From Another World

twenty three

His claws were holding my neck tight, I was unable to breathe nor move.

"Now, I got you cornered Shane. There's nothing you can do about it."

Think Shane, think. I don't want to ruin my second chance at life just like this! Come on Shane, think of something. If I use any of my magic it might destroy the entire building. I need something light but powerful, think Shane... A gust of wind seeps through the hole Dominique has created, that gave me an idea! Do I even have wind magic? I don't know but it's worth a shot.

Visualize the wind and the air itself. Something appeared in my mind, a wyvern? It then occupied an empty space on one of the eight diamonds, and I feel it. The power of the wind itself!

I concentrated mainly on my wind magic and gusts of wind surrounded my body, making a field of wind blades around my body as Dominique was astonished and quickly backed up.

"W-What is this? Lord Asmodeus said you only had three elements; earth, fire, and lighting. It's unusual to see you have a fourth element."

"Heh, I'm more surprised than you are." I redirected the blades of wind one at a time at every move me makes, he's fast but I've hit him with about one or two times. That should make him a bit slower. The room was small and I just minimized the power of each wind blade to avoid destruction, but as I continued to send out wind blades, he quickly pounced at me but as I increased the power of each wind blade he dodged much faster while coming right at me.

I wanted to dodge but I just knew it was too late for me! I closed my eyes in anticipation of being shredded into pieces, but after a while, I didn't feel a thing. As I slowly open my eyes Dominique was floating right in front of me frozen in place as his claws were nearly about to tear me up. W-What is this? Why is he just frozen right in front of me?

I heard a slight growl just right above me. A wind spirit in the shape of a wyvern was just above my right shoulder, it was a small spirit like the shape of a regular snake, and does that mean they can vary in? I didn't realize that my avatar just popped up out of nowhere, is that even possible?

I cleared myself up and looked around Dominique...

"W-What did you do Shane?" Dazel questioned me with an astonishing tone.

"What is it Dazel?"

"H-How?"

"What?"

"I mean, er- how did you summon your avatar without properly chanting? I didn't even saw you open your mouth!"

"I-Is chanting really needed to summon my avatar?"

"T-That's how you solely summon your avatar, if you say something specific more than 'Come' your avatar would be much stronger, and larger in size but that depends on the situation, but how were you able to summon an avatar this time? It's also different..."

"What do you mean something more specific?"

"I don't know how to explain this but it's been something almost everyone knows. Are you not from here?"

"U-Uh, I-I..." Is chanting really a thing in this world? Yeah, some people including myself chant spells but they don't say anything special? On the other hand, does it only apply to avatars? However, Wyvern is much smaller than Pegasus, does that mean chanting really does improve their power?

"Forget it, for now, let's do something about Dominique here. How did you do this anyway?"

"I-I didn't do anything in particular. It was on him." I said at her while I pointed at Wyvern.

"Your avatar did this? How come this small of an avatar can stop a demon lord? Dominique is the king of the beastmen." She was scared all of a sudden, based on her reactions.

"I really don't know how this happened. It seems like he compressed the air around him making him unable to move?"

"C-Compress?! Is that some sort of w-weird magic?"

"Uh, what I meant to say was the air around him was sucked up towards him. He's still alive but can't move until it wears out." I should be more wary of my word choice now...

"I s-still don't get it but okay..."

After that, Dazel helped me by escorting Dominique outside the building as I was surprised that the debris and the destruction left by Dominique was gone, but the walls looked craggy and were about to collapse at any time. Did Wyvern do this? Well, I must be impressed but I should fortify the walls. As I touched the wall, I imagined a thick brick wall as the wall slowly thickened up and was sturdier than a regular brick wall I had imagined.

It's as if that nothing happened and I hope no one questions us what happened, because I can't deal with them yet. I have so much on my mind now, how avatars work, how am I going to resolve this problem against the demon lords because they see me as a threat now.

"Shane..." Dazel just said out of the blue, while we were carrying Dominique somewhere no one can see him.

"What is it Daz-I mean Diamond?"

"U-Um, if the Demon King orders me to restrain you. Will you hold back on me?" She said pitifully

"But, will you do it?"

"I-I really don't know. To be honest, I've recently been attached to you and the others that I don't want to hurt you, at the same time I don't want to disappoint the Demon Lord. I don't want to go back to becoming a normal dragon again, I want to turn into a human-like this from time to time."

"It's still up to you. It's your decision. But if you do restrain me, am I allowed to resist and break free from you?"

"I don't know-" As Dazel was about to add something, a loud explosion was heard from behind us.

That made me remember. "The Guild!"

I didn't hesitate to run towards where the explosion came from because I knew that was where the Guild was, and Diana and Sylvie are there! I don't know what to think but the only thing in my mind right now is seeing if both of them are alright.

What could have happened to both of them?