Chapter 37
CRICK... KRIKKKK.... KRAKKKK...
It cracked and cracked before the tough exterior sh.e.l.l of the egg gave way, falling into a pile. In the center of the pile stood a dragonlet, the size of a minivan.
It had a confused look as it gazed down its bright yellow, western dragon shape, observing itself. It's eyes were deep heated yellow and its entire body seemed to radiate fire and intense fire, it's aura becoming thicker and thicker...
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Name: Demi (Ascender Human) No 19
Specie: Transcendent Flame Dragon(Sentient) -Rare Type
Soul Stage: Elite
Growth Stage: Hatchling Dragonet
Growth Progress: 32/835
Abilities: SuperNova Flame Breath, Flame Essence Transfer, Fate Sensing, Draconic Eyes, Super Fiery State, Humanoid Form
Aspectual Law: Law of War
Principles: Principle of fervor, Principle of combustion
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Congratulations, Ascender Number Nineteen. You have been chosen by His Wors.h.i.+o to ascend the 7 Heavens and attain to perfection.
Do you wish to accept? u003cYes/Nou003e
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Demi froze.
Last time she remembered, she had been down there on ebnovel reading some novels about reincarnation and game systems and whatnot.
Then she had a sort of headache that she ignored. Usually, headaches were nothing to her because she was already used to them. She'd stay up late, reading and by morning she's up again, ready to go while ignoring the aches of a not so rested brain.
She was used to it!
But what she saw before her was something she wasn't used to.
If she remembered correctly, people only saw themselves like this after they had been dead and reincarnated...
'Uh... Did I reincarnate?' She gasped mentally.
'System is waiting for your answer.' A gender less but almost feminine life resounded in her head causing her to jump, a funny motion to anyone watching the wobbly hatchling.
She glazed her eyes over the mental screen in her mind, noting the information. Transcendent Flame Dragon?
'OhMiG.o.d, I reincarnated as a Dragon?' She gasped again, admiring herself once more. Her paws immediately went up to her reptilian face as her neck swirled, allowing her see almost ninety degrees itowads her back.
Her wings were beautiful, outlined with red pulsating veins that crisscrossed back into her body. Her skin glowed as a cloud of heat settled around her.
Demi was in all words, glorious.
'Accept!'
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Congratulations, You have begun the path of Ascension.
To process to next part, say command word, Evolve...
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The screen changed again, letters rearranging themselves to form the new words.
'Evolve.'
'Keyword recognized. Command accepted. Starting Ascender Induction.'
'Wait, who are you?' Demi questioned. I'm so much as she was enjoying this, she also needed to know who was communicating with her.
'I am Liria, one of the 21 soul remnants of His Wors.h.i.+p that was sent down as a contingency plan after His Wors.h.i.+p, Trixius the Great was unjustly defeated and imprisoned by his enemies. My mission is to ascend the 7 heavens, become powerful enough to bring back His Wors.h.i.+p, as do all the siblings.'
'Oh! Am I dead?'
'No questions please. The Ascender Induction is starting. I am not even to interact with you on this level. I only do so with the game interface, interacting with you, because you happen to take a liking for strange and mysterious things, atleast based on your previous life reading choices. And...'
'So, I'm really dead?' Demi mused.
But why couldn't she remember her past life? It appeared as if she was forgetting...
Forgetting?
She had a perfect recall memory so how come?
Where did she even live? Nigeria? No, it must have been South Africa? South Africa?? IIt ought to be Brazil.
She was guessing now.
Shaking her draconic head, she wiped those thoughts away. What mattered now was that she was s dragon with a system.
"I will become a G.o.dly Dragon." She shouted, unconsciously roaring back it her words in a tiny dragonlet squeak.
"Such big dreams for a hatchling. Grow first and we can talk about being G.o.dly." A bigger red snout muzzled against her entire frame.
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Ascender Induction Paused...
Mission: Prove you are no hatchling. Expend 3500 points to attain next growth level
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'Ohh... My first mission. How do I do this?' Demi cooed.
Wait, she could try just willing the energy and see what gives. With this thought, she willed the exact energy and felt a flicker of vibrancy within her.
In a short time, the clicks and
"This is strange! "
"First She is a Transcendent Flame Dragon, one of the absolute dragon forms and then she is a Rare Type Sentient Dragon."
"Ah! She has to die. Her Rare Type genetics will only bring ruin to our dragon tribes."
"Oh No! She won't! I am her mother." A glowing red dragon retorted, fencing off a black skinned, horned dragon with a green skinned dragon as she bared her fangs, swirling her head from one dragon to the other.
"Maseian, you know it is not right! She has to die, now." The black skinned Wyvern like dragon roared, its roar resounding in the cave.
"who are you to tell me whether my hatchling lives or di..." The red dragon with little deer like horns roared only to be interrupted by the wyvern again.
