First Legendary Dragon: Starting With The Limitless System novel Chapter 51

Chapter 51: Light and Darkness

The group continued traveling throughout the day, crossing rivers and villages while talking and laughing. They stopped at a place to eat lunch together as well.

Before quickly leaving on their journey again. As the Neruthal City came closer and closer, the atmosphere started to turn somber and quiet.

Orion looked out at the road and realized that fewer and fewer pedestrians were walking in that direction. ’Looks like the aftermath of that battle was worse than what I read,’ he thought.

They passed by a few quiet villages until only the ruins of villages started to appear in their line of sight.

It should still have been morning—birds chirping, insects making noises—however, something along the way had changed quietly, before Orion and the others could recognize.

"Felt something different?" Eldric asked, looking at Orion with a half smile.

Orion focused on his surroundings, "No... I don’t hear any—" His eyes slightly widened as he realized, "All the noises are gone..."

"Exactly. No birds, no wind, no sign of life." Eldric heaved a deep sigh. "Those demonic bastards did this here. Not leaving a sign of life."

Orion looked out of the window, and he could still see green trees in the surroundings. "Then how come there are still these alive trees?"

"The kingdom asked for help from the Holy Church. Those with the Light Affinity can purify the Darkness of the Demons," he explained while looking at the lush greenery outside. "Even though the Church Priests did their best and even restored the majority of this place, signs of life are still missing."

"Even if we bring insects, animals, or birds, they would either die after a while or just run away. The kingdom asked for advice from the Holy Church again but all they said was that it would take time for this place to heal naturally." He finished saying in one breath.

Selene placed a hand on his shoulder, "We tried to purify this place ourselves, but we couldn’t come up with anything. The dead bodies of demons and humans once filled this place—maybe this issue rose from that time."

Orion became silent, focusing on Eldric’s words. ’Darkness element brings corruption? Is my Darkness Element the same? But... I—I thought darkness was the absence of light, not the corruption of everything else.’

Eldric noticed Orion’s deep contemplation ever since he mentioned Darkness. He decided to expand on it. "The Darkness element is the opposite of Light. Where one purifies, the other corrupts. The demons are mostly born with Dual Elements, with one being the Darkness and the other being one of the other elements."

"They corrupt the natural element with their Darkness and make a fused Demonic Element—Abyssal Flames, Nether Water, Hell Wind, etc. But this doesn’t give them that big of a boost against normal elements. It gives them a corrupting power which eats away at the mana of their opponents. That’s why fighting with them always leads to a pyrrhic victory."

Orion looked at Eldric in surprise. ’No wonder I didn’t find many details about the Darkness element in the library. It’s something like a forbidden element to the Humans.’

"Are there any Darkness affinity users in this kingdom?" he asked, ignoring the demons for a second.

Eldric raised an eyebrow, "Brat, you aren—" Then his gaze landed on Rina and Fiora, who were looking at him curiously. He held back on asking whether Orion wanted to master the Darkness Element as well.