Chapter 216: Reinard’s Return
A while has passed but things were still silent, Natasha and Ben had joined Arnette and all of them just waited for what was about to happen. The military was expecting reinforcement but they’ve made movement and had circled the dragkns but both of them showed no concern.
"Damnit, is that we are like ants to them, something they don’t need to care about... if not why are they here, what the hell is two dragons that have not been heard of doing on our land" Mierend lamented to herself yet again.
She was a very capable leader no doubt she didn’t pass through the academy yet she was strong enough to be a major general it was no little feat, she was strong and respected.
The cloud above them began to gather together, the gold dragon then stood, all the soldiers fell aback as they saw Erindell rise for the first time, Azes also stood up with joy, "is father coming"
Erindell nodded with a smile, "I just felt my master’s faint presence disappear, no doubt he should be reaching anytime soon"
"My lord is on his way" Ben said.
"You understand dragon tongue?" Natasha said.
"Of course, since I was born from Master’s essence which is of a dragon’s...much greater though" Ben said with a smile. It was the first time he had been this lively in two years, not just him alone, Arnette had tears in his eyes, somewhere within he feared if all was lost, he didn’t know why the thought of Rein not ever returning made him feel like he lost all but he couldn’t bare to live if Rein would not make it back, this moment seem like a dream to all of them.
The cloud continues to darken and begins to rumble.
"Something is about to happen" Mierend murmured to herself, she then shouted to everyone, "Brace yourself everyone something is about to happen!!!"
Strong winds begin to blow and the rumbling continued, the sands rose up and flowed with the strong winds. Everyone was now busy securing themselves to care about the dragons.
-Thudddd
The next moment, there was a large, ground shaking thunderous sound, as the lightning hit the ground between the dragons. But dragons first bowed. The winds settle and things begin to clear up, Mierend was the first to see it.
"The dragons are bowing to a ...man?" She said. Then her subordinate used a binoculars, "it’s true Major general, you are right they are bowing-" she hijacked the binoculars from his hand, "what you thought I was wrong before?"
"No ma, I dare not"
She used it to look at them and then was in awe, "why will dragons be bowing to a man..." she gave him the binoculars and whistled, a griffin flew under her as she jumped, she flew towards the dragons.
Rein’s feet first felt numb, as though he had not walked for a very long time, then there was a nauseous feeling in his head, the smell was making him want to puke and everything just seem to unsettle him, he looked at the gold dragon and for some reason he could tell.
"Duke Erin?" He said.
"I will give more explanations when we get home" the gold dragon said.
Azes first turned his eyeballs to look at both of them, once the tension dropped he quickly raised his head and dipped it into Rein’s arms which barely fitted in, Rein fell on his butt and laughed as Azes tickled him with his nose, Azes immediately transformed into a young boy and fell on Reinard’s chest.
"I can keep this form for very long now father... I don’t have to worry about turning to a cat anymore..." then Azes expression drowned and he wore sadness all over his face.
Like Rein could already read his mind, "it’s not your fault I got trapped in fact it’s a good thing" Rein stood up, "move to your right by two steps", he said to Erindell, who immediately obeyed.
"Like this?"
"Yes" Reinard moved forward and looked forward towards the sky afar.
"Father?"
He then drew out black sword from the sub space, his inventory. ’Its been long I held blacksword my hand feels numb too’
-wooossshhhh
-kaarggghhhh
Rein used the black sword to parry the attack that fell on them in between 0.5 and 0.8 seconds. The sword broke into two and each part flew off in different direction.
"A dragon slayer...? I didn’t even know one existed" Reinard said.
Erindell, was surprised, "a dragon slayer was nearby?"
"Yes...for you both not to have noticed that means she is pretty strong since Dragon slayers are specialized in sneaking up on dragons and taking the spared chances to kill them", ’Huh...how do I know that...?’ Reinard was surprised, but he soon understood, ’so this was what he meant by it is easier than I thought...’
