Chapter 134: Attacked
Returning to Varlen, he lies on the bed clutching the sword; the sword, not yet fully sheathed, reveals a blade still with red blood. Varlen relied on that memory to know there were still two children of the pair of "adulterous birds" outside; he immediately went and acted, eyes cold as ice; that beggar also did not escape. Currently, Varlen is waiting for his wife to return, having already determined in his mind not to say a single word.
After a while, his wife returns. But she clearly shows an increasingly distant and cold attitude.
"I am going to her room to sleep."
Recently she often goes to a maid's room to sleep, no longer wanting to sleep with Varlen.
Varlen lies on the bed, his head doubting whether those two children are his own. He snaps up and speaks:
"Wait, Hana."
Varlen's voice is deep but speaks loudly, making Hana turn her head, feeling that voice is also unpleasant to her.
"Where I sleep is my business."
Varlen does not want to ask anything more, no longer needing to know if Hiwcel and Nara are his children or not, eyes sharp and cold as ice.
As Hana turns back, Varlen's sword has already slashed off Hana's head; the head spins in the air, those eyes scanning over him. He still loves, loves very, very much, but he does not understand why he lost, does not understand why he was betrayed. His head is a mess of confusion; suddenly he tilts his face to the sky and laughs loudly:
"HHAHAAHAHAHAHHAHA..."
Unclear if he is mad, excited, or what else, but he has changed.
His blood is colder; he imprisons Hiwcel and Nara to torture and observe. Each time he tortures and looks at Nara's face, which is very like his wife, it makes him even more excited and crazed. Now even if a servant passes by without bowing their head, he kills them; his way of acting is extremely cruel.
He feels his life gradually becoming tedious; suddenly one day hearing the news Mythyr was defeated by Kazuka made a plan rise in his head.
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At this moment, before death, the image of Hana appears making his emotions tangled. He still loves, cannot yet stop, both loving and angry... He still does not understand, why striving from the year he was seventeen until he married Hana was such a long time, so why was he not equal to a beggar.
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Scene change…
The dragon is darting through the air, heading toward the place it sensed. Then it sees a group of six people walking together; it feels curious and interested.
"So strange... so strange... surely these people have something shady, then I will attack them, surely there will be something interesting to see. Hahaha, playing outside always has many interesting things."
Two sides of its jaw burn with large flames, its nose exhaling a strong breath. The large mouth that can crush iron and stone is opened extremely wide; its entire mouth glows with the light of a red-hot fire running inside.
"How should I blow fire?"
Pausing in the air for a moment and pulling its neck back a bit as if to take a momentum and blow a large stream of fire down. This fire stream grows larger, taking the dragon's mouth as the smallest sharp point; after spitting downward, it widens out; the fire stream is like a triangle with the dragon's mouth as the apex, and when spitting down it spreads.
The whole group immediately senses it and looks up; in an instant, fire has covered the range where they stand.
Luckily, Takeshi while walking was looking up at the sky so he reacted in time. Immediately earth from the surroundings wraps around all six of them and pulls them down under the ground.
Boom!!!!
The large fire covers a vast area; the trees do not have time to burn but are crushed by the large fire and then burn. Searing heat rises together with black smoke making the space look distorted.
A large hole about 0.5 tharn (1 meter) deep is created and is still burning greatly.
The dragon above is as if standing in the air, its two wings flapping hard for it to stand in the air.
"Diving underground? Someone used the earth element, truly flexible, little rabbits."
At a distance, the whole group is panicked looking toward the flying dragon; they hide behind a rock. Everyone's eyes clearly show panic.
Kazuka points toward the dragon, voice a bit panicked:
"Hey? Is it a real dragon?"
Ayaka's voice is lowered, a bit afraid:
"Why is it here? Why attack us?"
Takeshi clutches his head; he is quite surprised seeing a dragon for the first time, two eyes open wide.
"For real?"
Aoto's voice drops seriously:
"Good thing we have you, Takeshi; if not, we'd be dust."
Takeshi turns over and smiles proudly.
"Haha, lucky."
Airi frowns seriously; she knows this is very abnormal but doesn't know what it is.
"Why is it here?"
Elyssia quickly offers a suggestion.
"We should go quickly; if it senses us, we might not escape again; better to avoid trouble."
Elyssia truly is not afraid; in reality, she only worries for everyone.
Airi ponders, eyes fixed tight on the flying dragon; she retreats following everyone's footsteps.
