"5 Great Dragons?"
"That's right, I am one of the most powerful dragons in this world!"
The dragon called Xamrys raised its head and laughed smugly.
‘He’s one of the most powerful dragons in this world? Such being is in front of me..? He wants me to be his successor, but for what reason? It’s too strange for an almighty dragon to give his power to a measly human such as myself’
With a look of doubt on his face, Akkeyito asked the Dragon.
“You said you want me to be your successor but for what reason? If what you said is true, then why did you want to make me your successor? A weak human at that.
The dragon called Xamrys look at Akkeyito, seemingly deep in thought, and spoke.
“Of course you’ll find it strange.”
Akkeyito nodded at what Xamrys said.
“The reason is simple, first you make it here where nobody can’t other than that guy, and second is because my end is nearing.”
Shocked by the last word Xamrys said, Akkeyito asked.
"You said there's another guy who came here, then why did you not make him your successor?"
"Because he's already dead."
"Dead?"
Akkeyito who didn't expect that is looking at the dragon with his eyes wide open.
"Yes"
"Did you kill him?"
Akkeyito difficulty asked in a cracky low voice, maybe no one would notice it but, Akkeyito deep down is terrified. Right from the start when Akketito saw Xamrys, Akkeyito was deeply terrified. He's just trying his best to not show it on his face. It's commendable that he didn't faint right after seeing Xamrys but after hearing that Xamrys killed the guy, Akkeyito almost broke down.
"Yes, I did."
Xamrys calmly answer Akkeyito. With a deep knit on his face, Akkeyito started backing off.
"Haha, you don't need to be afraid. The reason I killed him is that he's one of my enemies. Oh, he's also an otherworlder like you. He is also called a hero in this world."
Xamrys calmly explained.
"He's your enemy? And he's also an otherworlder? What is your relationship with otherworlders?"
With a serious look on his face, Akkeyito started asking Xamrys.
'Is that guy also from earth? aah, This is driving me crazy. I really should not enter this cave... if this dragon considers otherworlders an enemy, then I'm dead. But maybe I'm also just overreacting, he said he wants me to become his successor… but that might be just a lie… and then just kill me... but what's the point in lying? He's a dragon and I'm only a Human. The guy he killed is called a hero in this world, then doesn't that mean this dragon is a villain? But some heroes put on an act that is 'good/kind' in public…'
While being on his thoughts. Xamrys spoke.
"You have so many questions, but oh well. I might as well explain some of the histories of this world for you."
"Please do so, I do really need some knowledge about this world. Thank you."
Being given an explanation about this world greatly helps Akkeyito who is from another world.
Akkeyito needs to know what kind of system this world works, what is the structure of this world? Do humans live in fear in this world? Who holds the power? Is it the 5 great dragons? Or are there different powers that can compete with them?
There are many things Akkeyito wanted to know, but unfortunately have no means to get the information he needs. But now there's someone who can provide this information in front of him.
"This world is called Everim. The first otherworlder that came to this world is when the war between the coalition of races and humans broke out. That era has been called the “Forgotten Past”.There are 5 otherworlder that have been summoned, and they've been called the 5 Great Heroes."
"War between the coalition races and humans?"
"Yes, it happened one hundred thousand years ago. The different races formed a coalition to fight the humans. The one leading the coalition races are the 2 out of 5 major races, us the Dragons, and Elves."
After hearing what Xamrys said, Akkeyito can't believe that the almighty Dragons will form a temporary alliance between the other races just to fight the humans.
'How can that be? Humans forced the Dragons and the other races to allied themselves just to fight them?'
"You formed an alliance between the other races just to fight the humans? Why would you guys do that? Aren't the Dragons supposed to be the strongest being in this world? And also humans, aren't they supposed to be the weakest?"
If dragons are forced to ally themselves to races that are beneath them, are they still the dragon that is known for having so much pride in their strength? Then, doesn't that mean that humans who forced the 2 major races in this world to allied between themselves are supposed to be stronger?
This is completely different from what Akkeyito reads in every fantasy novel in his previous world! Humans are supposed to be bullied not the other way around!
“That’s right, the humans are the weakest out of the 5 major races. The reason why they are considered weak is because of how short their lives are ranging only between 100 and below, but as time passes, human knowledge grows, and the same goes for their greed.
They seek knowledge, 5 of them came to us and begged us to teach them. We dragons honestly don’t care about worldly matters, so we agree to teach them about mana. After teaching them, they share their knowledge with their races. And as time goes, humans became more proficient in using mana and even matching that of some races such as elves, one of the major races.
But at the same time, human greed grows and reaches to the point where they covet the secrets of the other races. First, what they only did is to ask the other races but, of course, they refused, who will let others know the secrets of your race? Because of this, the human finds alternatives to acquire the secrets of the other races, they kidnap and kill the other races.
When the other races can’t tolerate this anymore, they seek our dragon clan to help them seek vengeance but we turned them down, the reason is as I said earlier, we don’t care about the worldly matters.
However, with our decision disaster befell the other races, they wage war on the humans, but the other race’s strength just doesn’t compare to the humans resulting in them losing the war. After the war ends, the human’s reign supreme in this land, they enslave the various races and expand their lands."
Akkeyito attentively listens to Xamrys without missing any word.
What Xamrys said is extremely what human nature is, they will do everything they can to obtain what they want. No matter the cost, that what is human is. Akkeyito know some back on his world, different countries are waging war between each other all because of the matter of interest.
After hearing what Xamrys said, Akkeyito asked.
“If the Dragons, Elves, and Humans are the 3 major races. Who are the other 2?”
“They’re the Angel and Demon clan.”
‘So there are also angels and demons here.’
“So what happened after the humans won? Didn’t you guys lead the war?”
“Yes, but that happens when the human’s power grows to a terrifying degree, then they start eyeing our dragon clan.”
“Now the dragon clan is the target? What happened to those humans you guys taught?”
“Hahaha! Those humans don't know gratitude! The 3 out of 5 humans that we taught, the 2 tried to stop the 3 so that the relationship between humans and dragons don’t go wary and also because of the reason we taught them. But the 2 can’t persuade them, so they come to us to tell what the 3 are planning. Of course after learning that we were enraged and planned to kill the 3 humans we taught.
But the 2 warn us that they are not the same person as they are after they left our guidance. We didn’t listen and meet the 3, I and the other great dragons fight them… but we didn’t expect that we would lose.”
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