Overcoming The Beast

Leon paid and entered the Dome. It had lesser people compared to before at the beginning as the Competition had just ended.

Leon had to run the first five levels on foot. There were too many people watching and Leon as adamant on not summoning the Pride Beast.

Reaching the sixth level th Cold Mist Ghost Dragn said "I don't feel any presence in the real or other realm close by." It then expanded into a misty Dragon.

It picked up Leon and had him sit on its head. The most had hardened to ice do Leon to sit. On the Dragon Leon could finally see the wound in its proper form. As a snake it was a small frozen scar but now it was a long line of black aura on the Misty Dragon body.

Th Dragon didn't seem to mind the injury as it swam through the air at incredible speeds. It took a few minutes to reach the nineth level. Leon barely felt at resistance as the Dragon protected him.

At the ninth level th Dragon had slowed a bit. It landed on the ground and said in Dragon tongue "Lets cultivate here for now. If I reach any further in your body won't b able to Handle the Cold energy."

Leon agreed. They both sat down and cultivated. Leon cultivated the Mystic Ice art while the Dragon healed its injury. He had already reached level five in the art. The first five levels were Ice Manifestation, Ice control, purification, Cultivation enforcement and Second Purification.

The sixth level was Ice breaking. It required the cultivator to destroy the Ice they had and start the foundation for Mystic Ice. Leon had already Formed the Nascent Mystic Ice so he could skip it. However he decided to reform the Nascent Mystic Ice again and make sure it was strong as it could be.

It took a while and Leon had ice shatter in his soul. He formed a sword of Ice. It was completely clear. No other ice could be seen then the normal basic type of Ice. It was pure but also weaker.

"Let's start cultivating the seventh level." As Leon did this the Dragon decided to move a little forward. It then found another spot that was at the limit that Leon could handle.

The ninth level was one thousand two hundred and eighty kilometers long. Leon and the Dragon had barely reached hundred kilometers into the level.

Other seventh level of Mystic Ice art was Reformation. It reformed the Ice energy to Nascent Mystic Ice. This normally when cultivators form Nascent Mystic Ice.

Leon spent a few hours and formed it. Now he had formed quite strong and solid type as well.

He continued to the next two levels that required the cultivator to comprehend the laws of Ice and the laws of Mystic.

Laws were similar to runes. Runes could be called the truth, and laws were based of the truth to form a simple understanding of the element.

The art wanted only basic comprehension which was easy enough. Leon spent another few hours going through the eighth and ninth level of the art. The Dragon had also started moving forward again.

Leon finally reached the last level- True Mystic Ice. It was the formation of Mystic Ice energy and allowed the cultivator to form the runes for the abilities: Mystic Storm, Mystic Blizzard and Ice Beast's Roar.

Leon was hopping to form Ice Dragon's Roar but he didn't know how.

"How did Nova form Dragon Magic out of a normal art." It was really unprecedented. The whole continent had been shocked by the discovery of the ability Ice Beast's Roar if they found out it could form Dragon Magic the whole continent would have hailed Nova as their savior.

Leon formed the Mystic Ice. The Dragon had decided to go to the edge of the ninth level to help Leon breakthrough.

It weaved through the air and snowy mountains. Temperature dropped further down. It wouldn't be wrong to say reality was slowly freezing. It was like space was becoming ice.

Leon broke through. He reached his hand out and formed an Ice sword. The Ice sword was blue. The color, more of a Cerulean. It was beautiful and dazzling.

"This is the strongest Mystic Ice I've ever seen." Leon thought about forming the rune as he did he also thought of the Dragon.

"I forgot to ask you what abilities you know."

The Dragon spoke "I know Ice Lord, Ghost Form, Ghost Walk and three Dragon Magic called Frost Dragon's Sword, Cold Mist Domain and NetherWorld Dragon's Seal."