"According to what I think, it's a dragon cub; it's possible it escaped outside and flew here. I remember a dragon's fire power is greater than this; likely it's true."
Aoto walking ahead also nods.
"I see it is smaller than the descriptions I've heard too."
Suddenly Kazuka screams loudly:
"It's coming!"
All six people startle and look in one direction; the dragon is darting toward everyone, two wings spread wide and flying close to the forest.
Energy bursts outward to protect the body.
Elyssia reacts fastest; she immediately summons the sword to her hand, two hands gripping tight and raising it above her head.
A vertical slash of extreme size carrying the characteristic white energy almost everyone has of the Angel race. The giant slash tears through the forest and flies extremely fast straight toward the rushing dragon.
It immediately senses the strange energy; only three people have similar energy. Right after that, the large slash appears. Its reflexes have steered its flight to tilt to one side like an airplane, then standing in the air flapping wings to observe down.
"The feeling from this energy source is very like the description in books; I don't remember which race it belongs to."
The group of six does not run and all look up at the dragon flapping wings as if standing in the air. They know at this moment that if they turn and run, surely that dragon will chase.
Airi speaks cautiously toward the rear:
"This dragon surely knows we went underground; if we go down again, it will blow fire harder, we might not survive."
Kazuka speaks tensely in a low voice:
"Likely have to fight."
Elyssia shouts loudly toward the front:
"What do you want from us? Unknown and unacquainted, why attack?"
Airi sighs helplessly.
"Truly troublesome."
The dragon at this time hears Elyssia speak, but it doesn't care. Suddenly it seems to remember.
"That's right, this type of feeling is like the description. She is an Angel. But why is she here? ... Well, I am here too, must be an escape."
Suddenly it becomes more excited.
"If I kill her here, surely it will be fine, right?"
The dragon's throat glows; it opens its mouth wide and blows out a giant fireball flying toward the group.
Airi wants to speak, but Kazuka knows what he needs to do; he shouts loudly:
"Scatter!"
The fireball as large as two three-story houses immediately lands on the ground; the fireball gradually disappears leaving an extremely deep hole; around the hole, plants and trees are non-stop burning.
Ayaka retreats very deep to the rear, keeping distance; though her stamina and strength are great, compared to everyone she is still weaker, not to mention her specialty is archery. The bow that Elyssia gave Ayaka—the silver-white bow with two wings on two sides and extremely beautiful stones. Energy covers the bow and energy gradually gathers to create a blue energy arrow.
On the other side, Kazuka and Airi are trying to approach the dragon. Kazuka with a large energy source surrounding his person darts away very fast, but the dragon's tail as thick as a tree trunk with hard, bumpy black scutes strikes down from above; the large shadow covers his body, but he still stays calm and evades to one side.
Airi with a red energy source surrounding her person, in hand is the Blood Night Sword; she evades to one side before the dragon's foot stomp which makes dust and dirt fly hazily.
Aoto has grown wings; he took advantage of the free time to earn money and bought 14 healthy Elf slaves; actually, it wasn't enough money but thanks to the money Selena handed to the group.
Aoto promised them that as soon as he grew wings, he would surely set them free, so everyone has hope. Not to mention Aoto is also an Elemental so he is very trustworthy.
Originally Aoto was a young Elemental, so the gap in energy at every level with Elves is not too much; because he is a young Elemental, the energy gate and well are very small. Whereas Elves are mature and have larger energy gates and wells, so it will be easier.
Surrounding Aoto are many Elves; they continuously transmit energy into Aoto's person and try to make Aoto's energy well and gate larger; simultaneously Aoto also needs to self-control and regulate to avoid the body exploding. Thus Aoto is also partly practicing energy control more.
This is a quite good way to practice, but it can be said it only applies to Elementals with Elves, because they are closely related.
For example, Angels; their energy is even purer than that of Elementals, but there is a difference. That is if their energy is assisted from outside, at this time it is not like two light sources shining on top of each other but like two sides shining straight into each other's eyes, so it will affect both.
Behind Aoto's back, those are two pairs of large wings on two sides like dragonfly wings, green and transparent with winding veins. He knows he could have become mature but wasn't in a hurry; he thought he needed better energy control to be able to engage in air combat flexibly. Didn't expect it to be so soon that he had to change states.
At this moment, Aoto officially becomes a mature Elemental; the energy well and gate are larger, the energy is pure and precisely that of an Elemental rather than simply being just a bit better than the Elf race. The golden hair now permanently switches to a lime-green color.