Usurping the throne Part-4

Pride…

It was the only word that could capture the very essence of dragons.

Pride was their lifeblood, their reason, the core of everything they stood for.

Their pride was so towering, so indomitable, that they would go to unimaginable lengths to protect it.

Anyone who dared to wound that pride would be facing a wrath so intense, it would turn dragons into mindless beasts, blind with fury and thirsting for vengeance.

However...

There was something else that all creatures held within them, something buried deep beneath scales and power. That thing was.... fear!

Fear.... the one element no creature, no matter how mighty, could fully escape.

Even the proud dragons hid their fear, concealing it beneath layers of bluster and confidence, masking it with their unyielding pride.