Chapter 22: What are You Guys Worried About?

Chapter 22: What are You Guys Worried About?

Early Morning - Mid Spring : Home

After Mother said we should eat, she gave us each large Field Bison that she had prepared earlier.

They were simply divine. -So juicy.. so good..- The meat melted in my mouth and tasted more juicy than normal.

Mother gave me a curious look as I was enjoying the food. "So Vasilias, what was that magic you used on the wyvern? I've never seen anything like it. Although I'm also curious about your breath from earlier, I think this will be easier to understand."

Snapping out of my thoughts, I took a second to think about how to explain it. "Well, first I created a metal rod with earth magic, then used lightning magic to launch it out of my mouth.." I tried my best to word it in a way she could understand, but her not knowing what magnetism was made that a more complicated task.

Mother sat up straight and looked at father in complete confusion. "Sweetie, can I get more detail? Like how does the lightning move the metal rod at all, let alone fast enough to do that much damage?"

Father was confused about something else though. "What did he do?"

"He completely eviscerated a large wyvern along with a few kilometers of forest behind it.."

Father stopped eating for a moment and just froze. “With a metal rod?”

"Well it's not that complicated.." I decided I would just try to explain the basics of magnetism. "So on a basic level, certain metals are known as magnetic." I created a small iron ball in front of me, and used lightning to make it float. "See? I can control how it moves by using the lighting because the lightning has charge."

Mother still looked confused. "So you're trying to tell me you moved an iron rod faster than I could catch a glimpse of.. by using lightning?"

"By using magnetism, yes. See?" I quickly used magic to throw the iron ball into the side of the mountain.

*Bang*

Father was the first to break the silence that followed. "Vasilias.. Could you show me what you did to the wyvern earlier?"

I lightly nodded my head and aimed at the iron ball embedded in the mountain.

*CRACK*

The metal rod instantly left my mouth and plowed straight through the mountain [1].

Krystallo and Father's jaws both dropped seeing a hole dripping molten rock appear in the side of the mountain.

Silence encompassed everyone for a moment before Father spoke up.

"Vasilias." He looked straight at me with a gleam in his eyes. "Would you like to come with me on a mission to a humanoid city?"

Mother froze as if she was going to intervene but I spoke up first. "Mission?"

"I have some business with the royalty in the Kingdom of Kaelallan in two months, it will only be a quick trip, there and back, but it might be a good experience for you."

"But won't I have to learn transformation magic first?" -I can't just walk into a human city as a dragon can I?-

I thought it was incredible that Ilios was not only stunningly beautiful and adorable, but he was also crazy strong.

"But what did you mean by I copied his race? I didn't feel like I copied anything though..”

Mother stiffened up and her face was covered in an inexplicable expression.

Father was quick to take over for her. "Well.. when choosing your 'temporary form', you would be able to mimic the appearance of any race.. but you.. actually changed races.." Father looked at Mother with a face of concern and worry.

I wasn't following what they were talking about. I had thought that I did something cool but seeing their reactions was a little worrying.

After finally sorting some of her thoughts, Mother chimed back in. "So.. Vasilias.. how much of your mana reserve can you use?"

"Huh? Uh.. all of it."

Mother and Father both froze.

"It's not full at the moment but I do have access to all of it."

"W.. wh.. what about your attribute nodes..." Mothers voice was getting a bit shaky.

"I have all 7, even my breath gland is untouched.." I didn't know how to react to their expressions anymore.

"Are you sure?” Mother looked at me in disbelief. “Here.. aim at that tree and use a breath.. Just be very careful.."

"O..okay.." I was a bit nervous but I was excited to experiment with my breath again. -This time, not nuclear..-

I was thinking of what possible explosive I could use before I settled on ammonium nitrate, simple to make and moderately strong.

It was a dirty explosive but it was SIGNIFICANTLY more affordable mana wise than anything else I could think of. -Maybe I should try TNT next..-

TNT was cleaner, but it was crazy expensive compared to ammonium nitrate. (Ammonium nitrate is NOT toxic enough to harm dragons!)

After creating a moderately substantial amount of ammonium nitrate, I aimed towards the tree mother pointed towards, and opened my mouth.

*Crack*

This time I used some wind magic to help keep the explosion together, focusing the blast into a beam that instantly reached the tree.

*BoOm*

The explosion completely obliterated the bottom half of the tree and stripped the bark from a couple trees nearby it.

-Affordable with good firepower, a good combo..-

I looked at the scene in satisfaction, somehow overlooking the tense and awkward atmosphere behind me.