Will of chaos



In the next few days, I spent my time meditating, the image of that place didn't leave my thoughts, I could feel something there that I couldn't identify, something that I didn't know how I was feeling. 

I was isolated letting others do what they wanted, so I dove into deep meditation, I didn't care about anything else. 

I felt that it was something important, but it took me a while to understand what was important. 

I kept replaying that memory over and over trying to understand what that feeling was, that's when I realized that Magnus wasn't looking at the stone monuments with those strange Runes, his eyes wandered as if trying to understand what the Ancient was saying when he pointed to the floor. 

That's when I realized he couldn't see the Hall below the ground, probably just as I couldn't see it later, but I'm not sure the same could be said for the Ancient One, unlike Magnus who is an open book, that woman didn't demonstrated nothing. 

From the beginning we saw her until the moment she separated from us, I didn't see a single spontaneous reaction from her, I can't say if this is part of her behavior to be overly controlled or this is a precaution to not reveal anything. 

After realizing that I couldn't accomplish anything by analyzing Zadiris' behavior, words, or actions, I tried to make out something else, either in the crystal columns around me or in what I saw in that hall below. 

After a few hours I realized where that strange feeling came from, that's because I felt a slight reaction in my blood every time I was reliving the memory of when I felt being watched, it was a weak reaction, but it was all over my body. 

Knowing what to look for, it was easy to direct my meditation to explore this feeling further, and for that, I kept replaying in my mind that scene of feeling the observed sense. 

Meanwhile, I continued analyzing my blood this time in a more focused and thorough way, that's when I realized that it was not my blood that was reacting, but my lineage. 

For the first time, I felt something in my bloodline, there was something there that reacted whenever I remembered that moment when I felt watched, but the reaction was too small for me to understand what that was in my bloodline, even after 2 days of trying I got nowhere. 

On the third day, I got up from the meditation posture I had been in for more than 2 days, the first and most important thing I did was look for something to eat, I had gone days without eating and I was starving. 

After that, I went to the only person I thought would be able to help explain my doubts, but unfortunately, Arash was nowhere to be found. 

I tried talking to other Dragons and Dragon Kings that were in the Castle, but none of them understood what I was talking about, I tried talking to Magnus, but he also had no idea what I was talking about. 

That's when I thought about my sisters, but it was to no avail, Caitlyn was sleeping and threw me out of the room with a giant fist that formed in the air, Natasha talked about not knowing what I was talking about and Elizabeth was so interested that she started to ask even more questions about everything I felt, especially about lineage. 

Elizabeth clearly didn't know what I was talking about, but it piqued her interest, as someone whose Authority is related to blood, finding out that there is some aspect she doesn't understand was more than just intriguing, her level of curiosity was extreme and just disappeared in front of me so there was nothing else to say to her. 

I stopped for a few seconds to think and went after someone who might be more experienced than my sisters, I went after Silvia. 

Unfortunately, it seems she doesn't know about it, Dragons often cooperate with Elves and World Trees, but it's not like they have a source connection, so she didn't know about many things about Dragons, it seems that a World Tree Oldest world might know something, but she is no more than she once was and cannot contact other World Trees like before. 

With that, another day passed and I didn't know what else to do, the curiosity was too high, but all I could do was sit and wait. 

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Time has passed, I've already been in the Castle of Dragons for almost two weeks, and with Arash's help, I was able to perfect my Dragon Awakening up to 90%. 

Since hitting that mark I've realized a lot of new things, the first and most important was that I hit a growth hurdle with this skill, no matter what I did or how much I trained, I couldn't go beyond 90% as if I didn't have enough strength to go further or something was missing for me. 

With Arash helping me at his daughter's request and being a great way to torture me with the training excuse, I was around him for over a week, I wasted no time sending him questions. 

He answered as much as he could, but when I got to the part about the feeling I felt in my lineage when I went to the Holy Land of Dragons, he didn't say anything, he didn't even try to pretend, all he said was that he would find out in time. 

I was getting frustrated, but I tried to let it go, I spent my spare time looking for something in the Dragon library inside the Castle. 

There were many books, many among them were of larger size comprising the pages being made of leather and the cover being made of scales. 

Thanks to my interest and intelligence I managed to completely master the language of the Dragons as well as other ancient languages, one of the things I noticed after that was that none of these languages were similar in writing to the Runes I saw on those monuments and I couldn't find anything in the books that help with this mystery about the feeling I felt in my lineage. 

It didn't seem like there was even a reference to what I felt, so I tried switching to learn more about the Dragon Progenitors, but I didn't find much, they seem to be called Primordials instead of Progenitors, but that makes sense since they're listed as myths and legends among Dragons as suggested by the few books I found on the subject, considering the absurd lifespan of Dragons who live longer than empires. 

The only thing I found among the Primordial Dragons is the fact that they are counted as children of the Dragon God, but I don't know how much of this can be interpreted as true considering that Dragon Emperors are also considered children of the Dragon God. 

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Tonight when I came back from the Dragons' library still with one of my arms hanging down healing from the training I had against Arash, I find him in my room, his expression serious as he nods in one direction. 

I followed him as we walked, at first not knowing where I was being taken, but I soon recognized the path I took weeks ago with the Elder Dragon, Zadiris. 

I was being taken to the Hall in the Holy Land of Dragons, it seems she was right and that would be the place where my ceremony would be held. 

On the way I didn't see anyone, but while we were climbing the highest tower I looked out the window noticing that it's already getting dark outside, I didn't even realize that I had stayed so long inside the library. 

Something I also noticed was the number of Dragons outside flying around the Castle or floating around the Castle, half of them were looking at where I was climbing accompanied by Arash, and the others were looking up, looking at the sky above dusk. 

When we reached the whole of the Castle of Dragons, I climbed right behind him on the stairs that had been slept on solidifying the space into the form of steps, Arash took me all the way until I felt myself passing through the barrier the same way as days ago. 

After that, the same gate appeared again, and this time I didn't hesitate to pass through without effort, the Aura of countless Dragons didn't affect me much, maybe because I already experienced feeling the Aura of the Gods needing against me or an effect of owning an Authority, but now that I already knew about this Aura, I could enter without being surprised by this Aura like the previous time. 

As soon as I entered the Hall of Crystal Pillars in the Holy Land of Dragons, I realized that all my children, Familiars, Heroes, Priestess, and my two Saints were there waiting for me, along with them was Arash who passed through the gate just before me and some people I didn't know, with the exception of Zadiris who was beside them, which made me think that they are all Elder Dragons. 

"The time has come for the Ceremony of the Progenitor, Zenos." (Arash) 

With his words all the crystal pillars glowed as the books in them disappeared while crystal statues of various types of Dragon appeared in the place of the crystal pillars. 

I also noticed that the surrounding space seemed to ripple as the Dragon God's presence spilled out into the surroundings.