Levi was walking through a mountain valley in the spirit realm, and surprisingly enough if not for the colorful grass, animals, and weird sky around, this would have looked like any normal place in the physical world.
Everything was normal as it should be except for a small black animal following him.
Turning around to look at the "animal" Levi could only sigh and keep moving forward, this "animal" was actually the dragon that he had defeated several days ago, already back to full health and looking better than before, 'What a monster.' thought Levi as he looked at the healthy dragon, lamenting the speed with which the dragon had recovered with not even scares remaining, completely ignoring himself who had recovered in barely half a day after the fight.
The dragon had found him two days after he had left him in the middle of the forest and had been following him ever since, 'At least he had the decency to shrink his size down to draw less attention.' thought Levi, he was at first surprised when he saw the dragon shrink to the size of a dog but he got over it fast, that was the least weird thing he saw since he came here.
Levi had tried talking to him at first telling him to go away but his words seemed to fall on deaf ears, and what annoyed him most was that he knew that the bastard could understand every word that he said and chose to ignore it, although he didn't know if he could talk or not.
"Can you at least tell me what you want?." said Levi as he stopped and stared at the dragon who also stopped, keeping the same distance between them, and looked at him while tilting his head as if not understanding him.
"Tsk, don't give me that look, I know that you understand every word I am saying you bastard." he said irritatedly hoping that insulting him would get a reaction out of him.
'Honestly, at this point I'd rather fight him to death than keep going like this.' thought Levi, his curiosity was killing him, he just didn't know why this dragon was following after him.
Sadly the dragon reacted as if he didn't hear him at all, resigning to his fate Levi looked around and noticed some berries to the side.
He quite liked the taste of the fruits in the spirit realm, so far they were actually much better than the ones in the physical world and he had tried every one of them that he came across.
So he moved to the berries and picked some up as he started eating them, closing his eyes in bliss as he enjoyed their taste, a taste that was better than anything he had ever tasted in both lives, 'The spirit realm is amazing indeed it's a shame that I need to get out of here as soon as possible, but if I get another chance I will definitely come back and explore it thoroughly.' thought Levi.
Opening his eyes he noticed that the now small dragon had moved right next to him and was staring at the berries in his hand while licking his tongue.
Sighing Levi threw three berries his way, he opened his mouth and swallowed them whole, closing his eyes the same as Levi did before and enjoying them. He had done so before along their path whenever he found any new fruit and so it had become routine to him to feed the dragon fruits from time to time.
"These taste way better than the ones we had before, maybe I should take some with me to enjoy Along the road." said Levi to no one in particular just talking to himself but apparently the dragon didn't know that as he opened his eyes and nodded his head agreeing with him.
Seeing this scene Levi almost popped a vessel, if not for Gamer's mind he could swear that he would have lost it already, "So you do understand me huh?." he asked, a vein popping on the side of his head and again the dragon seemed to go back to being deaf.
Sighing Levi put those berries into his inventory not caring about the dragon seeing it as he moved to pick up and taste more types of barries throwing some to the dragon whenever he seemed to want a taste, although the rest weren't as good as the first ones he didn't mind, it was a unique experience nonetheless.
Moving to pick up the next berry Levi's danger sense flared as he jumped back, avoiding a blast of fire hitting where he was just standing and burning the berries down.
Levi instantly became alert as he materialized a spear from Divine armament, the only thing he knew that could hurt the little dragon, but the scene that faced him wasn't what he had expected, as he looked at the dragon he was lying down and biting another berry bush before swallowing it whole with the leaves not paying Levi any attention.
To say that Levi was completely bewildered by such a turn of events would be an understatement, he had thought that the dragon had finally found a chance, or what he thought was a chance, to take him down and took it but the scene before him said otherwise.
"Is he bipolar?." Levi said out loud more to himself than the dragon, but the dragon seemed to have heard him as he shot an annoyed look his way, completely stunning Levi.
"How do you even know that word." said Levi stunned, he didn't even think that word existed in the avatar word but this stupid dragon had understood him. Suddenly an idea crossed Levi's mind as he turned towards the still burning berries and used observation on them.
[Ding]
[Poisonous spiritual mountain berries: A toxic kind of barries that only grows in the spirit realm under cold conditions and in valleys]
Reading the description Levi was shocked before turning towards his small black scaly companion with a complicated expression, he was sure that with his system, Gamer's body, rapid recovery, poison tolerance, and meditation there was very little chance of those barries actually killing him if he had ate them, which was why he became lax with using his observation on them, but the dragon didn't know that. Anyone else would most likely be dead just minutes after eating them.
Staring at the small dragon for a while with a complicated expression Levi decided to swallow his pride, "Thank you." he said with a look that told that it was a struggle to even get those words out.
The dragon was stunned for a while before directing a look at Levi that seemed to say, 'So you're not stupid after all?.' making Levi's brow twitch.
Apparently he had thought that Levi wouldn't understand why he burnt the berries but even then he didn't care and still burned the poisonous berries nonetheless, not caring about any misunderstanding that it might cause, which made Levi even more grateful for the scaly bastard, even if he didn't want to admit it.
Disabling Divine armament and sitting cross-legged Levi looked at his scaly companion who was now facing him and sitting on his butt just like a dog would, looking at him curiously.
Levi noticed something quite funny about the dragon, his body's actions from how he walked to how he ate to how he sat were more like that of a dog, but his behaviour and personality were like that of a cat, making him seem like a strange mix of the two and cute in a sense.
"If we are going to keep traveling together I need a name to call you by, I can't just keep calling you scaly bastard, or baby dragon can I now?." said Levi smirking, making the dragon frown in what could only be annoyance.
He was happy that he had finally gotten a little win on the dragon for ignoring him before, even if it wasn't much. Plus he didn't really mind company that much, especially someone as strong as the little dragon.
"Hmmm, how about black dragon." proposed Levi getting a deadpan stare from the dragon, he was obviously not impressed.
Putting his hand on his chin Levi tried to think of a better name, if there was something that Levi didn't excel at then it was naming, he doubted that even the system could help with that.
"Black death?." asked Levi while looking at the dragon who didn't change his expression at all, still having a deadpan look.
'Sigh, picky bastard.' thought Levi, almost wanting to say it out loud before deciding to focus more on the task at hand.
Suddenly his eyes sparkled as he seemed to have thought of something, "How about Acnologia!" hearing the name the dragon's eyes widened as he sat up and started jumping and running in circles around Levi.
"Hehe, I'll take that as a yes, Acnologia it is then." said Levi laughing as he saw the black dragon now named Acnologia acting more like a golden retriever then a mighty dragon.
Waiting for Acnologia to calm down which took a while Levi decided to try his luck and ask him something, "You don't happen to know a way out of the spirit realm do you?."
Acnologia only titled his head to the side before shaking it from side to side revealing that no he did not, "Yeah I thought so, sight." said Levi sighing before getting up, "Alright let's keep going I am not going to find an answer by staying here."
Unfortunately for them fate had other plans, before Levi could even take his first step a defending voice echoed all around them, "INTRUDERS, INTRUDERS." the voice kept shouting out loud, echoing throughout the entire valley.
"Surrender yourselves immediately and you will be spared, resist and we will show you the might and glory of the greatest sage of the spirit world."
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