470. The Game Behind the Policy

After magic had been poured in, beneath the dark-brown rock layer that had once been dull red and was now nearly cooled, lava of a paler color, greater brightness, and higher temperature erupted anew. Its orange-red glow almost lit up the entire cavern.

After the Magic Furnace installation had just been completed, both the energy inside the lava and the concentration of magical elements in the air were lower than originally expected. Landen had no choice but to bring the magical Great Fairies along and remodel the entire crater, transforming the volcanic rock at the top into a dozen-odd structures similar to Magic Towers, making the originally round mouth of the volcano look like a jagged sawtooth.

Besides the added buildings and arrays at the very top, the interior of the volcano, hundreds of meters high, had also been rebuilt with magic arrays. Huge pillars followed the mountain wall, connecting directly from the lava to the summit.

On August 5, after all construction had ended, Sherman, Chief of the Salt and Iron Department, Alexei Zhuoqin, Befen Klein, and Ben Kaul clustered around an old mage in a starry magic robe as they toured the entire mountain.

The old man looked at the many towering pillars and sighed again and again, "What an astonishing masterpiece. Sherman, you've made a killing this time."

He was Louis Shendu, the principal of Imperial Magic School, a veteran magical Demigod and the personal disciple of Magic Emperor Douglas. The reason he could come visit right after the Magic Furnace installation was because the next Magic Furnace was to be installed for Imperial Magic School.

"I remember that back then you wanted to remodel the entire volcano, but because Queen Padimira was unfamiliar with fire magic, you never succeeded. The volcano's temperature has even kept falling