I woke up to a very bad feeling. I uncurled and winced. My tails took bandages out of my dimensional pocket and bandaged my abdomen, they also bandaged tail 3 and 4 which had done a great job in keeping me alive.

  Something large moved, something green and serpentile; it was Inyr. “Young fox! Wake up! Something strong is coming!”

  I noticed. Jeez I can’t take a break.

  Inyr uncurled and looked south. “It is coming.”

  How about we run away?

  “Not my style, but I think that would be wise.” I covered us in illusions, hopped on Inyr, and he flew off toward the west. It took 10 minutes before the threat had arrived. The threat was interacting with the illusions I left behind. I recognized the threat and wasn't someone I wanted to see.

  Inyr let's go faster! It will just be a matter of time before it becomes apparent that I left illusions behind!

  Inyr sped up as he climbed higher into the sky. We were nearing the Lucidus mountain range when the illusions got broken. It took a while, but we felt that something locked on to us.

  “I must say your ability to get into trouble is unrivaled.”

  Hey come on not everything can my fault! Any chance this is your fault?

  “And why would this be my fault?”

  Give me a moment, I’m still working on it.

  Inyr evaded various fire-based attacks after the threat closed in on us with some strange skills.

  Go away!

  “Return my darling to me!”

  How about you go home! Your darling is waiting for you there!

  Inyr evaded an [Explosion]. “Do you know this person?”

  I do unfortunately. Shoo!

  “How about we talk about what you did to me the last time we met. It has been a while. I can’t accept this!”

  Uhh too bad reality doesn’t care whether you accept it or not, Inyr go faster!

  “Hey I’m a wind dragon not a race dragon.” Inyr complained.

  Zack teleported in front of us and created an enormous [Firewall]. “Tell me! Where is my darling!”

  Still as scarred as ever, did you look under your bed?

  Inyr ascended and flew over the enormous [Firewall]. “Taunting another Sarian god, you sure have guts.”

  Stop giving commentary on everything! We need to get out of here. Nilah, do you still have mana left?

  Nilah jumped out of my 5th tail and Zack recoiled. “Get that abomination far away from me!”

  Nilah gave me mana and I used a dimensional teleport to get us away. I just woke up, but I was exhausted again. Inyr landed, and we hid inside a cave in the Umbra mountain range.

  I think we have a problem. He didn’t seem really upset, which means he probably didn’t see what we did to Bizax.

  “Then he must be blind, and why would that be important?” I told him about the relationship between Zack and Biian. “Master and pet eh? But he is in love with that Sarian goddess, how complicated.”

  Yeah, he’s a pushover but I don’t want to anger him in this state.

  Something far away erupted, and it wasn’t a volcano.

  Uh oh, I think he found out. So ehh Inyr. I know that you are a wind dragon, but how well can you dig?

  You could be reading stolen content. Head to the original site for the genuine story.

  “Worse than an earth dragon can fly.”

  Ugh, earth dragons and their janky flight. I guess I’m up then.

  “I wasn’t aware that you could use earth magic.”

  I can’t but you don’t need earth magic to dig.

  I covered the area in illusions to kill any sound or energy waves that might leave this place. I started up [Tail Dynamo] and started digging by blasting the earth below us with red lightning. It took me 5 hours to get to a depth where I felt comfortable before [Elgard Overload] got used to close the hole behind us.

  We were currently in a space I had hollowed out nearly 4 kilometers underground and I was exhausted.

  I’m exhausted! Again! But I want to see what Zack is doing.

  I waited out the 80 minutes by relaxing in my tails and then activated my Elgards eyes to see what Zack was up to while tail was in charge of creating illusions to make this space habitable for dragon and fox.

  Zack was looking everywhere. He also had his own cult that spread out and tried to find us.

  I’m sorry Inyr. I think we’ll be here a while.

  “That is fine. I haven’t napped in centuries; I could certainly use one now.”

  That’s a good idea.

  Inyr curled up and went to take a nap and I did the same.

  Nilah woke me up a week later. Inyr was still napping. I activated my eyes and went to find out what was going on. Zack was still looking for us. He sure does go out of his way to find us. All for love, scary.

