Chapter 215: Meeting Bahamot
"So you are telling me... this small, thing can give you power and that senile old man was actually protecting it inside the bone dragon"
"yes" Reinard replied Huemac.
"but i have a question... now that the bone dragon now has flesh, what shall we call it, flesh dragon...or purple dragon because it has a black and purple colour, Azes is already black though"
"seriously this esteler, is this the time to actually joke...?!" Huemac raised his voice at godeye.
"well, you joke all the time, I can joke any time I want you are not even a deity that can control time, why ahould you care what this time is for..."
Rein’s mouth dropped, "that’s so killing, godeye is now better with insults than even godeye."
"well being together with Reinard is finally paying off..." godeye grinned.
Rein smiled and stretched his hand, "come Doir" the dragon instantly turned into a light and entered Reinard’s hand, Reinard’s right hand to his right chest was now covered with the tattoo of a dragon.
"how did you do that...?" Huemac asked.
"I don’t know, i just know it’s something to do, like I know his name is doir. Let’s go settle scores with Bahamot so I can go home" Reinard smiled at them.
"Of course" they both said together and smiled at Rein.
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Arnette after travelling to the central artic had been working together with Grim and the others to find Rein, searching every corner, going through every city that they even got under the radar of the military as a terrorist class threat if they should continue their suspicious movement. This made Arnette to start a mercenary guild, a guild that is specialized in lending escorts to important people or rich people, in order to have access to certain locations without being suspected by the military, though this was a plan suggested to Arnette by Yhuzia but he managed it well, apart from being rich, he attracted a lot of intelligent and strong people who were willing to follow them and serve whoever he serves, Arnette had no issues with people pledging loyalty to him because he saw it as raising an army for Rein’s return, he never once doubted that Rein was going to come back.
"Boss are you really going to the northern continent?" a surbodinate of Arnette called Dolok asked.
Arnette touched his shoulders, "I might be gone for long so-’ another guy came running inside.
"I’m sorry for the interruption boss, but there’s been an occurrence at Ailton’s scape." he said to Arnette while huffing continuously.
"Ailton scape.... the abandoned plains not too far from the beast city"
"Yes boss, the military is heading there as we speak we might have to move faster"
"Dolok, rally all the mercenaries and meet me at Ailton’s scape as fast as you can" Arnette said and immediately ran out and whistled hard, while still running a large grey wyvern swoop past him, he jumped on the wyvern and flew away.
Dolok looked in awe, "is it going to be different this time, is the long awaited master finally going to be back" just then Ben and Natasha’s wyvern flew past him. "even master Ben and the swordsaintess... it definitely will be different." he ran to the tower and began to sound the large bell himself. It was a call to assemble, a call that had never happened since the creation of the guild.
Arnette arrived at Ailton’s scape only to be disappointed, as he saw that what moved the military was the appearance of a gold dragon.
’another failure...’ he thought, ’but I wonder what a gold dragon is doing here’
Large amount of soldiers surrounded the dragon but it just laid down and was still asleep, no matter how many attack they threw, the round shield that covered him was impenetrable so they had no choice but to wait.
’perhaps is it waiting for someone...’ Arnette’s eyes widened. ’if we follow Azes explanation, Reinard is a deity that lords over dragons then it makes sense that a dragons should be waiting here... but Azes also mentioned that no dragon has come to respect and accept Rein...’ Arnette was confused, ’let me just wait and watch, he landed afar off and watched.
But it was not only him that was watching afar off, the military which was led by a major general was also waiting and observing the gold dragon but to their surprise a black dragon joined, the gold dragon for the first time since arriving on that plain, opened his eyes.
"I have been searching for you" Azes said in dragon tongue.
"...well you have found me" Erindell the gold dragon also known as the Duke Erin answered.
"what do you know about Father?"
"why don’t you just wait for him to come answer himself" Erindell said.
"he’s coming?" Azes said with a bright and lively expression.
"yes... which is why I’m waiting..."
"how do you know?" Azes asked.
"as one of the first of my master’s creation, I can sense his soul, for a moment I felt Rein’s presence around the soul of my master"
"really?!" Azes said happily. He sits down too. All the soldiers began to run away, though Azes was much smaller and the big and old gold dragon.
The gold dragon watched as Azes laid on the ground in front of him and said, "two dragons at the same place, things will not remain the same, a lot will change after now and even other ancients dragons such as myself may begin to come out. Are you sure you can handle that...?"
"I will do anything to protect father"
"good resolve... my body is beginning to betray me, I can’t be of use anymore"
Azes just looked as the gold dragon closed his eyes back.
Arnette clenched his fist with joy, "yes I’m positive, the fact that Azes too is there means Reinard is somewhere around there, are they waiting for him to come around...I guess they are"
Meanwhile it was chaos in the military encampment,
"dammit, two dragons?! how are we suppose to take care of two dragons?!, we would need all hands on deck to take care of two dragons, everybody including the union leaders!" She slammed the table as she lamented, the soldiers standing in front of her shook as she threw her tantrum.
