Chapter 41: The Five Powers Leaving

Giant boulders split and crushed on the yellow grass in paced succession, disrupting the peacefulness of the meadow, but it was just the beginning. A fissure opened, top to bottom, on the grotesque pillar of earth and a deafening sound of a horn blow erupted so loud the mind of the grazing Deformed Being trembled and then escaped in stampede.

BOOM!

BOOM!

Two explosions occurred below the center of the crumbling straight mountain of earth, ensuing tremors that blasted more of its stony shell, in addition to devastating earthquakes that spread across the entire lower half of the Western Continent.

...

Rising City.

‘Activate the protective formation! Activate the protective formation!’ A red uniformed officer with azure Core Master’s aura utilized a special technique to fly while sending through his communication, before amplifying his voice with his mist energy and shouting his lungs out. “Help those closest to you to evacuate the streets to the nearest buildings!”

Cries of fear and help resounded amidst the violent shaking. They belonged to children who played outside or lost their parents in the commotions and similarly frantic mothers or father. People who were hurt from debris from structures with foundation that was not meant to withstand such turmoil or had been in accident that resulted in a dire need of immediate medical help.

Inside the Internal Affair building of Rising City.

“Stop delaying; activate the formation around the city!” A fat man in blue suit bellowed at his group of subordinates that anxiously typed their keyboards while ignoring the content on their Screens and fixating their eyes on the large Screen on the wall.

“It’s no use, Sir. It’s like the earthquake intentionally sabotaged its Core, so neither it will activate automatically or remotely”. A man in plain office clothes explained, sweating profusely.

“Someone needs to get there in person to fix the Core, Sir-” A short woman opened, but her expression froze before she could finish the sentence.

“The second Screen!” Someone in the Technical Defense room yelled and the rest hurried to his workstation.

Eyes plastered on the Screen, they saw a vast blackness encompassing Rising City like a dome.

...

Zax drew back his hand and made sure his dark attribute energy isolated Rising City in its entirety. Satisfied, he proceeded to bolt through the sky in a journey for the source of the earthquakes, the Yellow Grassand, the place where Violet Scaled Troops’ Great Cave was situated.

“Mister Zax!”

“Mister Huland!” Zax slowed down.

They met along the way to the same destination. There were other experts on their tail, reclusive cultivators, opportunistic mercenaries and even one or two weak by clever three scales Deformed Beings.

“My father and roughly twenty percent of the Malignant Monkey clan left a day ago to the Giant Cave”. Huland hurried to disclose the report he received. “The same happened in other clans. The leadership just left, as if abandoning the clan, taking along only Zhihui beasts or above”.

“That’s sound like...” Zax mused.

“Horn Kikon is packing his luggage with the essentials...”

They both turned quiet, thinking their same idea is ludicrous. Soon they will arrive to the Giant Cave and see for themselves the truth.

...

“Horn, he is coming”. A yellow furred, pink feathered beast woman, Ulvi, announced mid rapid flight toward the golden skinned, four armed giant human and the three other figures at his side.

Horn Kikon said nothing and continued to stare at the main propulsion engine, the last portion of his pillar shaped spacecraft, ascending from the ground.

“I’m done, Horn”. From the direction of the distant Seer Don Ocean a humanoid, brown and gray furred, long eared beast flew with a trail at its wake of fourth level Martial Mortal’s fluctuations. “The cost was astronomical in terms of mortal resources, but now the Star Scavenger is concealed by a layer of formations only I and Immortals can see through”.

“Well done”. Horn Kikon remarked. “Overall it doesn’t mean much, but we managed to be the first to send our troops out of this planet. When the storm will come, I won’t have to worry about anyone other than you five”. He reminded and shifted his gaze to the Titan Kapok Trees forest. “Have you come to say your goodbyes?” He greeted Zax with a sneer.

“Kikon, what’s the purpose of this? Did you send your Violet Scaled Troops off this planet, choosing to remain behind with only five Feathers?” Zax squinted. An idea of Horn Kikon’s intention resurfaced in his mind.

The indomitable aircraft was roughly six kilometers in height and had a circumference of more than one kilometer. It looked silver metal, but that was only under the illumination of the sun. In its final preparations before takeoff, it released steams that filled the Yellow Grassand with scorching fog and neon light from its thrusters.

“In a matter of seconds it’d be pointless for me to keep this portion of territory. Nevertheless, it accommodated my troops and I for several millennials. Take care of it”.

He owed no explanations and Zax could not force one out of him. Thus, with these words and the passing of ten seconds, Horn Kikon left with the five Feathers and the vanishing glimmer of the spacecraft.