Looking away from the map, Joshua shook his head. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In any case, the current dragon plague only threatens the Far South for the time being, although he has been reminded of the past, but the current warrior is a lord of the Northland who is on the other side of the world, and this war has nothing to do with him for the time being.

At present, the most important thing for Joshua is to prepare to participate in the imperial capital celebration banquet that will start in early April, this is not just a simple banquet, it can be seen from the prosecutor's hints that this celebration of all the nobles and powerful people in the empire has undoubtedly a deeper meaning.

However, before he can go, he needs to take care of all the affairs in the realm first.

Looking out of the city from a high vantage point, the plains of black and green, the melting of ice and snow and the nascent grass stretch endlessly around, the fields not far away have the figures of farmers ploughing, and at the end of the field of vision, you can see a hunting group ready to go on the avenue driving fast horses, galloping towards the Black Forest in the distance.

"Ready to go."

Standing on the top floor of the Lord's Mansion, Joshua looked into the distance for a while, and then, he let Ying who was standing next to him activate the solidified teleportation circle, and with the rapid fluctuation of mana, a piece of magic crystallization placed in the energy supply place became dim, and the warrior and Ying and Rin standing behind him disappeared into the faint blue halo brought by the teleportation array together in the humming sound of magic activation.

The destination of this teleportation is the Black Forest Fortress, and Joshua's purpose is to explore the mysterious area in the Great Ajax Volcano.

No. 3 told him not long ago that the expedition team of the paladin Lolanda had discovered a mysterious area in the depths of the Great Ajax Volcano, where the concentration of magic energy was extremely thick, and there was a serious phenomenon of elemental confusion, and ordinary warriors could not even go deeper, and there were signs of elemental erosion just on the periphery, resulting in the initial melting of muscles.

With Loranda's strength, he can naturally investigate deeply, but his exploration experience is far from mature, and it is not worth entrusting such a task at all, not to mention that he is easy to get lost and enter the dense lava tunnel inside the volcano, and the ghost knows if this guy can get out.

In fact, not only No. 3 was very concerned about this, but even Moria, who was far away, and Countess Verdani had specially come to ask if this news was true, even the other two lords of the four realms of the Northland, the Wilson family and the Tepesz family were extremely concerned.

Because it is the Great Ajax Volcano, the source of life in the entire Northland, nature, and the source of destruction.

The heat from the leyline lava and the nutrient-rich volcanic ash gave birth to the Black Forest, the largest mountain range in the north, which once covered all the areas of human activity today, and had a territory comparable to that of a small country.

But this is based on the fact that the Great Ajax volcano does not erupt.

According to the report of the exploration team, the mysterious area contains such a large amount of magical energy and such a dense density that even if it is not enough to detonate the volcano, it can cause huge damage comparable to that carried out by the ancient dragon [Brilliant Black Dragon Elbatlion] four hundred years ago.

"Ah, my lord!"

At the end of the teleportation, Joshua and the others felt a slight dizziness, and then they shook their heads habitually and regained their consciousness. The soldiers guarding the teleportation array realized that it was actually their lord who came from the teleportation array, so they immediately hurriedly saluted.

And Zorgun, who arrived after hearing the news of the arrival of Joshua and the others, Keeli and the Feng Fortress garrison trio, also quickly came to the teleportation array located in the central tower, and the warriors who were communicating with the three were somewhat surprised to find that among the three, Zorgon seemed to have made a certain breakthrough after healing from the serious injuries last time, and now there is a trace of advanced gold and signs, and the strength of the other two people is also gradually increasing.

"Yes, you're progressing so fast." For the progress of his subordinates, he did not hesitate to praise himself.

Actually, this is also natural, you know, since the last Kuroshio, the Black Forest Fortress has been recuperating, until recently, because Joshua continued to send new troops to replenish new blood, this can be regarded as a complete return to the full state of strength - but in fact, the strength of the Black Forest Fortress is more than a step stronger than before, especially since a large number of soldiers survived the battlefield of people and monsters, they have all been promoted once, and many of them have become new silver ranks.

And not to mention the silver-level knights, if these powerful people survive, the harvest will only be greater.

