Chapter 68

Alex gathered his spacial energy as he readied a sneak attack on one of the Noble class beasts.

A load thud was heard as it crashed to the ground, unmoving as it had not even recognized it was dead.

The second beast roared as it noticed Alex's presence and charged towards him. Alex looked at the strangely shaped beast that charged to him, it walked on two legs but looked the furthest thing from a humanoid. An eyeless face somehow stared holes into Alex who was completely invisible. After composing himself several tendrils of darkness rose up and kept the beast in place as arcs of electricity flashed from Alex's hands.

He stepped through a portal and released the lightning directly on the beast. He readied himself as he felt more of the beasts moving in his direction. 'What is this? They're all the same.'

Alex looked at the abominations around him. An unsettling feeling settling within him. His body Glowed as he swung his chain blades and cleared out the weaker beasts among the crowd.

His eyes widened as he felt quick movement behind him. He turned and moved backwards in order to lesson the impact. Before him he saw the second Noble class beast up and not injured in the slightest. Even more strangely was that it had grown out multiple appendages making it look more like the arachnid beast that the other group of hunters was supposed to be hunting.

Alex flew backwards as he was hit by several of the legs. 'Why is it just sitting there, watching me?'

He soon found the answer as he felt his spacial energy being pushed aside as he felt a rift open up behind him. He tried to open a portal and change his trajectory but found that there was a lot of interference which kept on getting worse as he got closer to the rift.

Gritting his teeth Alex reached out and clenched his fist just as he entered the rift. He smirked as just before his vision was cut off he watched the beast fall backwards onto its knees and clinch its throat as if struggling to breathe.

'Well, I guess this is what I should've expected. Nothing ever goes right.' Alex thought. He closed his eyes as his surrounding brightened up and caused him to feel nauseous.

Alex attempted to spread his spacial energy to try gain some understanding of the rifts, but stopped as he felt his reserves rapidly declining, and more importantly because of the absence of any other natural spacial energy.

'So, does it exist outside of the need for space and time, or is it just at the level where they are irrelevant?' He thought as he tried to avoid the fact that he could be stuck away from home forever, that he could be dumped on a foreign planet and left to spend the rest of his days there.

Alex floated for what felt like ages.

He stirred as his ears were assaulted by a high pitched whistling. He rubbed his burning eyes as he tried to get a feel on his situation.

'Falling.' He flinched and opened his eyes. The wind blurring his sight as he fell and the air producing a whistle as he fell faster that what he expected the terminal velocity should be.

'It's night.'

After a bit of panic he realized that the spacial dimension was back and opened a set of portals. He felt the winds resistance change directions and slowing before stopping completely. Instead of continuing, Alex landed softly in the air and looked down below him.

'A war?'

Now that the whistling was through with the noise was replaced with explosions and collisions below.

Alex jumped to the side and bent the light and darkness around him as an arrow whizzed past him.

'Whoever's side is nearest to me has really good eyesight.'

He felt several more arrows fly in his direction but didn't move as they all missed. 'Luckily they can't still see me. That's quite a few archers.'

He looked off in the distance as he heard inhuman roars. Opening small portals to use as makeshift binoculars Alex looked closely as he saw multiple fireballs illuminate the ground a distance away from himself. Alex watched several green and large humanoid monsters get swarmed by a bunch of smaller and yet still pretty tall humanoids.

He could tell that there was more fighting going on than was visible, but it was hidden beneath the trees below.

Alex moved a few steps and reappeared below on the ground. He reached out and filled his hands with a bit of water from a small pond. He took a sip and after feeling no abnormal affects he took a few more.

He ignored the war going on in the distance and focused on the box Drak had given him. Several moments of silence later he sighed as he couldn't find it no matter how hard he tried.

'The spacial dimension should spread out infinitely in all directions, but from what I'm feeling which is nothing at all, there must be a void of nothingness in between this planet and earth. A place where existence becomes meaningless.'

Noticing several presences moving towards him Alex turned around and held up his hands in surrender.

"'See I told you I saw a flying human.'" A feminine voice said as it exited the brush with a drawn bow that was aimed at Alex.

"'It is a human, but he is not flying. Taeral, we're in the middle of an invasion from the Orcs, we can't be wasting our time on one human.'" A more mature and stern feminine voice said.

'Elves?' Alex thought as he looked at the five elves in front of him. Even for the smaller ones among them Alex had to crane his neck upwards quite a bit in order to meet their gazes in the darkness.

"'Apprehend him and then take him to our back lines, we will talk about his intrusion in our lands later.'" The older elf said.

Alex's curiosity was peaking as he tried to get his eyes to hurry up and get accustomed to the darkness, unfortunately at the moment he could only make out dark outlines in front of him. He tried to bring his spacial energy close so that he could scan them, but every time their ears would tremble as if they could tell what he was doing.