  I wondered if it was love or just infatuation. I personally couldn’t tell the difference. Would I turn every pebble for someone I was infatuated by? Probably not.

  I decided to sit this out as I didn’t feel like fighting another god. I also had better things to do. I started to analyze the information my 5th tail had compiled about the dimensional probe.

  It had run into some issues; It had run into a swarm of fairies. The probe was damaged, but there was good news! The fairies were heading for some place that wasn’t our dimension. The fairies had chipped some frost off the probe, which was now stuck on a fairy. The little fox in the probe was tracking the fairies with that.

  I would have covered the probe into countless frost shards if I knew this was a possibility. I might not get this lucky again. The fairies were heading for a dimension, the first dimension the probe had found since it left. But it was far away. It would take 2 months before the fairies would get close enough for me to find out if it’s one I’m looking for.

  That is 2 months, my time. I might have sent the probe a bit over a week ago, but over 4 years have passed for the probe. It made me worry for my buddies. They’re all immortals so them dying of old age wasn’t a problem, but they might have been stuck for over 200 years while to me only half a year or something might have passed.

  2 months was quite a long time to wait, but that wasn't an issue, I have time. Inyr was still sleeping and Zack was still looking for us. I kept tweaking my mana skills and practicing Dragonvein. I attempted earth Dragonvein since I was deep underground. It was… unpleasant but my tails had a way better shot at it because they were way stronger than me was it possible that a strong and sturdy body is needed to do this?

  My tails used crude but effective earth Dragonvein attacks. My tails didn’t get tired. the ambient leyline energy had decreased again, and it was worrisome. my expectation was that the Dragonvein deep underground should have been fine, but that was wishful thinking. it was another problem, but it wasn't my expertise, even though I was probably the only one that used Dragonvein. I wasn't a Dragonvein researcher like I was for magic, so there was no way I could deal with this.

  I sighed and looked at the surface. A month had passed since we hid down here. Zack was still looking and Inyr was still sleeping. We might be here for many more months if he keeps looking. I had enough food so there wasn't anything that motivated me to leave our underground hideout.

  Another month passed, and the dimension the fairies were passing didn’t have anything that was from our dimension. They were, however, just passing by. Maybe they had another destination. I couldn’t detect another dimension, but at least fairies were consistent in invading other dimensions, so they must have a way to find out which dimensions can be invaded.

  It might be possible that Elliana, Raishin and Greg had ripped a hole in the dimensional fabric after arriving, which might attract the fairies! I clung to this hope.

  Back to our own dimension, why does Zack think we have Biian? It’s not as if we can capture a god. Capture a god… not different from sealing a god. Does he think we sealed her as Azu sealed him?

  I paced around.

  That’s possible. I had once started on something that could seal a god, but I never completed it. I looked at the napping Inyr while thinking that legendary and mythical beasts don’t adhere to normal standards and with a ‘Nap’ he could’ve meant sleeping for 100 or 200 years. I would leave him here if he naps for that long. It made me wonder if Tero, the earth dragon might be napping.

  The world is going to shit, and he is napping through it. I slowly got convinced that he must be napping.

  My probe had found nothing yet. My only results were from the lucky encounter with the swarm of fairies. I sat down and petted Nilah. Nilah had been practicing more foxfire skills and was now quite good at it. But 2 months and still nothing eh? How long until I find something? And how long until Zack stops looking for us?

  Zack gave up on month 4 and the end of the year was nearing. The merger with the other dimension had made our years longer, and the months had been adjusted. Strangely, we could get away with having 45 days per month and still getting a full year as a year now had 520 days. It made me wonder how long a year would have been if this only consisted out of 1 dimension.

  The new length of the year was poorly received. The logical way was to adjust everyone's age accordingly, but the masses found it too much of a hassle. My tablet had poor reception, but it could still catch some mana waves from the surface if I got to a specific spot. I had to dig up a bit for it though.

  So, someone decided to make a new calendar. His surname was Dumery, so after December 40th, the last day of the year, the first Dumerian year would start. This has all become a huge pain in the ass, but nobody could have prevented this.