Chapter 109 - SHADOWS THAT LOOMS I (1/2)
A predator. What is a predator?
An animal that naturally preys on others. A person or a group that ruthlessly exploits others.
In other words, they are one that preys, destroys and devour.
Azief was tempered by blood and war. In Earth Two he painted the world red with the blood of his enemies.
In the other Earth he was stuck in, that was even more so. He lives by predation. He devours. He destroys. He prey.
And as such he himself becomes one of the deadliest predators. And what happens when a predator is provoked?
They hunt!
If that person who recognized his aura thinks he would only wait, than that person clearly doesn't know the personality of Azief.
And that person certainly doesn't know what kind of person he has just provoked. He provoked a sleeping beast.
Why wait for an enemy to come knocking? He will visit first.
The moment he felt the killing intent in that consciousness, Azief has already decided to pull this person by the roots.
As he was thinking this, his figures separating the clouds can be seen from the ground.
He passes the Great Red Mountain. It was a towering mountain reaching the clouds, red as blood.
The reason why it is red is because of the composition of the soil which makes the land red and the mountain red.
Thick deep forest could be seen on the foot of the mountain range that houses innumerable dangerous monsters.
Now that most of the mutated sapiens was eaten by the slowly evolving monsters, the threats to humanity is monsters.
The mountain range of the Great Red Mountain divides the line between the Plains and the other Regions.
He speed up his speed as his trail dissipates the clouds and pierce sounds.
The moment he passes the mountain range, he could see a pillar of fire sometimes formed from the ground to the sky.
The Fire region.
He could see a gigantic volcano in the middle of hundreds of other small volcanoes. The heat that permeates from the ground reaches the sky.
He already takes hours from the Plains regions to the Fire Region and he was not even close to the Ice Region.
As he passes by the fire region, he could see some settlements, houses made of black stones.
He saw a horde of fiery red monsters made their nest nearby the volcanoes. He sees some people coming out of some caves hunting the monsters.
The longer he passes the region, the more he sees. He also saw one peculiarity in the fire region.
A huge lake, clear as the sky.
For some reason, Azief could feel that there is an ancient energy swirling in that lake but Azief did not stop to check the lake….because his senses is telling him that there is something guarding the lake.
He keep flying and then two hours later, he sees it.
In the far distance he could a towering mountain that reached the clouds, full of snows and dare he say it?
A White Dragon on top of that mountain, closing its eyes. Azief was startled but he was cautious.
He knows dragons.
At least in that other world, there are dragons. As long as you don't bother them, they will not bother you.
Dragon itself is a primordial force.
In them, the power of the element reside. Even Azief with his level, could not slay a dragon.
He is confident he can outrun a dragon but fighting them? Even fighting them to a standstill is not something Azief could do with his current strength.
But the sight of that dragon in the distance did not deter Azief one bit.
After all, Azief did not come to the other regions to slay a dragon, instead he wanted to see the other Seed Forming user and kill that person.
His experience has taught him to be decisive..
Because Azief could feel killing intent from that person when that person scanned him.
Azief has once seen the Ice Region when he was in flight but never before he as seen it this close.
It is white. Disturbingly white. Like the whiteness of nothingness. That is how Azief feels. A white expanse that never ends.
Harsh snow falls without stopping, ruthlessly beating the soil, an eternal place of winter and cold
And the cold could even seeps into his Essence Tree, making him shiver in cold. The snow itself was magic. The cold is magic. The winds and the environment are magic.
Whatever happened in that white explosion, it truly changed the composition of Earth atmosphere.
Azief could feel it. Magic. All kinds of it. The dark ones. The light. Chaotic magic.
All kinds of laws of magic melded perfectly without any imbalance, like a perfect formula of a unified magic equation.
As Azief flies deeper into the Ice Region, he could feel the cold which is almost impossible considering his Undying Body stage.
The hail snows becomes harsher like an unrelenting storms that won't stop coming at you, and then he arrived.
He arrived at the White Mountain and he slowly floated down and his foot touches the cold hard soil, and he smiles.
His smile was full of malevolent intention and he clenches his hand into a fist and his knuckles crack and the air ripple.
Red black mist swirls around him, aura of death spreading in a hundred meter radius, melting the snow beneath his feet
Then he looks into the distance and his smile becomes wider. He activated his essence as he tries to replenish his aura after using one of the Forbidden Words.
Using the Forbidden Words, a spell of the Ancients, a spell from the Eternal Rings is taxing. Powerful, imposing...but a price has to be pay when using such magic.
Then he slowly walks as his footsteps marked in the deep snow, was erased by the hail. He slowly walks to a cave hidden in the snow
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IN A CAVE ON THE ICE REGION
'Hah' the woman released her breathe.
Around her was lump of black blood in the hard soil of the cave. The woman was sitting in a cross legged position and her face was full of colors.
The woman smiles in satisfaction. Then she said to herself
'I know I wouldn't die that easily.' She was smiling in satisfaction and her smile was full of confidence. She has managed to pass the critical part of her recovery.
Then her face suddenly fell and her gaze immediately look at the entrance of her cave.
Sasha who was just finished recuperating suddenly felt the disturbance of energy and then she quickly got up.
'Seed Forming' she said exasperatedly.
Then before she could even think anything, or plan anything she could hear it. To others, they might not hear it but she could hear the footsteps in the snow.
It is not because the footsteps emitted sound but with each steps, Sasha could hear reverberation of essence at it was like the sound of peal of thunder beside her ears.
To her, the sound of the reverberation seems like a twenty foot giant is outside her cave, slowly walking to her.