"What?" Ann gasped, looking up, and the ground suddenly flipped upside down as Arad threw the labyrinth into the sky.
[Fly] She started flying around and looked at the sky, "That dragon, how did he move this?" She growled, "It must be his gravity magic, using it to make the labyrinth lighter,"
CRACK! The labyrinth fell to the ground, and the ground around Ann cracked with the mountains tumbling down.
AAAAAAAAAA! CRACK! AAAAAAAA CRACK! She could hear Arad's roars coming from outside, sounding like a stretched screech of a large demon sheep.
CLAP! Ann put her hands together, "It's only a matter of time before he breaks in." Before her, armies of soldiers emerged, "Get ready to fight the dragon,"
They stared at her, "Can we win?" One of the humanoid monsters asked with a puzzled face.
"Don't know," Ann replied, "We're like a chicken stuck in a barrel, and he's one hungry large bear. It's only a matter of time before he breaches in."
CRACKLE! The whole labyrinth shook as Arad kept swinging his claws at it from the outside, slowly using his void to shave the magic barrier protecting it.
One swing after another, he quickly started getting impatient. It felt like trying to crack a large plywood wall. What would a man do, run back and ram it with his shoulder?
Arad extended his wings, flying into the sky. He quickly reached the clouds, flying over them until he could see the whole world. What's the dragon's version of ramming?
Flipping mid-air, he took a nose dive, going straight down. Flames crackled around his body.
BAM! Arad covered his body with a thin barrier magic, aiming at the labyrinth's base. BOOM! Crashing head first, the ground around them exploded, sending a massive dust cloud into the sky.
Upon taking the impact, the labyrinth flew up, and it spun and hit Arad's head with its tip.
Arad backed away, his head spinning as he shook it. The impact of the fall and now the labyrinth hitting him. That hurt a lot. It's probably best to not hit it like that as it might bounce back once again.
"It's silent," Ann looked around as she couldn't hear Arad banging on the walls anymore.
KA-BOOM! The whole labyrinth jerked. Ann saw the ground spins around her body with the stones falling upward and the army scattering like dust into the sky.
"The hell is that thing doing?" She looked up.
Arad shook his head as he approached the maze, sniffing it for cracks. It didn't take him long to find a small one close to the base. He started scratching it like a cat sharpening its nails but found it annoying that he kept getting jolted with magic each time he touched the labyrinth.
^This labyrinth is built with Merlin's magic. It might be a complicated structure, but it feels similar.^
Arad sat beside the labyrinth and lifted his front arms. Countless magic circles appeared between his claws, spinning as he tried to understand how that thing worked.
^This seems like conjuration magic for the outside, barrier magic for protection, and spatial magic to create the internal demi-plan, explaining why the insides are far larger than the outside. The rejection magic is a form of force magic, lightning, I can't know.^ He scratched his head, walking around the labyrinth.
^If a nose dive from far above the clouds didn't shatter it, I might need something stronger,^ Arad grabbed the labyrinth by the base and made it stand on its top. With one pull of his claws, he anchored it to the ground.
ROAR! ROAR! He roared with a white flash emerging inside his stomach, traveling through his torso, chest, neck, and to his head.
Arad opened his mount, unleashing a blinding white blast of energy at the labyrinth's base.
The beam splashed at the tip, scattering like light through a prism, and exploded everywhere across the mountains.
"Arad! That hurts!" Loci growled, staring at him. "I took the impact of your fall, but this just burns,"
CLACK! Arad closed his jaws on the beam, shaking his head as smoke escaped from between his teeth and a sizzling sound filled the air.
GRRR! Arad turned and looked to the ground. "Sorry, Did it hurt?"
"Your fall felt like a punch to the guts, and now this isn't better than getting burned. Try to be a bit more careful,"
Arad looked at the labyrinth, "I need something powerful but precise." He closed his eyes, thinking about what he could do.
The first thing to come to his mind was what he learned about expansions. If he has the mana, he can change their element as they are a simple extension of the caster's magic.
^Doma, is there a way to break this labyrinth open?^ He asked.
^[Huh,]^ Doma giggled, ^[No matter the time, the solution was always simple.]^ She opened her eyes, staring at him from the darkness.
^[If violence doesn't work, use additional violence. The question is what can you do, and the answer always is violence.]^
^What's that supposed to mean?^ Arad sighed.
^[Violence is everything. If you want to build a house, you cut trees with violence. You want to eat. It's violence. You want to live and survive. It's always violence.]^ Doma stood, extending her hand. ^It's the curse of survival. A species' life depends on the death of others. What you need now is violence, a lot of it concentrated in a small area.]^
Arad smiled, "I see what you mean," he lifted his left claw up, conjuring a spear-shaped barrier around it. He then engulfed it with his void to make sure it could dissolve the rejection magic protecting the labyrinth.
^Now make it spin. You have all your weight concentrated in a small point, and now you only need movement there.^ Mom added, ^And don't forget to aim at the crack.^
Arad took a deep breath, "And I'm increasing my weight with gravity magic. I only need a hole enough for a rat to crawl through,"