Red Dragon has magic

Chapter 145 What is supposed to come will always come

Under the operation of the fire giant, the dormant volcano began to smoke the next day, but the amount of smoke was very small, at most enough to burn branches for cooking. If Leon hadn't been watching nearby, he would not have been able to see it clearly.

By the third and fourth days, there was a lot of smoke, but considering the strong winds at sea, the smoke was easily blown away. No one at Watch Harbor, which was dozens of kilometers away from the volcanic island, could see it. But it did not prevent fishermen who were fishing far away from Watch Harbor and near the volcanic island from noticing that a mountain was beginning to smoke.

The elves with long lifespans have seen volcanic eruptions on the volcanic island. Knowledgeable scholars can recognize volcanic cones and volcanoes, and know what it means when the volcano starts to smoke. But the fishermen know nothing, and the only answer they can come up with using their little brains is that someone is making a fire on the mountain.

As the smoke from the volcanic island grew thicker and thicker and continued to rise, with only smoke but no fire, someone finally reported this strange phenomenon.

The actual ruler of Watch Harbor is a chamber of commerce of the Talia Alliance, called the Golden Shore Chamber of Commerce.

The Jin'an Chamber of Commerce naturally has capable people who can recognize that the mountain on the small island on the Shining Sea is a volcano. Now the volcano has begun to smoke and it may erupt at any time. If the amount of eruption is large, the overwhelming volcanic ash will definitely have an impact on Watch Harbor.

There had been no movement for hundreds of years, so why did smoke suddenly start coming out?

It must be that the fire-melting salamanders living on that island have made some moves. You know, almost all of those fire-melting salamanders are cultists who believe in the evil fire elemental prince Imish.

It is better to be safe than sorry. We must take precautions before it happens. Anyway, the Jin'an Chamber of Commerce has plenty of money.

Please, ask those adventurers to go to the island and investigate the situation. Once we have found out the truth, everyone can sleep well at night.

I just applied for fifty gold coins, took out ten gold coins to reward adventurers, and then had forty gold coins left... The housing prices in Mirren were really getting more and more expensive, and this amount of money was not enough to even buy a toilet.

The mayor, who is also the manager of the Golden Shore Chamber of Commerce, asked his assistant to offer a reward for the adventurer, and the assistant asked his men to help him run a trip to the tavern... What kind of outstanding adventurer can you hire with just one gold coin? You can only hire hooligans.

The ruffians are not stupid either. It is better to say that they are often "smarter" than adventurers. Once they have made up their minds, they will go to the island to take a look and then return home immediately. Otherwise, what if they provoke those fire-molten salamanders?
If Leon hadn't ordered the fire-melting salamanders to keep an eye on them, they would never have been able to catch those clever little ghosts. But isn't this an explanation? So when those clever little ghosts landed on the island, they encountered a group of fire-melting salamanders, including salamander warriors and even salamander knights. They tied them up and brought them to Leon.

"Please spare my life, sir, please spare my life."

"I kowtow to you."

Seeing those "adventurers" kowtow, admit their mistakes, and beg for mercy as soon as they met, and then hearing that the Jin'an Chamber of Commerce offered a reward of a gold coin for them to investigate the smoking volcano, Lyon suddenly didn't want to ask anything. He waved his hand and arranged for the fire-melting salamanders to send those people to the mine to mine.

They were either sent to be slaves or sent through labor reform.

One gold coin was worth a lot of money, but there was actually someone who took up the job of offering a gold coin bounty to an adventurer who wanted to land on an island full of Molten Salamanders to conduct an investigation. Leon couldn't understand it no matter how hard he tried.

The first group of "adventurers" were there purely for fun, and they turned around and ran when they saw the Fire Starlings. Unfortunately, they could not outrun the Fire Starlings, who were amphibious and good at swimming.

Because the first group of "adventurers" had not returned for a long time and seemed to have suffered a terrible misfortune, they learned their lesson and the second group of adventurers became significantly stronger. First of all, they were real adventurers and their team configuration was also reasonable. They did not panic at all when they encountered the patrol of the Fire Molten Salamanders. They did not even wait for the Fire Molten Salamander Warlock to take action, and they managed to escape unscathed.

"There's something wrong with those newts. They're clearly on patrol, so there must be some evil ritual being prepared on the top of the mountain."

This is the information that the escaped adventurer team brought back to Watch Harbor.

There were elves living in the forest next to the Watch Harbor, and an elf druid from the Moon Society was invited out, transforming into a harmless seagull and flying into the sky to investigate the volcanic island. This was something that neither Leon nor the fire giant had expected. Who would pay attention to a small seagull?

A fire giant presided over a ceremony on the top of a volcano. This was news enough to make the bigwigs in Watchport panic.

"Why would a fire giant appear in the sea?" The thin man was the tax collector of Watch Harbor. "I'm not doubting Your Excellency Druid. I'm just a little curious."

