CHAPTER 35: CHAPTER 35: THE DRAGONS CURSE

Somewhere else in the world, a handsome man with long red hair that danced in the wind like flames stoop atop a towering wall of steep and stone. His gaze stretched to the horizon where a sea of beasts covered the land and sky like carpets.

The people around him looked anxious but he was calm, excited even, afterall this was a perfect opportunity to showcase his power as the strongest human, The Blazing Prince.

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Ved opened his eyes, his vision was still blurry and his head was still pounding but it was better than before. His body’s internal clock which was strangely too accurate told him three days had passed.

The first thing he did after waking up was checking the system notification. (0.002 evolution points gained, 0.001 evolution points, 0.000001.....) he ignored the points notification for now.

( Notice, hosts has comprehended will manipulating, will is strengthened. Host has comprehended will manifestation "image conjuring "

WARNING: Host’s soul and mind are not strong enough to withstand full image conjuring, effect of image will be severely weakened.

NOTICE: Excessive use of the above abilities will lead to soul damage. Until host grows strong enough,system advice you tread carefully)

He sighed, he’d just awakened such powerful abilities and he couldn’t even fully utilise them because he was too weak? This was really demoralizing.

But atleast he was alive...’ Wait how am I alive?’ he remembered being blasted by something before he could enter the cave. He hadn’t noticed before but now that he looked at his surroundings they looked like a cave.

When his eyes fully cleared he saw a blue energy wall behind him. ’ Am I inside the cave? But how?. Maybe whatever hit me pushed me inside, yeah that makes sense.’

’Status’ he hadn’t checked his status in a while.

Name: Ved Zhakrii

Species: Lesser Swamp Dragon (3 years/ 1000 years) ( 2.5m/5m) Mid Sky grade

Rank: 2

Abilities( 2/2): Trait Assimilation, Haki

Traits(6/6): Poison secretion, Herculean strength (460x), Aquatic, Flash (340x),Iron scales (30 000x), Web Secretion

Evolution points: ( 10,02/20)

He had reached the half milestone in his evolution points. During those beast waves he didn’t just kill those beasts but ate them, although he didn’t have the time for a feast he was still able to take bites from those closest to him thus accumulating a lot of points.

He wanted to explore the cave but his head was still pounding so he slept and woke up the next day. Although it was still painful it was manageable now.

He walked deeper into the cave, cautiously in case something lived here. The passage was not very long, after walking a few metres he came out to a much larger opening.

At the centre of this large cave was an intricately drawn circle. ’ Is this a magic circle?’ he stood outside the circle not daring to step in.

Since he didn’t know what the circle was for he didn’t want to test it either. That was a lie, he was curious about it but it could be dangerous.

He turned around to explore the rest of the cave then stopped. ’ What are you afraid of Ved, it just a magic circle, you survived a goddamned beast army.’

He turned back towards the magoc circle then stopped himself just before he stepped inside. ’ Huh? That...what happening?’ for a moment he thought something was influencing his mind like the anteaters did.

But this felt different, it felt as if it stemmed from within, a source of pride and confidence he couldn’t explain. ’ Why would I even think?... shit.’

He suddenly remembered every fairytale about dragons, while dragons differ in different mythologies there are a few common things about them.

One, they are always incredibly powerful, subjects of fear and worship, secondly, they are always prideful. Every dragon in myth had absolute confidence in their power.

But they did earn the right to be confident with that much power but what if that was not it, what if they weren’t prideful because they were strong but their bloodline itself was making them like that, they just happened to be strong.

That would be incredibly troubling but It would also explain his past actions. Like leaving his home to venture deeper into a jungle filled with rank 2 beasts.

Yes he made sure to grow stronger first but there was still no reason to leave his home, with the river nearby he could’ve grown steadily. Even if it took 500 years to evolve it would’ve been worth it as long as he was safe.

Yet he still left, even staying to watch that fight was a risk yet he somehow believed he was safe, that watching a fight of that level would help him grow stronger.

Even before then, he should’ve ran back to his little hole as fast as he could the moment he learnt there were rank 3 as well around here.

Even the mammoth warned him of the bloodmoon yet he took no action to ensure his safety beforehand, his dragon bloodline was making him prideful and overconfident but with his power he had no right to be prideful. If his bloodline made him reckless then he was certain to walk to his own death sooner or later.

He had to control these bad urges. He turned to leave before he does something foolish then from the corner of his eye he saw something fly towards him.

He was already on edge so he backhanded it, only when he hit it did he realise what it was. It was a bat and not an awakened one just a normal bat.

It died immediately but a new issue rose, when he hit it, it flew towards the circle. He was too weakened to stop it in time so he did the only reasonable thing.

He ran, he ran towards the cave mouth as fast as he could but he was still not fast enough. When the blood of the bat touched the magic circle it lit up.

Then what he first thought were just cracks on the cave floor and walls lit up as well in a very beautiful pattern. Then his vision was filled with blinding blue light. ’ By Odin’s cursed beard.’ that was his last thought before he disappeared.