Snowflake City

If I could use external mana manipulation, while using [Lightning wings], it wouldn't have been difficult to fly continuously, but relying on my own mana, I can only fly for 12 hour, after which i have to take a break of at least 2.5 hours to replenish my mana.

Travelling between cities in this world was akin to travelling between countries in my previous world because this planet was gigantic.

While travelling through the cloud I was always on the lookout for good resting place and right now, I was taking one last break to replenish my mana before arriving at the nearest city.

Sitting atop a 25 meter tall tree, I looked in the distant city, which was spread in 50 kilometer radius.

Most of the buildings were not more than 4 stories tall but in all four edges of the city stood 4 black magic towers, observing the entire city.

Enhancing my vision further I saw some words engraved on the entrance gate of the city which meant 'Snowflake city'.

'This is the last city those demons visited before entering dimension pocket correct?' I asked merlin.

'Yes.' Merlin confirmed.

After analyzing the demon core of makia for whole day, merlin was able to recover some memories from the part of consciousness demon has left in his core and that is how we were able to retrace the demon's movements.

'I hope things go as we have planned, those genesis bastards were quite full of themselves.' I said.

'Don't worry even if they act cocky at the start, after witnessing my abilities, they will beg me to join them.' Merlin reassured me.

In the past one day, while resting, I came to know there were two ways for me to reach the beast continent.

First was to use the inter-continental teleportation gates, which were available in the capital cities of each continent.

The eastern continent where I was now was the biggest continent on planet amora and it had its own inter-continental teleportation gate connecting everywhere on planet amora including beast continent but accessing it was impossible for current me.

The first method to reach the beast continent was to use inter-continental teleportation gate, which was not possible because demon king has prohibited anyone from entering beast continent.

If one wishes to enter the beast continent, he or she has to get the permission of demon king himself or in his absence from his appointed duke.

It was an unofficial agreement between demon gods and celestial beings to keep at least one continent on each planet out of their power struggle fearing that their apostle would disturb the balance of whole planet and universe would penalize them.

The balance of planet amora has already shaken as there were very few high ranking beasts remained on other four continents thus demon king and his forces acted as guardian of beast continent and at the same time monopolized its unlimited resources for themselves.

If caught sneaking in the beast continent the punishment was instant execution but even then many peoples tried to sneak in and hunt for high tier beast cores and that was the second method through which I was going to enter the beast continent.

The second method to reach the beast continent was with the help of smugglers.

Every year demon and human pirates tried to enter the beast continent in dreams of killing few high ranking beasts and earn a lifetime of living but 50% of them couldn't even handle the turbulent environment outside the continent and died before reaching the beast continent.

Remaining 50% people's survival was also not guaranteed, because majority of them die in the hands of forces employed by demon king or high tier beasts on the beast continent.

Those who returned fortunately can live the rest of their lives leisurely, if they didn't encounter any misfortune that is.

It was impossible for me to infiltrate and activate the teleportation gate to beast continent on my own, thus the only way I can reach the beast continent is through smugglers.

Selecting the second methods to reach the beast continent we both decided to head toward the snowflake city, where the branch of an organization called 'Genesis' existed, which would help us reach beast continent.

We came to know about this secret organization from the memories of Makia who with his father jabel had visited this branch before entering the dimension pocket.

Analyzing the beast core of demon makia, whose soul was weak to crack, merlin has retrieved bits of pieces of information relating to current situation of planet amora from spec of consciousness of demon makia.

Apparently, the situation of planet amora was very chaotic because of disappearance of demon king Lucifer for more than a decade.

Two other heroes and resistance forces were targeting weak demons slowly crippling the demon kings forces, which was good news for me, but those bastards has done some dirty work behind the scenes whose blame befell on my head as both human and demon forces declared me their mortal enemies issuing huge bounty on my head.

I wasn't too worried about the bounty, because nobody knew how I looked like and what my powers were, but I have to make them pay for impersonating me.

Recalling my initial goal one last time I stood up in my place.

My first goal was to merge with the dragon king noob's consciousness as soon as possible and for that to happen, I have to fight more life threatening battles and consume high ranking cores, which will fasten the process of awakening dragon king noob's consciousness.

After my fight against demon jabel and my continuous use of high tier spells the crack on the bubble of dragon king noob's consciousness has expanded further but looking at the size of the whole bubble, the crack was barely noticeable.

I had already planned how I will achieve my first goal.

In order to complete my first goal I have to make a trip to beast continent to fight high ranking beasts and mythical beast because if I kill high ranking demon and human on this continent sooner or later I will be found out.

My second goal was to meet the 'Aura Grandmaster Austin' in beast continent.

Even if grandmaster Austin didn't join my party, the journey to beast continent is essential for my future development.

'It's time to go.' Merlin said and I took one last deep breath because it will be the first time in 11 years I will be mingling with so many humans and demons in the distant city.

Opening the system window I browsed through the available masks in the shop and one particular mask attracted my attention.

[Store: Weapons - -> other tools - -> Carnival eye mask]

[Eye mask: 5, 00,000 Fate point]

[Description: This Eye mask can inherit any appearance host imagines in his mind regardless of any species and also uses host's mana to suppress host's smell from leaking into its surrounding, anyone having weaker visual prowess's than host will not be able to see through host's disguise]

The term visual prowess's was very familiar to me because [Dragon Gaze], the ability I used frequently was one such ability and on this planet there was no species, who possessed stronger visual prowess than dragons king noob, therefore I selected this mask as my near future companion, which will aid me greatly.

I disguised myself as a random demon because I don't want to draw any unwanted attention toward myself, by disguising as human or intelligent beast.

Bigger cities on planet amora were equipped with high tier barrier to keep them safe from aerial threat but the city in front me, had no such defense mechanism installed, instead it had 20 meter huge walls surrounding the city and many demon guards standing on the entrance of walls to check the identity of the visitors.

Above the walls many cannon and sensory crystals were installed to detect if anything approaches city from air.

'They think their measly defenses can stop me from infiltrating the city.' I thought.

Flapping my [lightning wings] I flew high in the sky and kept going higher until the city looked like a small black dot to me, enhancing my draconic vision I saw a secluded back alley in an rundown part of city where security was lax, a perfect place to land and dissolved the lightning wings diving toward the ground at lightning fast speed.

When I was only 500 meter above the city, I used [Lightning step] and world around me stopped as my whole body was encased in blue lightning.

Reducing the momentum I have gained as much as possible, I landed in the back alley without making any sound akin to a falling lightning bolt and behind me the voice of thunder resounded few seconds later.

Quickly dashing out of the back alley soon I merged with the crowd walking on the street.

I could have used [Lightning step] from the tree to directly infiltrate the city but a horizontal streak of lightning travelling in city would raise some suspicion thus I decided to fall from the sky as natural lightning bolt.

'That was easy.' Merlin's voice resounded in my head as I walked on the busy road.