Kaiser of the New World (Ch 200+)

The reality of it all (231)

Kai had known there was something special about the blizzard for a while.

It began back when he was in the cell of ice that he had called home for a month. Cecilia had told him that story about that gargantuan fireball at the peak of the mountain that had been countered by the blizzard reacting to the threat.

That was when Kai first learned there was something off about the blizzard.

Then, while he had been riding the titan's leg, he would always catch glimpses of various things that would vanish the next second, as if they had never existed in the first place.

A frozen lake? Nope, it would disappear the next moment.

A tree? No, the land was all flat with the odd hill, there wasn't a single tree.

It was like the things he saw were being obscured by some unknown force.

And now... Kai knew what that force was.

The goddamn blizzard around them.

And the worst part was...

It had also been obscuring the Royal Peak.

Before, the mountain had looked incredibly tall, but not that horrifying. Kai had thought to himself it would just be a long climb and that would be it.

Turns out he had been wrong, so wrong.

After he had gotten close enough to the base of the mountain for the blizzard to decide to stop deceiving him, Kai was now able to see the Peak in all its unimaginable glory.

Up close, it was much, much taller and much more menacing. If before it looked like a spear trying to pierce the sky, now it looked like a fang of some horrifying beast that had been ripped out of a mouth by some other unimaginable monster.

The blizzard was swirling around the mountain, the amount of snow in the air getting bigger the higher up he looked. Down at his current level, it wasn't that bad, but the higher Kai would climb, the worse the blizzard would get.

There were chunks of the mountain missing, pillar sized pieces just gone, the aftereffects of the fireball all those billions of years ago.

The parts of the mountain that weren't coated by snow were pitch black, the exact same colour as the legs of the titan they were just on, making Kai wonder if the two were somehow related.

But that was not the worst part.

The worst part was not the fact the blizzard would get more overbearing the higher they climbed. The worst part was not how steep the mountain actually was. The worst part was not the fact the mountain had been obscured by the blizzard.

No, the worst part was the gargantuan bones that were clinging to the mountain's body.

The bones of some unimaginable monster rode up the mountains entire body. It looked like there was a tail down low, which slowly continued up the mountain, eventually connecting with a ribcage that manages to fit about half of the mountain inside its broken bones.

The bones were incredibly thick and massive in size, Kai had no idea how to even begin describing them, all he knew was that he didn't want to imagine what had killed the titan that was now clinging to the Royal Peak.

There were other various bones scattered on the sides of the mountain, those bones having broken off of the main body at some point in the past eighty billion years.

Kai's neck continued to crane as he kept looking higher and higher, his eyes tracing the gargantuan beast's bony corpse.

However, no matter how high he looked, he could not spot what remained of the titan's head.