Kapitel 166: Destination

"Do you know anything about that dragon behind you?" Broly asked Kulaan.

{Of course! This is my dad!} He had anticipated such an answer, but he was still stunned hearing this.

"Your dad is Alduin the World Eater?"

{I don't know about World Eater, but his name is indeed Alduin!} Kulaan was full of pride as he talked about his father.

{He is the strongest in all Nir!} Now Broly became confused as he listened to what Kulaan was saying.

"Nir? Don't you mean Nirn?"

{What is Nirn? I am talking about Nir, you know, Nir Is Nir...} Kulaan started rambling about what Nir was.

From what Broly could identify from the 'simple' explanation Kulaan gave, it was basically what they call everything in existence or this island to be precise. Aslan had called it Narn and the dragons call it Nir. Broly got suspicious as he thought about Aslan and the otherworldly feeling he gave off.

"Has Alduin ever told you stories about the past?"

{Yes, dad is telling me good night stories all the time!} Kulaan said happily.

It was an insane concept to think about a vicious dragon that had a parent who read a bedtime story to it.

Broly listened intently to what Kulaan was saying and filtered out everything he could understand. The stories were basically the same to what Broly himself knew from the game, but it was also largely different.

It was like the story was being passed on by many and then recounted through the perspective of Alduin. The perspective of the story was logical as Alduin was the one that told the story, but the differences were another thing.

For example, Alduin wasn't confronted in Sovngarde but somewhere in the mountains with several disciples of the dragonborn and there seemed to be cannon as well. There were other things as well. It didn't sound like a medieval setting at all.

Additionally, it all was supposed to have happened on this island. It was weird, but Broly didn't want to think about it anymore. He was already getting a headache because of Kulaan's long way of retelling. It took Kulaan almost three hours to recount a story of 20 minutes content.

For the next two days he still visited some temples to take a look. He thought that he may get other clues but before he was able to get something out of his effort, they had traversed the desert.

They finally got to the borders and had a snow landscape laid out in front of their view. It felt strange seeing, the two extremes with a perfect line dividing them. Broly had already guessed that almost everything what they saw would be man-made.

A blizzard seemed to be constantly going on, but they had no choice but to move on. Kulaan was fine even in this area. It seemed like he wasn't only unaffected by hot but to cold temperatures as well.

The cold temperatures themselves weren't a problem for the Saiyans either, but to have their vision obstructed was bothersome. The other races seemed to be okay with the temperatures as well. Maybe they were putting up a front since Broly was here too. Broly himself wasn't concerned that they would freeze to death. One could still keep themselves warm with ones ki.

They walked for a few hours before they were attacked by giant polar bears that sprung out of the thick snow. Broly was happy about the sudden ambush as he didn't have to eat spider and scorpions anymore. He was already craving for a big slab of some meat.

After the polar bear, big white Siberian tigers had tried to make them their prey. The Exousians made short work out of these big kittens and proceeded onwards. After some time Broly put Kulaan at the forefront as it was deterring some creatures from attacking them.

The snow area wasn't as big, but it had many mountains which would increase the time it would take to cross the distance. Broly felt an impulse as if he needed to reach his destination soon, so he wasn't in the mood to explore the area either.

He could feel the connection getting stronger and he didn't want to waste more time on this island. Although he wanted to move faster, Broly was aware to accustom their travelling speed to their weakest member.

For the next days they didn't let themselves be distracted and focused only on traveling. The training they had put on at the beginning was also mostly put off.

Only the last two Saiyans that seemed to have the potential to reach Super Saiyan soon were allowed to train.

The others only used their energy on travelling and putting up camps and such. It took them awhile to get used to the new terrain.

Their adaptivity, however, towards the environment was impressive to say the least. For the Saiyans Broly had accounted it towards their years of invading other planets and conquering them and the elves were already pushed to the brink of extinction and were forced to live in the extremes.

As for the other races, some were naturally accustomed to cold weathers and some had a difficult time in these weathers. Fortunately, they all had experienced numerous different situations and were quickly able to able to take countermeasures.

It took them four days to cross the snowy mountains until they reached a lush forest with enormous trees. This time the group was already used to the forest from before and instantly came back into a rhythm. Their speed increased once again. Broly had calmed down after the initial desire to increase their speed and told them to resume with their training.

The beasts they had encountered were very similar to the ones above but only a lot stronger. The beasts they had encountered all the way since the desert had always gotten stronger the closer, they got to their destination. It was obvious that this wasn't a coincident, it was a pattern.

Besides beasts, they encountered different creatures that seemed to be made out of elements. Most of them were made out of stone or water. There were some out of electricity or light. They all were very resilient to their ki attacks.

After they were blown into pieces, most of them would reconstruct themselves and start attacking again. The Exousians had to keep destroying them until they didn't. It somewhat reminded him of Buu who could regenerate from the tiniest number of cells. Broly wasn't even sure if they got rid of them completely after they didn't come back up.

Fortunately, they weren't wandering around in groups and also didn't seem to be instinctively hostile. It was only because Broly told the Saiyans, he wanted to evolve, to provoke them. He had hoped that they might leave something behind but since they had to destroy them completely, they had to leave empty-handed.

For another 3 days they travelled through the forest until they reached a large deep pit in the ground devoid of anything but a smooth ground of marble.

The ground wasn't made out of individual stones but the whole area seemed to be made out of one single stone.

In the middle of the pit far away was a giant white Greek temple with impressive pillars supporting the gigantic roof. The building was phenomenal. The size was unreal and intimidating. There was a taunting and otherworldly aura coming out of it. It was like the temple itself was looking down on him.

Two gigantic 300-meter-tall statues were guarding the entrance. They looked like roman warriors. A spear and a shield in hand. A large cape and a feathered helmet. Of course, the cape wasn't fluttering in the wind and the feathers weren't actual feathers. They were monumental statues made of solid stone.

The statues were only half the size of the temple, but unlike the temple Broly felt like they were looking at him like he was a challenger.

Broly was undisturbed by this he would just smash them into pieces. He took the first step inside the spherical area. It was slightly inclined, leading towards the temple.

The ground directly around the temple was even. It was quite obvious that a battle would be taken place there. Broly felt like he was about to face off a boss of a game.

He still hadn't figured out why Solutus had brought him here, but he didn't bother thinking about it. He would know as soon as he went inside that temple.

Taking a few steps, he realized something, he didn't hear footsteps following him. Broly turned around and saw that the others were hammering against an invisible barrier.

Broly squinted his eyes. He hadn't felt anything even with his astute senses. He couldn't even hear them scream, in fact he couldn't hear anything besides his own heartbeat.

Going back through the barrier without a problem, he realized that only he could go through it. He told the others to wait for him here. They knew it was pointless to argue as they had already tried to enter, but they still asked him to wait for his soul to be healed, however, Broly told them it wouldn't be a problem to fight now.

He knew it was an irrational thought as it would only take a few days to heal but every fiber of his body urged him towards the temple. He wouldn't be able to rest if he stopped now. He took some supplies just in case as there weren't any creatures on a way that he could eat.

It would take him maybe 6 hours of walking until he reached his destination. He took a bag of supplies, the sword and the golden triangle with him.