Galen - The Untold Tales of Frelanna Forest

Chap 44: Goodbye Azeas

“Where is Galen? Where is he?”

Liana turned herself into dragon form, let Roman and Frank riding on her back. After attaching the Black Magic crystal, they immediately got out the mansion and flew above to the foggy night sky.

“The fog is so thick, I cannot see anything.”

Roman covered his nose by his hand. According to aunt Felica told to them, the fog in Enderworld also had toxicating ability for normal human so he had to limit himself breathing as possible. Earlier, Roman was trying to use his wind element magic in order to blow the wind away. It was successful! But in just a split of seconds, the fog had come back to its initial state as if nothing happened. At this rate, Roman would just waste his aura energy so Liana told him to not use it anymore and let her decide the direction instead.

“I don’t understand… I really don’t like the environment here. It made me suffocating and blocked me using my aura to find Galen.” Frank was hiding inside Roman’s coat and covered his mouth as well “Liana, can you fly lower so we can see where Galen is by our eyes?”

“I cannot, didn’t Felica say that you both would suffocate to die if I flew lower?” Liana sent to both Roman and Frank her speech by using her aura. At the same time, they heard like she was about to burst her anger “You damn Galen… why did you act alone without telling us anything??”

“Calm down Liana, I believe Galen must have the reason why he didn’t want us to intervene this…” Roman rubbed her dragon neck “…we should be thankful that Felica changed her mind and reveal us how to save him…”

Yes, the most prioritized thing that they had to do was finding where Galen was. Roman already knew well how hothead Liana was so he was trying to be the calmest one to control her.

“Liana, Roman!” Frank called two of them “I have an idea!”

“An idea?” Both Liana and Roman asked Frank.

“Yes!!”

Hiding inside Roman’s coat, Frank was casting magic. Just a few seconds later, Frank’s body was glowing the light of warm greenery. He was creating something very tiny inside his hands look like the powder.

And then, from Liana’s back, Frank spreaded those magic powder to the ground.

“What are those?” Roman and Liana asked with curiosity.

“As a Farein whose origin also came from Frelanna Forest, I may not be able to detect where Galen’s aura energy is, but my seeds can.”

“Your seed?”

“Yes the seed of Farein. Madame Felica said that Galen was being stuck inside the basement, which was now being blocked by a Black Magic monster. So I do believe that Galen had to use the power of Goddess Galadriel too in order to protect himself.

As the seed of Farein will grow up if it was near a tree from Frelanna Forest which was casted by Galadriel inside Galen, it means…”

Liana and Roman ‘OH!’ in surprise when they eventually understood what Frank was meaning.

“Thank you so much Frank, you just saved us!!!”

“Hehe, I’m your best companion, right?”

Everything was within Frank’s prediction. Roman and Liana eventually found the seed of Farein was growing up and formed a tree at the order of a small ravine, not far from their current location.

However, there were two things wrong happened… First, they knit their eyebrows when seeing that at the end of the ravine, the seed of Farein suddenly grew up with insane speed and formed a huge tree with the size of a castle. Not only that, Frank went shocked when observing the growing direction of the tree’s root. They was spreading and covering the entire of a mountain…no! Once Liana flew closer, it wasn’t a mountain, but something very huge, having a form of a dead titanius dragon, sitting alone among the large square of the darkness and spreading the dense aura of Black Magic. It was having the horrible size that everyone had never seen before.

“What the heck is that…??” Roman’s face got pale as he could see the dragon’s skeleton. It was so huge that when he looked above, he couldn’t even see where its head was.

“Can it be…” Liana went silent for a second. And then, she frowned, as she didn’t doubt herself anymore “It’s Ancient Dragon.”

“An… Ancient Dragon?”

“Yes, as a weredragon myself, all of us must know this person.” Liana answered “From the ancient time, Azeas The Ancient Dragon was one of the children of Goddess Galadriel. However, he was exiled into Enderword by his own sister Sephylim in order to prevent him destroying the world, as his body was severely infected by Black Magic and there was no way to save him anymore… Aye, I would never think that we have found him being left alone and dying here…”

“Galen was using Galadriel’s power inside Azeas’s body.” Frank said as he pointed his tiny finger to the root tree growing from his seeds “I think he is having trouble inside!”

“Ready to land everyone!” Liana screamed out loud and ready to lower herself down “The fog is very toxic so hold your breath!!”

As everyone was ready, Liana also changed her body position and rushed everyone forward, prepared to penetrate through Azeas’s dead body.

But before that, it was the second wrong thing happened. In a second, Liana noticed something very small flying through her eyes at extremely fast speed, right at the direction of the center of Azeas’s body.

“Wait… what was that??” Liana thought, by rushing herself faster.

***

“Hah… Hah…”

“ROAR!!”

