Chapter 165 – Elemental Nexus Realm 2

Although his title of Dragon Son wasn’t enough to let him enter the Elemental nexus array at a reduced cost, it was at least enough for him to get much politer treatment.

“I only plan on spending three days in there.” Said Dante 

“Then That will be 300 contribution points,” said the guard as he stretched out a strange crystal ball.

Dante didn’t hesitate and stretched out his Token to meet the crystal.

Instantly, the number on his token flickered before it suddenly dropped to zero.

Seeing this Sight Dante couldn’t help but feel a sharp pain in his heart.

although he knew this was going to happen already, it still pained him to see his contribution points all disappear in an instant.

But sadly, there was nothing Dante could even do about it other than passively watch on.

“sigh!”

Dante was soon hit with the same nauseating sensation unique to teleportation arrays.

Dante didn’t know if it was just him, but every time he stepped foot into one of them, it felt like his stomach was being twisted and squeezed like a wet cloth.

‘This Teleportation nonsense is really going to be the death of me!’ Thought Dante as he held back the vomit he could feel stirring in his stomach.

After steadying himself Dante was finally able to get a proper look at the strange place he had been teleported to.

It was a vast and seemingly endless cavern with an extremely high roof and open flooring as far as his eyes could see 

The floors were all rough and stony was stony surrounding, with a large uneven elevation, and Dante was certain that this could only be a fraction of the Fabled Elemental Nexus Realm.

Looking up, Dante realised the fairly green light was actually a natural light source.

Since it was impossible to get any sunlight in this seemingly u deriding realm, the only source of natural light actually came from some florescent green moss that completely covered the roof whilst glowing in a soft shade of green.

But besides all this, there was also another strange thing that Dante noticed about the environment here and that was the air 

It was heavy. But not so much in an uncomfortable way.

The air here could only be considered as “heavy” but due to the almost unbelievable concentration of elemental energy in the surroundings!

Dante almost couldn’t believe it!

Here the concentration of elemental energy had reached such a high state, that if Dante slightly squinted then countless energy particles could even be seen floating aimlessly around. And This was all without even activating the most basic of visualization techniques.

Dante simply loved it!

Dragons were innately magical creatures.

Ever since their birth, they had always felt a strong affinity to elements, and the elements had in turn, always loved them.

so now that Dante found himself in such an elemental rich environment, Dante and both his dragon souls were overjoyed!

Dante could even hear the overjoyed screams and roars his dragon souls were constantly releasing in his mind.

But before Dante could get lost in the dazzling feeling of this new environment, he suddenly heard someone start speaking to him.

“So you finally made it through?” Said Vincent As he approached Dante.

“Welcome boy, to the Elemental Nexus Realm!”

As Vincent said this, he stretched out his hand in a grandiose manner.

The only problem was that since there were no special effects or any crowd to cheer after he said that, the whole introduction seemed to fall flat.

It definitely wasn’t as cool as Vincent had imagined in his head.

But despite this, Vincent didn’t seem to care and even rubbed his nose in pride.

‘Hahaha! I’ve definitely caught the attention of that arrogant little boy!’ Thought Vincent to himself.

it’s just a shame that he failed to notice the strange looks he was getting from Dante because of his embarrassing performance.

“Well seeing as you finally made it here, there’s no need to waste any time in this barren place,” said Vincent and in doing so managed to grab Dante’s attention.

Hearing what Vincent just said, Dante was left stunned.

If this place could be considered barren, then Dante couldn’t even begin to imagine what the other places could be like.

But Dante didn’t have to think for too long before he suddenly felt a hand grab him by the shoulder.

before Dante could even resist, he suddenly felt his body shoot up into the sky! 

“Shit! Granduncle Vincent, you can at least give me a warning before you pull this stuff!”

Seeing Dante’s flustered look, Vincent just lightly chuckled as he spoke.

“Boy, you better get used to this kind of thing. When you breakthrough into the Martial Journeyman realm, flying will become second nature to you!”

But what Vincent was overlooking was that there was no way that a Martial journeyman cultivator could ever move as fast he was.

It was simply impossible!

Vincent was in the Martial Expert realm and one of the strongest beings in the whole of the Vaenam Kingdom.

so the idea that a Martial Journeyman realm could ever rival his speed was simply laughable.

But even with all this, Dante didn’t have time to dwell on these little things.

He was too busy fighting against the terrifying air resistance that was slamming against his face to have any stray thoughts.

Vincent however, didn’t seem to notice Dante’s pitiful struggles and simply blasted across the sky at an almost unbelievable pace whilst still allowing Dante to barely glimpse at the flashing scenes below.

As they flew across the vast underground landscape, Dante managed to spot many strange sights caused by the build-up of elemental energy.

In one region, he saw a vast group of giant swirling tornadoes rolling across the ground and flinging up pieces of the earth into the sky.

In another area, he saw an area filled with constant thunderstorms so powerful that one could be mistaken for thinking the heavens themselves were angry!

He even managed to see a strange area filled with slow mumbling corpses that reeked of the strong aura of death and yin energy.

But Vincent didn’t seem to take any interest in these strange sights and carried on flying ahead 

After a short while, Vincent came to a stop, allowing Dante to finally get a clear look at his surroundings.

Dante noticed that the landscape had changed considerably.

The temperature of the surroundings had drastically increased and sometimes the occasional burst of hot air would blow and end up smashing into Dante’s face.

Besides this, the ground was not spared from these changes.

The ground was cracked all over the surface, with large pools of magma appeared sporadically, bubbled menacingly as if they were on the verge of overflowing.

slowly, Department Head Vincent began to descend onto the ground with Dante in hand.

As soon as they landed on the floor Dante turned towards Vincent and asked

“Where exactly are we?”

“We’re currently located in one of the areas in the Elemental Nexus with the highest concentration of fire element energy,” Said Vincent 

“I could of course tell you more, but I doubt you would want me to waste that time that you can have spent cultivating here.

All you need to know is that I brought you to the most Fire element rich area of the Elemental Nexus Realm”

I can assure you this would be the best place for someone like you to cultivate in.”

At first, Dante wanted to object. 

  Although it may not seem like it with his amazing control over fire, but his cultivation technique actually wasn’t a fire attribute one.

He cultivated moonlight energy. and although it may be hard to find a moonlight energy domain where he could freely cultivate, a fire elemental area certainly wasn’t the next best choice.

If anything, it would be the worst choice!

The brutal and fierce nature of fire directly conflicted with the mellow and calm nature of moonlight energy.

But before Dante could complain to Vincent about his poor choice, he felt a small tug towards this place.

This rug wasn’t exterior and was instead coming from deep within him, from deep within his very soul.

His Red Dragon soul was calling him to this place.

It was overjoyed it had never been in a place more welcoming than this before!