Chapter 21: Concentration of the Dragon's Bloodline
Veit's eyes lit up, then tightened on his right paw.
‘Fireball!’
It was the same two awkward notes, and apart from the childish voice, there was no difference from Winters.
After spitting out those two notes, Veit then felt a surge of his spiritual energy, focusing on his right paw, and then, the fire elements in the air began to gather towards his right paw.
However, in the next second, the fire elements that had just gathered over were suddenly absorbed by Veit's body before they could condense into a fireball.
Those magic elements that had gathered over because of the Ancient Dragon's words also fled in an instant!
As Veit watched this scene, he couldn't help but feel more than a touch of loss in his eyes.
Sure enough, he wasn't able to use magic.
Seeing this, Winters comforted, ‘’It's alright Veit, magic doesn't mean everything, the Earthbound Dragon species, like the Gargoyle species, are also extremely strong existences amongst the dragon race, and most of them just don't know magic.
In addition, even if those fire elements were not swallowed by your body just now, this magic of yours, still won't be used successfully, magic is more than just reciting a spell!
This is something we will talk about specifically tomorrow!
Don't be discouraged, not being able to use magic doesn't mean that, the mysteries of magic will close its doors to you!
What's more, having elemental affinity is just your body capturing the approaching magical elements on its own, but this situation, for sure, won't last forever.
If it could last forever, then you should be happier instead!
Because that means that your physical body has endless potential.’
Veit nodded, adjusted his mood, and began to read the words on the book.
‘The Dragon of Creation, Corvus, and the Dragon of Extinction, Ixis, fought in the starry sky, and the forces representing creation and destruction collided fiercely, causing the spilled blood of the two dragons to change in an inexplicable way.
In the end, an entirely new world was formed!
I don't know how long it took, or rather, time had no meaning to the twin dragons, in any case, the end result was that the Dragon of Destruction, Ixis, fled in defeat, and the Dragon of Creation, Corvus, went in hot pursuit.
However, as he was leaving, Kovi noticed the world that was born out of his and Ixis' power, and in order to celebrate the new birth of the world, he left behind a drop of his own blood, which was incorporated into the world!
Ten million years later, this world, because of the drop of blood left behind by the Dragon of Creation, began to breed life of its own!
And at the same time as life was conceived, the powers possessed by the Dragon of Creation began to appear in this world, earth, water, fire, wind, nature, thunder, light, and darkness!
The appearance of the magical elements accelerated the conception of life, and she was born, she was known as the Mother of Dragons, the first Dragon in the Dragon Realm, Komossis!’
Veit turned his head to Winters.
‘Is it true what it says?’
Winters yawned, reading a book or something was just too painful!
Hearing Veit's words, Winters perked up.
‘No dragon knows if it's true or not, besides, this passage wasn't written by the author of this book, it was found on a stone wall from the ancient times.
Millions of years of baptism didn't destroy it, which makes it very credible in some dragon circles.
But if I were to say whether it's true or not!
I can only say I don't know!’
Veit froze for a moment when he heard this, and then asked with some confusion, ‘I don't know?’
Winters smiled and nodded.
‘Comoxis being the world's first dragon race is just one theory of the origin of the dragon race, and there are actually many conjectures like this one!
This one is one of the ideas in the theory of the origin of the Dragon Mother, and the follow up is that Komossis gave birth to the original Dragons!
In other words, the dragons who believe in these believe that the Mother of Dragons is the source of the dragon race!
And in addition to the Mother of Dragons Origin Theory, there is also the Divine Creation Theory, where the Dragons are a rather perfect race, long-lived, full of wisdom, and powerful, but too much perfection is rather a bit unnatural.
Therefore, they believe that the dragon blood of the Dragon of Creation, after falling into the Dragon Realm, was divided into eight, turning into eight dragon eggs, which gave birth to the original eight elemental Dragon Gods, after which the eight Dragon Gods combined their efforts to create the Dragon Race.
Because it was created by the gods, it was perfect!
On top of that, there are many other views, such as the theory of evolution, such as the theory of celestial aliens, and so on!’
Celestial aliens?
Vettel's heart stirred, in the inheritance memory, his parents were dragons from the starry sky, but, according to Winters, the bloodline inheritance was written down by the previous generation of dragons, for the young dragons.
