Chapter 598 - 597 – Ice Mountain – Part 9.
<<Dragons maybe nobodies now, but they are still powerful race that has a LOT of mana.>>
<<If all of the neutral clans had been turned into this double attribute tribes with power of necromancy, then we could have truly a problematic situation on our hands.>>
<<HOWEVER! Something is still not adding up!>>
<<The dragons are nobodies and are weak compare to any other factions.>>
<<HELL! I'VE EASILY DESTORYED THE ICE DRAGON QUEEN!>>
<<Even if all of the dragon clans did turned into the necromancers, then their combined power would be noticeable.>>
<<But again, nowhere near to take on even single one of the major factions.>>
<<…Let's look back a bit.>>
<<Light and nature dragon clans.>>
<<The two clans that decided to help us in exterminating one of the biggest forces of the heavens on this plant.>>
<<After we had won the war against the holy empire, they had betrayed us alongside the fire dragon clan.>>
<<However, they soon after would betray the fire dragon clan, turning them into mindless berserkers, a weapons that would fight and die.>>
<<Then would also use necromancy artifacts to create an army of the dead from the destroyed empire, our fallen soldiers and the fire dragons who died.>>
<<Afterwords, the goodness and mother of the light made her appearance and blessed the dragons of the light with her blessing… We thought we would fight, but instead they ran away.>>
<<After that, the dragons who were still part of the organization decided to take revenge on the traitors.>>
<<The fire dragons? They were exterminated, like with ease and what not, just offscreen death kind of thing.>>
<<No surprise there after their entire main force and even dragon king were killed.>>
<<They had no chance at survival.>>
<<After them came the two traitors. Light and nature.>>
<<When the dragons came to attack their homes, there was something off.>>
<<They were empty.>>
<<If anything, it seems these two had made themselves a new base.>>
<<A city… A small nation that they had been managing from the shadows.>>
<<After the betrayal, they had moved their two clans entire population to that city.>>
<<Obviously it didn't took long for the earth, water and darkness dragon clans to find them and launch a full on assault alongside the organization support.>>
<<These two clans no longer had support from the organization and they should be still exhausted from the war with the holy empire.>>
<<It should had been an easy victory, right?>>
<<…No.>>
<<They couldn't win.>>
<<The three dragon clans were repelled and even took somewhat devastating hit as well.>>
<<The light dragons and the nature dragons defenses were far more formidable than anybody could had thought.>>
<<Obviously the trio of the dragons tried again and again, but they could never deal any devastating strike.>>
<<So instead with the help of the organization, they cut off the kingdom from the outside world and even poisoned their supplies, aiming to starve them and force them to get out… But no matter what they did they couldn't do it.>>
<<There is a good chance that the light dragons may had been installed some teleportation gates here and there, since they were known for researching magic and making some magic oriented equipment.>>
<<Still, their movement should had been known beforehand.>>
<<To this day, the two traitor clans alongside their small nation is still standing.>>
<<Organization wants to exterminate these two dragon clans, since they know that having them around will be a giant pain in the ass… However, they are too busy with fighting all of the three other major factions, making them completely unable to provide overwhelming force to shatter their defenses.>>
<<The dragons did requested vampires and even requested personally ME to support them, however, after the fall of the holy empire, the vampires were busy with work nonstop, while I also had no time to spare because of this chaos that was happening everywhere.>>
<<And any free time we had? They were straight up taken away from us, forcing both me and the vampires to hunt for the divinities.>>
<<Just fucking nice.>>
<<…There is also that unknown player who tossed in that shit load of chaos out of blue.>>
<<…>>
<<Is he and the dragons related though? Or maybe he is using dragons?>>
<<I don't fucking know.>>
<<ALL I FUCKING KNOW THAT THE ENTIRE SITUATION IS A SHITSHOW!>>
<<…It was meant to be fucking simple…. FUCKING SIMPLE!>>
<<But no. Everything is going straight to hell and the moment you think you somewhat adjust, BOOM! Another shitshow!>>
<<I know I'm a bad guy and everything, a bastard that brings chaos and destruction.>>
