When I stepped foot on the other side of the portal, I was greeted with scorching heat and endless desert.
Once I stepped out of the portal it vanished behind me and I was able to see the desert view and conditions engraved in the sand to leave the desert few steps ahead of me.
I always encountered something new in the tower, sometime some holographic screen would appear in front of me or sometimes I received the instruction telepathically.
[Acquire the Astral stone in order to proceed to next floor.]
[Use of weapon is permitted.]
[Use of Void abilities for fight is not permitted.]
[Clear the floor within 2 days.]
And as expected the conditions were outrageous as always. In this big desert of which I couldn't even see the end, I was supposed to find a stone and why was the tower certain that I would encounter fight.
Astral stone were one of the rarest stones even in the dragon realm, most of them I had seen were in king's crown and smaller one's in leader's rings. They were round stone with radiating bright white light if one sees in dark it contained uncountable number of small stars within it truly giving it otherworldly look.
They were not only beautiful but dangerous also. They were only found in space and came in different size. If someone imbues mana over the specified limit, they would detonate and depending on the size of the stone it could even wipe out tens of kilometer of area.
It contained some special energy; even dragons didn't have enough knowledge about their origin. I wonder how an astral stone ended up here maybe some meteor must have crashed here.
While thinking this I looked up at the sky. The heat from three suns shining brightly in the sky was still bothering me. Thinking about my next course of action, I retrieved a draconic weapon from the space pocket. It was black lavish looking spear radiating the powerful electric arcs all around it.
I imbued some of my mana into the spear and threw it into the sky as fast as I could; it reached thousand meters in the sky in the brink of an eye and detonated. A huge blast of smoke and electricity covered the sky. With my enhanced vision I could see the gigantic black cloud forming in the sky and temperature suddenly started to drop. Soon it started to rain all around me.
With my enhanced vision I could see that the weapon which was made out of Dragon heart of the Dragon king realm warrior was broken in a single use but that was my intention. It wouldn't be of any use in a fight anyway.
Based on the knowledge which I possessed about deserts I knew most of the living creatures would be living under the sand and will only come out in night to hunt. If there is any intelligent species here I could collect some information about astral stone instead of wandering around aimlessly.
And the phenomena which I had created just now, it covered hundreds of kilometer of land. Certainly the power of heart of a Dragon king realm warrior was nothing to scoff at.
Widening my senses to the limits I tried to sense the world around me to find the presence of any living creature. And few minutes later I sensed not one but hundreds of living creatures crawling their way toward the surface.
I smiled faintly and transformed into my true dragon form. I flew towards the location where I had felt the presence.
It took me few minutes to reach the location. I flew above the clouds in order to determine what type of natives lived in this planet. I waited and few minutes later some snakes, lizard and scorpion like beast came out of sand or to be more precise from a tunnel hidden deep under the sand.
The thing which picked my attention was their upper body was humanoid and they also possessed beastly features. They were looking at the cloud with happy faces. Probably due to scarcity of water in the desert.
Their happiness didn't last long because soon flapping my wings I descended clearing the clouds with a bright sunlight shining above me, I looked like some god. All of them looked at me with eyes wide open.
The next second they all turned their backs and started to run back into the tunnel which spoiled my majestic entrance.
Dumbfounded by their actions I roared and released my Dragon aura which covered all my surrounding in an instance.
[Dragon Tongue: Stand still and turn back]. Their bodies stopped moving and complied with my command against their will.
I sent my thoughts into everyone's mind telepathically. They wouldn't understand my language but conveying my thoughts into their mind through mana was the best way to let them understand what I was saying.
'Who is the leader among you, come forward.' I sent a message into their mind once more and 3 beasts came forward, each belonging to difference species a snake, scorpion and lizard.
Each one of them was huge almost 1 meter in height but in front of me, they were tiny ants.
Among the three a scorpion like beast came forward and stood ahead of the other two.
'May I ask you something, my lord?' he asked me telepathically which astonished even me. How was this undeveloped civilization able to communicate telepathically. In response I nodded.
'Was this rain made by you?' He asked an unexpected question to which I replied 'yes'.
Then he asked me. 'Are you god?'
'Yes.' I replied in a firm tone but laughing inside. The conclusion they came to was hilarious.
When I replied I could see everyone's expression change, the leader must have informed others about our discussion.
'Are you a friend of God Theris who is living among us?' The question he asked piqued my interest, a god living among these creatures certainly it is not a real god, maybe some con-artist. It would be interesting meeting this god, but I don't the time to fool around.
'I am no one's friend and certainly not interested in your god. I will ask you some question and if you answer honestly, I may grant you appropriate reward.' I said manifesting a 15 meter huge image of astral stone in front of everyone.
'Does any of you have seen this stone before and if yes, where?' I asked and all them started to discuss with each other in a language unknown to me but it was visible to me they knew something about it. The leader who was asking me question turned toward everyone giving them some warning to quiet down and then looked at me.
'Yes my lord, the same stone is engraved in the forehead of our God.' Hearing his answer I understood the intention of tower.