Pov Elizabeth:
As we walked through the forest with my father and mother, I was also training my strength to lift up the glorious Absolute Dragon Clan. My first opponent was a rat with two big ears that my father called a rabbit.
He was my height, its eyes were red like blood and its fangs protruded horribly, but in comparison to a dragon in its maximum glory, this little rat had no presence. If I hadn't been born in humanoid form, this little shit wouldn't even be able to look at me in such a daring way.
While my father supervised everything so that I wouldn't get hurt or his henchmen wouldn't come to interrupt my glorious first step towards the legend of the Absolute Dragons, I immediately ran towards him. The rabbit, instead of running for its life, looked at me with disdain and prepared its body for the fight.
FUSHH!
Dodging my strike by sliding to the side, the rabbit took a stance to counterattack with its muscular legs. But who did it think I was, this little ear-rat?
BUMM!
With a rear kick, I hit him directly in the skull taking advantage of the fact that he lowered his center of gravity to kick me, and his head made a parabola in the air and finally fell next to his body.
Puff, garbage. A dragon, regardless of its race, has a naturally great strength. Moreover, I was the direct daughter of my father, who possesses monstrous gifts. In short, this little big-eared rat and its den had no chance.
"You should have fled when you could, but feel honored to be my first victim," I said to the bleeding out corpse of the big-eared rat on the ground.
"Good job, Eli," my father said to me. "Eli" was a nickname he affectionately gave me, and I honestly don't mind it. In fact, I'm grateful that Dad brought me to this place to verify my strength, although I'd prefer him to let me fight other things besides these big-eared rats, like...
A 3-meter-tall bear with spines on its arms that we saw. This guy would surely be a worthy temporary opponent for the future Absolute Dragon Empress, but Dad always tells me it's dangerous, and I have no choice but to listen to him.
And if you're wondering what the hell Mom is doing, well, she's playing with fire, literally. She's burning everything in her path to ashes. In fact, I think she does it on purpose to annoy me. If it weren't for Dad telling her to leave me rats to train with, she would've just scorched them all to hell.
With my competitive instinct activated, I also started to scorch random things that got in my way. It seems my mom noticed my intentions and narrowed her eyes for a moment before starting to use her spiritual power, something I was inferior in.
Fortunately, dragons have the ability to breathe mana. Although we are in a world where there is spiritual energy instead of mana, I can somehow emulate its functioning to use my abilities provisionally and imperfectly.
But this won't be a problem once I've obtained blood from a dragon native to this world and assimilated it thanks to our great gift.
While competing with my mother to see how many creatures we could scorch to ashes in the shortest time possible, I felt something approaching at great speed. It seems my parents also noticed because they immediately stopped being calm and assumed a preventative stance.
When that thing came into visible range, I saw it.
It was a horrifying being, ugly as the devil, though surely the devil is more handsome than that thing. Its body was black, and mouths could be seen opening and closing on its arms and chest. As if it wasn't disgusting enough, red tentacles sprouted from its back, moving irregularly. Fortunately, its body wasn't very large, just a head bigger than mine.
When I looked at it closely, I felt fear.
A glorious member of the Absolute Clan felt pure and unadulterated fear. It was a horrible feeling of panic that grew inside me, and my senses told me that thing should not exist, and I should flee immediately.
I thought I was crazy, as a respected and proud member of the Dragon Clan, frightened by that thing? But the feeling was so unpleasant that my body reacted instinctively, trembling and breathing rapidly.
It seems that my mother noticed that I didn't like that thing, so she put a hand on my shoulder, but it didn't calm me down.
"UGH, that thing is really ugly, Illios, kill it, see that it already scared our proud dragon," my mother said, teasing me, but I couldn't respond because all my attention was on the movements of that thing.
"Wait, let me try something," Dad said, approaching that thing confidently.
Suddenly, as if it had noticed that Dad was approaching, the monster ran like a crazed animal and pounced on my father brutally.
HUMMM!
In an instant, the monster stood still. No, it was Dad who activated one of his special powers. According to my knowledge learned from the Alyssa doll, he seemed to be controlling gravity, but I didn't have time to think about how it was possible.
Dad floated the thing in front of us and examined it, while I trembled violently.
Even my mother frowned and looked at me as if I were really sick. It wasn't until I felt something inside me -my heart?- no, -my soul- had unleashed, that I could finally move my body.
The first thing I felt was a great hostility towards that thing, and my senses warned me that no matter what, I must not let that thing be present for long or I will regret it for the rest of my life.
The sense of urgency was so real that I obeyed my instincts...
SIZZLE!
Creating a flame as powerful as I could, I threw it at that thing and burned it. I could feel some resistance to my flames, but as if fueled by my hatred, the flames burned more fiercely and erased that thing to ashes.
When the ashes were swept away by the winter breeze of the forest, I could finally take control of my emotions. I felt very relieved and confused at the same time. Why would a proud dragon fear that ugly thing? That mystery was solved in a dream that I could not remember...
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When Illios saw how his daughter put all her energy into killing that deformed thing, he thought that perhaps women found tentacles and mouths disgusting.
"Personally, I also think it was very ugly," thought Illios as the ashes of that thing floated in the air.
"The celestial dao came up with a very abstract design for that creature," joked Elena as she held Elizabeth's unconscious body.
"I think she doesn't like things that are too ugly, Illios," said Elena to Illios.
"I suppose you're right. I should instantly kill creatures like that next time," said Illios, a little sad to see his daughter faint from the curiosity he harbored for that being.
What they didn't know was that that being was known as the plague or the deluge by the ancient immortals, an abomination whose sole purpose was to hunt and consume life, and that perhaps it was "coincidence" that they encountered one just before that thing could call on more powerful creatures and invade the immortal world.