<<BUT I DON'T WANT TO BE PART OF ANOTHER BASTARD'S CHAOS! I WANT TO BE IN MY OWN CHAOS OF MAKING!>>
<<For crying out loud.>>
<<…>>
<<Anyway, I have a lot of time to think, if I'm honest.>>
<<The two new recruits are still not ready… No wonder there.>>
<<Even with the hardcore leveling up method, it takes a while to reach levels like 200, 300, 400 and 500.>>
<<So yeah… I wait alongside Maparapara.>>
<<But obviously the enemies will come here.>>
<<The spirit faction was already here for crying out loud.>>
<<So, I will have to prepare to fight them.>>
<<There was also another thing I needed to do.>>
<<Find the temple.>>
<<From what I've gathered, the dragons and the spirit faction must had arrived here somewhat before I've came here.>>
<<Meaning I have to look for the temple myself.>>
<<I've thought that maybe it was somewhere on the top… But it was empty.>>
<<So I started digging down from the very top.>>
<<At first there was really no problem whatsoever… However, as I dug further, I notice that the ice was started to get hard to dig through.>>
<<Not only that, it was getting completely heat resistance… Meaning the only way forward was to with brute force.>>
<<As I've dug deeper and deeper, the ice was starting to get really annoying to break through… Until it reached THAT point.>>
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"Motherfucker." – said Phantasia as his digging drill was wrecked.
"Just how hard is this ice here?" – said Phantasia as he put down his hand on the ice below him and tried dig out some with his claws.
"…"
*Sigh*
"Hey. How is the situation outside?" – asked Phantasia while speaking to communication device.
"Sorry master. But we can't do it." – replied the homunculus soldier who was digging outside using undeads and special digging tools.
"We managed to dig through a surface a bit, but at one point the ice became way too hard to dig through."
"What about the others?" – asked Phantasia.
"Same reports." – replied the soldier.
"No matter where we dug, be it high or low, all of us had the same results."
"…"
(Weird.) – thought Phantasia.
(They had been digging in different spots on different heights… And yet the results are the same?)
(This isn't normal….)
"…"
"Does that mean you can only get HERE if you started digging from the very top?"
"If that is the case, then did the dragons set up their camps at the top, fully knowing how to get here?"
"…"
(Than that means the bastard who told them must had been fully aware that the temple could only be accessed from the top?!)
"…"
"Pack up your equipment and head back to the top." – said Phantasia to the communication device.
Phantasia put his digging drill into the inventory, before then starting to start attack the ice below him, unleashing strike after strike in order to shatter the ice.
Phantasia dug and dug, reaching, however levels of the mountain… Before then finally seeing the light.
Phantasia swung his fist once last time and the ground beneath him shattered, causing the man to fall down, before then landing on the brink floor.
"…"
(It's here.) – thought Phantasia as he found himself inside of the space made out of solid white bricks, which were decorated with flower carvings everywhere.
"…"
(The place looks completely untouched.)
(But that ain't fucking way.) – thought Phantasia as he noticed the spiring stairs that descended down… But he didn't took them.
Instead, he began inspecting the entire room, looking for anything odd, even using some chimera monsters or his detection skills to find something.
"…"
"FUCK!" – shouted Phantasia.
(THERE IS NOTHING HERE!) – thought Phantasia as he looked over to his chimeras… But they too could not find any traces.
"Shit. The hell is going on!"
"How did they…."
"…"
"Yeah… How did they came here?" – said Phantasia as he started inspecting the celling… Only to find only his whole.
He also inspected the walls and the floor… But there was no other dug out paths was found.
"…Did this place self-restore itself or something like that?" – said Phantasia as he took out his communication tool.
"Hey. I want to ask something. Is the hole from above looks smaller? Like it is slowly closing up?"
"Well, so far there was no changes…" – replied the homunculus soldier on the very top of the mountain.
(Is this place somewhat slowly regenerating? Like not something like quickly or anything?) – thought Phantasia.
(Or by any chance… The guy who found this temple just repaired their hole?)
(But how?)
"…Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"
"This is getting more and more annoying!"
"…"
(But still… There is one way I maybe could obtain some answers?) – thought Phantasia as he started at the entrance to the temple.
