Chapter 17: The Library
And in between, there's still nearly two hundred years of teenage years sandwiched in between.
Whatever you want to do, Veit, the truth is, you don't need to be in that much of a hurry, three hundred years is more than enough time for you to raise your strength!’
‘You can only leave the Dragon's Nest if you're a youth?’
‘That's right! The outside is full of dangers, and young dragons and juvenile dragons are not strong enough to deal with those dangers!’
At those words, a flash of disappointment flashed across Veit's eyes.
Looking at the lost Veit, Winters couldn't help but open his mouth and ask, ‘Is there any place you want to go? Did your parents ask you to go?’
Veit shook his head and didn't answer, instead looking up at the sky.
‘Winters, what does the starry sky look like?’
Winters froze for a moment, then a flash of confusion flashed in his eyes.
‘I've never been there, I don't know what it looks like, but I've heard Desiderio say that underneath that beautiful appearance of the starry sky is a deadly danger.
There is no air for breathing, the astral winds with no end in sight, and the cold, dead nothingness!’
‘Is that so?’
Vit murmured in a low voice, then crouched down on his own and covered himself with his wings.
Seeing this, Winters shook his head helplessly, then narrowed his eyes.
......
Deep in the empty Dragon's Den, several grunts of different heights and tones rose and fell!
Veit crouched in the corner without a trace of sleep.
The scent of the morning's roasts still hung in the air, but the rest of those roasts had disappeared upon their return.
Along with them, there were also those Morse Dragon Beasts and Ball Little Dragons that had disappeared.
It was not known whether those roasts were eaten up by the Morse Dragon Beasts or by the Balls Little Dragons.
Raising his head, Veit glanced at Celine and the others who were sleeping quite soundly, then carefully stood up and walked towards the outside.
A few moments later, Veit crouched down at the entrance of the dragon's cave, a flash of hesitation in his eyes.
Winters' previous warning was still in his mind.
Although he didn't know what would happen, he thought that it shouldn't be pleasant.
But ...... now there is no sound outside, the other dragons should be asleep, just go out to see if it should not be anything wrong!
Thinking like this, Veit first poked out half of his body and looked around, the spacious corridor was empty.
Seeing this, Veit carefully walked out of the dragon's den.
Walking to the edge of the stone corridor, looking towards the bottom, when he came back during the day, the square that was bustling with activity, at this time there was not a single dragon.
Vettel's heart, immediately put down, and then a flash of joy in his eyes.
Moving his wings, Veit made a leap towards the bottom, his body only slightly sank, and then he stabilised in mid-air, and then, he flew towards the top.
The Dragon Academy was divided into nine floors, and Veit's Dragon's Den was on the sixth floor, while his target at this moment was the cave entrance above the ninth floor.
From his angle, he was already able to see that the starlight spilling down through the cave entrance was, of course, more moonlight!
It's only three floors, it shouldn't be a problem!
Veit thought so.
However, this third floor was much higher than what Veit had imagined.
After flying through just two floors, he felt a bit physically exhausted.
Raising his head to look at the stone corridor on the ninth floor, Veit gritted his teeth and flew towards the corridor in a desperate attempt!
Luckily, Veit managed to land on the ninth floor's stone corridor.
But just as he had just breathed a sigh of relief, a slightly low and hoarse voice suddenly rang out behind him.
‘Look! I caught a young dragon wandering in the night!’
Veit's body stiffened, and the sudden voice almost made the scales on his body stand up.
Warily, he turned his head back, only to see a huge dragon that emitted a greenish shimmering light and was about the same size as Winters, standing not far behind him.
Of course, this was not the point, the point was that he was able to see the rock wall of the stone corridor behind him through the other's body!
With just one glance, Vetgar jerked over!
‘Hello, you can call me Bo ......co, uh ...... how did you pass out?’
Opening his eyes, Veit stared blankly at his unfamiliar surroundings.
Who am I?
Where am I?
What am I doing?
A trifecta of questions later, Veidt barely managed to figure out what was going on now.
He snuck out of the Dragon's Den and wanted to fly to that exit at the top of the academy to see the stars.
