Chapter 317: The Evolution of Eldrax
Chapter 317: The Evolution of Eldrax
"Oh… You're back," Nagasawa said as she saw Dante suddenly appear in the middle of the Palace of Aldria.
But her face... was far from happy... at least, not as usual. She felt a dark aura surrounding him... She didn't know where he had been, didn't know what he had done, but it was clear he wasn't in the mood to talk about it... Still, she asked.
"Did something happen?" she inquired, and Dante gave a crooked smile as he approached and gently stroked her white hair. "Maybe I need to tame a certain White-Winged Dove," he said, almost in a moment of anger. But was everything okay? Who knows, this man seemed to be nothing but trouble...
"Ahhh!!" A scream of rage... Well, on the other hand, it seemed like something was happening near where Dante was, so he looked in that direction and sensed familiar auras. "Is she still stuck in that stupid mindset of wanting to be stronger and feeling inferior?" Dante asked, looking at Nagasawa, who, well… This time it was her turn to give a crooked smile.
"Ahh… Seriously, sometimes I think I need to learn to be more communicative... Because it's impossible that what I say is so contrary to what you all understand," Dante said, frustrated... Why? Because that idiot woman didn't understand what he meant!
"Well… It's not just Aaralyn..." Nagasawa murmured, and Dante's eyes widened as he quickly expanded his aura throughout the imperial capital.
"Shit..." he muttered. When he had gathered with them a few hours ago, he hadn't noticed, but... all of them… "How did you all get so strong?!" Dante asked, not understanding what was going on.
In truth... it wasn't just Aaralyn who was training... no, far from it... When Dante ordered them to train, it was something extremely serious for all of them... Dante didn't need to train, but they did? They were at a point where if they didn't train, they'd be useless...
It wasn't just Aaralyn who was overdoing it... all of them... Each one of them was in an internal struggle to become even stronger versions of themselves...
"No... Something's wrong..." Dante murmured, sensing the monstrous auras of every woman in that place...
Aaralyn was one... She was much stronger than any of the Demon Kings Dante had dealt with in Hell, and she had been one of the weakest until recently... But the problem wasn't her growth... Dante already knew about Aaralyn's Shadow Technique, so it was obvious she would evolve quickly... But...
The aura coming from Vex... felt like a nuclear bomb of power... She was at least twice as strong as when he had turned her into a full-fledged Succubus, and the same thing was happening with Velryna, Sara, Lyrianna, and Aldria.
"What the hell happened here?" he questioned, but suddenly... A massive aura emerged from a nearby training field... For a moment, Dante confused it with Morgana's aura, but Morgana wasn't here, was she? Of course not!
"Sorry, dear, I'll be right back," Dante said, disappearing into the flames. "He must have felt the old dragon..." Nagasawa murmured, then shrugged and headed towards where they were...
Dante appeared in a training field that looked more like a war zone, and there were two dragons who seemed to be holding back their transformations into beasts just two meters tall... Voralith had awakened Angelic Feathered Wings in her Dragon transformation, while the other one...
Didn't resemble the old Eldrax at all...
The Dragon was stronger, more muscular, its scales were dark with purplish touches like obsidian, its wings were clearly stronger and more imposing, and on its forehead, a small purple gem like amethyst... The transformation wasn't what Dante was interested in knowing about, to him, she was beautiful no matter what, but... why...
"Why is her aura ten times stronger?" Dante asked, interrupting the Dragons, who seemed to be communicating telepathically. Voralith turned her face to Dante and simply said, "She came of age... forcefully..." she commented, and Dante's eyes widened...
Coming of age as a Dragon... isn't like for Humans; for a Dragon to reach maturity, it takes at least a thousand years in the rarest cases... The norm is between 5,000 to 7,000 years, when they absorb everything their ancestors left behind... But Eldrax... has no ancestors, and the only one who has taught her so far... was Voralith.
Dante couldn't even understand how she had done this, and he was a dragon progenitor; he should know, but... "That's impossible," he declared. For him, knowing that he was someone who theoretically understood the entire concept of a Dragon, if he deemed it impossible, then well... it was impossible...
