Chapter 329: Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption

The Pentagon, underground intelligence room.

The usually quiet intelligence room was now a chaotic mess, sweat‑soaked analysts, under Ke Laofu De's roar, continuously locked onto the blast site via satellite.

"Satellite S‑L03 detected the target 300 km away; thermal signatures show the target is undamaged, energy index down by about one‑thirtieth," a pale‑faced analyst reported the worst case.

"How is that possible?!!" Ke Laofu De, shocked, clutched the railing, his body swaying uncontrollably as if he might collapse at any moment.

CIA Director Kai En gave a grim smile: "Looks like the scenario I dread most has arrived."

Ke Laofu De immediately seized Kai En's shoulder, shaking him: "Do you know what's happening? Damn it, why hasn't that damned beast died? Could it be splitting? That can't be real, it must be fake, how could it evade so many nuclear weapons unless it can teleport?"

Mid‑sentence, Ke Laofu De gradually stopped, his complexion turning deathly pale.

"According to the data we've gathered, the Conjuration's seven‑Spell Circle spell should be sufficient to teleport a dragon in increments of hundreds of kilometers, but until now it has never displayed that ability, so we're not certain whether it can…" Kai En croaked.

"That's your negligence!!!" Ke Laofu De punched Kai En down, roaring with eyes bulging: "Because of your negligence, the Dwarf Staff Project failed completely! Tens of thousands of United States soldiers and over a hundred billion high‑tech weapons turned to ash!!"

Kai En gave a wry smile, offering no defense. In a situation like this, who can be sure what abilities the other side truly possesses?

In fact, even the idea that the seven‑Spell Circle could move a dragon hundreds of kilometers was merely Kai En's speculation. The spell data in the rulebook is child's play compared to a dragon's casting range; he merely scaled it proportionally to guess the teleportation spell's chance of evading a nuclear blast.

But Kai En also understood. After sustaining such massive damage without the expected outcome, the higher‑ups would inevitably look for someone to blame.

And he would be the first to take the hit.

Ke Laofu De was about to strike again when an urgent voice from the stairs called out: "General! There's a red‑level emergency, please come immediately!"

The senior general's pupils contracted; a wave of unease washed over him. The Pentagon's red alert—a warning never before triggered, reserved only for pre‑set apocalyptic catastrophes—had sounded.

Now it has actually come true....

What on earth is happening—did that dragon really trigger the volcano?

He rushed down the stairs, and as soon as he arrived, a terrified shout rang out.

"Crustal stress index has exceeded the critical value!" Geologist Huo Hua De shattered the protective glass and manually triggered the full‑band alarm. The shockwaves from twelve nuclear bombs traveled through the lithosphere, focusing on Yellowstone's mantle plume. The magma chamber pressure gauge needle leapt from yellow to blood‑red within thirty seconds.

The ground tremor arrived before the sound wave. Soldiers of the US Military 82nd Airborne Division saw the horizon undulate—not in wave‑like ripples, but as an entire prairie being lifted like a carpet by an invisible giant hand.

The dragon did not ignite the volcano, but the damage to the geological structure from the twelve nuclear weapons awakened the already active Yellowstone.

"God, what have we done..." the battlefield commander murmured. Before the words finished, the first magma plume burst through the surface, tall enough to lick the bottom of the stratosphere.

Four hundred billion tons of rock were hurled into the sky, volcanic ash and nuclear dust mingling into an asphalt‑like cloud wall. The dragon unfurled its body amid the boiling rain of magma. Looking down with pity, it had no time to set up a Rune array in advance; the ash would likely be impossible to contain as planned, let alone the effects of those twelve nuclear weapons.

All of Wyoming will likely become a dead zone for life from now on.

Sure enough, they are still the harshest on themselves.

Naimi Xisi sighed, but harbored no sentimental pity. He had indeed prepared to control the eruption, yet he couldn't match the US Military's self‑destruction.

Want to kill him and still expect him to be the savior? Moreover, he now lacks the power to stop this sudden eruption.

A Yellowstone eruption is no petty nuclear skirmish; the last eruption released energy roughly equivalent to 90 billion tons of nuclear weapons, and that wasn't even a full‑scale blast. Naimi Xisi would have to ascend to Legendary, wielding a Legendary spell amplified by a power gem, to restrain the current Yellowstone.

Of course, to ensure the Earth isn't destroyed, Naimi Xisi won't let Yellowstone's post‑eruption ash irradiate the whole planet.

He can't stop Yellowstone, but the ash is trivial for him.

——

An hour later, news of the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption had reached the entire United States.

CNN's special reporting team and reporters from major networks flew by helicopter to Wyoming, bearing witness to the scene that resembled a divine disaster.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I'm currently on Highway 20 west of Teton County, and this place has turned into a lava hell!" CNN reporter Kate Miller, wearing a gas mask, hoarse‑voiced, sat in the helicopter and panned the camera rearward; dark‑red lava was devouring the forest, and a century‑old spruce burst into carbon in front of the lens.

"Three hours ago, the sudden pyroclastic flow leveled Jackson Town. We just received word that the last distress signal before Teton County's communications went dark came from an elementary school gym, a chorus of collective prayers," he said, his voice choked.

!

The frontline reporter's words threw CNN's headquarters live feed into chaos, and invited geologist Richard Burns tugged at his tie: "This is certainly not a natural eruption! Monitoring station data shows the crater temperature surged from 87 °C to 3,200 °C in the ten minutes before the blast, as if someone had tossed a hydrogen bomb into the magma chamber!"

The TV's big screen switched to satellite thermal imaging, revealing bizarre geometric heat sources beneath the park. "Look at this hexagonal structure; the military must explain why it matches something that appeared in Nevada not long ago,"

Before he could finish, heads of major US networks had already received a government notice; the signal cut abruptly, and the screen switched to a White House emergency broadcast: "Good evening, I'm President Reagan. Due to unknown reasons, Yellowstone has entered an active phase. Effective immediately, I declare the nation in..."

In 1983, Earth's technology lacked advanced internet and social media, yet the Yellowstone supervolcano eruption still appeared on world leaders' desks instantly, prompting remote conferences via phone and the limited networks to discuss how to address the crisis.

The Yellowstone supervolcano eruption is no ordinary disaster. With today's human technology, halting ash spread is extremely difficult. Given Yellowstone's magnitude, ash covering North America is inevitable; if the eruption continues, it could blanket the globe, causing a nuclear‑winter‑like apocalypse.

In fact, within just an hour of the eruption, most of Wyoming's highways had become rivers of lava; a border‑state hospital still operating received tens of thousands of patients with airway burns; National Guard rescue helicopters crashed in the ash cloud; satellite cloud maps showed ash covering three states.

Just as everyone descended into chaos, Naimi Xisi had already slipped covertly into the erupting volcano.

Magma is an unstoppable death for humans, but for Juan Ce Long, a simple Energy Immunity ability can neutralize it.

(End of Chapter)