"Asterion. How close are you to being an Annulium?"

  He thought for a second. "I don't know? There are not many of them in this country and I don't know of a way to check."

  Alista's eyes widened. "Would you like to check?"

  He looked at him and nodded

  "Just lay down somewhere"

  He laid across the table and Alista held his hand to his heart

  A hot but also cold force projected out of his hands covering his entire chest in a weird sensation for what felt like hours. "You're on the verge of being an Annulium. You should join us in the fight against Odin, you'll be able to advance after we kill him, you'll be able to get that bounty!"

  Asterion leaned up, then touched the skin where his heart is. "What was that? I was already planning on joining them for the bounty. however, since I'm about to become an Annulium that's another reason to fight with them."

  "I'll fight with y'all, as long as I get the bounty and I'm able to advance, i'll fight." Alista smiled and patted him on the back

  "Good, do you know what time it is?"

  Asterion looked at the clock

  "It's 8:52 PM"

  Alista wondered what they did here to pass time

  "what do the natives of the mountains do here anyway?"

  Asterion thought for a minute

  "We mostly just hunt Distorters, drink, harvest wood, and watch for Odin"

  "Distorters? what are those?"

  "What are Distorters?"

  His eyes widened. "How does he not know what Distorters are? Could they only be exclusive to this nation?" He realized that distorters might truly only belong to Alumbia, although he still explained it to him"

  "Distorters are the major enemy of Alumbia. The going theory is that they aren't native to this reality since reality seems to distort around them. Hence the name 'Distorter'. They travel in packs to make up for their lack of physical strength. The only way to realistically 'kill' them is to destroy all their organs before they can regenerate. Brain, Heart, etc."

  "I wonder if Zamor, has a distorter equivalent?" Alista turned to Fulcrum

  "Does Zamor have something similar to distorters" He asked fulcrum

  "Zamor's Version of 'Distorters' are Kaiju-like sea serpents. They are very destructive and very powerful. The biggest one I've seen was around ten miles long." Fulcrums expression turned solemn and looked like he didn't have good memories of it

  "So they're kinda similar to the sand worms from dune..." The full scope of that serpent entered Alista's mind and the possible devastation caused

  "How much did it destroy and how many lives were lost"

  Fulcrum sat down on a small wooden chair

  "It destroyed almost every coastal city, an uncountable number of lives were lost. The only reason it was stopped is because Uro froze it, along with nearly the entire sea"

  Alista's and Asterion's eyes widened in astonishment. "Uro really did that? So when we're fighting he was going easy on me?!"

  "Since y'all seem to be done with this I'd say it's time to get to sleep." Fulcrum stretched out and got comfortable in the chair

  "I'm going to sleep as well." Alista laid down on the couch and went to sleep

  12 hours later, halfway to Odin

  "So how are we going to find this dragon!" Ivo scoped out the mountains and turned to Asterion

  "He's almost as big as a mountain so it wont be hard to find him. you'll know he's in the area when you can barely see"

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  Bjorn wiped his face and spoke out angrily

  "This fucking snow wont stop getting in my eyes!" Asterion drew a symbol on his chest and a bronze helmet appeared

  "This will help a little bit" He gave it to Bjorn, Bjorn put the helmet on and silently celebrated. In the meantime, Alista had a barrier of wind circling around him, causing the snow to bounce off the barrier

  "This is taking too long" Alista said as an intense wave of wind similar to a hurricane ripped through the snow. as a result, the entire mountain was clear of snow revealing the frozen grass that was hidden beneath it

  Everyone looked at Alista until one of them spoke up

  "Why didn't you do that before!" Fulcrum annoyingly said at him

  "I'm conserving my energy, I don't want to waste all of it before the fight" Fulcrum still felt annoyed but he couldn't refute his words

  Suddenly the mountain shook as a white dragon with ice covering it leaned its head over the mountain. "Fuck..." Asterion said as he tapped his chest and a bronze armor surrounded him.

  Alista stopped time and grew in size to be like a giant. "If I can get everyone up there before time resumes then we could catch him by surprise!" Alista scooped everyone up, ran to the top of the mountain, and placed everyone down as time resumed

  Once time resumed the dragon blasted their previous area and froze everything in that direction. "Damn..." Fulcrum couldn't find any words to describe what had just happened all he knew is that they would've died

  Bjorn, however, smashed his hammer into the ground causing the side of the mountain to erupt with lava scorching the bottom of Odin and manipulated the lava to chain down Odin

  Alista grabbed Asterion and jumped on top of Odin

  "Inflict as much damage as you can!"

