Child of Destiny Chapter 2018: The Elemental Secret Land (Part 4)

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Seeing that the pack of Gluttony Beast Hyenas was pouncing on the Skyfire Albatross swiftly retreated away from the battlefield, climbed the trees, and watched the ongoing battle from a safe distance.

Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!

The hyenas were excitedly pouncing on the giant albatross, trying to take it down through their strong coordination and combined efforts.

Shriek!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Unfortunately, all their efforts were in vain since the Skyfire Albatross seed to be capable of fighting them by itself. It relied on its extre flying speed, ignoring its enormous size. It was as if its mass was extrely light, flying across the forest despite the multiple trees obstructing its path.

Moreover, it was repeatedly spitting out breaths of fire that swept through everywhere and burned anything that it touched.

Even the hyenas, which were highly resistant against elental attacks, seed to be scared of these flas.

"The hyenas are afraid of its fire!? Don’t they have powerful elental resistance?" mumbled Shin after seeing the scene of the hyenas jumping around and doing their best to avoid the flas that the Skyfire Albatross were spitting out.

While he was thinking about this, Solus suddenly appeared beside him and imdiately answered. "That is the Undying Fla of the Underworld, my Liege. It is the unique fla of the Phoenix Race, which they have acquired after dying from the flas and rising from the ashes."

"Other races call it the Immortal Fla as well," she added.

"The Undying Fla of the Underworld? The Immortal Fla?" mumbled Shin before asking. "How does it compare to your Eternal Fla?"

Solus thought for a mont before replying. "The Immortal Fla and the Eternal Fla share quite a lot of similarities, my Liege."

"However, since the Eternal Fla is bestowed upon by the Great Sun God, it is a notch or two higher than the Immortal Fla."

"The Immortal Fla is just the sign and proof of immortality for the Phoenix Race, while the Eternal Fla is everlasting and the root of everything," she added with a sowhat ambiguous tone.

Shin raised his brows a little, seemingly picking up a few clues from her words. ’Solus is a fallen Goddess, which ans that she once was a Divine Being. However, the Sun God has bestowed her the Eternal Fla thatshe wields. This ans that the Sun God is a supre being even among other Divine Beings.’

While he was lost in these thoughts, Solus suddenly comnted about the ongoing battle. "It is a pity that this bird monster is only a little fledgling and has recently awakened a bit of its bloodline powers. If it is a bit more powerful, then dealing with these little glutton beast will be much easier for it."

Hearing this, Shin could not help but feel that the corner of his mouth twitched a little. "A fledgling, you say?"

Looking at the massive size of the Skyfire Albatross, which had a wingspan of dozens of ters wide and a height of twelve to fifteen ters tall, he would never associate it with the word ’fledgling’.

But since it was what Solus had accessed, Shin could only trust her words. After all, Solus was one of the most experienced Elentals under his arsenal, who also used to be a Goddess in her pri, so her words carried weight.

"What about those hyenas?" asked Shin curiously.

Solus then turned her eyes toward the pack of hyenas, who were chasing after the Skyfire Albatross and trying to hunt it down.

Solus pursed her lips while observing the pack before replying. "Even though this bunch of beasts has undergone a series of mutations and evolutions, they have only awakened a little bit of Behemoth Bloodline."

"Compared to the bloodline density, they are far from reaching the level of that Skyfire Albatross. If not, then they should have already won this battle earlier. After all, Behemoth races are among the most predatory beasts during ancient tis. Even the Ancient Dragons and Phoenixes have to be wary of them."

"In terms of potential, this Skyfire Albatross far surpassed this bunch, especially since they are already fully grown adult and barely have any room for improvent."

"However, since they possessed the bloodline of the Behemoth Race, they are highly aggressive and extrely predatory. They will never back down from a fight or a hunt, especially when their target is soone who have powerful bloodline in them," she added before turning to Shin. "My Liege, it is better to stay away from them as far as possible since they can easily sense you due to your Traits as a Transcendent Race, which is highly attracted to them."

Hearing the latter part of her words, Shin was imdiately enlightened about how he was discovered by this bunch of hyenas earlier, despite being quite far from them.

"Even though they are weaker than that Skyfire Albatross when it cos to individual strength, their ability to hunt as a group is still extrely powerful."

She paused for a mont to look at the pack for another ti before continuing. "Given the size of their pack, they will not have any problem hunting a King Class Monster of the sa level, or even those with slightly higher levels than them."

"After all, the Gluttony Tribe of the Behemoth Race is more dangerous the larger the size of their tribe. They belong to the category of monsters who loved to hunt in groups."

Hearing this remark, the mystery shrouding the sight earlier when he first saw this pack was instantly solved.

