Requiem of souls (Volume 6)

The Herald comes for you!

Chapter 1 (58)

I inspected the egg in front of me to know more about it before I could start my plan. I tried to inspect it last time but my insight ability was sealed. Now it should work.

Black dragon egg.

Dragons are said to be the source of magic, A dragon never dies, but they are always reborn.

Like a phoenix that rises from their ash a dragon hatches once again after its death from its own egg.

Mana needed until hatching

2 500 000 Mana.

Adding more sources of energy can change the results of the hatchling’s nature.

Oh so I need to feed it that much mana…it is almost impossible…well it would have been if it was not the current me.

I then casted the territorial domain once again, to have the 400% Mana/Stamina/Hp regen.

Then I began channelling my mana into the egg.

If I had gone about and aged the egg I would have probably just ruined it. It needs to be physically present before it can grow.

Once I had depleted my Mana reserves they began to recharge at an amazing rate…I should be able to finish this within few hours.

Haruka then came by and asked me who was sitting near the egg and pouring mana to it.

“What are you doing Daiki?”

“Oh nothing much, just making our ride”

“You mean the dragon egg? You want to ride on a dragon; don’t you think it will not accept? Dragons are proud creatures you know…and this one is a bit evil” she said in a worrying tone.

“Well if it turns out to be aggressive I will just kill it in its infant state…I need to make a pet contract with it.”

“Pet? You want a dragon as a pet?” said Haruna who just got here.

Misaka was still a bit away, probably still unable to speak to me, but interest and curiosity got her to get closer a bit. The elf was at her side too.

“Yep.”

“Do you know if it would even work? I mean the pet contract, you seem sure about it”

“Well, I encountered a beast in hell and managed to temporarily make it my pet…after some ‘persuasion’ of course”

After a moment I thought about the last piece of information that the inspection gave me

‘Adding more sources of energy can change the result of the hatchling’s nature right?’

So instead of just giving it pure mana…I added some of my soul energy

Green and blue particles were being released from my palms and were ravenously eaten by the egg; it was trembling from time to time and consuming it with fervour.

The girls were interested in this at first, but soon it became boring for them, so they began chatting about various things.

Not only that they even began to spar with each other.

Haruka took the lead and asked the other girls to fight against her. A 2 vs. 1 the elf was not included as she was both tired and lower levelled than them, though she managed to reach level 350 she was still lower than the other girls, whose levels were already in the late four hundreds.

Due to the girls not having any weapons they decided to make it a fist fight. Even if Misaka had the rift maker, it was probably not worth the risk of using. After all it killed a Soul eater and would probably hurt the girls if an accident were to happen.

The gauntlets of the black dragon armours had claws so it was more than enough to deal serious damage to anyone without proper armour.

The spar began with Haruka taking the lead, charging at Haruna who seemed to be unprepared. She dived forward throwing a swipe with her left hand to the face of Haruna, a swipe that was barely dodged by the little girl. Haruka then followed with a leg sweep that managed to drop Haruna down, yet before she would continue her attack she received a fireball to the back making her roll a few meters from impact.

Misaka had shot a fireball at her, even though under the helmet I could feel that she was grinning.

“Hey! What was that for?” said Haruka who was recovering.

“Well we said no weapons. We didn’t say anything about spells” said Misaka in a teasing manner.

“Ugh…that is unfair, But, Hasten!” she activated the hasten spell on her greaves and began to move like a shadow. She was really fast and managed to land several strikes at Misaka who could not even see her.

“Harden!” said Misaka and the final punch that Haruka landed, was blocked by the now toughened scales.

“Hoo, this is interesting, the armor becomes much thicker…but it’s hard to move now…” exclaimed Misaka.

Yet before Haruka could even pull back her arm Haruna shot a wind gale at her that literally lifted her from the ground and threw her a few meters away.

“Wow! I didn’t know I could do that!” said Haruna who was a bit surprised at the amount of damage she just dealt.

