The Runic Alchemist

Damian used the half-filled well of mana and all the seven tanks full of mana to power the gravity reversal spell for the gigantic Dragon and activated it while still being inside the half-broken and melting steel golem.

The unstoppable descent started slowing down and then came to a point where they completely stopped and slowly started rising up again. Without mana, the golem shut down. Damian moved away from the control panel, flying out of one of the windows that wasn’t completely bent.

The two sacrium mana cubes powered to the full, generating liquid mana, were the last of his liquid mana source. Coming out, he quickly activated a wormhole spell, putting hundreds of meters of distance between him and the uncontrollably rising Sulthar. The guy was trying his best to flap his one good wing to stop the ascent, but it wasn’t powerful enough — it did slow down the ascent quite a bit though, that was already ridiculous enough.

Damian, while maintaining flight, tried to use the waygate from his sacrium bracer but it did not work. Damian wanted to send the Dragon away from here before he realized what was going on. As if his thoughts were being broadcast out loud, a second later he saw Sulthar glowing — its belly, then the long neck, and at last the overwhelming beam of hellfire rained down on Damian once again.

Damian didn’t have enough mana to shield himself from such an attack. He didn’t need to though, as Damian just created multiple wormhole runic circles and teleported all over the place, the massive beam of hellfire following behind but always late to reach him. Soon the attack ended, the Dragon King crossed over 3000 meters high in the air, Damian finally exhaled in relief and watched the monstrous foe go on in his little journey — rather unwillingly, thrashing and rolling around in the air as the speed of ascent increased gradually.

Without the waygate spell, he couldn’t get the others — guess he was alone in this now. Damian pulled out his flaming spear, since the sacrium one was bent out of shape, created his usual runic spell circles and held them with mana threads, while flying straight towards the giant shrine with a massive open door.

The second Damian landed inside the gigantic door, suddenly a bright ball of light blinded his eyes. Damian was about to use his wormhole to get away — the thing did not even have a mana signature, which was why it succeeded in ambushing him. But.. it did not attack Damian. It just stood there. After a while, when his eyes adjusted to the darkness inside, Damian realized it was not a ball of light but a creature, or more like a spirit, with its ethereal, transparent ghost-like floating form.

“Stop it! Bring him back, bring them back!” the old spirit, shaped in a normal pigmen build with white hair and a white beard, said with a firm and powerful voice.

The Sun God. It was him.

Damian looked behind the spirit, towards the place from where he was sensing the Sun God’s real mana and where the real origin of the flowing lava river was. There it was, the same figure he had seen before. Its eyes closed, towering like a mountain. The massive black chains wrapped all around the gigantic red pigmen’s body, seeping deeper into his flesh by the second. It was already more than halfway through. The molten lava was flowing out of the injuries and flowing out of the shrine as a river of lava.

The real body of the pigmen Sun God was in a much worse condition than what he remembered from the dungeon. This was not the same guy, Damian realized. Of course — why did he expect him to be? All of the dungeon was based on real-life things on this planet, but they were not as real. Same with the Sun God.. But then why was there a ban on the use of his waygate spell?

If the God who did it did not exist in this timeline.. The ban shouldn’t exist as well. Unless.. The entry was not banned — the landing on Vidalia’s planet was banned somehow from the other side. The copy of a monster or creature from the dungeon shouldn’t have this much power.

Could it be because they were somehow still connected to the dungeon? If he used a waygate spell, it connected to Vidalia through the dungeon..

“I said cancel your spell, Abomination! Bring my child back!” the spirit roared, and suddenly the real body of the Sun God seemed to release an oppressive presence unlike any Damian had ever felt before.

There was no weight on his shoulders, but his heart was still about to leap out of his chest as the enormous image of the Sun God occupied his mind forcefully.

Same as last time — he was in a large white expanse with his full body — Damian assumed it represented his consciousness.

“Do you not recognize me?” Damian asked, looking up, not impressed much by the show of power at all.

Suddenly the intimidating image of the Sun God disappeared, and once again Damian was back beside the floating old pigmen spirit. It said with a confused expression on his face, “Recognize? Who are you? What reason could you and your filthy humankind possibly have to come attacking the home of my children?” Then it muttered, “I knew something was wrong in the south, but never did I think things were this far gone..”

“Why did you restrict my waygate spell? Without that we can’t go back to our world..” Damian replied, carefully observing if the guy knew anything about the ban or not.

“Your portal spell? Because you attacked my children and invaded my land!” the Sun God shouted.

“No, not today. Before.. We came into this world 100 years ago, and since then we can’t go back.” Damian clarified.

“I have never seen your ugly faces before today!” the Sun God said irritatingly. “Now cancel your spell, bring back my child and leave this place at once!”

Damian narrowed his eyes at the guy. Could he be lying? But there shouldn’t be any reason for him to do so. He was weak.. far too weak. The mana surely was filled with potent life energy, but it was not much. The Sun God.. was truly dying.

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