Chapter 1601 Meeting Grandma Svartalf Again
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As we entered the Phantom Dragon's Abandoned Castle, we slowly walked through the long corridor greeting us. This castle was several hundreds of times larger than normal human castles. Perhaps being so big so any dragon could get inside. Well, not any. I still had to reduce my size to around forty meters to get inside comfortable with everyone else. Naturally, someone like my grandmother wouldn't be able to enter either, she was simply massive.
Or so I thought...
POOF!
However, stopping us from advancing, an explosion of shadows surged right in front of my face. It quickly expanded everywhere, taking the form of a phantasmal shadow serpent, which then grew wings and legs, and opened six sharp, crimson eyes. It was roughly my current size, if not slightly smaller by a meter or two.
"Hello~ Grandma is here!"
"Huh?!"
We were all naturally shocked when the strange monster, which we thought was some sort of Shadow Soul Beast, resulted to speak with a voice perhaps too familiar for us now. It was my grandmother, Svartalf... somehow?!
"Your grandmother?" Benladann asked.
"Grandma?!" I asked.
"Hahaha! Children these days, so full of energy. It is so nice to see three young dragons nowadays. It is very rare to see newborns such as you." She smiled, caressing their heads with her long shadow-made tail. "Anyways, shall I become your guide?"
"Sure, if you insist." I nodded. "Thank you for coming along, grandma. It is nice to spend some time to connect with the family and get along better. I often times think I spent too much time without visiting the Draconic Records."
"Ah, you're such a considerate child, Drake." She smiled. "You don't really need to worry about such things. For us, a couple of years it nothing too long, we won't get sad if you don't come to visit. Now, let's go! This is a big area, something I designed trying to imitate the dungeons that mortals visit all the time! There are roughly fifty rooms here, all of them full of Soul Beasts of all kinds! And the Boss is in the last floor."
As we walked through the corridor with my grandmother's banter making the atmosphere livelier, we quickly stepped into a large hall. The hall was empty and there were no soul beasts, but there were three large doors. All three of them led to different paths.
"This is where things get fun! There are three doors here, each one leads you to a different series of rooms with different soul beasts inside." She explained. "The one in the front has Phantom-type Soul Beasts, the one at the left has Shadow-type, and the one at the right has Skeleton-type. Chose whichever fits your fighting style or- Huh?!"
"How about we just go through all of them?" I asked, as our family quickly separated into three groups. I went alone while Miranda went with Drakda and Kate, and Benladann with Benladra.
"Wait a second, wouldn't it be too dangerous?!" She gasped.
"Don't worry, I got that covered with protection spells and these guys." I revealed out of my shadows a hundred Divine Dragon Slimes I had produced beforehand, distributing fifty for each. "It'll be easy, if anything bad happens, they'll call me, and I'll get there in a flash. This way we can efficiently clean the place out of soul beasts. Let's met at the end of the floor then, everyone!"
"We'll be on our way then." Benladann smiled. "You better hurry if you don't want me to get there first!"
"Alright papa!" Benladra got pumped up.
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