After the King of Calamity awoke, he summoned the Empire's chief governor Adams for an audience. What they discussed in the tightly guarded depths of the Dragon's Nest and what suggestions Smith offered, no one knows.
Anyway, that day, the citizens who lived nearby heard the repeated roars of the King of Calamity from the depths of the volcano.
The mountains trembled,
flames and lava surged, almost as if the power that had been repressed in the volcanic nest for hundreds of years was about to erupt in a single day.
Some speculated that Adams angered His Majesty, the great King of Calamity, that a crisis of losing favor was imminent, and certain ambitious individuals were eager to move but chose to adopt a wait-and-see approach.
Others speculated,
that perhaps a certain faction had provoked the King's wrath, and not long from now, an expedition to punish the disloyal would be launched.
Amidst these swirling undercurrents,