Although the dragon body in the starry sky, which was as huge as a star, did not seem to be faked, but he also had no way to prove that it was real.
If he wanted to prove it, then the only way was to become stronger and then personally go to the starry sky to find the truth.
But for now ......
‘Winters, which one do you think is real?’
At those words, Winters smiled.
‘Vit, time is the most relentless in this world, the truth that is hidden under time, it is hard to seek and pursue, no dragon can say, what exactly is the origin of the dragon race!
Unless, you are able to jump out of the river of time, go back to the past and witness it with your own eyes!’
Veit looked at Winters with some bewilderment.
‘Time, is it really possible to jump out?’
Winters, however, rolled his eyes.
‘Who knows!
In the history of the Dragon Race, there was a Time Giant Dragon ......’
Veit, who couldn't get a follow-up, couldn't help but ask anxiously, ‘And then?’
‘Then?
Then he thought he could play with time.
But the result was that he was played with time all over the place.
In the end, he disappeared, no dragon knows where he went, was it the past? Was it the future? Or died in some unknown corner!
So, Viktor, don't be in a hurry!
You have lots and lots of time, do the right thing at the right time, and you'll find that you'll have a lot less to worry about!’
Veit froze for a moment, then laughed softly.
‘Thank you, Winters, maybe I really shouldn't be in such a hurry!’
Winters laughed.
‘There's no need to rush to become stronger, but there is a need to rush to fit this knowledge into your mind, Veit, knowledge is power!’
At those words, Veit's face instantly turned bitter.
......
Dragon Origins was only the beginning of the book, Origins of Magic.
Of course, just like what Winters said, this book talked about just some of the basics of magic, and did not include the learning and training of magic.
Soon enough, Veit had a general understanding of magic!
For example, when casting magic, it wasn't just a matter of having an incantation, spiritual power, and elemental affinity to be able to cast it successfully.
It required more attention than Veit had imagined.
The most important thing was something called a magic node, which was linked to the magic elements in the dragon crystal.
Without the construction of the magic node, even if the elements converged under the influence of the spell, they would quickly disperse.
In addition to these, Veit also learnt about some of the divisions of the realms of strength.
There were a total of nine realms: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Amethyst, Legend, Lore, and Myth!
Between each major realm, it was further divided into upper, middle and lower three minor realms.
Generally speaking, a young dragon that has just been born is in the middle of the Black Iron realm. After eating the eggshell, the young dragon will quickly grow to the upper Black Iron realm, and after two years, the young dragon will automatically be promoted to the lower Bronze realm!
After that, the strength would depend on the young dragon's own talent.
However, it was like the point in Divine Creationism that Winters had mentioned before, that the dragon race was the perfect creature.
Taking the giant dragon species as an example, even the least talented and least hard-working giant dragon would break through to silver on his own when he passed through the juvenile stage and entered the youth stage!
In youth, it would be platinum, and in adulthood, it would be amethyst, and once it entered old age, it would definitely cross into legend!
In addition, the old age of the dragon species does not mean a decline in physical strength or a deterioration in strength, on the contrary, the old age is the most powerful period in the life of the dragon species.
It was only in the years when the giant dragon species' lifespan was about to end that its strength would decline rapidly!
And that time is more than twenty-four thousand years!
In other words, a giant dragon could still live for more than twenty-four thousand years if he kept on eating and waiting for death!
If his talent was better and he was able to break through to Legend or even Myth within this period of time, he would be able to live even longer than twenty-four thousand years for a giant dragon to be made an Ancient One!
Of course, there was more than that that Veit had learnt.
Time passed little by little, Veit immersed himself in the world of the book Origins of Magic, greedily absorbing the knowledge within.
During this time, Winters accidentally fell asleep, and Veit spent a great deal of effort to wake her up.
By himself alone, he couldn't do the physical job of turning pages right now!
As for Celine and the others, after the initial novelty had passed, they ran back to watch Veit read.
Of course, they tried to read a few times.
But with the exception of Celine, who held on a little longer, Billy and the rest of them just scanned the pages and then ambled over to Winters' side and fell asleep.
It wasn't until it was nearly dark that Veit and the others returned to the Dragon's Lair, led by Winters.