  Fulcrum shot lightning through the dragons neck, while Ivo caused a massive tornado around the dragon, Odin turned towards Bjorn and opened its mouth charging its icy breath. Time seemed to slow down as Alista jumped to its head, punched its mouth shut and then stabbed his sword all the way through his mouth

  Odin clawed at its nose but Alista already jumped back to its head and started punching the dragons head. "Go up in the air already you stupid dragon!"

  Fulcrum charged another lightning bolt, and imbued it into Ivos tornado. This made the tornado strike Odin across his entire body!

  The dragon slashed its claws at Bjorn and managed to take off his left arm, Ivo rushed over to Bjorn and pulled him up to the peak of the mountain while the others held back the dragon.

  Fulcrum saw this and started to merge with the Lightning circulating around the tornado. Once he and the lightning were merged, a powerful lightning bolt hits Odin, the dragon tried to escape it but was punched directly to the ground by Alista

  Asterion stabbed his sword into the dragons scales, the sword glowed a bright purple then blew up nearly taking off the dragons leg causing it to scream in pain and flap its wings stirring up a blizzard until nothing but the ice and snow can be seen.

  Alista stopped time, ran over to Asterion, and after a couple seconds time resumed

  "Hang on tight!" They both grabbed onto the dragons rough scales and felt it lift off into the sky, Ivo, Bjorn, and Fulcrum all saw this, and tried to chase but couldn't keep up

  "It's too fast!" Fulcrum said, he looked at Bjorn and rushed over. Bjorn clutched the stump where his arm used to be, then cauterized it while he screamed in pain

  "Where's Urizen and Asterion!" Ivo landed next to them and helped Bjorn

  "They'll show up, Urizen could survive but Asterion I don't know. however, we've got out of here!"

  Ivo picked Bjorn up, and flew down the mountain with Fulcrum

  With Asterion and Alista

  They felt their oxygen leave their body when an unfamiliar, booming, and evil voice entered Alista's mind "What does it feel like? does it feel cold, lonely, and barren?" Alista gritted his teeth. "Pipe down" He grew to be 15 feet in size, clutched Asterion, and leapt off the dragon.

  "Hold on tight" He clutched Alista and looked past him into deep space,here a metal, Gothic, and Continent sized building floated in the distance slowly getting closer and closer

  Alista saw a black spear zip past him, the spear stabbed through Odin, and blew up like an atomic bomb. As a result, the dragon died and fell towards the ground

  just as they were about to turn to ice for what felt like hours. A sudden, warm sensation entered their body, completely rejuvenating them. "Finally... the sanctum is here."

  The Continent sized sanctum shot a beam at them and pulled them in

  On the ground, with the Anhrams

  The air suddenly shook as ice flew everywhere causing them to almost drop out of the sky

  "Guys It's Odin, look at him..." Bjorn spoke with a scared tone as if he saw something truly nightmarish

  The Anhrams looked at Odin and saw something truly horrific

  "What could have done that..?" They looked to the sky where a large fireball was

  "Ivo take Bjorn, i'll get the heart" Fulcrum flew down to the dragons corpse and looked for the heart

  She watched him fly down there and quickly flew to Maldook. "Odin was missing most of his body! what could possibly do that to a dragon of his caliber?!" the sight of its horrific and desecrated corpse engraved itself into her mind

  With Fulcrum, still digging in the dragons corpse

  "There it is!" He saw the heart of Odin, cut everything around it, and tried to move it

  "How am I going to move this? If Urizen was here he could've just carried it easily" He thought of an idea and waited for Ivo to get there

  After about 40 minutes of waiting Ivo finally arrived

  "Ah! Ivo can you use your wind powers to move the heart?"

  "Yeah? What can't do it yourself?" She sounded like she was about to laugh but still picked up the heart with her strong wind powers

  My powers are built around offense! yours are utility based so give me a break!" Fulcrum sounded annoyed

  with Alista and Asterion, Inside the sanctum

  They slowly got up, wiped the ice off and walked down the long, wide, and metallic hall with a red carpet going through it

  "Where are we? Do you know?" Asterion walked behind Alista sticking rather close

  "A little bit, it shouldn't be long though" He walked through the hall until he stopped at a large door

  "Should be just beyond this door..." Alista pushed the door open, and walked into the dark room that seemed to be immensely large