A week had passed since the Abyss Keeper was defeated, Emilia had been slowly making progress with her mana training when she rested every night, the green particles around her body seem to have stopped moving frantically and they don't rush out of her bdoy anymore and by now and the yellow particles were only bringing in more green particles to fuel the fire in her heart. But besides the progress on her mana training, Emilia had also begun to become more alert about her surroundings, every now and again she felt as if she was being watched, this feeling started at the infected forest and continued until now, together with Chrono's mischief Emilia was on edge, but she was fine for now thanks to Dawn's company but if it wasn't for her, Emilia's mind wouldn't be on the right place right now, although Emilia hated long conversations and being near people back then now she is thankful for having Dawn on her side as she felt that Dawn was somewhat like her, maybe it's because kobolds have faint dragon blood on their veins. Besides progression, they were crossing the woods to reach their next destination, the Dragonfolk Empire!
While they were walking across the thick woods of the for Dawn was like a guide, always detailing on the many uses of everything and telling a few story's about folk tale and describing some city's, when she first told Emilia about the Dragonfolk Empire she was surprised. Diffrent from kobolds and lizardmen who still live a tribal life style, Dragonfolks were more like spartans structure wise and were filled with culture, they were geniuses at building large structures, had alliance's with other more civilized species like elfs and dwarfes and had some pretty intresting belief of spirit's, demons, deity's, etc. Emilia had also learned about the various ways on how to make 'miraculous' potions out of anything! By what Emilia heard from Dawn, Aura is incredible versitile as one could create potions that could cure any disease out of common stuff like dirt, tree sap and other stuff that someone could find around any forest, she also learned how horrible it was to be an Aura Practicioner as one had to endure mental torture for the rest of their life every time they sleep to protect an invisible barrier that covers the world. Of course, there were also some perks like slowed aging and in myths and stories that told about heroes above the Full Aura stage, they all stopped aging, hell, they could even control in whaat age they were, choose if they want to look like a child or an old man.
In that week time Emilia and Dawn had gotten even closer, they were like sisters, Dawn mental state have also been improving a lot now that she has someone to talk about her traumas and bad memories. Needless to say, Emilia was surprised by how much horrible stuff happened to her in these 200 years of life.
But today is a new day, and mischief is bound to happen. Being able to live is not a gift, it is a test afterall.
Emilia woke up with Dawn using one of her wings as a blanket and sighed, 'She always does this everytime i sleep first- Well i really don't mind it.' Emilia slowly moved her wing back slowly to make sure the sleeping kobold wouldn't wake up, after she moved out her wing from the evil wing snatcher, she slowly walked away and started to stretch near a tree. The place they were in could be said to be a completely normal forest, no killer vines or anything.
'Hey.'
"What now? Can't i start my morning in peace?"
And as soon as Emilia woke up Chronos also moved into action, but this time it didn't try to just annoy Emilia.
'Something is coming.'
"What?"
'A few months from now, i feel like something horrible is going to happen.'
"Should i take this as another one silly threat of yours?"
'Ugh! Emi, this is serious! I am only telling you this because if you die while controlling my body you will be gone, and if you are gone, i will disappear too!'
When Chronos first called Emilia by her 'real' name, she was weirded out. But it just so happens that like how she could partially know what Chrono's knew when they temporarily fused, Chrono's also knew a bit about her now.
"Yeah, yeah, i sure will die~"
'..Emi, what would it take for you to trust me?'
"Trust me? You took over my body-"
'Our body.'
"My. Body. And i could feel what you were going to do."
'You don't trust me because of a few mortals-'
"You almost literally blew up the whole universe."
'Yes i almost blew up this cosmos, so what? There are an infinite number of them.'
"You were going to kill people!"
'Those 'People' would die anyway, they are bound to the natural law of death after all. Plus they could just reincarnate afterwards, not like i could damage their souls.'
"But that give you no right to-"
Emilia stopped talking as she heard a noise, quickly turning her head to see Dawn waking up.
'Are you having fun playing with your girlfriend Emi?'
Emilia snorts and decided not to reply, Emilia knew that the only one that would get some joy out of this conversation was Chrono.
*Yawn*
Dawn happily yawns after a good night of sleep, Emilia walked up to her and said a casual 'goodmornin'' before they started to plan what they would get to eat for today while they walked through the forest.
...
"A dragon!"
"Dragon!"
"Dragon!"
Somewhere very far, very far away, 15 weird creatures were walking aimlessly, they were bipedal, 150 centimeters tall, no fur but had a tail, their physic was extremely skinny and they had a pink skin, they had extremely sharp teeth and eyes that looked like one of a snake but instead of being at the front of their head it was at their sides, a kaijin. The place they were was something like the insides of a corridor made out of stones and a throne standing at the back with an ominous figure
"Silence!"
Upon hearing the shout coming from the throne, every single one of those creatures stopped their randomr running and quickly got in a line and knelt. At the throne, a figure similar to an elf was sitting, it's skin was purple-blackish and was about 210 centimeters tall, at the side of the throne there was a great sword sword that had better days, it was filled with rust and some weird purple liquid leaked out of it. The elf could be refered to what Aura Warriors call a devil.
"How old is the dragon?"
The elf inquired.
"Less than 100 by the size!"
"Less than 100!"
"Less than 100!"
They repeated one after another.
The elf face contorced into a smile so big that it tore down it's face and showed his yellow teeth.
"Prepare some wyverns and feed them the Profound Stone and prepare an army of 300 thousand, if we don't have enought bring in some mortals!"
"Yes lord!"
"We will feast on dragon blood!"
"We will feast on dragon blood!"
The elf started laughing loudly when he thought of how lucky he was. "Finally, with the Life force of a dragon i will be able to surpass the mortal stages and create a speck of pure darkness!"
"I also can't let those other two know of this, they must have sensed the disapparence of the Cursed Wyvern Drake aswell, it will take at most 5 months to get everything ready."