After a few days of travel the wagon came to a sudden halt.
"Get out of the wagon and give us your goods!" They hear from inside the wagon.
"They has been an increase in bandits along this path. You jump out and take care of them. There is only 3 of them in a triangle formation with the strongest having 40 combat power. You got this" The fire dragon states as he pushes Lara out of the wagon.
Looking around Lara sees 3 bandits wearing dark robes wielding daggers. Within an instant Lara activates her Blessed flame body and Holy Fire sword blessings. Within an instant a huge shockwave of heat explodes from Lara's body as fire forms armour and a sword around Lara.
"Leave now or die!" Lara yells out as she forces her fire sword into the ground below her making the ground crack and lava to slowly form in a small area around the sword.
The bandit leader surrounds himself in a green light and charges at Lara with an intense speed. Lara lifts her sword and slashes at the Bandit leader but the bandit leader even in mid air dodged the sword strike. Using his dagger launches as strike at Lara, as the blade gets close to Lara's skin within a blink of an eye fire roared from Lara and surrounds the Bandit leader causing him to instantly burn into ashes. Using the brief opportunity Lara launches at the remaining two bandits who stand there unable to move due to the pressure Lara's aura applies to them. With a flash of light Lara's fire sword cuts the two bandits in half instantly killing them and lighting their bodies alight.
"Good job, but let's control your anger, anger fuels power but also fuels mistakes and leads to death. I'll show you how to draw from the power of anger but still maintain composure and self control." The fire dragon says while patting Lara on the back. "Now let's cook up some food" he says as he lights a fire nearby and pulls out some refrigerated food to start cooking.
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After eating delicious Fire Bull Steaks, Lara lays on the floor looking up at the swirling purples and pink that fill the night sky. "the sky is so beautiful the colours of space swirling around the many stars" Lara states.
"It is but history states that within the worlds population boom around 500 years ago the sky barely had a few stars in it, the colours faded like the gods abandoned the world." The fire dragon states as he pulls out a box from the wagon full of old books. "These books where transcribed by my ancestors as the world was put into famine and ruin." he pulls out a very dusty blank book, as he opens it a bright golden light shines around them. As the bright light dims slowly writing starts forming on the pages of the book. The light disappears and the fire dragon passes the book to Lara. "This book contains the history of the beginning of the blessings and the end of the modern era. Feel free to read this at your leisure." the fire dragon packs up and gets the wagon moving again.
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The old leather covered book explains:
Once blessings started to be gifted to humans war broke out using people we referred to as "Human weapons" to take over countries and kill many people. as these blessing became more common, earthquakes struck the world none stop for 5 years during this time most if not all cities and buildings where levelled and destroyed. leaving the world without farms, electricity and homes. during these earthquakes dungeons rose from the ground in main parts of the world. These dungeons changed many of the fauna in the areas to change, various animals gained the ability of the elements and grew larger in size. These more powerful larger animals raided small groups of humans causing war between animals and humans. groups who stuck together and had powerful blessings survived these events but only about 40% of the population lasted through these earthquakes and animal raids.
Blessings became the thing of every day people. weather it be very weak or incredibly powerful but some tried to selective breed certain blessings or to find a way to edit and manipulate blessing. these people only found failure. Blessings are completely random even in children from parents but what does pass on is element affinity between the parents. But what was found is if a child was born with more than 3 element affinities they died before the age of 10 but some elements can be randomly given to kids with less than 3 elements. They also found that blessings even if they effect the physical body have no effect on DNA.
The book then contains more pages of smudged writing that Lara can't read.
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Days pass on as they travel to the Phoenix mountains. Once they arrive they enter a small village built around a dungeon. The village filled with various animals and people all wielding fire elements. "why are there so many animals around?" Lara exclaims as she looks arounds. "The people of this village believe that learning to live with the animals of fire will help them understand fire better. Every person in this village is able to easily travel the first floor of the dungeon we built around and about 40% of them can easily travel around the second level. our village looks small on the outside but we have also built into the dungeon giving us an advantage over other territories." The fire dragon says as he walks towards the dungeon.
Lara follows him into the dungeon as she enters she sees a bustling City full of people, monsters and animals. The buildings reaching high into the sky, Large open areas fill most of the city space, people can be seen practising, duelling each other or meditating in these spaces as Fire elements swirl all around the city.
"This is incredible! I've never seen anywhere with so much fire elements even inside a dungeon." Lara exclaims as she feels the warmth of the city around her.
"Yes it is quite outstanding but this level of fire elements done hold a candle to the lower levels. ill take you to my base and we can start your training" The fire dragon replies while looking at Lara and doing a quick analysis.
"Ding... Analysis complete here are the results" The fire dragon hears
Name: Lara Rakshan
Culture: Indian
Element affinity: Fire (Main), Holy(Secondary), Wind (Tertiary)
Potential: 83/100
Luck: 17/100
The fire dragon thinks to himself "Hmm high potential but low luck, will make it tricky for quick growth but at least it will be steady"
The fire dragon takes Lara back to his base. As they climb up the stairs Lara sees a huge mansion surrounded by blue flames and guards. "This is where we will stay when not diving into the dungeon's depths." the fire dragon says as he opens the door and walks into the huge mansion. Lara follows him through the building till the come to a small house out the back of the house. "This is my guest house you'll be staying in here, there should be everything you need in there" the fire dragon walks away after throwing the keys to Lara.
Lara enters the house and inside is the pinnacle of luxury marble kitchen benches, gold trimmings, marble fire place, gorgeous hand made furniture. She gets settled in and takes the time to just relax.