CHAPTER 3 : THE JOURNEY

(silence)

A sigh rang out in the quiet void.

"it looks like I misunderstood those people for something else, but how terrible that I traveled alone without a family in my previous life. Will my path in this world be lonely as well?"

The boy's voice was deteriorating as he whispered to himself. But all he received was silence, well, no one to reply to him anyway as he was a baby dragon in its egg that hadn't hatched.

The sound of fighting and screams of misery pulled his mind back, and he concentrated on the battlefield above him, realizing the conflict was still going on. A thousand years pass, and he spends this time alone in his gloomy place, gaining a mature intellect and an unwavering resolve to control his fate.

He went through loneliness, boredom, and longings; suddenly, he was shocked out of his trance by a crackling sound. He followed the crack with his senses and realized he was about to be born, which made him happy.

The crack keeps spreading, and he realizes he can feel his body. He immediately directs his sense to his body. He noticed he was coiled up in a sea of golden and violet blood, balancing each other like the yin and yang diagram with an overbearing pressure emitting from both blood types. He was in the middle of this blood like he was the source of balance to this blood.

These terrifying bloods have nourished him for years, slowly seeping into his body. He felt no pain but rather a comfort. Then he notices some changes in his physique. He looks like a regular human but has a tail with a sharp pointed tip. The tail was beautiful, with dark-gold scales.

This scale doesn't cover just his tail alone because he was covered in this scale from head to toe, but on this scale, there are runes with violet color on each of them, and these runes were absorbing the blood surrounding him and the blood around the egg outside. He also noticed he was way too big for a baby. He looked like a child of eight years old.

Speechless...

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He was jolted awake by a sound. In his trance, an opening appeared in the gigantic egg, which continued to grow until he was outside the egg, lying in a pool of blood. When he saw this, he understood how enormous the egg was.

The egg then began to separate itself scale by scale, with different runes on each one. Surprisingly, the rune on each scale matched the rune on the boy's body scale. Then they both combined, making the aura around the boy's body so dominant, and the boy's remaining golden and violent blood was pulled into his body.

Heaven was furious as rumbling thunder raged in the sky above the battleground. How could he let an abomination that could defy it exist? Heaven is above everything; therefore, anybody questioning whether he is right or wrong is breaking the rule.

When the boy looks up, he can see clear into the sky, with nothing in his way. Then he is terrified of the dark cloud, the sweat immediately covers him, and he starts shaking from head to toe as if his soul is about to flee its body at any moment.

Suddenly he felt a gentle hug from behind. He felt comfortable and comforted by the hug, and some energy somehow permeated his soul, relaxing his thoughts and solidifying his gaze as if nothing could thwart his Will.

When he turned around, he saw a woman covered in runes with a holy look and a pure aura. The only words to describe her are pure and holy, for even her eyes were covered with runes.

"You don't have to be afraid, my son, because I'll always be there for you. We shall always be with you as long as you keep us, even if heaven collapses". She spoke, but her words were so enticing.

The boy felt joy, but at the same time, uncontrollable tears streaming down his eyes. He felt joy and sadness at the same time.

"Son, the journey ahead is up to you, and this is the last time we can help you since we will be using all our power to help you resist heaven from erasing your existence, so you have to be careful but have no fear in your heart."

These sentences awakened the boy back from his comfortable feeling, and he stared up at the sky to see that eight different people were standing up ahead, preparing to face the rage of heaven; they all looked at him with smiles on their faces before focusing back to meet the heaven one last time.

Seeing how the eight unknowing beings helped him resist heaven's rage, he was sad. He felt comfortable simultaneously; a very high hatred was directed toward heaven and to heaven. This means both of them cannot exist together. It's a challenge to death.

"Here, son, this portal will take you away from here." The woman told him this with a loving smile on her face.

Then a pendant appeared in the woman's hand, and he gave it to the boy; she helped him put it around his neck, and all the aura that was unconsciously emitting from his body was withdrawn into his body.

"This will help you hide your existence from heaven, but it can only help you hide until you reach the chaos realm, and then the rest of the journey is up to you; now go, my son."

The woman said to him while reaching out her hand to push the boy toward the portal.

"Your life and death are in your hand, and remember who you are."

This was the last sentence he heard from the woman before his vision went dark.