I was sweating, not out of fear but out of excitement. My heart raced as I saw the big monster come out of the bush. It was bigger than a mountain lion with scales all over it, a slender body, and bat-like wings behind its front legs.

It looked like ... like a small dragon.

“A fucking wyvern!! --- another beast from the books!!” I expressed my excitement.

Jane nodded nervously, then I saw a glow under her palm. I looked at her with a wide grin on my face.

“We're doing this, right?”

“You're enjoying this, aren't you?”

I shrugged as my hands glowed too. A lightning blade formed under both my fingertips. Jane formed her beautiful long katana that she made using her ice element. I always admired it.

I sprinted towards the first Wyvern, and I said to Jane,

“You're not going to freeze on me, are you?”

She rolled her eyes.

“Very funny.”

She sprinted towards the cave and used her swordsman skills on the first beast that came out. Heads off, clean cut. She dodged the falling body and blood splatter and her eyes were fixated on the next target.

Three of them came out of the cave. She held her ice katana in one hand and threw icicles with the other hand. The wyverns weren't the target. She aimed at the ground for a reason, to freeze it.

 Like an ice princess, she glided on the frozen ground while the Wyverns slipped, trying to stand on the smooth surface.

She stabbed the first through the neck, slit the next one's throat, and the last one got his front legs chopped off. It didn't suffer long before she finished it with one swing.

“Cold, beautiful and dangerous,” I teased her.

She glanced at me, wearing an arrogant smirk in response. Then she nodded, warning me of the Wyverns coming at me from the forest.

My fight was a bit harder than hers because they were stone Wyverns. My element was weaker than theirs. Stone negates electricity, simple physics.

However, if my attacks were strong enough, they could burn the minerals in the stone and damage it. But I liked the challenge.

I threw lightning at them. The electrical charge irritated them, but it didn't hurt them much. While they were distracted, I charged my lightning blades and cut three of them in a flash. My blades didn't go as smoothly as I was used to. I only broke the outer shell.

The other beasts slammed the ground, causing it to ripple and go straight for me. They were trying to throw me off balance.

I dodged the stone needles that followed the minor quake. This gives me an idea.

I waved my hand, and metal needles flew out of it. They penetrated the skin of all ten of them, but it didn't hurt them. That wasn't the point.

They growled in pain, but it wasn't over. I turned my back to them and snapped my finger. All I saw in my peripheral was flashes of light. It started slowly at first, with one flash, a second, a third, and then it went faster multiple times, followed by a big flash.

Since the needles were deep in their flesh, they could feel my attack this time.

Jane looked at me.

“I should've brought some shades.”

“And a towel,” I replied sarcastically, pointing out the blood that covered her clothes.

“Ha-ha-ha, very funny!”

She tapped her body, and all the blood fell like glass off her face and clothes.

I heard another growl, and I snapped my fingers again, knocking the beast unconscious.

“You're not going to kill them, are you?” she said to me.

“You know me, I have a soft heart for claws and fangs.”

“No, you just need another pet.”

Well, she wasn't wrong with her guess.

“Don't be so cold-blooded Jane, they might like your ice-cold hands.”

She grinned at my stupid pun as she usually does and told me,

“Enough playing around. Let's figure out where they came from.”

When we were about to enter the cave, a water Skyrider landed next to us. It was Sylas's.

If he was already here, that meant everything was under control.

“I guess I missed the show,” he looked around.

“You came at the right time. The main event is about to start,”

I rubbed my hands together excitedly.

He got off Hydor and joined us.

“Let's figure this out,” he said excitedly.

“Well, this is a first!”

It's not everyday I see Sylas excited about something.

We walked inside, a few steps into the entrance of the cave. A purple glow peered around the corner, with a bit of white and yellow hues flashing.

Sylas looked at me and raised an eyebrow. I shrugged, informing him I had no idea what could this be.

We turned around the corner and the light got even brighter. Then we saw what it was. In front of us was something that looked like a window hanging in mid-space. We could see something on the other side. It looked like a lake and a green field.

Jane held my arm tight and said,

“I've seen this before”.