Using the rune language as a basis, all the six languages that Mr. Klein promised to teach me were drilled into my head just in 6 months.
Connecting the similar words to ones in runes with the same meaning, I had to memorize them all, and I did it like a sponge.
All while this study we continued our journey, from open prairies we went to thick jungles to snow land and met several beasts on the way who were particularly harmless, thus, eliciting no fight.
Thus concluding unlike what I expected, there was no particular animosity between beasts and us.
We might have scuffles for survival but it isn't that often. To test this out, I screamed in runes again on our way in front of bull-like beasts called Bisons, to which they turned to look at me with eyes filled with desire prompting the cool 'tent' lady named Fressia to take out her rapiers and slice them up.
And later she had to stop the even wilder bull called Mr. Klein who was about to go mad due to my experiments.
To sate my curiosities he occasionally gave me lectures on theory, in turn, I would stop my practical experiments at least until we are separated and are on our way.
During this while, I also gained some knowledge about basic affairs, political or scientific, of this world.
This world is most likely vast flat earth with uneven terrains ranging from ice lands, prairies, forests, kingdoms, empires, tribes, deserts, mountains, steep valleys, rivers, lakes, and oceans.
To this day no one has discovered the extent of this world. At the edges, there are borders covered in a freezing zone that goes colder and colder as you go on.
In this world, there is a sun just above the place believed to be the center of the pane.
The distance between a place and the sun determines the temperature of a place.
And the terrain is determined by the distance of a place from Dragon's fall.
It got its name due to two reasons, first is due to its dragon-like shape observed from the sky on a hot air balloon and its humongous size. Although, it is quite close to the sun, it kind of breaks that heat zone rule because of its depth and some magical reason.
The second is due to a legend connected to it.
Long ago in the heavens there existed 'The Three Primordials of Existence' or more commonly called the 'Trinity'.
They were the Aeons of Creation, Preservation, and Destruction. Out of them, a snake belonged to the Aeon of Destruction, always wrapped around his neck.
At the time heaven came into existence the snake called Vasuki was given a chance to stay on it or to be more correct, an order.
However, he was too weak an existence to be called something belonging to the Aeon of destruction itself, so the three aeons found the infinite potential of the snake and gave him the heart of a dragon believed to belong to the unborn first true dragon.
This is believed to be an important event as it cut off the way of one of the strongest races in the universe to be ever born.
However, the snake did not believe himself to be worthy enough for the heart, so he just hid it inside his own heart to wait for its true owner. Seeing its dedication, the three aeons blessed him with unimaginable power which made him just comparable to a bona fide dragon according to the legends.
This then arises a question what is a heart? When I asked Mr. Klein this question he said that "It is the essence of existence and purpose of a being." Then, he refuses to tell me anything else.
Some other legends also say that they just unlocked Vasuki's sealed powers and even then it wasn't comparable to the dragon's true power.
And then a person called the devil decided to rebel against the heavens in ambition to rule it by overthrowing the 'Trinity'. He went to Vasuki in search of the heart of the dragon and fought with him, Vasuki, who knew of his intentions.
The devil emerged as the victor and cruelly ended the life of Vasuki and dug out the Dragon's heart hidden within Vasuki's heart with bare hands when he was alive.
The person known as the devil consumed Vasuki whole as what he called an 'appetizer' for the main dish and consumed the Dragon's heart.
His own strength combined with Vasuki's and Dragon's hearts and became almost invincible. In his dragon's form, he held forward the helm of his huge army against the heavenly host. However, Archangel Michael defeated him with a lance in his chest where the devil's own heart was. The devil after seeing he can't have the heavens decided to destroy the heavens instead and did it.
The whole heavens came down crashing on the plain barren earth which was later used as fertilizer to improve this barren field. The world tree sacrificed itself to protect as many creatures as it could in the 'Fall of the Heavens'. However, something was left in this fall that couldn't be stopped even after Archangel Michael tried his best to stop him.
Archangel Michael tried to keep the ginormous dragon body floating up in the air.
He asked the Sun God Apollo to turn himself into a huge ball of fire looking over the whole of the freezing world, in turn, he would throw the dragon down into the sun, and then the dragon would be used as nutrients for Apollo, thus, making him more powerful, and Apollo agreed but rather reluctantly.
Apollo turned into a ball of fire called the sun and Michael slowly started to descend the dragon to the ball, it turned out to be too large in comparison to the sun, and would rather destroy it than be swallowed by it, however, the process was irreversible and Apollo's main body was stuck in that form forever.
So, Archangel did a last-minute gamble and turned the direction of fall a bit away from the central point and just prayed it wouldn't affect what is on earth.
Alas, the prayers failed and the dragon's body struck the earth in full momentum completely changing the terrain of the whole world as far as seen, the mountains were created, the low lands were created, and all the main terrain occurred just from that one fall.
A whole plain world turned into a treasure chest of beauty. And the center of impact came to be known as the Dragons' fall.
It is believed that till today, the dragon's heart that couldn't be fully processed by the devil has its remaining part lying here along with Vasuki's complete power in it.
The main reason for the devil's defeat was that he was too impatient. If he waited enough to process all the nutrients he got from Vasuki, the dragon's heart, and others he defeated. He had a sure win.
Alongside, it is believed that the devil survived that fall and came out of the dragon's body leaving his heart behind and rallied his army from the heavens for a while, however, he was too weakened to continue his life and thus, went into a temporary death statement called the Eternal sleep.
Archangel Michael after hearing this asked the Aeon of Eternal sleep to confirm it and went to eternal sleep himself after his work was done.
Devil's army was hunted down by heaven's army and probably they deserved that venting.
However, the remains left were too strong after a while of hunting and thus came to contest the heavenly host on an equal ground after a series of oppression.
They both established two empires of the current world.
To this day people come to this place in expectation to either find the dragon's heart or to find the devil's carcass said to hold his own heart.