Chapter 512 - Exploring the old castle (1/2)

Spending his time as a dragon, Ray didn't really remember where small things and such were located. He remembered the general direction of terrain and areas, but to him he thought one city was like all the others.

Once in the past he had asked Bliss about where his dragon body was being kept, since he remembered being trapped by the large crystals and she had said that she would not tell him.

'Is it because if I find it, there is a chance to get my old body back? But then what happens to this body?' Ray started to think. Every time he went to the next beast stage by consuming crystals, he became closer to what he once was. However one thing was clear - this was a different body to his old one.

He didn't know how it worked, was it because his soul was in his body and he was altering his human one, or something else.

Still, out of curiosity, he chose to go ahead and walk closer to the castle. With each step, he would see large craters from magical spells. Part of the castle wall had fallen down and snow now grew over it, from where his feet were planted to on top of the wall.

Everything was coming back to him, this was the day that had changed his life.

”It happened before the shadow even existed, I don't know why I never thought the place would be in the shadow continent.”

Perhaps in the past Ray would have gone looking for it if he had never established the Redwings. Was there even any reason for him to look round and check out the place, to bring up memories of the past?

He took a step back and turned away.

'Obviously I have gone in the wrong direction.' But then something stopped. It was as if his body was urging him to turn around and head back the other way.

In the end, he couldn't fight it any longer and started to walk up to the castle. When approaching the walls, it was clear that no one had lived here for a long time, not even the Shadow seemed to have used the place as a fortress like it had done in the other areas.

'Is there a reason for that?'

Using his strength, Ray pulled on the door which was heavy, it would have taken at least thirty men to pull such a thing, and since it hadn't been opened in a long time it was even harder. With Ray's strength and Ki he was able to open it, but not without making a loud metallic screeching.

The door was opened just wide enough for him to fit in and he carried on walking through.

”Just like before, there are no people here, not even bones. Bliss had cleared the place before our fight was to take place, and it looks like they never set foot here again.”

Taking a step forward past the gate walls and next to the castle doors, Ray could feel it now. He couldn't feel it before but there was a strange energy emanating from the castle. Looking at the ground, that's when he noticed that it wasn't black, it was brown like regular dirt.

'The shadow can't even get close to the castle, is it because of the strange power? That's why there's no shadow here.' The strange power was one that was familiar to Ray, but he couldn't be too sure yet, as he opened the castle doors and walked in.