(3rd person POV mysterious valley)

The air was heavy with anticipation as the stirring form of the great black dragon strained against the glowing golden seals binding it to slumber. Dense mana of a red color radiated from it like a miasma of dread with every moment leading an new “pang!” sound as the seals shattered one by one. From the moment the first seal gave way it had been a race against time to prepare defenses before the cascading seal failure reached it’s end.-

Finally with a resounding “PING!” the last golden thread of sealing snapped and the world seemed to pause as the closed eye of the beast snapped open with an ancient raw power that blasted the air. Intense cracking sounds like ice breaking filled the air as the coiled body began to stretch and shake off it’s long dormancy. Each flex of a dense corded muscle caused the ground the crack and shake while the clouds above were obliterated from the roiling magical pressure of the monster merely awakening. Lungs took in air like a typhoon and the beast raised it’s arrogant head and roared.-

“RAAAAAAAAAA!”

The sound a shockwave that shattered the valley and carried for over a hundred miles and great dreaded black bat like wings unfurled from the beasts back. With a single casual flap a hurricane tore apart the surrounds and devastated the land for miles around it and it’s miles long body lifted into the sky. It’s red slitted pupil locked onto a single direction with a hatred and rage so focused it practically cut through space to make Orario quiver in fear. The a lurch of power it accelerated towards the great city.-

It’s speed like a swallow in dive it broke the sound barrier easily and without effort. It only traveled for a span of no more than five minutes before it detected the first trap set for it and narrowed it’s eye in disdainful pride as it flew straight into it. Space warped around it as it tried to restrain the beast. Tried to trap it in a loop of area as hundreds of massive black blots like spears were sent up from the small toys it saw on the ground. These bolts were like a cloud as no space was between them and they blotted out the sky above.-

Magic rippled across the dragons obsidian scales and exploded outwards with a forceful push of it’s will. Space shattered like a pane of glass cracking to reveal a sheer absent void of nothingness and the red magical wave evaporated the bolts and all those toys that sent them while the trap that held it vanished with a whimper of futile resistance. Without care the dragon began to move towards it’s target once more only to moments latter get obstructed again. This trap looped it in time and the calamity admittedly took a few minutes to realize it was passing the same area in repeat.-

Baleful aura erupted from the dragon at this annoyance and with a raised head it roared. This roar was different than it’s previous one, this was an attack. A ripple passed from it’s mouth in all directions and space quaked and shattered as time was forcibly unraveled around it. One moment the dragon was trapped and the next a dozen miles in every direction of it was leveled in an instant sonic pressure wave. With a snort the dragon moved on as though nothing had happened. More and more of these strange traps attacked it with only the one that attempted to send it to the void outside the world almost succeeding. –

It was delayed for an entire hour after having begun it’s journey. Anger at this was boiling within it as it homed in on the insect that shared the strange aura that all of it had.

(Normal POV)

I felt my traps fail one after the other as I waited atop the wall watching the direction of the beasts approach. Ottar stood to my right and the other adventurers who hit level seven and all but a few sixes were deployed at the foot of the wall and across the city.-

We felt the beast long before we saw it, like a wave of malice pressing down on us invisibly. At first it was like a small dark dot at the edge of our vision but it’s speed made it grow larger and more dreadfully clear with every millisecond.

“CONTACT!” I yelled as I shot off the wall to intercept the beast.

The thing barely slowed down when it registered my approach and raised a scaled claw to swat at me like I was a fly. It DID stop however when instead of turning into red mist like it seemed to expect I sheared off one of it’s claws with erasure.-

Not that that was good for me mind you as the big dragon focused a single crimson slitted pupil on me and snarled as magic gathered in it’s chest and shot out of it’s mouth. Not a breath of fire but a pillar of calamitous erasure all it’s own. Distilled pure destruction. I instinctively got the fuck out the way the moment it looked at me and so wasn’t erased like the fifty or so miles of land that was one second there and the next turned into a white hot canyon.

{Author note: New Skyrim story out now!}

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