28 The Goodbye - part 2 (1/2)

Ryuu closed his eyes and entered a specific stance with his palms pointing to the ground, shoulders relaxed and a deep breath out.

*Huuuuu~*

A sound breath left his lips and then, in almost an instant, Ryuu's entire body transformed to black scales which seemed to absorb space around them, Ryuu was like a hole in the space in a shape of a human. When one looked at his scale armor, there was an entire universe behind it with stars and colorful nebulas, but the most dominant color was always green.

Long Haoran stared at Ryuu and couldn't believe his eyes, was something like this possible? A Soul Spirit that absorbs the very fabric of space? But he didn't have the time to question anything, because very strong and oppressive aura crashed on an entire area around them, pressing them to the ground. The ground was shaking as if the strongest earthquake hit it, Long Haoran hugged Long Xingyue and coated both of them in a specific type of crimson red Soul Energy which served as a shield from any external influence.

Even then, Long Haoran felt chills up his spine and his legs were embedded in the ground all the way up to the knees. ”Unbelievable...”, he thought.

The scroll began vibrating when it felt Little Dragon's aura as if it was dancing with joy and on its own launched itself towards Ryuu's head. Ryuu didn't panic because he didn't have the time to, the scroll already entered the black-green emblem on his forehead in a millisecond. There was no time to blink, let alone dodge the projectile.

Long Xingyue didn't manage to see anything because everything happened so fast that it seemed like an illusion even to Long Haoran, let alone her.

Of course, this wasn't Ryuu's power. Everything up to this point was the power he got with Soul Spirits because every Soul Spirit that Ryuu has is special in its own way.

When the scroll entered Ryuu's forehead, it appeared in his Spirit Sea and then exploded inside, while Ryuu's brain instantly got filled with a huge wave of information. Ryuu only felt a searing headache because of which he fell to the ground gritting his teeth and crawling like a squashed bug.

If he didn't have the Spirit Power over a thousand, he would, most likely, have collapsed immediately because of all the information he got.

Little Dragon: ”Yes, that's it! I finally found it. To think that it was with humans all this time...”

She watched Ryuu holding his head in pain and her heart began feeling pain as well, but of course, considering that she felt how painful it was for him because of their bond.

Ryuu's Dark Dragon Soul Spirit vanished as fast as it appeared because it took a toll on him. After all, it was Divine Rank Soul Spirit and he had nine more Heavenly Types so the toll on his body is high even though he has a strong constitution and peak quality of bones and veins. (*)

Ryuu endured the pain and soon, it stopped, but it wasn't the end. It was far from the end because Ryuu had to understand what everything he learned actually meant, but he didn't have the time to do that right now.

Asura Ryuu: ”Little Master, what is this thing?”

Little Dragon: ”That is the first art that I ever made, and the strongest one as well. It contains the secrets of laws and rules behind not only this world but the entire universe with countless worlds and races. My teacher and brother helped me perfect it before they went to that place.”

Asura Ryuu: ”You mean before they became gods?”

Little Dragon: ”... Yes. Did you figure it out?”

Asura Ryuu: ”Well, kind of. I mean it was slightly obvious that neither of us is normal so...”

Little Dragon: *Sigh*, ”Well, that's true. My master and my twin brother left at the same time, while my younger brothers and sisters left a little after me when they earned their Divine Positions. My master and brother even sent me their Divine Wishes with which I revived you and with the second one you broke apart the second Soul Spirit.”

Asura Ryuu: ”Is it hard to get the Divine Position?”

Little Dragon: ”I don't know, others got it easily. For some reason, I am the only one who couldn't do it...”

Asura Ryuu: ”Did you ever wonder why you couldn't get it? Didn't you find it strange that your divine position didn't appear even after so long?”

Little Dragon: ”... Of course, I did, wait why are you asking me that?”

Asura Ryuu: ”This is only my intuition, but I think your family up there doesn't want you to come so they forcibly suppressed your Divine Position.”

Little Dragon: ”Why would they do that, we are family they wouldn't...”

But Ryuu cut her off before she could finish: ”Precisely because you are family.”

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Little Dragon: ”What do you mean?”

Asura Ryuu: ”Maybe I am wrong, but there was probably some trouble with that realm, maybe they were in the war or maybe you are too unique so some Gods might try to get you by force for their own needs or something similar, I don't really know. You will have to ask them when we get there, hehe.”

Little Dragon: ”... ....... Maybe he is right.”

Little Dragon's hand gently touched Ryuu's cheek and then she disappeared, returning to his Spirit Sea.

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What Ryuu didn't know nor did notice because of the previous pain is that in the very moment when the scroll burst apart in his Spiritual Sea, all of his Soul Spirits awoke, his Spirit Sea expanded and the quality of his Spirit Power rose under the influence of laws contained within the scroll.

Little Dragon appeared in the Spirit Sea and became shocked. There were ten dragons in the vast starry sky, circling around the enormous Black Hole which was the center point around which they circled.

Her shock made even her spiritual body lose strength in its legs and she fell with the knees on the surface of the water.

She looked at each of the dragons and finally stopped at the black-green one which seemed the most special of all.

Little Dragon's eyes were already brimming with tears and she was shaking: ”Brothers, sisters, we will be together soon...”

The dragons were just circling as if they didn't notice her existence but that was far from the truth because they shared a telepathic communication with each other and intentionally ignored Little Dragon because they didn't want her to know that they were not in the Divine Heavenly Realm anymore.

”Old Red, our entire family is now here, only big brother and master are still up there.”

”Old Blue, we will all soon return and avenge ourselves, don't worry. I guarantee within the next fifty or so years, this kid will bring us all up together.”

”Hehe, you two are pretty confident in this brat, aren't you?”

”Old Green, mind our manners. This is the person chosen by our big sister.”