Recruiting a Grandmaster

"Where did you get this?" the Dragon was shaking at the presence of the Soul stone.

Soul stones like the name suggest containing the soul energy of a powerful being. They were extremely valuable and rare. It has the ability to restore the user's life energy. The healing potions on the other hand, could only heal the physical wounds it couldn't heal if the damage had been done to the soul(life essence), unlike the soul stone.

"There are so many things you don't know about me" Don sent the crystal floating towards the Dragon as it gently placed the egg in its hands on the ground and looked at the crystal without batting an eyelid.

Even though the crystal could heal her, the dragon was still hesitating to use the crystal because the dragons were noble race and wouldn't like to be indebted to others. Don could see the hesitation of the Dragon in its eyes.

"I'm not giving it to you as free, you can think about this as an exchange " Don said as the Dragon looked confused

"Exchange for what?"

Don carefully chose his words in his mind for a moment before saying anything

"As you know I have my revenge to get, to do that I need every powerful being like you I can get"

The Dragon didn't need much explanation as she already got the point of the human before her

"You need me to fight for you, don't you? But what if I kill you and take the stone for myself"

The Dragon's body started to shine as the wisps coming towards Don became hotter.

"You can't because I have someone waiting to teleport me away in a flash when I want and also you cant fight me with your child beside you, the force of our attacks could easily kill the child inside the shell"

"Hahaha" the Dragon let out a laugh when it heard Don as the shine emanated from its body gradually faded away

"You are indeed a careful one successor but I have some conditions if you want me to fight for you?"

She already knew she was in no position to negotiate but she had a feeling that this human would be reasonable, unlike the previous Dragon King.

"What do you want?" Don calmly asked the Dragon because he knew even the elves had shown some resistance to serve under him let alone a noble arrogant Dragon like this one.

"First I want my child to be released from the guardian line I want my child to be free"

Don would never make someone serve him against their wishes, he was already confused at the fact how did the Dragon King made the Dragons serve him and protect the dwarves all these times, it was like a master-slave bond and Don thoroughly hated and disgusted to be a master of someone.

It's something his heart never let him even though he and Arrora shared the master-slave bond he didn't treat her like a slave, not even a bit.

Of course, he beat her during the training but it was training and he would never hit her for fun like Minister Bryan.

"Next I won't kill innocent people and you can't make me do anything against my wishes"

Don looked at the Dragon for any further conditions but the Dragons didn't say anything else as it looked back at him waiting for his answer.

After a moment of thinking about the conditions, Don made his choice

"As the heir of the Dragon King I, Don accept all your conditions"

Don placed his one hand on his chest and swore to the Dragon.

Seeing Don swore the Dragon was visibly happy for her and her child as she took the soul stone in her hands and felt the energy the stone is radiating.

After a few moments the Dragon took the soul stone, the light it was emanating slowly started to fade away as the Dragon's golden scales regained their shininess and the previous tiredness and exhaustion in the Dragon's eyes disappeared and it looked very healthy and full of life.

"How do you feel?" Don asked the Dragon who now had a happy smile on its face.

"Great although it couldn't fully restore my magic level it did help me restore my life essence "

The Dragon was checking on its body and wings while he said

"What level were you before giving birth?" Don asked without holding back his curiosity.

"I was at the mid heavenly level now it seems I'm just a mid grandmaster"

Don almost coughed up blood when he heard the Dragon saying just a mid grandmaster because he knew how rare and powerful a grandmaster is yet this Dragon seems to be looking down on the grandmaster level, also he couldn't help but wonder how powerful was the Dragon King because just a small part of the soul he left behind was equal to heavenly level magi.

Despite all of this Don was very happy to get a grandmaster level being in his army, with the help of this Dragon he could conquer most of the small kingdoms and cities easily but now he had to know the name of this Dragon.

"How may I address you?"

The Dragon stopped checking itself when it heard Don and looked at him before saying its name

"You are in the presence of the mighty Reghys the lady of the skies successor" the Dragon proudly introduced herself as Don could see the real nature of the Dragon is emerging the desperate helpless dragon Don saw a moment ago was now nowhere to be found.

"Ok Reghys we have to leave this place I can take the wealth here with us if you allow "

Reghys shook her head and giggled a little when she heard Don

"You humans are sure greedy take much as you can I'm more of a knowledge-seeking girl unlike my ance..."

Her speech was halted and her eyes went wide in surprise when she saw mountains of wealth around her disappearing into the light that comes from Don's hand. In a few moments, all the wealth around her was nowhere to be found as only an empty floor and her egg was there.

"How much space do you have in your space ring?" Even though she cared less about the gold and wealth she was very upset when she saw the empty floor around her but she shook her head in regret of saying take much as you can to a freak like Don.

"Don't worry I'll put this all in the castle's treasury you can get much as you want"

Don said after realizing that he heard stories about the greedy nature of Dragons to horde themselves the gold and shiny things but when he saw the wide eyes on Reghys face he was glad of saying so.

Reghys just slightly nodded without saying anything because she decided to choose her words carefully the next time she wants to talk to Don.

"Let's go outside Reghys the dwarves are waiting for me"

At the moment outside Knight was yawning and waiting for Don to come back from the cave with Uncle Dior beside him. He could see the dwarves standing there and watching the cave entrance without even moving anywhere.

During the time of Don's absence, some dwarven children would wave their hands at him and talk among them while looking at him with curiosity.

Some dwarven women would glance at him from time to time but they will just look away in fear when Knight looks back at them.

Knight wanted to contact Don through the Khal but before he could do anything the ground shuddered beneath him like something big coming stepping towards them as he looked at the dark cave entrance.

Uncle Dior beside Knight was also looking at the cave entrance as the ground shook more and more as the time went by. After a few seconds of looking at the cave entrance, Uncle Dior saw something. He could see two bright blood-red lights coming from the cave.

"Guardian!!" the dwarves shouted and knelt when they realized the red light was the eyes of their guardian, the Dragon Reghys. A few feets away from the cave entrance, Knight's jaw dropped in surprise when he saw the mighty beast at the entrance. He saw some pictures of the Dragon race when he was in the divine continent but this was the first time he's seen one in real life.

"Dra... Dragon" Knight's thoughts were disrupted when he heard Uncle Dior beside him mumbling as he turned to see Uncle Dior shivering and trembling in fear.

"Guardian, why did ye come out?" the Oldman asked Reghys, Reghys didn't say anything as it signaled them towards the cave entrance. The dwarves were confused at Reghys but they realized what she was signaling them when they saw Don stepping outside from the dark cave.

But before the dwarves or the Oldman could say anything Reghys said

"The human is indeed the heir of the Dragon King, I could feel the energy of his mark on Don's body"

The Old man was shocked when he heard Reghys as he stared Don a few minutes then he dropped on his one knee before him followed by Stodmer and his group and in a few moments, every dwarf around him dropped on their one knee and bowed their heads toward Don.

At this moment only two words echoed through the mountains

"My King"