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Rhys walked towards the weapon that was the reason he was sent here, to begin with, Oathbreaker Sword. The sword noticed Rhys getting closer and its aura flared. Rhys narrowed his eyes, 'It has a soul.'
Yes, weapons of the breaker series's caliber have souls inside of them. Which allows them to choose a master.
Rhys felt the overwhelming pride and power it radiated, it was like it told Rhys he was not worthy. Too bad he would never give this weapon to the first empress. 'You'll be mine no matter what.'
Rhys grinned as he walked closer, the pride of the dragon rose and clashed with the sword, making it move to a standstill, 'Heh, there is nothing more prideful than a dragon!' Rhys grinned as his hand moved towards the hilt.
Yet the sword refused to submit, so Rhys began to oppress it with aether. Making the destructive properties appear around the place and eat at the aura the sword released, weakening its attacks.
Rhys's hand touched the hilt of the sword as he immediately felt something from within the sword move, yet he simply channeled the overbearing flames of a dragon, and like that, the sword started to backpedal and protect itself.
Yes, the flame of a dragon, Rhys had reached fifty percent purity and obtained another of his dragon bloodline powers.[1] He certainly was happy.
Rhys's overbearingness came crashing down on the sword, making it go quiet before it submitted, it was only natural. It could put up a fight, yet no matter how much it tried, there was a limit to what it would be able to do when Rhys wanted it.
Although the sword was special, without a proper host it could not bring out its real strength, thus the sword was much weaker than natural.
'Mine now, Rhys thought before he saw the oathbreaker sink into his skin, a tattoo of a sword appearing in his soul, a soul mark.
'A weapon that contracts the soul and allows one to store it in their souls and call it whenever, no matter the restrictions.' Rhys mused as he saw the mark appear, the sword accepted him.
Yet he soon lost interest, as he would not use it except to break the oath bounding the first empress.
Rhys looked all around and started to collect the inheritance, it was mostly yin and ice-related, 'Good for my beloved mother-daughter trio.' Rhys pondered as he thought of his return and nights of passion that would ensue.
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Time passed as Rhys collected all of it, as he put the last thing inside one of his rings, Rhys saw an egg, it was bluish with darker blue spots all over it, it had blush cracks spreading around its hard surface.
The egg radiated a chilly aura that froze the surroundings.
'The fuck!? An egg!? What species? Ice Dragon?' Rhys thought to that immediately as he felt his bloodline rumble, but that thought was replaced with shock when he saw it was the phoenix blood rumbling and not the dragon one!
Bloodlines usually act as a GPS, if another one of their same race is near, it'd boil and serve as a warning to the possessor of the blood.
It was then that Ina spoke out, "The egg of a Cerulean Phoenix! An Ice Fire Phoenix! Good catch! They are very beautiful and faithful, the bloodline of the one inside is also very pure!'
Ina screamed in his ear, well, his mind. As Rhys nodded, 'But why is my blood boiling? Don't fire and ice oppose each other!?'
Ina replied immediately, "That is because you see it wrong. They are like yin and yang. They are one-half of each. They naturally oppose each other, but if one can combine the two, they get harmony!"
Rhys realized this and his face turned pale, 'What are you saying?...'
"I'm telling you to fuck the phoenix that comes out of the egg and have a child with it, it is a woman don't worry."
'Nononono! That's a child! Hell no.' Rhys immediately denied the thought, hell, he did not want to even think about it.
"The Cerulean Phoenix inside is older than you, she would be born by now, but she is hibernating to save energy until it can safely open its eyes. It was probably that Spirit woman who made it sleep after she got her hands on it." Ina spoke.
'Still, your thought is wrong...'
"Hmph! I am just trying to help." Ina went quiet after that.
Rhys picked up the egg carefully and felt his phoenix blood boil with more excitement, 'Don't tell me it is excited to have me mate with it!?' Rhys realized that all beasts are nothing but lustful bastards.
Rhys shook his head and hugged it, he felt like it was his child, although not born, it would be raised by him naturally.
But once the egg was removed, Rhys saw a note, but it was very old.
The note read as followed:
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𝑻𝒐 𝒘𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆,
𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒙 𝒆𝒈𝒈 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒇𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒉𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔.
𝑹𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍. 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑪𝒆𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒏𝒊𝒙 𝒊𝒔 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔.
𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉.
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𝑰𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒕, 𝒇𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒚𝒐𝒖!
𝑰 𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒕!
𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒊𝒇 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅!
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Rhys laughed at the last part of the message and muttered, 'Funny woman, would have been nice knowing her when she lived.'
Rhys then looked at the egg in his hand, being twice his height tall! How did he miss such a big thing? Well, it was behind a traveling treasure that was even bigger than the egg.
'So she is the daughter of Sana, I saw her in the memories shown by the soul wisp, but her obtaining the egg was hidden... Was it a surprise or something else?...' Rhys was curious as to why he did not see such memory, but it was that the soul wisp did not have it.
The real Divine Eternal Moon Goddess hid such memories in case she was captured and her memories scanned, she wanted to protect the legacy of her best friend.
'Well, time to go back home to my beautiful women!' Rhys thought as his excitement peaked!
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[1]: Before, the ability was called Dragon Breath, but it did not fit, as the one for the phoenix bloodline was called phoenix flame, thus I changed it to dragon flame to fit better with the abilities overall.
Author's Note: One more chapter for this arc to finish, where he will meet the first empress and... be disciplined.