Well it is obvious. They levelled up and gained a lot of stats that empowered their basic damage…

“Owie…” groaned Haruka from the pain

“It shouldn’t have hurt like this…the Hasten ability lowers the defences…”

Well it’s obvious, I thought, otherwise that would have been too overpowered.

The spar continued without anyone getting the upper hand, the reason for that was, because Haruka can defeat any of the other girls individually but they knew each other’s strengths and weaknesses and would capitalize on them whenever it was possible. The spar ended with all of them exhausted while I was still pouring both mana and Soul energy in the egg.

Normally, I should have had my reserve of two hundred thousand and some Soul energy depleted by now, but as I had fully consumed the soul eater, the extra soul energy was still lingering within me; The fact that my body became all-encompassing enabled me to harness as much of it as I wanted.

The girls stopped after a few hours. They removed their armours, or at least the helmets sweating from the exertion.

“We could use a bath now…Daiki can you stop your skill? We need to leave” said Haruka.

“Hold on, I need to finish feeding this thing…give me two minutes it is about to hatch…”

I said as I finished feeding it mana.

Three hours, it took three hours to finish the job.

To get rid of my leg cramps I stood up and waited for something to happen…

Anything…

Nothing.

Sigh…

I then released the Territorial skill and let the girls leave after ascertaining that it was not going to hatch right now…

They then left in a hurry, all four of them leaving me alone with a giant black egg…

Damn it…should I just make it grow? I thought to myself before the egg started to hatch…

It didn’t crack like a normal egg would, no the blackness of the scales were absorbed, as if whatever was inside was sucking the very colours from it. The scales turned from pitch black to ashen grey and they began to dissolve.

A moment later a small black dragon was all that was left from the egg, though I call it small, it was almost three meters in length and a meter and a half in height, how the hell was this thing capable of squeezing into that egg?

The dragon began to look around it, as if discovering the world for the first time.

It was small and had sleek scales, they were glistening and probably smooth, however here and there would occasionally be a green one…his back had small sprouting bones while its head had two small horns that looked like those of a ram. Its eyes however were not Red like its parents…no they were green like mine…

I inspected the thing to see what it was

Black Souled dragon.

(Hatchling)

A hatchling of a black dragon, this one had mutated from the original black dragon of nightmares to become a new race of its own.

Level 200

Why is its level already that high?

“Banished one…” said the dragon while it looked at me. Its voice unlike what I had thought it would be was still gruff and sounded exactly like the parent dragon.

“You can speak?”

“Yes, we dragons never truly die…we revive in the form of an egg we create…unlike other creatures we do not copulate but we are forever alive…immortal beings we are…”

This dragon speaks in a strange way…

“Very well…now I will need you for something”

“Why should one such as I comply with what you want?”

“Because I can easily kill you” I said with a smirk.

“True…” said the dragon “But I will still revive. This time if I were to die in this form I will be recreated in another place, what would stop me from coming after you?”

“Even if it was the case, you think that you can really defeat me if you manage to do it? after all I was the one that slain you, and by the time you reach ample strength, that should be few thousand years, I would be much stronger than what I am now…so you still lose, there is no way for you but to comply”

“You attempt to enslave a dragon…”

“Not enslave…you are a proud creature, I just want you as a partner, at least for the time being…”

“Partner huh…I don’t think that one such as the herald is in need of partners…but now that my mind is clear and the corruption is removed I can probably do that…”

“So you still hold the memories of your past life,”

“Yes, we dragons unlike the other creatures do not die, our souls are forever bound to our world…we revive after we die…just like you, herald.”

He must have remembered that from when I died by his attack and revived again…

“What is your name?” I asked

“Nemushivarjiagha is this one’s name”

“Huh…that is hard to pronounce…How about Nemu! Nemu is good…”

“Ugh…to have my proud name be rendered to such a state, I have seen your memories Banished one…the ones that were conveyed to me when you fed me your soul energy…and I have to say…You are an idiot”

“Huh?”

