Heaven's Greatest Professor

Chapter 348: Call of the Baleful Wind

It didn't take long to take care of all the wyverns, and then Gale joined to despatch all the lizards down on the ground. Most of them only took an arrow or a sword beam.

He simply had grown too strong too fast to skip a whole rank of monsters.

"Hey, you got to help those that are struck inside," shouted the healer.

Agnes was talking to her, but his question was directed at him. Gale was sure he couldn't even see his face, that was fair in the sky.

"The guild master and a few others," the healer continued to shout. "They were struck in there..."

His finger pointed towards the huge portal, dozens of metres tall, shimmering with chaotic light. No more creatures were coming out of it yet.

"The guild master of the Spirit Hunter Guild?" Agnes asked.

The healer nodded.

"Will you guys be fine if we go?" she asked. There were still other dungeons around, not to mention the lizards that fled.

"Yeah, you already took care of the bigger problems," said a gold ranker. "Our task now is to hunt down the lizards scattered into the city."

"Well, good luck with that," Gale said and flung himself towards the gate, a spray of golden light lingering behind him. "You coming?"

Agnes lunged into the air, her wings of darkness spreading on her back. They entered through the portal and found themselves in a completely different realm of existence.

Gale was hoping for a dark dungeon, but even he hadn't imagined being back here.

"This is the front lines," Agnes cried, staring at the red sky with broken layers of clouds. "How the hell is it connected to here?"

Gale ignored all the concerns and implications behind that and spread his void sense ahead of him as he flew. It didn't take long to find the source of all the chaos. Unlike the barren lands of the front lines he was so familiar with, there seemed to be a huge bog ahead, enclosed by dead, sky-piercing trees.

Shrieks and screeches were coming from there as some trees were struck down. Gale enlarged his blade and joined the fray.

His void sense found the humans as he began killing the huge fire-breathing lizards with no wings. There were many serpentine creatures, as large as a great serpent.

"Who are you people?" shouted a man, heavily pressed by a pack of lizards.

"There's only two of us," Gale said and called upon the winds once more. "Duck. Everyone."

The obnoxious fellow whistled. "Now that's something," he said. "Still, the other attack looked better, though."

Gale turned to Agnes with an expression that said:

Do you know this guy?

Her expression returned:

Unfortunately, yes.

"Who are you?" barked one of the leading men, a gold ranker with a fire attribute and a fiery temper to match. "We had it all under control. Who asked you to butt in?"

"Talk about showing gratitude," chuckled the silver-rank man behind him. "And they say I'm an ungrateful bitch."

"Shut your damn trap, Selas," barked the man as he returned his glare to Gale.

"Temperance, Gibson," said the man who was likely the leader. He had been inspecting the hole in the fiend's chest while his party member blabbered. "Hello, fiend," he said to Gale. "Might you tell us who you are and where you came from?"

Gale opened his mouth to answer, just as the spatial nodes above their heads split open. Gale formed his

Void Shroud

to defend against whatever it was, but it looked like there was no need for it.

Through the crack emerged a figure, a tall figure with long dark hair and an overwhelmingly oppressive aura around her. It spoke of her rank and the power she held.

Transcendent.

"Looks like I'm a little late," said the newcomer as she smiled. "Thankfully, you took care of it brilliantly."

Something changed behind him. Gale's sense told him that the aura around Agnes was vibrating wrongly. She was never so sloppy as to let out a slight change if she didn't want to, but now her aura was like an open book, littered with fear and deep-seethed hatred. Mostly fear that anything else.

Whoever this woman was... she had rattled her completely.

"Ah, Agnes, good to see you in such a great shape... Not going to greet your master?"

Agnes bit her lips and came forward, her gait shaking a little. She bowed her head deeply.

The transcendent woman smiled.