Galen was panting, standing in front of Seaza who was being in the form of the ice dragon being covered by Black Magic. Both sides had been heavily injured and almost reached their limit of aura energy usage. Galen’s left arm had been unable to move after getting the direct impact from Azeas’s ice magic, which froze his arm and caused the caseation. The entire of his costume had been torn apart, revealed his body having new and old injuries overlapping each other, dropping slowly each drop of blood on the cold stone floor.

But then, an invisible force pushed his body down that urged him to kneel down. Galen pierced his sword on the floor to keep his body balance. With his arms and his legs being trembling due to exhaustion, he believed that it seemed to be it was his limit already… With one eye not being harmed yet, he looked at Azeas who went rampage and hurting himself non-stop, by slamming consecutively on the wall. The miasma of Black Magic was controlling him. However, everytime Seaza kept hurting himself, the Core of Cirion inlaid on the wall kept healing him back to his initial state. And when Galen trying to approach the core, the Black Magic controlled Azeas’s body to attack him!

Galen bit his lips. At this rate, he would never win this battle and granted Seaza’s last wish. He had to do something! He needed a way to pass through crazy Azeas and stop The Core of Cirion healing him.

“Azeas… now I understand how suffering you are.” Galen closed his eyes while diving his thought into the extreme focus. He tried to forget his pain, stood up with his tremble legs and held the sword steadily “I swear I will put an end into this and set you resting in peace…”

His hearing allowed him to detect Azeas was rushing him with 5 meters… 4 meters… 3 meters… That’s it! Galen opened his eyes and rose his sword.

“GYAHH!!!”

Galen dodged the ice beam from Azeas then poured all his stamina running… running until he could not be aware any sensation from his legs anymore. He slid on the icy floor caused by Azeas’s magic, and then running, dodging, until he reached the body of the dragon.

“ROOT FRENZY!!”

With Galen’s Tier 3 magic, the root of the trees broke through the floor and tied Azeas’s body tightly. Galen used this chance, stomped his feet on the root’s stair step by step and jumped from above Azeas’s head.

At this moment, Azeas went immobilized when his eyes of berserk looking at Galen right now. At the middle of the boy’s chest, glowing the light of greenery that he had longed to see ever again. That was right, it was the light of his Almighty Galadriel…

Finally, after being trapped in Enderworld for 5000 years, he could see it again…

“LEAF STORM!!!”

One s***h of sword, also one critical hit, Galen successfully activated his new Tier 4 magic skill from The Seed of galadriel and decapitated Azeas…

***

Galen fell on the stone floor right after that s***h from the height of seven meters. Even with Tier 3 magic Root Frenzy being supporting him from reducing the falling damage, Galen also was barely to move on anymore. For a reason, he had finished Azeas by all of his strength. Now the most important matter was… rushing to The Core of Cirion and stop the heart beat of Azeas.

Galen tried his best to crawl by himself, approaching center of the murals to reach to the mural.

However, an unexpected thing happened outside of Galen’s calculation… Suddenly, he felt an invisible force pushing him down, right at at the position of his spine causing the pain and tortured his nerve. Galen screamed out loud in the agony. That force which was pressing on his back was like something very heavy trying to pierce his abdomen.

Galen was thinking that there must be something falling from the dome and squeezed him down. Until he turned his back, his eyes widely opened when seeing everything happened in front of his eyes.

On the top of Galen’s back, there was the image of a beautiful young gentleman that Galen had never seen before. He had long blond hair, which was covering the entire of his back and was attached by a green ribbon. That guy had elven ears, wearing a burnt white gown and green laurel crown being half-withered. Galen looked at his body, it was completely transparent, but the force that his feet causing to Galen’s back was totally real!

Not only that, when Galen noticed on the dead Fareins flying around him, he could already know who that guy was…

“My apology, servant of Almighty Mother.” The aquamarine-colored eyes of that elven gentleman looked at Galen like a gentle father. His face revealed clearly his sadness while trying to convince Galen “But you cannot pass through here.”

“Are… are you Cirion - Father of Fareins… One of the three guardians of Frelanna Forest??!!!”

Being half-awaken, but Galen could recognize that person standing on top of his rapidly just by a slight description in the legend. Galen wasn’t surprised by how he could see one of the guardians of Frelanna Forest in person, but the way he was currently acting was completely opposite to what Galen had always been imagining: Why Cirion was stopping Galen to retrieve his core?!

“Servant of Almighty Mother, please listen to me…” But Cirion’s speech and brutal act was completely opposite to each other! He was gently speaking to Galen, but still didn’t leave his foot from Galen’s back “…I know you are trying to save me. But I’m sincerely sorry to say that everything you have done and reached this far have become in vain…”

“What do you mean?”

“Actually, it was me - Cirion…

…I was the one who wanted to stay here forever, in this Enderworld.”