Dimension Weaver: My Wife Is The Dragon Empress!

[Dash (Level 1): Using this ability, your agility increases by 10%. Requires Aetheris to activate.]

Reading the notification, Talon's face beamed. This was the perfect skill he was looking for.

'Thank you! At least my luck isn't completely shit!' Cursing loudly, he immediately channeled the energy in his body and activated the skill.

Immediately, he felt his body grow lighter and his feet less sluggish. A blue aura flashed around his body before it vanished as his steps increased rapidly. Using this newfound speed, Talon navigated his way through the destroyed forest that was increasingly turning into a broken mess.

He didn't know if the world was even going to last with all these earthquakes that hit it. He lost count of how many had happened in the past minute or so. It was simply hell on earth.

"Where do I go, Acrypha?!" Talon asked.

"Follow me." She replied.

Without asking any further questions, he moved after Acrypha as fast as he could. Crossing a large distance in a fairly small amount of time.

His eyes were completely focused on Hyun-Jae who was still on the ground, being pushed left and right. Her body was being rolled around, getting awfully close to the cracks around her.

'Oh no!' Talon's eyes widened as he saw how she was barely a few inches away from the edge of one of the craters.

'Faster! Faster! Faster!' Talon murmured as he barely dodged a huge crater that formed in his way.

Meanwhile, Hyun-Jae slowly continued rolling toward the hole, unable to stop herself. Eventually, her body slumped into it as she slowly slid down before completely falling.

But, at the last second, Talon dived down as he grabbed her arm.

"AGH!!"

Because the arm he used to grab her was the injured one, the pain he felt at that moment was like hell. He could barely move a few fingers on that arm so holding on to Hyun-Jae was brutal.

"Come… On…"

Meanwhile, Hyun-Jae, who was dangling into the hole slowly opened her dazed eyes as she looked around her. She had been unconscious for a few minutes now so she was unaware of what happened.

The feeling of her arm being pulled woke her up and made her look up. Through her vague vision, she could see a very familiar silhouette.

'... Talon…' She didn't know why they were in such a situation, but she felt her instincts telling her that she was in an extremely bad situation.

"Grab… Into… My arm… Hyun-Jae!" Talon clenched his teeth as he felt blood seep out of his injury with each moment he tried to exert any kind of force. Instead, he put his spear down and extended his second hand for her.

'Grab… Into his arm?' She asked herself. 'He seems… in pain… I need… to do… what he said…'

With that in her mind, Hyun-Jae moved her hand and grabbed into his with whatever power she had left.

When that happened, Talon was able to push himself and pull her up from the hole slowly.

"Hah… Hah…" When Hyun-Jae emerged from the hole, she fell next to him as he heaved up powerfully.

'I'm completely spent… I can't move at all… This is crazy…' His eyes were wide awake, but his body had reached a completely new level of exhaustion. A level where Talon just didn't feel anything anymore which wasn't even a good thing since that meant that his body was probably self-destructing just so that he could move around.

But, even he knew that he couldn't simply stay there or both of them were going to die. He had to somehow leave the forest.

"Come on, Talon. Just one last push! The exit shouldn't be that far away." He murmured to himself as an encouragement.

Then, he clenched his teeth and rose from his position before he slowly picked up Hyun-Jae gently not to harm her back.

Then, he quickly rushed toward the exit of the forest as fast as he could. Things were crumbling down on his head due to the relentless expansion.

But, using his senses that were way sharper than ever before, he was able to somehow dodge most of the things that rained down on him. The ones that he couldn't dodge, he had to tank their damage as he hugged Hyun-Jae tightly to protect her.

He made sure that she didn't get hit at all. However, he was completely oblivious to the fact that Hyun-Jae was now aware of what was happening around her. Even if she couldn't move or speak, she understood that Talon was heavily injured and that he was protecting her with his own body.

'No… Don't… You're harmed… Please…' She wanted to speak but she couldn't at all. The injury on her back had cost her most of the blood in her body and whatever was left was barely keeping her alive and conscious.

The degree of the damage was almost at the same level as Talon's if not worse considering her ribs and backbones were visible in some areas. Yet, she didn't care at all about that. Her worries were all about the young man who was putting his life on the line to bring them back to safety.

Seeing the pained look on his face as he struggled hard, Hyun-Jae felt a myriad of emotions. Her heart ached seeing him in so much pain and she felt even more frustrated knowing that she was being a dead weight.

She blamed herself for not being able to hold her ground against that woman. All of it was because she was extremely weak. That alone made her curse herself again and again constantly.

As she was like that, she heard Talon's voice close to her.

"Hold on for a little longer… Ok?"

'Huh?' Looking up, she saw him smiling faintly through his pained expression.

Even in such a situation, his voice still carried endless confidence and reassurance. So much that even Hyun-Jae's heart was put at ease just hearing him. Something about it always eased her worries.

"We will make it out alive." He continued. "I promise."

'How… does he always… do this…' Hyun-Jae asked herself as she felt her heart beat even louder.

She didn't know why but at that moment, she was feeling intense emotions she never experienced before. Emotions that took her mind away from the world around her and made her focus simply on him… His touch, his face, his presence.

He had completely captured her entire being at that moment.

***

"What is happening?!"

"Holy shit! It's the end of the world!!"

"Help me!!"

Right outside the forest, the group of students was thrown into chaos. The sudden earthquakes caught them by surprise. They had known that the expansion was going to happen but its brusk nature wasn't expected.

What made it even worse was the fact that Talon and Hyun-Jae were nowhere to be seen. They didn't leave the forest along with the rest of the students.

"Calm down, everyone! Running around frantically won't save you!"

In that crucial time, Chin-Hwa stood in the middle and yelled loudly. "Don't forget what the president said! Stay in your positions and move together!"

His words caught everyone's attention and made them halt. Chin-Hwa had always been someone with great authority and respect amongst the students so his words were very valuable.

'Where are you, president?' Meanwhile, the cold prince himself was having the dilemma of a lifetime.

It had been a few minutes since he left the forest and Hyun-Jae behind. After that, he could hear explosions and gunshots in the distance. He didn't know what was happening and his worry was eating away at his consciousness.

"S-Sir!"

"What?" Chin-Hwa turned around.

"I-I can see two silhouettes approaching us! I can't identify if they're monsters or humans!" The scout replied as he pointed into the distance.

"Where?"

Hearing that, Chin-Hwa immediately rushed to the forest as he took a look. There, a little far away, there were indeed two silhouettes heading toward them through the crumbling forest.

It took a second for Chin-Hwa to identify them since they were completely covered in blood and dirt. They appeared like wretched monsters in the distance. But, he would never mistake her for that kind of monster.

"P-President?!"

(A//N: Thanks to everyone who supports the book with power stones and golden tickets, you guys are the best:) )