Soon enough, Dash arrived with an anxious look on its turtle face.

"Let him in." Elric requested to the Guardian Elder and the latter quickly nodded before sending a telepathic message to the Guardians outside.

"I know Elric is inside because I can feel his aura. What did you do to him?" Dash, who is currently as big as the Guardian s.h.i.+p itself asked with a threatening voice.

"He is waiting for you inside. Please follow me Mr. Overwhelmingly Mighty Glorious Dash." The soldier replied promptly before the opening the entrance door.

Hearing his self-t.i.tled name being spoken by a stranger, Dash felt an unexpected pride swelling up to his giant heart. However, he remained vigilant as he slowly transformed back to a smaller version and followed the Guardian soldier inside.

Soon enough, Dash saw Elric standing on a dimensional door together with an incredibly tall Guardian.

The moment he laid his eyes on the Head Elder, Dash felt an unexpected calmness but wariness in front of the Guardian in long white clothes. In other words, he could feel at peace before the latter but he also does not want to mess with it. He could see an intimidating eye and overflowing mental energy emanating from its head. A sign of an incredibly powerful psychic being.

But remembering Dash's purpose for coming he hurriedly flew before Elric's face.

"Hugon Kid, I am afraid I cannot stay any longer here in the human realm. Moments ago, I felt the call of the Elemental G.o.d."

"You mean the Elemental b.a.s.t.a.r.d?" Elric said remembering how he almost got trapped inside the Toray, the destructive connecting s.p.a.ce between different dimensions.

"You've met him?" Dash inquired.

"Not just 'met' him. It was more than that. I fought with him on my way to the Earth Elemental Realm. He felt like I was threatening the balance of the Elemental realm and had to eliminate me. But the b.a.s.t.a.r.d is friggin weak and just when he was about to lose, he power tripped me by forcing me out of the Elemental Realm and sending me to the Toray." Elric explained his hatred towards the G.o.d of the Elemental Realm. 

Listening to him, the Head Elder Guardian could not hide his shock. 

'Did he say he fought against the G.o.d of the Elemental Realm? And he had been to the Toray?! That extremely destructive s.p.a.ce in between the dimensions!? So was he just pulling his punches all this time?' The Head Elder thought in a series of questions. 

As much as he wanted to ask his questions, right now is a perfect time to gather more intelligence from the beings that had gone to the elemental realm. After all, as beings in pursuit of absolute knowledge, every single word that Elric and Dash muttered is extremely important for his calculations in the future.

With more variables revealed, the more accurate his calculations will become, and the easier it is for him to antic.i.p.ate future events!

"No wonder why I cannot find you there," Dash said with an enlightened face before adding, "To tell you the truth, a day after you left, the whole Elemental realm was in utter chaos."

"What do you mean?" Elric asked with a curious face.

"Apparantly, the G.o.d of the Elemental Realm summoned all of the Elemental Lords."

"And that includes the Great Seer Mhata and the rest of those Lords I haven't met..." Elric mumbled.

"Yes. At first, I thought it was just for a formality so I went to the proclaimed meeting place - the Dark Water planet. The matrix of Elemental pa.s.sageways. However, when I got there in a form of a small turtle to not stand out at all, aside from the Elemental Lords, I saw a bunch of mysterious beings that I haven't seen before. They were surrounding two Eastern Dragons that are bound in indestructible lightning chains a top on a certain wide table. For some reason, it looked like a sacrificial ceremony to me."

"The Outsider. Those mysterious figures could probably be them. The people are responsible for everything that has happened.The wars in the Elemental Realm, the fall of the Eastern Dragon race, my rampage, and everything else... Te" Elric muttered as glanced at the Head Elder nodding understandably. 

Then Elric, looked back at Dash, "Tell me more."

"I saw an old woman the closely resembles how you look when I first met you. Do you, by any chance know her?" Dash added in question.

"That was my grandma," Elric said with a tightening fist. "But the soul inside that body is not my real grandma, rather, it is my distant ancestor who happens to be a powerful spiritualist from the Realm of Light."

