Juro and Hazelcrown watched as their army expanded. The people of Shakes Town now join in becoming the beast that plagued their kingdom.

“What will we do now?” Hazelcrown asked the general.

“We head for the final destination. Dreamsky. It’s time to pay old man Raogen a visit.” Juro answered.

“What about them?” Hazelcrown wondered, pointing to the ice dome holding Grimm and his party.

“Exactly what we planned for Shakes Town. Our men should have the explosives ready. Let’s get out of here. Once this lot is done. All we need to do is find the dracion and kill him. Then everything will be done.” Juro viciously stated. Hazelcrown laughed at his generals cruel nature. Once his laughter concluded the two began to make their way out of the canyon. Due to the lifts being cut by the knights off of their own order they had to resort to special climbing gear and climbed the walls of the canyon. Something that the beast imitated by following their pack leader.

“That mind control band is rather useful. Put it on one and the whole gang follows them.” Juro praised his commander's invention.

“Yeah I know. I do good work. You don’t need to remind me.” Hazelcrown proclaimed back. The two made it above the canyon. They continued to talk as they walked to their personal carriage off from the town. All they waited for now was the knights to do their final order before they could move on.

Soon, all of Juro’s men lined up on the canyons. The towering walls before them had been laced with powerful explosives all around similar to the palace in Dreamlight. Despite their being no people in Shakes Town, Juro still saw it fit to fall during his destruction of the kingdom. So he decided to watch. One knight lit the fuse. The trailed its way back to the line of tnt and dynamite. Then it all burst

The wall's bottom piece was completely shattered like an eggshell. It fell over and started to fall down on the town. Then the other wall fell next. The two collided, breaking each other into going from two enormous mountains of stone to multiple still giant size chunks that broke down and started to crush everything within Shakes Town.

Grimm kept holding his ice dome, making a new layer multiple times a second in order to ensure their safety. However while above them was becoming dangerous, below them was started to present an issue. The ground beneath them started to crack. They all took notice but realized they couldn’t do much, but hope for the falling rocks to end soon. Yet as more and more impacted the ground, the crack started to grow larger. Grimm tried to let one arm down so he could freeze it, yet the ice above him started to come down quicker. They were not able to be hope on the falling stone. The ground collapsed on them, and all of them were sent falling down a deep shaft.

Everyone of them let out a scream as they fell. Garnet looked down and could barely see the ground. But she did see more stone falling above them. However a small light came to the side of her eye. She noticed a torch lighting up some pathway. She thought quickly and decided they needed to reach that pathway if they wished to survive.

“Grimm! Look!” Garnet pointed for the man to see. “Get us over there somehow.” Grimm nodded. He shot ice to the ground as he fell. It generated a pillar quickly. Then Grimm formed a slope that could slide them down right towards the pathway. More ice was made to constantly make pillars to hold it up. Though it was only well enough for a couple seconds. Any falling stone was able to crush the ice. Grimm had to act fast and fix it so their path would be made. The man would not be tired from such action. His only concern was for his passengers. Which became true as a stone fell, knocking Anabelle of the slope. She started to fall yet Katreena jumped immediately, caught the mare with both arms and tossed her back. Yet the tall girl started to fall herself.

The crew made it to the pathway, and immediately started to worry about Katreena, who had not yet even reached the ground, but they did catch her falling. And above her were numerous large pieces of stone that would crush her the moment she touched the floor.

You might be reading a stolen copy. Visit Royal Road for the authentic version.

Katreena saw this herself, and put her skills to the test. She extended her arms and had them reach for the ground. She covered her body with a thick layer of force. Then her hands touched the ground as soon as she felt it. Her legs quickly turned down to the floor to stand her straight up. Now all that remained were the falling stones. Which she had a simple idea for. She took the Force surrounding her whole body and made it go to just her mouth. Then took a deep breath and let out a wailing cry up to the stone that was beginning to fall on her.

Grimm and the others listened as her screams caused the stones to shatter into pebbles. Not everyone broke but enough did. Yet they noticed that her scream was soothing. It didn’t ring their ears but was instead more harmonic to them. Once she shattered enough. The girl reflowed the force into her legs and dashed at an incredible speed towards the pathway, yet tripped over at the last second. They all had to get away from the frame of the pathway, because it was being covered by the stone.

