Journey Of A Legend

Greg stood silently in the darkness staring blankly at Alice. Just now, he was told he was standing in the Temple of Void but apparently he did not see any Temple around him.

And that was when the sudden realization hit him so hard that his eyes bulged out and his jaws dropped.

"Wait, wait, wait a second... You try to tell me this whole Canton 'is' the whole Temple of Void?" flabbergasted, Greg looked at Alice.

"Indeed. The Creator wanted to make one Temple out of the six as a special place. In fact, not only did he create this whole canyon as the Temple of Void, but the key itself is a part of it." smiled Alice as she put her delicate fingers below her small chin and supported her elbow with her other hand.

"The key is... part of it?" Greg was confused instantly by that and looked around, but naturally, without anything to discern because darkness was everywhere; not even his feet would be visible if it weren't for the fact Alice used her power to light the small proximity up.

"If you look around, what can you see? First you, and everyone else would believe it's darkness but in reality, it is not. Just close your eyes and you will feel it." explained Alice.

"..."

Greg did just as he was told and closed his eyes. At first, nothing special happened nor he felt but as time flowed a strange feeling crept up inside his body. It was like...

His power was resonating with the darkness around him! Just like any of the keys he collected before, the feeling was exactly the same!

"This..." opened his eyes and glanced at the darkness around him. Extending his arms like he was trying to grasp.

"Indeed. The whole canyon, the entire darkness in it is the key itself. You need to consume the void and form it to obtain the final key." as Alice explained this with a slight curve on her face Greg tilted her gaze at her and pondered.

He knew that it was possible to consume elements thank to his power, but consuming the whole void inside this canyon... It was theoretically impossible!

The whole Nether Canyon was hundreds if not thousands of miles long with a depth so deep that not even with his fast speed was he able to arrive at the underside instantly! He needed at least half an hour to reach the bottom! What did it mean? It meant that the canyon not only was crazily long but insanely deep too!

And all of this place was filled with dense darkness to the absolute brim! Simply consuming so much darkness element... Was not what Greg could think to do.

"I fear... That will be impossible. Let alone that the whole place is insanely and massively enormous, but even my body will simply explode from the dense darkness if I try to consume all of it."

Alice understood Greg's fear but strangle shook her head, "You are right. Your body would be simply incapable of holding so much darkness element inside your body but you don't consume it to use or strengthen your powers but to form the key. If you concentrate on shaping the key from the consumed darkness, you will be perfectly fine."

Greg after this now truly understood what Alice truly meant. If what she said was true then consuming the void of this whole canyon should be a piece of cake.

"Okay. Let's try it." nodded his head firmly and sat down while extending his right palm before his chest.

"..."

Inhaling a mouthful then exhaling deeply, Greg closed his eyes and by closing his mind off from useless things started to concentrate on his surroundings. At first, nothing happened, but it was not long when the air, which was in fact the darkness, trembled and with twisting motions moved toward Greg.

Alice who still stood on the side smiled at this sight and glanced toward the sky which was still covered with the dense darkness. It was visible she was thinking about something as her eyes flashed with different emotions but it was a mystery as to what.

***

"Dimension Abolisher!"

*BOOM!*

A power that twisted the space itself while melted and shook the whole ground around it burst out of Ecron's hand and flew at Zane and Eliana; the speed was so fast that only a black flash could be discerned before it appeared before the two, ready to erase the two experts out from existence itself.

But it was at this very moment as a shocking sight occurred. Time stopped and space froze; everything that once moved came to a complete halt while a blinding white light broke out from Zane's body.

"Celestial Serpent's Breath; Consumer of Thousand Realms and Heavens!"

*BOOM!*

As Zane's voice fell the clouds above the boundless sky split apart and what descended was something that neither Eliana nor Ecron would have believed they would see.

"What... The hell is that?"

Ecron's eyes shrunk to the size of a needle as he watched a huge and abnormal-looking dragon descend from the skies like a divine beast from the heavens. 

No, it was not a dragon but a massively enormous snake with hundreds of dragon wings with colorful scales all over its body! It was so long that its tail vanished above the clouds while its body enveloped the whole sky simply with its physique!

"H-how? This... Is not a power that a human could possess! He is just on the God rank so how!" screamed with a trembling body Ecron as he watched the humongous creature open its jaw revealing millions of razor-sharp teeth with a size of pillars and suck the air in.

As that occurred the power that could erase even a whole continent from the map suddenly changed trajectory and was sucked toward the beast alongside with a huge vortex of air.

"Grr..." clenching his teeth while resisting against the suction power, Ecron raised his palm and pointed at the creature.

"Void Breaker!"

*Crack!*

Around the serpent's body, suddenly adult thick cracks formed one by one, forming a hugely complex web system around the torso of the beast.

"BREAK FOR ME!" screamed Ecron as clenched his palm into a fist. 

*BOOM!*

The cracks almost like obtaining their own will moved and like several jigsaws spun and shrunk around the beast slashing into rapidly with a speed that was a blur.

"RROOOAAAR!!!"

Screaming in agony as blood flowed out the wound painting the world below in red, the Serpent locked its blood-freezing gaze at Ecron and opened its jaw once again while blood-red light swirled inside its abyss filled maw.

"This..." Ecron who looked almighty all this time dropped his hand down and his face paled. He couldn't process the thought of how could a human possess such great and terrifying power.

However, what he did not know that power was not Zane's ability, but it was his Guardian! That humongous thing was his Guardian, a beast that had its own consciousness and will just like Alice!

"Die!" smiled Zane in the distance and like it was his command, his Guardian fired its power at him.

*BOOM!*

Crimson light swallowed the clear blue sky and Ecron, burning and melting away both his body and the desert behind his back into nothingness.

Everything happened and ended so fast that Ecron had no time at all to react nor to utter a single word as his final struggle; he was dead.

"Bleargh!"

Zane who stood still until this very moment suddenly collapsed onto the ground while a massive amount of blood split out through his mouth and nose, while his complexion paled several levels; just looking at him made one feel he was on the verge of dying.

"Zane! Zane what happened?" asked Eliana instantly from the side with visible worry on her face. She stood and watched the whole sight occurring before her eyes until this very moment dumbfoundedly, but when Zane fell she instantly came back to her senses; she had no clue at all what was happening and was confused.

When Zane and she fought against Ecron both of them sustained several grave injuries and struggled for their own lives but because of the vast disparity between their power, it was only a matter of time before they would die. However, when Zane summoned that thing onto the sky, everything changed and they even won as easily as taking a stroll in a park!

Just what happened now? Why did Zane collapse? Did he do something he wouldn't have done?

While worry surfaced onto Eliana's face suddenly the scenery behind him started to change too, making him turn her gaze toward the Nether Canyon.

The whole Nether Canyon started to tremble and shake while the darkness inside it was continuously shrinking; the sight was almost akin to water in a pool that was sucked away through a gap from the bottom at a rapid pace.

"What..."