(no novel)

"Hey, cut me loose." A scrawny, tied up frail old man opened his eyes and asked politely from the ground.

The middle-aged man wearing a battered red scaled armor with white hair mixing on his black beard smiled, albeit, with a bit of guilt.

He spoke.

"Stop whining. It's just starting over, think positively, you get to solve past regrets like not taking good care of your teeth, or not starting to work out sooner. And in your case, avoiding impotence."

"Haa," the scrawny man sighed. "As expected from a short-dicked dragon emperor, your past regrets are as majestic as yourself-- I'm impotent by option by the way."

"Yes sure, I believe in you."

The Middle-aged man put the tied up bag of bones over his shoulder and took a deep breath.

A sudden boom rang out hundreds of meters away from then. The scrawny man felt the man's shoulder tremble.

"...What happened there?" He asked.

The man in red armor laughed with a hint of despair in his voice. Then jumped down a wide set of the golden stairway.

"We proceeded with the plan, you guess what happened." His voice was rough, holding emotions in.

The scrawny man cackled with derision and anger. "This is incredible. The last war-god that is alive; The red orc Lola, The strongest immortal mage; Merlin. and you, the lizard emperor, regent of the strongest alliance. The three of you managed to meet, discuss and agree on the following -- 'Oh, let's send the weakest from us, the only human, back in time. He can do it!' Fuck you! That's dumb! It doesn't make any sense! You should be the one going!"

The old dragon simply smiled."I could, I really want to, as well. Lola was also interested, we even discussed it for a bit. But you know Merlin, the asshole has to be the voice of reason every damn time. So he said 'It has to be him.' He said a bunch of reasons, but you're an asshole and I don't want to flatter you."

As the words left his mouth he reached the bottom of the stairs and threw the scrawny old thing in front of him inside a blue circle.

The tied up man looked around. Dragons, of all kind, some colossal, some small as dogs. All silently lying down with closed eyes.

"They are my predecessors, in their last moments they come here, and let go of themselves, can you feel the mana concentration? that's their dragon heart if I explode that in the enemy's midst half of our enemies would be gone."

The scrawny man sternly looked at lizard friend. "There's still time for you and me to change places, I can't do it, even if the spell goes right, My mind is riddled with every possible issue a madman can have, Even if I go back, I won't have the patience in me to just go on and lead."

The Dragon-Emperor just smirked and extended his hands. Two corpses appeared between them. A Tall female Orc with faded red skin, riddled with scars, and an ancient old man with a long beard.

The scrawny man remembered The Wargod Orc woman saying in her stoic voice, 'I use this kind of exposing armor to show off my scars. Modest gods are hypocrites.'

'They are not hypocrites, you're just too proud' he thought and swallowed his anguish.

The dragon emperor pointed at the ancient looking man beside her. At Merlin.

"He prepared everything. When he took a trace of your soul and knocked you out. He put s trigger in your mind. When I activate the spell, your memories will be isolated, while your conscience will restore to your time. Solving the mental issues you developed in these thousand years of solitude. When your natural awakening happens, your own memories will come back. Then you have to go on to become strong so you can unlock Merlin's magic knowledge, Lola's battle arts, and my leading Methods. Our memories were shoved and isolated in your head too. Any question?"

A sudden boom resounded and everything trembled.

They both ignored it.

Through clenched teeth, The scrawny man spoke

"How did you got their corpse?"

The dragon lord laughed with derision. "My eldest led my dragon clan on a fake runaway attempt. Merlin transferred his and Lola's consciousness into two clones and followed so the enemy would pursue with full force. My people, my only wife, daughter, and son died in a disgraceful tactic, so I could use my friends' corpses as a mana source to send my last friend, on a mission so impossible that any god would laugh at it thinking it's a bad joke."

Hearing the whole plan, The scrawny man looked up, he wanted to say, that restoring his mind to that point might be even worse, that even if he had all of their memories, keeping his own planet from destruction is an absurd mission in itself, thinking about helping the universe is pure nonsense. But he held it in, they were already there. so he might as well insult him like a friend.

"Now that I think about it, what kind of bonafide Dragon emperor whose nature is to hoard treasures and enjoy beauties, engages in a monogamous relationship? As expected, everything you do ends up reflecting your short-dick complex."

The old dragon emperor laughed. "If I did another woman, she'd do another man, then I would've had to kill that man, it's a lot of trouble for a night of fun."

He said and wielded his golden ancient sword. The dragon emperor looked at his friend in the eyes.

"Remember this, the reason for your- for our failure, is that you denied your nature."

He sank the sword on the blue formation under their ground.

"You have the nature of a beast but you denied it. You cut everything a beast is. You made yourself impotent, so you wouldn't desire to mate. You made your body weak so you couldn't fight. And chose to master time and space magic because you didn't want to make irreversible mistakes. You sawed away your claws and fangs. And lastly, you lived alone to avoid doing harm to those around you. All that, did more bad than good. Heroes are fantasy, only a beast can twist it's enemy's neck and win the war.

When you go back in time, all those things you did to yourself will come back, and what I, Merlin and Lola want, is simple, accept yourself. You're a beast, a whimsical, violent and hungry, beast. But with a heart big enough to stand up and fight for what matters."

The ground trembled and the sky-high ceiling exploded into smithereens

"Dragon emperor Ryou Zo, for the crimes of uniting all the remaining beasts into a three galaxy army and going against the Lord's will, I hereby, sentence you to die" A voice nonchalantly came from above.

Ryou Zo Then smiled his last smile and spoke his last words.

"Davi Reis, save yourself, own and protect your people, then gather us four again, only then we might have a chance."

His body, together with Merlin and Lola's body, together with every ancient dragon in place, All exploded on a wave of mana that nobody had seen before.

Davi looked up. The mana became a colossal tornado and was sucked in by the spell formation. There wasn't time to even glance at his enemies. his conscience started to weaken, Davi thought of how he would go about this absurd mission.

Memories of old surfaced in his mind making him smile. If he were to own up to what nature made him out to be, then there's a way that fit his nature.

A table game popped into his mind. "Monopoly...I just have to conquer and own everything." He cackled evilly "I'll save the world by dominating it as a wealthy tycoon."