Chapter 333: Beyond The Fabric
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- Mild Non-Human Gore Warning -
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Late Evening - Late Summer : The Dungeon of Colossus | Western Sirathan Mountains
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*vvwwoooOOOOOMMM-TSSS* The air around me sizzled as the ground was reduced to powder and melted under the weight of my paws. My aura flowed so intensely that even the mana strengthening in the ground was eroded away until there was nothing left. -I'd like to see which arrogant fuck touched my Father.-
*Flash* Changing to my fenririan form as I lowered my stance and spread my wings, I started to roughly read my aura throughout the dungeon and calculate how I would traverse it, but before I could finish, the presences I felt deep in the dungeon suddenly vanished.
-Huh?- It was like my aura suddenly couldn't reach them.
But it wasn't what I expected. *rrruuuummbbllee* Before I could think, the entire dungeon started to shake as if the whole mountain was about to be split in half, and the entire pathway into the dungeon began to shrink and close.
The dungeon was detaching itself from the surface, closing and sealing the path to its core, and before I even had the chance to notice, it had completely surrounded itself with several kilometers of stone and ore.
But at that moment, there was nothing that could stop me. "Who knew a dungeon could feel fear..." *Fwoom* The sounds around me warped as everything suddenly slowed to a halt, and my draconic pupils thinned to focus on a single point through the ground.
Far under the mountain, I could faintly see a blurry cloud-like sphere. -That must be the dungeon core...- It was so far away that, at least with my current ability, it was impossible to pinpoint.
But all I needed was general direction. *blub-CRACKLE* Digging my paws into the half-molten ground, I flexed my legs, lowered my snout, and folded my wings.
With time around me slowed with my divinity, whenever I touched something that wasn't slowed to the same extent as my body, so much force would be applied and energy would be transferred that the ground would turn to liquid and the air would turn to plasma. With most creatures, even if they could use divinity, just the forces of the slowed air around them would lock them in place as well, as their bodies would break thanks to an equal but opposite reaction...
But my body had no issue exerting such forces, even if I didn't acknowledge it.
*crack-FWOOOOM* Darting into the ground, an instantaneous tunnel of molten rock formed in the wake of my body without giving the surrounding rock and ore time to react to the impact. With my eyes focused on the blurry sphere, I simply tunnel-visioned until, eventually, the sphere came into focus, and I burst through the ceiling of the dungeon's boss room.
*VWOOP* My aura filled the room nearly instantly, and as I turned to look toward the auras I felt around Father, I found a white and gold-robed human with three ancients right behind her. However, they weren't the subject of my gaze.
-There you are...- Behind them was the largest of the group, a pure cherry-red scaled dragon standing tall and confident while dragging Father across the ground with his tail. -To show him such disrespect...- *VWOOOM* Zero'ing my momentum against the ground, I jumped into the void before instantly returning over his head. *vwoop-vwoop*
But while I wanted to disassemble his skull, having him die without knowing how didn't sit right with me. -I want you to feel the fear of death...-
*mwooOOOF* Releasing my divinity, the flow of time around me started slowly returning to normal, but as it did, the world was finally able to react to the damage I had done.
"Tch..." All I could do was click my tongue at such a disgraceful sight. "For dragons to give their bodies to humans... How sad."
Deciding to test a new spell idea I got from Hera, I quickly poured mana out of my reserve to create an immense mass of space mana before connecting it to various points around each ancient.
It was a spell I had never even tried in an experiment, but I was curious what the result would be. -Now, let's see what their fate will be.- *crackle* Instantly detaching and isolating a sphere of the fabric of space around them, I gripped the fabric with my own mana before suddenly flipping it and forcefully reattaching it.
The fabric actually wouldn't line up properly, but the moment I would release it, it would snap back into place. -I wonder what the result will be...-
But the moment I released it, unlike the instantaneous 'atomic disassembly' I expected, the ancients were hurled upward at a speed I could barely follow with my eyes, even with my divinity frozen.
-WHAT THE?!- In a moment of instinctual panic, I instantly shredded every spec of the fabric of space around them in hopes of containing the blast of heat, radiation, and mana.
But while it did end up limiting the damage to everything around me from the resulting beyond-fusion-scale temperatures.. the moment my eyes caught up to where I shredded everything, I found two of the huge spheres of cracks in space.
However, as the fissures started repairing themselves, the blackness of the void suddenly started turning red, and becoming brighter, and brighter..
Until finally.. it turned completely white like the purest of beacons and exploded.
*crackle-FLASH*
The next thing I knew, every single one of my senses was overloaded to the point that they went numb, and I suddenly found myself in an empty, black space with nothing but my mind.
-W..what...-
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