Desert of Death!
As Feyola had met the Crown Prince of the Eternal Human Empire Klaus and began travelling with him, Damon was currently facing a harsh battle as he moved towards the Southern Obsidian Moon Domain. It had been 1 day since Damon had left the Elven Empire and entered the Desert of Death, which was the necessary path that persons needed to take to arrive at the Domain.
"Elemental Grasp!" Damon's voice sounded through the tyrannical raging sandstorm. One after another, different spells shot out. Firstly, green vines made of the Earth Element appeared and bound the attacking enemies. Then, chains of Darkness appeared, sapping out the strength of the opponent and weakening them. Finally, chains of lightning wrapped around the attacking enemy, zapping it constantly and leaving it's skin charred.
Currently, Damon was battling against a horde of Sand Worms. Damon didn't know why, but the second he had entered the Desert of Death, sworms upon sworms of Sand Worms and other monsters within the depths of the desert all charged at him, attacking him constantly. Damon felt as if the entirety of the Desert of Death's monsters were focusing on him.
Strangely enough, Damon also felt like the monsters were seemingly running away from something.
"SUMMON!" Damon's deep, annoyed voice echoed out and suddenly, his shadow expanded tremendously. The various shadow monsters that were held within his shadow silently appeared and immediately dove into battle.
The most noticable monster was Kaldr, the Shadow Elemental Fenrir that Damon had obtained. Kaldr sprung out of Damon's shadow and leapt into danger, swiping his claws ferociosly and slicing an enemy Sand Scorpion into pieces, quickly shifting onto the next enemy and engaging in fierce battle.
"FREYA, PREP AN ATTACK, I'LL GROUP THEM!" Damon let out orders towards his other combat partner, Freya, who was his World Spirit.
Brilliant golden lights were currently radiating from Freya as she slashed an Eye of Golden Lightning, a tyrannical array of lightning strikes emitted from the eye and smashed into the attacking enemies, burning them to a crisp.
"On it!" Freya said after hearing Damon's words.
"ARISE!" Damon said, immediately ressurecting the various dead enemies Freya, Kaldr and his Shadow Soldiers just killed into more Shadow Soldiers. Along with him turning more enemies into Shadow Soldiers, the shadow beneath Damon's feet spread out, too. And it covered the entirety of the sand's surface at a frightening pace, as if someone had poured a bucket of pitch-black ink onto the floor, the claws and jaws of various monsters rose up as shadows as the joined the battle.
"Spacial Divide!" Damon casted, a purple glint of mana flashing across his eyes. The Space in the surrounding area collapsed and split, and all of the monsters were forefully shifted to one side of the spacial divide, grouping them up together.
Freya flapped her wings as she floated in the sky, a ferocious storm of wind appearing due to the flaps. Then, suddenly, a gigantic magic array appeared on the ground, and a pillar of light shot out of the ground, enveloping the attacking enemies. Countless chains of light appeared and bound some of the assassins, who couldn't break free from it no matter what.
Then, the mana in the surrounding area grew restless as Freya began chanting her next spell. A terrifying amount of mana gathering in the surrounding area which caused a shock to everyone. A gigantic magic array appeared and suddenly, a 50 meter long sword of Heavenly Lightning descended from the skies towards the enemies.
As the heavenly lightning sword flew towards the ground, the space in the surrounding area trembled slightly and the attack crashed into the ground.
~BANG~BOOM!
A terrifying implosion erupted in the surrounding area, shaking the entire desert due to its power. As the smoke cleared and the dust settled, a massive crater filled with the blood and body parts of the various dead sand monsters appeared, signifying all of their deaths. From sand worms, to sand scorpions to sand wolves, the dead bodies of various sand monsters were present.
Damon's breath heaved as he looked at the dead bodies around him, immediately ressurecting them as Shadow Soldiers. Freya flew down from the sky, hugging Damon gently from behind, her volumptous assets pressing against Damon's sweaty back as his breath hitched from tiredness.
Kaldr had walked up in front of Damon, lowering his jaw as Damon softly pet Kaldr's fur.
However, throughout all of this, Damon was very confused. Damon had heard many stories about the Desert of Death and the dangerous journey it was to arrive at the Southern Obsidian Moon Domain, yet Damon knew for sure a over 12 hours straight of monster horde attacks was not something normal at all.
Yet, Damon could feel instinctively that not only were the monsters desperate to kill him, but they were also seemingly running away from something. Damon couldn't tell what the monsters could possibly be running away from, giving their power and immense numbers, the thing that could force all these monsters to run away had to be absolutely incredibly powerful.
During the time Damon had spent travelling, he had arrived at the Peak Stage of the Spirit Formation Realm and Peak Stage of the Mana Foundation Realm, and Damon could easily sense his breakthrough, just needing a quiet place to go through with it.
"AWOOOOO, AWOOO, AWOO, AWOO, AWOO!!!" Suddenly, Kaldr roared and howled over and over again, jumping around terrifyingly as all of Damon's various Shadow Soldiers immediately got into position. Similarly, Freya immediately leapt into the air, unravelling her beautiful wings and floating in the sky, her eyes holding a deadly killing intent.
Suddenly, Damon felt the sand around him changing, whirlpools of sand appearing as Damon could sense a terrifying monster lurking underneath the sand.
Suddenly, the jaws of a absolutely humungous monster pierced out of the sand, leapting into the air ferociously. The monster was completely jet-black, and it's scales were sleak and beautiful. The monster rose higher and higher, before finally looking downwards towards Damon with its deadly red eyes that hungrily gazed at Damon. The monster's jaws were leaking the blood of various monsters it had killed alongside deadly poison that could kill with just a touch.
The sand glided off of it's scales and as the monster appeared, terrifying sand typhoons, sand tornados, sand storms and various other insane natural disasters all occured, as if the end of the world was coming for sure.
Damon had heard lots of stories about this monster. In fact, Damon's mother, Sapphire, would tell him bedtime stories when he was young about the terrifying and dangerous jet-black serpent that could devour anything. According to Damon's knowledge, the serpent in front of him is an unfathomably large serpent that dwells deep within the continent.
Damon was sure what he was seeing wasn't even close to the full body of the serpent, even though what he was seeing was already over 10x larger than the Berj Khalifa from his previous life.
This monster was terrifying. At full power, it had mastered the Law of Death, Law of Slaughter and Law of Devouring. Damon had heard stories of the adult monster devouring entire Empires or even devouring entire dimensions effortlessly, sinking all their inhabitants into the eternal void that was it's stomach.
Damon looked at the monster and cursed, mentioning its name:
"God Devouring Serpent: Jormungandr!"