บท 24: Chapter 24 Ren Arden (4)

After defeating Lawrence Glacier, Ren made his way back over to meet Rauri, however when he reached the glacier kingdom, he saw the kingdom in ruin, burning buildings and two large dragons fighting in the sky.

Ren's eyes widened and he ran at full speed to find Rauri.

Reaching the glacier castle, he saw the corpses of many and marks of battle.

Ren's eyes widened as he spotted a familiar golden haired man on the ground in a pool of blood.

Ren's heart dropped and he ran over, holding the unconscious Rauri in his arms, "Shit! Rauri wake up!" Ren's eyes began to shake as he looked at the terrible state his friend was in.

However, at that moment, a white dragon fell from the sky, its lifeless body a mess of wounds and lightning scars.

Ren watched as the golden dragon pulsating with lightning approached him.

Ren grabbed his sword and looked at the dragon fiercely, he was not going to let his friend be killed.

"I can bring you both back to the Beauchamp kingdom, get on my back." A commanding and deep voice reverberated throughout the kingdom.

Ren's eyes widened but he didn't have time to question it, so he got onto the back of the massive dragon while holding Rauri in his arms.

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When they landed, the golden dragon gave a glowing white orb to Ren, and told him that it was the core of Kōriryū.

Ren didn't have time to ask more questions, he ran at full speed towards the Beauchamp castle with Rauri on his back, causing many civilians and merchants to look his way in surprise.

Ren's Máti began to glow violently and the stars began to spin rapidly.

Ren's whole body was enveloped in a golden glow as a tear fell from his eye, and suddenly, he shot out like a flaming star.

Flying through the air like a shooting star, he crashed through the main entrance, shocking the servants inside.

However, the one that caught Ren's attention was the beautiful blonde haired woman that was walking down the stairs.

Rauri's mother, the queen of Beauchamp looked at Ren and the bloodied man on his back in utter horror.

"Ma'am! Please, Rauri's hurt! Please help him!" Ren walked over weakly and held Rauri's bloodied body over to her with shaking arms.

At that moment, Ren collapsed in exhaustion.

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A month later, Ren opened his eyes and found himself in a hospital bed, looking around he didn't see much other than the sleeping blonde man in the bed next to him.

However, the man woke up with a yawn and looked at Ren with a grin.

"Took you long enough to wake up!" Rauri giggled and sat up.

Rauri's hair had been cut and he now had a buzz cut that looked quite funny on him, so Ren couldn't hold back a laugh.

However, Rauri only smiled at him knowingly.

Ren suddenly realised, his eyes wide, he reached for his head, and yes, he also had a buzzcut.

Rauri began to laugh uncontrollably, pointing at Ren and laughed even harder at the annoyed expression on Ren.

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6 years later, Beauchamp kingdom.

Ren Arden, who was now a beloved figure in the kingdom, many looked up to him as the head knight of the kingdom and the right hand man to the king, Rauri Beauchamp, who was feared throughout the world for his powerful Máti and his ability to control the power of the white ice dragon, Kōriryū.

A week after they had woken up, Ren had given Rauri the Kōriryū core, which granted him the ability to become a half dragon at will, increasing his power exponentially.

However, despite all of these powers, Rauri had yet to awaken his personal Máti.

Ren, wanting to always stand next to Rauri, was quite weak compared to Rauri, and so, his recent goal was to defeat one of the ancient dragons and absorb its core, becoming a half dragon.

No one knew the location of any dragon, especially not an ancient dragon, so Ren was out of luck.

However, there had been many reports of a cult that worshipped one of the ancient dragons recently.

And so, Ren took off on search for the Cult of Black and White Flame.

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Blah blah blah Ren kills Kokuenryū we know.

However, atop a small cliffside not too far away from the battle site, sat a middle aged man with short blonde hair, one black and blue eye, one white and blue eye, and his remaining blue eye was shifting and changing while looking at the corpses.

Ren was near death, without a doubt about to die in the next 5 or so seconds, and so the man, Rauri, looked on with a somber expression.

His remaining eye began to shift and turn, his pupil turning white, then shifting into the infinity symbol, "♾️".

Rauri grinned one last time and spoke, "Hmm, this life was a bit boring eh? Live long and get a lot done in your next one! Oh and name your firstborn after me!" Ren couldn't hear this request, but he would've done this regardless, after all, Rauri was the closest person to him, and his saviour from a life of slavery.

And with this, Rauri's personal Máti, with a one time use, was used to send any deceased being within his line of sight into their desired world.

Author note : I genuinely cannot be arsed to write about this anymore, so a 1000 word chapter instead of my usual 2750 word chapter, my bad my bad, but at least this dumb filler is over and I can resume the main story (>ᴗ•)

Ps. The only reason I did this to begin with is because it felt like a needle in my side, so thank you for being patient and bearing this random lore drop over the past 4 chapters