Chapter 28: Escape Into the Ether

After eating and drinking, Cassius came to the heavy stone door again.

He didn't push the door open, but performed actions:

【Bear's Tenacity】

【Cat Elegance】

【Owl's Wisdom】

The toughness of the bear makes his physique tougher, the elegance of the cat makes his movements more agile, the wisdom of the owl makes his perception more sensitive, and the red dragon is improved in all aspects.

After giving himself a set of spells nicknamed the "Zoo Series", Cassius was still a little worried. After all, it was the legacy of the legendary Druid, and he didn't know what kind of back-up he would have.

[Gold-plated shell]

The gold elements accumulated in the body converge on the red dragon's body surface, turning its scales into a golden yellow with a metallic luster. If you don't look carefully, you would think it is a golden dragon.

[Protection against lightning damage]

As Cassius roared, his body surface gradually formed an invisible position, protecting it from lightning attacks.

"After all, it is a legal profession."

"How can we do it without playing monkey tricks?"

After this whole set of monkey tricks, Cassius looked down at the magical aura all over his body. Cassius felt much more at ease and finally gained some confidence.

The red dragon stared at the stone door in front of him, took a deep breath, and then took a firm step forward.

【Percussion Technique】

His claws flashed with mana and touched the stone door.

"boom……"

With a loud knocking sound, the heavy stone door made a muffled sound and then slowly lifted up.

Suddenly it becomes clear.

The sight shocked the red dragon.

It's a huge, open space that could almost contain a mountain.

But there is only a narrow suspended stone bridge in front, while the rest of the ground has sunk dozens of meters.

The cliff is flat and straight, as if it were cut from top to bottom by a sharp knife.

Looking down from the stone bridge, illuminated by the ever-extinguishing blue flame lamp, he could see that the ground was filled with all kinds of debris, including huge broken statues, broken walls of magnificent buildings, and blurred buildings. There are unclear inscriptions; there are various old and broken weapons; there are also huge skeletons of giants.

Looking up, the high dome is covered with murals. They are not exquisite, but full of a sense of wild power.

He could see the ancient war between giants and dragons; he could see the once glorious territory of the giant empire; he could see the majestic figures of the giant gods; and he could also see the miserable scene when the empire fell.

This is not a mural, it is clearly a history book.

"This is the legacy of the Giant Empire that he collected."

Cassius sighed while walking carefully on the stone bridge.

He opened his wings slightly and stepped lightly, always paying attention to the situation around him and preparing to deal with dangers that might come at any time.

The red dragon looked at the end of the stone bridge.

That's a throne.

It is still made of stone and is more than twenty meters high.

There is not much decoration on it, just simple and mysterious lines engraved on it.

And the corpse of a storm giant that had long since lost its life was sitting there, its purple-gray skin covered with a thick layer of dust, as if it had been dormant here for thousands of years, silently watching the visitors. 's arrival

But for some reason it didn't decay and turned into skeletons.

"The last storm giant prophet..."

"Is this the Randetta?"

The red dragon was quite curious about this storm giant.

I don’t know how he managed to create such a magnificent mausoleum on his own, but the spectacle is enough to show how powerful he was during his lifetime.

Cassius continued walking along the stone bridge and came dozens of meters in front of the corpse.

However, in an instant, a sudden change occurred.

One of the giant's eyes suddenly opened!

There is an endless storm in that eye, as if glaring at the rude visitor!

The unknown crystals around him flickered, filled with violent and abundant elemental energy.

And those violent elemental diseases are gathering rapidly.

"not good!"

Cassius felt an extremely terrifying mana fluctuation suddenly spread.

"This power..."

The red dragon raised its head slightly.

I saw a churning dark cloud centered on the giant's body, spreading and multiplying almost crazily, like a terrifying giant beast that was about to devour everything in the cave.

It was filled with lightning, thunder and howling wind.

"Revenge Storm!"

Thunder roars!

It was a wild roar from ancient times.

"boom!"

Just the aftermath of the thunder caused the rocks on the top of the cave to shatter one after another and fall down with a crash.

"Buzz——"

And this roar also made Cassius feel a constant roar in his ears, as if he was being hit with a giant hammer, and he fell into a state of deafness for a while.

The black clouds also spread rapidly and were about to swallow him up.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the red dragon ignored his headache and tinnitus, and endured the thunder damage to activate the spell.

"Instant Flash Technique!"

While Cassius was running the spell with his own will, he prayed in his heart that the spell would succeed. The "destruction" brought by this druid was far beyond his imagination.

After all, the flash technique only has a half chance of breaking open the barrier of the main material world and successfully entering the etheric plane. If it is the other half, then he can only resist in this crazy storm.

"Success!"

Red Dragon was ecstatic in his heart, and he suddenly felt that his body broke through the boundary between reality and nothingness.

[You cast [Flash]]

[Acquire the special status "Escape into the Ether"]

The etheric plane is a conduit connecting the main material plane and the inner plane. The main material plane is everywhere touched by the empty air of the etheric plane. The two are like two parallel surfaces that touch but do not overlap. People can see the scenes in the adjacent planes.

And he is now at the edge of the plane.

In an instant, everything in front of Cassius turned black and white, and a bunch of chaotic lines appeared in his eyes.

His body was in a state of disability, unable to move easily, and could only float quietly in this mass of nothingness.

The next moment, he saw that his position was shrouded and swallowed by the frenzied dark clouds.

First, heavy acid rain fell from the clouds, corroding countless pits on the stone bridge.

Then, hail poured down from the clouds, and the hailstones hit the stone surface, making crisp sounds.

Powerful lightning fell from the sky, blasting several meters deep holes on the stone surface, and forming a terrible lightning storm on it, instantly sweeping the place where the red dragon was originally located.

For a moment, lightning was everywhere, and the sky was full of thunder.

The crisscrossing thunder formed a terrible thunder prison, burning everything that strayed into it into ashes.

"Boom!"

"Boom! Boom!"

Several lightning bolts fell, and they actually directly blew up the stone bridge, causing the heavy boulders to collapse. If such lightning struck the red dragon, he would probably have a hard time surviving.

Endless winds and ice rains rushed to the area under the clouds, turning it into a complete ruin.

In the eyes of Cassius, the originally magnificent mausoleum had become a black and white grave of all living beings.

After escaping this terrible storm in the etheric plane with the flash technique, Cassius only felt a lingering fear.

If the red dragon was still in the same place just now, even with protective energy damage, it would not be able to stop the violent lightning and endless ice rain.

"This is."

Cassius felt that the strong gravitational force was trying to pull it back to the main material plane to make up for the loopholes in the plane barrier.

Although he tried his best to resist, it was useless. Cassius was still too weak to fight against the rules of the plane at all, and could only let it do whatever it wanted.

[Lose the special state "Escape into the Ether"]

The red dragon appeared in the same place again, and was stunned.

"Fuck me——"

Suddenly, the elements became agitated again.

Endless wind and ice rain washed over his body, and the flashing arcs on the ground immediately gathered and rushed to his limbs.

And in the rolling dark clouds in the air, terrible thunder accumulated again, and the sound was like a low, long-suppressed roar.

The most terrifying wave of spells had passed, and these were just its remaining aftermath.