Earthquake, Volcano

After drinking the vial of cola-flavored antidote and waiting a little, Roy noticed that the numbness in his shoulder had eased somewhat.

It really worked. The effect was not obvious, but it could indeed detoxify him.

Roy immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Now, only his wounds remained.

He had originally wanted to create a Hemostatic Potion and bandages to dress his wounds, but the thought of the soul consumption pained him a little. So, he could not help looking at the nearby Little Demons fighting in pairs. Even if those Little Demons defeated their opponents, they definitely would not emerge unscathed. Roy wanted to see how they dealt with their wounds.

The result... was that most injured Little Demons simply kept licking their wounds to stop the bleeding...

That beast-like behavior left Roy helpless, but he could only imitate them. He knew very well that excessive blood loss was bad for any living creature, demons included.

Fortunately, the revolver in Roy's hand posed quite a deterrent to the nearby Little Demons, so no one came to bother him afterward. Roy quietly licked his wounds. Before long, although his badly injured left arm was still agonizingly painful, the bleeding did gradually begin to stop.

The survival of the fittest on the beach continued. From time to time, weaker Little Demons were killed by their opponents. Yet the souls exposed by those dead Little Demons were immediately devoured by their killers, leaving no chance for other Little Demons to covet them. Seeing this, Roy gave up on the idea of secretly taking advantage.

Souls were self-evidently important to Roy, who possessed the system, but demons suffered from Soul Devouring Addiction. This had invisibly given Roy a great many competitors. Whenever he thought of it, Roy could not help sighing.

After the bleeding stopped, Roy opened the System Interface. This time, he drew some revolver bullets, then consumed a portion of the Four-Eyed Little Devil's soul to materialize them and load them into his Five Mao Effect pistol.

He did not know what he might encounter later, so keeping his weapon ready was very important.

However, just as he filled the cylinder, the situation suddenly changed.

The ground suddenly began to shake violently!

The tremors were so intense that even Roy, standing on the ground, was shaken dizzy.

What was going on? Was it a Great Earthquake?

The shaking lasted for a while before slowly fading. Roy Came to His Senses, only to find that the Little Demons around him, who had just been fighting madly, had all stopped at once after the tremor! As though awakening from a dream, with no one calling out to them, they suddenly let out strange cries and desperately rushed forward.

Those without wings ran across the ground on all fours, while those with wings took to the sky. Even if they could not fly high, they still pushed forward desperately.

The moment he saw the Little Demons move, Roy followed without another word. He did not know why they were running in that direction, or why they were running at all, but he knew that so many Little Demons taking the same action could not be a coincidence. Something Must Be about to happen.

Roy's left arm was injured, but fortunately, he was used to running on two Legs, so it did not affect his mobility. Roy secretly rejoiced that it had not been his legs injured in the earlier battle. Otherwise, he would have been in trouble now.

Following within the Demon Army, he crossed the vast beach. The wisps of smoke caused by the scorching heat gradually dispersed, and the sight ahead slowly became clearer.

The Little Demons' destination was actually a black volcano ahead, its top billowing thick smoke!

Could the volcano be about to erupt!? Roy thought uneasily. But if it was going to erupt, why were the Little Demons not fleeing? Why were they rushing straight toward it instead?

Yet regardless of what Roy thought, the Little Demons running at the front charged up the volcano from its foot without hesitation. They leaped between ravines formed by flowing lava, crossed Bizarrely Shaped Black Stones, and climbed all the way toward the summit. Meanwhile, the winged Insectoid and bird-like demons flew directly to the Volcano Top, then plunged headfirst into the vent!

They really were going inside the volcano? Roy was astonished, but when he turned to look at the vast Demon Army closely following behind him, he could only grit his teeth and run up the mountain with the crowd.

He knew that he lacked the instincts imprinted in a demon's bones and their Memory Inheritance. Things that other Little Demons knew, he did not. Since every Little Demon was running into the volcano, they Must Be doing so for a reason. It was impossible that every Little Demon was seeking death, right? So he just had to follow them!

As for whether he would die in the sea of fire because of a Volcanic Eruption, Roy could only wait and see what the other Little Demons did, then do the same.

The volcano was quite tall. Fortunately, it was bare and open at a glance, so there was no possibility of getting lost. Climbing in a straight line did not take much time, and before long, Roy reached the eruption vent at the Volcano Top.

It was his first time seeing the inside of a volcano from this position. Within a deep, nearly vertical pit, thick smoke was steadily increasing. At the bottom of the volcano, a bright Fiery Red glow had already emerged. The thin Rock Layer that had solidified at the bottom after the last eruption was now covered in countless irregular Cracks. That bright Fiery Red light seeped out from beneath those Cracks. At first glance, it looked as though countless Fiery Red bolts of lightning had appeared at the bottom of the volcano. It was truly a spectacular sight!

Spectacular as it was, the meaning behind it was terrifying. At this rate, it might not be long before the cracked Rock Layer could no longer withstand the pressure and was completely burst through by the boiling magma below, ultimately causing a Volcanic Eruption. If he did not find a way out quickly, he would be struck by the erupting magma and die without even a corpse left behind!

Standing at the top of the crater, Roy looked back in all directions and finally realized that the Hatching Grounds was actually an island. Far in the distance, the Blood-Red ocean surrounded it on all sides. Judging from how the Hatching Grounds had extended all the way to the shore earlier, the volcano's eruption range was enormous. One could say that the entire island was covered by the eruption zone. Unless they went out to sea, there was no way to avoid the Volcanic Eruption.

And who knew whether that strange Blood-Red sea contained any dangerous creatures?

No wonder all those Little Demons had run to the crater before the volcano erupted. They had nowhere else to take shelter...

Watching the Little Demons begin climbing down along the Crater Wall one after another, Roy imitated them. He dug the claws of all four limbs into the Rock Layer and climbed downward. But with his left arm injured, Roy could only keep the revolver in his left hand and climb using his right arm and legs.

He moved cautiously, making sure he had a firm grip with every step, because he saw quite a few Little Demons lose their footing and fall, only to be smashed to pieces on that thin Rock Layer...