There was a loud boom as the sound barrier shattered, caused by a streak of white-gold light tearing through the clouds at a speed imperceptible to the ordinary eye.
By the time the masses on the ground, monsters and sentient humanoids alike, registered the sound, the one responsible was already long gone, kilometres away.
But those strong enough to perceive the figure flying through the sky saw a massive white dragon, head to tail spanning around 20 meters, with a single pair of broad white wings stretching roughly 40 meters across.
This dragon was naturally our resident Rogue Hero, Evan, currently conducting a field test of his newly acquired powers while heading toward Artemisia and Beatrix to meet up with them.
After a few minutes of high-speed flight, Evan reverted to his base humanoid form, free-falling from the clouds as he opened the Reincarnated Hero System interface to review the completed calculations.
