'It was a stupid story, how could he obey the king's order to be executed when he had already succeeded in repelling the entire army of the other four kingdoms.'
Lativa knows the true story of the legendary dragon warrior and what happened to the boy at the end of his life because Lativa was there when the legendary dragon warrior was executed on the orders of the king.
The legendary dragon warrior followed the king's execution order without revolting at all, it happened because the king told the legendary dragon warrior that he would execute all his people if the legendary dragon warrior did not obey his orders.
Although very angry with what the king said, the legendary dragon warrior did nothing to the king, he was just a very naive and stupid young man. He only knows that he has to protect people so his parents have a place back that has people they know.
'If it was me, I would definitely prefer to kill my father on the spot then kill everyone in the palace and I will kill all those corrupt nobles.'
Lativa continued to walk into the deepest part of the forest, she went through so many bushes that the maid clothes she was wearing were torn bit by bit until she finally found a cave like the one in the story.
Grrrr... Grrrr... Grrrr...
The cave looks very big and a snoring sound is heard from inside the cave. There is a lot of moss at the mouth of the cave but the inside of the cave looks dry.
'Should I scream at the mouth of the cave to get the dragon out of the cave? Or should I go straight into the cave?'
Roarrr!
Gr.. rr.. r.. Gr.. rr.. r..
Lativa heard a roar once again from inside the cave. But Lativa was confused because she could also hear faint snoring sounds from inside the cave. Lativa dared herself and shouted in front of the mouth of the cave.
"IS THERE ANYONE IN THE CAVE?! I CAN HEAR A VOICE FROM THE CAVE, PLEASE ANSWER ME!"
ROARRR!--
Cough... Cough...
There was a very loud roar but the roaring stopped suddenly and was followed by the sound of someone coughing.
"Are you okay? Hello?!"
From the cave, appeared a four-legged dragon with outstretched wings, the dragon had white scales and had blue eyes like what is in the story, but the dragon who was in front of Lativa seemed to be in a bad mood.
"Who are you human?! How dare you disturb my nest?! Do you want to die?!"
The dragon spoke to Lativa in a loud voice.
"I heard a sound like someone coughing from inside the cave, I thought it was a human voice."
"There is no human in my nest, she is my daughter, if you have nothing to do, you better get out of here or I will eat you."
'A daughter? I've never heard of anything like that in the story, is it because the daughter is dying and about to die that the daughter of the ancient dragon doesn't appear in the story that will happen in the future?'
"Is your daughter sick? I heard a cough coming from the cave."
"I said hurry up or I'll eat you, it's none of your business!"
"I might be able to treat your daughter's illness."
Lativa had a lot of knowledge which she got from the royal palace library in her previous life. The knowledge she got also included knowledge about medicinal plants and how to make medicinal herbs for some ailments.
"Are you sure about what you just said? But I don't believe you because you could end up poisoning my daughter."
Lativa lowered her body with one of her legs in front of her body. Lativa raised her right hand with her elbow forming a ninety degree shape, while she clenched her left hand and placed it in front of her chest.
"I swear on behalf of Goddess Levana the Goddess of Life, if I have any intention of trying to poison your daughter, I will die before I do so."
Swearing in the name of the God or Goddess they believe in is the highest level of oath that can be made by humans and the oath is closely bound by an agreement with the God or Goddess they believe in so that their oath can be recognized as a valid oath.
"You bastard! How dare you use the name of the Goddess Levana in your oath!"
The ancient dragon couldn't just ignore the oath that Lativa had taken because the ancient dragon also believe in Goddess Levana the Goddess of Life.
"I have already made my oath to the great Goddess Levana, if I did have the intention of trying to poison your daughter, shouldn't I be dead by now? Or do you have no faith in Goddess Levana?"
"You damn human!"
'I did have faith in Goddess Levana since I was a child because I wanted to have a free life like normal people. The ancient dragon also had faith in Goddess Levana, this way I should be able to gain the trust of the ancient dragon.'
"Alright, I'll let you make some medicinal herbs for my daughter, but you have to taste them first."
Lativa's face was smiling as she stood back up as before.
"Thanks to the ancient dragon's trust in me, I'll go find some necessary medicinal herbs first."
Even though the name of this forest is cursed forest, there is not a single curse that resides in this forest, in fact this forest has a lot of natural resources. There are so many rare plants that can only be found in certain areas so they are very expensive, but in this forest they are not rare at all because they can be found anywhere.