Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

As the moment to part ways approached, Seara found herself grappling with conflicting emotions. With a sense of hesitation, she gently reached out, clasping Rain's hands, silently conveying her inner turmoil. The weight of impending separation troubled heavy on her heart, and despite her desire to hold onto the fleeting moment, she understood the inevitability of his departure.

Even if it was temporary this time…
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Knowing well that she couldn't detain him indefinitely, Seara hesitated before making a decision. She cherished the time spent with Rain, yet she recognized the necessity of his journey ahead.

Still, Seara made up her mind. Since Terra married Rain first, Seara ended up ripping apart Rain's clothes first after his return and she didn't regret it at all. While Rain ended up staying another night on the island and it felt great, he was a bit worried because Seara had become strong and wild in the bed to the point that she almost broke his hips.

"I feel bad for saying this, but you should leave before morning," Seara said while she was resting on Rain's chest. "I don't want to people know why you stayed another night here."

"You change your mood quite fast… I can't leave naked, though," Rain said.

"... I guess I will borrow someone else's clothes without asking first," Seara said.

It was a weird and novel experience for Rain to leave the island, almost like he was trying to hide a bad deed in the middle of the night. Still, it was better if he didn't let anyone know of that, even if they were married… he didn't want to scar Sealyn's image of her parents for life.

In the end, Rain left the island while using the darkness of the cloudy sky to move southeast… now he just had to find his parents, Terra, Danny, Annie, Jori, and Reca… he felt like Jori and Reca, and their children will be very difficult to find since he could only imagine them wanting to live in peace until the end of their days.

"They were quite wild, all of them… so this sudden change only shows how much things had been exhausting for them," Rain thought. "I hope that they are fine."

Since he already had a direction, Rain focused on flying as fast as possible toward that direction… he even created one more Meditation Mastery ring to make him reach his destination faster. That had been a bit dangerous since Rain almost forgot about anything else and even at times, he forgot why he was flying… he had to take pauses pretty often and took one of the rings just to be sure.

Fortunately, it only took a day for him to reach the continent again… However, the conditions there were even harsher since the mana levels on the storm were insanely high.

"... The ice dragons must be nearby, that is why their spell is so powerful here," Rain thought.

As Rain approached the continent, the landscape below appeared shrouded in an impenetrable veil of thick snow. The intensity of the snowstorm was overwhelming, obscuring his vision to the point where even his heightened senses struggled to pierce through the surroundings.

The ferocity of the blizzard created an impenetrable wall of snow, making it nearly impossible for Rain to discern anything beyond a short distance ahead.

The howling winds carried a relentless flurry of snowflakes that accumulated rapidly around his domain despite his efforts to maintain clarity while in flight. The sheer force of the storm enveloped him, causing the snow to accumulate at an alarming rate around his domain. As the snow piled up, the biting cold began to seep through since it also had been created with mana.

Rain used the first seal for a moment and found that Terra was in the north now… he only felt a small amount of the mana since the snowstorm was getting in the way… without wasting time, he decided to land and then use Impulse to move. He had to recover mana, and he didn't want to waste time just waiting.

"Anyway, where in the hell there is a volcano here?" Rain thought as he used Impulse to move around.

In that layer of the planet where Rain exploded, the existence of volcanoes was supposedly an impossibility by conventional understanding. The presence of such volcanic formations posed a difficult mystery to understand.

Amidst the eruptions and melting landscapes, Rain's mind worked with possibilities. One conceivable theory he pondered was the prolonged stay of a fire dragon in the region.

The notion that a powerful fire dragon had inhabited the area for an extended duration sparked the idea that its intense heat might have significantly melted and altered the surroundings, giving rise to what appeared to be volcanic formations.

However, as Rain delved more into his analysis, another intriguing possibility emerged—one that veered away from the conventional understanding of natural formations. Considering the peculiarities of the landscape, he entertained an alternative hypothesis: the so-called volcano might not be volcanoes at all but rather dungeons…

"If the meteor killed most of the life in the continents, then the growth of the dungeons slowed down… but a bunch of dragons still died back there," Rain thought. "How many floors the dungeons must have obtained in the last one hundred years?"

There should have dozens of dungeons around… and now that Rain thought about it, they would be great places to gain power… and his family would think of that as well. Maybe that was why Terra was alone in the dungeon and they were training in one each.

"I guess I am not the only one who can use a training montage," Rain shrugged. "Regardless, the geography of the continent changed, so the location of the dungeons isn't the same as I remember…"

That would take a while, but Rain didn't have any other choice but to look for them… it was the only way he could use to find Terra, his parents, Dannie, and Annie.