Then, sothing struck him, and he could not help but ask. "Does that an they can also hunt this Skyfire Albatross down?"

Solus thought for a mont before shaking her head. "That is not necessarily true either. After all, that fla bird possessed a much denser ancient bloodline compared to them. However, given the size of their pack, there is also a high chance that they can catch it."

"It all depends on luck, the situation, and the surrounding terrain," she added after observing the ongoing battle.

Shin then nodded while watching the hyenas try to catch the fla albatross, which was flying at extre speed.

If it were just about the aerial abilities of the albatross, then he could already tell that these hyenas would never catch it.

However, the surrounding terrain was a bit more favorable for the hyenas, especially when their extrely skilled abilities to climb those trees, which also happened to obstruct the albatross and limit its freedom to fly.

Swoosh!

While the two were watching the battle, Hanzo happened to return from his scouting as well.

Shin knew that it was impossible to fully scale the entire region with his Elental Spirits, given its massive size that it had. After all, it was comparable to the biggest kingdom and even so of the empires as well.

However, having a better understanding of the surrounding areas near them would always be helpful for their exploration and could give them a direction to go.

"How is it?" he asked.

Hanzo looked at the ongoing battle in the distance before giving his report. "This place seems to be filled with monsters that have undergone a series of drastic mutations or bizarre evolutions."

"Due to this, they have gained so elental powers or certain immunities to certain elents due to this."

"So of them have even awakened the hidden bloodline within their veins just like those guys before you," he added while pointing at the pack of Glutton Beasy Hyenas and the Skyfire Albatross.

"Such situations are extrely rare and hard to co by, especially in the current era. After all, Elental Spirits like us have already existed and controlled most of the regions filled with our respective elents," he added while thinking about sothing.

"From my observations, there is only a single reason why this place has existed and what has caused these beasts to mutate," he continued.

At this point, Solus suddenly chid in. "That is, if sothing or soone is filling the air with rich elental mana, which causes the surrounding creatures to beco infected by Elental Poisoning, which is a special condition that ordinary creatures suffer after being extrely exposed to a highly concentrated mana of certain elents."

"After enduring such a condition for a long ti, the exposed creatures can only have two outcos. They can either die due to excessive poisoning or live while gaining a special ability or immunity to the sa elent that poisoned them."

"However, such occasions are only applicable to creatures that have been exposed to a single elent."

"The creatures living in this place have a variety of elental powers or abilities, which ans that they have been exposed to multiple elental poisonings, sothing that is impossible to happen."

"After all, a place that can cause Elental Poisoning can only have a single elent present in it. It is the most basic requirent since an elental can only reach the ’extre’ level when the other forms of elental mana are erased or ejected from such places, leaving that sole elent behind."

"It is a similar condition to the Rebirth Places of the Elental Spirits of the current era."

Pausing for a mont, Solus wore a serious expression before continuing. "For all elents to reach an extre level of denseness all at once and concentrate in a single place, there can only be a single instance in which it can happen."

"That is, if the place is the Elental Realm or the Spirit Realm, where the Elental Kings live," Hanzo finished her words for her.

He then proceeded to shake his head. "However, even those realms are divided into multiple regions, and each of the Elental Kings controls."

"As for the region where all those territories intersect and converge, that is where the Elental God resides, the Father of all Elents," he added with full seriousness. "However, that land has already been brought by the Elental God to the Divine Realm during his ascension eons ago."

Hearing this, Solus also wore a serious expression after hearing about the Elental God. She seed to have recalled a certain incident during her ti in the Land of Gods, which made her entire body tremble.

"That is also the reason, when the Elental World splits and becos the current Elental and Spirit Realms," she added.

Listening to them, Shin seed to have gained a certain understanding of the world and realms. ’Elental World? And the shattered and scattered Elental and Spirit Realms?’

’From what I rember, the System calls the main server the ’Atlas World’, not Atlas Realm. I guess there is more to it than what we players can see on the surface. After all, the main server itself is also divided into Higher and Lower Planes, which separates the Divine Beings and those beneath it.’

’Are they sowhat related?’ Thinking about this, Shin could not help but feel that this place where he was currently trapped had a greater secret than he originally thought.

"If that Elental Land that the Elental God brought to the so-called Divine Realm or Land of Gods shared similar properties with this place, then there must be sothing connected to it sowhere in this place," he mumbled, which the old elentals had heard.

They simultaneously turned their gaze at him while nodding their heads.

"The Liege is wise and knowledgeable!" said Solus, praising Shin with bright eyes.

"That is what I am thinking as well," snorted Hanzo, sowhat unimpressed.

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