NOVGO.NET Chapter 1320 What Can Threaten Karl?
Chapter 1320 What Can Threaten Karl?
Panicked, Remi rushed to the Academy to check on Karl, and found that he was collapsed in the ruins of the mage training building, still in Avatar form, but
ninety percent of his body was black mist.
That was his regeneration attempting to rebuild the destroyed parts of his body, as the surviving portions of it were currently mostly legs and spine, with à damaged skull missing all its scales.
But the Karl wasn’t dead.
Half a continent away, Dana felt pain surge through her body, as if her soul was being seared from the inside, but there was nothing here that could threaten her. She was fighting giant frogs, and they were no match for her blade skills. It had to be Karl in danger.
But what could realistically threaten Karl?
There simply weren’t a lot of creatures that could overpower his team to the point that he would be in real danger.
Now, he might be short on two members, but he still had Hawk, Rae and Cara available, if Cara was finished with whatever she was doing in the Chaos Realm. Opal’s Illusionary Domain hosted an upgraded army of hammer wielding Dwarves that were incredibly effective in combat, and the butterfly herself had landed on top of Tian, which made it look like the cat sized fox had giant wings. [I would make a cute fae.] Tian agreed as he heard Dana’s thoughts.
[The spells heal the body, the fluff heals the heart.] Opal added.
Dana sighed at the two oddballs that she had gotten as backup. Inside Opal’s Domain, everything worked in her favour, and with Tian’s intervention, even the terrain adapted to hinder the army of frogs. But neither the butterfly nor the fox was capable of taking anything seriously.
[I mean, what danger are we actually in? Worst case scenario, we just go back and hide in our space.] Opal suggested.
[Can you even get there from here?] Dana asked.
They were halfway across the continent, that was well beyond any sort of reasonable access range for their personal space.
[I can open a portal.] Opal replied with a mental shrug.
Tian nodded in agreement. Portals were the best way to get back to the Karl if he wandered away on them. It wasn’t even an elemental magic, it was easy to
use.
Dana sighed as she realized that the beasts really didn’t have any trouble simply running back home when they were in trouble. They didn’t even need a portal large enough to move through, just enough to link the two locations so they could move into their space, the same trick that she could do with Teleportation.
Slowly, the pain in Dana’s chest was fading, so she assumed that Karl was alright. The beasts certainly would have had some response if he were not alright, and they were still calmly talking about returning to their spaces if there was actual danger.
[Focus on getting us to the other side of the battlefield. The black dragon is holding the temple by himself.] Dana instructed.
[Got it, boss lady.] Tian agreed.
He was using [Earth Manipulation] to fire stone bullets at the frogs, but when Dana said that they needed to hurry, he changed tactics and began to attack them from below, using spears of stone to impale them or drive the frogs into Opal’s illusionary army.
They could really use Thor here, for the barrier spell. But the illusionary Dwarves were doing well enough before they were destroyed by the frogs. However, Opal had a truly prodigious mana regeneration rate, and even when entire waves of her illusionary Dwarves fell in combat, [Reality Warp] let her bring them all back for a trivial amount of mana.
Tian thought that the whole thing was hilarious because the frogs were stupid, and they didn’t understand that there was a better way to deal with the illusions than to attack them head on.
So, they kept getting speared, kept getting smashed with hammers, and the path to the Beast God Temple where the Mythic Black Dragon was fighting rapidly cleared.
[Dana Mage, take your team and go to the big dragon. We will fight our way to you.] Opal instructed.
[Will you be alright, isolated out here?] Dana asked.
[Yep, all good. We’re just collecting frogs. ALL the frogs.]
They were going to have a mountain of them by the time that they were done, and with so much Mythic Grade meat, there was no way that they couldn’t push at least one of their carnivorous siblings up a noticeable step in power. Technically, the ones who ate meat were almost all Mythic already, but still early Mythic. That hardly counted.
The only one who might like frog legs, but wasn’t a Mythic beast, was Remi. But she should advance soon. She was already powerful, she was just lagging behind a little bit for lack of opportunity.
Stuffing herself full of good food might solve the problem.
Tian certainly felt better when he had a full tummy.
{You seem distracted, young mage.} The Mythic Dragon noted as Dana arrived next to him with her Golems.
“The beasts over there share a mental link with me, and their distracted state keeps making me laugh.” Dana explained.
The Dragon gave a rumbling laugh. {Right, the Soul Bonding Ceremony. I had forgotten about that. Possibly out of desire to preserve my sanity after dealing with Matilda.}
The two did not slow their fight to chat, but Dana did have time to notice that there were two Mythic Ranked octopus monsters on the ground, their souls completely stripped by the breath weapon of the black dragon.
All the regeneration in the world didn’t matter if there was no life left in the
corpse.
The same had happened to the frogs which had gotten too close to the temple, which had been defended by a group of Totem Ranked warriors backed up by every cleric they could muster.
It was a brutal siege tactic, but with enough healers, even a wall of Totem Ranked beasts was enough to hold a position against the army of Mythic frogs.
At least for a little while. Once the barriers on the temple collapsed, they would have been finished without Dana’s intervention.
For the Black Dragon, that was an incredibly irritating thought. A temple full of intelligent Magical and Divine Beasts should not be overrun by mindless wild animals, even if they were from the Immortal Realm.