The Goddess's Authority

Salt and Iron Department, inside the volcano. A circular pool of magma cast the entire volcanic wall in crimson. On the edge of a cavern dozens of meters above the magma, two Magic Furnaces were operating steadily, the Magic Patterns on them echoing the arrays within the mountain wall.

Beside the two Magic Furnaces lay the wreckage of another. The tank, originally dozens of meters tall, had been torn apart from within, then compressed into a lump of metal ruins. Traces left by the mana storm, like slashes from blades and chops from axes, still remained upon it, speaking of magic's mighty power.

Quite a few people stood beside the Magic Furnaces: Landen, Gleia, Wendy, Redbird, Sophia, and Johnny. Behind Gleia, Revendia, dressed in a black robe, stared ahead—whether at the Magic Furnace wreckage or at Landen, no one knew. A trace of worry flickered through his eyes.

Saranir Silver Moon stood behind them, holding Fanil Fox, who was still trembling. As a Legend Elf, she had little interest in furnaces of any kind. It was only after Loya Hathaway told her that something had happened that morning that she learned the Tower of Purity and the Imperial Magic School had actually joined forces to secretly install a Magic Furnace at the Salt and Iron Department.

Ever since Landen had tacitly allowed the two institutions to manufacture and install Magic Furnaces on their own, the Imperial Magic School and the Tower of Purity had each recently carried out an installation of a small Magic Furnace. All the Magic Patterns on the Magic Furnaces had been drawn by the two sides' own Legends, bypassing the original team that included Ben Kaul and Landen, but all of them had failed. The attempt at the Zhuoqin family had even caused a certain number