"place an order for reinforcement... a black flag reinforcement"
Immediately she said that both of them looked up.
"yes, this cannot be solved unless the field marshal himself is here" she said, "now run on.
They ran out of the tent.
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Rein after satisfying Huemac and Godeye and also defeating the bone dragon finally goes to where Bahamot’s soul fragment is, in the center of the altar, after many stairs below the floor he stayed on there were four small pillar and a single uncompleted pillar and on it was a flickering light, Rein entered in between the pillars and immediately Bahamot’s soul fragment formed him, a handsome man, black hair, muscular, blue eyes like Rein’s, their resemblance was plenty even Rein could plainly see it.
"Bahamot?" Rein said slowly.
Bahamot smiled, ’I never thought I would ever see you...?’ he stretched his transparent hand and touched Rein’s face, ’you have your mother’s gaze’
"..." Rein found this situation, plenty uncomfortable and was speechless, he felt warmth and he felt so much like he wanted to stay, so much that his eyes began to get teary for no reason known to him. "I inherited your authority after naming a dragon..."
"oh...which dragon did you name?" Bahamot asked
"A black dragon..."
"so you think you became deity that inherited my powers after naming a dragon?"
"Yes..." Reinard replied.
"It makes no sense Wimber"
"Wimber...?" Rein said, as it felt very strange to be called a name that seems to be the short form of Wimberly.
"That’s your origin name."
"what is origin name?"
"the black dragon is a chromatic dragon, a dragon that is under the jurisdiction of Tiamat, it makes no sense that you should receive MY powers from naming a dragon that it’s source is born of Tiamat’s essence...so exactly what are you saying?"
"No...exactly what are you saying?! Are you saying I just wasted my time?! All this while thinking it was you?!!" Reinard exclaimed.
"Make no mistake Wimber-"
"And can you stop calling me Wimber?" Rein interrupted, "my name is Reinard"
’Ouu...he’s so hard on his father’, " Okay Reinard, I am not saying you do not have my powers, in fact they are not mine, they are yours, they just happened to grow from mine, but don’t think it’s just for mine alone, if not there is no way you could have even names a dragon in the first place..."
"So what are you saying?" Rein asked.
"What I’m saying is, you did not become a deity because you named a dragon, I can’t answer why you became a deity, it’s a question for you to answer. There’s more to you than you can ever imagine. Now step forward let me give you what you came for"
Rein was puzzled by what Bahamot just said.
"Did you not come here for knowledge, to know more about what you are, about your authority?"
"Yes Reinard replied and stepped closer."
"I will put the memories of all you need to know in you, the rest is left to you" Bahamot pointed his hand into Reinard’s forehead and the next moment they were in a library stacked with books.
"Where is this?" Reinard asked.
"It is a mind world, a reality I created within my mind where I can keep all the knowledge of the world I have collected, I am also known as the Platinum dragon, interested in collecting knowledge hence, dragons after my kind were named platinum dragons, such as the gold dragon waiting for you, silver dragon and the others"
"Then does that mean..?"
"Yes Tiamat is the chromatic dragon, a dragon known for wreaking havoc and all dragons after her kind are known as chromatic dragons...the rest you will know when you read all these yourself."
Rein looked around the tall library of stacked books, "what?...I’m going to read all these...?"
"It’s easier than you think it is" Bahamot said. "And also about your domain, it’s something specific to our nature and is based on our knowledge so, take your time, it will come to you as you grow"
They continued walking through the library and entered another room filled with different treasures and dresses.
"I also sometimes like collecting treasures of the world, you can wear these dresses... they were made my legendary artisans"
"I see..." Rein made an irritated face, ’his fashion sense is whack’
"There’s not much in here, but they are a lot of valuable goods, you don’t have to live your life doing things to make a living you can live however you want, and the gold dragon has lot of treasures even more than I do, I see you are already enjoying the privileges already." Bahamot smiled.
"Huh, enjoying what?"
"Lastly, Lord of the north sea..."
Rein gulped, ’with change in atmosphere I think this is the real deal"
"Well it was not really a title I loved but since these creatures bestowed it upon me and with it came some little privileges over water, I had to accept it because I don’t turn away from responsibilities, I’ve given you the privileges too"
"When?" Reinard asked.
"Now" Bahamot replied.
"That’s all?"
"Yes that’s all" Bahamot replied him with a smile, "I’d love to spend more time with you but this fragment cannot withstand that, becareful of Tiamat, she is rotten to her core, do not make the same mistake I did" he said as disappeared.
"Nothing grand... not what I expected but it’s okay" Rein snapped back to reality.
