Earthling in Uncharted Dimensions

Chapter 330: The Unpredicted Sacrifice

The stone-cold unwavering hearts of the Draconic Wyverns became soft and full fright for the first time in their lives. Their muscular limbs failed to maintain the distance with Ruella who was giving her all to pull away from the suction.

Hudson could only helplessly watch how things turn south. He bore witness to the events with clenched fists, realising that he is useless at the moment.

But his conscience took control of his soul and he dashed at Ruella. His heart was filled with determination and he reached and barely touched the headpiece of the Sceptre when something unanticipated took place!

Hudson disappeared!

And the very moment, the powerful pull vanished!

D and Ruella fell on their rear with the amount of force they had exerted. The trio distanced themselves from Ruella upon liberation.

*sigh*

D, for a second, could not figure out what had happened. But when he took a glance at the headpiece in Ruella's hand, things became clear.

With a frown, D tilted his head while raising his query-

"How did he end up inside that?"

Ruella, resting on her rear, was rubbing her forehead when she heard his voice. She shuttled her focus onto D's face when she saw that D was looking at the piece of Sceptre.

Ruella jolted up as she saw Hudson's soul-moving inside the piece of Sceptre. Most importantly, the piece of metal with a greyish-silver colour was now transparent and resembled a long thin cylindrical rod made out of glass.

D directed the sword to cut it in half. But the sword failed to put a single scratch on the glass rod. The result made D scratch his head with puzzlement and his heart was feeling uncomfortable.

The next second, his gut instincts became a reality. The rod slipped and flew away from his grip.

The direction to which it flew panicked the Draconic Wyverns. They quickly took off but the rod was faster. Sensing that the pieces in their mouths have come loose, they spat them at the very second.

Swish!

The glass rod missed the beasts by a small margin as it homed in on the remaining pieces. Pyro was injured as the glass rod ruthlessly pierced his right wing. Cryo barely escaped with a scratch on his neck. Aero was able to manoeuvre and evade the oncoming projectile.

As soon as the last piece was connected, the flight ended and the final product fell on the ground. D and Ruella witnessed the seemingly simple object slowly kissing the ground.

But what occurred next was not a mere touch down.

The ground was cracked like a spiderweb!

The impact was visibly nothing noteworthy, but the amount of force it dispersed to the sides threw the entire island into chaos.

When Ruella was stunned by how things turned unpredictable, D noticed something alarming!

"The island is sinking!!"

Shouting out at the maximum, Dnekewy ran to the Sceptre embedded in the ground halfway. He tried to pull it out but failed miserably. Upon calling Ruella for help, she proved herself as a worthy ally.

Without wasting a moment, the Draconic Wyverns came flying at them and scooped them from the ground. Fero was taken into the air by Aero while Cryo and Pyro rescued D and Ruella respectively.

A second later, the ground where they stood was crumbled and began to sink. Through the crevices, the ocean rushed and devoured the land. The fissures began to grow in length and breadth and split the island most horribly.

"Arghh...!!"

Ruella was holding the Sceptre and she began to scream with pain. Sitting on Pyro, she was holding her right hand's wrist with all of her strength. It took a second for D to find the reason.

"Ruella, just hang on. Don't let it go. It needs your energy so let it take some!"

Ruella nodded while biting down the pain. The extent of pain was visible on her face. She was twitching while holding onto her sanity.

Ruella released her energy and it outpoured like an avalanche. But it did not leave her body as the Sceptre greedily drank every drop of her energy.

As the demand for energy prolonged, Ruella was losing consciousness. She held onto the Sceptre as she leaned forward on Pyro's back.

A few moments later, an enormous thundercloud materialised on the Draconic Wyverns. The appearance of the deep grey cloud was quick and this signalled the prelude of something serious.

Nobody saw the incoming strike. Even Zena was able to sense the deadly flashes of lightning after it reached proximity. But before she could intercept it, Ruella was soaked by the lightning!

But it miraculously did not hurt or injure Pyro. The thunder strikes and lightning flashes instilled fear in his heart but it soon faded away.

While Pyro was not harmed, Ruella was being bombarded with countless lightning strikes.

Zena redirected herself and attempted to intercept the lightning strikes, but D restricted her.

"The lightning is not harming her. The Sceptre is absorbing every ounce of the energy spilt by the lightning.

It is as if the Sceptre is summoning the lightning."

Upon hearing D's conclusion, the trio and Zena calmed down and let what is happening, to finish.

Looking forward, D judged that they are nearing the mainland. Thus he asked the trio to fly higher to vanish from the eyes of the observers.

The Draconic Wyverns shot upward and disappeared in the dark clouds. Now they were invisible to anyone on the ground.

But those on the ground did notice a series of lightning strikes continuously occurring in a linear fashion. Though most ignored it, some found it interesting.

The rampage of the lightning continued for another half an hour. Surprisingly, the trio did not have any symptoms of fatigue.

About 40 minutes later...

"Hudson has gone. HUDSON HAS GONE!!"

Ruella woke up a few minutes after the lightning rampage had extinguished. She raised the weapon to check and saw that Hudson's presence had vanished.