This dramatic turn of events temporarily put a halt to Angel's plan to take a detour.
Clinging to the side of the ship, Grewu watched the Mandigu Worm's corpse below slowly being covered by the gushing lava, utterly speechless.
With Bobota's mockery still ringing in his ears, Grewu muttered, "Although Mandigu Worms live near volcanoes, they aren't actually fire-element Demonic Beasts. They only stay active near volcanoes because they need certain substances released from them. And they're actually very afraid of high temperatures and fire..."
But even if the Mandigu Worm feared fire, no one had expected it to be pierced through and killed in a single blow.
What was even more astonishing was that the volcano had only erupted for an instant.
And now it had actually stopped again?!
It was as though it had erupted deliberately, solely to kill that Mandigu Worm.
In the end, they classified the matter as a coincidence. There were countless triggers for a volcanic eruption—from something as minor as an abnormal speck of dust to something as major as crustal movement. Perhaps the Mandigu Worm's earth-shaking roar had set off an avalanche-like chain reaction, ultimately causing the volcano to erupt and claim its own life.
But one incident could be called a coincidence. If they encountered another similar coincidence, then there had to be something strange behind it.
As they continued flying onward, they encountered something very similar to the Mandigu Worm incident.
In this pitch-black world, the brightest things were probably the flames cast by lava. Ahead lay a stretch of lava pools radiating firelight... Though calling them lava pools might be too limiting. That orange-red world stretched beyond sight, enough to be called a vast Lava Lake—or rather, a sea of lava!
After passing through the volcanic region, this was the