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Chapter 78: Yukeli
Gerulf sla the ice as he landed The white leather hides that covered his body were glowing, his sharp Aura wrapping around hifried!&8221; He bellowed, charging towards the steel bubble that covered his coht a few hurried ets fled inside the Ice Keep, the door sla shut behind them
In just a few split seconds he sprinted over towards the warping steel pillars, his chest heaving fro here as soon as they found the place Jasper had set off a Dark Signal Orb, the tell-tale leftover aura still present They’d charged off towards the Ice Keep, eventually finding a trail of dead Grakons, and faint traces of Slowing Strob Rays, a slowing Darkness Spell that was used to slow enefried had an artifact that allowed him to cast a limited nuht trail
As they followed the trail, Gerulf had realized that their targets were purposefully being allowed to head towards the Ice Keep Siegfried ing, standard operating procedure for their teae at all if it seeet would escape otherwise
"In here&8221; A runt could be heard from inside the steel pillars
A second later, the steel pillars fell away and fried and an un Jasper
"Mika! Get on Jasper, now! He’s hurt bad!&8221; Siegfried bellowed, clutching at his own arht wince, he twisted his arht Pill fro, an expensive Grand the rush of healing energy rise in hiht Wizard in their troop, rushed over to the still figure of Jasper I her an alht Wizards on their team One that specialized in close combat and speed, Jasper, while the other that specialized in healing fried?&8221; Gerulf stepped forward as Siegfried sat down,He motioned with his hands to the two other Shades on their tea them to form a secure perimeter
"The Fox had a subordinate&8221; The Steel Wizard began, looking at the flesh on his right arht red
"It didn’t seeh, defensively, and it had a lot of physical strength, but I couldn’t detect even a hint of an Aura off of it It’s like the Grakons, physically powerful but that’s it&8221; He waved his hand in the direction of the sunken Ice Keep
"It was, however, incredibly skilled in close coe without the full team, but if we didn’t, they would’ve fled inside the Ice Keep Well, they did anyway&8221; He sighed, his voice full of frustration
Gerulf grunted, turning to look at the entrance to the underground stronghold A set of cut stone stairs led to the Mystic Door that blocked the Keep off
"Alright&8221; Gerulf returned, turning his head to look back out towards the exterior of the city The racket fro Class warriors was continuing unabated
"The big Grakon won’t be back here for at least 4 or 5 hours Their fight will last the his forehead
"He’s stable!&8221; Mika’s voice interrupted hifried and Gerulf turned to look at Jasper’s downed figure
"His right leg is badly broken, and several of his organs ruptured He’s broken 19 different bones, and the injuries he’s sustained will take a great deal of time to fully heal However, he is in a stable condition&8221; Her voice was cool as she laid out his injuries
"Alright Good&8221; Siegfried’s voice was full of relief His eyes hardened as he continued,
"Gerulf Start breaking us through that door, your Piercing Magic is our best bet The Fox can h the Red Portal within 4 hours She h to it at all&8221;
Dorian stu his head Gradually, his thoughts were returning to nore ofin the background
‘Dorian I am DORIAN! Not Yukeli!’ He forcefully reasserted hi for a brief second before wavering down
The memories were scattered and disjointed, over what appeared to Dorian to be a period of roughly fifty years of Yukeli’s life Most of the , and sparring Soe, epic battles with thousands of cole Wizard or warrior
A feever, were ripped from his childhood
Yukeli was a human, born to an ile older brother, one that was seven years older than hie near a wide, open forest teedom of Binor, on the planet Tallew
The memories about Yukeli’s childhood were scattered and few, but Dorian could already tell that the boy had been born a prodigy An absolute genius
At the age of 1, he could already walk and talk, learning the Coe of 2, he had beco from the few books his family possessed He had a deep love for poetry and expressed his feelings for the world around hireat deal of acclaim and fame for his poetry, all as a mere child The Lord of the territory he lived in had personally sent a dozen gold coins to reward histhem to move into a real house, in a real town and leave the poor outskirt village He single-handedly pulled his family out of squalor, a sweet, innocent and cheerful boy
At the age of 4, his life took a turn
The planet he lived on was conquered by a race of powerful creatures
A varied race of beings known as Dehter took place, as the human race on his home planet faced extinction
And suffered fro 4 year old, hiding in a wooden cupboard in his nice home’s kitchen, Yukeli watched his mother have her heart ripped out
His house, and that of many others, were destroyed Everyone found was killed, usually in cruel, torturous ways The Demon Race was not a kind race They were cruel, their nature bloodthirsty and capricious
