BXBX NOVEL Chapter 117 - Draconic Fathers
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Noah once more felt submerged in eternal darkness.
As he slowly began to feel like his senses, dulled as they were, began to awaken, he opened his eyes within this darkness, glancing around.
Suddenly, he noticed the presence of the Blood Progenitor, who was being entangled in darkness.
"You are here to spite on me again?" asked the Blood Progenitor with a bitter expression.
"Hm? No, I was transported in here due to falling unconscious. I am beginning to believe that this space is something within my very soul. I wonder if I can employ it somehow in a different way…" wondered Noah.
"How many times do you plan to fall unconscious? Without your subordinates, you would be dead!" said the Blood Progenitor.
"That is why I have them, so I can sometimes go all out. I can trust that they will protect my back. That is their whole point… Did you really had a brain when you were alive?" asked Noah.
"Tch! Allies will get you nowhere! They are a mere weakness! You will suffer through-"
"Silence. More importantly, I wanted to ask you something. When I fought the Blazing Wyrm Emperor, he talked about his own world, about a cataclysm, and something else as well… What is that all about? Do you know something?" asked Noah, as he spoke a bit about what the Wyrm said as well, such as the Draconic Fathers he mentioned.
"Hmph! How would I know something?! That is not my world, do you think that Abyss, the world of Vampires has volcanic landscapes and giant fire dragons? We would have exterminated them long ago! Abyss is a dark and cold place, it is filled with Undead, poisonous seas, and abyssal caverns filled with shadow fiends! That Wyrm most likely spoke about his own world, and if he mentioned something about his Draconic Fathers… Perhaps those are his progenitors. The ones he descends from. Before being brought to your world as a Blood Core, I had never visited another world, so my information and knowledge about such things is nonexistent," said the Blood Progenitor.
"I guess I shouldn\'t have bothered asking you- Wait for a second… You are a Vampire Progenitor yourself, right?" asked Noah.
"Yes, why?" asked the Blood Progenitor.
"And your level of strength was SSS-Rank… Then, if those Draconic Fathers are also Progenitors like you… their level of strength…" muttered Noah.
"SSS-Rank too? Hmph… Have Dragons emerged before in your world?" asked the Blood Progenitor.
"From the records that I have investigated, there was only one single occasion, and it was in the middle of the Apocalyptic Era. The Apocalypse began 20 years ago, the Apocalyptic Era was the first ten years after the Apocalypse began," said Noah.
"So a Dragon emerged after five years of the Apocalypse in this feeble, magic-less world?" asked the Blood progenitor.
"Indeed. It was said that it caused immense chaos, bringing down entire mountains with its breath, its power was immense… but there was a group of Hunters at that time who somehow defeated it, all of them went missing through the 15 years after that, though…" said Noah.
"That was an incredibly chaotic era, I can guess… Nonetheless, did that Wyrm said something about them emerging?" asked the Blood Progenitor.
"No, he did not… but something on his tone of voice makes me think that there might be the possibility of them coming here… through the gates. There are unexplored S-Rank Gates or even higher Ranks that had been secured by the governments of many Sectors combined, not even S-Rank Hunters are guaranteed to be capable of cleaning them after all… And they do not want to waste the lives of such a precious resource as them, so they make sure to prepare a lot with such Gates…" said Noah.
"If the monsters can escape from the gates, and if they are not cleansed continuously… They might escape eventually," said the Blood Progenitor.
"If the world ends by those bastards what there will be left for me? I have to become strong enough to stop them before that," sighed Noah.
Suddenly, a third voice resonated through the dark space, startling Noah, and the Blood Progenitor.
"Youuu…! YOU!"
Noah immediately remembered that voice! It was the voice of the Blazing Wyrm Emperor!
"That\'s… Another soul?! How did it get inside of your own?!" roared the Blood Progenitor while gritting his teeth.
"This bastard… I remember making him a Blood Servant before falling unconscious… there\'s no way… did he somewhat resist my authority over him and now he\'s reveling?!" asked Noah in surprise, readying himself for a soul battle if needed!