Accompanied by everyone, Joshua roughly inspected the entire Black Forest fortress, he inspected the city walls, towers and material warehouses, and after making sure that everything was in order, he smiled and encouraged his warriors, and then left the Black Forest fortress with Ying and Rin, and headed directly towards the Black Forest and the volcano.

"The master is leaving too fast......"

Following behind Joshua, Ying, who was already almost running in small steps, glanced at her younger brother sideways, as if she could communicate with her eyes alone: "I didn't eat anything, so I left directly." ”

"If there is nothing else, do you want the master to inspect them all? There is not so much time, and the purpose of the master is not here at all. ”

Rin shrugged his shoulders and narrowed his eyes slightly, he understood Joshua's thoughts: "The matter on the way should be dealt with early, and the master should go to the business early." ”

In fact, the distance from the Black Forest fortress to the Great Ajax Volcano was not far, and they arrived at their destination before evening, while Joshua's weapons were chatting quietly behind him.

Located in the heart of the mountain, the Great Ajax Volcano is a spectacular and beautiful volcano that towers over the world like a giant in the sky, billowing smoke pouring out into the endless clouds in the sky, with a visible red halo flickering at the top of the mountain.

On the hills surrounding the volcano is a simple, wooden-walled camp where Lolanda's expedition team is stationed.

Joshua naturally did not hesitate, he simply walked directly into the camp, and met the paladin and the other members of the exploration team who were about to set off to investigate at the gate of the exploration team's camp.

Everyone froze when they saw Joshua again, they didn't seem to expect Joshua to come to this event at all, and Loranda was no exception, he heard footsteps from outside before, and thought that the other exploration team had also come here, and when the other exploration team members saluted their lord, he greeted him very happily: "Long time no see, my friend." ”

"It's been a long time, how are you feeling in the exploration team?"

The warrior also said hello, and Joshua could see that after several months of polishing at the bottom, Lolanda's mind had risen to a higher level, and it seemed that he had also initially explored his own personal combat skills - but he was not here today, not to learn, after greetings, Joshua began to ask about the specific situation of the mysterious area in the volcano.

"Here's the situation......"

Lolanda knew everything, said everything, and directly said everything she saw and heard.

It turned out that they discovered that mysterious area by accident.

At that time, Lolanda's exploration team was looking for open-pit ore veins around the volcano, this kind of ore veins that are extremely difficult to mine, even if they only produce iron, it is not a loss-making business, not to mention that most of them contain precious materials, such as Mithril and Flame Crystal

Just as a few people were walking through the jungle and passing by a hill, a sharp-eyed archer noticed that there was a layer of dark red rocks on the ground at the foot of the volcano in the distance.

The whole team, including Loranda, thought that this thing was extraordinary, and it was certainly not a simple thing to make a group of battle-hardened warriors feel coercive, so they planned to take some samples and take a look at the scale of the reserves of this red rock by the way.

But when they came to the foot of the mountain, following the traces of the red rock on the surface, they soon discovered a huge tunnel that led to the depths of the volcano.

No one can resist this curiosity, after letting Lolanda release the light, the exploration team sent half of the men and horses down the tunnel, the tunnel is unusually dry, full of sulfur smell, but surprisingly there is no poisonous gas, the surrounding rock wall is also very smooth, an experienced old explorer believes that this is not a naturally formed cave, everyone agrees with this conjecture.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, the team came to a huge cavern inside a volcano, which was full of lava and was extremely rich in elements, but it was extremely chaotic.

Qiao Sia already knew most of the next thing, due to the excessively concentrated elements, ordinary people could easily be burned or even killed by energy radiation, so the exploration team hurriedly retreated and reported the matter to the main city.

"Red, rocky substance?"

Muttering to himself, Joshua's mind was not on that strange and mysterious area now, but instead he remembered the red blood rock at the bottom of the lake in the snowy mountain of Nissière, and he nodded and said, "Show me those samples." ”

When the archers who were standing by heard this, they immediately presented the specimen that was hanging from their waists.

"This taste...... Very familiar! Sure enough, this red rock ......"

Joshua opened the common specimen bag and saw the red rock in it, he 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 show an excited smile: "That red trace is thought to be the blood trace left by an ancient dragon's injury!" And that strange smooth cavern is the passage through which it walks! (To be continued.) )