I Received System to Become Dragonborn Chapter 1371 1371: More Reports

The scouts remained frozen before the gigantic fissure for several long seconds afterward. None of them spoke imdiately. But inside their minds, the sa terrifying thought had already begun surfacing.

This was not natural. If sothing this massive had suddenly appeared beneath the kingdom lands without anyone noticing earlier then it could only an one thing. Another disaster was beginning.

The squad leader's expression hardened almost imdiately.

"Check everything," he ordered sharply. "The ground, the air, and the vegetation around this fissure. I want to know exactly what this thing is."

The scouts imdiately moved afterward despite the unease spreading through them.

One scout crouched near the edge of the fissure while carefully placing his hand against the corrupted soil. Another one removed a small crystal tool from his pouch and began scanning the surrounding Magic currents. Two more scouts spread through the nearby vegetation while examining the plants and trees growing around the massive crack.

The female scout carrying the communication spirit remained nearby while preparing to relay information if necessary.

anwhile, the squad leader himself slowly approached the fissure.

The crimson-black glow pulsing from beneath the crack illuminated his face faintly while strange energy continuously drifted up from the depths below.

The deeper he looked into the fissure, the more uncomfortable he beca.

It felt alive and not just taphorically but actually alive.

Then one of the scouts suddenly spoke with visible tension in his voice.

"Captain… this Magic…"

The squad leader imdiately looked toward him.

The scout stared down at the glowing crystal device in his hand with pale expression.

"It's the sa."

"What?"

"The sa Magic signature from the corrupted Magical beasts that attacked Leonora."

The atmosphere imdiately beca even heavier after that.

Another scout inspecting the surrounding vegetation quickly turned toward them as well.

"The plants too," he said tensely. "The corruption already spread into the roots around the fissure."

One more scout touched the ground again before imdiately jerking his hand back slightly. His face turned uneasy. "The earth…"

Everyone looked toward him.

"It's pulsing."

The squad leader imdiately stepped closer.

Then he heard it too.

Very faintly beneath the wind and silence around them.

Thump.

Thump.

Thump.

The ground surrounding the fissure produced a deep rhythmic vibration almost resembling a heartbeat. The sound did not co from above. It ca from deep beneath the earth itself.

At the sa ti, the strange crimson-black energy leaking from the fissure intensified briefly before calming again.

The squad leader's instincts imdiately scread danger afterward.

"Back away!" he ordered firmly.

The scouts imdiately retreated several steps from the fissure.

"Further!" the leader said again. This ti his tone carried unmistakable urgency.

The squad quickly obeyed and created much more distance between themselves and the massive crack.

The squad leader then imdiately turned toward the female scout carrying the communication spirit.

"Report everything to the king now."

The woman nodded quickly before activating the spirit.

Blue light spread out while streams of Magic energy connected toward Leonora far in the distance.

She rapidly relayed every detail they had discovered. About the gigantic fissure, the corrupted foreign Magic surrounding it, the living pulse beneath the ground, and the spreading contamination within the land itself.

The communication lasted for nearly a full minute before the spirit's glow finally dimd slightly again.

After finishing the report, the squad leader imdiately spoke once more.

"Contact the other squads too. Ask them about the fissures."

The scout imdiately obeyed and reopened the communication channel.

Several monts later, responses finally returned through the spirit.

At first only static-like interference echoed softly. It had never happened before. Spirit communication was usually connected without delay.

Then voices erged.

"We found the sa thing here."

Another voice followed almost imdiately afterward.

"There's a fissure on our route too.The sa corrupted Magic is spreading around it."

Silence imdiately spread through the squad. Now the truth beca horrifyingly clear. This was not an isolated phenonon. Sothing beneath the entire kingdom had already begun spreading. The new kind of unknown disaster would strike soon.

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King Garrie listened to every report delivered through the communication spirit and it felt like the atmosphere atop the battlents slowly beca heavier with every passing second.

The mage handling the communications had his hands tightened slightly around the glowing spirit while the other nearby battlent mages exchanged deeply uneasy looks with each other.

Every squad had reported the sa massive fissures, corrupted Magic, and the land behaving unnaturally. And worst of all, the sa foreign energy connected to the corrupted Magical beasts that had attacked Leonora previously.

King Garrie's expression gradually turned grave. The king remained completely silent while the final reports continued arriving through the communication spirit. His sharp eyes stared toward the glowing Magic circle before him but his thoughts were already racing far beyond the battlents.

Sothing enormous was happening beneath the kingdom itself. The corruption had already spread underground on a scale none of them previously realized.

The battlent wind continued blowing heavily around them while the silence between the soldiers and mages slowly beca suffocating.

Finally, one of the communication mages carefully spoke.

"What are we going to do, Your Majesty?"

King Garrie did not answer. Instead, he slowly turned his gaze toward the distant dark sky beyond the walls. His jaw tightened while he silently gritted his teeth.

For several seconds he simply stood there while staring at the unnatural clouds hanging above the kingdom.

Then finally, he spoke. "I need to return to the Archmage Tower."

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Several seconds later a Magic circle illuminated the upper chamber of the Archmage Tower. King Garrie erged from the glowing formation before imdiately stepping out onto the stone floor.

The chamber remained filled with floating artifacts, glowing crystals, and countless streams of rotating Magic symbols drifting through the air continuously.

At the center of it all, Archmage Velrion remained focused on one of his rotating artifacts while adjusting several floating Magic rings around it carefully.

The Archmage did not imdiately look toward the king.

"What is it?" Velrion asked while still working.

King Garrie approached him directly. "The scouts found sothing beyond the kingdom."

That imdiately made Velrion pause slightly. King Garrie then began explaining everything the scouts had discovered.

As the explanation continued, Velrion's expression gradually darkened. By the ti King Garrie finished speaking, the Archmage had completely stopped working on his artifact. A deep frown ford across his face afterward.

The mage slowly turned toward the king while concern visibly appeared inside his eyes.

"Another kind of disaster is coming," Velrion said heavily.

The chamber suddenly felt colder.

King Garrie's gaze sharpened imdiately. "You're certain?"

Velrion slowly nodded. "I can feel it already."

The Archmage moved toward one of the floating observation crystals nearby before placing his hand against it. The crystal imdiately pulsed with unstable crimson light afterward.

"The corruption is changing," Velrion continued quietly. "Before this, it only spread across living creatures and surface regions. But now it's spreading beneath the land. But the problem is…" We still don't know what this disaster actually is."

The glowing artifacts around the chamber continued humming softly. The anxiety between them deepened further.

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