Alexia

After getting a brief rundown from Aidan about what’s going on, which basically boils down to the other group deciding to join ours because of me being here to protect them, I head back to their island and immediately search for the Nest there. Something that doesn’t take very long thanks to my Tier 2 prowess and Tier 2 Quantum Displacement skill.

And since the Nest is only a level 50 one, I clear the thing out rather quickly before getting my item and leaving.

Then I start searching the island for a Tier 2 dungeon. Because I know there has to be some spread out across the Block, otherwise the Quantum Architect wouldn’t have suggested I Find one.

While I search though I make sure to deal with any monsters I find along the way, because I want to be as high a level as I can be when starting this dungeon. After all, starting another dungeon at the lowest level of the Tier is just suicide. Or close to that, considering I did it once before.

And since the other group is leaving this island, and I need the levels, I make sure to head to the mountains again on the island and start slaughtering the wendigos I left behind. Since there shouldn’t be anyone on this island that needs them now.

But even after spending days searching the island and killing the creatures, I don’t find a single Tier 2 dungeon. So I eventually give up on this island and head back to the base.

I doubt Astrid would be out of the dungeon by now considering how it took me a month to get out, but it’s possible she could leave without completing it. Not likely knowing her, but possible.

So I might as well check to see.

Then I can search the home island for a Tier 2 dungeon as well.

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Several hours later

I end up using Quantum Displacement so much over the day that it levels up again to level 12 and I find myself having to take some of Luna’s soul to refill mine at some point. But I never manage to find a Tier 2 dungeon, even on our home island. And Astrid is still in the dungeon, so I find myself lying down in my bedroom in the portable home, wondering what to do next.

That is, until I feel the island starting to shift while loud clanking noises like the sounds of machinery going active comes from the bridge.

Looks like the islands are separating again.

Guess the islands stay locked together for about a week then? Because that’s about how long they’ve been locked.

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I leave my house before quickly teleporting over to the edge of the island where I find both our island and the other one moving away from each other in opposite directions. Albeit rather slowly.

Come to think of it, these islands have to move slowly, don’t they? Otherwise they might just throw off the people on them or make it practically uninhabitable.

I frown at that thought before grinning.

That could work.

Without hesitation I teleport over to where I remember seeing Aidan last, startling him for a second before I state, “I’ll be visiting the nearby islands to hunt.”

He looks even more surprised for just a second, only to calm down again and respond, “Okay.”

Then I move over to the edge of the island and take a deep breath while looking at the very slowly moving islands nearby.

But one of them catches my eye since it’s the same one the hellfrost dragon was flying to a week ago.

I wonder if he’s still there?

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On the Island Alexia’s Looking At

Ethan flies across the island with a frown on his face. The island is covered in frozen lakes and various taigas, but no matter how hard he searches, he can’t seem to find an ice element magical ore. Even after searching for half a week, ever since he finished clearing the other requirements for his Tier ascension.

By now he’s already cleared out the level capped monster and all of its direct subordinates on the island, making it a lot safer for the random groups of people he had found and proceeded to ignore a couple days ago. But he knows that they are probably gonna be leaving the island anyways whenever the island connects with another.

Because who would want to live on a frozen wasteland of an island?

Aside from Ethan, of course.

There better be an ore on this island… I’ve already been delayed over a day by this, I can’t let this delay me anymore. Not if I don’t want the Reaper getting too far ahead.

When he saw the Legendary Feat, he couldn’t help but be shocked by it. Not by her reaching Tier 2, but by the fact that she did it before his mother. And before the Hound, who should’ve been a lower Class species from them.

Unless he upgraded his species using the Tutorial Store, which is probable. There isn’t another way to do it after this, so he’d have to be an idiot not to.

Which leads him to the question of what species the Hound turned into.

The Hound is well known amongst the previous Ascendants as a Shadowstar magic user. A user of both shadow and astral magic. But the man stopped appearing publicly after he massacred the Holy Continent along with every last angel on the continent.

Many people all assume he lost it entirely and went fully insane or that he regretted his actions and was too ashamed to go out into the public, but Ethan knows very well from what his mother has told him that the man didn’t want to kill the angels.

That he was mind controlled into doing it.

But since the dragons are all very detached from other species, neither he nor his mother or father ever went to search for the man and tell him that he wasn’t behind it.

Ethan frowns as he pauses midflight, briefly pondering over what he had thought the moment he saw the Reaper’s twin.

That she looks a lot like the Hound and his former wife, a woman who left him due to his massacre of the angels.

He hadn’t noticed it at first with the Reaper simply due to her species, but even she shares similarities to the two despite her purple hair and eyes.

I wonder…

His thoughts are interrupted when he feels a wave of power akin to a Tier 2 being entering the island, making him turn around to look in the direction of it.

Guess I can always ask her.