Chapter 25: A Stronger Enemy
The draconic ME started to follow the strand, racing towards it all while Kai couldn't do anything to stop it. He could only watch helplessly while the invading force hunted the strand that continued to race back to its source: the mystical blood orb.
The draconic ME followed the strand like a panther stalking a helpless deer while it didn't know that it was leading the predator into the hidden sanctuary.
Once the strand entered the blood orb, the draconic ME stopped outside like it had intelligence and looked at the blood orb in wonder and admired the orb.
It stopped for a moment and Kai hoped that it would leave his body. Unfortunately for Kai his wish never came true and instead the invading ME pounced on the orb enveloping it in the foreign ME.
The blood orb instantly started to defend itself by using a reflective field using a strand as the fuel to protect itself from the invading energy.
Eventually, the blood orb's defence was pierced, and the ME greedily started consuming the ME from the original creator of a person's ME: the soul. The blood orb used another strand to expel the invading ME from Kai's body.
The draconic ME was repelled from Kai's body with a large invisible explosion, causing it to land on the ground. Kai looked at the draconic energy and was surprised and scared of the changes of the draconic energy's changes.
The first and most eye-catching was the fact that it was no longer pure ME, it had a corporeal body. The size of the dragon was merely 2 meters long and 1 meter tall, however, that didn't stop it from having a terrifying aura.
The aura gave Kai the feeling of seeing a god or devil, with such an intimidating feeling the space around the newly formed dragon had started to be destroyed simply by his presence being there.
The dragon looked at Kai with interest but seemed to have something more important to do so he reluctantly left Kai and touched the ground.
The ground split creating a huge hole and the little dragon jumped into the large hole without hesitation. After a few moments, Kai tried to sense the dragon but he couldn't anymore so after a few moments of hesitation he decided to leave due to him being completely helpless before the dragon's terrifying might.
While Kai decided to leave, the dragon had finally entered its lair. It passed the countless mountains that were part of its lair and entered the main chamber.
[Now the people that are going to say that his lair is underground and therefore can't have mountains, there is an explanation later so please wait patiently.]
It declared with a loud echoing roar "You won't be able to keep me locked up anymore, I will finally restore my power and get my revenge. This world will feel the wrath of I Dahak after being locked up inside this chamber for the last 11 millennia!"
The dragon known as Dahak looked at the enormous chamber big enough to fit a complete city and laughed. Inside the actual chamber the there wasn't any decorations, it was completely bare with the exception being the extremely large pitch black scale that had an unnatural red coloured molten lava flowing through it lay in the middle of the chamber.
Dahak moved towards the scale and looked at it with a crazed glint in his eyes. 'Once I absorb the energy from my reverse scale I will be able to regain 50% of my power and then only gods will be able to stop me.'
"Bahahaha" Dahak cackled madly with his head raised to the ceiling. He climbed onto the scale and embedded his claws into the scale and started to absorb the pure draconic energy that was hidden inside the scale.
The dragon's original light red scales started to glow with a pitch-black light and slowly changed into the same colour as the scale.
Above ground
Kai left the area with sour thoughts. He felt ashamed of the fact that he was beaten without being able to resist at all. Kai continued to think of the way he was beaten so miserably causing himself much mental anguish and suffering.
After coming to this world, he had thought that he would be invincible. When he was warned by Bathilda, he didn't take her words seriously.
The immediate power gain had caused him to disregard any consequences that he would experience in the future, and now that he lost he understood that he should be more cautious.
After he calmed down, Kai tried to understand why a dragon would appear in the middle of nowhere. When he couldn't think of a reason why such a powerhouse would appear so suddenly, he got on another train of thought: why would this dragon be so powerful?
Kai had fought and killed other dragons and they were extremely weak compared to him. He could kill them easily, they were extremely merely A- class beasts compared to the rest of the A class magical beasts.
'So, let's think of a reason why a dragon would be so different compared to the rest of their kind. The first reason could be that it mutated and gained the power to absorb ME and become much more powerful, an ability similar to my own trait absorption. But that doesn't seem to be what happened. He was originally energy and then turned corporeal, therefore he was pure energy before gaining a body. But at the same time, he had intelligence.
Another option could be that he was a dragon leader and he gained a unique ability from his bloodline, due to dominating the rest of the dragons.
The third option is that he gained the ability from a special material and has been rapidly absorbing other creatures' strengths. But how powerful could he be from gaining normal woodland animal strengths? He wouldn't be very powerful maybe a C class at most highly unlikely.
The fourth option is that he is a remnant of an ancient dragon that has been alive for thousands of years. Kai considered this option and thought that it was very likely.
The fifth option would be that he is an ancient dragon but was defeated and was on the brink of death but survived and has slowly been regaining his strength. That was also a very possible option.'
If Dahak could know what Kai was theorizing he would applaud him on his close guesses, but unfortunately, his theories were nothing compared to the real truth.
Kai continued to try and come up with reasons why Dahak was so powerful when it hit him he didn't know where Bob was.
Kai tried to call out to Bob using their mental link, but unfortunately, it was to no avail. Bob couldn't be found. Kai continued to call out to Bob but couldn't find him.
Eventually, he gave up on calling out to him and decided to try and sense his location using their connection. After less than a second Kai found Bob.
The large feline was inside his body! Kai examined his body but didn't find anything that would indicate that Bob was with him. He commanded his runic eyes to activate when he felt no change.
Kai continued with the command and much to his dismay and panic he had no magic energy whatsoever left in his body!
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dragonfang1917 I've gotten a comment by Blood King69 saying that Kai is soft for wanting parental love. I would like to say that Kai is a psychopath and you can't judge him by common sense.
