While Till was in his own world of thoughts, Jason led Seron towards the three Earth Dragon eggs.
The Earth Dragon mothers meanwhile, didn't do anything against their approach which mostly relied on Jason, as Seron's ravaging emotions slowly subsided when he was finally reminded about
He was still envious of Jason, but rather than holding a grudge, Seron was now happy to have brought his friend towards the Earth Dragon territory.
The last time he could only take a look at the three Earth Dragon eggs, and it took him already several hours to approach the eggs, even less to touch or inspect them.
However, now that Jason was next to him, a few seconds were more than enough to appear in front of the Earth Dragon eggs.
This was already extremely nice and Seron looked carefully at the three eggs as he released faint mana fluctuations to scan the three eggs, when the three Earth Dragon mothers growled out in unison.
Seeing this, he held himself back and waited patiently, as he looked at Jason who seemed to be deep in thoughts.
Jason was able to walk back and forth in front of the Earth Dragons without problems, which caused Seron to subconsciously rely on his friend.
Yet, instead of doing anything to determine which out of the three eggs was the best for him to form a soulbond contract with, Jason looked like he was in his own world.
This was exactly the case because he was still trying to understand the memories, thought,s and emotions within himself that belonged to the Earth Dragon mother he touched.
Even if he couldn't comprehend everything, one thing was for sure.
Earth Dragons were able to transmit thoughts towards humans, allowing them to understand certain things better, without the need for a soulbond contract or being able to speak the same language.
Jason was not sure if that ability belonged to the Earth Dragons alone or if every high-ranked beast was able to do something similar, once they attained a certain degree of intelligence or what exactly the requirements were to do something like that.
The memories in his mind spanned from several centuries, even before they arrived on Argos, which shocked Jason.
From what he could comprehend out of the transmitted memories and emotions, was that the Earth Dragons once inhabited a different world, where their race was already persecuted and killed which forced them to enter Argos through the rift that was appeared in front of them.
After living several decades in peace, they were once again persecuted until they found humankind who they thought to be reliable as they promised a paradise in exchange for the possibility to form a soulbond contract, as long as their offsprings were willing.
Still unwillingly, they accepted as they didn't know another way out, only to be forced to live below underground without a way out.
Not only did humanity betray them, but they also used poison to weaken them and their offsprings, which passively forced the offsprings to accept a soulbond contract in order to get out of the hell, mankind called paradise.
…
From these memories and the coherent emotions, Jason felt once again disgusted and now that he understood how the Earth Dragons felt, he couldn't help but think that humanity went down the wrong path.
Humanity seemed to have found the right way to achieve a high ratio of soulbond contract to new Earth Dragon eggs, however, in Jason's opinion, it could have been much better.
If the Earth Dragons lived in a true paradise, they might not even have a hatred against humanity, which would allow the offspring to hear better stories from their parents.
This could lead to an even higher number of Earth Dragon eggs that were willing to accept a soulbond contract while it might even be possible that the Earth Dragons were more eager to reproduce if they were to live in a paradise as their offspring wouldn't have to live in a poisoned lair, underground.
Shaking his head, Jason began to wonder why humanity acted that way and the only reason he could imagine was mankinds' innate fear from the strong.
If the Earth Dragons were to rebel one time, Astrix might as well be eradicated and it seemed like they didn't want to take this risk.
It has been a long time since he questioned his own and humanity's mindset to this extent, but somehow it seemed wrong.
Even if that was the case, Jason thought that he figured out why exactly the Earth Dragons were not hostile towards him even if he was not distinguishable from a common human.
At least that was what he thought in the beginning, and that only foreign races saw something that allowed them to link him to the Celestia race.
If he did not misinterpret the Earth Dragons' memories, emotions and thoughts, his aura was special and incomparable to humans.
Apparently, his aura radiated benevolence, kindness, and other emotions that established faint amity towards the Earth-Dragon.
But that was not everything because his eyes spread the same aura, only much denser and purer, finalizing the amity with the suffering Earth Dragons who longed for a ray of hope.
Jason could roughly understand all of this, and he was also in the opinion that the big families treated the Earth Dragons too harshly.
However, even if he wanted to, there was nothing he could do about it.
If he was able to rescue the Earth Dragons, what would happen afterward?
They would only be hunted by other beasts, humanity, and probably even foreign races again.
Nothing would change and this was also crystal clear to the Earth Dragons.
He was not even sure if he wanted to help the Earth Dragons because they established a grudge against humanity and releasing them from the underground territory was comparable to killing millions of innocent citizens.
As such, Jason could only look at the Earth Dragon and shake his head lightly, while trying to say.
'Try to endure it longer…'
It was not that he was adamant in rescuing everyone, or even in damaging humanity's growth by helping the Earth Dragons, but Jason just felt that the way humans handled most situations after the mana outbreak was completely wrong.
If he was able to change something, even if it only meant to build a proper relationship with the Earth Dragons and humans, why shouldn't he try to help?
However, in order to do something like this, he would have to become much stronger, and it would be the best, if he was stronger than all big families.
Jason was aware that his existence as half human and half Celestia was something that shouldn't exist and until some time ago, he felt that he belonged to the human race and that everything they did should be the only behavior he should take care of.
But humanity was not alone and in addition to an unknown number of foreign intelligence races, there were also intelligent beasts that didn't massacre everyone just like that.
The Tornado wolf mother inside the four-star rift didn't kill him and only wanted to rescue her offsprings.
Combining all facts, Jason was unable to say that all beasts were vicious and ferocious.
If that was the case, it was impossible to say that humans were not monsters.
Everything was much more complicated than he expected and Jason knew that it would be extremely difficult to change humanity's mindset about some beasts, even if he already heard from Till that their big family has a treaty with the Dryad race which sought asylum on their island.
However, from fairy tales, humanity was already more likely to establish amity with Dryads rather than Dragons, who were seen as ferocious and bloodthirsty.
Jason was still looking into the largest Earth Dragon mother's eyes and felt like it understood him as it retreated three steps, allowing Seron to make his choice.
The other Earth Dragons looked at it in shock, only to do the same reluctantly.
Thinking that Seron belonged to Jason, who might help them sometime in the future, they accepted the youth as their offspring's possible soulbond partner.
When Jason saw their behavior, he felt slightly bad but there were more than enough problems he had to take care of for now, and couldn't just amass everything.
In the end, everything had to be done one step after another, and overestimating his capabilities would lead to his death.
Obviously, dead people can't help anyone nor can they figure out what to do with peaceful beasts and mankind.
Sighing deeply, Jason's mind was filled with all kinds of thoughts and he could only lament to have followed Seron to the Earth Dragons as his whole mindset was once again about to crumble as he said to his friend.
"You can choose among the three eggs"
Seron averted his gaze towards Jason confused, as he whispered uncertainly
"Didn't you want to help me find the best one?!?
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