"The Secret Dragonblood Training Method? " Renji eyed his father inquisitively. Kazuki smiled. "No, it is not just handing over information regarding the Secret Dragonblood Training Method. The tome addresses several topics relevant to our Reshin clan: it has the Secret Dragonblood Training Method, instructions to make and control Dragonblood Needles, and the histories of some of the clan elders." Renji flipped through the book and found out that it had four sections.
One was on the Secret Dragonblood Training Method, and the others were on clan matters. Kazuki explained, "Even if this falls into the hands of people from the outside, it would serve no purpose. Outsiders cannot train in the Secret Dragonblood Training Method after all. And for the record of our house, even if people know, it really wouldn't matter. Of course, we have multiple copies of this tome; this one is just the secondary copy. The original has all rotted away over the centuries." Kazuki giggled and Renji joined in the laugh. "Ah. That explains much. So, even if somebody gets it, it wouldn't work." Renji was examining the pages in front of him now. The opening chapter of the Secret Dragonblood Training Tome read: "The main point in using the Secret Dragonblood Training Method is the awakening of the Dragonblood within one's veins. There are two methods to do this.
The first requires the Dragonblood to reach a certain density, but if it's not dense enough, there is a second method…" Renji was dumbfounded. Other than high Dragonblood density, there was another way? Again, why would none of the family have tried to do so in the past? The next form/method was mentioned in the book as consuming the blood of an alive dragon and the blood of a dragon that was only recently dead—the longer time since the dragon died, the lesser the probability of the Dragonblood waking someone up! The consumption of newly dead dragon's blood has the potential to bring the Dragonblood to life in the members of the clan.
The consumption of a Saint-level dragon's very blood obtains the best results, while the blood of a ninth-rank dragon has significantly worse success rates.
Renji was dumbfounded. "The ancestors were really great for thinking of drinking a dragon blood for the use of training the Secret Dragonblood Training Method." Kaiya Tanaka, who had already observed Renji was equally shocked. Kazuki could only see Kaiya, so he sighed. "Renji, the Dragon blood is sealed in our veins, and there are two awakening methods. The second method, being that of drinking dragons blood is way too difficult. Just take a closer look at the following excerpt of the tome."
Renji was left speechless in disbelief. He flipped the book to continue reading the following, "The second and utmost dangerous method is using dragon's blood, for it is ultra-potent. Applying it to one's body raises the physical quality and strength, but at the same time, causes intense pain on the skin. Ingesting dragon's blood is like being scorched. There's a huge possibility of losing one's life due to broken veins resulting from it.".
"Father, who wrote this Secret Dragonblood Training Tome? If it's so perilous, why include it?" Renji asked. "By Reshin, our founder and the first Dragonfire Warrior on the Aerthos continent-the tome. He must have had his reasons. In our family history, two descendants tried drinking the blood of a Saint-level dragon, but both died from their veins rupturing." Renji was brought out of himself. "And they actually drank the blood of a Saint-rank dragon?" Such a situation seldom arose during the golden period of the origin of the Reshin family. "As for concrete detail in regard to the details of those times- none of it is currently on record. I just know that the dragon race came to stop this mechanism, and our descendants stopped hostile actions.
"Later on, our weakening clan couldn't secure dragon's blood anymore." Kazuki reflected to the past, and from then Renji could really get the profound pride man of the dragon race.
It was lucky that the Reshin clan was not annihilated.
"But why would our ancestor record a method that has never succeeded?" Renji pondered.
Kazuki wasn't sure. "I have no answers to everything; what happened four thousand years ago is a mystery to us." Kazuki smiled and told Renji to get some sleep. Renji agreed and went back to his room but not without questions. "But, Grandpa Kaiya, if no one has ever succeeded using this method, how come it was ever invented ?". Wise with the age, Kaiya Tanaka answered, "The dragon race is prideful and mighty. Drinking live dragon's blood may have an effect but pressure from the dragon clan perhaps coerced your ancestors to alter the tome." Renji sensed an opening. The dragon clan must have exerted pressure on the clan to desist from bloodletting live dragons. "But that's only my theory," Kaiya continued. "Plus, drinking live dragon's blood does not need to result in death. ". Combining it with Azure Soulgrass can annul the virulent property. So, there's very little number of people who know about that now." Renji marveled and became excited, "Did you mean, Grandpa Kaiya, that it will be safe, as long as the bloody dragon's blood mixed with Azura Soulgrass is still fresh?" Kaiya nodded confidently.
"Yes. That's right. I conducted this method to the princess of the Plutia Empire, and I cured her by letting her mixed blood of a Pisces dragon become merged with Azura Soulgrass. And I have even captured myself a Saint-level dragon. Kaiya Tanaka remembered a few old-time stories, in which the same ingredients were used, and only an aged doctor knew the procedure of how to mix them. That was about six thousand years ago noweboty knew these stories, so she felt quite elated with the knowledge. Renji was ecstatic at this revealment "When I become a great magus, I'll use that mix and make little Kenji the Dragonfire Warrior. And maybe even I could become a Saint-rank magus like you as well as a Dragonfire Warrior…" He realized that had been looking into the future far too much, but he had no dearth of hope. "The road will be long ahead. It looks like it's time to rest and begin training tomorrow, then."