CHAPTER 42: COLLATERAL DAMAGE TO THE AREA

Young RYU's face pales, his gaze overshadowed, reflects guilt.

Within him, the desire to flee is born... as it always has... instead of staying, as DRAKE always did.

You know it's not the time for comparisons, but you can't help it.

SHURUI is approaching RYU.

The leaders of the other villages arrived, most had to be divided into return and some of them stayed in the villages they saw on the way that asked for help by the chimneys of the large area.

That's how they find out that many humans were affected.

Some didn't survive extreme heat, some of them did.

They assimilated the power of the area and have been regaining consciousness.

They have no choice but to meet and appoint new councillors to take care of management.

Of the survivors, 90% are young.

There are very few experienced protectors.

And they're the ones you have to name, they're the ones who know how to deal with the situation.

All the leaders know what followed the death of King YONGHÉNG.

They'd already talked about it.

They know RYU is their successor.

Although YONGHÉNG was confident that this undisciplined young man could lead a kingdom, the young man before them is only a lost child.

He has no apparent qualities to deserve such an honor.

He has disobeyed every ban he has been imposed on him, except that if he has done his job, and although he sometimes escaped, he was always up to date.

This last fact is the only thing in your favor.

Only, a kingdom is not something you can attend to with plenty of time or impromptu tasks.

Only time will tell.

And in the mean there, he doesn't prove otherwise, they'll lead for him.

This was requested by YONGHÉNG.

In the affected villages, large pits have been made to bury the dead.

Many people have lost their loved ones... despite suffering burns, their bodies have been astonishingly healed.

The magic of the area has invaded their bodies in various ways, people who have survived, are having adaptation problems and this is affecting them mentally.

Some are developing fire that comes from their hands or with the breath of their mouth.

Some generate electricity with just a little friction.

Others are developing deformity of some of their limbs in the form of sharp claws and very long fingers.

Others can transfer tangible material, including your clothes.

Some of them, you can dematerialize in sight or touch.

Some like ESTHER, they can contaminate and wither things, that's what he found out, touching an apple he was going to eat.

The water he was going to drink became murky, however, when he polluted and withered, his body was nourished as if he had eaten it.

It's taken time to assimilate this new power.

In the village of PANDORA, several people have survived.

It's a chilling thing for her to see those terribly burned people recover in an amazing way and develop skills.

Not all of them went well, though.

There was an elderly man who survived only to begin to melt as if it were mud, slowly derailing without pain until it became a liquid that was spilled on the ground and that were covered with soil.

For PANDORA it is not something new to have a power, she herself since childhood developed the uniqueness of killing just by touching people and it is curious that right now that power has not presented itself, fears that it has changed since she survived this new streak of events in the large area.

He feels strange his body, as if tingling inside but has not noticed an apparent change.

She follows the directions of the caregivers and seems almost imperceptible, but, at every step she takes, she accelerates the growth of the grass she is stepping on.

All are being taken to wagons that have prepared for their transfer to the dragon cave.

PANDORA astonished, smiles illused.

You'll finally be able to see RYU.

A thought crosses his mind.

If humans are going to be taken to the dragon cave... what happened?

Why the sudden change?

The answer to those questions terrifies you... and opens up one more concern... what happened to RYU?

Wait anxiously until you've filled the wagons and started the journey.

The advice made with the squad leaders of the villages, is the one in charge at the moment, do not mention the details.

They agreed to gather all species.

Now they are more vulnerable than ever, their kingdom, their life and prosperity have been devastated in just a few minutes.

Long minutes in which the protectors were outnumbered by hundreds of times and yet died defending their home.

There's too much heartbreak in sight.

The dragons have sealed the two caverns that keep the bodies of their friends.

The protectors who came first are making make makeshift ceilings to protect people like makeshift tents.

Carts from villages in various locations are on their way.

And, on the mountain of dragons, there's still some uncontrollability.

There are too many wounded, too many doubts and the conflict that is about to arise when the species coexist, now included the inhabitants of the mountain with the humans who had been isolated.

They do not know the reaction of both species, especially the wary dragons.

The kingdom's population has fallen by 20 percent.

Composed of dragons.

And of which, there are fewer than 50 dragons alive, most were village watchers.

The first wagons arrive.

Those who have been human carers, being dragons, are the ones who will protect them, taking care that the dragons, inhabitants of the mountain do not approach them, might want to attack them.

As soon as they arrive, they are placed in the area that was improvised.

Humans go down and settle down with their no belongings.

After about 6 hours, the wagons coming from the village of ESTHER arrive, she looks anxiously around, looking for RYU.

END OF CHAPTER 42