Since Dodo possessed a fire-aligned constitution, her current unusual condition was most likely related to fire-elemental power or the Fire Origin Fragment. Chen Rui did not dare rashly use Divine Healing or potions, lest he turn a clever move into a blunder. The best solution was to find the Fire Elemental Monarch, Ogmarton.
Chen Rui did not know where Ogmarton or the fire elementals' stronghold was, but one person did—the Wind Elemental Monarch, Sethin. Both times Chen Rui had met Ogmarton, the meetings had taken place at the wind elementals' Cloud Palace.
Chen Rui explained the situation to Athena and Jia, who arrived shortly afterward. Catherine also contacted Lilith and Frenz through communication magic and made new arrangements for state affairs. Neither of them dared delay in the slightest. That very night, Chen Rui used the Tower of Glory to take Catherine and their daughter through the Stellar Gate, arriving at Storm Island in the Surface World.
Chen Rui immediately went to the Cloud Palace, only to be disappointed to find that the Wind Elemental Monarch, Sethin, was not there.
According to the elite wind elementals left behind, His Majesty the Monarch had departed a few days earlier at the invitation of the Fire Elemental Monarch, heading for Sunblaze Volcano in the Crimson Flame Mountains to discuss important matters.
The Crimson Flame Mountains lay in the southwest of the human world, and Sunblaze Volcano, one of its main peaks, was within the borders of the Red Eagle Kingdom.
The Red Eagle Kingdom had once been the largest kingdom in the human world, with its territory ranking among the top three. Yet much of its former land had become territory of the neighboring Dragon Brilliance Empire, the result of generations of painstaking schemes and management by the Dragon Brilliance Emperors. The