Upon waking up and packing up their camp, the three of them descended the slope and headed towards the source of last nights noise.
They were on guard, the gorge was diverse enough with forest and bush that anything could hide in the dark places outside of their view.
They walked for a while and Icarus noticed some strange pieces of rock littering the area.
He scanned, confused and his eyes suddenly widened, his companions seemed to make the same realization and they all instantly entered their fighting stances.
All around them and in front of them were broken chunks of defeated stone trolls.
In fact they had been walking over these chunks for a while, but then they were so finely smashed that they just looked like pebbles and they were paid no mind.
Now the trolls arms, torso, and entire bodies were strewn about before then as the continued, the number of bodies and debris indicated that at least one thousand trolls had been destroyed in this battle.
Icarus wondered silently what could be capable of something like this, but didn't utter these words as he was focused on reacting to anything abnormal.
They all stopped in their tracks suddenly, the ground beneath them shifted, it stopped moments later and Ingel gestured to stay still.
Nothing happened for several moments and Icarus breathed out, not realizing he had been holding his breath in the first place.
Ingel turned "Bad news, there's a behemoth here, we should tread carefully but it seemed like it was heading to the wyvern fortress, as long as we stay quiet it should ignore-"
A massive thump sounded in front of them, and two men with winged arms holding large spears stood before them.
They had black armor and helmets that hid their faces, their scales were a place blue and looked less sturdy compared to a dragons scales.
"You! Why did you destroy his Majestys trolls?!"
They were shouting and Ingel drew his sword "Icarus! We have to kill them or it will be the end of all of us!"
Icarus raised his staff, words played through his mind 'Icarus, you kill when I order you, do not think, you live and die for me, your life is forfeit.'
His master's face, he shuttered as he aimed the staff at the two Wyvern men he hesitated thinking back for he first man he had killed under his master's, he felt a tingling on his throat where the mark of the slaver had been positioned.
Ingel was shocked but reacted instantly to Icarus' hesitation, he lunged forward, "AZLAT MAXIM!"
His entire body scorched with the brightest fire his sword could produce.
He swung to kill instantly, the Wyverns raised their spears to block and at the same time the ground began to shake violently.
Ingel swung his sword straight down.
Icarus was grabbed from behind, he looked and saw Alazea holding him as she burst into the sky.
The ground ripped open and a massive set of jaws opened around Ingel and the two Wyverns.
Icarus watched in horror as the jaws snapped shut, the Behemoth burst out, it's entire body suspended In the sky, its shape resembled a large hippo, however it was scaled like a reptile and covered in earth.
Icarus yelled and unleashed a blast of compressed fire at it, it scratched along the side of the beast and it didn't even seem to notice, it began climbing up a rock wall, Alazea glowed with white fire, but it did not burn Icarus.
She transformed into her true form, a massive white Dragon, Crowned by a golden Halo that radiated healing magic.
A ball of white fire formed in her maw, and she roared, unleashing it.
It schorched down to Earth, gaining momentum as it fell, Icarus concentrated on the sphere, He channeled wind magic into it and it swelled to twice the size as previously, the behemoth looked up and saw the falling fireball.
The fireballw as now the size of the creatures entire body, it roared and pillars of earth shot up to meet the fire, they crumbled on contact and the fireball fell into the creature, it's weight crushed the creature into the earth and it finally exploded.
A pillar of fire, larger then a skyscraper rose into the sky, Icarus stared, "that must have killed it right?"
Alazea grimly shook her head and in a resounding voice replied "No, behemoths are exceedingly durable, if we are lucky that might have just broken through the century old earthen shell on its body."
The Behemoth stood up, it was smoking and it's earthen shell was cracked but still in piece.
"Damn it!"
Icarus concentrated a ball of hot and cold temperatures, mixing them together, it was extremely hard to keep the spell stable once it left his body so it would need to be propelled faster then normal wins magic would allow.
Icarus merged fire and wind, superheating it and creating a combustion to launch the projectile.
It shot down, massive streaks of fire followed it, it ripped through the earthen shell and erupted, its explosive force ripped off a chunk of earthen shell and created a small wounds on the creatures body.
The behemoth roared and pillars of earth shot up at Alazea, Icarus was Flying beside her now with magic and used ice magic to freeze one of the pillars.
Alazea dodged two pillars and blew one apart with a fireball.
She then soared down and ripped off more of the earthen armor, roaring at Icarus "Hit it now!"
Icarus channeled a massive spear of Ice, he used the same principle of propulsion, but this time he used a merged mass of hot and cold temperatures which would provide dozens of times the explosive propulsion.
It would have a little backlash though.
He fired and shards of ice cut his face and body, he shielded his vitals but was knocked out of the sky, the ice spear flew, moving ridiculously fast, it buried itself in the creatures exposed back.
It let out a roar and burrowed into the ground, Alazea cursed and saw Icarus falling from the sky.
She flew and caught him on her back, she flew after the shaking earth as Icarus sat up startled.
"Don't worry, Ingel will have survived in their, we just need to get him out."
Icarus questioned this in his mind but hoped it was true.
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Saarnax stood atop his fortress, his men should have been back by now, strange.
In the distance he had heard a loud commotion but just assumed his men had found their prey.
It was the he saw a massive figure approaching in the distance.
A white Dragon.
"DRAGONS! You have come to me now! Well now! I promise not to disappoint!"
A lance appeared in his hand and crackled with lighting, he prepared to hurl it at the White Dragon but from the ground in front of it burst an even larger beast.
" What the!?"
A behemoth shot up from the ground, it let out a roar and the earth started to tremble, he heard his subjects cry out and his fortress began to shake, it's questionable design came to mind.
"Shit I will have to take care of this myself before all my work comes crashing to the ground!"
He grimac
ed and looked at the dragon angrily.
"And you! I will punish you for bringing this beast into my territory!"