All of them fell over in relief of surviving the whole ordeal.

“I bet Ezra didn’t have to go through some shit like that.” Grimm said aloud through his heavy breaths.

“He actually did.” Katreena and Anabelle said together.

“Where the hell are we? Some underground cave system?” Miros asked as he looked around their location.

“Looks more like tunnels to me.” Grimm said standing back up. “But whatever it is. It’s our way away from that. I know we still have that adrenaline rush, but we need to move. I don’t know where. But my best guess. Is that if there was a massive hole for us to drop in from here, there must be another somewhere else where we can exit. Especially if we want to catch that bastard Juro.”

“Grimm’s right. We need to keep moving and stop that guy before he destroys another city.” Katreena agreed standing up as well.

The team started to move through the tunnels. Following the torches, though seemingly everyone was lit. Sadly they had let go of their food which was in the carriage most definitely crushed by the stone. There was turn after turn of places to go. They couldn’t make a natural map in their heads, and only had to go off of certain landmarks like chipped walls, oddly shaped rocks, or ones made themselves. The thing they found luckiest for them was the fact that no monsters lurked in these halls.

What they found while lurking themselves was to them an underground shelter. Numerous lockers and equipment for alchemy, blacksmithing, and other magical work. Littered around lay discarded papers and large wagons for carrying goods. Some locations had empty bookshelves, others had massive cauldrons for potion brewing.

After nearly 5 hours of moving about they managed to check every possible location in this shelter. Every landmark seen at least 3 times, and every path walked. Right until they came to a dead end. A wall blocked them from progressing forward.

“Wait. I sense something. A strong source of mana.” Garnet said as they approached the wall.

“Think it could be Juro. Could he have found a way down here?” Grimm asked.

“You know. Rather it is him or not. All of us can take him.” Garnet proclaimed for them. Which they all realized was more true than possible.

‘Alright then.” Katreena said ready to break down the wall. Everyone else took a defensive stance. Ready for whatever fight was waiting for them on the other side of the wall. Katreena struck through, completely shattering it entirely. Leaving naught but pebbles just as she did before. However, before her wasn’t the general at all, but someone holding their sword defensively. A certain redhead dracion.

“EZRA!” Garnet, Katreena, Grimm and Anabelle called out happily as they saw the young man. Anabelle especially ran over to the dracion and tried to smother him as much as possible. Garnet did as well holding on to him. Grimm and Katreena knelt down to the young man. Miros stood completely unaware of how to enter the situation.

‘Umm….hello.” The prince said to get everyone's attention.

“Oh sorry. Who is this?” Ezra asked.

“That’s Miros. He says that he’s the prince of Dolsrin.” Grimm answered. Ezra’s eyed widen as they returned to the prince. He stood up in surprise.

“Miros! Yo-you’re father said you were dead!” Ezra proclaimed aloud making everyone confused about Ezra’s connection with the prince.

“Oh. I’m sorry. I had to fake my death in order to get away from Juro. I was supposed to meet with Raogen. He was to help me leave the kingdom and get help.” Miros explained.

“Well then. You’re in luck. I’ve actually met the old bastard. Right after he tried killing me. Alright everyone up. Let’s head back to Dreamsky. On the double!” Ezra commanded.

“Right!” Everyone minus Miros acknowledged and started to follow behind Ezra.

Miros watched as everyone’s energy perked up following the young man. He couldn’t help but get sucked in by the crowd's energy.

“Who is this guy?” Miros asked aloud mostly to himself. Yet Grimm intervened and put an answer in.

“That’s the dracion you wanted to meet. He came here on his own volition to help your kingdom. And that’s why I put all of my faith into him. That’s why despite all the shit I’ve seen since coming back. I’m glad to be home.” Grimm explained for the prince. Who then turned towards Ezra. Everyone had a bright smile on their faces as he guided them back to their destination. Miros finally understood it, and joined the group. Happy he could finally meet a dracion.