"Wind and Water! Work together! Whirlpool!"

The spell wasn't aimed at the group of knights behind me. With a wave of my hand, I indicate its target as the wall of white flame blocking my escape path.

[Your mind is no longer Refreshed]

[Your Speed returns to normal]

The blue and cyan light leave my body and swirl together, becoming a tornado. A blue tornado that build up water from nowhere, swiftly advancing toward the wall; or more exactly, toward the middle humanoid shadow.

The white flame flickers in the wind. When the water splashes on to it, the flame become white light and scatter in all direction. Soon, the wall is broken in the middle, leaving an escape path.

"It seems the human torch can't burn for long!" I laugh because there isn't even a corpse left inside the flame. The status above his head just disappears. However, there was no exp again.

A loud sound comes from behind me. The human skillfully uses my Toothpick to summon a stone wall. However, it's not that high. With my height, I can see that on the other side, the lizard is swiftly weaving through the knight's rank and intercept their spell.

Before I could run away, another elemental explosion come. With two fewer boosters, the elemental radiating doesn't seem as clear as before. Because I'm looking at them directly, I can see one of the knight suddenly turn into a white shining figure, crashing straight through the stone wall.

"Brother!"

The fighter manages to avoid the human bullet. However, the wounded lizard laying on the ground isn't in any position to flee. Without a second thought, I swing my hind leg to kick the bullet sideway.

It wasn't a bullet. The knight from before has already turned into a chain. It wraps itself around my kicking foot. The moment I land my foot on the ground again, the chain seemingly merge with the ground, binding me in place.

The flame is completely extinguished, but I am in no position to run. The knights are really close. They push the fighter out of their way while ignoring the lizard altogether. Their next move isn't a fancy spell, they are going to throw the chains over me.

"I command to the Earth under my feet! Resonate to my rhythm! Seismic Wave!"

[You are no longer a Stoic]

The 'rhythm' that I define with my imagination is my heartbeat. With two independent hearts, my rhythm causes the ground to vibrates with two different waves coming from my two feet. They cause a huge disturbance on the surface, kicking the knights off their balance and also freeing me from the chain.

"Run run!" I shout then put the kid back into my maw, collapsing on all four and run deeper into the forest.

With half of enchanted sense before, I can't see behind me and have to focus at the front to avoid the trees. A moment after I start running, I could hear their voices.

"Brother, wake up!" So the wounded lizard is unconscious now. I should have healed him when I could. His explosions is really helpful at this moment. If not for the kid in my maw, I would have told them to throw that explosive thingy at the knights.

"Don't worry, I could still feel his breathing on my back." Judging from the fighter's words, he is carrying the wounded lizard.

"Halt! You can't run forever!"

The forest become denser and denser. When they brought me north, they avoided this forest. Now I understood why. The trees are too densely packed for someone huge like me or the cage to pass through.

Soon, we reach a clearing surrounded by a wall of trees that I could not pass through. I might be able to climb on top of them, but it's only slow me down.

I consider spiting the kid out and chant a spell to clear the forest. However, handing the kid to those fanatic would be a terrible choice. They would start preaching using the poor kid. I promised to kill him, so maybe I could just kill him myself and be done with it. Though that would leave a gory mess and also make my maw too messy to chant.

Before I could find a solution, I have to stop because of the wall of trees. Without a second thought, I spit the kid onto my hand and chant.

"I am Origo, commanding to the trees in front of me! Get the hell out of my way!" I don't have time for a fancy command at the moment.

[Your mind is Abandoned by the Nature]

After that message, instead of the spell's name, a slight shock appears in my mind. Ah darn, I will burn this forest altogether then!

I turn back to check on the situation. The human and lizard has reached me again. They also turn to look at the knights coming from the sparse part of the forest. Two more of them transformed into white humanoid light, the chains in their hands are glowing brighter than before.

"It's really hard to deal with those Pseudo-Deity." The human speaks through his teeth while panting.

"Pseudo..."

"Ah right, you can't see Race? The moment they drink your blood, their race changes into Pseudo-Deity." He explains.

"Genesis Dragon's blood is amazing." The lizard exclaims.

As the shining knights come close, I swing my free hand forward.

"I am Origo, the Dragon of Origin. Holy, please shield me from the incoming projectile! Radiant Barrier!"

[You are no longer Enlightened]

The white light leaves my body and form a giant semi-sphere with me as the center. It happens at the same moment those shining knights throw their chain. The chains latch onto the shield, cracks start forming all over it. Before I could cast another spell, the chains break through the barrier, shattering it and magically coil itself around my arms.

[You are no longer Energetic]

[Your ambition is no longer burning]

The last two waning lights dissipates, abandoning me to the darkness of the world. My mind strangely becomes calmer than before. Soon, my eyes adjust to the dark, letting me see the clearing under the dim light of the moon.

