Chapter 240 - Crater

The entire group of 15 flew away from that firm almost flat like mountain side, including Osira who was given the honour. Eric and Mogranius were not left to die either, surprisingly they don't see these two Ignites as complete enemies and find other uses on them.

Osira flew higher up the moutain, until she felt like she has a good chance of landing the Ignite Stone at the desired location. At first of course, she waited for her team to reach as far down as possible before she went into action. They saw the detonating force of the super charged Ignite Gem, last thing they need is to a victim of its radius and aftermath.

Clinging on the mountain side with one hand and holding on to the blood red Ignite gem, she took a quick peek at her team and saw them flying down, from the looks of it downwards the neutralized Kingdom. Eric and Mogranius aren't awake, if they were they would be both terrified and amazed of the aftermath.

In the bottom edge of the kingdom, specifically at the right side. They saw a huge Crater, spanning 50 to 70 meters wide! And 10-20 meters deep. Its shape isn't exactly spherical nor should we expect it. The exploding them was a raging terminating force to be reckoned with and likely spread randomly.

But apart from that half Spherical crater, what else was to be found in this aftermath? Well, houses were no longer a part of this Kingdom, their only remains are pieces of wood either blasted hundreds of meters lower from here or against the mountain side, covered with falling boulders and blown off rock and Kingdom walls too.

As for people, there are no visible survivors. Even Corpses are scarce, if one was crazy enough to join the limbs and ribs together, they wouldn't be able to form 10 full Corpses. From Hundreds of people be it Civilian or non Civilian, to nothing but a few limbs and blown off body parts. If only they had such technology at the war of Pameres Kingdom, it would have turned the tides in battle inevitably. They wouldn't have lost a single Guard.

These bits of Corpses managed to survive some of the disintegrating radius, because they were the furthest from where it happened and were in their homes. The limbs were nothing but burned flesh and bone, the Ignite Gem showed no discrimination.

But what about the Ignites, there were powerless Ignites here too! "I assume you were successful with the task I have given you."

"Yes mam." Answered a woman to her right side, and continued to explain. "Our people are at Fictil's Cave!" Well that explains their actions, it would sound too evil even for Bittore to slaughter their own kind at such a form.

"Splendid, there is no way of walking up to reach the hidden Kingdom so we will need to carry all of them. It should take less than half an hour but we have to be more careful."

This at least, explains the whole intend of this group. Blowing a mountain side open does seem bizarre, but Bittore claims that a hidden Kingdom is behind it. That at least shows why they did all of this, they did it in the hopes of freedom and they for sure didn't want to take the blood of their brothers and sisters dry to the ground.

This group of Ignites came up here in the hopes of finally not being judged by the colour of their skin, but what did they attain instead? Their pain up here is almost equally terrifying than the one they suffered from the ill.u.s.tratian Alliance. Powerless people claimed as hostage, those same people either r.a.p.ed or killed if the 15 Fire Controllers disagreed to cooperate, the King raping 14 out of 15 of those Fire Controllers? Yes they had no reason to spare these Snow Ignites, who knew that the l.u.s.t for s.e.x.u.a.l activities and the l.u.s.t for military superiority can make these people scoop so low! L.u.s.t is indeed a curse upon humankind with the actual devil giving his contribute towards it!

The chatter was scarce, no one had the motivation to speak with the smoke of overly burned meat and various burned construction blessing the land with such foul aroma. Even the Castle was blown away and what was left of the tunnels collapsed along with it, it was noticable since the gap is deeper where the Castle used to stand.

Reaching out of the Aftermath, and walking towards the Carved path with Eric and Mogranius on their backs. It was noticable that a portion of the Carved path was blown off sky high. But the damage isn't as terrible, only 20-40 meters out of the 200 meter long path were blown off. If a domain is to be formed here in the near future, the Carved path is still usable!

The moment they crossed the Carved path, it is a sign for Osira to drop the Ignite Gem! As for what the Ignite Gem blows off, it doesn't matter even if the whole mountain side collapses as long as the rock and mud gate is blown open. Even if part of the way towards this, hidden Kingdom is blown off it isn't a big deal.

Osira was taught one thing to remember for her task, that is to throw the Ignite Gem as far away from its actual target as possible. The distance she has from that semi flat land where Eric and Mogranius were knocked out, will force the Ignite Gem to return closer to the target.

If she threw it straight down, it would blow her away and miss the actual target badly. Reason behind such a complex plan, well it is because of the wind. It can blow a 60 Kilogram human against the mountain side, a Gem is but a feather.

Letting go of the rock she was clinging on, and aiming almost straight forwards at a angle of 50°, she tossed the blood red Ignite Gem against the wind and immediately blew Fire from her feet after to assure that she completely escapes the radius. Even a force that doesn't burn but push, would disorientate her badly which would lead to her body spiraling against the mountain side and eventually falling against the hard ground.

The Ignite gem flew down nearly 200 meters and approached the mountain side by a few inches every split second! Reflecting the sun light once before it actually made impact with the ground around 4 meters away from the target, the huge explosion let out an ear shattering sound and it shook a good portion of the mountain.

Flying up, she felt the vibration on forced upon the mountain and the situation turned for the worse for her only. Because the flattish mountain walls she was using to manuver herself as she flew up quickly, started cracking around her and falling down.

The sudden shift almost dragged her down along with the rock, but it explains the severity of such an explosion. It brought down the mountainside regardless of size, but luckily it can't bring the whole mountain down and it just proves as a barricade if any army decides to attack, it is tremendously hard to walk upon and running through them would twist knees and break bones.

The team of 14 felt the earthquake caused by the explosion partially but a small part of the mountain side collapsing gave its own contribute as well! The team did not turn back and just continued their way down to reach Fictil's Cave, the next step is to bring the rest here, as if they are more than sure about the Kingdom being behind that semi natural barricade.

Osira is the one who has the honour of taking a peek at whatever is on the other side of those walls. Flying down, he noticed that the natural semi flat land they previously stood upon is completely wiped out. Even if there was anything left, it is covered by countless rocks and boulders now.

The rumoured entrance is true, she flew down and found a 5 meter tall and wide entrance! This entrance has a flat ground, impeccably horizontal walls and is covered by a curved ceiling, it takes a complete 5 meter turn until it connects with the other wall.

Osira doesn't see anything but Darkness ahead, she doesn't exactly see a Kingdom. Not quite what she expected, she waited to see a large Kingdom in between a huge oasis. But no, she is just seeing a fancy tunnel.

Blasting Fire out of her hand to illuminate her surroundings, she took caution at each step she took. But couldn't help checking the eye catching stone masonry blessed upon this tunnel, one thing that confused her is the red and black style here. "Why would the ancient Snow Ignites use this colour?"

An average colour to use in a Snow Ignite domain, is any shade of blue basically. Red isn't commonly an option even though it looks nice, white is commonly used up here too. "I should wait for the team to return." She thought to herself as she reached a splitting offering 3 roads after she went 15 meters deep.

The tunnel in the middle continued to be 5 meters wide, the one in the left seems to be smaller, around 3 meters tall and wide. While the one on the right is just two meters. Such a Dungeon like place shouldn't be explored alone. Although dangerou creatures here inhabiting the structure sound impossible, it is better not to take risks.