Back in the part of the universe under the dragon's control, Raziel finally came out from the secret chamber with a neutral expression plastered on his face.
Eindeart came in front of Raziel and lightly bowed down to him.
"Oh, Eindeart, I didn't expect you to come and welcome me, where's my old friend?" Raziel asked the Supreme expert as the latter looked at him.
"The lord went to visit some old friends a while ago, and he still hasn't returned, what about your trip to the secret chambers, did your majesty manage to find anything interesting?"
"Old friends, huh?" Raziel smiled widely as he looked at Eindeart, the latter felt as if a huge monster was in front of him, ready to devour him at any moment.
"He probably lost track of time when speaking to them, there's quite a lot of them inside that place now, no?"
Eindeart felt his heart skip a beat as he heard the question.
'He even knows about the prison.'
"Yes, there most certainly is a lot now."
"I see, from what I remember, that person should also be there, his mind is probably still alright, he was quite a powerful one."
Eindeart once again felt his heart skip a beat, each sentence Raziel spoke made him realize that no secrets could be kept in front of him.
"He was once the vice-leader, after all, he is on a level above the others," Eindeart said as Raziel nodded at him.
"Well, I definitely don't want to disturb those two, as for my trip inside the chambers, it has been surprising, to be honest, I didn't expect you guys to make such progress on the forbidden art, you're nearly finished," Raziel said with enthusiasm.
"Yes, perhaps in a couple of thousand years we might completely finish it," Eindeart said humbly as he looked at Raziel.
He knew exactly what forbidden art Raziel was talking about. As the person that Ziedranteon trusted the most, he knew almost everything there was to know about the dragon clan.
He knew about the existence of the prison, and everything that was inside the secret chambers, he even knew about the dragon clan's history and how Raziel saved them back then.
He was also not the second strongest person in the dragon clan, as all organizations and clans in the universe, the dragon clan made sure to hide their true power, the notion that only he and the patriarch were Supreme level experts was laughable, not only did they have many more inside the prison but there were more of the Supreme level and even above hidden, never showing themselves.
Most people in the universe knew them, but they didn't know that they were members of the dragon clan. It was the patriarch who made the plan to hide most of their power in case somebody dared attack them again.
By hiding their full power, they would be able to surprise the enemy and take care of them easily.
Raziel said goodbye before taking his leave. He was going back to the mountain.
Vajra, however, appeared right in front of the dragon clan's territory, waiting for Raziel.
"Vajra, I didn't think you would be here by the time I finished," Raziel said as he looked at his friend with a smile.
"You put a claim."
"Huh?"
"That planet, you put a claim on it, what is your goal, Reign?" Vajra asked him with a serious expression.
"What do you mean, I just sent my avatar over to the Alliance to ask for a share of the planet, it's not like I'm going to steal it from them or anything like that, I'm simply claiming a part of it, I have that much right, don't I?"
"You could've simply sent one of your men to look after the boy if you wanted to, but instead you did something like this, people will notice him, more and more eyes are now set on that planet because of what you did, both of us know it."
"I would never send one of my people over, you know that I don't do things like that, each one has to awaken by themselves, no help."
"I know, and yet, you did something that would potentially make things harder for the boy in the future, not only that, but I also found out something interesting about my descendant over there."
"Oh, have you?" Raziel asked with a surprised expression as Vajra scoffed.
"Don't play coy, he was a goblin, just a damn goblin before evolving to a hobgoblin and then a Vajra ogre, you think I wouldn't notice, he skipped multiple evolutions and became a Vajra ogre so quickly and easily, you put a drop of my blood in him during the 3rd evolution didn't you?!" Vajra asked angrily as Raziel smiled.
"Of course I did, I recognized his potential and figured it would have been a waste to let him evolve slowly, why are you getting angry, you saw the little guy's potential as well."
"That's not the point!" Vajra shouted.
"You put a drop of my blood simply to let him become stronger in order to help that boy out, that was the sole reason for doing so, both you and I know it!"
"Oh come one old friend, you have seen the boy's friends, all of them are as talented as the goblin was, there's no need for me to do such things."
"Oh really, so you're saying your plan wasn't to rope me in as well by doing that?" Vajra asked Raziel who had a wide smile on his face.
"Why would I need to do that, I know you have my back Vajra, that would simply overcomplicate things."
"Mhmm, that's what you say, but your actions say differently, doing so much over one boy, one who for some reason shares your name, your true name, something that should be impossible … what are you planning, old friend?" Vajra said with caution as he stared at Raziel.
"Me, nothing much, what is that thing planning, on the other hand, that should be the question you are asking." Raziel suddenly stopped smiling as he spoke.
"That thing, what do you … wait, you don't mean?" Vajra suddenly opened his eyes wide in shock as he stared at Raziel.
"I see now, so that's how it is, Reign, just what did you do to make it hate you that much?"
"That's quite a long story my friend, one that I won't be telling to anyone just yet," Raziel said as he stepped forward, his figure disappearing through the void.
"You're welcome to come to my place any time you wish old friend, do bring some good drinks though." Raziel's voice echoed inside Vajra's head as the latter stared in his direction.
"It seems I'll have to take you up on that offer, old friend." Vajra disappeared from the spot as he as well started making his journey to someplace.
Back on Earth, inside the huge building in the middle of the desert, Reign and the others had already started climbing up the final floor.
Just by looking up, it was obvious that the climb would take a long, long time as one was unable to see the end of the building. There was a bright like coming from above, probably from the ceiling.
"Dammit, this is going to take ages to climb," Shadow said as the team all sat down and started eating. They had been in the building for quite some time now and they were getting hungry and thirsty.
Water wouldn't be a problem with them, even without the water sources which were plentiful on this floor, Mia would have been able to easily replenish their water supply.
But the food was different. They were certain that there must be some sort of animals or monsters on this floor that they could eat, otherwise they might starve before reaching the top of the building.
"Hey, you don't think that Drayce told us that the previous two teams won't make it because they are slow and wouldn't reach the top before starving?" Shadow suddenly asked as everybody stopped eating and stared at him.
"He, he wouldn't have, right?"
"He might."
"I don't bout it for a moment."
"Definitely seems like something that bastard might do."
"I agree."
Everybody started agreeing with what Shadow said as they suddenly turned a bit nervous.
"But still, reaching the top with having so little food left, I don't know, it doesn't seem quite plausible, I still think that there has to be some kind of food source that we can find here," Beast said with a grim face.
"Yeah, even that bastard shouldn't be that crazy, he would have told us, there's no point in hiding something like that from us, I mean, the test is to go up and reach the top, if it was simply a test of how fast you can do it, then it completely changes everything."
"Well, I guess we will learn soon, we'll continue climbing after eating, if we still find no food source after a couple of hours, then it means we were right, I hope that doesn't happen," Wolf said before chugging his water down.
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