p> Without walking far, we reached a gigantic lava lake which had a striking resemblance when I was at the top of the volcanic crater, just that this lava lake had a ceiling while the volcanic crater was open to the sky. In the center of the lava lake was a gigantic island, but it was impossible to jump across. Luckily, I had wings, and flying was not a problem.

I unsummoned the Phantom Knights and flew over to the island in the center of the lake, and summoned the Phantom Knights once again. This way, the Phantom Knights could assess the Island with me. The temperature on the island was much higher than the outside, and the rate at which I was losing my HP exceeded that of my HP regeneration. It compelled me to swallow pills occasionally to keep my HP up. Luckily, the Phantom Knights were at extremely high levels and were not worried over the loss of HP.

At the center of the Island was some sort of Altar with a Stone Plague above which had some words carved into it. I led the Phantom Knights over, the temperature of the ground was truly horrifying, every step I took would produce green smoke from beneath my feet. Very quickly, we reached the Altar, and that was when I finally saw a brownish red wooden sword stabbed into the Stone Plague. The Sword tip was stabbed deep into the Plague, with less than a chi**** left exposed out of the stone. But from the Chinese Dragon shape hilt and its unique carvings, I knew that it was one of China's National Treasure.

I went up to grab the sword hilt and right when I was about to pull it out, I suddenly noticed words written above the Stone Plague. I released my grip on the sword and swiped the dust away, revealing the words below, that were written in Chinese.

Sage Tai Zu encountered a restless Fire Source, afraid that it would take lives, used the Deity Sword to protect the land. If the Deity Sword is unleashed, the Flames will lose control, and lives will be seized! To move this Sword, one has to first cast the Spirit Stone into the flames, eliminating the intensity of the flames!

The words were written vaguely, but I got the gist of it. Firstly, the sword was called Deity Sword, and it was used to stabilize the lava pool, as long as the Sword were to be separated from the Plague, the lava lake would churn and the mountain would become an active Volcano. To prevent the lake from turning active, one had to throw the Spirit Stone into the flames. But I had already eaten the Spirit Stone, how could I find another Spirit Stone to throw it in! But, since we were in Japan, although I did not know where the Teleportation had brought me to, I was sure that we were still within Japan itself. Since the Volcano would not burn the Chinese, then let it burn!

Who cares, I grabbed the sword hilt and pulled it out.

Ssshhinngggg!

The Deity Sword was easily drawn by me, but at the same time, the lava started to churn. I unsummoned the Phantom Knights and used my Wings to fly back to the main land. The lake was already turning active with bubbles constantly forming on the surface of the lava and already looked extremely unstable, as though it could blow at any moment. The Deity Sword suddenly flashed with a faint white light, and a white barrier formed around me. I calmed down, the Sword was able to stabilize the entire Lake, protecting me alone would not be a problem.

I had already flown over the lake, thus I leaned on the wall and waited for the Volcano's eruption to form a way out for me. The lake became more and more unstable, inside the churning lava, there would occasionally be lava spouts spewing up over seven to eight meters before falling back into the lake. Suddenly, the ground started to tremble, and the wall that I was leaning on collapsed. The Lava started to surge towards me. A tunnel appeared at where the wall had collapsed and the lava surged into the tunnel like a flood. But the light barrier did not break, thus I did not suffer from any damage.

What I did not notice was that the cave had a total of eight such tunnels that appeared, where the rising lava had flowed into, flowing into eight different directions...

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(*) Ziri's base attributes at the start of the game was Str 13, Dex 6, Int 2, Charisma 6, Spirit 3 and Constitution 8

(**) The Spring Water was most likely obtained from the Spring of Life, but Thunderstorm never wrote much about it after that.

(***)I've looked through the novel but could not find any Dark Knights that had summoned this spell, most likely a mistake, or I did not read properly. If anyone remembers a scene where some Dark Knight in some Valley (the valley that I remembered was the one where he went to train and encountered high-level mobs at the Lost City in the beginning, but there were no Skeletal Hands there.)

(****) Chi = Chinese foot = 30 cm