"No, my kingdom is not on surface, but underground this desolate land." babel said.
"So is there any hidden route to enter the kingdom or we march through the front door?" I asked while leisurely sitting on the head of babel.
"There is one hidden passage beneath this cliff?" Babel asked.
"I wanted to ask you one thing before we infiltrate the kingdom lord, can you really defeat my father if it comes to fight, because he is a rank 10 beasts and powerful one at that." Babel asked.
"Let me ask you one question, how long have you been secluded in this dimension pocket?" I counter questioned babel.
"For more than 1,000 year." Babel answered.
"I asked you this because you beasts are all frog in the veil, beasts were meant to roam in wilderness and fight every day for their survival, kill and be killed, but what you guys have been doing, establishing a kingdom and royal family feasting on weaker beasts becoming more and more like human in a negative way.
When I saw you after leaving the cave, I thought maybe I will have a decent fight but as per my standards a rank 5 beast from outside this dimension pocket will be able to kill you if you don't use your soul force on him.
You ask me whether I will be able to handle your father, I think I won't even loose against your ancestors if he comes back to fight me from his grave." I shouted letting my frustrated voice roam around desolate land.
"I am sorry for doubting you my lord." He apologized with teary eyes as after conclusion of my speech the leftover self-confidence he had vanished.
I was evaluating every other beast's capabilities with the beasts I had fought inside sea of consciousness but even if there resides some powerful beast in this land, I had many tricks up my sleeves which will help me deal with them.
What separated me from other magicians was my ability, the origin of my ability was the core of a mighty dragon king Noob, and therefore even a simple attack I had conjured was more deadly compared to others.
Second if I transform into my hybrid draconic form, I will be able to boost the power of my attacks by two whole ranks, even though just for few minutes.
On top of all these boosts, if I imbue my attacks with fate points the power of my attacks will increase by at least 50 percent.
I had few other methods up my sleeves, which I have devised in sea of consciousness to escape from a life threatening situations and thus I was not worried about upcoming fight and seeing me in a clam spirit, a relieved expression appeared on babel's face.
"I know of a secret path beneath this cliff, please brace yourself, I will be jumping from this cliff now." Babel said and jumped from the 500 meter tall cliff.
He fell from the cliff gliding his massive snake like body trying to reduce the impact but when he fell a tremor shook the entire earth.
The height of 500 meter was nothing to scoff-off but there was not a single scratch on his black scales.
"They are sturdier than I thought." Babel commented praising his own thick skin.
Our surrounding was nothing but withered trees, rocks and sand, while half of the view was blocked by huge cliff from where we have jumped.
Babel moved toward a 9 meter huge boulder at the end of the cliff and fired a poison breath on the stone.
Few second later, some ancient green letters appeared on the stone and the stone started to vibrate and moved revealing a dark cave behind.
"It is one of the few secret paths which can only be accessed by member of royal family, it will take us few more minutes from here to reach the outer area of ophidian kingdom, please follow me closely lord." Babel spoke and plunked into the cave.
When I entered the cave there was nothing but few old bones of beasts and at the end the cave was a 5 meter wide hole leading to ophidian kingdom.
Babel must have gone through it and thus I started following him using [Quick step] and within few second I caught up with him.
The tunnel was not strait but intersection of many other tunnels like a maze and if someone was blindly running through the tunnel they would need lots of time finding their way out.
Few minutes after coursing our way through tunnel we reached the end of the tunnel and stood at the edge of what could be seen as a huge void beneath the earth, where a small kingdom was located.
Sunlight was pouring out of the many holes in the ceiling and beneath it, a city was located whose size was roughly 15 kilometer long and wide, and in center of which stood a majestic castle surrounded by thick walls.
At first glance I was sure that this city was not built by beasts but some ancient civilization which could be human or demon.
The city was circular and divided into many sections by walls and it would have been a work of art if we would have come little early.
We stood few 100 meters away from the outer wall of the city but from a single glance one could deduce that what was left of the city could be described as ruins, many houses were crushed and burned, while at many locations corpses of beasts were left to rot, I was also able to sense many weak life signatures hiding inside the city.
There were many beasts in black uniform patrolling the city and I also sensed many powerful mana signatures residing in the royal palace.
Babel also spread his soul force in his surrounding and when he examined the outer area of wall his body froze and radiated a ferocious killing intent.
"Bastard, hide your killing intent or whatever powerful entity is residing in that castle will come and kill you." I said slapping the back of his head.
Babel did as I told him but I understand the reason for his outburst, because the hundred thousand populations he mentioned to me was nowhere to be seen and all around the walls corpses of beast were lying without mana core.
"I thought we would be arriving at an important movement, like your brother is being crowned, then we swoop in and prove your innocence then you and your brother fights but you end up winning and become the next king and live a happy life, but this situation is messed up." I said as the scenario I had imagined inside my head while coming here all faded and reality took its place.
"I felt some moment at the end of that intersection, let's go and see what is there." I said to babel who woke up from his Trans and followed me quietly but I could sense how mentally disturbed he was.
"I don't know how this happened to my kingdom but I will never forgive my eldest brother for this." Babel murmured while we approached the end of the walls.
When we neared the wall we started to hear the painful cries of beast which I wasn't able to understand but it was like a fight has been going out and thus we hurried.
We both climbed the wall and saw five beasts wearing the same black uniform slaughtering the lower rank beasts and extracting their core.
There were four cages accumulating at least 30 beasts and the beast soldiers were forcing each beast to come out and after killing and taking their core the beast soldier threw the corps of beasts in the small river flowing beside the wall.
There were five, rank 5 beast in the black uniform while one female beast similar to babel's past self-stood overlooking the massacre; she must be one of his sisters.
Seeing them committing massacre like this only one thought roamed my mind and that was, how can this fuckers steal my core.
"That is my fourth sister, but why is she slaughtering innocent citizens?" Babel murmured.
"Let's go and ask them." I said as I stood up at the wall and babel did the same.
We both were spotted by beasts beneath the walls and not waiting anymore I covered my whole body with lightning and strengthen it with mana.
Making as less voice as possible I shot through the wall hitting babel's sister on face while understanding my intention babel headed to deal with the remaining five beasts.
She was weaker than I thought as I easily subdued her and before she could make others know about our presence, I used magic spell [lightning chain] to bind her and motioned babel to kill others.
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[Skills: Lightning magic spell]
[Name: Lightning chain]
[Rank: 5 (Upgradable)]
[Description: Host can summon multiple chains of lightning and manipulate the intensity of electric discharge and shape of electric chains as much as possible making it perfect tool for torture]
[Mana Cost: 15,000 (Minimum)]
[Fate point: 500]
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