It had been two days since I came to the Phoenix Academy dorms. I spent last two days planning on how to get to the Den Of The Phoenix Dragon. In the novel it is mentioned that Lucas found it on a whim when he was on a mission.
Actually he didn't had to fight to obtain it. It was just there inside the den hidden within the rubble of leaves.
After making sure that my plan was perfect, I put on a Red Long sleeved shirt with white long pants and wore a black pair of shoes. Then I took out a black mask to slightly hide me facial feature. I wanted none to find out where I was going today.
After making sure that I was ready, I straightly went to the academy train station and waited for the next train to arrive. My destination is the Border of South central continent.
Yes, Academy has its own train station to transport students within the south central continent.
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After a five hour train ride and another 20 minutes of walking, I got to my destination. The area I was now in is an isolated forest area. Rarely people ever visit this place due being near the Forest area.
In front of me was a huge forest with towering trees. It looked so much like a hunted forest. Although it was day time, The forest was really dark due to the towering trees and only a foot path was available to get in to the forest.
I was confident that there won't be any mana beasts in the outer area of the forest. So it was safe to say this won't be too difficult of a mission as my first task toward getting stronger.
After taking a deep breath , I went in to the forest. It was getting darker and darker the more I went in to the forest along the foot path. But thankfully a low light pored down
through some trees that helped me see the distance somewhat clearly.
After three miles in to the forest, An Oak tree came in to my vision. But what caught my eyes wasn't the Oak tree, But the fallen tree next to the oak tree. There were six foot paths directed towards different directions From hear on out. And the fallen trees' upper part was directed towards one of the six foot paths that was smaller compared to other paths. Without thinking twice I took the foot path where the fallen tree was directing.
After another 20 minutes of walking, I saw a small water path. I followed the water path and came upon a big pond with clear water.
The pond was located in a small clearing of the forest with its clear crystal like water glistening from the small daylight showered upon the pond through towering trees. It was a sight to behold. On it I couldn't even spot a ripple meaning there wasn't any organic beings living in it.
I slowly approached the pond and took out a red vial from my dimensional ring. In the book when Lucas chanced upon this pond he was on a mission to hunt down a twin headed baby python. Twin headed Pythons are classified as Hero rank mana beasts. But due to it being a baby, government gave up the mission of hunting it to the Academy. Twin headed baby pythons are at most E rank. So it was a walk in the park for the MC.
After successfully hunting it and on his way back to the academy he stopped by this exact pond to get some water and by accident blood drop of a python on his hand made contact with the pond water. And thats how MC found out the Den.
The reason it took me two days to come here is this, the red vial in my hand. My guess is you need dragon blood or blood of a species similar to dragons to open the Gateway to the Den. So I searched up on the internet and bought this red vial. It is the blood of a twin headed python.
Without anymore thinking I opened the vial and droped a drop of blood from it and stored the rest in my ring. Who knows, Maybe I'll need them again.
As soon as the blood touched the surface of the pond, The pond started to glow in a blinding orange hue forcing me to close my eyes for a second. And suddenly the bottom of the pond splitted in two. From within it arose an old wooden staircase.
Well, I am not dumb enough to think that how a dragon can fit in to it. It's a well known fact that dragons can take on a human form.
I slowly stepped on the wooden stairs and walked down on it. After five minutes I found the bottom of it. Surprisingly it wasn't dark. The cave was illuminated by lowest grade mana stones.
I walked along the cave until a big door appeared in my vision. The door was as big as a two story house. It is Black in color and there was a face of a dragon engraved on it. I approached the door and pushed it to open it fully.
Creak.
The Door was so rusty and it made a huge creak sound when opening. When I stepped through the door I saw a hall. It wasn't big, it was just tall. Inside it I saw a huge bird nest and beside it laid carcasses of different mana beasts. Sadly there mana cores were already taken or else I could have sold them for a high price.
" Hehe. Hehehe. " Avion laughed thinking how much he could have made by selling the mana cores if there were any.
Well if there were any mana cores with that cheat item, MC's luck would have to be too broken.
Slowly I walked around the door carefully inspecting everything to make sure there isn't any mana beasts inside the hall. After double checking every corner of the room I walked over to the bird nest. The nest could fit in almost three full grown elephants. It was that big.
Inside it I saw rubble of leaves scattered every where. And beneath them was a golden Black colored vial and it had a faint glow of silver. It was,
" The Essence of The Phoenix Dragon "