Chapter 177 Glimpse From Another Side
The lightning that struck looked bigger and fiercer.
Suddenly something appeared from in the middle of these thick clouds.
The lightning that flashed in various colors suddenly struck the same point in the air.
Not long after that, a space-time distortion was created.
Like a crack that appears on a mirror or a tear on a piece of clear water.
'What the hell is that?'
Erend was confused. He was curious as to what was going on but his desire to get closer was stopped by a piercing instinct.
Then, the voice from Tut that had been cut off suddenly came back.
[ "You have to hurry." ]
'What? why? what's that?' Erend asked.
[ "It's a Chaos Warp. A space-time distortion that opens a hole to another dimension." ]
Dragon-Erend stared at the distortion.
From here he can take a little glimpse view of the other world.
It was an arid world with red earth and a puddle of water so red and thick.
However, after he took a closer look, Dragon-Erend don't think that the puddle was red-colored water.
Because water is not that thick. It was pools of blood.
The distortion was widening at a significant speed.
'Is that bad?'
["You can see for yourself. What do you think?" ]
'Yeah. I think that's bad enough.'
After the connection from Tut was cut off, Dragon-Erend immediately started the process of dealing with this Chaos Magic.
Dragon-Erend concentrated his mind and will to absorb the Chaos Magic energy around him.
Gradually, the unstable Magic energy which was colorful and dense with darkness entered Dragon-Erend's body.
*SYUUUUSSHHH...*
The gray clouds started to dissipate as the Magic energy within them disappeared.
The thunder that flashed and came out of the clouds was immediately absorbed into Dragon-Erend's body.
Aerchon who had been fighting some Ogres in the air had noticed something strange around him.
The Ogres he had to defeat were now only two. And with the remnants of his Magic energy, Aerchon fought against them.
But when he saw that the gray clouds around him were starting to pull away towards the same point, Aerchon and the two Ogres he was fighting stopped and turned their heads.
The clouds around them dissipated so that the sun that had been hidden began to reappear.
The sun is already low indicating that the time has entered afternoon.
The Forest Elves and palace Elves below watched the scene with amazed faces.
Even for a race class that has great Magic abilities, Chaos Magic is a scourge for them.
Yet, up there, there was a figure strong enough to remove the Chaos Magic.
"(That must be Erend,)" Aurdis said with her eyes looking up.
Saeldir didn't know whether she said it consciously or not.
Saeldir himself also felt amazed. He had never heard of a being who could handle Chaos Magic alone.
Records of Chaos Magic have existed for a long time.
As an Archmage, Saeldir clearly knew about that knowledge.
Elves, Dwarves, and Humans who possessed Magic worked together to deal with Chaos Magic that had occurred in the past and that event had claimed many victims.
Now, a creature was handling it on his own.
Saeldir thought it was possible because Erend had Dragon powers.
The gray clouds that contained the Chaos Magic had now almost disappeared.
Several minutes later passed until finally, there were only a few remaining clouds.
The blue sky has returned. What remained above was a wisp of gray clouds that were also getting smaller.
When Dragon-Erend saw that the Chaos Magic had almost been absorbed, he felt relieved.
However, the space-time distortion in front of him was still there.
Since just now, the distortion had revealed a different scene from what existed in the dimension beyond it.
Dragon-Erend saw several other sights besides the red wasteland just now.
There was a scene where he sees a swamp filled with corpses with murky brown water emitting smoke.
The ground surface is covered with white snow and frozen trees.
Then a cave room that was extremely dark and almost nothing could be seen apart from the dark stone that was near the distortion.
Dragon-Erend looked at it in dismay. He felt that one day, he would have business with the dimensions behind this Chaos Warp.
But for now, Dragon-Erend chose to ignore it and not bother.
He kept concentrating until finally all the Chaos Magic had been completely absorbed into his body.
The sky above the Elf palace was cleared by Chaos Magic.
Alone, a Dragon absorbed all of that enormous energy into himself.
After doing that, a notification from Systema appeared.
[ Urgent Quest Completed! ]
[ Progress: Army repelling (completed), Chaos Magic Storm handled (completed) ]
[ Reward: 200 Exp ]
[You Leveled Up! ]
Dragon-Erend then descends below.
He flew for a while until he finally found Aurdis then landed and deactivated [Fire Dragon Transformation].
The red light accompanied Erend who had turned into a human again.
When Erend stepped onto the white paving, all the creatures that were there looked at him with all kinds of expressions.
The Elves in the castle already knew who Erend was before so they weren't too surprised.
However, the Forest Elves were so shocked that they couldn't move or say anything and could only stare at Erend who had turned into a human.
Seeing the figure of a Dragon alone is quite surprising. But now, they even saw that the Dragon had turned into a human.
"(So, Thillion was right back then,)" Dolthon muttered.
If that Dragon came when this palace was threatened, then he must have some relations with Princess Aurdis.
Erend drew closer to Aurdis and Saeldir.
He looked at Saeldir and then asked. "How are you?"
"I will live for another day," Saeldir said.
Erend nodded his head. "Good.
Then Erend turned to Aurdis. "What about you?"
"I'm fine. Don't worry."
Erend smiled and heaved a sigh of relief.
"And Laston?"
"I've told the Forest Elf. They are currently going to where Laston fell," Aurdis answered.
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