Reborn Soul Master: The Rogue's Counterattack

"Why are you here?" Cardin smiled bitterly. Luna beside him stared blankly at the other side of the door.

Dragon. A legendary creature known as the strongest creature on earth.

Only bones remained of that great being, guarding the space on the other side of the door.

“I didn’t expect to see something like this.” A dragon with no life left but bones.

But for some reason, I felt a sense of majesty, a suffocating pressure. It was like a death that was lingering proudly.

Even when displayed in museums, they are believed to be the bones of a dragon that has retained its original form.

Even when facing a Guardian or the highest level demon, Cardin did not feel the sense of oppression, which warned his survival instinct.

"If it was alive, it would have fainted by now?" At this moment, Luna spoke slowly, as if she had realized something and talked to herself.

"The essence of the ominous aura is fear."

"What?" Cardin turned his head and looked at Luna. She was looking at the dragon's bones nervously.

"I thought it was an ominous aura, but no, it was fear. A fear that I wouldn't feel even when facing a vampire lord."

The huge fear that could not be defined felt like an "ominous aura" to the vampire Luna. Cardin nodded as if he felt the same way.

Because he did not transcend human perception like a vampire, he could not sense it from a distance. However, when facing the dragon directly, he also suffered great fear.

The magnitude of that fear is immeasurable, and even the vague essence of that fear cannot be clearly defined.

"Why can't humans sense this aura?"

"It doesn't seem to be due to a simple difference in feelings. If I feel this scared, humans should be able to feel it too." Some kind of magical device?

Or did someone who discovered the dragon before Cardin and Luna take some action?

"Monsters may flock to where humans live because of this dragon." Luna continued, and Cardin tilted his head to show his confusion.

"If the monsters sensed some kind of danger, they shouldn't have set foot on the Plains of Despair?"

"If you only feel fear and terror." Whoosh. Luna raised her hand cautiously and pointed at the corpse of the dead dragon.

Looking in the direction of her finger, you can see something emitting blue light.

"what is that?"

"Dragon's Heart." The heart of a dragon that contains infinite magical power.

"Don't even think about absorbing that dragon heart. There is no other creature other than a dragon that can handle a dragon heart."

Although there is a legend that whoever obtains the Dragon's Heart can become the strongest magician, that is not true. The Dragon's Heart exudes infinite magical power and is not something that humans can handle.

"The moment you try, your entire body will be torn apart and disappear." As Luna warned, only a dragon can handle the Dragon Heart.

If you greedily absorb the dragon's heart, you will face death immediately. If you hold the dragon's heart, can you absorb the magic power that keeps flowing out when the magic power is insufficient?

Cardin thought so and looked at Luna. Luna seemed to see through his thoughts and answered with a frown.

"The dragon's heart loses its power once it leaves the dragon's body." In other words, humans should not be greedy.

"But what does that dragon heart have to do with the monsters gathering here?"

"If you studied, you would know. Creatures are attracted by magic."

"Yeah. I know monsters crave that more than humans, so they only go to places with abundant magic."

"Yes. So the dungeons or monster habitats you are talking about are generally places with abundant magic power." Just as Luna said, magic stones can often be found in dungeons or monster habitats.

"Perhaps they were attracted by the magic power gushing out from the dragon's heart and naturally found the place called Despair Plains."

"Are you here to find a new habitat?"

"Yeah. But after coming here, I felt some kind of terrifying presence, so I gave up the idea of ​​settling here."

Cardin responded by snapping his fingers as if he understood.

"Monsters with nowhere to go have found the place with the strongest magical power nearby?"

"Yes. Of course it is a city inhabited by humans." Up to this point, it is understandable, but there is still one question that has not been answered.

"Luna, but why is there not even a blade of grass growing in the Plains of Despair? Is there such pure magic here?" Most of the characteristics of the barren land are "magic depletion".

No plants can grow on land without magic. But with such pure magic flowing from the Dragon's Heart, why did the Plains of Despair become a land where not a single blade of grass grows?

"That's because the dragon sucked all the magic from the land."

"Isn't it dead?"

"The heart is fine. That heart sucked away all the magic power on the ground."

"why?"

"Although I don't know the reason, I guess it's to maintain the function of the Dragon Heart?" Luna only had a certain amount of knowledge and couldn't explain the reason clearly.

"The magic power flowing from there will maintain the barrier of this nest."

"In order to maintain the barrier, all the magic power of the land is sucked away?"

"Yeah. It takes quite a bit of magic power to maintain that crazy barrier."

