2 Reborn.

Green Mountains, Tiger Kingdom.

It was a happy day for King Ivan Tigris as his first wife and Queen of the the kingdom was soon going to give birth to his second child. He had been on the throne for 8 years and married the orphaned duchess, Leona Lubov as his first wife. They had both been in love ever since Ivan saved her grandfather when he had a heart attack after hearing the news of her parents death.

Thier first child, Viktor Tigris, was a healthy boy who started showing his talent by being a fast learner at the age of 5. Now at 7 years of age, he was already rank 2 and had started to learn Stickfighting. For some reason he did not like swords, lances or spears and he had quite the talent in using the stick, though it was hard finding a teacher for him. He had yet to show interest in managing any sort of business or land. But as he was still very young it wasn't that strange to not be interested in management.

Back to Ivan. He noticed that ever since the child in Leona's womb, which the doctors and priestess believed was another boy, showed signs of activity, she started acting strange. She grew stronger, had a bigger appetite. Her eyesight and hearing improved. The biggest shock was when she started discharging impurities from her body at regular intervals. Though many practitioners went through this, he and leona had already passed this period. He was astonished and happy at the same time, since after the impurities were discharged her rank increased to reach peak of rank 9. The increase in rank would definitely increase the chances of a successful birth.

Ivan had already decided the name of the boy. Since Viktor was very promising, Ivan had high hopes for his second son and seeing what happened to his wife, he was even more excited.

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The weather was very calm, barely any clouds or wind. Ivan was waiting outside his room for a few hours now. Viktor was sitting on his lap and was very anxious hearing his mother screaming every few minutes. Suddenly a deep rumble sounded outside the castle and at the same time every child started crying. Ivan also heard crying inside his room, though he wanted to know what caused the rumble, he was too distracted by the crying. There was still not a single cloud in the sky, even though everyone in the world heard the rumble.

When the door finally opened, Ivan rushed inside with Viktor and saw his wife holding a baby in her arms. The boy was crying very loudly while clutching his mother's finger. He did not stop until he fell asleep while holding his mother's finger. The nurses, maids and Priestess finally relaxed after seeing the baby sleep. Ivan also relaxed and let Viktor down from his arms and got closer to his wife. The priestess informed him that she was only tired and nothing was wrong with the mother and the child. He cradled the boy in his arms and said loudly : "Vlad, his name is Vlad Tigris, the second son of Ivan Tigris"

The maids, nurses and the priestess congratulated Ivan and left the room.

When all of this was happening, the world outside was quite calm, to mortals, if there was an immortal or someone close to immortality, they would see a gigantic, world size dragon completely made of black lightning looking towards the direction of the tiger kingdom's castle before suddenly dissipating into a surprisingly miniscule amount of black particles. The black particles rushed towards the newly born Vlad and entered his head before being completely absorbed by his brain. While on the other corner of the world, the tail end of the dragon turned into a drop of dark purple reddish viscous liquid and fell down on a sleeping pregnant woman and was absorbed into the womb and into the developing embryo.

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When Vlad first opened his eyes, the castle was surprised to find that his eye color was blue since everyone else in the family had either golden, yellow or different shades of golden yellow eyes. His mother had green eyes. Many commoners believed that the stronger the golden color of the Tigris family's eye the closer they were to their first king's bloodline. Though the bloodlines themselves did not play any role in the talent of the individual, it was more of a symbol and hence many commoners believed in it.