In a fairly lit room, a young girl stood in front of a mirror, seemingly in deep tought.

She had long pink hair, that cascaded down her back, reaching her waist. Accentuating the pink color, she wore a long white tunic with several golden patterns.

She was Arianne, the new Saint Candidate and she was only sixteen years of age. She had been taken in by the church when they found her in the streets, fascinated by her enormous divine power.

Divine Power was different from mana or aura. Divine power was an entire different power system bestowed by the gods to the ones they most favored.

Arianne was the person that had the most divine power in all recorded history. Her mere presence illuminated the surroundings, gave life to dead lands and healed minor illnessess.

The room she was in did not possess any windows or other light sources, her presence did that for her.

KNOCK KNOCK

Someone knocked in the door making Arianne open her eyes, that where bright golden in color.

"Everyone is ready, we are just waiting for you, my lady."

"I will be there rigth away." (Arianne / A)

Footsteps could be heard outside the door, from whoever was sent to call her.

Once again looking at the mirror, Arianne couldn't help but think back to the task ahead of her.

A few months ago, bellow the royal palace, it was found a deep hole that seemed to have no end. After sneding an expedition, they discovered a huge barrier covered in seals and complex restraining arrays.

They weren't able to break them tough and there were alot of discussions to wether they should unseal whatever that was sealed there.

And now they called for help, help that came from the church.

Arianne was still not sure how she could help, but she was undoubtly interested on this case. She had recorrent visions about certain subjects, and after she was first told about this task.

"In the deep abyss lies The Fallen One, huh?"(A)

The deep abyss was obviously the hole, but she had no ideia what or who The Fallen One was.

She decided to not thinking that much about it for now and went out to meet the ones who would guide her to the hole.

The people chosen for this task were not many, the seal was top secret that only the people directly involved were aware of.

So the ones that were going to acompany were exactly the ones who had found it.

"Good Evening, I'm Arianne, I'm the Saint Candidate that was comissioned." (A)

"Ah! Yes, Lady Arianne! Thank you for your help."

The one responding was tall man with a cheerfull personality, George Goldskin. He was the vice-captain of the Royal Guard and the leader of the party that had found the seal. He had dark skin not very common in this side of the world and very, very short hair that was bleached blond.

"Anything I need to know before we depart?" (A)

"Nothing complicated. We will be using magic to slowly descend to the bottom, when we first went there we used an artifact since we didn't know how deep it was, but now we know that we have enough mana to go and comeback without worry." (George / G)

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"And about whatever it's sealed down there?"(A)

"We all have teleportation stones and you have a Holy Cross, right?"(G)

An Holy Cross was not just a symbol of faith but also an artifact for members of the clerk that operated with divine power. One of it's features was to teleport the endangered owner to nearest church.

"Yes, I do have one." (A)

"Good! Well, let's going, if our plan works than we can solve this mistery tonight! Haha! I really am in the mood for a beer after this."(G)

"Excuse me. But I'm still unsure of my role in this plan."(A)

"Hm?"

George looked at Arianne confused at first, until realization hit him.

"Oh! I forgot to tell you? Damn. Where do I start? Right. What do you know about seals?"(G)

"I know that only high-level mages can produce usefull ones."(A)

"That's correct. Only Archmages are known to produce truly powerfull seals. This one we believed was made the Sage himself."(G)

"The Sage?!"(A)

The Sage was a legendary figure on the level of celebrities like The First Hero, The First Demon King, The First Saint and The Last Hero. The Strongest Mage to ever lived, said to have aided The Last Hero in killing The King of Dragons.

"This just leaves me even more confused. How do you know it was The Sage? And will I even help, if that's true?"(A)

George looked at her and smiled before answering.

"You see. The Mistress herself came to site to try an unseal it, but she failed. She was said to be the only disciple of The Sage, so who would be better than her to tell apart the workings of her master apart from the others?"(G)

"And the second question?"(A)

"Well that one is easy. You see, divine power is quite literally the power favoritism, it's the will of gods matching your desired because they want to see you succeed, because of that it's the biggest weakness of seals. Naturally, we asked the Mistress about her opinion." (G)

"And she said?" (A)

"That altough possible, only someone with a enormous divine power could succeed." (G)

"Now I see." (A)

Well, she almost could be called the personification of "enormous divine power", so it was obvious who to go for after hearing that.

Arianne could understand now why she was needed for this task so she didn't held them back any longer and signaled them to depart.

It took sometime to reach the deapest part of the palace, and then go to the specific part where the hole was.

"There it is! The Hole!" (G)

They slowly descended each in their own manner, either magic or divine power.

Reaching down, the place was full of brilliant runes and lines that glowed in a blue color. In the center of the hole, there was a gigantic black dome, covered in thousands of runes arranged in specific orders.

"This is it?" (A)

"Yeah! Magnificient, right?" (G)

"So ... I just overdose it with divine power?" (A)

"If your intention is to break the seal, then that should do it." (G)

"I see." (A)

Arianne aproached the black dome and placed her soft hand in the pure darkness of it's surface.

And chanelled every ounce of divine power that she had onto the dome. Suddenly, the runes and lines glowed in a golden color and shatered, leaving the air with thousands of the specks of ligth.

Soon, the dark dome started dissolving into the air revealing a gigantic figure pinned to the ground.

!!!

Black scales, the size of carriages, claws the size of people. A black mane that flowed down it's long neck into it's back. Wide wings of complete black in color as if absorbing all light.

What was the most astonishing where the collossal pillars of ligth that pinned the body to the ground. In the wings, limbs and tail. There were various chains encircling certains parts of it's enormous and powerfull body.

The mana in the surroundings reacted instantly, becoming thicker and purer.

"A Dragon?!"

Someone from George's party screamed.

However, there was another astonishing fact about this dragon something that only Arianne could tell.

Call it a side-effect of having so much divine power or a special ability, Arianne could tell the balance between good deeds and bad deeds someone comitted, she called that balance Karma.

And the karma of this dragon was all over the place.

He had so many good deeds that people could only call him an angel. But countering them there was also an enormous amount of sins. Death. So much death, enough to extinguish humanity three times over. There was only one identity with so much sins.

"This is ... Rex Draco, The King of Dragons!" (A)

"What?! That's impossible, he was killed by the Last Hero and he's party 300 years ago!" (G)

George was perplexed to say the least.

"Maybe it's dead and they just sealed the body, rigth? Is that what this is?" (G)

"No." (A)

George stared at Arianne eyes wide.

"It's alive, it's heart is beating, the mana is flowing and I can see his Karma, wich means it is alive." (A)

"Then ... Why isn't it moving?" (G)

"It's seems that it's disconnected with his mind, this body is alive but hollow." (A)

Arianne stared at the infamous dragon and placed her hand on his scales. They felt warm and cold, just like his karma, it seemed so nonsensical.

"We are safe ... for now." (A)

"How ... reassuring, huh?" (G)

Who would have tought, Rex Draco, also know as Humanity's biggest chalenge since ancient time, had remained undefeated, no one had killed him.

He. Was. Alive.