Chapter 83: Did My Causing a Volcano Eruption Affect Your Booked Instance?

Through this Abyss Demon Lair campaign, Lu Zheng realized a principle.

Different divine pets require matching them with different instances according to their traits, so they can level up quickly.

Divine pets like Baize and Qiongqi are suited for the Abyss Demon Lair or the Spider God Island monster instances.

The former restrains the environment and can deal greater damage.

The latter can exploit the environment to generate more output.

The conditions for restraint are hard to match, but conditions for exploiting the environment are not unattainable.

For example, the Nine-Headed Immortal Phoenix can go to a volcano, while the Kui Bull needs a site riddled with thunder.

Lu Zheng plans to first go to the volcano beside Yan Emperor University, the active volcano called "Eye of the Fire God"! His connection with the fire god runs deep.

He already bears the mark of Fire God Laban, which could trigger danger at any moment.

However, during this time he learned that there is not just one fire god.

Fire God Laban's full title should be "Lower God Laban of the Flame Prayer", and he is merely one of the fire gods under the flame deity system.

The whole world does not have only the Fire God Island as a fire‑god instance.

Of course, regardless, Lu Zheng was cursed by a Lower True God, an indisputable fact.

At least the Eye of the Fire God is not Laban's domain, but belongs to a fire god named Karto, whose divine rank is higher than Laban's.

According to the divine information provided by Great Summer, Karto is a Mid God.

Therefore, Laban's influence is unlikely to reach Karto, but the curse should still work, since it targets all fire‑type beings.

As a Mid God, Karto does not concern himself with the changes of lower‑world monsters.

Given Lu Zheng's current status, traveling to Yan Emperor City is not cumbersome; he just makes a call there, notifies them, then uses a teleportation array to go directly.

After one relay, he arrives.

The whole journey takes only five minutes.

Upon reaching Yan Emperor City, Lu Zheng does not linger and instantly teleports to the volcano's location.

A few minutes later, the volcano is right before his eyes.

Suddenly, a man and a woman fly from nearby and appear before him.

The woman asks:

"Brother, this instance has been booked exclusively by our Flame Spirit Hall Guild today; please go elsewhere to level up."

The Eye of the Fire God contains abundant energy and merges three instances here: 'Flame Mountain', 'Fire Forest', and 'Magma Lake'.

These three instances yield many materials crucial to fire mages, and can even drop special skill books and class‑change manuals.

Meanwhile, most monsters there have high HP and defense, can recover their consumption, and are extremely hard to kill.

Such instances, unfriendly to solo levelers, usually adopt an outsourcing system: a guild or other group pays a sum to purchase the entire instance's usage rights, which is then given to the city lord for city defense construction.

The Flame Spirit Hall Guild is wealthy and generous; not only did they book the three surrounding instances, they also booked them for an entire month!

Rumor has it the hallmaster of the Flame Spirit Hall received some news that within a month, one of these three instances might yield an extraordinary treasure.

Now, it's only the twelfth day of the booking.

Lu Zheng smiles and says, "I'm not going into the instance; I'm heading into the volcano. By the way, if I trigger an eruption, will it affect your booked instance?"

The man hears this and bursts into laughter.

"Brother, stop joking. Though it's an active volcano, eruptions follow cycles; without enough accumulated energy, it can't erupt!"

Lu Zheng nods slightly at this and does not refute.

"I'm leaving!"

He says that, then vanishes on the spot.

The two stare at the spot where Lu Zheng disappeared, stunned. "What's happening? Is that a concealment skill?!"

The man asks.

"He can't be a super‑stronger, can he?"

The woman speculates.

The man thinks of something and looks toward the crater.

"Then we'll see whether the volcano will erupt or not."

Saying that, the two return to the guild group and report the incident to the deputy leader Sun Tianwei, who is leading the team.

Hearing their description that the man wore a black mask with a very blurred face, Sun Tianwei thought of something.

He pulls out a tablet, opens a video, and shows it to them.

"Is this the mask?"

"Yes, exactly! This one, the face keeps changing, you can't tell the level."

The woman says.

Sun Tianwei exclaims, "He's here! He actually came here; Uncle San said he would definitely come, but we didn't expect it to be today."

These words left the two opposite people very confused.

Sun Tianwei, however, ignored them, thought of something, and immediately ordered, "Send out a notice: regardless of how the battle turns out, everyone cease fighting, stay away from the Eye of the Fire God, and await my further orders."

After saying that, he himself flies straight toward the Eye of the Fire God.

Meanwhile, Lu Zheng uses the Void Walk skill to enter the volcano, seeing the churning magma inside.

It seems it truly hasn't reached the eruption stage yet.

But Lu Zheng needs to make it active, so that the Nine‑Headed Immortal Phoenix can achieve maximum absorption efficiency.

After a brief thought, he summons a Flame Demon.

At this moment, the summoned Flame Demon has risen to a three‑star celestial quality, level 145, and adapts quite well within this volcano.

After its quality upgraded to celestial, it has mastered all the skills of the former Flame Demon King.

The Nine-headed Undying Bird directly blocked the volcano crater below, transforming into the 'Fire-Bathing Nether Phoenix,' and then let the Flame Demon activate the skill 'Earth Demon's Fury'.

This skill actually uses the eruption of underground magma to spray flames, leveraging the power of the earth to create a powerful attack with little magic power.

The only drawback is that the attack is relatively easy to dodge; it usually needs to be released together with the control skill 'Dark Prison'.

But now there are no enemies, so no attack target is needed; we just need to fully detonate the magma inside! Lu Zheng granted it ten 'Magic Power Sources,' and also created a Bridge of Magic Power linking the Flame Demon and the Nine-headed Undying Bird's bodies.

The next moment, surging flames burst forth, and violent energy erupted from the volcano crater.

Sun Tianwei, who had just arrived here, was startled, quickly flew higher and farther, and looked into the volcano crater.

Sure enough, he saw what he had expected.

A Nine-headed Monster Bird!

"Lu Zheng really came! Now I can finally see my idol in person, though I don't know where this person is."

Sun Tianwei said happily.

After seeing the scene of Lu Zheng slaying the Flame Demon King, he took him as his idol.

That Nine-headed Undying Bird is really cool, a divine pet, fire-element, making him extremely fond.

Previously, Sun Zhenhu tried to recruit Lu Zheng but failed; upon returning, he said that sooner or later Lu Zheng would come here, because this place has the largest active volcano.

Sun Tianwei believed those words, never expecting them to come true so quickly.

He personally witnessed the legendary fire-element divine pet; truly worthy of being a divine pet, it's incredibly cool! (End of Chapter)