1526 Lair Part 1 (2/2)
”I bought them on the dragon plane,” Saleen answered.
”The dragon plane needs to sell things like these now?” Guffen sounded rather anxious and restless.
”That's nothing. The nearby planes surrounding the mainland plane have seen considerable drops in power for the past ten thousands of years. The dragon plane is actually one of the few that are considered powerful. The Dragon Gods are still alive, but they are unable to leave their palaces.”
”Good to hear.” Guffen was relieved that Saleen did not get all those materials by killing dragons. If he were to be such a person, Guffen would have been at a loss of what to do. Getting Saleen to nullify the contract would have been unthinkable. Penalties dealt by the power of contract aside, as a noble bloodline of the dragons, violating contracts would have been embarrassing.
The Star Shuttle first flew in a normal manner, using the boundless earth elemental power between the stars. It flew like it was jumping about, skidding forward all the time, every jump covering tens of kilometers.
As the speed reached the highest it was able to achieve, which was at about 10,000 kilometers per second, Guffen took over the piloting. The ice on the exterior of the Star Shuttle became even thicker under the work of magic. The center was wrapped in hard ice that was tens of meters thick. With ice around the craft, the Star Shuttle would not have burned even if it ended up crashing into the atmosphere of any celestial entity.
The power of the frost dragon was brought to its pinnacle as the unfamiliar magic was invoked. Guffen had an easy time manipulating magic, bringing the speed of the Star Shuttle to unbelievable levels.
Earth magic naturally formed at the front of the Star Shuttle, which was known to be gravity-stripping, also known as a repulsive field. The magic effect caused anything within about 100 kilometers from the craft to be repelled, preventing them from crashing into anything in the void.
It would have been lethal to crash into even a pebble at such speeds, after all.
The flight was an easy one as they had no set destination; it would suffice to simply get as far away as they were able to from the edge of the crystal wall system. As such, the drain in power of souls was almost negligible. The Star Shuttle's auxiliary magic array also enabled Guffen to reduce the drain of his dragon power to the lowest.
Guffen was even able to chat with Saleen.
”Mage, the Goddess of Myers...”
”Perished once, and I was the one who resurrected her. However, it is difficult to pin-point where her powers are now. She remembers everything, including all rules that she used to have mastered. However, she seems to be around level 15 at present. Don't go looking for trouble with her until you've reached level 18.”
”I understand.” Guffen saw no need to put up a farce before Saleen. The mage knew the dragons well enough to tell how they behaved.
They kept flying for over 20 days, and Saleen grew anxious as a month almost passed. Just as he was thinking if they would have been able to fly faster if he were to take over the controls again, the Star Shuttle was pulled by some massive force, heading straight for a star.
Guffen took a look at Saleen, who shook his head, telling the dragon to not resist it.
He was able to tell that the star had life on it. That place should have been at the edge of the chaotic void, and it seemed that they were about to make it out. Laying down a magic array in such a location would have been considerably less dangerous.
Saleen had intentions to just keep flying. The so-called edge they were at was probably tens of millions of kilometers away after all.
The frost dragon rescinded Comet Flash. The skill had very little drain when used in the void, but when entering an atmosphere, the drag would be massive and there was no need to continue using the spell.
A star usually only had an atmosphere about 100 kilometers thick. Even the thickest of them all would not have exceeded 1000 kilometers, and not even a main plane would have had an atmosphere that was overly thick.
The layer of ice on the exterior of the Star Shuttle was reduced by more than half of its previous thickness after they stopped using Comet Flash.
The intense gravity caused the Star Shuttle to dive straight into the star's atmosphere and flames were ignited. That was a defense mechanism on the Star Shuttle, which was only released after it burst into an atmosphere, wrapping the ice with a layer of low temperature fire. The flames were imbued with wind magic, reducing the drag to the minimum.
The Star Shuttle was a piece of flying equipment, enabling the people within to see outside clearly. Guffen had originally intended to adjust the flight path, enabling the Star Shuttle to land steadily. Saleen, on the other hand, simply pointed to a black dot on the ground that was almost invisible to the naked eye and said, ”Crash onto it!”
”Crash?” Guffen looked at the human mage and thought him to be crazy.
While the Star Shuttle was no doubt sturdy and was slowed somewhat, if they were to simply crash into something like that, they would suffer one way or another. Is Saleen not afraid of getting injured?
”Yes, crash!” Saleen was both nervous and excited. That dot was amplified by his Eye of Souls, and he saw a monster with the head of a monkey. That monster's body looked like a spider yet it had the head of a monkey. Saleen recognized that face—it was the face of the Heretic God.