Noah felt a surge of energy behind him and when he looked behin, he found nobody. Rather than keep it to himself, he told about it to Kael and Lance and also about someone following them.
Can you both feel it too?
Feel what? (asked Kael)
The energy coming from behind.
There's no energy coming from behind you. (said kael)
There is.
Noah walked towards that energy but Lance stopped him,
Wait, where are you going?
To check who's following us for quite a while.
Is someone following us? (asked kael)
Yeah, I have been sensing it's energy for quite a while now and it has reached it's peak now.
Noah felt like someone was running towards him with full speed. He used his blade and striked infront of him and a space opened and that thing was forced into that space through Noah's blade.
I felt it, someone is inside my space now.
Who is it? (asked Lance)
Let me check it.
Noah closed his eyed and tried to sense the presence inside him. He felt a trainee inside his space, a female.
There's a girl inside my space.
Well, you can let her out Noah, she is one of us. (said Kael with smile on his face)
Then why was she spying on us?
Well, when Lance brought you, I asked her to spy on you to check whether you are worthy of being one of us or not. (said Kael to Noah)
Oh, so a test?
Yeah. (said Kael)
Noah opened his space and let her out. She had long purple hairs and her outfit was like that of a queen. She was very beautiful but few inches shorter than Noah. She had a very pleasant voice. Purple color eyes.
Noah apologized,
I am sorry for the sudden attack, I felt it was an enemy.
It is okay. It was your instinct. (replied girl)
She started introducing herself.
I am Akane, Akane Kurogane.
I am Noah, Noah Astris. I have the power to manipulate space but all my skills are passive skills. (he gave a small laugh while saying this)
Oh, I can control shadows. I can travel through shadows and manipulate them as long as there are shadows nearby me in the radius of 20 meter.
She was the same shadow girl spying on Lance.
You did a very good job Akane and by the way, did you found any information on the topic I told you? (asked Kael)
Yeah, his den is at the top of the mountain. You will see a pool of magma and you just have to create your way through it and inside it, there is his den. (replied Akane)
Noah was confused about what they were talking about and when he looked at Lance, Lance was standing like he knew.
What are you guys talking about? (asked Noah)
Oh, you do not know about our mission. (said kael)
Well, you see Noah. I have only single element but I want one more, the magma element and that's why we are climbing this mountain. (said Kael)
But you told me that we are climbing this mountain to get stronger.
Yes, that is true. You can say that there are two reasons to climb this mountain and I gave you both. (replied Kael)
By the way, how did you meet kael, Akane? (asked Noah)
Well, you see. When I first mastered my power, I started spying on other trainees to get any kind of important information and I even spied on Lance but he was unable to sense me but when I try to spy on Kael, he easily caught me. I thought he was going to kill me but he didn't and made me his companion. (replied Akane)
Oh, is that so? (said Kael)
Suddenly, Kael felt like something was coming towards them with full speed. He looked towards his right and there was coming a Wyvern towards them but couple of people were also riding it.
He told all of them about it and told them to be on their guard.
Noah unleashed his blade and got ready for a battle where as Akane, she went inside the shadows and Lance, he stand still.
The Wyvern came close to them and unleashed fire from it's mouth. Kael easily neutralize that fire just from his presence and Noah used Void Travel to get over the Wyvern.
He saw from the crack that 5 people were riding that Wyvern and those 5 people were familiar to Noah. The moment Noah saw them, his eyes widened and his expression became angry.
He jumped on the Wyvern from his crack and created two mini black hole.
Those 5 people looked behind and recognized Noah.
How the fuck are you still alive!? (said one girl from those 5 people)
Noah charged on the one who said that and striked that person with his blade. The purple slash followed and that person was sent into Noah's space. His mini black holes were maintaing Noah's balance over the Wyvern by pulling him towards each other.
What did you do with her, Noah!? (another person asked)
I did the same thing you guys did with me, Rose.
It was the same group which came to Noah when Voidran was alive and later killed Noah and became the main reason for Voidran's sacrifice, Mira's group.
Rose used her element and attacked with her blue flame but before her attack could touch Noah, Lance came between Noah and the blue flame and easily neutralize it with just left hand palm.
Wyvern came very close to the ground where Lance and Kael were standing and that's why Lance was able to climb the Wyvern.
Lance, please, let me fight. This is my fight.
Are you sure you do not need any help? (asked Lance)
Yes, I can take care of them with my current strength.
