First year on the Dumerian calendar or Year 585 of the New Kaledonian calendar, which was outdated by now.

  I had gone ‘missing’ again. Normally this would have been no big deal but because everyone forgot about my tendencies it had adventure parties going around looking for an A-rank adventurer that had suddenly disappeared and possibly died. At least Tania was aware of my tendencies, probably.

  I’ve been down here for 5 months with no progress. At least Zack stopped looking for us. Inyr was still sleeping and I was sitting in my corner with reception. The adventurers had finally defeated the Boshi Town stage of my Nightmare dungeon. They thought that was the only floor. Ha! Noobs! They got absolutely destroyed in the Event Horizon floor.

  They were, however, bragging that they cleared the first floor. It took them almost 2 years after I created the dungeon to clear it. I’m not impressed. It gives me a good indication how long it would have taken us if we were humans. Imagine trying almost 2 years to get out of Boshi town. Ugh. That is a true nightmare right there. But well, the team that cleared it was a group of 2 parties, so 12 members and they had only 3 humans in them but still. We could have been hard stuck if we weren’t mythical beasts.

  7 months had passed since my buddies had gotten sucked up into other dimensions. I never thought this was going to be easy, but I could use some good news. And it came!

  The probe detected a swarm of fairies nearby. The probe will go through it and get some frost shards on this swarm too. It would get chipped intentionally now, and it was a success! These fairies were acting as probes now. I had 3 probes now! Was what I thought, but the first swarm of fairies got wiped out an hour later.

  Why does this need to happen to me? The shard had fallen into the dimension nearby and picked up a very strange signal. It picked up a fragment of our dimension. A fragment? Like a Dimsha? What is a Dimsha of our dimension doing in another dimension? I sent my probe at that dimension. Unfortunately, it would take a month to get there, even with continuous warping. But at least I have something.

  I sighed and leaned back. I was petting Nilah with one hand and holding my tablet in another. The tour of the idols was coming to an end. They had spread a lot of happiness in these rough times. The idols and Yttroz Industries were seen as the light in the darkness. The beast kin were now seen as highly favorable next to witches, dwarves and elves. They have succeeded.

  Acceptance of other non-humans was also growing, largely in the south. About the north... There was a lot of talk about the ‘Fight that shook the Heavens’, the ‘Rain of Fire’ or the ‘Legendary Rampage’. Some sources said it was caused by 2 gods fighting each other, but the majority pointed out that an enormous dragon had been spotted, hence ‘Legendary Rampage’. The cause of the fourfold blood moon was yet unexplained, but the consensus was that a dragon and another legendary or mythical being being fighting a god. It was quite clear who they were fighting, though.

  Most were indifferent on the fate of Bizax. A lot of people had the correct conclusion. The goddess picked a fight, and the mythical and legendary creatures retaliated. An argument could be made for the opposite, but dragons had stopped razing the land for no reason millennia ago. Early surveys had also confirmed sightings of Biian chasing something north.

  Whatever she was chasing seemed to have been fast, and the humans were racking their brain on what legendary or mythical creature can move extremely fast, use colorful fires and create blood moons. They failed to come up with anything which worked out well for me.

  Half of Hjuva had seen a Sarian goddess get her ass kicked. Although it might be beneficial, at least the faith in Biian had plummeted. Her religion was done for. It was currently held up by Zack and his religion. She treated him as a pet, and now he was doing her a large favor.

  I hate Zack and hope he drops dead but I hope for him that he gets treated a bit better by her. That will probably not happen.

  It had been a popular topic. Most people were under the impression that legendary and mythical beings were extinct or near extinct. They were correct in that, but it still excited them. Some idiots went out to find Inyr and me. Which failed, of course. But the interest in the mythic and legendary had awakened. Which in turn made the idols even more popular as they were know to be mythical beasts by now. It seems that I at least did one good thing.

  I rubbed the sore spot on my side. It was healing slowly, but still painful. The painful scorches on my tails weren't healing at all. I would have to address this sooner or later.