“You think your journey will end in your victory just because you have power? Though strong…you are still lacking…severely so, if you wish to shake the reign of the ones above…”

“Then help me…” I demanded “With the power of a dragon my task will be easier…”

“Very tempting, but to help you I will need time, I am far too weak in this state… a thousand…no two thousand years should be enough time for me to reach an ample state…but I cannot do it now…”

“I have a way…you said you have seen my memories, you probably didn’t see everything then.”

“Then show me”

“No, not until you become my pet- I mean partner…”

“…”

“…”

Pet Contract has been initiated

Do you wish to make the Black souled dragon Nemushivarjiagha to become your pet?

Y/N

I pressed yes and instantly the bond between us was formed.

You have managed to tame a dragon

Title earned

Dragon tamer

+150 stats with the exception of luck.

You have higher chances of binding any reptilian type creature to you as its master.

More titles…delicious

The stat bonuses of the dragon were mediocre at best, probably about +200 stats at best.

As it was still level 200 it was quite weak

“Impressive, Banished One…if this is but a tenth of your power, no wonder you managed to defeat the corrupted version of me…But if I was not under the effect of that curse…things would have been quite different.”

The dragon said the words, and I honestly believed him…the curse was still functioning on me, and the random apparitions are still ruining my mood, I still have some occasional hallucinations but they are not that impactful…at least not yet.

“Do you have a way to remove your own curse?” I asked the dragon hoping that he would be able to remove it from Haruka.

“Hah, you say the dumbest things sometimes Banished one…if I did have a way, you think I would have remained in that wretched state?”

True…why didn’t I think about that?

“Time to give you a power up then”

“What do you mean?” the dragon asked while it was swaying its little tail a bit.

“I can grow you up, for every second my right hand stays in contact with your body, you will age…”

“Interesting ability you have, but if you could control the amount of time make it just five hundred years at most.”

“Why just that short?”

“We dragons, stay in our hatchling form for 500 years, we do not eat nor need other sustenance because the mana within us feeds us, but after 500 years we will need to feed on other creatures to gain power. We eat to replenish our mana and energy.”

“Sounds logical” otherwise I would have wondered how its body was going to take the change…the grown body of the dragon did not weaken, probably because it was saturated with excess mana. This baby dragon will probably just die of starvation if I left the ability working for a long time.

“Alright, then let’s start!” I exclaimed as I approached the small dragon.

Placing my right hand on him I activated the decay ability, yet for immortal beings they do not rot…they grow.

In just five seconds I saw the body of the small being morphing to that of an enormous dragon. It was almost twenty meters in height and doubles that in length from head to tail.

Its eye shone brighter than before and its scales looked sturdier, its muscles bulged and its chest became wider, its wings grew when they were none existent in its normal form.

Its horns became enormous, while its fangs and claws looked deadlier than ever.

It opened its wings high and wide which were more than twenty meters each, they had tough looking leather on them, with scales covering the part where the bones should be. It then roared announcing its presence to the world.

I inspected it again to see the change

Black Soul Dragon

Adolescent.

(Bound to Daiki Genkaku)

Level 700.

A powerful mutation created from the egg of a black dragon.

Able to both wield the power of darkness and soul magic.

Hmm so a level a year…

The imposing figure then stood up looking at me with its eyes glowing in the dark. Though it was still smaller than its original form, and looked vastly different, as the green hues are giving the previously pitch black scales more of a dark green colour than a mixture of both.

“What is going on?! Daiki are you alright?!” screamed Haruka who just entered the cave. She was wearing her armour without a helmet, her silky hair was now wet as she probably was washing herself in the nearby pond.

She then unsheathed her weapon and said

“I will help you this time Daiki…you won’t need to fight alone.”

She thinks the dragon is an enemy huh.

The other girls then soon entered and they all looked terrified. However, I could only grin.

“What the hell is that? It was a damn egg a moment ago! Where did this thing come from?”

“Oh don’t sweat the details” I said with a grin on my face “This is our ride to the elven kingdom!”

The four girls and even the dragon all said in one tone

“Ride?”

I could only grin, thinking that it was finally time to ride a dragon!