Drow Matriarch!

(Forget it. If my old book got taken down, so be it. Revising it has been frustrating. I'll focus on this one for now and start posting extra chapters the day after tomorrow.)

Soren moved deeper into the mountain.

Suddenly, he seemed to sense something and sped off in one direction.

A deity's senses were extraordinarily keen. Whether it was Elemental Energy, fluctuations in spells, or something amiss in the surroundings, a deity could detect it with astonishing precision. As soon as Soren entered the mountain, he sensed something wrong with the ley lines. The fire element was too dense and turbulent, far beyond what was normal. Even with his eyes closed, he could feel its terrifying power deep underground.

"What happened here?"

Soren's expression turned grave. "Has history changed somehow? I don't remember anything this unusual happening here!"

Soren had rarely paid attention to the Ancient Red Dragon in the past.

He knew an Elder Dragon lived here, but no one would challenge it without a good reason. He knew little about the mountain's interior.

The deeper he went, the more obvious the disturbance in the fire element became.

Soren was almost certain the Ancient Red Dragon's lair lay ahead, but he still did not know what had happened.

Magma!

Soren saw something that made no sense.

Magma was rarely visible in the natural world, since it cooled quickly when exposed to its surroundings. Yet magma flowed from the mountain peak ahead. The heat nearby was frightening, and the magma had even collected into a pool.

"That's not right!"

Soren pressed his palm to the ground. "An active volcano? Impossible! There shouldn't be a volcano in terrain like this!"

For reasons he could not determine, an active volcano had formed inside the mountain range. It had not erupted