"Thank you for your trouble."
"It's what I should do. When you get back from the town later, you two should go and chat with Lucy and the others." Caesar smiled dismissively. Compared to this, she was more curious about the relationship between this girl named... Fan-something? Her name sounded very foreign, and Wise.
"You two said before that you needed to collect some Hollow data before the race. It just so happens that Lucy and the others are also preparing for the Hellfire Ride these past few days. You should be able to help each other out!" Although the overall style of the Outer Ring was relatively rough, everyone, including Caesar, was very considerate.
Afterward, under Caesar's lead, the siblings came before the mayor of Wildfire Town. As for Fairy, she didn't come along. She said she had to help set up the equipment, so she stayed in the car.
"Kasa, I've brought the Proxies to say hello." The pronunciation of their two names was so similar that the siblings didn't even react for a moment. Kasa on the other side looked at Wise and Belle with great interest.
"Oh my, Caesar. So these two are the Proxies from the city? So people in New Eridu also come out to work at a young age, just like us."
"Hello, Ms. Kasa." Wise politely greeted her.
The other party, hearing this, suddenly let out a soft chuckle. It seemed the title "Ms." was not commonly used in the Outer Ring. "You city people talk so interestingly. Let me introduce myself. I am the mayor of Wildfire Town—Kasa. Our town has received a lot of care from the Sons of Calydon before, so if you need anything, just come and find me."
Kasa showed the unique enthusiasm of the Outer Ring and even arranged a nice place for the siblings to live, which was much better than the temporary place they had slept in last night.
"By the way, Kasa, I noticed that a lot of people in the town are making these woven products this time." Caesar suddenly said, as if remembering something.
Hearing this, the smile on Kasa's face also faded a little, replaced by some bitterness. "Can't be helped. The oil pipeline to the town has been broken for a long time, and the gas station can't open. So all that's left is hand weaving. Fortunately, we recently received a rather large order. And with the announcement of the Hellfire Ride, the [Sunstones] have also been selling much better."
"What's that?" Belle was suddenly curious about this unfamiliar word. Kasa directly took out a finished product. It was a kind of straw handicraft. During the Hellfire Ride, almost every household in the old oil fields would hang it up.
Looking at the pattern on the small pendant, Wise said with some uncertainty, "This pattern... looks like an upside-down person..."
"Haha, Wise, it's amazing you can see that! This upside-down person is the first overlord of the motorcycle gang alliance. Of course, the old folks in the Outer Ring all say that this pattern is also the face of the god of the sun and fire. He can guide the hero to ignite the fire lake and return safely from the Hollow."
Caesar explained with enthusiasm, seeming to love the story behind it very much, her eyes filled with longing. From her, Wise also learned the legend of this pattern representing the first overlord's Hellfire Ride. Although the old oil fields could still extract oil now, the core oil area had been swallowed by a Hollow decades ago. And a substance like oil is easily eroded by aether. But coincidentally, after the only deep-drilling equipment collapsed, it formed a unique natural gas combustion vent. The burning natural gas that erupted from it isolated the aether substance from continuing to spread downwards. And this natural gas combustion vent is the Burning Crystal Fire Lake.
It was the birth of the Fire Lake that saved the livelihood of everyone in the old oil fields. But even so, it was not without worries. The by-products of the burning of natural gas and aether substance easily turn into aether crystals, which accumulate around the Fire Lake. If left unchecked, these crystals would pile up more and more, eventually sealing the combustion vent. And once that happened, the underground oil would once again face a catastrophe.
"Wise, Belle, there was actually a crisis where the Fire Lake almost went out before. At that time, to save the Fire Lake, a young man took a few partners and braved death to enter the Hollow, preparing to use a special ignition stone to blow up the aether crystals—yep, this thing in my hand." Caesar said, taking out a small square device with a piece missing from each corner. In the center of each face was something like a starting mechanism. And this was the Ignition Stone, also the entry pass for the Hellfire Ride. It was filled with a special catalytic fuel. As long as you threw it into the Fire Lake, it could produce a violent explosion.
"But because the environment inside the Hollow was perilous, and they didn't even have any [bots], by the time they reached the Fire Lake, the lake surface was almost completely sealed by crystals. In the crisis, the young man had no choice but to ride his motorcycle into the only combustion vent deep in the Fire Lake, and finally ignited it."
"So everyone made the [Sunstone] to commemorate his sacrifice..." Wise immediately guessed the rest of the story. After all, under that level of explosion, how could a normal person possibly survive? Unless there was a miracle...
"Hahaha, Wise, I never said the first overlord died just like that!"
"Eh?" Caesar's words made the siblings pause for a moment. Kasa then continued to finish the legend.
"It's normal for you to think so. After all, the people who went to the Fire Lake with him at that time also thought he was already dead. But one day, he miraculously survived and returned from the Hollow. Everyone said that the god of the sun and fire was moved by his courage and let him be reborn from the fire."
And from then on, the residents painted the god's face and the image of him jumping into the Fire Lake on the Sunstone, and a ballad was also passed down: [Fallen into the sea of fire, the hero returns].
"Fortunately, it's a perfect ending." After hearing the story, Wise couldn't help but exclaim. Caesar on the side also nodded in agreement.
"That's right! If it ended in tragedy, the Hellfire Ride wouldn't be hot-blooded at all, would it? Of course, the first overlord's awesomeness doesn't stop there! Not long after he returned, he gathered all the motorcycle gangs in the old oil fields, large and small, and established the motorcycle gang alliance. Then he set a rule that a Hellfire Ride must be held every few years, so that the Fire Lake would not encounter a similar crisis again."
"Caesar seems to like this story very much, doesn't she?" Looking at the enthusiastic Caesar introducing it to him, Wise asked with a smile. The latter immediately nodded in affirmation.
"Of course! After all, this is a story that everyone in the Outer Ring has heard since they were little. I love it. And it's because of this that I aspire to become the strongest overlord!"
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