Austin also found that there was a faint red flame floating above the old man's head.
The fire looked very weak, trembling and swaying in the breeze as if it would be extinguished at any
time. Anyone who was not paying close attention would easily miss it.
When Austin inadvertently discovered the red flame, the man in white and Henrik also detected it.
Apparently, both of them regarded it with a severe expression.
Based on their reaction, the two of them felt a sense of fear towards it.
"Sir, are you referring to my friend?"
Austin asked.
Like a light bulb moment, he quickly deciphered what the old man was trying to say. He realized that he
was referring to the fire source beast!
"Yes, it's the friend with you just now. He's my junior clansman,"
The old man confirmed and looked at Austin kindly.
"Just a few moments ago, we had plans to get out of here, so I teleported him into one of my human
worlds.
If you want to see him, I can let him out,"
Austin warmly offered.
"That would be nice, young man. Please do. I want to meet him,"
he answered with a courteous smile.
Austin immediately teleported the fire source beast out of his body.
"Did we do it? Did we escape?"
The fire source beast immediately bombarded his friend with anxious questions as soon as he got out.
Then, he found the man in white and Henrik still standing in front of them.
"Oh, Austin. We didn't make it, did we?"
He frowned. He could instantly read the situation within the vicinity―from there, he already knew the
result.
"You're right, I'm sorry.
That guy's strength was too overbearing.
I wasn't able to run away from him."
Austin shook his head and gave his friend an apologetic smile.
"I should be the one who's sorry, Austin. If it weren't for you helping me, you wouldn't have entered this
place.
If we had known that things would end up in this, we would have made a detour,"
the fire source beast apologized sincerely.
"Even if you made a detour, he would still come to you."
This time, it was the old man who answered his statement.
As soon as the fire source beast appeared, the old man's eyes never moved away from him. He was
obviously very enthusiastic to see his junior.
When the elder spoke, the fire source beast felt apprehensive and shifted his gaze to the voice's
owner.
When he saw the old man, he was completely stunned. He stared at him with an incredible expression
on his face―he was beyond speechless.
He felt like it was just a hallucination, or an apparition. He could not believe who the person was in front
of him!
But in the same manner,
he also looked very excited that his body could not stop trembling.
The old man matched the intensity of his enthusiasm. He looked at the fire source beast with
unmistakable excitement.
They looked at each other for a while, taking each other's presence. Finally, the old man uttered,
"I didn't expect to see a descendant of our race after so many years.
It means that our race still has a chance to prosper,"
the old man blithely stated, his voice full of hope.
Hearing the old man's words, the fire source beast no longer had any doubt. He went forward and
kowtowed before him.
"Sir!"
the fire source beast said loudly. "It's nice to finally meet you, sir!"
Tears welled up in the elder's eyes.
"The pleasure is mine! Well, get up. You don't need to act so formal around me." He helped the fire
source beast up with his trembling hands.
"Sir, was this place really our territory before?"
the fire source beast immediately asked.
Although he had always told Austin that this space and time was the place where the fire source beast
race lived before, there was still this lingering uncertainty within him. After all, he had only encountered
very few of his kind in his entire lifetime. He had no avenue to confirm if it was true.
But now, he was right before one of his seniors. He could finally know the truth behind it.
"Yes, this is where our race used to live.
Back then, the fire source beast race was very powerful and authoritative.
We were even as famous as the dragon race, which was leading among all the legendary beasts."
The old man nodded and proudly answered his question.
"Is there really a dragon race among the legendary beasts?"
Austin confirmed, shocked at the mere idea of encountering one.
In fact, when he was still on Earth, he had already heard of the dragon race. Later, Austin left the Earth
to travel farther and wider. He had explored the outer space, and he even reached the Absolute Space
Sea.
As he journeyed, Austin had encountered countless kinds of races and legendary beasts he had never
thought existed,
but never once in his life had he ever seen a dragon.
He even rarely heard of them in stories or legends.
Therefore, Austin figured that the dragons did not exist at all, but they were merely tall tales passed
down from generations to generations.
But now, the senior fire source beast just mentioned the existence of the dragon race.
He wanted to know more,
but seeing that the old man and the fire source beast were excited to reconnect with each other, Austin
did not dare to disturb them.
"If we were so powerful, then why did our race die out?
Why is this place where the ancestors lived now desolate?"
the fire source beast inquired further, a little sad for the legacy of his formerly influential race.
"During that time, our territory was highly coveted by strong enemies. Many of them came and invaded
our land, and all members of our race fought back.
Although we defeated them and drove them away, this caused irreparable damage to our race.
As we were recuperating from the destruction, a ghost took this opportunity to break into our territory.
He was very powerful. It also did not help that our race was still in its weakest state. He took advantage
of this opportunity to attack us. In the end, he had killed most of us."
The old man gnashed his teeth in anger as he recalled the past.
"Sir, do you mean that a single ghost broke into our territory and annihilated our race?
It's not a large group of people from the ghost race, but only one ghost?"
The fire source beast asked, stunned that a single creature was capable of doing such.
"Yes, only one.
It was that ghost alone who almost wiped out our race,"
the old man nodded and answered.
"But I have seen a lot of ghosts here before!
There are countless of them frolicking around,"
the fire source beast expressed his confusion.
Previously, when Austin tried to escape, he transported the fire source beast into a human world inside
his body.
Inside it was a very strange law that had a huge restriction on the power of spiritual sense.
Therefore, the fire source beast could not perceive anything outside,
so he had no idea that the man in white was the only true member of the ghost race.
"The ghosts you saw before were not real.
They are just illusory avatars.
As far as I know, the ghost race has only one member and he is the only one existing in the entire
space,"
the elder patiently explained.
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