration team sent ordinary people down the tunnel. The tunnel was extremely dry and filled with the smell of sulfur, but unexpectedly there was no poisonous gas, and the surrounding rock walls were also very smooth. An experienced old explorer believed that this was not a natural cave, and everyone recognized this conjecture.

I don’t know how long I walked, but the exploration team came to a huge cave inside a volcano, full of lava, with extremely rich elements but extremely messy.

Joshua already knew most of the next things. Due to the excessively thick elements, ordinary people were easily burned or even killed by energy radiation, so the exploration team hurriedly retreated and reported the matter to the main city.

"Red, rocky-like substance?"

He murmured to himself that Joshua was not in that strange and mysterious area now. Instead, he remembered the red blood rock at the bottom of the Nissie Snow Mountain Lake. He asked curiously: "Can you show me those samples?"

This sentence was so polite that he actually used the invitation. The archer standing beside him immediately presented the sample hanging around his waist in fear and fear. His lord said this. If he slowed down, he would be ashamed to death.

"This taste... is very familiar! As expected, this red rock..."

Joshua opened this common specimen tape, rubbed a little powder with his fingers, then licked it, and after closing his eyes and thinking for a while, he was sure that it was the smell of ancient dragon blood.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but smile excitedly: "That red mark is the blood trace left by an ancient dragon's injury! And that strange and smooth cave is the passage where it walks!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!