"What if I don't want to but instead wish to protect you?" The soul remnant Vladi suddenly asked.
"Then id tear your soul apart and find a new treasure spirit for the scale that's willing to protect her." Zane responded bluntly. This made even the warrior freeze from shock.
Vladi froze for a few moments before laughing "Good! Good! I like you kid. But have you considered the fact I could kill both you and her before then?"
Zane simply smiled coldly.
"Kid, even if someone reincarnated you themselves, would that existence even help you with such a menial task?"
[You think I don't watch my beloved?] A cold distorted voice resounded in their heads a moment later.
Suddenly a lightning bolt descended from the sky heavily injuring Vladi's spirit fragment.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" He screamed in pain.
"Who are you?!?" He hissed clenching his shoulder that was now missing an arm.
[Do you think an ant at the hero realm is worthy of my name?]
Another lightning bolt descended scaring Aurora. The moment Zane looked to the sky the lightning bolt stopped and disappeared, the person behind him knew Aurora was a soft spot of his… if she was scared, harmed, etc, he might end up displeased.
[Forgive me, Lord, I didn't mean to displease you by scaring Aurora.] The voice swiftly apologized sincerely.
This left everyone, including Zane baffled.
'What kind of existence have I gotten in bed with?' Zane couldn't help but think to himself.
[An existence that stands amongst the top powers of the myriad universes.] Alina vaguely replied to his thoughts.
Zane shook his head "What will it be Vladi?"
"You consider yourself a member of my saint dragon race, yet you do this?! Traitor!" Vladi spat.
Zane chuckled as a cold glint flashed in his eyes.
"Kill him."
*BOOM!*
Black lightning shot down from the sky killing Vladi's spirit fragment.
However it didn't end there, a 9-colored pillar of light shot down when it disappeared Zane had to blink his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. There was something that could only be described as a chibi dragon floating in the air!
It was adorable too.
It bowed to Zane then to Aurora.
Aurora's eyes lit up like stars, it truly was a cute dragon.
The chibi dragon flew into the scale and the scale that seemed to have an eternal shadow cast over it had color restored and lit up.
The dragon scale flew over to Aurora a moment later shrinking down before attaching itself to her forehead.
Aurora pouted seeing it disappear.
"Alright, our deal is completed." Zane said looking to the warrior who was still dumb with shock.
He nodded in a stupor before clearing his head a moment later. "You don't feel guilty?"
Zane shook his head "I've never had a problem with killing, so long as I have a reason for it I don't mind. In this case, it was because he obviously wasn't going to listen to me. He might have even caused trouble for me. As for the knowledge that he had that could have been used, I can always gather information myself."
The ancient warrior shuddered, he really didn't see any guilt or remorse in Zane's eyes.
"It only got worse after becoming a dragon honestly." Zane muttered.
"Yeah well dragon's brains are a bit lacking in the empathy department so maybe that's why it's not affecting you." The man muttered.
Zane nodded.
"Alright, I'll be taking my leave, I'll see what I can do about those old co-workers of yours in the future, but don't expect anything besides 2 heads. The 2 warriors backing the dragon hunters."
The man nodded, not surprised. Zane transformed again and Aurora climbed up his wing onto his back before he took off.
Meanwhile, the wyvern king had a very grave expression on his face as he had seen this entire ordeal.
Meanwhile, Zane made his way back to Elaine and the others.
"I'm back." Zane said and Elaine smiled.
"Let's get going." She said to which everyone nodded and began flying back home, ignoring the carnage left behind.
After they left the ground began healing at a rapid pace, the snapped trees regrew while the old trunks on the ground turned to ash, and the blood seeped into the ground disappearing forever.
Meanwhile, 2 ethereal figures stood in the air above the former battlefield.
"He's grown strong very quickly." One of the 2 girls said. She wore a green dress with white flowers and vines wrapped around it while wearing black elbow-length gloves. She also had beautiful green eyes. While the other one had a golden halo and white angel-like wings with a simple white summer dress with an open back, white elbow-length gloves, and golden eyes. They were the spirits of heaven and earth respectively.
"I don't understand sister, why did you stop me from killing him and that girl?" The heaven spirit asked the earth spirit.
The earth spirit sighed "Sister, pay attention to the boy closely, more specifically his soul."