  I changed the bandages around my 3rd and 4th tails and I hugged them as they had saved my life.

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  So many things had happened and distracted us from our goal. Getting to get to know ourselves better and getting stronger, but also finding Hourai and I wondered if auntie Neia was ok. Then again, I haven’t visited my cousins since forever, since it’s somehow always summer when I think of them. I would also have to deal with all the charm magic flying around. I didn’t want to turn into a love-struck zombie so I would avoid doing that.

  The second wave of fairies headed for a dimension. I was getting a signal! This is Elliana! I was happy, but then realized that my probe was already on its way to the suspicious dimension. My 5th tail had made a map, so I now know where Elliana is. It would take 2 months for the probe to get from the suspicious dimension to Elliana’s dimension after it reached the dimension it was currently heading for. So it will get there in 3 months.

  Pfff, this sucks. I had considered making more, but they would need at least half a year to get there. I had to make sure I did everything to get them back so I decided to create 3 probes.

  I got up and went down to the space that had been my home for the last 5 months. Inyr’s presence was creating fresh air, so this enclosed space wasn’t a big deal. I went to the underground lake I had ‘dug’ out. I took a relaxing bath while creating the dimensional probes. These had multiple frost shards that would attach themselves to any fairy that bumps into them.

  The small frost foxes got placed inside, and I opened the filter that allowed me to see the dimensional fabric. I shattered an illusion layer, got my [Illusionary Dagger] out and cut into the dimensional fabric. It was big enough for the probes to pass. The dimensional fabric healed perfectly to my surprise.

  I expended all my mana to get the probes to chain warp, completely exhausting myself. This sped up their progress by 4 months and this caused me to need another long nap.

  Nilah woke me begin April which meant that I had slept for over 2 months, I wanted to speed up the progress of the probes yet again when information flooded in. The suspicious dimension had a Dimsha. The funniest part was that Raishin was holding this Dimsha.

  This idiot, he had one all this time and never told us or used it? It made me find him, but he is going to get the scolding of his life. The probe had managed to enter the dimension but was still navigating the dimensional structure to get to Raishin.

  It did send out small foxfire pulses with my mana signature. He can’t interact with the dimensional fabric, but he can dump energy into it. I was only confident that Greg could pick up on this, but it didn’t hurt to try.

  The probe that headed over to Elliana’s dimension would arrive in several days. The other two were looking for Greg.

  3 other signals from frost shards on fairies pinged. How many fairies are there between dimensions? It's quite a terrifying thought. Are there other things that live there besides fairies?

  I put snow in my ears because Inyr had started to snore. It probably started when I was asleep because he was snoring when I woke up. I went back to my ‘adequate reception’ spot and checked out what was going on in the world.

  A lot of strange creatures had appeared yet again. Even the races that had appeared here with the dimensional collision had no idea what they were. Also, a lot of fishermen in Gavin had gone missing. The fishermen won’t remember me but… I still hoped they will be ok. I will pay them a visit whenever I can. There was some gigantic ghost fish that they were talking about and that it must have caused the fishermen to disappear. All I could think off was on how it would taste.

  I decided that I had stayed down here for long enough. All I had to do was wait. Elliana and Raishin were fine since I had picked up their signatures. Just Greg was left. I cleaned up the underground cave and patted Inyr who was still fast asleep.it was unlikely he would wake up so I melted a message in the wall for him.

  Nilah let’s get some fresher air!

  Nilah tilted her head and made a [Frost Mirror].

  Oh, I look like a caveman, well technically I am.

  I spent the rest of the day refreshing myself and dressed myself in some new clothes, originating from Jarn of course. I had to trim my beard and fix my hair. I had been walking around in this cave with my silver hair all the time, so I applied the cosmetic illusion to it to return it to appearing black with silver ends.

  Nilah approved of my look and turned into her sword from. I sheathed her and teleported to the surface.

  I looked around and took a deep breath.

  It’s good to be back!