Flick. Flick.
This time, I used the undead gargoyle again.
A guy flying through the sky like a drone, holding a holy spear in his hand, was wandering around Mt. Fuji…
Heh heh! Heh!
As if the thing in their hands were a snack, the magma hellhounds ran away, wagging their tails.
“Haha, guys. Is it really that good?”
Gehenna’s threatening field effect in pursuit of souls.
But now, as if the sensor was broken, all the hellhounds were madly chasing after Seongchang.
Lee Yong-soo added, as if he found it ironic.
“We are completely left out.”
“Well… there are only four of us. They have a thousand.”
Was it because their numbers had increased dramatically?
The speed of the magma, made up of hellhounds, had increased exponentially.
Boooow!
Choaaaak!
So, after a while of playing tag between the gargoyles floating in the sky and the hellhounds digging through the lava like dolphins…
Kwaaaaaaaah!
The gargoyle dropped the holy spear that had transformed into a bomb, and a massive holy blast engulfed the hellhounds of Gehenna.
Gulp!
The magma melted perfectly.
It was a scene no different from before, but the shock must have been so great that the hellhounds could no longer raise their bodies.
“Now, we can finally go in a little more comfortably.”
After dealing with the guards, we headed straight for the passage we had discovered earlier.
A dozen spears were thrust into the entrance blocked by a huge rock.
As if digging a tunnel with dynamite, a divine explosion occurred along with a countdown.
Kwaarrung!
An entrance was instantly opened by the divine explosion.
Inside, a long passage leading inward was revealed, exposing the magma.
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The interior was a cave scene that was not so unfamiliar.
Just taking out the battery-powered studio lights and shining them around,
Dozens of pipes of different thicknesses could be seen extending throughout the cave.
“What a truly fascinating sight…”
Daichi looked around as if he hadn’t known the area below Mt. Fuji would be like this.
Of course, this mountain was no longer Mt. Fuji in the natural sense.
It had been modified by Gehenna and was infused with their fire and magma.
“Still, that’s fortunate. I think I can find it at this level.”
Lee Yong-soo added.
It was true that the unique heat made it stifling, but it wasn’t unbearable.
Because all the hot air was contained in those pipes.
Kim Sol asked as we looked around inside the large cave.
“It’s really big. How do we find that Gehenna fire or whatever it is?”
“There is a way to do everything.”
Gehenna’s magma flowed through spicy pipes all around.
According to Cooper, Gehenna installed a complex network of pipes, much like the passageways of an anthill, but normally only one of the pipes allowed magma to flow.
“Then what about the rest?”
“…They say the rest are used to make the volcano erupt. To spew lava in all directions…”
“…I hope I never have to see that.”
One thing was clear, however. There must be a pipe through which magma flows.
And…
Tiring!
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It must be connected to the fire of Gehenna.
Indeed, when we turned on the thermal imaging camera, we were able to confirm that only one pipe was dyed red.
I pointed the group toward the red line leading into the cave.
“It’s over there.”
“Now that we know the direction, we just need to go quickly.”
CLANG!
Two motorcycles were shipped.
Lee Yong-soo and Kim Sol each took the wheel, and I got in the backseat of Lee Yong-soo’s bike, while Daichi got in the backseat of Kim Sol’s.
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So we sped along, guided by the red thermal imaging pipe, and before long, we reached a huge cone-shaped cavity.
The unmistakable heart of Gehenna.
In the center of the room was a large circle that opened into the sky, from which a faint light occasionally streamed out.
Judging by its straight shape, it seemed that this could also be called a type of pipe.
“Are we going out there?”
If Mt. Fuji were to erupt, magma would surge up through none other than that conduit.
I hoped that wouldn’t happen, though.
Meanwhile, unlike me, the rest of the group was looking down rather than up.
“And…”
Exclamations burst out one after another.
Below, there was a huge, deep pit, like a well.
At first glance, it looked like it would easily be 100 meters deep.
At its center, pipes extending from all directions were gathered together to form a straight sphere.
“Where should I look…”
When viewed with a thermal imaging camera, a red, almost white heat was gathered at its center.
In short, it meant that inside was the hottest lava I had ever seen, and it wasn’t hard to deduce what that meant.
“The fire of Gehenna… I think it’s down there.”
Cooper said that they were drawing up magma from the strata of the dimension occupied by Gehenna and processing it for use as their own resource.
The pipes filling the inside of the volcano, and the fire of Gehenna that heats the pipes like a boiler, were all part of such resource utilization.
It was from the magma drawn from the ground and heated by fire that the reproduction and life of Gehenna originated.
Now that we knew the exact location, all we needed to do was use Daichi to retrieve the fire, but…
“I have a feeling… I’m sorry. I can’t do it from this distance.”
Unfortunately, it didn’t reach Daichi’s range.
That meant we had no choice but to go straight into that deep hole.
Yong-soo Lee, who had been quietly listening, opened his mouth and pointed around the pit.
“It looks like it was built during construction, but there seems to be a spiral groove running along the hole. If you don’t move around too much in the back seat, you should be able to ride a motorcycle through it somehow.”
Indeed, as he said, there was a road that was barely wide enough for one thin wheel to fit.
