Chapter 613 - 613 - Living On

While the main group was packing and were busy deciding where to continue their grand expedition further, back at the rebel's camp outside of the underground city of Ugburg, a cheerful little reptilian girl was hopping around, giggling happily.

"[Reptilian] Papa! Papa! Come on, don't be such a slowpoke!" Tolliah giggled, her frilly white one-piece dress fluttered as she hopped around. She ran back towards a white-robed elderly skink, walking leisurely amongst a small group of men and women.

Hearing the little energizer's excitement in her call, the robed figure, Aiden turned to warmly smile at the little girl. 

"[Reptilian] Now, now Tolliah, be calm, what's the hurry? We have the whole day for ourselves!" He spoke with a fatherly tone.

The old-robed skink was obviously Aiden. After their victory over the High Priest's forces took quite a dramatic turn. For him, he has grown significantly stronger after absorbing the Draconic Saurus, General Zokor.

With his increased understanding of how the absorption process works, and how a new form is synthesized by the creation of the essence seed inside his Primal core, he had managed to effectively use the new mass and essence to create the new form.

The new form, this Draconic Saurus, looked rather imposing when he tried it for the first time. A huge, almost 3 meters tall bipedal reptilian with thick golden-orange rows of scales covering his body like a coat of armor. Instead of the silky smooth surface, he would probably have if he were to assimilate a regular Saurus, this variant was vastly different. His tail also grew both in length and terms of thickness, looking and feeling like a massive log, a fifth appendage that could be used for causing damage during fights.

In terms of system benefits, it was somewhat alike to the Orcish variants Aiden had come across with. While active, the form would provide a passive 15% bonus to his Might and a 10% boost to his Stamina. A new, form-dependent skill was also added to his repertoire, an active ability, that was called [Draconic Saurus: Fiery Claws], which as the name would suggest instantly heat up his ebony claws turning them to a deep shade of red, due to the molten, lava-high temperature it would emit almost instantly.

"[Reptilian] Tolliah dear, don't be so impatient! You know how good girls behave, right! Be nice to your papa!" A gentle feminine voice came from the old skink's right side; Madam Dara spoke to the cheerful little princess.

"[Reptilian] But Auntie!!!" She complained with a pout. "You guys are so slooow! I want to play with papa, and you all! We have been staying in that ugly dark cave for soo long!"

She then ran back circling around the group of her elders, her father, the ex-archbishop, and his six captains that all excelled during the battle last week. 

Reaching out, Madam Dara pulled the little cheeky girl into her embrace and picked her up before giving a loud smooch on her right cheek. 

This action has been rewarded with an energetic giggle once again, little Tolliah clearly enjoyed the attention she was receiving. 

"[Reptilian] Auntieee!!" She laughed cheerily, hugging the mature skink woman back hanging on her like a koala. "Carry me then!" 

To which Madam Dara nodded with a familial, hearty chuckle. 

"[Reptilian] As you wish, my dearie!" 

Aiden didn't speak a word but just watched with a relaxed smile stretching the facial muscles on his face. He enjoyed this calm, peaceful atmosphere, this familial bond every survivor, every rebel shared. Their desire for a better future, the many hardships and losses have ironed their bonds, chiseled them into something as sturdy as diamonds. 

Each and every member, be it an old, feeble granny or the younglings similar to Tolliah in age… all shared this feeling. They were all one big family.

After the war, there were no more altercations, no more skirmishes sent to their location. The Temple Guard forces have turned completely silent, almost eerily so. Even back in the most miserable sections, the outskirts of Ugburg have been relatively calm. The soldiers didn't come to raid, -nor did they bother patrolling and keeping up security, mind you-, everything was strangely quiet. 

Even more, as the news of their miserable defeat and the death of that fearsome monster, General Zokor has spread around the populace, a lot more people have woken up from their fear and dread and have decided that they had enough.

In the span of the last week, their camp has almost doubled in size by all the new people that have decided to join their cause. In the last few days, the camp's leaders had no time to rest, they were working day in and day out to serve the various little to medium-sized issues that kept on popping up almost constantly.

Tolliah, after she saw how everyone was overworked, have 'decided' that a little one-day picnic trip would be what everyone needed. With the help of her dearest auntie, Madam Dara, they planned out this little excursion and after some effort managed to get all the captains to join them.

Turning her head to the side, Tolliah looked at Aiden.

"[Reptilian] Papa! Turn into that big scary monster again! I wanna ride high on your neck!" Asked the little girl with big rounded eyes.

Nodding, Aiden smiled and without hesitation, closed his eyes. 

The surface of his body began to wobble, ripples distorting his image from one step to another. Suddenly his body swelled up, new strains of muscles formed in the blink of an eye. His body soared, reaching double of its original size.

In a few blinks, Aiden's figure shifted, his previously spacious robe now barely managed to hold his surging muscles, he transformed into his [Draconic Saurus] form.

"Yey! Pick me up, pick me up!" Not frightened by the least bit of the sudden monstrous transformation, the little girl -still in Madam Dara's embrace-, have looked at her new papa reaching his little arms in his direction asking for him to pick her up to her 'throne'.

After killing and absorbing the general, he decided that he would no longer continue lying to the girl, nor to these people that have supported him. 

As he walked back to his chambers, he called in all the captains he had now made a connection with as well as asking for Tolliah to come as well.

Once they were all gathered, he explained everything, who he truly was, how he came to this world, and what happened. Although he was scared about what she would do or say, Aiden still decided to come clean and explain that the old man, Tolliah's real father was no longer with them and that what he had done to him.

Expecting her to lash out and hate her, or cry or anything… the little girl simply smiled, showing the same loving expression on her face. She shook her head as he looked at Aiden.

"[Reptilian] No… You are my papa! He is… living through you!"

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