Chapter 320 - Welzer Artej

As they walked through the tunnel of which Kazer broke through, apparently with the aid of lava on his palms. Kazer explained it to Eric with the little Ignite language he knew, the reason behind it?

When Commander Alia exchanged some dialogue with Kazer as they were walking through the tunnel, she explained that Eric is here to train Lava Controlling, what better place could they use for that than the wonderful town of Lan Zhe?

However, Kazer showed Eric how this trick works just to get him as excited as possible to train his magical powers. He blew lava against the side of the tunnel where more Volcanic rock was left, it worked rather well as the lava sliced through the rock like a knife through butter, if that knife wasn't hot that is.

Um, Commander Alia doesn't really like the term "magic" anymore since she got to meet the mother of all Demons face to face. These are just pure powers born with any random individual who in some terms met the biological build up.

She will have to explain more about Demons to these people, but for now she just wants to take a good long rest and possibly chow down on some watermelon. Odd enough, Commander Alia didn't see any watermelons on any other domains, most grow wheat grain.

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"Zat Kuzar Welzer Artej." Was heard out of a sudden once they've reached through the tunnel.

The sound echoed like thunder and could shake one's heart with ease, once one would see what's going on, a lot of goosebumps would follow. The people who shouted like this, were the Calidum Lutum gathered here to give the Golden Blood a kind loving greet.

"Zat Kuzar Welzer Artej." They've repeated again, beautiful to see and wonderful to hear but Ada took one step backwards and hid half of her body behind Commander Alia. I mean this scared almost everyone until they figured out what's going on.

"They are saying, "All hail Golden Blood." Commander Alia bent down a little bit to meet the King's size and whispered to her ear, telling him to act according to custom. "Tap your right leg with your left hand."

And so he continued taking a step forward although all this honour made him intensely nervous, he spoke "Thank you thank you." In his own Ignite language as loud as he could under pressure and tapped his right leg with his left hand. "I'm honoured."

Like Commander Alia, Eric too expected that the town wouldn't be so welcoming due to the fact that 12 Calidum Lutum guards died in the battle of Pameres Kingdom whe they were under his Command.

But no, the main entrance up here in the beginning of the town is carrying as many Calidum Lutum as physically possible with some rowing up in the spiraling down walk way in the Volcano, taking a peek on his right he could even see a lot of Calidum Lutum around the Volcano.

There is little space there considering that everything else is carved in the Volcano walls including residence but they managed to fit. As he took a peek a bit upwards, he could even see a couple of Calidum Lutum men up in a little cave wielding an enlarged crossbow.

It seems like they honoured Eric's order back in the beginning when he became King, he wanted for men to Guard the main entrance here with a Crossbow. Or women for that matter too, the Crossbow requires a wielder shorter in height even though the Crossbows are built larger here by the wonderful Blacksmith.

Getting back to the point, Kazer spoke a one word sentence. "Feast."

Mogranius' favourite words. He basically eats anything you give him and has a curious taste, but he could sure use something that tastes a bit better for once. Because although the Wild Boar meat tasty, it feels too heavy in the stomach.

Almost a year ago when they've first arrived here, there was barely any food and the 700 people here were starving. Now the population count has increased although 13 Guards died, thanks to all that food provided people here weren't so worried about feeding children properly. So they made more.

What was a town of 700 people a year ago, now counts 800. Shortly speaking there are 100 babies ranging from 0 to 10 months old. It is indeed a huge increase and in enough time it will just make Lan Zhe further indomitable.

The Calidum Lutum cleared the way for the King and his companions to walk down on the feast room located once going down two spirals, 15 meters on the right away from the mine. This room has been specifically designed for big feasts and is not used every day.

It can fit everyone here because it is 50 meters wide and 200 meters long, in fact a whole lot of space will be left untouched. The advantage of living around a half mile long volcano is that they have a lot of place to carve, it took quite a while to even reach down to the second spiral due to the long distance.

As Eric was close to finally enter the room after all that walking, a child's scream was heard which was loud enough to grab his attention in between all the murmur. He took a peek back and saw a child falling down the volcano head first.

Not wasting a second, he blew fire from his feet and flew head first towards this kid who in some way slipped off the 2 meter wide walk way nearly 20 meters away from Eric. Approaching closer and closer, he is further figuring out that this child might not be a complete child after all.

The person who started falling down, now has reached half way down the Volcano. It will really prove troublesome since he has already gathered a lot of momentum due to his or her weight.

It will take a whole lot of effort to save him or her without accidentally causing a wound with the fire blowing down through his feet.

Now being just above 100 meters away from the lava, the kid seemed to have accepted his fate (Eric realised that it is a he.) And he just didn't notice Eric thanks to all the panicking people screaming above their heads.

If any of the Grand Masters were down here they would have helped in some way but they are up there because they wanted to welcome Eric.

Eric Grabbed the kid underneath the arm pits and tried tremendously hard to slow him down from falling and manuver himself in such a way where he doesn't burn the kid nor makes the fall worst.

The kid he has on his grasp, weighs equally to an a.d.u.l.t Ignite man. Eric doesn't know for sure, but it feels around 70kg. Due to all of that momentum, this 70 kg child feels like trying to lift a Kingdom's wall from the ground and slip underneath it.

Bad enough, they are just about 90 meters away from the abnormally hot lava. The kid can already feel the heat and has started panicking, but not enough to yell out exaggerately.

Out of a sudden, he saw another pair of hands grabbing the kid around the waist area and when very focused he could see another pair of hands underneath the falling kid, pushing his legs up.

The person closest to Eric is Mogranius who too has flown down here when he noticed the Kid falling and Eric flying after him. The women underneath the kid's feet trying to lift him up, was Dilli Flury. She followed Mogranius once figuring out the situation.

Adjusting their bodies so they don't accidentally burn anyone, the sudden shift of momentum was more than noticeable and it felt like a relief on Eric's arms.

Bear Claw gave out a lot of energy underneath and thanks to it slipped higher and started hugging the little boy's knees. She has the strongest advantage here because she doesn't have to worry about burning anyone while Eric and Mogranius have to blow out their fire on the sides!

Mogranius gave enough boost as well, and they finally managed to slow down the heavy falling. Just in time even because the Lava is just 10 meters underneath! In great panic that her feet are burning this bad, Bear Claw gave double the power and started flying the kid along with the two Fire Controllers upwards.

The shift became so sudden that they had to stop blasting fire and clung on the kid so they don't burn him accidentally. In a matter of seconds, Bear Claw flew them 200 meters high until her feet felt relief.

Right after, Eric separated from the three since he is the lightest weight and wouldn't cause much of a orientation problem and Mogranius detached after him which caused Dilli just a little trouble but nothing she couldn't handle.

The two fire controllers maneuvered their selves mid air and flew upwards gently while Dilli gradually slowed down her speed. The amount of fire she blew through her feet at that moment showed quite well what danger can unlock within a soul.

Dilli flew all the way up the second spiral of the walk way and gently dropped the kid on it, she saw a couple larger Calidum Lutum rushing through the crowd.

As they approached, they hugged the kid and showered Dilli with countless sentences of love and gratitude although she couldn't understand a thing.

They pulled Dilli from mid air and trapped her in a family hug, she felt a bit squeezed in between but couldn't help blushing a tad bit over this kind warm feeling.