Chapter 5

【5】

Time flew.

It has been ten years since Alex and Rhett connected their floating islands together. At first, the two dragons didn’t see eye to eye, then gradually became good buddies who would rub their tails together. They decided to participate in the centennial Gold Coin Festival together this time. The Gold Coin Festival was an important traditional festival for dragons. It was also a good day to show off their wealth and hook up with their future partners. Since too many dragons would attend the festival, it was not suitable to bring delicate pets along. Alex and Rhett warned Slair thousands of times, asked him to stay in the cave, and did not run around until they returned.

Slair agreed, but as soon as the two giant dragons, one blue and one red, disappeared into the sky, he whistled happily and ran out of the cave.

An adult scale horse sprang out from the nearby woods, sticking out his tongue and licking Slair.

「Choco, take me to the mountain!」

Slair named the scaled horse Choco, and it was the one Grieve tamed. During the conflict, no one cared about the poor little thing. Eventually, the dragon in charge of the investigation took it away like a piece of relevant evidence. The dragon who made the prohibited pinball gun was punished. However, the dragon had no idea how the gun got to the human continent. In the end, the scaled horse was sent to the pet shop. After Slair learned that the horse was Grieve’s mount, he traded it for a painful price with Rhett- rubbing Rhett’s scales for a whole month.

The scaled horse was a foodie. Slair shared half the delicious desserts the two dragons provided with Choco and won its friendship. Although Grieve was still his master in Choco’s heart, Slair was his friend. What’s wrong with giving a friend a ride occasionally?

The wind blows on the face. Slair closed his eyes and felt the surging air. He put his right index finger on the runestone hanging around his neck and let it explain everything about wind magics in his ears. A magnificent picture was unfolded in his mind, and there were red, blue, yellow, and green light spots flying swiftly. Among them were the red fire, blue water, yellow earth spinning around him steadily, and only the green wind flying aimlessly like fireflies.

This was taming.

Slair learned this from the story of the scale horse. The dragons and some monsters who inherited the dragon bloodline were natural magic users. Their bodies were born with magic elements, and using magic was their blood instinct. However, like humans, they needed to learn and tame magic elements. Those natural floating magic elements won’t listen to a human for anything. Therefore, he must tame them like how Grieve tamed the scaled horse. As a Dragonmaw, Slair had lived with the dragons all his life. There were many magic elements inside his body, but they did not respond to his calls.

The fire was the first element to surrender. Slair tried to stare at the fire all night long and However, one day, Rhett wanted to sneak into his bubble lava bath, and he forgot Slair was resting on his back. When the human realized the hot magma was pouring toward him, at that moment, the fear turned into courage, and faith surrounded him by the fire elements. The fire around him expressed defeat, and the magma slightly retreated from his body. Before Slair ran out of mana, Rhett had realized his mistake. Later the poor red dragon was beaten off by Alex, even though his scales fall all over the place, he won’t dare to fight back. But Slair did not say anything about magic. He realized that taming elements was hazardous. The dragons who loved him to death would not allow him to do so.

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The second element yielded to Slair was water. One day, Slair had a secret adventure with Choco to the middle of the lake, and he told Choco to pull him up if he drowned. After choking himself hundreds of times, he finally felt the water flow driven by his mind. At that moment, his mind was immersed in the world of magic and completely forgot that he was still suffocating. Before Choco found out something was wrong, Alex screamed and fished Slair out. The two dragons thought he would commit suicide, and the lake bathing tradition was almost canceled due to this incident.

The third element that responded was the earth. Earth is a gentle element. After possessing fire and water elements, Slair’s magic power increased daily. He practiced magic on the ground barefoot. The water and flames throbbed at his fingertips. The earth felt his joy and responded to his calls.

Only the mischievous wind was still playing the game of chase with him.

「Grrrl~」the scaled horse’s hooves were strong, and he quickly climbed to the top of the mountain. This was where the two floating islands connected. There were gaps between the mountains, but it meant nothing in the dragons’ eyes. This was also Choco’s favorite place to play hopping games. Slair felt the wind on his back and tried to use magic to catch these playful wind elements. Unlike the gentle earth, wind elements were not as easy to communicate. Perhaps the wind would answer his call if he was in fatal danger, Slair thought. However, he cherished his life and was unwilling to find a high ground to challenge the limit.

But some things just happen, even if you don’t want them to. Choco was hopping around, and it accidentally jumped onto a loose rock. As soon as it stepped on it, the rock broke. The poor horse 「chirped」 in panic, rubbing his hooves on the mountain wall, trying to slow down the falling trend. There was neither a valley nor a river underneath them but a gap between floating islands. You will fall straight down to the continent; it would be a death sentence for a human to fall at such altitude.

Accompanied by sudden weightlessness, the mischievous wind elements rushed toward Slair frantically. Those elements were like elegant cats, they typically dismiss you, but once in a while, they would show you their paw. However, it was not a great moment. With Slair’s magic power, he could use earth spells to change the shape of mountains to save himself instead of letting the wind element take all the magic power.

Grieve presented a pair of pure white twin lotus in front of Karl’s tomb. Humans regarded this flower as a symbol of the Dragon God and used it for almost all activities. Grieve Klein was nineteen years old this year. He hid his surname and lived far from his hometown. Just as his father, the former King of Klein, and his teacher expected, Grieve grew into a warrior with superior martial arts, pious belief, and abiding by the Book of the Dragons . Grieve hadn’t found a new mount– He swore an oath that before he beheaded Robert and Henry, he would not tame another mount.

As he finished today’s prayer and was about to stand up, he heard the wind and loud screams above his head. He instinctively drew back and saw a scaled horse with a black-haired boy,「Paj」, falling in front of him and crushing the lotus dedicated to his teacher.

「OU—OOU—OUCH!」 Slair got up from Choco’s back with tears in his eyes and rubbed his legs. Fortunately, there was no broken bone. Without magic, it was unrealistic to fly back to the floating island. His heart sank when he thought about how anxious and sad Alex and Rhett would be after knowing he was missing.

Unlike Klein, there were many people with dark hair colors. However, pure black hair was still rare. Grieve looked at the boy, shocked. The boy had emerald green eyes, pure white skin with a lean body, and he seemed to be riding the horse he tamed years ago. Too many similarities, this boy, he must be Robert’s son!

When Slair left his head up, he found Grieve, whom he had been thinking about for the last ten years, stood right in front of him, with the sword in his hand against his neck.

Book of Dragons :

Dragons, the world’s creators, their wings were wider than the sky, and their claws were bigger than the Earth.

No one could see his whole body but only worshipped him in parts.

The Dragon God took out a pair of Artifacts from the end of his tail. They were hard as gold and covered in spikes,

When the Dragon God was happy, the spikes would turn into petals, called the twin lotus.

The Dragon God’s Twin Lotus stirred the ground, then there were mountains and valleys.

The limitless liquid poured from the lotus’s heart, then turned into flowing rivers and oceans.