168 I like to be alive and don'st want to be dead

"Such weakness, it is no wonder they were so small." Looking at the now cold corpse of the last remaining drake, she couldn't help but feel disgusted by her death. A mere human girl, a young one, had managed to keep her life suffering a pain only slightly softer and weaker. But she was just a human, nothing as strong as a drake. However, apparently, her will was like an iron fortress compared to the one of that monster.

In fact, what the large creature experienced was attacking almost exclusively her mind and soul, barely meddling with the sensations of the body. But as consumed with fear as she was, the female drake did not manage to survive the ordeal, preferring to stop struggling. That was why Leilade was so much disappointed, clearly not expecting such behavior from a distant relative of the dragons.

The mark that should have been imprinted on her chest was almost done, but with the death of the host, the shadows and the fire were beginning to fade away. It was the quickest way to erase the soul of a relatively powerful being, as the small girl had to estimate once more if the dead thing in front of her could even be called powerful. Grabbing the corpse anyway, she explored a bit the cave, only to find out some food and a small pond of water in the back of it.

Only by searching a bit more did she found out a few crystals that barely had any mana in them. Compared to the treasure of the wyverns, it was obvious those drakes were not even worth considering in the same sentence. Even their memories barely had anything interesting. Besides hunting, mating and escaping when seeing a large shadow in the sky, they were boring.

The only thing remotely good she learned was the fact that they attacked a few times the dwarves that traveled between the mountains. Even if the territory of the dwarves was mainly composed of one big chain of mountains, there were still dozens of them that were completely isolated or too far away. Like the Forbidden Mountain, which was still at many days of travel from the real frontier of the Iron Kingdom.

However, besides knowing she had once more helped those half men, it was still useless for her. Leaving the place, she directly decided to go to the breeding grounds of the dragons and letting the small fry live a bit longer. Remembering the location of what was called, Clear Peak, the only detail she knew about it was that it was the highest point of all the mountains. So high that even the clouds could not obscure it, as a sea of them could be spotted from there.

There were still a few other summits where the same scene could be seen, but none was completely occupied by the dragons. Floating upward, even more, she passed through the few clouds that were blocking the stars in that night, basking fully in the moonlight. There, she proceeded to create a few ghosts, to speed up the process. Even if she had a relative idea of where she was, with the near presence of the Skasa, it was not to the point where she could find her way immediately.

Waves of ethereal forms began to flood the dark sky, searching for something. Closing her eyes, Leilade began to patiently wait for an answer, as she focused fully on the many shadows lingering around her. Examine all of them, she searched any traces of an exterior intervention, mainly something that was bothering her in her soul. And if at first, nothing was found out, there was still a few irregularities that she immediately proceeded to remove. As she was beginning to do the same with the flow of mana in her body, one of her summons finally found the place.

With the sun beginning to rise, the dragons were slowly leaving their dens. Far above them, she could see why the dwarves were extremely worried about their numbers. With the fact that this race already had an extremely long life and was incredibly hard to kill, just the presence of 6 adults in the same location was definitely a threat.

The smallest of them was only 30 meters tall, without counting the length of his wings. As for the biggest, it was nearly the double, his blue scales shining under the sunlight. However, by seeing their shapes, she realized they were definitely not the most threatening variants of the dragons. Contrarily to the unwelcomed guest of the Vault of Souls, that smug dragon, they were extremely slim for their size. All their limbs were nimbler, but as a drawback, it was nowhere as thick as they could be.

Likewise, instead of having a rounder face or even a normal neck, their head was more similar to the one of a snake or a lizard, with an extended neck that could allow movements usually prevented by their skeleton. Trying to get on top of such a creature would only result in death, as it could always reach any part of its body. Even their tails were abnormally long, and she wouldn't be surprised if it was used to reach some tunnels dug by the dwarves.

Now she understood how they could repeatedly attack the outposts of the dwarves. As big and large they were, their thing limbs allowed them to grab anything that was only a few meters away from the entrance of the tunnel. At the same time, the reason why the gate she encountered near the fallen Kingdom of Pankow was preceded by a tunnel. Because that distance was enough to prevent the tails of the dragons to reach the dwarves.

However, even if they were not bulky or covered in spikes, they still remained part of one of the strongest races of the Universe. Without counting those horrors living in the empty space. Just a single one of them could probably crush the trio of wyverns she met or even more likely, the small group of drakes she just slaughtered.

Without any surprise, besides their slightly muddled minds, they quickly spotted her. Maybe the fact that she had the sun right behind her and was creating shadows large enough to cover part of it was the reason. If she wanted, she could even completely obscure the sun, and the more she thought about that, the more a part of her wanted to do it.

Soon after, an entire part of the summit was covered in darkness, as the sun was no longer visible. If the dragons were not capable of seeing this, that would mean they were truly blind. But instead of rushing at her, they just looked at the event with mild interest, before doing what they planned to do. Like it did not matter to them. Seeing the result far from being anything she expected, Leilade stopped wasting time and mana for nothing.

