Dragon’s point of view:

My name is Dragon and I was born in the 1001st year of our calendar. I am 10 years old now and your average person. Ok, almost average. I actually look a lot like a human, but in fact, I am from the unique race of gods. In my opinion, it is nothing special and just a race like every other. The biggest difference would be our lifespan. While a normal human being can get to an age of 130 years, people from the dragon race can reach a life span of a few hundred years. And our race, can live even longer. I have no idea how long but at least longer than the others.

When I was younger, my parents used to tell me stories about the gods and how there are things we shouldn’t do, like meddling with the business of mortals or show our abilities, but they died when I reached the age of 6. I was raised by good friends of my parents which came from the dragon race and we lived at a distant and remote place for 4 years now.

I haven’t met, seen or heard of any of the other people of the race of gods and I don’t think that I will in the future. In 2 years, I will finally be able to interact with a lot more people because my new parents said that when I turn 12, they will send me to the human continent to attend one of the most renowned academies there are in the world. Perhaps I will meet 1 there, but I don’t really care. It is called Sonya academy and in the past, it raised many important figures of history. I heard even the human king himself attended that academy in the past.

My life until now was rather boring. I haven’t interacted with much people yet and all I have met with come from the dragon race. When I asked for something interesting, my new parents showed me magic which was rather interesting, until I mastered it. Since I am not allowed to leave home until I turn 12, I had nothing to do so all I did was sleep, eat and sleep again. I realised that I was being lazy much too late. I was reignited, because of a recent report which came in.

In the past year a lot of new islands and even a whole new continent had been found. But the interesting part wasn’t their discovery. While on the most islands new dungeons were found, some found weapons and books on others. The most interesting though was the first island which appeared, because of a certain catastrophe, everyone who went to discover it died, except 1.

The first land, which is now called the black continent even though it only has the size of an island, is located in the middle of all 5 great continents of the races. It was said that whoever could seize control over it, would gain a huge boost in an upcoming war between races. The spirits weren’t interested in it at all and ignored it and the dragon race was too proud to compete for it. Those 2 decisions were the best they could have taken. While the demon and beast race received only little losses, because they used the influential adventurer guild for their plans, the humans received a huge blow.

I heard that the humans lost 2 of their S rank adventurers along with 3 witches and many more. The total death amounts to 500 elite troops and they will need a long time to recover. I first had a shock until someone told me that nothing of that would influence the academies, so I was relieved.

The story which was told went like this. On that island, a new danger called [Nightmare] was born. The sole survivor, which received the S rank with the title “Survivor”, told his version of what he had seen. He talked about a dark and evil energy which killed everything it came across and a dark mana ball which announced their deaths. He has been on a boat when everything happened and was defended by a bright light in the last moment before the dreadful thing could touch him. The kings of the races, classified [Nightmare] as a SS danger and not many have gone near it since then. Everyone was too afraid of going there.

There is only one single thing known about that island. Around the land, a large wall has been built and the entrance is guarded by 1 person. No one knows that person, because everyone who encounters him, either died or went missing. Most of the people who died, were those who came to fight. My goal, is to train and surpass that person and see what the black continent looks like.

To achieve that goal, I will first need to train and then go to the academy to increase my knowledge in magic even further. Along the reports, that wasn’t the only one which picked my interest. There were a few more. There was the rumour of the 4 heavenly kings, never travel too far to the north, south, east or west or you will encounter one of them and you will lose your life.

Another one was the discovery of an item which was older than 1001 years old. It was called older, because that item was a single flower, which existed nowhere else. The rumour says, that flower can even bring back dead people but who would believe something like that.

The next one was about the Traveller. The report told about a person, who appears in old runes and it looks like he is searching for something. It is not known who he is or what he searches for but he is extremely strong.

The last report that picked my interest was about the A ranked adventurer Darkness. It is said that he raised his rank in only 1 and a half year from F to A rank. That achievement is unbelievable and even S rank adventurers wouldn’t be able to accomplish it.

I always tell myself that after seeing the black continent, I will reveal the mysteries of those other rumours and reports. Before I would be able though, I will need to train so I can beat the person who hinders my path.