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"I told you, you have no where to run." The high priest soon shows up along with his last five knights. Or should I say, MY last five knights?

"Why...?" With a calm mind, I look directly at them. The pseudo-deities has turned into white statue holding the long chain. I don't bother freeing myself from them.

"The Tranquility effect is working!" One of them exclaims, gaining the nods of a few other knights. Tranquility, huh?

I gently place the kid onto the ground next to the two then step over their head and walk toward the knights.

"Why do you spend so much effort doing this?" I ask them with a calm voice while walking.

"Isn't that obvious?" The priest walks pass the knights toward me.

"If I promise to take care of myself, will you let me go?"

"This world is dangerous. It's safer for us to protect you."

"Aren't I the world?" I say then sneer at the irony. "I don't care anymore. If you want to worship me, I will let you. If you do this to protect the world, then I will reward you. Since she knew it already, it wouldn't be a problem if someone else in this world know it."

"What are you talking about?" The priest halts his step.

"Read my mind." I keep walking toward them, soon passing the two statue and towering over the priest.

I might be forced to be Retire after this, but I don't care anymore.

"Who are you?" The priest suddenly asks. So he has a glimpse of "it".

"Keep looking. Find the light. See the light. Understand the light."

The priest stares at me with his eyes widely opened. The knights look at each other, not understand anything.

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Inside Origo's mind. No, not the Origin Realm, much deeper.

The priest is floating in a chaotic space. Strange imagine flickering everywhere. Symbols that he has never seen before floating around in a organized order like texts. With a turn of his head, the chaotic space changes dramatically. The 4D space is not something he could easily understand.

["I might be forced to Retire after this, but I don't care anymore."] Origo's calm voice echoes all over the place the same way he reads the dragon's mind. However, this time he could also see.

A ray of light coming from afar suddenly enter his eyes. A torrent of information enters his mind, so fast that he could not remember anything. But he feels fear coming from it. He doesn't want to see it anymore. He has to look away. The space changes dramatically again as he does.

"Who are you?"

["Keep looking..."] The calm voice strangely stresses on him like an order.

He turns back to find the light. He looks straight at it. The more he looks at it, the more he understand.. everything. The chaotic space reorganizes itself in his mind, becoming a giant bookshelf that stretches to the "horizon" with he as a tiny figure standing on the shelf. Colorful giant books are placed neatly on the shelf.

["...Find the light..."]

At the end of the horizon, a giant glowing ball is shooting countless ray of white light at random books. When the ray sweeps over him, he feels torrent after torrent of knowledge flowing into him, assaulting his tiny mind. It makes him afraid, but the order is still echoing.

["...See the light..."]

He glares at the center of the glowing ball. The source of the ray is just a tiny dot of bright light in the middle of a spherical halo. The more he looks at it, the more it grows inside his mind. Or is it coming toward him? Or is he coming toward it? He doesn't know. He knows that all of those answers are correct and incorrect at the same time.

["...Understand the light."]

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The knights don't understand what happen. Their target is towering in front of them, but the priest just stands there, seemingly frozen.

Suddenly, the priest starts glowing in a white light. It's not something strange to them. However, he is floating in the air. A spherical halo appears with him as the center. A ray of light shoot out from the priest, sweeping over them. They feel something.. indescribable... but they know what to do.

The knights kneel down. Postponing themselves in front of the giant black dragon. They finally understand everything. Or maybe they don't understand anything at all.

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The process only happens in under a minute but the priest feels like he just experienced countless lives in that short span of time. He remembered nothing. But he knew two things: First, those lives are his own lives in countless different scenarios. Second, at the end of time, he chose to forget them all and continue with his current live. Anyone who has seen Origo's True Name chose the same way.

However, forgetting it doesn't mean it results nothing. His personality has changed.

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"So, can I go now?" I casually say as I prick off the now inactive chain. The white statues have already turned to dust while the other knights are still cowering in a fear that even I don't understand.

"Just this time." The priest says as he calmly picks his staff.

"Huh?"

"Since you came here for fun, then I will play with you." The priest says something unexpected.

"Well no thanks. I gave you your reward. We are even. Now I just want to be free."

"The game is simple..." Strangely, the priest retains his 'habit' to ignore me. "Starting from tomorrow, all Holy Knight whose Level is higher than yours will try to capture you on sight."

"Aw, I don't want to play a game of Hide and Seek."

"Okay." He turns his back toward me and walks pass the kneeling knights. "We're returning."

"Awww!" I shake my head then turn back, only to see the lizard kneeling in front of me.

"O' you high and mighty Genesis Dragon! Please save my brother!"