The crater housing the Volcanic Stone belonged to a tiny volcano, one that had originally been extinct.
To obtain a more precise model of the eye of the storm, the Volcanic Stone was taken to a second volcano, twice the size of the first.
A few minutes later, the second volcano erupted. Its attributes then transformed, and the storm's coverage rapidly expanded.
Its speed and scale of expansion differed from those of the small volcano as well. A violent tornado shot into the sky, directly controlling the winds in the upper atmosphere, where the storm was fiercest, while the winds below were driven along passively.
The Investigation Bureau then switched to another volcano for a third round of tests, refining the mathematical model relating volcanic volume to the size of the storm's eye.
The higher-ups devoted vast computing resources to estimating the extent of its eye.
Extrapolating to the country's supermassive volcanoes, the eye really might expand to cover an entire continent.
Di Ping had already taken the Horn of the Sea to the coast, ready to coordinate with operations back home at any moment.
People rapidly assessed the damage caused during the storm's initial formation. Many mountain forests had been battered by fierce winds, but the storm expanded so quickly that the massive wall of wind swept past almost in the blink of an eye and moved into the distance, lingering for no more than five seconds.
With a giant volcano, that duration would probably be even shorter.
This strange mechanism caught people's attention. It seemed absurdly powerful, but they did not dwell on it.
Ke Meng, however, knew that this attribute-transforming item came from a high-level game region. Storms in high-level regions routinely blotted out the sky and engulfed the land, so an effect like this was perfectly