Luna was at her limit, she had been opening portals non stop for the past few hours which took a huge toll on her mana. Even with her medium tier 5 mana core and her constantly using her breathing technique "winter's breath" there was a limit to the amount of world essence you could inhale over a period of time. At this point the efficiency of her breathing technique was at rock-bottom.
"Luna stop, I think we've gone far enough. Anymore and you might collapse from mana exhaustion." pleaded Raul as he stopped Luna from forming another portal. " You can never be too sure child. The inquisition have devices capable of tracking the disturbances caused by dimensional magic, we have to continue until we reach the city of Calburg only then can we be safe." said Luna as she swatted Raul's hand away opening another portal.
Calburg was the border town between the territories controlled by the Celestial Church and those controlled by the bordering kingdoms. However Calburg was a few thousand miles away from Draquerth, even a tier 5 dimensional mage would be hard spent to make portals half way there. The distance at which a dimensional mage could cover was based on their life force, at best a high rank tier 5 mage with a high life force could create a portal that covered a distance of 1 mile. Luna could now only cover a few hundred metres.
After opening a few more portals she was finally at her limit, "Okay lets set camp here for now." said Luna as the sun was setting. Looking around she figured she was in the forest of Krees, generally forests were filled with all types of monsters and magical beasts so it was dangerous to enter without protection. The trees seemed to reach the skies and there was a large variety of different plants, most of them poisonous. Although it was night time the forest still seemed alive, the trees rustled as the wind blew through their leaves, and the howls of different magical beasts could be heard as they called on the members of their pack.
Raul used earth magic to create a make shift camp and the children fell fast asleep exhausted from both the trip and the emotional turmoil they were in caused by the separation from their parents. While the kids slept in the tent Raul and Luna stayed outside to stand guard, after all the monsters of Krees might just look upon the group as a late night snack.
"Luca do you think Mom and Dad are okay?" asked Ava with tears still sitting at the edge of her eyelids. "Of course their okay sister, didn't you see mom? Didn't you see how powerful she was? How could you for one second believe that anyone could beat her? And didn't you see what Dad turned into? All the stories he told us, they were true. Dad's one of the dragonborn's of legend a descendant of one of the heroes of legend." said Luca trying to console his little sister. After a few minutes both Luca and Ava fell asleep. But the same couldn't be said for Arya.
Arya couldn't understand why but for some reason he felt that both his parents had died. It was an instinctual feeling but he couldn't help but feel that this gut feeling was right. He felt like he had lost another family and he was traumatized. "Is this my destiny? Am I cursed to lose my family in every life? No, it can't be right. I must be overexaggerating, Luca was right and I've even seen them in action. They're both monsters in their own right, I can't imagine that those two were beaten. Yes that's right I haven't lost anyone yet I should stop over thinking and focus on breaking this seal, I'm sure that mom and dad can fend for themselves." thought Arya before closing his eyes to fall asleep next to his siblings.
"Did you hear that Luna?" said Raul as he pulled out his sword. "Of course I have now shut up, whatever it is it must be highly intelligent. I can't sense any mana fluctuations so it must be masking its mana core." Luna hadn't completely recovered her strength since the efficiency of her breathing technique wasn't fully replenished. "Raul the children." whispered Luna as Raul opened his palm and the tent descended into the ground until it was impossible to tell whether or not the ground had ever been manipulated. This was a simple earth spell that removed earth from below placing the tent in the now empty space and moving the excavated earth else where.
"You know I'm impressed demon witch, I didn't expect that you would be able to move this fast." said a voice as cold as snow as a blue haired short woman walked from behind a tree a few metres away from the group. "Amana, it seems you haven't lost your rude demeanour. I should've taught you manners instead of ice magic." said Luna with an alert look on her face.
"Wait Amana as in the demigod of Ice? You know her?" asked Raul surprised at the familiarity the two used when conversing with each other. "This little welp a demigod? Please, even Lillian wasn't called a god and she is the strongest ice mage I had ever trained. A long time ago when she was still an orphan in the north I taught her a few things, now I hear she made a big name for herself in the Celestial Church." said Luna already letting mana course through her body ready to attack at any time.
"Amana we don't have time for you're little reunion." said Clara in an annoyed tone as she ran from behind a tree shooting a pillar of fire directly at Luna. Luna created a wall of ice in that split second instantly blocking the fire pillar and replied to it by turning the entire ground in a 40m radius into ice and then trapping Clara's feet in a layer of ice. Clara was shocked by the speed of the apparently exhausted woman's reaction time.
The duo had planned to attack the group when they were at their weakest and after following Luna closely for hours they decided to make their move at night when they were both tired and out of mana. However they didn't expect the demon witch to have this much strength left. "If you little kids want a lesson in respect I'm much obliged to teach it to you." said Luna as her eyes turned blue and the temperature began to drop considerably. "Is this the power of a high rank 5 star mage?" thought Clara as she felt her legs going numb.