Leon nodded. Ice Lord was a high level ability that gave full control of Ice. It allowed the use of all basic ice abilities without chants. It even allowed ice magic.

Frost Dragon's Sword was an ability Leon had seen the Drgon use before. It should be a lot stronger now though. As for the other two Dragon Magic NetherWorld Dragon's Seal stood out to him. He had never seen a NetherWorld Dragon but it sounded like a strong beast.

Leon started forming the rune. He had assumed that since he had also been baptised by Dragon Blood it would be easier to form the Ice Dragon's Roar rune.

He made the Dragon help him from the rune as well. They both concentrated and formed the rune. It was much more alive compared to all the runes formed earlier.

"It looks like I was successful." Leon laughed. The Dragon nodded. Leon gave it the rune and was easily absorbed by the Dragon. Nothing big happened, the chang was all in the Cold Mist.

"Let's see how far we can go." The Dragon feeling a bit better started flying towards the tenth level. It had healed a little bit of its injury. It still needed more energy to completely heal.

Leon and the Dragon flew and saw a white wall in the distance.

"That should be the tenth level. It's quite small." Leon could see the drop in temperature before the wall. The space was so still that you could visually see the difference in space they were in and the space in the tenth level. Seeing the wall a few meters in Leon felt a bit disappointed that he had reached the end.

The Dragon however didn't slow down. It kept its speed. Even before the wall it only sped up.

Leon raised his eyebrow. "The Dragon could see the wall right?" Before he could say anything the Dragon went through the white wall.

Inside the wall was blackness. Leon couldn't move anymore neither could he see. However his soul sense was strong enough now to replace his sight.

"Even light has been frozen."

He had a clear picture of what was happening. The Dragon was moving forward but weirdly. It phased into multiple silhouettes. In front of him was a copy of himself and the Dragon moving forward. There was a copy of them behind him as well.

They traveled for a while and reached an altar in the darkness.

Leon could finally see. It emitted a different type of light. It was blue and cold. The alter had a broken statue and steps that led up to it. The statue was of a beast. That was all Leon could tell. It only had one leg left with crushed stone surrounding it.

"What is this?" Leon asked.

"I don't know. It should be source for all the coldness in this Cold Dome." Dragon replied. "I should also be able to heal here."

"That's good."

The Dragon lands on the alter next to the broken statue. The copies combined into one again.

Leon looked and saw writing on the ground. It was draw on using a sharp tool. It was written in runes. Runes had been the normal language on ancient times. So it this was most likely from millenniums ago.

"The Empress has left the continent through the teleportation Formation in the mountains. Like an imbecile she trusted her sister without question. Leaving the sect behind to me. I'm finally free from her watchful eyes. I can finally do it. Ice, Ice, Ice..." It ended with all the runes that could mean Ice.

"The person has gone insane that is for sure. Why else would they write all these runes." Leon looked at the thousand a of runes that all said ice.

"But what do they mean by free? Were they hiding something? What did they want to do?"

"The closest teleportation Formation in mountains is the teleportation Formation I came through. So she went to the Fire Continent. That is interesting, I haven't seen any records of it." Leon said doubtfuly

"The last Ice Empress did have a sister and was said to be very doting. This should he about her." Leon looked around more.

"Why would they need an alter? Looking at the rocks on the writing, the statue was destroyed after it was written."

"Could it be a failed experiment? A summoning ceremony of a high level beast?" Leon could only make guesses.

The Dragon had healed. It told Leon it was ready to leave. Leon also agreed.

As the Dragon flew up and started flying away the alter changed. The writing wrapped and disappeared. A line appeared on the ground. The line split to form an eye. The eye was white and had a purple star as a pupil. It watched Leon leave.

Leon felt uncomfortable. He turned back to see the alter. It was however unchanged and exactly the same. He felt that he really was getting paranoid after the chimera's evolution.

The eye had appeared again when Leon stopped watching. It watched Leon leave. The eye curved as if to show happiness and disappeared.