Epic Of Ice Dragon: Reborn As An Ice Dragon With A System

Chapter 2251: The Dimensional Vortex

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"Hey! You guys are finally back. There’s Vanaheim over there!" Charlotte said, as everyone greeted her and then ran to the front of the ship with Charlotte right by their side.

They smiled as they saw the green forests covering the entire continent, the blue skies, the white clouds, and the gentle sun above. There were snowy mountains, and some areas were covered with fog as well. It had all kinds of wonderful ecosystems.

And also, there were all kinds of distortions in space.

"Shit..."

Drake looked at the skies further away. Giant cracks through space showed massive structures coming from other worlds.

A massive piece of land covered in Sakura tree forests and a massive ancient Japanese palace surrounded by a burning city covered by black specters, and a powerful presence coming from within.

Further away, massive skyscrapers surged from every point in the sky, mostly hanging down, and what seemed to be a titanic mass of flesh and tentacles, with various eyes pulsating while surrounded by zombies, which it was eating.

The distortions in space resembled black spires surging from the ground. The beautiful green forests were further distorted by black curses and strange miasma. Holes leading to other Realms had opened already, constantly leaking foul black energies and chaotic energy.

All of that converged at the center of a massive vortex of darkness, flames, and oceans. Space was so distorted that Alfheim was not super far away but somehow conjoined into Vanaheim itself. The spacetime distortions somehow unified both continents. No, there was another.

Midgard, a land of grasslands, plains, savannas, and forests with mountains—the land where Humans lived in masses—was now fused into the vortex. All three continents created an apocalyptic landscape of pure chaos, as the vestiges of what these continents looked like only remained at the farther ends, as far away from this chaos.

The hole, this vortex, led deep into the world’s roots themselves as Drake and everyone else gasped.

"Holy fuck, what the hell?!" Miranda screamed at first, and then everyone followed.

"T-The continents are merged?!" Alma asked. "W-What the fuck?!"

"I cannot believe my eyes...! Mother Yggdrasil’s voice had gone mute all this time! Is she facing some sort of threat?!" Root asked.

"And I thought we were going to just fight Sangre today..." Yuki muttered. "My goodness..."

"Several presences everywhere... strong too!" Ruby said. "D-Drake! The other Venerables—several have already revived! They’re gathering in the same space, further into the area where the continents are merging..."

"Master! This is really bad! I’m glad we came with you now!" Surtr said.

"Indeed... w-we must do something!" Emerald nodded.

Drake was thinking about many things, trying to keep calm as he saw the massive catastrophe that was occurring. He could even hear the voices of billions of souls in pain. Already a lot of people had died through all of this.

If only he had hurried up! Maybe if he hadn’t spent that night in Vanagate, he could have saved more... But there was no point in lamenting what could have been. He had to do something now to save the future of this world.

And yet, the bad news had yet to come...

"Ah shit, he’s reviving already?!" Augustus was shocked. "Oberon is coming! I can feel his presence...!"

"Are you kidding me?! We just got here!" Drake asked. "What do you mean the bastard is reviving?!"

"That vortex! He’s unifying the dimensional energies of all connected worlds and realms into a gigantic mass of cosmic power, a Singularity! He’s going to dig a hole through the world, get to Yggdrasil’s roots through Helheim, and then... he’ll do it, he’ll destroy the tree, and this world will collapse! We must hurry! We have no time at all! Are Skadi and Belle ready?!"

"Almost!" Drake said. "An hour at most!"

"Fucking hell, can’t they hurry up?!" the dwarf grew restless. "Drake, we must get there as quickly as we can! Make this shitty ship move faster or I’ll throw you there personally!"

"Charlotte!" Drake said. "I’ll give you my power. Can you hurry this faster than we could fly on our own?"

"Of course!" Charlotte roared, her Aura surging as the faint specter of an Archetype seemed to appear for a moment, resembling some sort of pirate captain. However it wasn’t yet fully developed. "Let’s gooooooo!"

RUMBLE!

Fuyu thundered through the skies, rapidly advancing through the clouds—hundreds of kilometers per second—moving faster than any of them could, thanks to Charlotte’s powers imbued into her body. She was incredibly fast.

"Is it all really happening already? I thought we had more time...!" Drake thought as he glanced at the continent beneath. "No, we’ve had plenty of time. If I’m not ready right now, I’ll never be...!"

However despite this, he still could hardly believe it. He had to calm down his mind and focus, even going as far as meditating a little, calming his concerns and remaining composed. At the same time he also grew worried about Sangre.

He had originally come here to finally confront him and stop him from whatever his brother was doing. After he stole the fragments of the soul of the Vampire Venerable from his treasury and then announced he was the Demon King of Greed, Sangre flew away toward Vanaheim, probably to enact some kind of plan.

He expected the worst, some sort of calamity that his brother had caused, perhaps the death of millions... However there was something even worse, made by someone else entirely.

However he still couldn’t discard the possibility that Sangre might have had something to do with all of this.

"Sangre! Where are you?!"

Drake transformed into his draconic form. While riding Fuyu’s gigantic body he roared into the skies and below, summoning hundreds of thousands of Dragon Spirits and sending them flying down to scan the entire continent.

"Brother! Sangre!"

He spread his voice through most of the continent as they moved toward the vortex, and at the same time he did his best to analyze the surroundings and expand his Aura and Venerable Senses as far as he could.

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