Even though we know we should be running all the groups of idiots are admiring the flames that will not only dominate the mountain peak where a forest once stood. These flames are not simply something caused by lightning that will explode sooner, if they were just a product of lightning, they would not be behaving like that.
The flames at the peak of the mountain move like waves of water in the sea, the element of wind there is shaping the flames into waves and whirls of fire if I didn't know that the alpha beast that's evolving inside was a storm owl, I'd have full faith that a fire elemental or flaming beast was the source of that sea of fire that is spreading through the air.
Fire is spreading through the air. He's really going far.
"Run! The fire is coming towards us!"
Damn owl, as she is creating this kind of problem for us, even though we had stopped running, we still managed to open a good distance between us and the mountain, but even so the flames that were created there are being thrown to everyone. sides, the only thing missing is land for this mountain to become a volcano.
We ran as fast as possible away, but the flames still came towards us.
The crimson flames that are coming our way may be a small part of the fire, but the ferocity and energy they have is deadly to all of us.
"Zephyr creates the main shield layer and Hilda creates the outermost shield with her ice element! Let's get together and create as many shields as possible to protect us!"
We gather in a tight circle around Zephyr who creates a wind sphere around us and an elemental shield on top of it, taking out my fire element which would not help at all. Zephyr.
Several layers of different colors were formed and on top, an ice shield formed to be the first layer of our defense. A few tufts of fire fell towards us. It's our defenses will be tested
When the flames touched the ice shield which collapsed instantly releasing water and cold air over the flames which seemed to be completely bypassed by the flames, they started to run through our defensive layers one shield after the other was destroyed by the small crimson flames that were lingering very close to us.
"Shouldn't we run?!"
"Calm down Alice! Running now is a bad idea, let's keep the defensive formation going so we don't get burned while we run. The flames will disperse in small attacks that are being scattered by the wind, staying in a good place like ours is better than running away and simply relying on luck."
The crimson flame melted several layers of our defense, but finally the flame's power started to diminish, the shadow shield was way more effective than I expected, but it's a shame Alice can't create multiple shadow shields.
Luckily for us our last defense bed wasn't needed because the crimson flame stopped advancing on a wind shield, I created, after that fire two more shields and then our last defense layer would come. As the rest of the group reworks our defenses that have been penetrated by the flames that still exist, more is almost gone.
I used my fire element to create a sphere of heat and aura around the near-dead flame, I obviously didn't feed it, but letting it just fade away is a waste.
If I feed the bed enough to stabilize it, I'm going to miss storing it in one of the special containers I have in my backpack. This flame can turn into a fire crystallization and a fire crystal of this quality is very high and should be worth a good deal of money and maybe even the last one for me now.
The unstable fire orb passed through the shields and the wind sphere, landing in the open box I held.
"You really don't let an opportunity to make money go by, too greedy."
"Serious? I'm just collecting some ingredients that are thrown into the air. Literally."
"Just try not to burn us all to death, this thing is too dangerous for people on our level."
"Not that I care too much about your silly little fights, but how long are we going to stand here."
"Just wait a little longer Alice, Zephyr won't take more than two blows from these flames, but luckily for us most of the fire that's all around us is falling to the ground now. Stay alert the moment I give the signal, undo the defenses and we run away keeping the formation, Gloria charge Zephyrus because he should save as much vigor and energy as possible."
I studied yours well waiting for a good opportunity to run, it only took a few minutes for a window to appear.
"Run!"
Running and setting up a defense was what we did several times, it took us a long time to get away from the fire zone and when that happened, we were all at our limit. We were directly attacked by three pieces of fire that I captured and guarded after they will lose strength after being blocked by the group's shields.
The team was completely exhausted after not even half an hour into the onslaught of flames that are falling from theirs. The damn owl doesn't even know we exist and even though it's so fucking far away from her, it still nearly killed us.
If we had to block one more of these blows, I doubt we would have the ability to block the fire completely, during the last blow the flame stopped advancing a little before breaking through our last barrier that Zephyrus who is now extremely pale and trembling when he tries stand.
Zephyrus was the main member of the team responsible for the defense and without him we would probably have had one or two members dead or badly injured going into song with these winter flames. I still don't fully understand how such a special and fierce fire was born of evolution and an alpha beast that lacks the fire element, and a great pity that I can only trust mine though to remember that phenomenon, it would be amazing if I had the ability to record the phenomenon that this owl caused in that forest.
As the group sat to recover from the wear and tear of the last half hour I looked to the horizon, to be precise I looked at the peak of the mountain that is so far away from us know that even with my eyes I can barely see the details of the mountain that is still glowing red.
The elemental energy there is extremely chaotic, when using my eyes, the mountain turns into a beacon that's emitting red and green light but not a purple light which is a little weird but when I just use my visual ability, I normally see a mountain on fire and a lot of black smoke in the air.
The flames have not spread as far into the air anymore, they are falling towards the base of the mountain and the cloud of smoke is covering the skies. This owl basically created the same phenomenon that an erupting volcano would do to the landscape. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if much of that mountain turned to lava.
When Hilda told us about the history of the kraken, I was very shocked by the level of power it had, but now seeing what this owl is causing as it goes along for the first time, I'm afraid of what would happen to our continent if this alpha owl evolved further sometimes.
During evolution from level seven to level eight which was the highest level that the legendary kraken could reach this owl would likely cause the collapse of more than one realm just as it advanced.
"Recovered?"
"A little bit."
"I can go back to running, if I need to, I can carry Zephyrus again."
"I also recovered, and we'd better go back to running. I doubt that any animal or magical beast will attempt to make a move against us over the next few hours, the aura that this owl is emitting through its mana and elemental energy being released into the air should put fear in any animal and magical beast in this entire region."
"Hilda is right, the sooner we get to town the faster we can report this mess to the kingdom. Of course, they know about what's going on here, but I doubt they know the exact details about the owl."
"If we take too long, we won't be able to earn anything as a reward for the late report, so we better run. Gloria carries Zephyr he hasn't quite recovered yet and when he does, he will sweat his magic to increase our speed."
Luckily, we didn't have to rush into town to report on the mountain and forest that probably no longer exists. We were approached by a group of adventurers who must have been dispatched to study what was happening on the mountain.
The moment we tell them about what we experienced in the forest and that we believe an alpha beast is evolving, the leader of the adventurer's team has gone as white as Zephyr who is casting his magic even after reaching his bodily limit.
After that the adventurers team split leaving us in my forest truck, the adventurers team leader went towards the wing owl to do his own recon while one of the adventurers ran like lightning back to town to communicate to the guild the report made by my team.