’For him to know...even when I an ancient dragon...just how powerful as he become?!’
"My Lord!!!!" Ben cried as he ran closer, he ran so fast but as soon as reach with Rein’s range he fell on his knee and laid his head on Rein’s feet. "Master, forgive me for not being able to protect you please forgive me"
Arnette and Natasha also ran towards Rein as their wyverns got too scared and wouldn’t even move.
Rein saw Arnette and Natasha coming and was filled with so much joy he had often thought while in the altar how exactly would he feel the first day he would meet his friends, he ran and hugged Arnette tightly and also gave Natasha a warm hug.
She blushed and complained, "my God you stink!! When last did you have a bath?!"
"When last did you guys see me?"
"Two years ago..." Natasha eye widened, "the last time you had a bath was two years ago?!"
Reinard answered her with a warm smile and a nod.
"You have no idea how happy I am to see you" Arnette said.
"I’m happy to see you guys too, what about Jon and Zolin and Sigrid and everyone" He asked anxiously.
"Everyone has been busy preparing for your arrival"
Rein turned towards Azes who was behind him as he greeted Arnette, "Seriously, you will sneak upon my dragon while I’m here?"
Mierend’s became visible immediately.
’What the hell? I didn’t undo the stealth, under no circumstances should I be visible right now...no this guy, he broke my dragon slayer sword and even saw through my stealth...even a dragon cannot detect it...who the hell is this man’, "who are you?" Mierend asked Reinard.
Reinard walked closer to her in his tattered clothes, but as he got closer, she began to struggle to breathe and he legs began to shake, she fell on her knees.
"I... I am the lord of north sea, the king of dragons"
Arnette gulped as Rein announced himself. He faced Arnette and Natasha, "let’s go"
"Sure" Natasha said.
Rein climbed on the gold dragon and left with Arnette and Natasha and Ben, as soon as they left, Mierend fainted while drooling.
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It’s been three days since Rein’s arrival and all he has been doing is sleeping, however in that three days. The beast city was filled with westerners.
He was in the duke’s mansion in beast City everyone waited for him but after taking a long bathe, he slept so much, at least that was what they thought since no one could dare to open his door.
Everytime Rein went into the mind world, he disappears, his physical appearance disappears but his presence can still be felt, Rein spent those three days in the mind world, Reading all sort of books, he discovered that as much as the mind world contained knowledge, it made him regain his vigor somehow, without sleeping, as a deity it was not a necessity to sleep anymore, entering the mind world would play the entire role of sleep.
He came out of his room with a black robe to grab a drink, food and drinks were not necessity to him anymore but there were still cravings of his human tongue, which implies the taste matters but it contributes nothing to his body, a deity need not, sleep or food or rest.
He reached the large sitting room only to see ten people including the duke and Azes on their sit, waiting for him. He was surprised.
"How long have you guys been here?"
"I arrived yesterday, I’ve been here since then" Jon replied as he began to sweat at the back of his neck, ’...this is beyond anything I ever thought, everyone can plainly feel it...he’s not human anymore, his like a presence of his own existence."
"Free up" Rein said and immediately everyone felt a large ease in their heart. He sat on the master sofa, "I missed you all."
Zolin jumped on him in tears, "I missed you too buddy"
’...this guy!!...wait why am I so formal, Reinard is my friend and the fact that he is a deity changes nothing’ Jon smiled and pulled Zolin from Rein, "stand up" he said to Rein.
As Rein stood up he threw his fist at him but Rein easily saw it coming he was about to move his face back but looked at Jon’s face, smiled and put his face back in the punch.
"That’s for making us worry" Jon said and hid his broken fingers in his pocket.
"I’m sorry..." Rein apologized. He looked at Braschiold who seemed to have matured alot and was holding himself from bring childish, he looked at Grim who looked like he had alot to share, he looked at Sigrid who still wore her tough expression, he looked at everyone and smiled.
