Chapter 221
The visit with the Dragons is short and businesslike, they’re more interested in knowing about what the Relic was like once it was complete, as they were both certain that I would escape unscathed. The Green Dragon from the Divine Council had taken a particular interest in them, happily chatting as if they were old friends. I guess seeing that photo moved then from ’Priestess’ to ’pretty woman’ in his mind, and he’s determined to get on their good side.
The Lycans as usual are a jolly bunch, joking about the games we will play next time I come around and how they are looking forward to meeting the plethora of royal children that will be coming to the Nephilim Royal Family soon.
All the talk of granddaughters and Lycan games is clearly not good for the King’s nerves, but Paula thinks it’s sweet. Plus, she has realized they’re mostly joking.
With all the meetings done, Beta John announced he will be the one sending me home through the Palace portal. He’s got a particular skill for locating Mates, so he believes he can send me directly to where Karl is now, and not just back to the point I was taken from.
As soon as we reach the portal room John immediately begins focusing energy, pinpointing Karl most likely. The entire process takes a little over a minute before he stops what he’s doing and the portal opens.
"Your mate should be within ten meters of the portal. Go on now, you lead, I’ll follow. No way am I missing out on meeting him." John laughs.
I step through, and I’m greeted with a scene of absolute Carnage. Bodies are everywhere, Karl is slumped over against a wall with multiple injuries as a healing pill takes effect, Elder Song is maintaining some sort of barrier and I do believe that is Lelou in her massive Red Dragon form raining fire down on the area.
What in all the worlds is going on here?
Karl is nodding in and out of consciousness, but the sudden appearance of his mate, and the happy, hopeful feeling that comes with Kat’s presence nearby allows him to focus enough to send her an overview of what has been happening. The sudden stream of memories fills her mind and she finds herself looking at an unfamiliar world that feels like the Immortal Plane she’s just entered.
"We should have known that the council was going to ask us to do something annoying in exchange for sending someone to find the Young Miss." Elder Song sighs, looking over a village full of strangely dressed cultivators.
"Ain’t that the truth, we’ve been at this for nine months and the zealots are only getting crazier. But who would have thought they they’d actually manage to shift an entire Moral World into an Immortal Plane? If we weren’t tasked with stopping them from doing even more damage to the cosmic balance I’d be honestly impressed." Karl laughs back, brushing the dirt off his traveling clothes.
Both of them have adopted the strange garb of the local cult, or Faithful Followers of the Divine Transfer as they call themselves, a group dedicated to moving entire mortal worlds into the Divine Plane. Now that they’ve succeeded in actually moving what Karl and Song believe to be their home world, the Divine Councils have begun taking them seriously, so the pair were charged with keeping their activities in check, in exchange for the council looking out for Katrina while she was under their purview.