Chapter-5
The monarch of celestials
We were falling and I thought that we would die just from the impact when we reach the ground, but suddenly there was a floor beneath our feat. We didn’t even feel any impact from the fall. It’s like we were teleported and just stood there.
It was dark but strangely I could somehow see everything clearly even in the middle of darkness. Even with my strengthened sight I never experienced anything like this before. I could also hear some sounds of a reptilian like movement coming from everywhere around the far walls of the hall.
The interior of the hall looked like a shrine. There was something that looked like an altar at the center of the hall and I could see three large eggs carefully placed on it.
Lyna to my side was terrified and by her expression, she wouldn’t even see what would poke her eye right now. I would have been like that if it wasn’t for this strangely clear vision I was experiencing.
Suddenly I could see something descending from the roof of the hall.
‘Oh my god!’
A massive python like creature with its body’s breadth about 1 meter wide was wrapping around nearly the entire shrine with some part of its titan body laying on top of each other.
‘I thought that was some bench around the wall.’, I thought to myself.
Its head was the size of small car with face looking like that of a dragon’s from the movies. There was a hint of intelligence in its green colored vertically slit eyes and his gaze carried something that looked like royalty. How could such a thing even possibly exist.
“Welcome to my humble abode. I was starting to lose my patience.”, It said it voice reverberating the whole building.
I remained silent as studied the creature. The skin of its body was something akin to that of a bark of a tree. When it moved, its skin looked like it was about to crack and fall away.
“Ahhhh!!!”, Lyna screamed like crazy from behind me.
Then I heard a thud sound and I saw Lyna lying on the ground unconscious.
Strangely enough, I didn’t feel any pain, fear or whatever Lyna felt before collapsing.
“Oh, you are the special one, aren’t you.”, the beast said, it’s massive head nearing the position I was on.
When the beast’s head was about 5 meters away from me, it stopped moving altogether. It started shaking as if it just saw something terrifying, ironically enough. The beast then gestured to what looked like a bow in front of me and said, “Oh great monarch of the celestials, this foolish servant pays the utmost respect to his master.”
‘Monarch! What!? What is he saying all of a sudden.’
I was startled by the sudden turn of events taking place.
‘He must think that I am some kind of deity or something, but why would he think that?’, I thought.
Anyways, this is to my advantage. I will gladly exploit it. I can also ask him about anything. And I don’t think he would lie about anything since he is so willing to bow respectfully to me.
“Rise.” I said with a tone of authority.
The creature then opened his eyes and looked at me with fear and respect.
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“Oh great monarch, what is the reason behind your magnanimous visit.”, he said hesitantly.
“Did I give you permission to speak.”, I said with a cold and threatening voice.
In the movies that I used to watch while hiding in our camp, the kings there always acted all high and mighty, I thought I might as well use those lines here.
“…please forgive me, oh great monarch, this lowly servant...!”, he stopped talking and bowed his head more deeper into the ground with fear evident in his eyes after witnessing my cold gaze.
“From now on, you will not speak unless I allow you to, do you understand?”, I said, my voice cold as ice.
“Yes.”, the beast answered immediately.
I wanted to ask him why he called me the monarch of whatever and I wanted to know many things about the things happening in this world. But I can’t directly ask him about these things so I decided to draw him to those questions starting with some simple questions.
“What are you doing in this place?”, I asked him more of curiosity than to threaten him and punish him.
“After our azure dragon clan was disbanded, all the remaining members had to flee from the celestial realm. My elder brothers and I decided to come to this realm and hide from the blood dragon clan for the time being.”, he answered eloquently and flawlessly.
“That means the long war between the two clans has come to an end?”, I asked him hesitatingly.
“Oh great monarch, the war has come to an end about 400 years ago.”, he said before continuing, “Oh monarch, you must have woken up recently from your slumber, seeing as how you didn’t know that the great war of dragons has come to an end.”
‘Phew, thank God… he must think that I have been in a slumber or something. Now I can ask him anything I want.’, I thought.
I had to be careful though, since I could ask something ignorant and make him suspicious of me.
First of all, I realized was that two worlds must have interlaced with each other because the war of dragons have been dragging on for a long time even in a dragons point of view and has come to an end about 400 years ago, and secondly I realized that something must have happened on earth to ensure the two worlds are combined. And the war between the powerful countries about 400 years ago could also have something to do with the two worlds coming together too.
“How come the celestial world came in contact with this world?”, I asked the dragon.
“The celestial world is no longer. After we fled from the celestial world to the lower realms, something happened in the celestial world and it was destroyed. The gates connecting the lower realms with the celestial realm also disappeared, and we couldn’t go back to the celestial realm. When we arrived here, the lower realms were inhibited by these lowly creatures which call themselves humans.”, he said.
‘I guess they transported to earth while thinking that they were going to the lower realms.’
“If that’s the case, what have you been hiding from all this time?”, I asked him.
“Some of the blood dragon clan’s soldiers followed after us through the gates to the lower realms. Their plan was to chase us to the ends of the world and exterminate us. After the gates to celestial world disappeared, the soldiers of the blood dragon clan had no way to return and they settled in this realm and they started their own kingdom, some kind of monarchy.”, he paused and looked at me hesitantly.
“Forgive me great monarch, for referring to them as monarchs even though they wouldn’t even compare to your spit.”, He said apologetically.
He then continued after pausing,” They thought that there would no longer be any monarch from the celestial world in this world, so they started to rule the denizens of this world as deities.”, he said.
‘Okay… so that’s how it is…’, I thought to myself.
Those blood dragon clan soldiers came to this world to chase the azure dragon clan’s remaining members. After they came here, the gate connecting the two realms disappeared and they must have thought that if they couldn’t go back to their world, they should settle here and create a monarchy because they have the power.
They must have given up on chasing after the people of azure dragon clan a long time ago, because if they hadn’t, they would have been scattered everywhere in this world looking for them instead of remaining in one place and settling there as kings.
“Forgive me great monarch, this lowly servant deserves to die for angering the great monarch.”, the dragon said with a fearful expression on his face.
My thoughtful expression must have given off as anger to this guy because he was seriously terrified.
‘This guy…’, I thought.
I didn’t reply and started to pace in the hall. It is a habit since I was a teen. I have to pace around to concentrate and focus on something.
“Where are the blood dragon clan settled now?”, I asked the dragon.
He said, “It’s about 3 days travel south from here if you go by the speed of a dragon, and about 2 to 3 weeks if you ride the etherial vehicles the humans use.”
‘The etherial vehicles? Are those some kind of cars which use ether as their power source.’, I thought.
I have to go there to get better and more information. They must have accurate and up to date information since they are a kingdom with continuous flow of information around. Also I am a monarch in their point of view so they won’t do anything to me. At least I hope they won’t.
‘It’s worth the risk though.’, I thought.
“Let’s go there.”, I said to the dragon who was bowing in front of me.