"I was missing for two years and you all waited for me?"
"What else would we have done?" Jon said.
"You have alot of mess to clean up though, as we may be entering war with the Forgan empire" Yhuzia said as he walked inside.
"Huh?" Everyone exclaimed.
"This monk? Always going on pilgrimage, now Rein comes back and the next thing you are saying is war?!" Natasha yelled at Yhuzia.
Yhuzia went on one knee and bowed, I greet you as my Master, seeing you now I don’t think there will be any other I will ever bow my knee to like this, I have never done it. You are the first and the last I will ever do it to, I will dedicate my whole life to doing all you want"
It was a sincere pledge from Yhuzia, everyone went silent, Arnette was the first to obey his guts as they all felt they wanted to do the same.
"I Arnette Vuze Belmont pledge to serve you as my lord and my master, I will give my life for whatever orders you give"
Like that the rest of them began to go on their knees and pledge with allegiance to Rein this time it was different. After they were all done, Rein sighed, "you all are putting a huge responsibility on me" he looked at Yhuzia, "what war?"
"Well the Bureau of Guilds international has not only targeted Jon’s guild, they have found attachment to every other guild and they suspect that all these guild may be serving a shadow master...so they want to wage a war against Jon’s guild and eradicate it, in doing so they would slowly target the rest, I don’t know how but they seem to know that Jon’s guild is the core of it. And right now? We don’t have the strength to fight the Bureau of guilds, if Forgan Empire intervenes its a sure loss for us."
Jon nodded and continued, "he is right, the emperor called me months ago and told me to drop my noble title if I was not going to stop being a guild master, so I did"
"What?! And you didn’t tell anyone?!" Natasha screamed.
"I had already made arrangements for all of us to meet together but I had no idea we were going to be meeting like this, but this is even better, since the one reason we all came together is here with us."
"Is there no way to stop the war with the Forgan Empire, we can’t win a war right now? I don’t even think we can ever win a war with them, the dark knight, the red and blue knight, the silver knight, the imperial knight and even the riders...not to talk of the generals and the princes" Zolin said.
"Roughly each guilds have at least fifty members" Yhuzia said.
"I have three hundred and seventy two members and all of them are strong, the recruits are sixty one and they are still being trained" Arnette said.
"Everyone was surprised"
He continued, "with six hundred soldiers I own as my right as a noble"
They exclaimed further.
"Ahh...A lineage that cannot be taken away from you not even by the Emperor, a Belmont will always be a Belmont"
"Me too..." Goldevia said, "I have seventy guild members and two hundred soldiers under my right"
Rein looked at all of them and smiled, ’thus guys are really ready to fight a war without any thought somehow I feel like they’ve grown and left me behind.
{No}
’Ariel?’
{Yes Master}
’Its you!’
{I MISSED YOU MASTER}
’I missed you too’
{But I’m of no use for you anymore...}
’...don’t say that, you will continue to be my guardian angel, and for I have a plan for you...now I have to focus on what’s in front of me’
"I can mobilize, eighty thousand soldiers as we speak, six hundred mechanical golems and with time we can train more soldiers, the resources is not a problem" Duke Erin said.
"As expected of the duke" Jon said, "but you will be turning your back on the emperor?"
"My soldiers are loyal to me not the emperor, if they want a war, we will give it to them" the Duke said.
Rein smiled, "we can win the war"
Everyone’s expression lit up. As though Rein’s words were an assurance to them.
Rein looked at Zolin, "let’s talk later"
"Of course" Zolin smiled at him.
Rein was about to stand when another man entered, he was in a red armor and he walked in majestically.
Zolin flew up, "The King of the imperial knights?!!!" He ran behind Rein.
But to his surprise the man went on both knee and bowed his head before Reinard, "Sigriel the bronze dragon greets the dragon king and pledges allegiance to the dragon king"
"Eh?"
