Chapter 120: Undying Leviathan and Nether Crow
Chapter 120: Undying Leviathan and Nether Crow
A great horde was exiting the Wasteland by the tunnel close to the Sinux Magic Tower and the number of individuals forming it reached close to two thousand.
This type of scene was bound to call the attention of those Magus that were nearby, and some of them were so terrified that they flew away immediately after seeing it.
Of course, those that run away were mostly Novice Rank 1 as for the rest, they chose to see from the distance.
A Rank 2 Magus was watching this horde as well and although he was curious and had the intention of approaching it. When he was about to do it, he felt a pair of eyes looking at him, which immediately made him stop.
The Rank 2 Magus traced the origin of those eyes to the young man at the lead of this horde whose body seemed to contain a demonic storm inside it, and despite discerning that the man was only at Rank 1, the Magus did not dare to tempt his luck and he remained still.
At the head of the horde, there was Ezequiel and Dante and flanking it by its side, there were kobolds, displaying their mighty Dragonborn constitution.
The number of kobolds accompanying the horde was almost three hundred, with eighty percent of them being very young and had not reached Rank 1 yet.
Due to Zatiel order and Rax careful management and systematic promotion, the number of Neo-Demons that were born inside the cave was more than two hundred.
Dante had chosen to bring these children first to the tower since the appearance of what will seem as several hundred Rank 1 Dragonborn’s will raise some questions.
The rest of the kobolds that remained inside the cave were the members of the first generation that were transformed into Neo-Demons and were using the formation that Zatiel had constructed to increase their power.
To them, remaining inside the cave longer was not something that truly matters but to those children that had never seen the exterior, it was entirely different.
Those first-generation kobolds will be joining the clan systematically, with small groups mixing with each new horde that they will recruit from Wasteland.
As Dante guided the horde to the magic tower, there was annoyance on his face and the reason was that they were delayed.
In his original plan, they should have exited the Wasteland three weeks ago.
The reason for this setback was due to the other groups that were searching for tribes were also attacked by Eye Masters of the Blood Eye clan.
Due to them having a numerical advantage and thinking they were just fighting Dragonborns, those Eye Masters were careless.
And by the time that they understood that their enemies were not merely Dragonborn’s but Neo-Demons with the bloodline of Metallic Dragon, it was too late.
Every Eye Masters was massacred and although the kobolds ended with several degrees of injuries, with some having suffered significant wounds, there were no casualties and Dante was able to heal all of them when they returned.
Dante was sure that when the news that two Eye Lords and more than fifty Eye Masters died during this attack reaches the Eye Dynasty, the leaders of the Blood Eye clan will be furious, but since they were already enemies, there is no point on being polite and the best way was to just kill everybody they sent.
And now with the presence of the tower, and the fact that they will not dare to send a Rank 4 individual against them due to the threat that Heinz represented, there was little that the Blood Eye clan could do in terms of direct confrontation.
The Daybreak Magic Tower was very close to the entrance of Wasteland so, despite the horde having a great number of children and old people, they were approaching it very fast, and in no time they were able to see the tower at the distance.
As they got closer, curiosity was among the integrants of the horde due to the two sources of light they were seeing above the tower, one smaller but brighter and another bigger and whose light had a dark golden color.
After a couple of hours of marching, all of them were able to see clearly the magnificent might of the tower and the origin of those two balls of light, and they were shocked.
It was not the imposing magic tower with inscriptions that resembled golden lava or the mighty flames of the Sunlight Core the reason for their surprise.
The reason for their shock was the man floating in the sky, in the center of a domain of fire that covers more than two hundred meters in diameter and that contained the skeleton of two extraordinary creatures, that despite being only bones, seem to be alive from the way they were moving inside the dark golden flames.
One of those skeletons was a massive one hundred meters long whale-like creature, with a pyramid-like head and a ‘three-way’ jaw, in which the two sides of the lower jaw split apart at the middle giving it a terrifying appearance.
The weight of this massive being was ridiculous, and yet it was able to swim through the golden flames at an impressive speed.
The second skeleton corresponded to a bird-like creature with a ten-meter height and whose wings reached almost four times that size; in its skull, the number of eye sockets was three on each side of its head, each one next to the other.
Each time this bird waved its wings, it vanished, only to appear on the other end of the dome instantly.
The moment Zatiel’s figure was clear in the eyes of the kobolds, all of them immediately kneeled and an immense devotion and admiration could be seen in their eyes.
The emotions on their faces proved that their actions were not due to politeness or etiquette due to them seeing their leader, but something that came from the soul of every single kobold.
When the rest of the horde saw this, under the command of their elders they also kneeled but unlike the kobold who only had reverence in their eyes, some of these people were showing fear and apprehension for being in the presence of someone so powerful and whose spell made them feel terrified.
The only people that were not kneeling were Ezequiel and Dante.
Dante noticed these emotions in the members of the horde, but he did not have anything to say, after all, he did not expect them to be like those kobolds who from the moment they were born, were told about their mighty Ancestor that was responsible for their glorious life and heritage.
The magic knowledge that Dante has is immense due to his soul being formed with the cloned A.I. Chip, so he knew the spell that Zatiel was training and there was immense admiration in his eyes.
The Rank Spell that Zatiel was mastering was known as “Incarnation of the Undying Leviathan and Nether Crow”.
Just like its name says, this spell will allow you to summon an incarnation of those creatures to fight by your side, but there were several flaws in the original spell.
The incarnation of the Undying Leviathan was an incredibly powerful creature but due to its immense weight that could easily reach thousands of tons, its speed was too slow and the incarnation of the Nether Crow had the ability to move at incredible speeds but the controls over its body was flawed meaning it could not stop whenever it wanted or make maneuvers as it moved.
There was also the fact that to maintain this spell, even if it was transformed into your Rank Spell, the energy it needed was immense.
The real creatures that these incarnations were based on did not have these problems due to the help of their bloodline and magic abilities, but these were made by using energy and it could not compare to the original, at least not until the spell was upgraded.
Despite all these flaws, Zatiel had chosen it, and Dante was able to see that his father was able to fix all the problems in the spell and make even stronger that the original version.
Zatiel fused the Sun Domain and Ring of Abyssal Fire, so he could create an environment stable and with enough energy so he could make the incarnations grow inside it, and due to the Undying Leviathan and Nether Crow being created out of the special source of power that this dark golden fire was, the energy to maintain them will be much less.
And since they were made from the same dark golden fire that filled the domain, as long they remain inside it they will be able to display amazing power and the control over their bodies will be impeccable, erasing all the problems of the spell.
Dante, Ezequiel, the kobolds, and the entire horde remained still and continued watching as the power in the domain increased and the might of those skeletons rose.
The might of the spell that Zatiel was creating with his consciousness was so immense, that his power and energy had long gone reach a level that was the highest possible he could have in Rank 1, so while he was focusing all of his concentration on the Rank Spell, his advancement to Rank 2 was going on automatically.