Chapter 142: The Mouthpiece of the Night (I)

Cassius followed the black fog flying in the castle.

He saw the magic circle in the iron cage flickering, and countless blood slaves exploded with wailing, turning into ghostly black mist and rushing towards a certain direction.

"These blood slaves were sacrificed"

"Their destination should be the outside world."

Thinking of this, Cassius stopped chasing and flapped his wings to fly upwards. The huge dragon body smashed the stone walls and ceilings one after another and rushed through the bunker.

Soon, with the continuous collapse of the buildings behind him, Cassius quickly came to the outside world.

However, the scene that came into view had undergone a drastic change compared to before.

At this time, there was neither a bright moon nor a starry sky in the outside world.

This is a night without light.

The sky high above was covered by thick shadows, like a dark dome.

The surrounding colors are infected by the environment, as dim as the universe, filled with monotonous black and white, and tall black mountains appear in the distance.

And just above the Dusk Forest, countless shadowy fog balls gathered together to form a constantly rotating vortex of black fog.

Cassius looked at the black sky and murmured to himself:

"This is a projection of the Shadowless Underworld."

"No, it was that old bat that broke through the barrier between the Shadow Plane and the Material World."

The Shadowfall, also known as the Shadow Plane, is a dark layer with a faint light that is both connected to and coexists with the main material world. It is a sinister realm of darkness and power, and also a desolate frontier in the distant and unknown.

The place is filled with fog-like creatures made of shadowy matter. It is empty and desolate, with no breath of life.

The black fog cluster in the sky is obviously a vortex of another world connecting the shadow world and the main material world, which will summon the unknown shadow creatures there.

"No, I have to stop him."

At this moment, Cassius finally understood the meaning of the vampire's curse before his death - "You will all die."

Once the shadow curse of the Shadowfallen Underworld invades, the entire North Wind Castle will become a dead city filled with shadow creatures, assimilated by the endless, all-consuming darkness, and even he himself may be transformed into an immortal shadow red dragon.

Cassius was surrounded by a faint light barrier, and he forcefully broke into it, trying to stop the black fog vortex and break through the dimensional barrier.

[Spell Negative Barrier]

However, this had no effect. The level of this alien vortex was obviously much higher than the fifth ring. Even the spell-nullifying barrier, which had been proven to be effective time and time again, was unable to handle such a complex and high-level spatial anomaly and could only smooth out the shallowest fluctuations.

The red dragon opened its mouth and exhaled a breath of blazing fire.

The raging fire immediately set the shadowy creatures on fire, causing them to let out shrill wails.

But its scale was already too huge. Thousands of shadows formed a huge vortex with a diameter of nearly 100 meters in the sky. Even if the red dragon exhausted its dragon flame, it could not burn it easily.

"This level of magic network fluctuations."

“This scale…”

"What on earth did that old bat summon?"

A chill ran through Cassius' heart. The existence that came to the main material plane through this alien vortex was probably something he could not defeat!

Thinking of this, he tried his best and threw fireballs, fire walls, lightning bolts and other area damage spells into the vortex as if they were free.

Flames, lightning, and light crisscrossed in the vortex, but still could not stop the black fog from gathering, expanding wildly, and covering the sky.

"We can't delay any longer." Cassius thought.

There was a terrible pressure coming from the vortex, which even made Cassius tremble all over.

As a naturally powerful red dragon, Cassius rarely felt this instinctive sense of oppression, but now he felt it, and it was a strong feeling!

"Roar--"

With a low roar, the projection of a giant dragon surrounded by black fog emerged from the vortex and gradually solidified visibly.

It takes a certain amount of time for the powerful beings in the Shadowless Underworld to truly descend into the main material world.

The huge body, which is more than 20 meters long, is covered with dull black scales with a color like charcoal. The wings have no wing membranes, but are made of transparent matter similar to that of a spirit.

The most frightening thing was the pair of eyes. They were an extremely dull grayish-white color, without pupils or lenses, like a bottomless abyss that would suck people's souls into it.

At this moment, the pair of gray eyes were staring at Cassius, and a hoarse voice sounded.

"So they were once from the same tribe?"

"A young red dragon? No wonder. I'm still wondering who would force my poor contractor to sacrifice everything."

"But I still have to thank you."

The giant dragon, or rather the shadow dragon, licked its lips expectantly, dripping with intangible black mist dragon saliva.

"I will be able to return to the main material world soon. This feels really good."

Cassius flapped his wings as hard as he could and managed to keep himself suspended in the air. He looked up at the shadow dragon that was much larger and more terrifying than himself as if he were facing a formidable enemy.

[Depending on your own strength, you can observe the following information]
【Mouthpiece of the Night-Mortifer】

basic ability:???
Challenge Rating: 21 (33000 XP)

Comment: Mortifer came to the Shadowfall seven hundred years ago and lived here. He enjoyed the desolation and desolation here, cursed all light and life with resentment, and longed to spread the darkness and evil here.

He often transforms himself into a wizard who calls himself the "Mouth of Night" and signs contracts with humanoids with hidden traps to lure them into corruption. Eventually, he turns villages and even towns into death places filled with dark spirits, greedily absorbing their power.

"legend."

Cassius's expression suddenly changed.

Challenge level 21, an absolute legendary existence.

And due to the special nature of dragons, his actual strength will only be higher than on paper.

In short, this was an existence that a whole team of legendary adventurers could barely fight against! It was even enough to cause a plane-level disaster!

Since Cassius came to Erezega, he has never encountered such a strong opponent.

The Mouthpiece of the Night - Mortifer. Cassius had heard of this name in his previous life. At that time, it was already the 4.0 version of [Plane Expedition]. It was said that this was the final boss of the high-difficulty side quest [Dragon Shadow City] in the Underdark.

But Cassius never thought that he would encounter such a powerful enemy now. After all, in his eyes, the Anzeta Wasteland was just a desolate and remote area, not worthy of the attention of those bigwigs.

However, his estimate was incorrect.

Obviously, this shadow dragon is very interested in spreading darkness and death in the Anzeta Wasteland and turning it into a dead place.

In his previous life, Duke Brad disappeared after his ascension ceremony was destroyed by an explosion. There has been no news of him since then. It seems that he fell miserably into the hands of this shadow dragon.

"We must not let him actually descend into the material world!"

This was Cassius' only thought at the moment.

(End of this chapter)