Fifth day of the fourth month of the year 1002 of the continental calendar.
The great dragon Ceres was sleeping peacefully when his instinct detected someone approaching.
'Ha…'
I sigh through his big nose and wait for the person to come closer.
One hour… two hours…
At the third hour a small body came out of the darkness and stood before Ceres.
'Child, do you want to suffer so much?'
Ceres spoke directly into the girl's mind.
"I already told you, I'll kill you no matter what"
Said the girl.
Her small fists clenched and her teeth made a clicking sound, it was an image that did not fit someone her age.
The great dragon Ceres sighed and looked helplessly at the girl.
'It would be so easy if she wasn't an immortal, but being one…'
Hundreds of torture ideas went through Celes' mind but she discarded them all.
The greatest torture she knew was the pain of acid.
'If the physical does not work… how about the psychological'
With that idea in mind, Ceres spoke to the girl's mind.
"Go now or I will kill everyone you love"
Those words seemed to flip a switch in the girl's mind because she, without saying anything, ran towards Ceres.
This time she didn't stop on her tail, instead she began to climb it.
Ceres watched with interest as the girl ran through her body.
A task that was not easy, since it was so immense that it took the girl several minutes to reach Ceres's neck.
When he got to Ceres's neck she began to climb it.
'Silly girl'
As if taunting her, Ceres raised her neck to her limit, which made the already difficult task of climbing it almost impossible.
Despite that, the girl did not give up, with the help of Ceres's scales she continued climbing until, after tens of minutes, she reached Ceres's eyes.
The little girl pulled out a glowing knife and plunged it into Ceres's eye.
'Interesting tactic, too bad it didn't work'
The eye, which was bigger than the girl's body, not only was not damaged by her attack, but the shining knife was broken into dozens of small pieces.
The girl already expected that so she took out several more knives and stuck them one by one into Ceres's eye.
'You were aware that it wouldn't work'
Ceres told the girl.
The girl didn't answer, instead she took out a small potion and threw it against Ceres's eye.
The potion flew and when it hit Ceres's eye burst into flames.
The girl's eyes lit up when that happened.
'Good trick'
A vast blink from Ceres for the fire to go out, making the girl's effort useless.
The girl's eyes narrowed and she just stared straight ahead of her, as if thinking what else to do.
Seeing that the girl did not do more Ceres, she shook her neck a little, which caused the girl, who was not well attached, to fall hundreds of meters.
"Ahhh!"
With a thump the girl's body fell onto the pile of precious gems, her blood filling the spot where she landed.
'You survived that, you have potential'
Ceres told the girl when she saw that the only damage done to her was to have her legs broken.
"Ha... I'll... kill you..."
The girl said as she dragged her limp body in an attempt to climb back up Ceres's body.
'Girl, give up, you know very well that it is impossible'
"For my family... for my town... for all the people you killed... I swear that... I will not let you live."
'You are so stubborn'
Summoning magic, Ceres floated the girl high enough for her to be at eye level with her.
'Listen girl, killing me is more difficult than ascending to heaven as a sinner, your struggle is in vain, why don't you use your time for something else?'
"..."
The girl just looked into Ceres's pink eyes and didn't speak.
'This will be the last time we speak'
Ceres threw the girl at the speed of sound out of the cave, then she used magic to create a huge wall that blocked the entrance.
'Now nobody will bother me anymore'
Ceres closed her eyes.
'Why did he hate me so much?'
That was a question that remained in the air because Ceres fell asleep after that.
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Tenth day of the sixth month of the year 1002 of the continental calendar.
Ceres was sleeping comfortably when her instincts detected someone approaching.
Or rather, he sensed that something was on the border of her cave.
Ceres, intrigued, probed the area with magic.
'This girl…'
To Ceres' surprise, the wall he had created had a small hole through which a small child could crawl, looking closer she saw how the girl relentlessly pounded and pounded the wall, being able to create a small mark each time.
'It's true that wall isn't the strongest I can create, and it's not close to it, but for a child of her age to do that…'
Perseverance, will and a clear goal, those three things were what made Ceres respect a person.
Today this little girl earned a bit of respect from Ceres.
'Let's see if her perseverance is enough'
Ceres didn't go back to sleep, she stayed still watching the girl's actions at all times.
The days went by, the girl only retired once every fortnight and returned with food to continue breaking the wall.
Two months passed like this.
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Twenty-eighth day of the eighth month of the year 1002 of the continental calendar.
Today was a lucky day as the girl had dug a hole big enough to pass through.
Ten days ago she was finally able to see the other side, she spent the last few days enlarging the hole to get through.
With one last blow a piece of earth fell, the girl left the tools aside and tried to pass.
At first her body barely entered, she had to squeeze to try to pass.
That was a problem that she could solve by digging a little more, but the girl was not willing to do it.
She with effort she was moving her body little by little until the upper half of her body was inside her.
When she tried to continue there was a problem, her hip wouldn't go through.
The girl spent hours trying to pass but no matter how hard she tried she couldn't, her body had gotten stuck.
She spent a day… then two… three…
On the seventh day the girl began to show signs of weakness, since she had not eaten or drunk anything during all that time.
Seeing that it was impossible for the girl to pass Ceres, she felt pity.
'If you had waited a few more days and you didn't get ahead of yourself, it is possible that you were already in front of me, it's a pity that your haste caused this problem for you'
Ceres lost interest in this girl.
She is seconds away from fixing the wall and destroying all the girl's efforts when something happened.
'Oh'
In a last effort, the girl took the knife that she had brought with her and began to stick it into her hip.
'She's crazy…'
The girl screamed in pain every time the knife touched her bone, but perhaps aware that she would regenerate herself, the girl kept hitting and hitting until her bone began to splinter.
Such an act was disgusting even for Ceres to see.
'Who knows what this girl has been through to get that determination'
Blow by blow the girl finally managed to break her bone.
Through clenched teeth she began to crawl forward in front of her, an act that moved her bone through her flesh causing him unimaginable pain.
She slowly climbed out of the hole and prostrated herself on the ground.
There was no expression on her face at finally getting out of her, just an emptiness.
The girl didn't stop there, without even resting she began to crawl into the cave.
Ceres seeing this summoned magic around the girl and quickly brought her before him.
Just seeing him, the girl showed murderous intent in her eyes.
'In all my years of life I have seen few people like you'
Ceres said haughtily.
'Why do you insist on coming back? With your determination you can do whatever you want in this life'
"What you want? Everything I wanted I lost because of you!!"
The girl spat at Ceres.
That simple and childish act made Ceres narrow her eyes and show a hint of disgust and anger.
'Even the greatest dragons bowed down to me, and you, a brat, dare to insult me like that.'
Ceres dropped the girl.
"Ahh!"
When the girl fell, just like her before, she broke her legs.
'I guess I'll have to punish you a bit'
Ceres invoked psychological magic and entered the girl's mind.
'With this I should learn'
Ceres looped images of the girl's greatest fears.
That act of vile evil lasted three days and three nights.