Chapter 454 - The Secret Duke (1/2)

Chapter 454: The Secret Duke

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Dragon Valley

Not long after Link plunged into the Sea of Void, Gretel watched as the black tentacles in the city began moving even more erratically.

At first, the tentacles had been whipping against the binding rune circle in an orderly fashion, like a black tidal wave. Now, it seemed that they were beginning to retreat from the circle in a state of complete disorder.

It was like watching a pack of dogs running away in defeat with their tails tucked between their legs.

This lasted for more than a minute, and then, all of a sudden, the tentacles slackened and fell to the ground limply, as if they had lost all the life in them.

This went on for another ten seconds, and by that time, Gretel was sure that the Void Tyrant was dead.

Outside the city

Lucia Silverstar noticed this as well. Upon seeing the state of the tentacles, she immediately shouted ecstatically, “The Void Tyrant is dead! It’s finally been killed!”

“Really?” The Red Dragon Elders all looked at her in disbelief. Their enemy was immense, its tentacles covering both ground and sky. Even a Legendary Flame spell from the Red Dragon Queen couldn’t burn it down. How on earth could it have been killed?

“It’s true! Link went into the Sea of Void, he must have destroyed the Void Tyrant’s brain!” Lucia Silverstar excitedly replied. She was, after all, a Legendary Magician, and she knew exactly what Link had planned on doing there.

One of the Red Dragon Elders asked, “What about Master Link, has he not returned?”

“Well…” SIlverstar could not think of an answer. The Void Tyrant was dead, but Link had not yet returned to the material realm. Surely he must have been all right?

Worried about Link, Gretel immediately leapt into action.

She flew to where Link had disappeared, then entered the Void by activating Spatial Transference.

Once within the Sea of Void, all she could see was a blur of gray. There were energy whirlpools everywhere, and from time to time, flashes of light erupted close by.

A sudden energy turbulence flowed past her in one direction.

The reason was simple: dimensions were not stationary objects in the Sea of Void. On the contrary, they were like bubbles floating on the surface of an ocean, rotating as dictated by the physical laws of their surroundings.

But no one actually knew what those laws were.

“Link, where are you? Link!” Gretel could not find Link at all; for now, the most she could do was send her thought waves out into the Void.

She continued shouting for Link, but no response came from him, wherever he was.

Time went by, and Gretel began to despair, fearing that Link had been killed during his battle with the Void Tyrant, his corpse now being carried away by the eddies in the Void.

But she still needed to thank him for what he had done!

“Link! Link!” Gretel did not want to believe that he was already dead. She continued to fly about aimlessly, searching for any hint of life.

She could not stop thinking about Link.

They had first met each other in the Dragon Square, where he and that Yabba dwarf had destroyed the Worthdamk in secret.

When they had been discussing their theses on spatial magic, he had said to her with a smug smile, “You’ve made a mistake here, Your Highness.”

When they had been walking in the woods in the Korora Mountain Range, he had cleared the path of the brambles and vines for her with much decorum and had even built a stone bridge across a stream for her. On the Ancestor Altar, their sudden change in behavior towards him had not fazed him, and even in her time of need, Link had been the first to step up to her aid.

Now, he had saved Dragon Valley, but at the cost of his life.

She should not have neglected Lucia Silverstar, she should not have associated the Black Dragon King with Link. That was ancient history. Link had nothing to do with it!

She was the one who had sent Link to his death!

“Link! Link!” Gretel’s voice had now turned into a sob.

Just when she was on the brink of giving up hope, a weak mental presence reached out to her. “Stop crying, I’m not dead yet! I’m right here!”

Gretel was overjoyed. She immediately flew where the consciousness guided her. Soon, she found Link lying motionless at the outer reaches of the dimensional barrier. Black tentacles wrapped around him, one of them deeply embedded in his back.

“My dragon body was severely injured. I couldn’t use Spatial Transference with it,” said Link. He had almost been carried away by a strong eddy to the deeper regions of the Void. It was fortunate that he had still had some strength left in him, so he had been able to hang on to the dimensional barrier just in time.

“You’re safe now, I’m here.” Gretel flew to his side, and embraced Link’s body in her arms as she activated Spatial Transference.

A watery film of light began enveloping them, and the two slowly floated and once again resurfaced back into the realm of Firuman.

The light blinded Link’s eyes as he returned to the realm of Firuman, up in the air above Dragon Valley, not too far from where he had first entered the Sea of Void.

Looking down, he could see the lifeless mass of black tentacles and the crowd of dragon warriors outside the city.