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Chapter 26: Magical Energy Crippled
Kai tried to channel his ME to his eyes and much to his dismay and panic he discovered that had no magic energy whatsoever left in his body!
In the beginning, his thoughts were 'let's wait until some of the energy is generated after all that weird dragon absorbed all of the magical energy that I had in my body. Now I just need to wait for my body to replenish its reserve. It should take 1 minute for ME to start to return to my body.'
Kai waited for a minute and nothing happened apart from his growing loss of self-confidence and fear of ME loss. The one minute turned into 5 and Kai broke down on anger and loss.
'So, I've been learning magic for 4 years nonstop without any break and the moment I leave the country I get my years of effort destroyed!' Kai thought angrily to himself.
Kai started to rage over the fact that he had such terrible luck and was about to destroy the surroundings when he realised that his body had been immobilised.
Kai tried to fight the restraints but much to his resistance and fear he discovered that he couldn't move any part of his body.
Kai tried to calm down and assess the situation, after a few moments of breathing slowly and taking deep breaths, he calmed down to a moderate level. He was still mad, but he could control himself, without letting his emotions take control.
Kai shouted out to his surroundings "who's there?" Instead of getting a reply from his surroundings he heard a familiar voice coming from inside his body. "It's sad that you don't take my warnings seriously Kai." The voice was the manifestation of his subconsciousness, the being that created the blood orb.
"Why have you only shown up now, I could have used your assistance earlier," Kai said immaturely. "First let's talk inside the blood orb's inner world, then I will answer your questions."
Kai was sucked into the blood orb and was instantly shown the world that he had visited 4 years ago. The blood-red skies, crimson earth and endless red clouds spanning further than the eye can see.
In front of Kai was an exact copy of himself only completely coloured in red.
"Now you're complaining that I didn't show up earlier when you disturbed the dragon. But I don't think that I have to intervene every time you do something foolish. Listen up you fool you are a vampire progenitor yes, but as I told you before you aren't invincible. There are many more powerful beings than you in this world. One example would have been that dragon.
You could have easily avoided it, but no, you had to break through the many seals that were restricting it and release that dragon from its cage. Now the result is that you can no longer use magic energy. Now try and think of the reason why?"
Kai tried to think of the reason that he didn't have any ME left. Logically the only reason for his magic energy crippling was due to the dragon infiltrating the blood orb. It must have absorbed a crucial element in ME absorption, that stunted his use of ME.
Kai explained his hypothesis to his copy. "So, you do understand why you won't be able to use any magic energy anymore. It's because its related to the soul. The soul controls the ME and creates a vessel for the ME to gather.
The dragon managed to infiltrate your soul that was residing inside the blood orb, while it was only for a brief moment it tore out the vessel from your soul. That is the reason why I've awoken." The copy looked bitter and annoyed.
Kai looked at his copy and said "sorry" in a dejected tone. "Do you know of a way, where I can still use magic?" The copy looked at Kai with an intense gaze to see how he was holding up and told him you do realise that magic was the only way you could heal and strengthen your soul right. Now you're asking me to give you a miracle that will allow you to instantly use magic.
Kai looked at the copy with hopeful eyes and asked him "Do you?" The copy looked at Kai with an exasperated look and said "yes. Now first do you still have blood strands?" "Yes, why," asked Kai in a puzzled tone. "Good, that means you still aren't hopeless. You can substitute the ME with blood strands. But it will require practice and patience."
Kai looked at the copy in disbelief and asked him in a doubtful tone " you can use blood strands as ME, I thought that it could only substitute physical abilities such as strength and agility not magic as well."
"Well during the various hunts that you went on during your thirst you gained many different Magical Beasts' blood. The blood orb has been storing them and recently has absorbed all of them. I have been suppressing the evolution since you weren't ready for it. But now…"
The copy paused for a few moments and then continued " I believe that now that you have understood the severity of your actions and the experience that you have just gone through has allowed me to understand that you don't underestimate your opponents anymore."
Kai nodded in understanding and then proceeded to ask the copy to stop restricting the evolution. Kai looked at the copy but he said that he wouldn't be able to do that himself, instead, Kai had to do it by himself.
The copy beckoned for Kai to follow him and then he stepped in the air without looking back. Kai tried to do the same but realised that he couldn't, instead, he simply tried to manipulate the blood orb so that it would allow him to change the rules in the red world. Kai tried his best to connect to the orb but only managed to get a rudimentary connection.
The connection allowed Kai to condense the wind under his feet to let him have "steps" in the air and thus gain a pseudo flight. (Imagine Sanji's Geppo or skywalk). After he managed to get to his copy he was taken to a new section of the red world.
In it, Kai could see a humongous cage that seemed to reach the sky with thousands of magical beasts all locked inside it, all which he had killed and consumed their blood. Although he had to admit that most of the beasts in the cage had come from the war that was waged on the Court.
He asked his copy what he had to do, and the copy told him that if he wanted to unlock the next stage of evolution he would need to merge with each beast, and the only way to merge with a beast was to kill it and the magical beast's corpse would enter the blood orb and further the evolution.
"So, in other words, I have to defeat every single one of these magical beasts, right?" Kai asked his copy. "Yes, however before you get all cocky each of these beasts will have the same strength as you."
"What!" Kai shouted out in disbelief and anger. "Well, no point in pondering you better get ready Kai." The copy then teleported Kai into a large arena spanning a Kilometre in diameter. Kai the looked at the opposing side and saw a…
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This chapter was really tedious for me, I spent three days working on it, but in the next chapter, there will be a fight so yeah...
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