Chapter 38 - Aftermath

After the people of the Church of Light retreated, the Pandoragons carried out the final cleaning up.

The Temple of Rhun had been completely destroyed.

Bare white crystals were everywhere. The giant snake statue was cut in half at the waist, and its head fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.

However, even if it was not destroyed, the temple was already exposed to the Church of Light.

They could not stay any longer.

This time, up to four Pandoragons were killed.

Fortunately, the cocoon where Alisha's father stayed was not scratched by Michael's sword energy. He survived the calamity.

Ryan had woken up.

He stood in front of the corpses of his companions and lowered his head to mourn.

Not many people could awaken their ancestral bloodline.

Every 200 years, one member of the Pandoragon family would awaken.

Over the years, only thirteen people in the Pandoragon family had the ancestral bloodline.

Four deaths were already a rather heavy loss.

Moreover, they had been together and had a deep relationship.

The death of every comrade was a great pain to them.

"I'm sorry to have involved you in the conflict between us and the Church of Light. What are your plans next?" With the help of his tribesmen, Klein came to Lind and said, "If you don't mind, you can follow us. We plan to cross the great snowy mountain in the north and head to the Frost Plains Empire."

Although the environment of the Frost Plains Empire was harsh, the Tulip Empire was the territory of the Church of Light.

They couldn't stay in enemy territory. They'd stayed here before because the Temple of Rhun was here.

And now that the Temple of Rhun was gone, there was no need for them to remain here.

Lind shook his head and declined Klein's invitation.

His territory was here. He could not abandon his territory to another place.

Moreover, he believed that the Church would not have any thoughts about this place for the time being after losing a white-robed bishop of the Court of Judgment here. Lind had the System. As long as he was given some time to develop, he believed that he could build his territory into an impregnable fortress.

"I have more important things to do, so I can't accompany you to the Frost Plains Empire," Lind said to Klein.

"Is that so? That's a shame." Klein looked disappointed.

"We owe you one. When we settle down in the Frost Plains Empire in the future, if you need our help, please come to me." Klein hugged Lind.

At this moment, a silver-haired man walked towards them.

"Klein, the Church left something here." The silver-haired man took out something that looked like a statue.

"What's this?" Klein asked curiously, toying with the statue.

Lind took a look and said, "It seems to be a part of something. We can look around. Maybe we can find other components."

Klein asked the others to try looking for the remaining components. Sure enough, they found four statues in four corners.

Lind placed the statues together, and an energy fluctuation surged among the four statues.

Lind was all too familiar with this fluctuation. Wasn't this the prohibition that the Church of Light used to disable Klein and the others' transformation?

"It's actually this thing!" Klein frowned and subconsciously wanted to destroy the statues.

After all, no one wanted something that could seal their strongest ability to exist in this world.

But Lind put out a hand to stop him.

"Wait a minute!"

"Even if we destroy them, the Church might be able to create more. Why don't you give them to me and let me study them? Perhaps I can find a way to solve them," Lind said to Klein.

Klein thought for a moment and felt that Lind's words made sense, so he handed the four statues to Lind.

Lind took the statue.

The moment the statues touched his hand, Lind felt the elements around him fluctuate.

Their ability to disturb the elements was too powerful, and they even caused waves of turbulence in Lind's mental strength.

However, Lind still suppressed this restless feeling and put the statue into the System Space.

"I'll figure it out as soon as I can."

Lind said to Klein.

He wasn't lying to Klein.

He had offended the Church of Light now. In the future, there would be a battle with the Church of Light. At that time, he would have to rely on the power of the Pandoragon family.

If the Church could continue to seal their ability to transform, it would definitely not be good news for Lind.

Moreover, this elemental disturbance could also seal Lind's magic ability.

It was obvious that the Church of Light was researching this technology not specifically against the Awakened of the Pandoragon family.

This thing seemed to be a greater threat to those mages.

Most of the mages in this world were in the Republic of Free Federation.

Perhaps the Church of Light had the idea of waging a war against the Republic of Free Federation.

That was why they created such a thing.

Of course, all of this was just Lind's guess. Whether the Church of Light really had such thoughts, he couldn't know.

However, there was nothing wrong with making preparations in advance.

Lind felt pitiful about the fake identity that he had just created.

This mage named Ander might not be able to be used in the future.

The people of the Church of Light were not fools. They would definitely be able to find out when they returned.

There was a mage named Ander and an adventurer named Vanessa who accepted the mission to kill the Goblin King.

Perhaps they could follow the clues and find out that Vanessa's true identity was actually Alisha.

Fortunately, Lind didn't reveal his identity. If he wanted to continue staying in Blackwater Town, he just needed to change his identity.

"Alisha, do you have any plans? Do you want to follow us to the Frost Plains Empire?"

Lind wasn't willing to leave with them. Klein turned his gaze back to Alisha.

Alisha also shook her head and refused.

Obviously, she could not return to the royal palace now. The Church of Light had completely fallen out with the royal family.

Next, the puppets arranged by the Church would slowly take control of the power of the royal family.

However, Alisha did not intend to follow Klein and the others.

She had her own plans.

"I plan to leave the Tulip Empire and visit the Republic of Free Federation."

Alisha was very concerned about the Dragon God's words.

She really wanted to know what the calamity the Dragon God was talking about was.

It was very difficult to get an answer to all of this in the Frost Plains Empire. Only Dawn City, the capital of the Republic of Free Federation, which symbolized knowledge and progress, perhaps could answer her doubts.

"In that case, let's part ways. We'll meet again if fate allows."

Klein gathered his clansmen. They all transformed into dragons and flew to the sky, heading north.

After a while, they disappeared into the horizon.