A Wolf's Howl, A Fairy's Wing Chapter 40: Chapter 40 - Strange vision

As the scene unfolded, a tribe of majestic human-like beings appeared. Erik noticed they were much larger than him. Still, he was unsure whether they were an accurate depiction or if it was simply a consequence of the vision.

Aside from being towering figures, they had skin like granite and radiated an aura of primordial power while living seemingly peaceful lives.

Yet, he witnessed as this once–thriving community t a mysterious end, with each giant succumbing to an inexplicable force, their bodies drying up until they were little more than husks.

Amid the fallen giants, a lone figure erged. He stood amidst his fallen tribesn and fell to his knees before appearing to roar in despair. As the vision included no sound, Erik heard nothing of this.

After appearing to mourn the loss of his tribe for a while longer, the single giant stood up. He walked away, a vision of loneliness, until he was suddenly joined by a woman who could only be described as a female minotaur.

The giant had a sword as large and broad as himself on his back, while the woman held a large shield with a one-handed hamr on her hip, with both of them dressed in simple armor.

Erik watched them travel various worlds as they appeared to be searching for sothing. Perhaps the reason for his kin's fate. Erik naturally felt sympathy for this giant, as his story was similar.

While he knew who had betrayed him, he didn't know why or who this Confessor was that his hunters had ntioned that day. He still needed answers, just like this giant.

Eventually, the giant seed to have found an answer, as the vision changed into a colossal tree appearing in the white void, looming over Erik like a cosmic pillar. Its imnse trunk of brown bark was adorned with patterns reminiscent of ancient runes and seed to shimr slightly.

Clusters of leaves spread over its many branches, creating a sprawling green, almost glowing canopy that seed to cast a shadow on Erik despite no single light source being present.

However, it wasn't rooted in the ground. Instead, it floated in the air with its gnarled roots spreading out underneath it like shadowy tendrils.

These tendrils seed connected to various smaller trees, as bits of light appeared to travel through these roots, feeding the large tree.

Next, the vision shifted back to the giant from earlier, who was now in a large, seemingly underground complex with the minotaur woman. Surrounding these two were various smaller beings, many of whom looked like regular humans.

The pair of minotaur and giant seed to be doing sothing to these various beings. Still, the exact nature or purpose of their actions remained shrouded in mystery.

As the vision unfolded, the current scene suddenly exploded. Three imposing warriors in golden armour appeared in its stead, with an army of winged people behind them.

The middle warrior wielded a long spear, the right a simple longsword, and the left had an axe in each hand.

What happened next was apocalyptic level war, as the three beings engaged in an all-out battle with the giant and the minotaur, while the winged army engaged with an army of various different races, so of whom Erik recognized as shapeshifters and vampires.

After a long battle, the invading force ca out victorious.

In the final act, the giant expended his last effort to save the minotaur woman, who suddenly disappeared in a dark blue flash before the giant was killed and chopped up into various pieces.

Afterwards, the losing army was enslaved, not by the winged creatures, but by many of the sa races as had fought against the winged soldiers.

Next, the scene changed; the tree was back, and the three golden warriors were standing in front of one of the smaller trees connected to the bigger tree's roots. The spear wielder had a small, see-through orb in his hand and appeared to push it inside the smaller tree.

The warriors then left, and ti seed to move forward quickly, indicated by the large leaves swaying frantically.

At so point, ti moved back to normal speed as the minotaur woman reappeared and stood next to the sa small tree the three warriors had put that orb into.

She punched at the tree, and it seed to disappear, but a green flash hit her in the back before the minotaur woman did the sa. She still disappeared, but by whose hand was uncertain.

Then, the vision ended, leaving Erik not much wiser than before, a sentint he didn't mind sharing, "That wasn't very enlightening, you know? What are you trying to tell ? And, more importantly, why should I care?"

The various goings on of so random and likely ancient, powerful beings was no concern of Erik, after all. All he wanted right now was revenge on Edda, including whoever ordered her to do it, and then he would continue with Elora as he had been.

Grow stronger and eventually rule together with her, likely starting with Earth. Probably add so more won to their harem, too. Erik was a simple man in that regard.

It took a mont for the voice to return as if thinking about sothing. Still, instead of answering Erik's question, it said sothing much more interesting, "Find…revenge…Africa…hunters…important…"

Lastly ca a na that caused a flash of rage to pass through Erik's eyes, "...Edda…"

Afterward, he suddenly opened his eyes to the real world, staring up at the ceiling as morning light shone through the hole-riddled curtains.

He blinked a few tis in order to rember where he was, which took a mont since he had just literally watched however many years pass by in vision format.

He mumbled, "Way to end on an interesting note."

He felt sothing stir next to him before a slender arm was draped over his chest, followed by the green eyes, crimson hair, and beautiful face of his partner, Elora. "Good morning! What did you just mumble?"

Erik sighed, "Let's just say I dread sothing interesting. I'll tell you all about it when I've woken up a little."

Elora giggled, "I hope it was a sexy dream."

Now that they were equal partners, she couldn't look into his mories without his permission anymore. Not that she would if she could; that would be a betrayal of trust, after all.

Despite the events just now, Erik couldn't resist laughing at his ever-horny partner. He was glad to have her with him, no matter what the future may hold. "Unfortunately not. Although there were a man and woman involved."

Elora smiled, "Well, I look forward to hearing about it. Anyway, look next to you. That girl you like has a real servile attitude. I approve."

Only now did Erik realise that Emma's weight was missing from his left shoulder. He looked at where she was supposed to be and found a plate with so breakfast, including hot coffee.

He wondered where Emma had gotten all this stuff from and how she had made coffee, sothing that Elora quickly explained, "Seraphina's travel companions arrived, and they brought all that stuff.

Emma woke up earlier and used her light magic to burn through the ropes binding her before she went to see what was happening and brought back so breakfast for you."

She chuckled, "It's good I added her magical mark to the protection sigils I created, or she might have ended up dead."

She shrugged, "Anyway, I suppose she is catching up with her sister now. So how about that dream?"

Erik nodded and sat upright before taking the breakfast plate and began to share the food with Elora while telling her about everything that happened in the dream.

When he was done, Elora looked thoughtful as they continued to eat.

When they were done, she sighed, "It could an a hundred different things. It seems to suggest that either that giant, the minotaur, or both are the people who have sothing to do with the events here on Earth.

But that voice you heard might as well have been from one of those golden armored warriors or another person altogether, with the vision being a warning for so reason.

Let's focus on that last bit for now. The voice seems to be telling you that Edda and the other hunters are in Africa. So what do you want to do?"

Erik was quiet for a mont as he thought about that. While part of him wanted to run off to Africa in search of revenge, he couldn't just trust the words of so random voice in his head. Who knew if Edda was truly in Africa?

Not to ntion that 'Africa' was not exactly a small place. It would have been nice if that voice had been a little more precise.

Besides, he wanted to pay a visit to his old community anyway.

So he spoke up, "We can't simply trust that voice for no reason. Let's just continue as we have been. We're basically done here in London now. We've gained two powerful followers and a possible informant in the council, so it's about ti we leave.

It's ti for to return to my old ho."