Temporal Pearls

Humans were always known to create something but whatever they created against special beasts it was useless. That was to say, Nuke can never kill a dragon, but if the nuke has some essence from enchantment or influence from some beast bloodline or even the blessing of a tamed beast, that is when the dragon can be killed.

There were other solutions but the above were mainstream and well-known. However, it was never enough. Humans might be able to proliferate faster than dragons but not as fast as Sapient Ants, a fierce race of Ant.

And a single dragon can massacre millions in just an hour. So, the greatest solution humans ever got was Temporal Ability, the ability to function with aspects of time.

No one knows how it came but many speculated it was a gift from the world to balance the equation.

Temporal Ability can directly give a person the ability to manipulate time but that was very dangerous and not everyone can do so. So, the basic ability was to grant wishes within a period of time.

Dave, known as Fratile Redone, has once soloed a dragon alone and escaped. What happened at that moment was that he bought 10 Seconds of survivability. In that 10 seconds, the dragon can't, no matter how he tried, kill him.

He also was able to reverse time, if it related to his death. He can also create a halo of force and become immune to dragon pressure.

He can also teleport. The teleportation worked in a way that if he wished to be in a certain place, and he knows the road and there will be no absolute obstacle, then he can calculate the time taking for him to reach if he ran at his fast speed, then he paid that corresponding time and then he appeared there.

As Zambia was explaining, somehow Seth was able to comprehend all that Dave did around him with his Temporal Warrior ability.

Zambia too has something similar but different due to different comprehension.

"No Temporal Warrior who can affect time directly exists without the use of tools and other artefacts or sacrificing something," Zambia emphasized.

"I can spend some seconds and buy unlimited Stamina, strength or even intelligence within that amount of time. However, it can never be 5× more than the surrounding humans but against extraordinary creatures like dragons, the rule was to keep up and not surpass them!"

"Me, frozen time was due to this Hourglass, it's a permanent artefact that is priceless. Before, I usually sacrificed my other equipment."

"And this is the currency!" He showed Seth the number on his hand. The digital clock read 10:00:00. "One thing is, as long as I have a "Second" unused, I'm immortal. But severing my head will use that off to heal me and then another cut will kill me!"

"Yeah. You are scary. This is cheating!" Seth said. The other player never heard the complete explanation and now that they do, they were looking at Zambia with reverence.

"It's a cheat. But the catch was the fuel. To get a single currency, I need to wait for 24 hours. The currency here means one second! That is normal growth and I don't know if I can reduce that!"

"Yes, but that one second is enough to escape Baby dragon if you wished to!" Juma said.

"Yeah, but you know the danger, right."

"So, can you also get bloodline and other abilities!"

"Of course but with a rule that I still don't know. And… Levelling up is not that simple. It's weird and to tell the truth, I only level up twice after getting the class. So, it's amazing but with slow growth and unknown stagnated possibilities!"

They talk for some time before the rest of the players decide that they trust Seth enough to activate their aura.

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Seth checked the 87 people that he helped activate their Aura with a smile. Now he only needs 13 people to unlock the title. Not only that, as he can see their mood, Seth was able to discern their intention on him.

Another thing was, each one of them has + Positivity toward him. That carved away the animosity some had toward him. That doesn't mean they all like him. But there were five people that he couldn't read, Rena, Zero and Zambia. Their intention was the most neutral it could be as if they can't think of anything about him.

'They can mask their intentions. Ash has nothing but curiosity about me! Fist is wary of me!' Seth concluded but when he looked at Zambia that just came in, his left hand had grown back.

No one asked how, as everyone knew he might have spent some currency to regenerate his hand.

"She is here!" Zambia said to seth. He stood with a sigh and walked outside while the rest of the players followed him, the player also walked forward to say goodbye.

"Perhaps the dragon should take the two of us and then bring us back for more safety!" Seth said to Juma.

"Nope. I and Zambia protect these people!" She said, there was no intention of helping him and it's as if she doesn't care at all what happened to him.

Seth was just probing to see if he might be a bit important to her or the rest but he still felt a bit sad, they won't like to volunteer and come with him. Not that he wants that to happen because he has his plans too.

Seth and the rest stood and watched as Zambia explained to the Dragon what he was told. And she looked interested as she stared at seth.

'If he can survive the Adult dragon doesn't that mean he can fight this one? So, what is his motive for wing obedient?' Seth wondered.

The dragon nodded and Zambia turned to him. "Move closer to her!" Seth nodded, he turned and looked at the people around as he checked their intention on him, that was when he noticed some players were genuinely worried and almost all of the villages were concerned.

He flashed them a smile and waved at them before he walked forward and stood before the dragon.

It happened fast, as his eyes blurred and he found himself seeing the stars above before he was dropped on the sand. Where she took him, 100m before Living Root

And she stared at him, seth looked at his home and then walked another way. His heart beat with a bit of fear and also ran his plan in his head while also having second thoughts about doing what he was planning until he just decided he would not do it. That was when he felt at ease.

He looked back and found the beautiful plump dragon floating just meters behind him. She was a little bigger than Vela but Vela is more graceful. While this one has more pronounced scales and a strong body.

There was this shimmering, like constant drumming if it scales. As for the wings, they were arranged with scales shaped like a wing on its back. The scales have nothing connecting them.

The journey was slow but eventually, they went around the forest and set course toward the Vela Dragon cave.

And they reached there. Seth felt pressure pressed on him and all the abhorrent around exploded to mist. And then the dragon flashed inside the cave.

Seth walked steadily inside too, he found the sanctuary inscriptions recovering and he wondered why. Nonetheless, Seth went deeper and found the dragon looking around, snipping and its wing scales scanning the areas Vela had bled.

Seth took a deep breath and said, 'It's now or never!'

~Vela is in Living Roots~

The dragon froze in shock and was about to move when a pressure comparable to an Adult dragon slammed on her. She was flattened to the ground and all her 40 scanning scales dropped down.

At the same time, a blade strike passed through her neck. Also, a chain sprang from the ground and wrapped around her neck and turned into a rusty collar and pulled her down.

Seth concentrated and archived Mighty Speech.

~Yyou aare forbidden to aattack mmme~

Seth's throat became sour.

[2 minutes of speech deprivation]

The dragon became still as she glared at Seth. And Seth pointed his blade and shot as many elevated strikes as he felt necessary. Each one was enchanted by his aura just like when he faced the Chief Yellow Monster.

The blood of the dragon flowed out and filled the little pool Vela used to curl inside.

The chains broke and the dragon tried to stand but failed, Seth has aimed for its joints and tendons. Not to mention it's bleeding out more due to his red stripe influence.

Her pressure increased, without the cloak, Seth will have been flattened to the floor but he isn't. If not the feeling of weight on his shoulder, there was nothing.

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