Dragon!

Surprised and angered, the male lion grabbed Roland's wrist and in an angry voice, asked, "What do you think your doing?"

"I think I can help remove the restrainst around her rms and neck." Roland quickly explained.

When he first entered the room he felt a familiar energy and when he saw the restraints around her neck he had an idea.

He was even more suprised when he heard the prompt, 'These restraints are on a whole other level, to actually have 'pure' fabric'.

Roland realised that, after absorbing so much 'Fabric Substance' he was able to sense it to some extent.

"With your pitifule strength! Touch my wife again and I'll kill you!" The male lion said his voice was filled with killing intent that gave Roland a big scare, he tightened his grip around Roland's wrist causing him to scream out in pain.

Cyrus reacted quickly and also grabbed the lions wrist, he looked at him and angrily said, "Let go! You brought us here against our will and now you treat us like this! Let go of the boy's hand!"

"And what if I don't! What are you gonna do about it!" The male lion responded with hostility.

The two squared off, the male lion squeezed Roland's wrist more and more causing him to scream out, sounds of bones cracking echoed in the room. Cyrus also squeezed the male lion's wrist.

"Ahhh." Roland screamed out, his body hadn't developed any pain tolerance.

"Leeu stop it! Let the boy go!" The woman in bed struggled to say. She moved her hand and touched Roland's hand and struggled to say, "Thank you for trying to help but these things aren't easy to remove. I'm sorry for my husband's behaviour, his stubborn and prideful but he means well."

The woman struggled to sit up and gave Roland a small bow, which seemed like a nod. It was evident that she used all her strength to do that. "Please accept my apologies."

'Damn! She's so kind! How did this hot head end up with such an angel!' Roland thought as he held her hand, on her 

wrist was an extremely dark metal 'bracelet'. Roland suspected that this was one of the restraints but obviously without the chains.

Roland touched the "bracelet" and sure enough the prompt rang in his head... 

[Pure Fabric substance was found. Do you want to absorb and boot up the chaos system?]

'This must be of very high quality!' Roland thought, he didn't waste any time and accepted. Roland held the woman's wrist and said, "You don't have to apologise, it was just a misunderstanding." 

'Yeah! A misunderstanding that almost got me killed!' Roland thought.

The bracelet on her wrist which was dark in color started flickering with a blue hue, this caught the attention of everyone in the room. They all looked on with curious eyes. 

After flickering for a bit the shackles turned into dust and fell on the ground. The woman took back her hand and looked at the wound for a bit, tears started to form on her eyes, she closed her eyes and muttured, "thank you".

She suddenly fell back on the bed. She touched the male lions hand and said in a low weakly voice, "My time has come, thank you for loving a woman like me." 

"Quickly remove the rest! Please!" The male lion along with the others screamed at Roland, the male lion had tears in his eyes.

Roland reacted Quickly and touched the other two restraints, one on her hand and the other on her neck and started the process. The woman's hand fell on the bed and she stopped moving. The process to removed the restrains naturally took long but Roland felt like now it was longer.

Moments later the restraints turned into dust. The male lion reacted quickly and opened the blankets and revealed the woman's stomach. There was a nasty purple wound on the woman's body that was very big.

The male lion placed his hand there and a soft black light appeared around his hand, the wound on the woman's body started closing at a fast rate and seconds later, it was gone but the purple patterns remained there.

The woman's face which had looked drained and empty, suddenly got it's color back and her cheeks got rossy but there was no movements and she wasn't breathing.

The atmosphere in the room turned weird, everyone looked at the woman's face with anticipation, her face was still. Silence engulfed the room, time waited patiantly, the tension in the room was so thick it could be cut with a knife.

Roland stepped back and watched on from the side, he started getting nervous, and this allowed his thoughts to run rampant. 'Was I too late? Did I kill Her? I doubt this dude Will let us go, he might kill us in grief and anger?'

.....

*Gasp*

Suddenly, after a long time, the woman woke up confused, she was sure that she was dead but woke up again. 

'I've been there before.' Roland let out a deep sigh.

Seeing her expression everyone joyously heaved a sigh of relief in unison, some of them collapsed on the floor. Roland and cyrus moved away and let them have their moment. After a while, she confusingly asked, "What happened?"