"Look, she is even growing. That is impossible, even as a Flame Dragon for her to grow immediately after her hatching." The wyvern pointed a scaly finger at the newly expands Demi.
"Save your breath. The Elder dragons will bear of this." The scaly green skinned dragon muttered, owing its head to exit the cave.
If she wasn't going to learn, the. The Elders will have to teach her.
"I AM TRIXIUS, TRIXIUS THE GREAT..." The loud booming voice resonated through her mental s.p.a.ce as she saw a lean, extremely tall figure, standing with its back to her.
Just then, she felt a shove on her physical body, jarring her from focusing.
Opening her eyes, she saw that she was airborne for some seconds, glazing through the wild airs. Soon, she was dropped gently from the frontal limbs of her mother dragon on rocky surface.
Looking confused, another dragon, quite similar to her mother soared up from below. It appeared they were on some sort of mountain top. The dragon was even much regal looking with a strand of beard hairs beneath its lizard like jaws.
"Daughter. You must flee if you have to survive. Your entire specie. As well as your Type is a threat to us, Sentient Dragons."
"Why?" Demi asked, moving up closer to the hulking dragon.
"Now, go..." Her mother dragon cried, glowing hot red once more as she shoved Demi off the cliff.
Acting on impulse, Demi unwrapped her wings, gliding in the mountain airs as she struggled to stay around her parents.
Min the distance, she heard a roar and the flapping of several wings. At this point, she didn't need to be told. They were coming for her. Teary eyed, she steadied herself in the air she began floating away.
Demi was dumbfounded, mentally. What was happening? She wasnt supposed to feel this emotions, was she? Why was she feeling so attached?
The more she thought, the more her frame buckled as tears fell freely all the while struggling to maintain her flight in the air.
'It is time. I have allowed you relate abit with this world but now is time for us to fuse as one.' Liria suddenly spoke from the blues.
'Nooo.' Demi screamed, instinctively.
Who the heck was this voice speaking? Even if it was. the system, it had to shut up because she was still grieving. By G.o.d, she was.
'I-i do not understand. This isn't supposed to happen.' The soul remnant stammered.
Suddenly a blast of heat slammed into Demi, staggering her in the air. As she steadied herself, another weight of heat slammed again, encasing her in a brief coc.o.o.n of yellow hot light as her senses heightened.
Her form glimmered in the air, raidiating the brightness of the sun. Immediately, she zoomed ahead, tearing off some meters between where she was and now, a distance of 5 kilometers.
'Nnnrrghhh... ' Liria groaned.
But Demi knew what had happened. Prior to her leaving, she over heard, thanks to her superior dragon senses, her parents saying that they had to help her and thus condensed a ball of pure flames and sent it after her.
They had called the ball of flames, Dragon Flame essence. And from what Liria said, a dragon essence contained the purest flames of a dragon that took 2/3rd of their strength, rendering the dragon vulnerable.
But the flames did more than just wobble her flight. It had silenced the game system or almost silenced the system. In her mind, she could see a large ball of blobbing energy with a writhing attachment of black miasma. Before she was..h.i.t by the essence flames, the black miasma had completely covered her soul but now, the situation was reversed.
She didn't quite know what the function was but within her, all she felt was seething anger. She had heard the dying whines of her parents but sadly she could do nothing but flee.
And yet, she felt powerful.
if only she could control these powers... Then maybe she might have found the perfection that lay in perfect order. Her parents didn't deserve to be killed for protecting her.
No... that wasn't order. If it was, it was not perfect Order.
'Only Perfect Order can exist. For in Perfect Order can true perfection be found. I am Demi, Transcendent Flame Dragon and by me, this World will know Perfect Order!' Demi roared.
She knew what she had to do.
First, she had to follow the tug in the back of her head that signified that someone, somewhere was disrupting fate. She had to reveal her self to stop that person or thing.
To show that Fate needn't be disturbed. For in it, lay Perfect Order and in Perfect Order lay Perfection.
She closed her eyes as information about the disturbance began filtering into her soul. She could see it, all of it. There was an E-Emere? who was about slaughtering a grotesque looking figure. A type of spike tailed dog rus.h.i.+ng toward the scene.
She could see the chaos, the screaming grotesque looking beings being beaten and thrown into the streets by forehead jeweled beings and dragons too...
Dumb dragons floating about, roaring flames at the ruckus below as they were ridden by some sort of creature.
No, this wasn't it.
it was Chaos... Not Order.
'No... It has to be Perfect Order. Anything else is to be refused.'
"Perfect Order." Demi muttered as an explosion of yellow flames cascaded her frame, turning her into a glowing dragon of solar light. In a flash, she zoomed through the air, disappearing completely from sight.
She was coming... All of them against Perfect Order... She was coming...
Especially that dog.