faes and sky exited the forest entering the vast border between kingdom reptiliance and nadar which was also a desert.
the sun shone brightly in the blue sky while the ground was covered by sand with a few cactus and other desert plants. the hot wind blew on their faces leaving them dry.
faes looked around before glancing at sky.
"baby do you want to go to mystic fog castle?" faes didnt wanted sky to stay in the desert at her age but she would let sky choose afterall staying wasnt a problem they can always use magic.
sky glanced at the desert and her eyes sparkled in excitement as she told faes that she would stay with her.
faes quickly casted a water magic spell and ice spell to keep both her and sky hydrated and cool.
they can now move around as if walking in theor homes and not in scroaching sunny desert.
walkimg forward they encountered many cactus and even the rare plants that grow in deserts. faes took them into the space and after gathering them on the way another area was unlocked in the mystic fog castle though this time it just appeared after the fog moved away.
robin who was in the fields was scared as hell. she was in the fields watering the plants when suddenly the whole place turned dark and only the fog was visible which was moving. scared she dropped the watering hose and screamed.
but in the pitch black space no one was able to see anything even after using magic. their fire and other light sources were not working. thought after few minutes everything went back to how it was making everyone relax. others in space instantly went to where robin was and comforted her.
after robin calmed down did they notice the new addition. beside the forest was a desert area along with a few plants.
faes appeared and met with the other's
"princess faes this, everything went dark suddenly and this appeared" emma said as she noticed faes and sky
"yeah the space upgraded to sustain the new plants. we can now set a particular temperature in a particular area in the mystic fog castle. this area here will be as hot as outside so that the plants does not die. and i apologize for the sudden change i will try to alert you beforehand next time" faes who found out that the space was scary felt sorry for those in here. afterall it was them who got scared.
after looking around and talking with others once about the space upgrade faes and sky once again began their journey.
'system will you alert me next time before the upgrade so that i can give a headsup to others?' faes asked.
[sure host but please update the system if you want more functions unlocked]
hearing the system's pleading voice faes sighed.
'after we get to nadar' she told the system as suddenly she took sky and rolled away from where they were.
look at the place now it was black as if burnt.
"sceech" faes and sky glanced up to find a bird flying above them.
"looks like it was the one who attacked us now. was it a warning for us to not proceed forward?" faes quickly found out what the bird was upto. it was probably guarding something
ahead, its eggs or nest probably and was only warning them as it hasn't attacked them again.
'system scan'
[scanning...
scan complete]
[name: flame eagle
cultivation: king establishment stage 2
powers: fire magic]
faes glanced at the bird again. it indeed looked a lot like an eagle only its feathers were red and yellow.
if it was warning them then it would ignore them if they took another route but they were close to nadar and taking another route will be troublesome.
"we just want to cross over, we dont want to hurt you or your nest" faes tried to reason too lazy to take another route and she wasnt scared of the bird.
"screech" the bird gave a loud cry as it fired another fireball at her. after a certain cultivation beasts begin to understand human language and it seem that the bird doesnt agree with faes and wont let them pass.
"fine then i will fight you first or rather kill you, maybe your feathers will be a better way to earn some money points" faes grinned as she wondered about how much points will she get for the fire eagles feather.
"ice fire arrow" faes whispered as an ice arrow appeared but it seem to be on fire as it advanced towards the bird and peirced its chest in one go killing it even before it can fly away.
the fire eagle fell down on the sand and faes quickly stored it. then sky and faes continued forward but only after few minutes they came across the nest of fire eagle which was filled with about thirty plus of the birds. when the eagles noticed faes and sky they turned hostile and began attacking them.
"looks like we will have more feathers and carcasses to sell lets divide them in half and not damage their body much?" faes said as sky jumped excited
"we can also keep few feathers for our dresses decoration, maybe i can have earrings made of their feathers?" sky agreed
faes grinned as she turned to the fire eagles.
"leave a few alive baby we dont want them to go extinct do we?"
thus began the massacre of fire eagles.
after killing most of the birds the remaining birds didnt dare attack them and only watched silently in sorrow as faes and sky took the dead carcasses away and left. they were also sighing in relief that the two little demons only killed those birds which attacked them first.
the little demons which had instilled fear in the fire eagles were now a little away from the main broder between reptiliance amd nadar as faes was Breaking through king establishment stage 2.
the commotion caused by the breakthrough was a huge one as it was faes and the mana storm around her was bigger now that she was breaking through a higher cultivation than before.
sand rose in the storm around her and whoever saw it from afar. thought it might be a sand storm.
the soldiers on the border saw the sand storm and were alert suddenly. one has to know that there were barely any sandstorms in this area much less this close to the border.
one of the guards on duty went to call their superior while few others went to check the storm. if it will be an enemy they will subdue them or kill them while if it was a normal sandstorm they will simply use magic and either dissipate it or send it in another direction.
as the guards neared the sandstorm they sensed the mana in it and realised that it was someone breaking through.
"who darrs to breakthrough this close to the border? do you know that this is not the place to play? let me teach you a lesson" one of the arrogant soldier said making sky turn to them glaring.