If dragons were still alive, the land would not be barren. Luna said, slowly crossing the threshold.

"Luna?" Cardin hurriedly called out to Luna, wondering if it was really possible to walk into Long's final dormitory so easily?

"It's alright. It looks like it's been dead for a long time. And I didn't see any presence guarding the nest." Luna walked confidently again and Cardin followed her into the dragon's final sleeping quarters.

As she said, there was no threat. No magical devices, traps, or soldiers guarding the dragon were visible.

The master of the oppressive feeling that filled the vast space was only the corpse of the dragon.

"Cardan. We had a great experience today." Luna stopped in front of the dragon, her eyes sparkling.

Although her face was still frozen with fear, her eyes sparkled like a child who had discovered a new world.

"Look at that." Luna pointed at the Dragon's Heart, and Cardin nodded, looking at it carefully. The Dragon's Heart took on the shape of a blue sphere because of the light it emitted, and a translucent membrane like a crystal wrapped around it.

"Maybe the dragon did something before it died. If not, after so much time, only bones are left. It is impossible for the dragon's heart to be so intact."

Cardin said, and then he suddenly remembered something and carefully placed his hand on the dragon's bone.

"What are you doing?"

"How many necromancers in the world can read the memories of dead dragons?"

"What?" Woohoo. Luna tilted her head as Cardin slowly activated his magic power and used magic.

"Necromancers can peek into the memories of the dead. Although they can only peek into the memories of the moments before death, but..."

"Not really recommended." Luna frowned and shook her head, but Cardin smiled easily and slowly closed his eyes.

"It's ok."

Snap! Crunch. The dragon gasped for air and stared at something.

Woohoo! The dragon used magic to create a wall of water in front of it, and the wall of water reflected the dragon like a mirror.

"That's what the Dragon of Prophecy said. The prophecy says that one day a human will come and read my memories." The dragon looked at his reflection in the water, as if someone was speaking.

Those words were not in the language of dragons, but in the human language that Cardan was familiar with.

"When only bones are left of me, humans will come to read my memory. Then the demons will appear again. Is this true?" Long said, sneering.

"No matter how excellent my race is, it cannot communicate with humans in the distant future." Of course, the dragon only conveyed the words to Cardan, but could not hear Cardan's voice.

"Time is running out, hurry up and tell me. The demon king has appeared." Hearing this, Cardin, who was reading his memory, was startled and almost interrupted the magic.

"The Demon King appeared in this world, and humans who covered their bodies with grass had no power to stop the demons." Could it be that there was an invasion by demons when the dragon was alive?

This is an event not recorded in any history.

"The world was heading for destruction, and finally the situation had come where the dragons had to step up." Wasn't it a natural death? A closer look revealed that the dragon's body was covered in deep wounds.

"Stronger than I thought. That guy called the Demon King. Many dragons died thanks to him." The dragons that fought against the demons suffered losses that were close to extinction.

"Of course, we won. We are great dragons. We drove them away, so you can find this place. Hahaha!" The dragon seemed to have something to be happy about, and laughed loudly, and the vast space echoed.

"The prophecy of the dragon. That elder said that in the distant future, in your world, there won't be many of our race." That was true. Although there were records of dragon corpses being found, no one had ever seen a living dragon.

Even in ancient historical records, no one has ever seen a dragon.

"And human. When you found me, the demons came to this world again and started a war." On the one hand, it was horrifying. The unpredictable words of the dragon in the distant past all became true.

"I have been waiting for you since the moment I died. My heart absorbs the magic of this land and maintains the barrier of the nest." Luna was right. The magic of the dragon's heart, which absorbed enough magic to make the land barren, was only used to maintain the barrier.

"No matter how good humans are, they cannot cross this barrier. You may have come in through a hidden passage. Hehe." Long didn't know the result, but laughed softly with satisfaction.

"Other dragons might laugh at me if they knew this fact, but I don't regret my choice." What to say next? The dragon looked at his reflection in the water with clear eyes and spoke slowly.

"Come to my human. Great being, I, Aurora Noxus, allow you." Woo. The dragon's eyes glowed blue.

"You can do anything. I'll lend you my power." The corners of Long's mouth seemed to rise.

"Noble life form, why did I make such a choice?" Although no question was asked, the dragon reacted as if it had heard the human's question.

"I don't like my body being buried in the dirty land ruled by demons. Rather than that..." The fluorescence emitted by the dragon began to fade.

"I entrust my body to you." After saying those words, the dragon's eyes lost their light and he lost consciousness.