But there's that saying... everything is impossible until proven otherwise... And at this moment, he was really being tested by the world, this was just... surreal.
If it were that easy, there would be many more dragons in the world... But well... "She's different," Voralith said and looked at Dante seriously as her glowing scales disappeared, and she returned to her humanoid form. "She connected to my memories, copied and absorbed everything while we fought."
"While they were fighting?" Dante seemed even more incredulous; to do something like that... "She said she just remembered something her mother had told her, and when she did... she absorbed everything." Voralith's explanation simply didn't make sense...
"I think it's better if she explains," Voralith said as she looked at the dragon, which began to shrink until it became... a woman.
She had previously been just a girl of about eighteen years old, slim with few feminine features... But now... she had completely changed again.
Her hair was long, reaching down to her backside, and her body was as charming as the older women Dante had relationships with, like Valentina, Morgana, and Nagasawa. Full breasts, wide hips that defied common sense, not to mention her abundant backside... her features were also even more striking, calm and silent, but with a strong and intimidating gaze, and he noticed... Asian traits.
"El-Eldrax?" Dante questioned, he could barely associate her previous appearance with this one; it was as if she were a completely different person...
"Well, probably yes? I mean, you were the one who gave me that name, so you should know me, right?" Eldrax questioned, crossing her arms and pouting... even her personality seemed sharper than he was used to. "Okay, this... is bizarre," Dante said, looking at Voralith, who shrugged, "This is your fault," she said nonchalantly.
"What do you mean, it's my fault? Besides, why is it always my fault?" Dante questioned, but the one who responded now...
"You've been ignoring me and treating me like a child, you didn't even see me as a woman," Eldrax said, much more seriously than he expected, and then continued. "I simply got tired of always being seen as a child, so I became a real adult," she said as if it were nothing...
To the Dragon Progenitor, who in all these thousands of years had never seen anything like this!
But he didn't even have time to think...
"Just call me your wife already and love me, I'm tired, okay? I worked hard to learn everything!" she shouted, making Dante's face contort a bit from the force of the wind she generated...
"Hey! I'm not deaf!" Dante shouted back at her, almost sending her flying back just like him...
"They look like two children," Voralith commented, "Just take her as your wife so we can finish this, I can't stand her talking about wanting to possess you and those perverted things anymore. You should punish Vex later, okay? She's the one to blame here," Voralith said impatiently while looking at Dante and Eldrax, who stared back at her with completely neutral expressions...
"Dante! It looks like it's time!" Dante heard a shout coming from inside the palace, it was Velryna who was waving at him, "There's a portal here!" she called out, and Dante smiled, "It seems we have to go, my lovely wives." Dante said, turning to Voralith and Eldrax, who gave a shy but victorious smile.
He walked with the two dragonesses by his side as they headed towards the palace when...
"So, it seems the time has come..." Aldria murmured; she seemed a little nervous and anxious to participate in this meeting of rulers... Well, it was her first time, so it made sense that she felt nervous and anxious.
"Just try to behave, don't say anything until you're asked, withhold any information until Dante speaks," Lyrianna said, now truly looking like the Ruler of the Eastern Continent...
"Let's just follow the initial plan. It's time to pay back what was done," Nagasawa said, clearly thinking about her personal revenge against the two who were still missing...
Appearing, Dante just smiled, seeing that they were genuinely excited. "Those who aren't going, stay alert to what's going to happen; I believe this issue will be broadcast worldwide... so stay alert, Simon will open a portal straight to Kryoris if things get out of control," Dante said, and then he looked at a tree by the window.
"My love, will you come here?" Dante said, and a branch extended, forming a woman, "Can you come with me to another world? Or do the trees of the world have these restrictions?"
Fey looked at him and nodded, transforming her body into a kind of leaf bracelet that wrapped around his wrist. "This way I can go... but my power is limited to 10%," she commented.
Before they could continue, a Light Elf appeared...
"Is everything ready?" Dante questioned, and the Elf nodded... "Then, it's time to begin," Dante said, smiling.