Arty frowned at them. Why suddenly there was another one coming out of the portal? She wondered as she stared ahead.
Not long after, they all finally came out of the portal. Arty saw that the Elf who had just joined them had the same features as Aurdis.
His face is beautiful, he also has silver hair and sapphire blue eyes like Aurdis. When Arty took a closer look at him, she could see their resemblance even more clearly.
"Arty."
Aurdis' words woke Arty from looking at the Elf with searching eyes.
"A-Ah, yes?" Arty said.
"This is Aerchon, he is my big brother. He will help us this time," Aurdis said.
Arty finally understood why they looked so alike. Arty looked at Aerchon and then showed a friendly smile. If he came with Aurdis and Saeldir, he was definitely a good Elf like them, right?
"Forgive my rudeness. My name is Arty. Erend's sister," said Arty.
Hearing her words, Aerchon blinked. 'So he has a little sister too?'
Aerchon regarded Arty with his eyes that seemed cold and arrogant as usual. The smile that had previously been on Arty's face shrank from receiving such a look.
"Hmm," Aerchon muttered in response. "So where is he?"
"O-Oh, he's still at the military headquarters. No, maybe he's going somewhere else to put down the riots now," Arty said.
While she said that there were already several sirens that might have been ambulances or police. It's kinda hard to determine these days with the frequency of sirens sounding too much every day.
"I heard that you were attacked by monsters a few days ago, is that true?" Saeldir asked.
When Arty turned to look at her, she could see something like a concern in his green eyes.
"Yes," Arty asked. "But I'm fine now."
Saeldir sighed. "Erend came to help you?"
"Yes, in the end, he came to help me. I managed to kill one monster but there's still another one. I don't know why, but my body suddenly became heavy and I couldn't move. If Erend hadn't come in time I would have been dead," Arty replied.
Aurdis approached her and hugged her from the side then rubbed her shoulders. "You must be terrified. I'm sorry. I should have expected something like this to happen and give some kind of protection for you."
Arty smiled at her. "It's okay. I'm fine now. In fact, you have protected me by training me to use Magic."
In contrast to Aurdis who showed concern for Arty, Saeldir, and Aerchon looked at her with different expressions.
'She can already use her Magic to kill monsters?!' thought Saeldir, dumbfounded.
Aerchon looked at Arty with the same surprised look, but his surprise didn't last long because he knew one thing. Arty was Erend's sister, after all. She definitely has talent that is no less than him.
"Let's begin this. I thought we shouldn't waste time," Aerchon said in a cold tone that kept accompanying him.
"Right," Aurdis said. "You may start now."
Aerchon nodded and walked to the slightly empty side of the room. Not long after that, he stretched his hands forward, from his palms there was a silver light appeared.
Arty stared at the sword at his waist. Somehow, she could feel the energy beating from the sword even when Aerchon didn't take it from the scabbard. It was as if, the sword is always alive.
On the floor in front of Aerchon appeared five magic circles with sigils of the Elves. A moment later five other Elves materialized over the Magic Circles. They wear pure white clothes like Aerchon, Saeldir, and Aurdis but less complicated. As if they are in a lower caste than the three of them.
Arty didn't comment on that.
The five Elves that had just appeared had plain black hair. Two of them are female while the other three are male.
"They are my personal warriors. They will carry out tasks to help us," Aerchon said.
The five Elves regarded Arty with curious eyes. However, they immediately put on a face because of Aerchon's words. In their hearts, there is still a feeling of reluctance because they have to help humans, but Aerchon's orders are absolute to them so they will not dare to argue.
"Alright so... what exactly are we going to do?" Arty asked.
Aurdis glanced at Arty. "We will reduce the effects of madness and all the bad things that happen due to Magic awakening in your world. Starting from creating artifacts with your energy."
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*BOOM!*
An explosion was created in the middle of the city. Nobody knows what it was about, or who caused the explosion. Everyone around the scene of the explosion only got the aftermath of the explosion without knowing anything.
Adrien, Billy, and Erend were three of the victims there. They're assigned to quell a riot in downtown Ascan. There were so many people there that a chaotic situation was inevitable.
Suddenly an explosion occurred in the middle of a crowd of residents, police, and soldiers. Casualties fell everywhere.
Erend is of course just fine from the explosion. But Adrien and Billy lost consciousness, and so did the others. Luckily Adrien and Billy's bodies had been strengthened by Magic so the impact of the explosion wasn't too severe. They just passed out.
'What the hell is going on?'
Erend scanning around him. All he could see was smog and scattered body parts. It's rare to survive an explosion of that size.
'This is just keeping getting worse. The explosion just now must have been from some kind of suicide bomber.'
Judging from the situation where everyone was swallowed up by the madness, it wouldn't be surprising if someone blew themselves up in the middle of the crowd.
Erend wanted to wake Adrien and Billy, but a strange sight appeared and caught his attention.
The body parts of the people that were crushed by the explosion moved on their own. They wriggled across the bloody streets and drew closer to a point in the middle.
'What the hell...'
Erend was confused. But he immediately guessed what was going on. The strange sight must have been caused by the beings inhabiting the Chaos Realm that Aurdis said. The fact that they could manipulate this world like this was something quite surprising and concerning.
Erend saw all the body parts keep moving to gather for a few moments. Smoke and flames still filled the surroundings, adding to the terrifying atmosphere.
He didn't want to wait too long for whatever was trying to come into this world to complete its transformation. So Erend ran at an incredible speed towards the center of the body parts gathering. He raised his hand and slammed a fist with high force into the center of the lump of flesh.
*CRAATT!*
The lump of flesh scattered again. However, Erend still felt a pulse of life energy from in front of him. The lump of flesh materialized again a few meters from where its destroyed earlier. This time the human flesh scattered around gathered even faster.
Erend was about to walk towards it again and prepared to burn it with his Skill. But a voice suddenly appeared and Erend stopped.
"Filthy Dragonborn!"
Erend didn't know if he was the only one who could hear the sound or not. He scanned the surroundings and hoped no one had seen or heard any of this.
For now, at least the mist and fire are still covering him, but Erend is sure that a few moments later there will definitely be medical personnel or backup from the military headquarters coming.
'I must finish this as soon as possible,' Erend thought.
"Who are you? Ozynk?" Erend asked. At the very least, he had to get the identity of the being who had been harassing him since yesterday.
The lump suddenly vibrated violently, as if feeling angry because of Erend's words.
"Don't you dare equate me with him!" The voice of the lump said.
'So he's not Ozynk.' Erend thought. "So who are you?"
"You've forgotten me, Dragonborn. Don't you remember that you killed Sigewulf the Alpha Lycan?!"
Erend's brow furrowed. 'Lycan?'
Then his memory caught a memory in the past. He remembered once fighting a group of Lycans who threatened the safety of a city.
"What is your relationship with them?" Erend asked.
Then, Erend heard a growl that seemed to come from the throat of a furious wild beast.
"I AM THE GOD OF THE FALLEN BEAST. SVAROS!"
The voice that Erend heard was so disturbing. It was deep and inhuman. The sound should be extremely loud and capable of destroying any creature that hears it. However, as a Dragonborn, Erend only felt annoyed.
"Alright, Svaros," Erend said. "You really have made a mess in my world. I can't just let it slide."
[ Skill activated: Dragon Scale (Lv.5) ]
Black and red scales instantly covered Erend's entire body. He was about to lunge and punch the lump that was about to form. But a huge energy wave that came out of the lump threw him several meters back.
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