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"The hole is about a hundred meters across, I'd say. It looks like it's still burning."
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Yes, that's right. I didn't think it would still be burning after ten days.
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"As one would expect from a man like Lassen, who has brought down an entire group of small nations into a major depression. Did you hear that? The people who saw the eruption are telling me about it. They named it "Lassen's Hellfire Cauldron."
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"No, please don't do that. What the hell is that? I mean, I know. It's Lord Barca who's spreading it, isn't it? Why are you going out of your way to tell people about such a dangerous name?"
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"It's nice, isn't it? It's cool and that's all it means. "Mr. Lassen..."
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I dug a hole to recover oil from the ground.
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That alone has created a huge hole in the ground, and the fire has remained unquenchable even after the eruption subsided.
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I mean, when will it really disappear?
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It rained a few days ago, and it still hasn't gone away.
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I have been bored watching the fire for a while, so Lassen and I are getting along well enough to joke around with each other a bit.
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The big hole in the earth has been named "Lassen's cauldron of fire" or something like that.
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Incidentally, it was the construction workers who really saw the eruption who first mentioned it.
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He was within earshot of my voice, and heard me calling out "Lassen" many times.
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And of course the name sounded familiar.
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He had been affected by the Lassen crash so much that he had joined this construction project in search of work.
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The same name as Lassen, the cause of the great recession that changed their lives so drastically.
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And it is not just some passerby, but someone who is with the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Orient.
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He was not a stranger, he guessed.
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Curious to see what Mr. Lassen, such a famous person, would do in the Orient this time, he stayed behind and got involved in the disaster.
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Lassen put his hand on the ground and started to do something, and suddenly there was a tremor below his feet, then a pillar of fire and rocks started to pour down.
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After surviving the trembling and fear for his life, he was shown a huge pit of fire that would not go out no matter how much it rained.
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This was the lid of hell opened by a man named Lassen, the man said.
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From there, it was a quick story.
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The lid of hell that the man spoke of was somehow changed to something like a cauldron of hellfire.
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And then came the story of how it came to be.
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Lassen was questioned by the Chairman of the Orient and the Secretary of Defense as to the cause of the Great Depression, and he invoked his great magic to show his power.
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I thought that was a bit too far-fetched.
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I don't know why, but the story was also that Lassen was chased by me and escaped to this place and cast a great magic spell.
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If I had seen him at the scene, I would have known that he was talking with me, but maybe it's just the way people like to follow up on stories.
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That's how Lassen became a great magician.
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And when I heard about it, I took advantage of it.
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I officially named the big hole in the ground "Lassen's cauldron of hellfire".
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Only one person, Lassen, has voiced his protest, but no one else has objected.
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So it had already been decided.
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"So? Why is this [Lassen's Hellfire Cauldron] filled with poison around it, ay?"
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"Perhaps it is the hole itself. We don't know if the poison is coming from inside the hole or if it is caused by the spread of the fire."
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"Well, I guess so. Even I can see that the fire pot is the culprit. So the question is, what is the range of its influence? How far away can the poison reach?
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"Fortunately, there are no inhabited settlements around. I think we have no choice but to let people know to stay away from this area."
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The reason we named this [Lassen's Hellfire Cauldron] is also because a problem that cannot be left unattended has arisen.
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It is poison.
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I didn't realize it at the time of the eruption, but this cauldron was producing poison.
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I was the first one to notice it.
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My training has made me resistant to poison.
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Even if I don't use the magic of [Disable Poison], when my body is poisoned, it almost reflexively uses its magic power to nullify the poison.
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Therefore, you will know that poison has entered your body from the flow of your own magic power.
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When he approached the cauldron, his magical power showed a defensive reaction, indicating that there was poison in the air.
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Immediately, I had the others use [Poison Disable] magic, so there has been no major impact so far.
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However, there seemed to be some people who were late in using the magic.
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They almost died just by breathing the air, so I [recovered] and saved them, but it would be impossible to live around them with that kind of poison spreading around at any time.
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I guess I just tried to get some oil and got myself into a hell of a mess.
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I stopped playing with Lassen and looked at the big hole again.
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For now, let's put a wall around the hole to keep people out.
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Well, with all the fire and poison, no one might dare to go near that place, though.
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As I was thinking this, I saw a shadow moving in the center of the hole.
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A shadow in the shape of a person crawled up from there and came toward us.
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