However, his soul was still weak, he might have to risk it all in such a fight!
Flash!
Enormous quantities of soul flames rushed towards Noah, as he readied himself for the impact!
CLASH!
…
Wait, clash?
Noah opened his eyes, as he noticed that nothing damaged him.
However, the body of the Blazing Wyrm Emperor emerged in front of him on all of his splendor, like an ethereal version of his real body, glaring at him while lowering all of his necks and heads.
"You didn\'t attack me?" asked Noah.
"You! You are…! You are my Master! Noah-sama!" said the Blazing Wyrm Emperor, sticking his enormous tongues out of his jaws and beginning to lick Noah\'s entire body as if it were a gigantic puppy!
This left the Blood Progenitor and Noah paralyzed in disbelief.
Slurp, slurp.
The Blazing Wyrm Emperor kept licking Noah happily.
"STOP LICKING ME!" roared Noah, unleashing his power and slapping the faces of the Blazing Wyrm Emperor!
Slap!
"Agh! S-Sorry Master! Did it cause discomfort?" asked the Blazing Wyrm Emperor.
"Yes, it did… And more importantly, you are not resisting my domination? And even more, you can speak… you are the first Blood Servant I get that can speak!" said Noah.
"Resist? Why would I resist my master\'s orders and authority? Master is Master! I live to serve you, my liege! …And I can speak because my soul is strong!" said the Blazing Wyrm Emperor.
"Is that… so?" asked the Blood Progenitor as he glanced at this scene from the back.
Similarly to him, the Blazing Wyrm Emperor was a monster with intelligence, and he could speak due to the strength of his soul too, something that not even the former humans Noah made into Blood Servants could do…
"(I guess he got completely brainwashed when he became a Blood Servant…)" thought Noah.
"Well, I have a lot of questions for you… but first, let\'s give you a fitting name, calling you Blazing Wyrm Emperor all the time will kill me…" said Noah.
"A name?! Really?" asked the Blazing Wyrm Emperor as his long ail began to wave around, just like a dog.
"…Yes. Your name will be… Because you seemed full of pride before becoming my Servant… Pride," said Noah as a piece of his soul flew out of him and combined with the Blazing Wyrm Emperor!
Flash!
[The [Blood Servant Blazing Wyrm Emperor: Knight Grade] has received a name!]
[The Grade of [Blood Servant Blazing Wyrm Emperor: Knight Grade: Pride] Grade has increased to Elite Knight!]
Flash!
Suddenly, as he gained his own name, Pride was filled with an enormous rush of aura, encompassing all of its entirety!
The energy condensed into its soul, strengthening it and making it evolve, increasing his grade!
He had now become Elite Knight Grade!
"Hmm?! I feel stronger, Master!" said Pride.
"Good, you have increased your Grade now. So you can become of greater use for me in the future… But now, Pride, I want you to answer me some questions," said Noah.
"Anything!" said Pride.
"Tell me who are the Draconic Fathers and about your world," said Noah, his eyes gleaming with intrigue!
"Oh, that\'s easy! Although I have not met them personally, the Draconic Fathers are the progenitors of all Wyrms, Wyverns, Dragons, and other draconic species. They are figures equal to Gods, they are our creators and eldest ancestors where all of us originated!"
"In Vedas, our world, there were once four of them, Agni, the Draconic Father of Searing Flames, Varuna, the Draconic Father of Uncontrollable Oceans, Vayu, the Draconic Father of Storming Winds, and Indra, the former Draconic Father of Lightning and Thunder… In the history of our world, Indra-sama, however, separated into two beings, his evil counterpart, an entity that encompassed darkness and drought, Vritra… after a catastrophic battle, Vritra imprisoned Indra and used his powers to bring forth the dead from the underground to the surface, giving birth to Dracoliches, our enemies… Or well, before everything around the cataclysms happened…" said Pride.
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