Dawn POV;
'..How did that happens? I thought it was an illusion.. But Kaer felt real, it was really him, it should be him.. No, it was him.'
While i was thinking about the unusual event that happened, i can hear that young wolf boy footsteps, since we have been here my body has continously been enhanced by my aura. I also need to get used to my body again, this sudden increase in the quality of my aura is going to be troublesome together with my body naturally growing stronger and bigger than before.. The change in the natural body aura was qualitative, now even without any enhancments i feel like i could lift over a metal cube at the same size as me..
"I.. *Pant* *Pant* Wait.. I.. finally got here, *pant* a-and is it all already solved?"
The wolf boy finally arrived and he seems rather disappointed, he must have pushed his body really hard to get here so quickly just to everything be resolved already. There is also a faint smell of pure aura, he will suffer a very bad backlash later.
"Oh. You seem pretty bad."
Chrono as always seems not to care much about the situation, she probably only agreed to help because of me, that's sweet i guess. But now we need to get to the wolf tribe as fast as possible, i can't be late and i won't be late.
I sighed and slowly got up, my mind is messy and i feel down, incredibly down. I have over 250 years and i though i had already good control over my emotions but it seem to be wrong.
"Alright, get on my back Raenir!"
The wolf boy happily got on Emilia's back and grabbed the Concentrated Nucleos, now we just have to-
'This smell', i smell putrid rotten flesh, even more than before. My scales are tingling and my instincts are screaming danger to me, i look up and see hundreds of creatures if not thousands, i look ahead and i see that there are some hiding in the tress. Am i being ambushed again? Just this week, twice?
I activate the Portectors Ring for extra reassurance that i won't get infected with this fungi, the creatures from the ceiling drop down but suddenly, everything changed from their original positions? They are a bit ahead and those that were falling are already on ground.
"T-they can move when i stop time?!"
..Seems like Chrono magic backfired and she can't do anything. Oh well, the good side of this situation is that i can test out my new body.
I unsheat my old companion that has been through thousands of battles with me, my Aura Vessel is still a little unstable but if i just use a very small amount of aura i should be able to deal with the consequences later.
Enhancing my body with Earth, Thunder and Magma, my strengh increases by several fold and my scales, bones, muscles and blood are stronger than ever before, then i enhance my sword with pure aura, gathering all elements such as magma, gravity and thunder to fuse with the pure aura and then i slash forward releasing all this condensed ower in my sword forward cutting down multiple in half creatures.
"Huu.."
I concentrate once again and ready another strike, but Chrono beats me to it and throws those weird dome things that destroyed everything in it's path, we cleared about 13% of all dweebs but more are coming as i can see them in the distance.
The wolf boy seems a bit too overwelmed but he won't be a burden with a dragon as his guard.. Hopefully once we are done with this and save the village i can treat Chrono with a hot meal. Least i can do for my traveling companion.
"There is no end to them!"
Chrono seems a little unsettled, her eyes are better than mine by far so i trust her instinct. There seems to be late stage infected quite far down the line as i see the contaminated aura veins from the ground injecting power to some at the back wich could also be a hint for a supreme level infected, thought i doubt there would be any of those.
"Chrono, can you open a way for us to escape?"
"Sure can do, but i need 20 seconds."
*Rooaaar!!*
My body starts to tremble as i hear this roar, just by the sound someone can guess that the beast is immense aswell as the amount of energy coming from this roar would have killed me if i hadn't enhanced my body. I can still feel something resonating with my bones as if trying to breeak them, 'Nevermind, there actually is a supreme level infected.'
"..25 seconds and i can make sure that thing goes to hell too."
'Seems like Chronos can see what caused that noise from the distance.' I quickly nod as i turn around, i can hear that those fungi-infected-dweebs are approaching from behind, they all seem to start their relentless rush towards us diregarding the little of life that is left on their temporary body.
I start to condense more pure aura and circulate all elements i have affinity into my body and creating small barriers of pure aura so that the elements don't collide, then i start to pull in some mana around us to nurture further the current pure aura, as i am fluent in draconic speech i don't actually need to speak to draw the attention of mana. My current state should be able to show atleast 50x more power than my past self, not counting my body upgrade from when i came back from the Inner Will.
Then i proceed to condense an insane amount of pure aura into my sword, 30% of all my aura capacity is into this, i will think about the backlash later as sooner we get out the better. After an instant my sword is ready, vibrating as if excited for what shall happen next. I slash forward, as the sword moves through the air, space itself is distorting and the distance between my slash and the enemies is meaninless as my sword simply slashed them as if they were a few 25 centimeters away.
In an instant, over 200 of them are speparated from their lower halfes and only another second later the sound caused by that singular slash can be heard, a sound comparable to one of a thunder hitting the ground.
"S-since when could that kobold be this strong!"
Wolf boy and Chrono seem to be surprised by my battle prowess! Little did they know that this isn't even my trump card! But now it's time to focus what is behind me, i can hear those thing crawling.
I turn around to see how far those failed-to-decompose dweebs are, 10 meters away and that is the perfect distance for a thrust attack! I ready my sword for another mass killing effect and start to combine Gravity and Thunder element, this time i want to get fancy and use something more efficient, less than 0.2% of my aura is used this time. I ready my sword and thrust forward, a nice thing of Thunder and Gravity is if they are mixed together they can artificially create the dimension element wich can create spatial distortion and portals, so a very small portal is created but it is big enough for a sword to pass through, i thrust forward and one of the dweebs head explode, then i pull back my sword and thrust again! Another one falls. I call this technique Cross-dimension Thrust.
"Phew." Multiple of them died in a few seconds. Good thing that they can't use aura, if they were like my elf partner that later came back for revenge, they would make sure of have a distorted space around them so that i can't just keep doing this.
'Alright, by now Chronos should already be done with her spell.'
I stop my cross-dimension thrusting, 'i should have killed 20 or 30 more reanimated corpses.' As i think of that, i sense something dangerous behind me, i turn my back and i see a giant infected wyvern crawling out of the ground exhaling a majestic aura, i can feel that he had already surpassed the Full Aura stage.
"Alright, i'm ready!"
When i heard Chrono shout, a yellow sphere immediately took my attention, the mana condensed into it was so pure that even i, that naturally have no organ that can detect mana, can feel it. The yellow sphere was above Chrono head once it was ready but now it lowered close to her mouth and then something unbelievable happend.
I thought that yellow sphere was some sort of throwable explosive attack, but the moment Chrono blowed, a sound of something cracking then a huge burst of yellow light blinded me temporarily, when i opened my eyes again i saw a huge beam and heard the sounds of everything infront of said beam vaporizing, the beam grew in size fter each second and finally burst out of this underground forest. The clouds in the sky were pushed away, revealing the moon in the distance, the sky was filled with stars. The barren ground and the huge crater that beam of energy created was huge, but the greater impact wasn't on the land but on the minds of Dawn and Raenir..
At this moment, i hear Chronos and i finally got out of my daze.. 'How- Since when could something like this be possible?' I look at Chronos face once again only to notice that she actually didn't even look tired! Sure, my strongest attack could do something similar to this but it wasn't aplicable on combat! It took a whole 10 minutes to get it ready!
"C'mon aura, get on me. You will have to squeeze a little!"
"..I knew dragones were strong.. But this..?"
Raenir also seems as shocked as i am.
"Aww, please, you can tell that i am awesome after we save the wolf tribe!"
"Y-yes!"
I quickly get onto Chronos back and use aura to attatch myself with her before we launch into the sky..