"What's the situation?"
"There's a fire Spirit guarding it. We can't advance."
A young man clad in golden armor politely replied to the deacon, who unhappily snorted and gazed at the volcano. If they go back empty-handed, all their previous would have gone to waste.
Moreover, their main target seemed to have vanished into thin air, unless he purposely exposes himself, there's no way they can find him.
The reason they treaded this perilous land and climbed this mountain is getting their hand on the bead and the dragon blood. Not many knew that this was but a normal mountain which drastically changed when a drop of blood of an adult Empyrian Fire dragon fell there.