Reaper's Resurgence - Book 3 - Intermission 3 (Patreon)

A Random Island in the fused Dimensional Block #108/105

Ethan frowns as he flies through the air searching the volcanic territory of the other Dimensional Block that had merged with theirs. Just trying as hard as he can to find some fire affinity magical ore.

But the only ore he manages to find keeps ending up in civilizations. In cities and nations already built within the Block.

And it’s starting to reach the point where he’ll just ignore the warning Astrid and Alexia both gave him and walk up to the cities to take it from them.

He manages to just barely stop himself from doing that though when he finally finds an active volcano with plenty of fire affinity magical ore in it. Even more than he needs.

After collecting it all, he proceeds to fly back through the Blocks without a single care in his mind about the battles and war zones he passes by.

If he remembers correctly, from what Astrid had been telling him at least, the war has been progressing without either side ending up on top. At this rate, if it continues as it is, then both sides of the war will end up losing most of their Authority Holders. And while Ethan couldn’t care less who wins, he does at least realize that it would be a pain if some other Dimensional Block decided to up and enter the Block to take it themselves and then kicked him out.

Of course, Ethan would just kill them for doing it and reclaim the Block, assuming The Reaper and her sister didn’t do it first. But it would still be a pain to him.

So he has considered a couple times interfering with their war and just killing the leader of one side to get them to shut up with their drama.

But he hasn’t done anything up till now. And he doesn’t plan on doing anything.

As long as the drama kids leave his island and The Retreat alone.

He continues flying through the air in his true form, ignoring any and all signs of combat around him. Only to get a rather unpleasant surprise when he arrives back at his own island to find his cave destroyed.

Rage immediately fills him at the sight of it before he lets out a loud roar and quickly searches for signs of who did it, smelling the island and then following the scent he finds.

The smell ends up leading him to a battle on an island several thousand kilometers away from his own. One with both leaders of the two Dimensional Blocks in attendance.

All of the fighting stops immediately when Ethan lands with a loud crash in the center of the battlefield. And every single eye locks onto him amidst the newly brought about silence.

Ethan doesn’t immediately attack the people on the island though. He’s not stupid enough to fall for an obvious trick. He can tell right away that the scent in question doesn’t belong to anyone here, no matter how hard whoever placed it tried to mask the scent.

But it doesn’t change the fact that whoever did it was trying to interfere with this war by using him.

And that’s the last straw in his patience.

Whether it was the fault of those here or not, he will end this war now.

One way or another.

“Bring your leaders here!” Ethan shouts, his voice echoing out over the entire island as he remains in his dragon form. And right away, both the dragonborn and the giant appear before him with trepidation on their faces. “Decide on a winner between your Blocks now or die. You have ten minutes to choose.”

One of the giants in the background immediately shouts, “What right does a-” Only to go silent when he freezes over, unable to even finish his thoughts.

Meanwhile anyone else who was opening their mouths to speak closes them again without a word.

Even the leader of the giants whose name Ethan can’t remember just grits his teeth and glares at the leader of the dragonborn. A leader who is simply bowing his head to Ethan, looking like he’s in awe of being near a dragon.

Then the dragonborn leader turns towards the leader of the giants and they begin fighting. All while Ethan continues sitting there, not paying any attention to their battle but instead searching the surroundings for the one who pulled him into this. And after a brief search, he finds the responsible party and sends a wave of hellfrost straight over there with a spell and freezes them alive without killing them.

By the time he returns his attention to the two fighting leaders, he finds the giant winning the duel, albeit only barely, and only because the dragonborn was already heavily wounded beforehand.

But Ethan doesn’t care about fairness.

“If this war isn’t ended in the council by the time the sun falls, I will kill the rest of Dimensional Block #105’s Authority Holders myself,” Ethan declares before flapping his wings and flying back up into the air amidst the silence. And without pause, he heads over back to his island while controlling the hellfrost-covered pawn to float along with him.

After Ethan reaches his cave, he throws the frozen man who is wearing a black cloak down on the ground, shattering his ice before he slams his clawed foot down on him while asking, “Who do you work for?”

The man in question simply screams in pain as his lower half is crushed. So Ethan freezes said lower half to numb any pain from it and repeats his question.

This time they just shake their head, making him narrow his eyes. But before he can do any more to him, his head turns to the side as he senses Astrid approaching.

And he immediately finds her giving him an exasperated look, the girl no doubt having learned about what he did.

“Just couldn’t stay out of it, could you?” she asks, not paying an ounce of attention to the person under Ethan’s clawed foot.

And that one sentence for some reason makes Ethan feel cowed.

What is it with these sisters?!

Ethan glances to his cavern and says, “People tried bringing me into the war, so I decided to stop the war so that no one would try it again.”

Astrid just sighs at that, making Ethan feel weird again.

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