Chapter 161: Ashen (1)
While the three happily went back, they didn't know an extra pair of eyes was watching them. "So that is where sister went to. She looks happy, " a voice said. Space seemed to shatter with every word said, but even with that effect, the person was perfectly undetectable.
The person watched them leave through a portal created by her sister. The dragon's giant body vanished inside the portal, and the dimension began to shatter now that the owner couldn't hold it anymore. The person looked down at the crow that knelt lifelessly on the floor.
The person teleported before the crow. She looked down at the crow with visible disgust on her face. The crow, who felt someone standing before him, looked up. "Who… Who are you." He had just been robbed of his treasure, and now a random woman stood before him. If she didn't explain who she was soon, he wouldn't care about anything else but would go mad.
He would kill this strange woman and find that thief who dared to take his treasure. The woman's face darkened, and she stretched her hand above the crow. "You dare think about harming my dear little sister. You don't want to live anymore, do you?" Before waiting for the crow to answer, her power surged from her hand and shot towards the crow.
The crow opened his eyes wide. 'No… No, that can't be." The crow was now even more terrified than a moment ago. "Why are you here? How can you be here? Aren't you supposed to be on the heavenly battlefield?" The woman laughed at the words of the crow.
"How do you know about that?" Her powers stopped, and she questioned the crow. She was surprised that someone discovered the decoy location she put out with her clone. "That is because it was an order from the ruler. How would our esteemed clan be kept in the dark when he banished the infamous black rose?"
"Hah." The woman laughed as the crow addressed her with her title. "I shouldn't have expected anything else from that sneaky rat. How dare he think that he has the power to banish me." Her aura was unstable for a moment due to her emotions, and the dimension already falling apart broke and shattered like glass.
The crow who faced such a terrifying aura fainted. "Tch useless." The woman muttered before firing her power on the crow, annihilating him from existence. She wrapped herself in her magic and took a step forward. That one step covered the distance of a total of 30 light years in an instant.
'Let's go and home. I saw my cute sister again today to get some sleep now. I am curious how long she is going to hold this charade up. Didn't she also get fatter since the last time I saw her? When she gets back, I will put her through some exercises to lose that extra weight she acquired over there.'
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Ashen, who just flew the portal, felt like a shill through her whole body. 'What is happening? I haven't felt this since my sister forced me to dress up with her. Is she thinking about me again? I hope not. I left when she should be in her deep sleep, so maybe I have some more time left until she awakens.'
The mighty primordial dragon who instills fear in all her opponents feared her big sister. While her title and race would scare most beings into not fighting her, it wasn't the same for her big sister. When people heard that she was coming their way, they would flee from that location instead of hiding.
She is infamous for slaughtering everyone who comes in her way. Once, when Ashen was just born, she was kidnapped by one of the rivaling divine beasts. Unluckily for them, she already met her sister, who barged into white tiger territory and slaughtered everyone involved.
That was the day that the title Black Rose spread through the universe. The White Tiger clan was greatly weakened, as almost half of its members were killed in one night. Even though they recovered from the damage, they never rebuilt their clan to the same prestige it once had.
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The lesson that her sister wanted to teach the universe was also spread: 'Touch my sister, and I will run your clan to ruins.' Since then, nobody dared mess with her clan, but that also meant that she was isolated. Her own mother and father had already passed away, and the only people in her clan were her sister and some other members that she wasn't close with.
She was stuck in her residence because her sister thought that she would face danger because of the blood in her body. One day, when her sister was in her hibernating sleep, she escaped because she had a dream to explore the world. While that dream was pushed down because of her sister, when that desire was suppressed, it began to shine even harder.
When I escaped, I began to fly around the universe and began to see the sights I had been dreaming of. The beautiful stars, the planets flying around the sun, live to the planets around them. Everything was like a dream to me. I felt so free at that moment that moment. It was not like before when I went to sleep. I hated that I knew that I would wake up the next day.
Now, I was looking forward to waking up and looking at the stars and planets, seeing life flourishing on those planets, and seeing what people did in those days. While I was observing the lives on planets, I didn't notice that I was being observed as well. Soon enough, just when I found a good place to rest, I was ambushed.
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I was flying through space after another satisfying day. It had been a month since I left home, and I had been living my dream. Soon, I saw a planet covered with nature, where only some sea life lived. I flew into its atmosphere and slowly landed on the land.
I lay myself down on the ground in a comfortable position, closed my eyes, and got ready to sleep. As soon as I felt relaxed, I could feel my muscles calming down, and I began to rest. I began to slowly land in the land of dreams, that is, until I felt a huge amount of mana being gathered just outside of the planet.
I looked up and saw something that had traumatized me since I was young. A huge white tiger stood there with its mouth wide open, gathering the mana inside of it. The huge amount of mana gathered inside its mouth and was soon shot at me with a white laser beam.
My body tensed, and I flapped my wings. Wind obeyed my desire, and I dodged the laser shot at me. What didn't dodge the attack was the planet beneath me. When the laser touched the planet, it went straight through the ground and pierced through the planet.
The massive beam of condensed mana ripped through the planet's core, causing violent tremors that fractured its surface. The once-serene land crumbled, and molten rivers of fire burst from deep fissures, painting the sky a fiery red. Pieces of the planet shattered and drifted into the void, leaving behind a slowly dying world.
I flapped my wings with all my strength, soaring into space as the ground beneath me disintegrated. My breathing was ragged, and my heart pounded against my chest. That attack was meant to obliterate me—not scare me, not injure me—but to end me completely.
Above the ruined planet, the towering figure of the White Tiger King hovered, its piercing golden eyes locked onto me with an intense, predatory hunger.
"You thought you could escape?" its deep voice boomed through the void. Its fangs glinted like curved blades as it sneered down at me. "You can't hide from destiny, little wyrm."
I narrowed my eyes, suppressing the surge of fear threatening to paralyze me. My mind raced, searching for an escape route. I had been so foolish, letting my guard down just because I finally felt free. Now, I was paying the price.
Wind surged around me, wrapping my wings in a protective cyclone as I rocketed upward. 'Run!' That was my only option—I wasn't strong enough to face a beast like this.
But the tiger wasn't finished. With a growl, it lunged forward with terrifying speed, crossing the distance between us in the blink of an eye. Massive claws bleached in mana swiped toward me, leaving jagged tears in space itself.
I barely twisted my body mid-air, narrowly avoiding the killing blow. A surge of wind blasted from my wings, propelling me backward as I gasped for breath. The air burned from the sheer energy radiating off the tiger's body.
Before I could react, another blast of white energy erupted from its open maw. The beam crackled with devastating intensity, carving a path through space toward me. I twisted again, narrowly avoiding death for the second time. The beam struck a nearby moon, instantly reducing it to scattered fragments.
I clenched my teeth, suppressing the panic rising in my chest. My options were shrinking fast. My speed was the only reason I was still alive, but even that wouldn't save me forever.