Even now, as she was approaching, the best she obtained was just a glance, like her very presence was completely invisible. Looking at her completely black hands, she was however certain she had nothing hiding her. This time, even she was beginning to wonder if they were dragons or something else. Otherwise, couldn't they just take her a bit more seriously.

"You, the dark soul. You are late." Caught by surprise, she saw the oldest of the dragon starring at her. Looking at him carefully, she could see he was probably older than her, something rare enough to be interesting. However, it also meant he probably was alive during the Age of Darkness and will have valuable information in his soul.

"What are you doing? Starring at someone else like that? Don't you know it lacks respect? Would you be happy if someone came into your house, perturbed your morning sunbath and starred at you like that?" Nagging like an old senile man, the dragon was clearly talking to her like she was just a kid. He even had the underline tone, that was particularly displeasing to the ears. The one saying he knew everything, while she was completely dumb.

"What do you mean by I am late?" Even then, she did not stop starring at him. After all, it was still very strange, as a situation. And how could he know that she would come here, how could he know something she hadn't planned at first? As for the other dragons, they treated her like she didn't exist at all.

"You are late. The small human said you would come in a few hundreds of year. He did not precise thousand of years. I almost thought he scammed me." Seeing the old creature still talking like he was the friendly and annoying elder of the neighborhood, the contents of his sentences were still extremely weird. But knowing fully well who was present on this world during that time, she also knew who came here first.

"How did he called me precisely?" The dragon paused for a second, clearly not expecting this question. Frowning, he tried to remember as it was a long time ago. "I think he called you little girl. And said you will be a completely black soul, besides your eyes and hair. On that point, he was extremely precise."

"So that's Candaith. What did he do to obtain the help of the dragons and at the same time, why did he train that Archmage?" Thinking about this, she did not notice the fact that the elderly monster was once again displeased by her.

"See, once more, a little disrespectful. Stopping a friendly discussion like that just to think. Anyway, he helped us so we promised to help him with a few things. And all he wanted was to transmit something to the future dark soul. That was it." Finishing to say that, he looked at the smallest dragon, that immediately began to standing up while complaining.

After that, the dragon entered one of the wide openings inside Clear Peak, to search for something. "It will not take a long time. So, little girl, do you have anything else to do? Can you let me sunbath in peace, and get rid of all those shadows that are blocking the sunlight?" Not knowing that he was also making Leilade angry, the old dragon did not even wait for her answer before slightly moving his large body. Just enough to not have a black soul between the sun and him.

Not happy to be called like that, Leilade also moved, to be in front of the lazy lizard. The latter looked at her, with the same expression he had since the beginning. "I found that a bit insulting. I just want to appreciate the day, but you don't even listen to me. I am very old, older than you for sure. Maybe you should listen to your elders. Ah, here it is."

Fortunately, before the situation worsened, the small dragon brought a completely red crystal. It was almost half the size of Leilade and when she grabbed it, she could feel it was also quite heavy. Carefully probing inside it, she found out a strange spell, buried deep inside. But because no mana was flowing inside the crystal, it was inactive.

"Did he said why I should have that?" More focused on the crystal, she did not saw the ancient dragon beginning to lash out on the younger one. The latter rapidly returned to the same cave, to find something else apparently. However, before he answered that question, he looked at the dark soul for a brief moment, his eyes showing his wariness.

"Why were you here?" Still concentrated into unveiling what was inside the crystal, she answered without thinking too much. "To get rid of the dragons. The dwarves asked me to." The only reason why she could say that was the fact that they wouldn't be able to harm her before she could react. Even now, if even the slightest amount of mana was perturbed by the casting of a spell, she would sense it.

"Again, a bit insulting. I like to be alive and don't want to be dead. Therefore, I hope I will never see you again." Knocking one of his claws on the red gem, he infused enough mana to activate it. Before she could understand what was happening, she felt her body stuck on the red crystal, only watching the other dragons beginning to slowly retreat. The young one finally brought along a blue crystal, only to realize it was too late.

Unlike the process that happened to the two human magicians, that took a while, this time, it happened almost immediately. After all, the difference in mana between the humans and Leilade was enormous. Realizing what will happen when the gem will be filled, the moving soul immediately protected herself, before a huge explosion shook the peak, creating a small portal on it. The flash of light blinded the bystanders, and when they recovered their senses, nothing was there. No dark soul, no portal anymore.

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A few seconds later, the old dragon approached the place, before leisurely extending his body on the stone ground. However, he had to get up after, as the perfect plane stone he had wasted days to find and drag up there had been fissured by the explosion. Making his sunbath awfully uncomfortable because of the tiny sharp fragments that were poking at him. "Damned little girl. Even running my morning like that."