"'Fine, but I swear I saw this dark haired human in the sky.'"

"'Enough, we will discuss this later.'"

The elf with the younger sounding voice moved towards Alex and spoke in a different way. "'Step forward with your hands together in front of you.'" She commanded.

Alex looked at the being trying to decipher her words as she spoke to him, but failing.

'The last thing she said sounded at least a little bit familiar, but I still have no clue what they are saying.' He thought as the figure repeated what she said.

"I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are saying." Alex said while trying to speak in the least confrontational tone.

The figure turned and looked to the rest. "'What did he say?'"

The rest all shrugged.

"'Great we have had to come across the one human that cannot even speak Common which they created.'"

"'Just get this over with, we will question him when this confrontation is over.'" The older elf said as she studied Alex closely.

Alex flinched as the elf held his hands, usually he tended to avoid human contact, but perhaps because the fact that the elves in front of him were speaking, he couldn't help but rationalize them as equal to any other person on earth.

He composed himself as he allowed the elf to push his hands together in front of himself, before tying them together with rope.

'A prisoner? Well I suppose just for now, if things get worse I can break free easily. If I can illustrate a rift maybe they can point me in the direction of one. But what do I do if they refuse to listen?'

The elves spoke as they pulled Alex towards the back lines.

"'This one is weirdly quiet, most would be screaming and crying at the fact that they are being taken away.'"

"'He may have been abandoned by his kin, this also explains why he doesn't speak Common.'"

"'Yes, but it doesn't explain his fancy clothing. An abandoned one usually doesn't look well kept.'"

Alex looked into the distance as they approached a dimly lit clearing. He saw several groups elves pulling the big green humanoids into wooden cages. He looked up to the two who were pulling him along.

'Tall, pale skin, pointy ears, and an otherworldly charm. These are elves.'

Alex grunted as he was tossed into a smaller wooden cage.

He watched the door shut and runes lit up on the cage before dying down. He leaned forward and felt the wood as his fingers traced the runes which were etched in the wood.

'These are definitely different but they are still runes.'

He moved away from the door as a male elf whacked the roof of his cage with a spear.

A thought came to Alex's mind as he laid down and closed his eyes. Within moments he found himself in a familiar dark place.

"Hey! Where are you all at?" He yelled.

"Who are you?" A voice said from behind Alex.

Alex turned around to find no one there. "Who are you?" Alex countered.

"Enough, how did you get in my domain?" The voice questioned.

Alex looked up, unable to find the familiar seven dark stars in the sky. "I just ended up in here, I thought that this was my own place." Alex answered. "You wouldn't know how I could get back home would you?"

"Wherever your 'home' is, it is not here, leave."

"Okay fine." Alex said as the darkness faded and he found himself back in the cage.

'Everything is different. What was that, that I just spoke to?'

Alex watched as more and more elves gathered in this small clearing, many of them looking in his direction as he waited for nothing in particular.

He yawned as he noticed a few elves walking towards his cage. They looked at him as they spoke before lifting the cage and attaching it to a large horse.

'Thieves, I wonder if they know that they look pretty sketchy? Still, I guess everyone else just acting like nothing is going on, means that this is a common occurrence.'

Alex tried to make himself comfortable as he was pulled through the surprisingly navigable forest. After a while he noticed the lighting in the area was better than before. With his spacial sense he could feel several hundreds of houses, built perfectly in the forest. Some were up in the trees above, some below.

'Somehow they managed to live in the wilderness without harming it. I guess being nocturnal does help them in that regard.'

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"There was an intruder in my domain." A dark figure said as he sat at a table next to several other figures.

"What? Why are you looking at me?" A man who was playing with a set of knives said before sitting up in his seat.

"I mean I know that I have the baddest reputation out of all of us, but why would I want to go to that dark place with nothing in it?"

The dark figure shook his head and sighed. "All I know is that it was a god of some sort, I suggest that we all check on our followers because if what all of you says is true, then one of our followers is doing things behind our backs."

"What you are saying makes no sense, a lower god cannot enter the domain of an ancient one. Not without help that is. Are you saying that we would lie to you?"

The dark figure was about to speak up but another figure spoke up.

"I will check up on my followers while I doubt any of them did anything, I hope it will put you at ease knowing that I am looking into it.

The dark figure nodded before speaking up again. "I don't really care if anyone is planning anything, it's just that what happened was not normal. I couldn't even feel a bit of divinity within them, and yet I still felt the presence of a god."

The dark figure disappeared and a giggling was heard. "Somebody spooked the unspookable, so which one of you was it." A woman asked.

After receiving stern and serious looks from the rest of the table, she continued speaking.

"Not even you three had a hand in this!?" She asked and received the denial of the trio who liked to play pranks.

"This is a little more than I was expecting it to be." She finished before leaning back and wondering about what was going on.

"Indeed."