Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

In the end, Dana, Kei, and Gila went to the capital to cast a rain over the entire kingdom… it was only going to last a few seconds, but they had to focus for quite a while. Roan and Jori went with them to guard them while they focused, but nothing happened.

After suffering one hell of a headache since they felt the presences of all the people in the kingdom, they eventually pinpointed the location of the magic beasts that had invaded the human country. Most of them were being pushed back to the shore, but they also found some groups of them hidden in groves, and they were pretty deep in the human territory.

"It seems that they have other goals aside from attacking villages, Daddy," Dana said when they finally recovered.

"Should we watch them from a distance and see what they are targeting?" Jori asked. "We need more information, after all. It might be a bit risky, but…"

"... How many groups of them are there, and where are their locations?" Roan asked after thinking for a short while.

"Five, three in the West and two in the East," Kei replied. "They aren't close any cities, towns, or villages, considering the path that they should have travelled, they should have avoided them through and through."

"What are their numbers?" Roan asked.

"Around one hundred… it feels like all of them had the same numbers," Dana tilted her head while frowning. "Now that I think about it, they are keeping quite the distance from each other, and the distances are quite similar."

"... This is suspicious, and their numbers are too high for only us to watch them," Roan said while packing his things. "Let's return home and talk with Rain. Either way, we will need the squads to check those creatures, if we get too close, they will notice us and their behavior will change."

The group headed to the base as fast as possible since soon night would come, and most likely, the beasts would move again. When Rain heard about that, he frowned as well… that was odd behavior from the monsters.

Another weird thing was the fact that they couldn't even kill a single group of them if they wanted to learn what they were planning… if they were being controlled, the puppet master would stop all of them at the same moment.

"It is too risky… we don't know if they are close to their goals or not," Rain shook his head. "We have to wipe them out, even if we will lose a golden chance to obtain knowledge from this."

Everyone nodded again… trading lives for knowledge wasn't wise, so Rain and his friends departed from their base as fast as possible. Before they could find the first group, though, night came and with it… a weird atmosphere.

"I don't like this," Rain thought. Continue reading at empire

Rain used his earth magic to find the targets as soon as possible and he found them ten kilomenters away… but it seemed that they also sensed him. Before the mana could disperse, Rain felt the monsters moving in a hurry.

"They are up to something, I will dash ahead," Rain declared.

It didn't take even ten seconds for Rain to reach the area that the monsters were, but it was too late… when he found them, he found a bizarre scene… the giant white wolves were ripping each other's throats… even when they were dying, they kept doing that and making it Rain blood in the area.

Rain raised his eyebrows… perhaps the enemy didn't want to give him the chance to get the experience of killing them, but soon he understand that the goal was another. For some reason, the demise of the white wolves triggered a dramatic chain reaction that reverberated through the very earth beneath Rain's feet.

The ground itself seemed to come alive, trembling and moving with an intensity that put everyone on edge. Rain, even with his formidable powers, couldn't help but raise his guard as the violent tremors coursed through the terrain.

For a seemingly endless ten seconds, the world around him shuddered and rumbled, as if protesting the loss or sacrifice of these creatures. When the tumultuous shaking finally subsided, there was an eerie calm in the air and then he felt more tremors in the far distance, and Rain couldn't shake the unsettling feeling that such an incident wasn't alone.

In the distance, he could sense a presence, another group of wolves sacrificing themselves as well…

"Rain! What happened?" Roan asked with his sword in hand while looking around.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"No idea… they just killed themselves," Rain said while looking at the bodies of the monsters in the distance. "Maybe I alerted them, and they sensed the danger, but the earthquake was definitely a spell of some sort."

"Was it at the level that could make a town sink on the ground?" Jori asked.

"No… it wasn't," Rain said as he walked toward the monsters. "Maybe it would have if they had more time to prepare. Anyway, we need to investigate the area."

That kind of incident was suspicious no matter what, and Rain hesitated in letting his sisters see such a bizarre scene, but he could only protect them for so long… they had been training hard over the years, and they certainly were as frail as they were five years ago.

Regardless, the group approached the corpses slowly while waiting for something to happen… Rain could feel that the mana level in the area had increased, and the bodies had none left. Definitely, there was a connection there… before long, the group realized that the monster's bodies created a perfect circle… and so did the blood that they dropped.

"What the hell is this…" Rain muttered while frowning. "A magic circle made of blood?"

Although that was a magic world, magic circles weren't a thing, and no one heard of that, and that was why they were also curious as to why Rain named such a thing so readily.