Shandris said, "Miss Chromie, sorry for the trouble, but please find somewhere to land. Shawn, I'll need you to lure out the Nightmare Green Dragon Ysondre. Draw her away from the passage to the Emerald Dream so she can't escape back inside. If she does, there'll be nothing we can do. Once she's a few hundred meters away from the passage, Miss Chromie, please immobilize her with time magic. I'll purify her."
Shawn nodded to show that he understood.
Ysondre knew both Chromie and Shandris. She was well aware of their strength. If she saw them, her first reaction would probably be to flee back into the Emerald Dream. Then no one would be able to pursue her.
Chromie found somewhere to land, then changed into her Gnome form and hid in the distance with Shandris.
Shawn summoned the Amani War Bear and rode him toward Ysondre.
At that moment, Ysondre was radiating evil nightmare power, using it to corrupt everything around her. Many ancient trees within sight had already been corrupted. They gave off a foul stench, their leaves withering and falling, their trunks rotting and decaying.
Those trees had grown for hundreds, even thousands of years, only to be corrupted just like that. Before long, the nightmare power might transform them into nightmare Treants, one after another. That was a terrifying prospect.
To the Emerald Dream and nature itself, the Emerald Nightmare was a plague, an infectious disease that was extremely difficult to combat. Only Druids and Priestesses of the Moon could dispel it and heal its effects.
Ysondre was powerful, and the powerful tended to be arrogant.
Some time ago, the Nightmare Tyrant Eranikus had told her that their companion Taerar had been killed. He had warned all the Nightmare Green Dragons to be especially careful and