Vivian was standing on the coast with a solemn expression. Her eyes were staring at the dark sky.
Vivian suddenly noticed a presence coming toward her.
"What? To think that you would co personally." Vivian shifted her eyes to the side. "Pope Frank."
"For such an important matter, it would be good if I confird it personally. This is a matter that might change the world, so I have to be here." The Pope smiled. "I was surprised when my student suddenly returned and inford about this matter. Are you sure it's a volcanic eruption?"
"Most likely."
"Is it really going to cover our world?"
"I don't know. That's why I'm here. If it's really going to release so many things outside, I don't know what will happen anymore. This is sothing I have never seen or learned before." Vivian shook her head helplessly.
The Pope squinted his eyes. "If it's truly covering the world, famine and winter. I'm afraid that 90% of the population will die. The remaining 10% will struggle to fight both nature and the incoming aliens.
"Without proper food supply, humanity will be defeated. I'm afraid that the four kingdoms won't be able to hold on. In addition, all those innocent lives…" The Pope let out a long sigh. "Well, that was my imagination. I didn't know much about the volcano, so I might be inaccurate."
"Yes. It's probably worse than that."
The Pope couldn't help but feel curious. "Do you think there is another land across the sea?"
Vivian shrugged. "Maybe. Our hands are full with the aliens, so no one really bothered to check it. At this scale, the people on that land must suffer much more compared to us."
"Either way, we can't really help them, even if we want to." The Pope sighed. "If not for your disciple discovering the earthquake or sothing, I wouldn't really believe it. But…"
Vivian nodded before noticing a movent in the sky. She squinted her eyes.
"What's wrong?" The Pope frowned and tried to see what she was trying to find. Because his sense was sharper than hers, the Pope's expression darkened first. "That's…"
Vivian released her ena and lifted her own body purely with control.
"…" The Pope hesitated for a mont, as he didn't want to believe what he was seeing. However, they really needed to check it.
Hence, three pairs of translucent golden wings made of ena appeared on his back. His body was releasing so much ena that it felt like the world was brightened around him.
He took off into the sky before stopping at a certain altitude. In front of them was a massive pale gray cloud that expanded into the horizon with no end in sight.
It kept expanding at high speed.
Vivian sniffed it first before covering her mouth. She grabbed the cloud and scooped out so of it while checking it with her hands.
"Vivian?"
Vivian's face darkened before she nodded to the Pope. "Yeah. This is an ash cloud. Looking at this speed, I'm afraid that it will even reach the east in like… six hours?"
"This is truly not good." The Pope bit his lips. "A lot of people are going to die from this."
"I'll return to the Frexia Academy. You should inform all influences in this world about this."
"Do you have any plans moving forward? How about your disciple? Did he tell you anything?"
"No. However, I'm planning to summon the Fairy Queen."
"Fairy Queen? Which Fairy Queen? Titania?"
"No. The wise queen, Charlotte."
"What? You can do that?"
"Yeah." Vivian waved her hand. "Let's go. We need to hurry."
"Wait a minute." The Pope stopped her. He was staring at the encroaching cloud.
"What?"
"I want to try sothing." The Pope took a deep breath before clapping his hands.
Upon the clasping sound echoed, the Pope's body shone brightly, as if the sun had just descended, brightening the world.
A golden tree suddenly ford in front of him. Just by touching the tree, the ash cloud disappeared into thin air.
Vivian raised both arms, protecting herself from the sheer amount of ena that the tree was exuding. And it hadn't stopped growing.
The tree ford from the roots all the way to the branches gradually. The mont it was completed, the Pope released his own ena.
"Seraph Tree."
The tree emitted a golden light much fiercer than the Pope himself, which forced even Vivian to cover her eyes.
"Tsk." Vivian clicked her tongue, feeling that she was still nowhere near this stage yet.
Still, the effect lasted only for a second. After that, the light disappeared as if it was swallowed by the darkness.
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However, Vivian couldn't help but furrow her eyebrows because the cloud disappeared.
'How powerful is his ability?' Vivian squinted her eyes, staring into the distance. 'He destroyed all the clouds within 1 kiloter (0.6 mile) in radius?'
Unfortunately, even with all that power, he couldn't destroy everything. On the left and right side, the cloud was still expanding, and the front was just delayed a bit.
The Pope bit his lips. "I guess it's not possible. Even if I gather all the summoners in the world, we can't destroy all that cloud…"
"Of course you can't. This is insane…" Vivian sighed. "I don't know how much material the supervolcano is releasing, but it must at least be enough to cover half of the world if not more… And the depth is going to be taken into consideration as well since we're talking about volu. It's just too much."
The Pope sighed. "I know. Let's go back first. I will send a ssage to all influences. I'm afraid that the rchants will take advantage of this and raise the food price. No. Are we even able to harvest anything in a situation like this?"
"That's why I want to summon the Fairy Queen." Vivian nodded. "Also, tell them that we're going to remove the royalties. In this situation, a lot of knights will die. Hence, we have to increase the quality of the knights. There's no need for money if the world is going to be destroyed. I can't spend it."
The Pope nodded. "Thanks. Let's stay in contact. You're currently the only lead about this case. I will also arrange the research team."
Vivian nodded as both of them had reached the teleportation circle.
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