The male lion, Leeu, moved closer and held her hand, after a while sighed and said," the poison is still in your body but now you body is fighting it. Although the poison is still there it will take a while before it gets violent, which means we still have some time. By my estimation if we don't remove it in six years, it will get fatel."

Leeu looked at Roland and Cyrus, he sighed and said" Thank you, for saving my wife."

"Hahaha don't worry about it but gratitude is greatly expressed with gifts." Cyrus quickly said, he had a big grin on his face and wore a money hungry expression.

'Shameless! Can't he read the mood' Roland scolded in his heart. This old man was to quick to claim the rewards but Roland didn't say anything because he had put in the work.

The weird mood in the room quickly changed to a more relaxed one and everyone's expression lightened.

"Hmm sure, as long as it's not unreasonable it will be fine." Leeu suddenly had a bad premonition. He looked at Roland and asked, "Young man, you are a dragon right?"

Hearing his words, everyone was shocked. The others looked at Roland with strange expression. Roland caught sight of this. 

"Uhh no! You might be mistaking me for another person." Roland wasn't sure of it either.

"No, I'm sure of it. I've met alot of dragons and your one of them. Plus, I can sense royal blood from you." Leeu suddenly revealed. He nodded his head in confirmation.

Cyrus looked at Roland and frowned.

Roland saw the seriousness in his eyes and frowned, 'I dont remember anything but could the previous owner of this body have been a dragon? Doesn't that make me a dragon now.'

Roland suddenly felt an unkown excitement bubble up within him, weren't dragons creatures that could fly. They had imposing bodies and could perform enviable feats. 

"Sir, this is the case. I recently woke up in a dungeons without any prior memories so I'm not sure." Roland explained, he wanted to make sure first and not mistaken his identity.

Leeu shook his head, he sighed and said,"That's a sad fate for a child but I'm sure your a dragon, and your bloodline is quite pure."

Roland was about to smile when Leeu's voice sounded again.

"I'm sorry about what happened to your race!" Leeu said, his expression returned to looking like a lion's, focused and stoic.

Roland was confused by this as he didn't know much about this world yet. 'I just became a dragon, what happened to the them. Where they hunted down and went extinct! Did they all fall sick or something? Don't tell me the dragons of this world are weak?'

"Sir I don't know remember anything but my name, could you tell me what happened to the dragons?" Roland asked with worry.

Everyone in the room looked at Roland with pity, they felt bad for him, especially since he was a kid.

"*sigh* So they lost huh?" Cyrus suddenly said, his tone was filled with complicated emotions.

Leeu nodded and looked at Roland, " The dragon's were at war with the humans....".Leeu then began to explain what happened.

Among the multiple races/species in this world, the dragons were one of the strongest and being so, they did whatever they wanted and they looked down on anyone who wasn't a dragon or at least, stronger then them.

Over the years they garnered hatred from almost all the other races, being the strongest no one dared to do anything against them and just swallowed their anger.

A few hundred years ago, some humans, previously the weakest race, started slaying dragons left and right indiscriminately. 

When the dragon tribe, caught wind of these transgression, they ignored it. 

They were pridefull and thought themselves to be the strongest, they wouldn't lower themselves to fight a weaker race/species, especially one considered the weakest.

Concerning the dragons who died at the hands of the humans, they believe they deserved it for being weak.

But then a hundred years ago, their midset completely changed no one knows why but they openly started fighting with the humans and to everyone's surprise they recently lost.

The dragons were overehelmed, they had the lowest numbers before the humans started killing them and even less during the war, which didn't help their case.

A lot of dragons died on that day, being prideful most dragons fought until they died. Some were captured and enslaved, while others were used as mounts.

When Roland heard these details he couldn't help but get angry, his stomach churned when he thought about it, he found it disgusting.

'That's disgusting! Disgusting humans!Even if they did bad things.' Roland didn't know where these thoughts came from and wasn't even aware of them.

Roland stood there in silence. His heart was thumping for no reason as his mind became foggy, after a while he calmed down and sighed.

"Thanks for telling me." Roland said, his expression seemed to have changed a bit. 

"I'd like to ask you for a favor. Would you hear me out? Leeu said.