It was an extremely risky strategy that no one but Lee Yong-soo could have imagined—to go down that narrow road while carrying a person behind him.
“I think I’m going to sweat a bit today. Haha.”
Phew!
It was an excitement incomparable to anything seen before.
Regardless of the pipe, the ‘Gehenna Fire’ was adding heat down there.
Kim Sol opened her mouth as the hot air blew from the center of the pit.
“I’ll go and block it. It won’t be long anyway.”
A strategy where Lee Yong-soo drives, Kim Sol defends, and Daichi retrieves the fire.
Finally, I…
“Do you need to go that far?”
Kim Sol asked back.
Including me, there were four people.
No matter how much of a master driver Lee Yong-soo was, he couldn’t perform stunts with three people in the back like a bunch of high school students.
“Well, if you pull it up at the right time, it might work…”
If Daichi were to seal the fire of Gehenna, then we could just pull them in to retrieve the goods.
Common sense suggested that it was efficient, but somehow I felt uneasy about leaving the risky task to just three people.
But then…
“The three of us should go down. I think I should stay here.”
“Huh? Why all of a sudden?”
I was looking at the thermal imaging camera.
Hundreds of thousands of pipes spread throughout the common area.
Because every single one of them was so excited.
“…It looks like it’s going to explode here.”
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“It looks like it’s going to explode here.”
Cooper explained that normally only one pipe was used.
The fact that magma was filling all the pipes was a sure sign that an explosion was imminent.
Squeak!
Yongsu Lee, his expression hardened, quickly grabbed the handlebar, and Daichi also ran toward the motorcycle.
If the volcano erupted, it was clear that it would affect not only Japan but also Korea and Elvenheim on either side.
Moreover, this was not a normal volcano but a means of “breeding” for Gehanna.
“We have to put out the fire quickly.”
And the best way to stop the explosion was to steal their main energy source—Gehanna’s fire.
“Okay, if you’re going to do something, do it quickly!”
Knock!
Kim Sol ran to the motorcycle, shouting urgently. She jumped into the back seat and immediately deployed the barrier.
Booooooo!
As Lee Yong-soo pulled the handle, the wheels scraped the pavement.
They started going down the narrow, spiral path inside the pit, precariously.
“Of course…”
It was unclear whether this would stop the explosion.
The magma had already boiled as much as it could.
And that was exactly why I decided to stay on top.
The principle of a volcanic eruption is simple.
Magma accumulates, condenses, exerts pressure, and then explodes out of the surface when it can no longer withstand the pressure.
It wasn’t clear exactly how they were causing the explosion, but they had identified a cylindrical pipe opening into the ceiling.
That meant the magma would go beyond the level of a volcanic eruption and shoot up into the sky like a bullet.
“…We have to at least weaken its power.”
Yongsu Lee moved down the pit at a rapid rate.
I shouted at him.
“Mr. Yongsu! You might be a little shaken!”
“I will take that into consideration!”
Even though he was riding his motorcycle so precariously that it seemed like he might fall off at any moment, Lee Yong-soo gave a thumbs-up.
Kwaaang!
I was aiming for the thickest pipe that ran straight through the center—a passage through which a large amount of magma was moving.
Crunch!
Gulp!
Magma flowed out around the area where the lance was inserted.
Whoosh!
The lava that had hardened like dirt was engulfed in flames once again, taking on the appearance of the hellhound we had seen from outside.
Boom!
Those creatures ran toward me.
I quickly took out the gargoyle and lured them with a holy spear containing 1,000 vengeful spirits, but—
Gulp gulp!
The number of hellhounds was growing to an unmanageable level.
“…Is this even possible?”
Dduk dduk!
Simply poking a hole in the pipe was not enough to stop the explosion.
But if we destroyed all the pipes, the party might get swept away by the pouring magma.
Kugugugugu…
As if things weren’t bad enough, an earthquake was occurring, making it seem like the volcano might explode at any moment.
“Go away!”
Swish! Swish!
I continued throwing lances containing the souls of demons into the passage we had come through.
At a guess, there must have been at least a few hundred spears.
Since there were tens of thousands of vengeful spirits, the hellhounds also ran toward them, foaming at the mouth…
As the number of hellhounds increased, some even started rushing toward me directly, ignoring the Holy Spear.
Phew!
Catch up!
It was obvious that using water to put them out would only make them more threatening, so I swung my war hammer and pushed them down into the pit one by one.
A space already filled with excitement.
As I mingled with the hellhounds made of magma, my entire body was now drenched in sweat.
Kookookookookook!
The ground was shaking more and more violently.
Now, with no room to step, the hellhounds had filled the inside of the room…
“Mr. Jeong-gyeom! I got you!”
Lee Yong-soo brought good news.
“…Product recall.”
He immediately used the portal to pull them deep underground.
Yongsu Lee, who put down his motorcycle with an exhausted expression, Sol Kim, whose barrier was flickering as if it was about to turn off, and Daichi, who had passed out with tattoos all over his body, were all sucked into the portal…
I, too, gave in to the flow.
Finally,
“Blasting.”
Hundreds of spears that had been thrown into the passage exploded.
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