"The fire giant did not appear in the sea, but in the volcano." The captain of the security touched his bald head and was very troubled. "The fire giant must be awakening the volcano and then settling down in the volcano... We must stop the fire giant and drive it away, otherwise it will definitely continue to rob merchant ships and fishermen, making us never at peace."

"Can we ask for help from Mr. Druid?" The mayor looked at the elven druid.

"I can't do that." The Elf Druid shook his head. "You should go to my teacher. He is the Archdruid."

The challenge level is not the profession level. Generally speaking, the challenge level is lower than the profession level.

An archdruid who can cast ninth-level spells, rarely interacts with people in civilized society, and won't take action easily unless something poses a great threat to the natural order appears, might have a challenge rating of 12, which is slightly higher than that of a fire giant.

The Archdruid would not attack casually, so it was not feasible to ask an Archdruid to deal with the Fire Giant. It was difficult to find someone as powerful as the Archdruid, but someone a little weaker than the Archdruid was still possible, so at most we could just find a few more. So the Jin'an Chamber of Commerce had plenty of money, and there would be brave men under a big reward, even if the enemy was a powerful Fire Giant, there would still be people who signed up enthusiastically.

In the game, an adventurer team can have a maximum of four people... At least the challenge level is for reference for an adventurer team of four. In reality, there is no such stubborn rule. You can have as many people as you want, five, ten or even twenty people.

This team of adventurers newly assembled in Watch Harbor did not have as many as twenty people, but it was not a small number either, with a total of six people, covering most professions.

Everyone worked together, and the wizard even used magic to cover the small boat from Watch Harbor to Volcano Island so that everyone could sneak into the Volcano Island quietly.

In front of such a small team of adventurers, the occasional Fire Starlings they encounter are nothing. As soon as they meet, they will either be chopped down or controlled. No one can escape.

"Don't kill it." The bard stopped the barbarian who raised the butcher knife.

"What do you want to do?" The barbarian did not put down his knife and looked at the bard curiously.

They were adventurers who had temporarily collaborated and did not trust each other.

"You'll know in a moment." The bard walked up to the Salamander Warrior and began to prepare a spell to charm humans.

The bard who could participate in the crusade against the fire giant was definitely not weak, and there was no reason why he could not succeed against a weak molten salamander warrior. Now, in the eyes of the enchanted molten salamander warrior, the enemy who killed his people to pieces has become a close acquaintance.

The bard likes to travel between places with his experiences, rumors and intelligence. He prefers to solve problems through communication rather than fighting. He knows the languages ​​of all races... He still doesn't know the rare Ignan language, but he has no problem with Draconic. The Fire Tribe people usually know Draconic. He said, "Dear friend, can I ask you a few questions?"

The bard was good at talking, and with the help of Charm Human, the fire-melting warrior almost told him about it and other fire-melting man-made people. In fact, if everyone was not waiting for information, the bard really wanted to gossip, then there would be more things to say when performing and showing off in the future.

"Well?" the Savage asked eagerly. "What did you find out?"

"The fire giant came a week ago, but it didn't come alone. There was also a human." The bard pondered, "That human can transform into red scales, horns, wings, and a tail."

"A dragon vein sorcerer?" the wizard interrupted.

Magic itself is an integral part of the sorcerer's being. This latent power permeates the sorcerer's body, mind, and soul, waiting to be unleashed.

The magic wielded by some warlocks comes from the dragon magic overflowing in the blood of their ancestors, and the origin of the magic of most kobold warlocks comes from the dragon bloodline.

Many warlocks with dragon blood will grow corresponding scales on their faces. These scales can give them better defense. As they become stronger, they can also gain a pair of dragon wings that can be spread from the back. What's more, they can even guide the terrifying aura of the dragon ancestors, that is, terrifying majesty.

The bard swallowed and continued, "The most important information is that the Molten Salamander said that the Fire Giant was just a helper, and the Dragon Vein Warlock was the mastermind behind this matter."

The bard told everything he knew, and the air suddenly became quiet.

"So?" a ranger asked, "are we going to deal with the efreet now, or with the dragon vein sorcerer?"

"The bounty is for us to deal with the efreet." The wanderer held the back of his head.

"But the evil dragon vein warlock is the culprit." said the righteous lady knight. The lady knight was judging by her attire, her profession was a warrior, not a paladin.

"Isn't this just right?" The rogue said, "We deal with the fire giants this time, and next time they will invite us to deal with the dragon vein sorcerer."

"This is a scam," said Miss Knight.

"Our employer asked us to deal with the fire giants, so we deal with the fire giants. What's wrong with that?" the wanderer asked back.

Seeing that the temporary team was about to fall out, the wizard stood up and said, "Let's vote democratically. The minority shall obey the majority."

After a vote, they finally decided to deal with the Dragon Vein Warlock first, because the bard muttered that the Dragon Vein Warlock would definitely be easier to deal with than the Fire Giant. If they defeated the Dragon Vein Warlock, the volcano on the sea was not a good place, and the Fire Giant might just leave on his own, so they wouldn't have to deal with such a strong enemy.

(End of this chapter)