XelanaTon felt the chaos, he could sniff it: the rage, the bloodlust and the smell of death that pervaded west of where he laid. Soon after, he heard the hooves of his fellow beasts. They ran afraid to him hoping for answers.
The ground parted and he revealed himself again. A part of him felt that he was too old for this, and he needed a successor. Hesk was a candidate he had considered but he had been nipped.
"XelanaTon!"
"XelanaTon!"
"XelanaTon!"
The group cried. He stomped the ground, and a quake brushed the ground.
"There is trouble. Hesk is, he is gone. There are others too, traitors and monsters, everything a radiant beast is not." One reported.
XelanaTon let out a sigh, all this was leading to his physical involvement, something he had been trying to avoid.
"It is time for the judge of the forest to step forward." He mumbled to himself.
Without doubt, Enojar was clearly involved in this. The creature had broken the truce—a thing XelanaTon had foresaw, and now, he would have to be vanquished for the peace of Talcaf.
The destructive radiance that blew made him tense, none of which he recognized. He looked across the group.
"Who is capable of great aerial support?" He asked.
They understood that he wanted another to join him in battle, and that precisely they did not want to do. For two minutes, there was no response from anyone, then one stepped forward.
"You," XelanaTon remembered. The same beast that had reported Araes' disappearance, a fitting choice.
"I believe I have a hand in this, and I have to avenge Araes one way or the other. If supporting does the job, then I'll gladly give my life."
XelanaTon nodded to its statement, "Meet me at the place of battle." As soon as he let out those words, he sank into the ground and out of sight, drifting underground and towards the area of battle.
The wind radiant beast flew overhead and over a few minutes, they arrived at the spot. Trees burned in flames red and purple, the soil was charred terribly, and XelanaTon saw too many shriveled and burnt up bodies of his fellow radiant beasts, all of which sickened and enraged him. He had sensed the powerful clashing radiance just about five minutes ago, and now, the place the energies were concentrated at was desolate.
XelanaTon had the best sensory abilities in all of Talcaf, not even the stealthy brothers could hide if he really tried. He saw footprints of the powerful radiant beast if he could call it that and the creature, both still holding very faint amounts of energy.
Now he saw just the footprints of the beast, and with that, over the absence of the creature's body, he deduced that it had been captured.
"Go to the dwarven village, and request two of their strongest warriors. When that is done, make your way to Enojar's prison, I will be there."
The radiant beast simply nodded and flew on ahead. The ground below XelanaTon parted and he sank in, making his way to the edge of the continent in fury.
Reas was a relatively small continent compared to the other two, it was the smallest of the three, and traversing it at the speed of gale wind would simply take a day. XelanaTon moved even faster underground, and in an hour, he was at the edge of Reas, quite far away from Talcaf.
He came to the surface, and instantly he could smell the salt in the air, and could feel the sea breeze on his hard skin. He met two radiant beasts lying below Enojar's abode, undergoing their task of watching the prison. It had been decades since he had last seen them, and over that course of time, they could have switched allegiance.
He eyed them suspiciously but he sensed no wrongness from them. The footprints led here, he could see them past between the two. Unless the creature camouflaged itself and hid, they ought have known that it had passed this place.
XelanaTon furrowed his thick scaly brows, and instantly after he did so, spikes from the ground thrust upwards and impaled the two beasts before they could react. It had come so fast that they simply could not have foreseen them.
Their eyes were wide-eyed, they had not expected XelanaTon to be so merciless. It was an unspoken rule for radiant beasts not to harm each other to the point of permanent injury, not to mention killing one another.
The earth elemental radiant beast simply watched as their lifeblood spilled down the earthen stakes he had conjured, he swallowed in satisfaction and walked past the two.
"You two had forsaken being radiant beasts since you joined him. Reduced to nothing but another creature hungry for power."
They lived long enough to hear the words but parted soon after. Then he looked up. Enojar's prison was eccentric. The radiant beast that had conjured the prison had left the continent years ago.
A thick black stalk ran up into the sky, and at the uppermost point, was a small dome of wood housing the abomination and monster that was Enojar. A powerful spell was in place that would cause thick innumerable thorns to sprout and fill the place were Enojar to try to escape.
A powerful spell created by the most talented radiant beast XelanaTon had ever had the privilege of witnessing.
Today however, Enojar would have his last breath, the decision was already resolute in his mind.
He awaited his supporters.
He sensed a mudslide and turned to see two heavily armored dwarves on it, approaching. Overhead was the wind elemental radiant beast.
The dwarves stopped before XelanaTon, and they went on their knees before him, bowing.
"You came prepared."
"Yes ol' radiant one."
"Let's proceed."