"Your grandma? And a powerful spiritualist is controlling it inside? But why was she there? And how come it seems like the rest of the mysterious figures are closely acquainted with her?"

"Because she is part of them."

"Your one controlling your grandma?"

"Yes, and not just her. I think every other Elemental lord is also part of their big conspiracy. And the one leading them could be the Great Seer Mhata, under the command of the Emperor." Elric revealed his thoughts according to his deductions.

As much as he hates the feeling of being used and betrayed, to keep a calm mind and counter the enemy's plan properly is much more important than basking in sorrow and defeat.

After all, as long as his grandma's body is intact with the soul to follow later and the two Eastern Dragons still alive, his hope remains to be still alive.

Feeling confused, Dash suddenly said,

"To tell you the truth Hugon kid, I do not know now who to trust anymore. When I got to the meeting place, it seems like everyone do not like me. They gave me those condescending stares. As if I am a lower life form. I am a Lord too you know." Dash said in mumbling tone before adding,

"Even the G.o.d of the Elemental Realm, who is supposed to be the strongest one and in authority, acted like a little child before those mysterious figures. There was just too much questions that I need answers..."

Facing Elric, Dash said,

"The Great Seer Mhata explained to me the situation. She said they were preparing to fight an incoming invasion of the Shadows who came from Realm of the Darkness, that is why we met in the Black Water. However, I have my own doubts from what she said."

"What did you notice?" The Head Elder asked this time, completely curious while his head started to glow again albeit a more faint one compared to before. A sign that he is currently doing some calculations.

"I noticed that there was not a mood of preparation for an attack. Everyone, except me, was in a merry mode as if expecting an incoming old friend! The main reason I came here is because The Great Seer Mhata foresaw an incoming death to Elric from the hands of the Dragons of the three Regions." Dash explained with a serious look on his turtle face.

"And without hesitation, under the authority of the G.o.d of the Elemental Realm, I opened a dimensional portal, and just when I was about to dive in, The Great Seer Mhata told me..."

Seeing the confused look on his friend, Elric went closer to the floating turtle before him with a serious gaze.

"She told you what?" 

Dash revealed a struggling look of doubt and unbelieving. The face of someone who seems to have realized that he has been scammed for a long time.

"She told me to bring you back since the Elemental Realm might need your help on the coming invasion. I gave her a quick nod since I was in hurry to think a lot about it. But now that I think it over, I realized that something was indeed amiss." 

With a frown in Dash's eyes, he said,

"When she mentioned your name, the rest of the Elemental Lords and the mysterious figures gave this excited glint in their eyes. I may look small and indeed a naive one, but I am not that dumb to fail in noticing their drooling mouth while holding off their laughter."

"I knew it," Elric said as he faced the Head Elder.

Dash, still not getting it added, "You mean..."

"It's a trap." The Head Elder explained as he looked at Elric with a more confident tone.

"Remember my calculations that you will fail if you go now? I can prove it with the help of this young turtle here."

Then, the Head Elder looked at the little turtle before tapping his finger to Dash's head.

"It will take us a whole day If I explain to you what is actually happening and what needs to be done. Allow me to aid you in understanding."

Ting~

Suddenly, all the new information and revelations that they had realized surged to Dash's mind like an overflowing waterfall. Dash fell down to the ground for a while from the dizzying information that had just surged in. 

Dash, felt a great headache still throbbing in his head and it took quite a long time for him to finally relax completely.

The countless years of events and planning. From the day that Elric received the Ancestral's power and up to today. It was all because of the Great Seer Mhata's influence after all! Everything is now clear to him.

Now Dash has an enlightened look. His eyes were as clear as the starry night, he faced Elric and the Head Elder Guardian with a resolute gaze.

"How can I help you Hugon kid?"

Elric looked at the Head Elder Guardian beside him, prompting him to give Dash their mutual instruction,

"I have a plan to prove all our theories, the problem is that it is too risky. Are you willing?"