Bang!
With a loud bang, the intense explosion caused the mountain to tremble slightly. But fortunately, this was only the detonation of one of the bombs and did not cause the mountain to collapse. Not far from the explosion, Fairy was being held in Wise's arms. Her small face was covered in dust, obviously caused by the close contact with the explosion just now.
"Ahem, I'm sorry, Master. It was my miscalculation. I didn't expect that bomb to be so sophisticated. The bomb disposal skills I learned were not able to dismantle it perfectly. But just give me one more chance..."
"Thank you, Fairy. But the bomb explosion must have been noticed by someone now, and we don't have time for trial and error. So let's save it for next time." Wise reached out and patted Fairy's small head, comforting her that it was okay. The latter also knew that the situation was urgent. She pouted her pink lips. Although there was a hint of stubbornness in her heart, she still obediently nodded.
Before, Fairy had been confident that she could dismantle the bomb, so Wise had let her try. But now that she had failed, Wise no longer hesitated. He went straight up and grabbed a planted bomb, and in an instant, it was taken into his system space. Under the suppression of the system space, those bombs could not explode even if they were triggered.
Wise soon collected all the bombs Fairy had found into his space. As for how to deal with them later, he would not consider it for now.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Caesar and her team had already approached this side and inevitably heard the first explosion. "Strange, why is there an explosion? Did something happen?" Lucy keenly sensed the abnormality.
And Wise, sitting in Caesar's arms, no longer hid it at this time and directly told them about the bomb. The three of them were very surprised to hear this, but also felt relieved. Finally, they were worried about Wise's situation. After all, according to what he said, he himself should already be in the Hollow by now. Wise, on the other hand, let them focus on the race first, saying that there would be no problem on his side. At the same time, he also stated his analysis.
And Caesar, upon hearing that Lucius was very likely to pose a threat to the Fire Lake, immediately decided to speed up and rush there.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Pompeii and his men naturally also heard the explosion, and the uneasiness in their hearts grew even stronger. Earlier, he had received a text message from a mysterious person. The other party had seriously stated Lucius's conspiracy and his harmful actions against him.
Pompeii was immediately furious. Thinking of his recent growing fatigue, he had thought it was because of old age. He hadn't expected it to be the small tricks of a villain like Lucius. But even with such anger in his heart, Pompeii still did not act rashly. First of all, the source of this intelligence was unknown, and he still had to investigate it himself. Even though it came with a video of Lucius drugging him, with today's network technology, it was not impossible for someone with ill intentions to forge it. He definitely could not believe it easily. In addition, the Hellfire Ride was approaching, and with his confidence in his own strength, Pompeii decided to stay put for the time being, while also being more on guard against Lucius and investigating and monitoring him.
It was just a pity that this guy Lucius had done a very clean job. For some reason, he had not continued to poison him in the following days. Even after the Hellfire Ride started, Pompeii still hadn't completely caught him.
A short while later, when Pompeii and Lucius arrived by the Fire Lake, they happened to see Caesar, who had just thrown the Ignition Stone into it. The latter then turned her head and looked at them. "Yo, Uncle Overlord! Looks like we won this time!"
Caesar greeted Pompeii, but her eyes were fixed on Lucius behind him. The latter, at this time, was the first to speak, a little out of sorts. "What? How is this possible?!"
He widened his eyes and said in disbelief. The bomb had clearly been planted and successfully detonated. The people of the Sons of Calydon should not have been able to appear here.
Pompeii, seeing this, did not pay much attention to the victory or defeat but turned his head and stared at Lucius behind him. "You seem very surprised? You just think they shouldn't have appeared?"
"No, of course not. I just think that with your strength, big brother, how could you possibly fall behind the Sons of Calydon?" Lucius smiled with a somewhat ugly expression. The unexpected situation had made him lose his composure a bit, but he couldn't show any flaws right now.
But Pompeii's next sentence made his expression change dramatically. "Yes, my strength... hehe. If I hadn't been poisoned and harmed by a villain, the result really might have been uncertain. Don't you think so, Lucius?!"
As Pompeii spoke, he fiercely swung the weapon in his hand and slammed it on Lucius's left hand. The latter immediately let out a miserable cry, and the thing in his hand also fell to the ground. It was something that looked like an [Ignition Stone], and inside it was the [Aether Aggregation Catalyst]. This agent could accelerate the rapid crystallization of free aether particles. It was a technology developed by a city corporation to increase aether production, and it would have a miraculous effect in the special environment of the Fire Lake.
Originally, Lucius had prepared this to secretly replace the Ignition Stone in Pompeii's hand. But because the latter, for some reason, had suddenly become very on guard against him recently, he had no chance to replace it. Lucius had originally thought it was because of the Sons of Calydon incident, but now it seemed there was another hidden story.
He clutched his arm in pain, wanting to reach out again to grab the [Aether Aggregation Catalyst], but how could the already prepared Pompeii give him a chance? He immediately stomped fiercely on the hand he had extended, while gritting his teeth and speaking with anger, "To think I had expectations for you... I was blind!"
As Pompeii spoke, he picked up the thing that looked like an Ignition Stone. He didn't know what was inside, but since Lucius had wanted to use it just now, it was definitely not a good thing. Then he looked at Caesar and the other two, who were on guard not far away. In fact, the latter's people had wanted to speak up and remind him when they saw Lucius make a strange move, but who knew that Pompeii would be a step faster than them.
A short while later, Lucius was tied up and put on a truck. With him was Morse, who had inexplicably fainted on the way back for the others. Caesar and the others knew this was Wise's doing. Although Pompeii didn't know who it was specifically, he also had some guesses. So on the way back, he suddenly spoke.
"Sons of Calydon, thanks to you this time. Otherwise, the Fire Lake would have been in danger." At this time, Pompeii also already knew that the person who had sent him the message before was Wise. Although the matter of monitoring his own camp made him a little unhappy, for the sake of the big picture, it was irrelevant.
"You're welcome. After all, it's to protect the Fire Lake. But, Uncle Overlord, you were so decisive and swift at that time!"
"Haha, you are the new overlord now, right?"
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