Lance got off from the Wyvern and Noah charged at them and before they could understand anything, Noah striked everyone with his blade and all of them were sent into the alternate space.
Here, Lance grabbed the tail of the Wyvern and said to Noah,
Get off! Now!
Noah got off the Wyvern and Lance smashed it into the mountain. The Wyvern died at the moment of the impact.
Who were these guys? (asked Kael)
Those who killed Noah. (replied Lance)
Oh, I see. So, what you gonna do with them, Noah? (asked Kael)
I am not gonna kill them but gonna leave them to rot and regret their decision in the alternate space.
Damn, that's a rough punishment. (said Akane)
Well, then let's climb the mountain. (said Kael)
Before that, can we have breakfast? (asked Akane)
Everyone looked at her face.
What? Did I say something wrong? (asked Akane)
No, it's just nothing. (said all three of them)
But, we do not have anything to eat. (said Lance)
Wait, let me check their bag. They brought a bag with them. (said Kael)
Kael searched the bag of Mira's group and they found some fruits to eat. After eating those fruits, they again started climbing the mountain.
Kael was the first one to pass the clouds followed by Lance and Noah and Akane was the last one.
Guys, wait, I am tired! (said Akane)
Despite Akane's call, nobody stopped and continued climbing the mountain.
Kael saw the peak, it wad quite near. After the climbing of more 3-4 hours, Kael reached the peak followed by Lance and Noah and Akane, she was still near the clouds.
Go and carry her to us. (said Kael to Noah)
Noah used Void Travel and carried her to the peak. They all saw the view infront of them, covered by clouds and clouds everywhere. It was like they came at the heaven made in Dragon Realm.
Kael, come here. Here is his den. (said Akane to Kael)
Kael went there and saw a pool of lava.
So, how are we supposed to pass through it? (asked Kael to Akane)
I do not know, that's your problem. (replied Akane)
HUH!? WHAT YOU SAID!? (asked Kael)
She started ignoring him and Noah came to them.
Okay, okay. Don't fight. (said Noah)
Let me try something. (suggested Noah)
Noah created a mini black hole and that black hole sucked all the lava and the den of the magma dragon was visible now.
Kael was the first one to jump inside the den followed by Lance, Noah and Akane.
All four of them came inside the den but it was empty. No dragon was inside the den. Kael found it very weird. He searched inside the den for half an hour but still, didn't find any dragon.
All four of them came outside of the den.
Why was there no dragon, Akane? (asked Kael)
Don't ask me, I gave you the information I heard. Now, I do not know where it went. (replied Akane)
Lance called Kael,
Kael, come here.
All three of them went to Lance and saw 2 big footprints of a dragon. It was clear to them that there was a dragon but it went somewhere before they came.
The footprints were directed towards the direction behind the mountain where they never went.
Kael used his element and grew fire wings, Lance grew wings using his Scale Element but Noah and Akane, they still didn't know how to grow wings.
Both of them had no choice but to carry them. Lance carried Noah on his back where as Kael carried Akane on his hands.
Both of them jumped from the peak and started sky diving.
AGHHH, IT'S SCARY, SLOW DOWN LANCE!! (cried Noah)
SLOW DOWN YOU FOOL, KAEL SLOW DOWNN!!!! (cried Akane)
Both of them were very scared and Akane started crying for real. Kael had no choice but to slow down a little and Lance went ahead of him but despite that, both of them passed the clouds together and the view they saw, they never expected to see that view behind the mountain.
It was like a view direct from a horror movie, a dark fantasy novel. Everywhere was just destruction, fire, skeletons of dragons, screams of different kinds of beings.
After a flight of 2 hours, both of them touched the ground and all 4 of them were standing on the ground. Infront of them were large amount of dragon bones and skulls.
There were screams all around them, roars all around them.
What the hell is this place? (asked Noah)
I do not know, but this is some kind of a hell for sure. (said Akane)
They heard something coming towards them running with full force and turned behind to see it and there was a very weird boar which didn't even look like one but it's body was like that of a wild boar.
That creature attacked on them but all of them dodged it pretty easily. In that area, there were shadows all around the place and barely any light was coming. Akane used her ability and made shadow chains and bind that creature.
AAAYIGHAAA!!!!! (cried Creature)
It broked the chain and charged on Akane and tried to tackle her but Kael used his Eruption Fist and striked the creature and it was roasted by Kael's flames.
Thanks Kael, it was a close call. (said Akane)
Guys, don't let your guard down even for a second. (said Kael)
They walked few steps and something horrifying came out of the ground.