In that instant a white light emanated from him and expanded outward in all directions like a wave that consud everything in its path.
Everything caught within that light was erased completely. The buildings collapsed into dust, the towers disintegrated, and even the ground itself vanished as the spell consud all matter within its range.
The light swept through the entire city until nothing remained.
When it finally faded, the ruins were gone, leaving only a Kingdom-sized crater in its wake.
Every one of them watching from the city’s outskirts was utterly amazed.
The Amazons could not make sense of what they had just witnessed and their mouths were wide open as they stared at the empty space where a city had stood monts before.
Myrenne had an unnerving look on her face with sweat forming at her temple and her hands trembled slightly as she continued to stare at the crater.
The look in her eyes wasn’t just shock, it was terror and fear.
She stuttered as she spoke and asked openly, "Is... is Aiden a god?"
Laela’s lips curved into a small grin as she spoke to Arianna beside her without turning. "I’m not sure his power will ever stop amazing ," she said quietly.
Arianna nodded slowly, her eyes still locked on the crater ahead. "That kingdom was roughly the size of Xathia," she murmured. "And he erased it in an instant."
Aeris stood frozen in place with her face pale as she stared at where the city used to be.
After a mont Aiden floated back down toward them and landed on the ground without making a sound.
He looked at the group and spoke flatly as if he hadn’t just wiped an entire kingdom out. "Let’s continue our journey."
Myrenne didn’t respond imdiately.
Maybe it was the fact that she was still terror-stricken or just shock but she eventually turned away from the crater and began walking again without saying a word.
The rest of the party followed in silence.
Laela and Arianna exchanged a glance but said nothing as they walked and Shadow trotted beside Aiden.
Aeris kept glancing back at where the city had been as if she couldn’t quite believe what she’d witnessed.
After about an hour of walking they saw more ruins scattered across the landscape and then they saw a huge dungeon structure raised up so high and wide that it dominated the horizon.
Its gates were opened but there was no translucent portal at the entrance. This was clearly the case of a dungeon break.
From the size and wideness of the mausoleum-looking structure alone, Laela stated, "This is just about the size of an S-rank dungeon."
Aiden stared at the entrance and spoke without taking his eyes off it. "The demons I killed earlier most likely broke out through this dungeon, which ans there could also be more roaming outside."
He paused and his expression grew more serious. "Given that this was an S-rank dungeon, the boss would be a Baron and that ans a Baron is probably roaming around too."
Everyone imdiately beca alert.
According to the books, aside from their longer horns, Barons were demons whose strength and demon magic reached S-rank level. A single one was powerful.
Aiden then decided to check sothing out.
He activated his Dragon’s Sight and scanned the four directions, starting with the path they were traveling, searching for any signs of demons.
His focused view range was about a hundred kiloters and within that maximum range he found nothing.
However, Aiden noticed sothing in the direction they had been heading.
He turned to Myrenne while pointing toward the direction they were moving. Then just to be absolutely certain, he asked. "We have to keep going that way if we are to et with the dragon in this continent, is that correct?"
Myrenne nodded.
Aiden then took the hands of both his won, who still looked sowhat confused, and spoke to the others. "Myrenne, Aeris, hold hands with Laela and Arianna."
Aeris grasped Arianna’s hand on Aiden’s right, while Myrenne held Laela’s.
Though puzzled by Aiden’s actions, everyone fell into line without question.
He then turned to his wolf, which let out a whimper. "Your work is done now, Shadow."
The wolf made a final sound and vanished.
In that instant, Aiden activated his transport magic and vanished to the place he had spotted from a distance.
When they suddenly reappeared, they were taken aback by the sight before them.
Though still on the sa continent, but the sky on the part where they stood showed nightti while the sky in front of them showed dayti.
It was the strangest phenonon they had ever seen, where both day and night coexisted at the sa ti and were sohow still demarcated from each other.
"I don’t understand this," Myrenne said and her voice carried genuine confusion.
They all had different varying levels of confusion written on their faces.
Syra’s voice spoke in Aiden’s thoughts almost imdiately. [She’s here alright. That’s Cronyssia’s ti field]
"What?" Aiden replied back in his thoughts.
[Cronyssia can make ti stop, move faster or slower within an area. That area where her authority affects becos her ti field and given that the skies in front of you are not alternating between day and night quickly, I’ll assu ti there has been slowed or completely stopped—but not accelerated.]
Syra continued; [So, while the ground you’re standing on is unaffected and you move normally, stepping forward would place you in a zone where ti is either stopped or extrely slowed. That would reduce all your movents to a slow walk, or bring them to a complete stop]
"That’s troubleso," Aiden muttered, causing the others to turn toward him, curious about what he’d said.
He looked at them and spoke clearly. "No one move forward just yet. I’ll need to confirm sothing."
A thought had co to his head.
They nodded while he looked downward and flicked his index finger slightly causing a telekinetic force to pull a stone upward.
He then flicked his finger forward, sending the stone speeding toward the dayti zone ahead.
The mont it entered the zone, it stopped. It simply hovered there, motionless.
And with that confirmation, Aiden said
"Ti has been stopped in that area. "
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