Half an hour later.
On the mountainside of the now-calm Vesuvius Dak Volcano, inside a Conference Room in the four-story Stone Tower of the Affairs Office at the center of Pompeii Town.
Several dozen Wizards sat around a rectangular table. Long Mei Er sat at one end of it, occupying the leading position and presiding over the meeting. At Long Mei Er's roll call and inquiries, the Wizards seated on either side spoke one after another.
Richard sat at a corner of the table. He sat upright without saying a word, appearing to listen intently to the others, but in reality, most of his thoughts had already left the Conference Room and drifted elsewhere.
Come to think of it, when Long Mei Er had suddenly called on him to attend this meeting half an hour earlier, he had been somewhat stunned. He had thought Long Mei Er had discovered some suspicious clue and wanted him to explain himself in a formal setting.
But after attending the meeting, he discovered that Long Mei Er had neither found the underground space beneath his residence, nor discovered that he had been stealing volcanic energy, much less that he was secretly manufacturing a terrifying weapon in Eden Garden—the Implosion-Type Atomic Bomb.
Long Mei Er had not mentioned the spell electromagnetic pulse that had caused Pompeii Town's energy system to collapse, either. Clearly, he truly had not detected the truth behind the Pompeii Town incident and had merely attributed it to accidental factors.
That made him breathe a sigh of relief.
The reason Long Mei Er had asked him to attend the meeting was mainly the reconstruction of the Energy System.
The Energy System was undoubtedly completely damaged now. Repairing it was nearly impossible; the only feasible option was to build it anew from scratch.