Yukeli hid in the rubble of his ho of water and aaround slowly, searching desperately for his older brother He didn’t dare to call out, the Demons still alive and active around hi on to another as they swept over the planet, hefood and water to take with hi to find an abandoned Spatial Pouch in a destroyedled to another, and he eventually left the city
And came upon a scene that was burnt into his mind forever
A field of wooden crosses lined the outside of the city wall Thousands of them, crudely contracted from broken wood, some from stone or metal
Each cross held a body on it, a corpse of a human now dead
As his eyes trailed over these wooden crosses, his eyes were drawn to a particular one
One he stopped in front of, staying quiet for severalbrother
Thepast to a scene in a forest, where Yukeli was standing alone, looking down at a sluggish river His face was er, I could have done so&8221; He whispered, his hands clenched
"If I had trained, studied &8221; His entire body shuddered,
"I wasn’t good enough&8221;
The young boy was silent His shuddering stopped as he forcibly calood enough&8221;
"But I will becoh&8221;
"You will rue this day&8221; His eyes flashed,
"I will exterminate you&8221;
"I will exterminate your entire species&8221;
"I will becoh&8221; His eyes twitched, his voice filling with e can stand inWizard?&8221;
"Worthless&8221;
"I will achieve the pinnacle&8221;
"I will become perfection itself&8221;
His entire body shook as he uttered those words, a promise of death, full of power
Thearound, sometimes ahead several years They became more and more scattered,ainst hundreds, and thousands, of De races in the 30,000 Worlds Of Yukeli becoainst the Deht
Yukeli used hundreds of different techniques, studying more than a thousand different Mystic Arts to becoic, he studied le type
Fate Magic
He further specialized hiic, those centered around the Soul Spell Matrix of a being, the cycle of life, the concept of reincarnation, and a few other related topics
Fate Magic was incredibly complex and abstruse, difficult to understand for even the most adept Wizards
As for the laws of the universe, Yukeli discovered a Law that was previously unknown The Law of the Absolute
"Grrr&8221; Dorian growled, taking control and shutting thethe over the that noas not the time
All of this had taken only a few split seconds
He blinked as he roused hilohite torches giving off aa set of iced over stone walls The floor beneath him was made of fine, carved stone, and set with ornate patterns of Grakons doing various everyday actions, like walking, eating, sparring
It appeared to be some type of hall at the front of this ‘Ice Keep’
THUD
A resounding boom drew his attention behind hiround castle
The door to the keep was lowed all over it as it slahtsworn Fox Arial breathing deeply as she leaned against it
"Wea sheen of sweat off her forehead, her voice full of relief
"That will hold for at least a couple of hours&8221;
A small pause occurred as Dorian looked at her, and she looked back at hi around the frozen entryway
"So what now? It seeroup of ferocious Shades outside trying to kill us&8221; He held his hands up, waving the to look down the hall, towards a stone doorway on the opposite side of the entrance
"We need to make it to the bottom of the Ice Keep, towards a secret place called the Red Portal It’s a strange, ical device that connects to another, inactive portal hidden away in the sister city of Icicar, Dragonmount City Specifically, on the tallest hidden ht in , one al her arms as she shivered,
"Mount Tai&8221;
"If we can make it to there, we can lose them completely They have a pair of able Fate Wizards that have been trackingthe portal will sever that connection completely&8221;
Dorian listened to her explanation, his eyes following her closely
"Alright Assu this is all true, hoe make it to the Red Portal?&8221;
She smiled,
"This is where you can help, actually, Dorian The Red Portal is locked away at the depths of the Ice Keep, behind a huge wall of Gworen Ice This wall is fed by the Traveling Ice Waterfall, and will repair any da it&8221; She continued,
"If we use your dragonfire to keep it fro, and my Sun Sword technique to h to it!&8221; Arial said confidently, her eyes shining
"But first, we need to turn the portal on&8221; She proclai down the hall, away from the entrance Dorian stood still for aher
She er, more resplendent hall Hundreds of tables and chairs were spread out in this hall, soreat feast rooave this room an eerie appearance All of the chairs and tables were oversized, er than the his head
"The Throne Rooh here has a sih it with my Sun Sword, and then ait for a few short hours&8221; She responded, traversing the feast hall
"After that, the underbelly of the Keep will open up, and we can find the Portal Roo it&8221;
Soon they exited the feast hall, passed down one e, stone roo, faded and frozen red carpet lay down theto a raised stone platform where a lone, black throne sat
Arial ju her fingers I off faint sparks of fiery light It was alht, Dorian noted, as he stared at it
Arial stood perched above the throne for a e stone chair
WHOOSH
A huge gust of wind burst out of the throne and shook the roo around Dorian stu
He could feel a rush of ancient,fiercely The entire keep see beneath his feet
Arial smiled,
"Now all we need to do is wait and hide&8221;