The spirit squinted her eyes in the direction of Zane and checked his soul, sure enough, there was an oddity, there was a small thread extending to another smaller soul. However, that soul fragment had strength so terrifying it was enough to make her go pale.
"T-This…"
"He's protected by someone incredibly strong. If I had to estimate their in the stellar realms or above. Just leave him be. There's no need to bring about our destruction just for some dictators." The earth spirit spoke seeing her sister had figured it out.
The heaven spirit was really terrified, she didn't expect such a strong figure to be protecting Zane!
The heavens trembled along with her figure. She calmed down a moment later but many powerful figures realized that something had happened, something that made even the heaven spirit terrified.
Even the heroes couldn't make the heavens of this world terrified, so who could?!?
People began investigating but no one could find anything after all the heaven and earth spirit didn't dare inconvenience this existence so they hid any possible details.
After arriving back at the hell shock wyvern territory a wyvern flew up to greet them, or so Zane and the others thought until he said.
"Bad news, my queen! The Heaven Shock Wyverns have come with their 3rd crown prince to propose to Anne."
Zane was stunned, this cliché plot was actually happening?
"Have they pursued her before?" Zane asked calmly and the wyvern nodded its large head.
"Yes, 2nd prince. You might not be aware but they've been approaching her since her early adolescence."
[A/N: It takes a wyvern about 16 years to reach the adolescence stage of growth.]
Zane sighed "And she doesn't want to marry their prince right?"
"Yes." The wyvern confirmed.
Meanwhile, Anne was shaking in anger.
"He really can't take a hint, can he?" She uttered coldly.
"Then it's simple, tell them no. If they refuse to take no for an answer kill the messenger to make a point, one should stick to their decision all the way through rather than beating around the bush." Zane said.
Everyone was stunned.
"I-Isn't that a b-bit… Arrogant?" The wyvern asked worriedly.
Zane nodded "But your wyverns, descendants of dragons, you have the right to be proud!"
"B-But…"
Zane sighed and inhaled a lung full of air while telling Aurora to cover her ears.
"SHE SAID NO, SO LEAVE YOU STUPID PIECES OF SHIT!" Zane roared so loud everyone within a 500-mile radius heard it. Along with his roar, a terrifying dragon's aura broke out.
Almost instantly another dragon's aura burst out, and a wyvern rose to the air and flew over.
This wyvern was different than the hell shock wyvern's typical black and crimson.
This wyvern's scales were golden.
Golden lightning arced around its body and its eyes were glowing a bright white.
"Who are you?" The wyvern asked coldly. He asked this because Zane wasn't in his usual form, he changed into a hell shock wyvern form since he didn't want to attract too much attention.
Zane simply responded with his dragon's aura, this time undisguised.
The wyvern was stunned "Y-You're a saint dragon? W-Why are you disguising as a lowly hel-"
He got a blast of saint flames to the face.
However, this didn't move him back at all unlike what Zane expected.
He realized he acted impulsively.
However, sticking true to his words he got into a battle stance.
"You little brat! You think because you're a saint dragon you can mess with me?"
Zane didn't bother responding, a golden lightning bolt descended both from the sky and out of his mouth.
*BOOM!*
Once again no damage was taken, but this did make him take a step back.
"Shut up and fight." Zane said. Elaine swept in and grabbed Aurora off of Zane's back with her claws due to him asking her mentally.
Aurora wined but Elaine calmed her down by asking [If you are on his back he can't use his full strength as he has to worry about you, do you want him to get hurt because of that?]
Aurora calmed down to think for a moment and shook her head.
Elaine smiled [Good, sit back and watch alright, your big brother isn't stupid so I think he has something to get out of this relatively unscathed.]
Aurora waved her claws trying to speak to Elaine.
Elaine gradually understood what she was saying [Help him? No, I can't do that… This is his fight right now. However, if he gets hurt I'll step in to save him, I promise.]
Aurora pouted but she understood.
They looked back at the scene and sure enough, Zane's figure began morphing into his powerful saint dragon form.
His wings were the size of medium-sized houses.
A/N: Everyone I just checked WPC#300, were are in 4th place! If we can take first place for 3 days, I will release 3 chaps! Don't miss out on this! So let's get some power stones coming! Also, I would absolutely love it if we could get 2 more reviews for a total of 5 reviews!
Edit: Scratch that, 1st place is impossible, that book has too many power stones, so I will settle with 2nd place. Let's aim for 50 stones people!