As a result, when he flew to the ninth floor, he lost his strength and prepared to take a rest before flying out again, but a huge dragon, like a ghost, appeared behind him.
And then he didn't know anything!
Err...... well, still haven't figured out the question of where he is now.
However, it should have something to do with that ghostly dragon.
With that in mind, Veit stood up, and then began to survey his surroundings.
This was a huge empty cavern, the light was soft, much brighter than the dragon's den they lived in, and the air was filled with a smell that I don't know how to describe, uh ...... somewhat unpleasant.
In the distance, they could see some stone platforms that they didn't know what they were doing, and on top of the platforms were many, many containers that looked like they were made of crystals with various coloured liquids inside.
In the distance, there were some stone shelves, on which were placed some huge crystal containers, which seemed to contain something, from his position, he could not see it very clearly.
After hesitating for a moment, Veit stood up and walked towards the stone shelves.
He had a not-so-small interest in what was in those huge crystal containers, and to put it mildly, this place was quite like the mad scientist's laboratory in that world!
However, this wasn't that world, he wasn't even sure if humans existed, so there shouldn't be that whatever mad scientist!
However, it turned out that he was still too naive!
As Veit got closer, what was in those crystal containers gradually became clearer.
However, after seeing clearly what it was, from his head to his feet, and then to the tip of his tail, the dragon scales on Vettel's body, with their pieces standing up, looked like waves of water.
What did he see?
Eyeballs!
The cylindrical crystal container that was able to fit him in completely, and still more than enough, was filled with light green liquid, and soaked in these liquids were all eyeballs with golden pupils.
Each eyeball, had the size of a Vet's head, so it could be imagined that the owner of the eyeballs, their body size was definitely not considered small!
This is not all!
On the stone shelves, there were all these cylindrical crystal containers.
The one containing the eyeballs was not the only one in front of him.
Moreover, the eyes in each container were not exactly the same, the size of the volume, the shape of the pupil, and even the colour of the pupil.
The last point was the most important.
Although Vettel didn't have inherited memories, but, whether it was him, or Celine and the others, or even Winters, the pupils were of a dazzling golden colour!
The pupils of those dragon beasts, on the other hand, were golden in colour.
It wasn't hard to guess that at the very least, the giant dragon species all had dazzling golden pupils.
However, in the other crystal jar that Veit was looking at, there were eyes with golden pupils!
Those were definitely the eyes of a giant dragon species!
However, in the next second, his gaze was drawn to another crystal jar not far away!
The dragon scales, which had hardly calmed down, once again exploded.
Simply because, what was soaking in that crystal jar, was a young dragon that was a few circles larger than him, and, the other party's appearance couldn't be said to be the same as Veit, right, but there was a nine-point resemblance.
A silver dragon!
‘It was found by me in the depths of the Star Source Mountain Range!’
The sudden voice startled Veit fiercely.
Turning his head to look, he saw that the ‘Ghost Dragon’ he had seen when he fainted earlier floating not far away, looking at the silver dragon in a jar with a face of emotion.
‘You killed it?’
Veit couldn't help but ask, he didn't even notice that his voice, when he said this, was so dry.
‘Of course not, it was infected with the plague, and a young dragon infected with the plague can't survive without the care of an adult dragon!
That said, what kind of image do I have in your mind?’
Saying that, Bocco looked at Veit with a touch of eccentricity in his gaze, if memory serves, he didn't seem to have done anything to this little dragon!
‘Ghost dragon?’
At those words, Bocco froze for a moment, and then, showed dawning realisation.
‘You're Veit, aren't you!’
Veit looked at Bocco in consternation.
‘There's no need to look at me like that, Winters sent your blood to me for examination and mentioned your situation in passing, and it seems that she was right, another little dragon without a proper bloodline heritage.
Also, your dragon blood is amazing, I've never seen such dominant dragon blood before, if I may ......’
‘Roar~’
Hearing this, Veit immediately held his tail and let out a low roar towards Boke.
Seeing this, Bocco, however, was just a little disappointed.
‘Well, it seems like you're not willing, but this should be what you need most right now!’
As soon as the words fell, a, already dead Booth Dragon Beast appeared in front of Veit, and in terms of size, it was nearly a third smaller than the one he had eaten this morning.