All Chapters of Wielder Of The Dragon Flame : Chapter 501
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Chapter 500
“That the Emperor Dragon saw my plan from the very beginning." She tilted her head slightly. "Buohuo." A sound, not quite a laugh, something between a laugh and a syllable, carrying the specific pleasure of someone who has executed something they planned. "But it seems his vessel was just a little too weak to act on what he saw." The smile held. "Buohuo."Asta opened his mouth."Get away from him…"She didn't look at him.She was already turning to Loki. Already looking at the purple eyes, at the hands on the whip, at the specific quality of the struggle,the strength in it, real, genuine, Loki's will still pushing back against the restriction even now.The smile faded.What replaced it was something without performance in it. Something direct and serious and carrying the weight of something that had been decided long before tonight."It is time." She said to Loki. Quiet. Almost gentle, not the gentleness of warmth but the gentleness of inevitability. "For you to remember who y
Chapter 501
Dero was standing ten feet back from all of them.She was looking at Asta. At Jabber on the floor. At Flora's hands pressing the healing technique into Jabber's chest. At Egries standing with her hands at her sides and the specific expression of someone who was managing something enormous behind a face that was holding itself together through will alone.She looked at all of it.Then she looked at Asta.And she smiled.Not the jagged smile. Not the cold knowing smile from before. Something quieter than both of those,a smile that had something in it that was almost private, almost genuine, the smile of someone at the end of something who is choosing to end it a specific way."I think." She said."My time here is up."Her voice was light. Conversational. The tone of someone concluding a visit that had run its natural course."It was nice seeing you." She said, looking at Asta directly. "Emperor Dragon vessel."Behind her, the grey domain began to dissolve, not catastrophically, but g
Chapter 502
She looked at the three beasts.They looked back at her.Her spear was up, still up, still formed, still burning at the tip,but the flame on it was running at a level that had honesty in it, the flame of a technique that was being maintained by the last of something rather than the middle of something.'''Okay.''' She thought.'''Three.''''''No flame aura.''''''One spear.'''She looked at the nearest beast.It took a step forward.She adjusted her grip.'''Alright.''' She thought. '''We do it the old way then.'''The beast lunged…"'''Flame Technique Ignis Sweep — Carving Arc!'''"The voice came from the left.Fast and close, arriving at the same time as the technique, a wide, low arc of orange flame that came in from the side of the lunging beast and hit it in the flank with the specific force of something that had been travelling before it detonated. The beast dissolved, the flame consuming it, the ash drifting upward.A horse landed beside Mira.Not gracefully, the specific l
Chapter 503
But he had covered it, and he came through the tree line and into the camp's firelight and every step after that was toward the place where the others would be.Yuki came out of a tent first.Then Roderick, behind her, and Elara just behind him,the three of them moving toward Asta with the specific energy of people who have been inside the camp managing what was manageable and are now looking at what has come back and trying to read it.Elara was at Asta's side first, her hands going to Jabber's back, taking some of the weight."What happened to him?" Roderick said, looking at Jabber's unconscious face."He pushed too hard in someone else's domain.”Asta said. "He needs rest and time. Flora has been running the healing technique on him for the last hour." He looked at Roderick. "He'll be alright. He just needs time."Yuki looked at Asta. At the state of him, the torn shirt, the bruise on his jaw, the specific quality of someone who had given everything they had twice in one evenin
Chapter 504:What We Carry Back
The tent smelled like cooling tea and leather and the specific tired quality of air that had been breathed in and out by people under pressure for too long.Outside, the camp was still working through the aftermath, the sounds of it muffled through the canvas, distant, the specific low industry of people cleaning up after something large. In here, those sounds felt very far away.Egries was on the cot with her head down on her knees.Elara was on her left side. Flora on her right. Both of them close, not hovering, just there, present in the way that people are present when there is nothing useful to say and they have made the decision to stay anyway. Elara's hand moved in slow steady circles on Egries's back, not the rhythmic automatic circles of someone going through a motion, deliberate ones, the kind that mean ‘’I am here and I know you are here and that is what this is.’’Flora's hand did the same on the other side.They didn't say anything.There wasn't anything to say that Egri
Chapter 505
"So we grieve what happened tonight and we acknowledge what we lost and tomorrow we move. Because sitting in silence won't save him." She let the pause after that have its full weight. "We move, or he dies."Roderick stood still for a long moment.His hand came up and covered Yuki's on his shoulder.He didn't say anything.But his shoulders came down from the position they had been in since the crate, not all the way, not to anything like ease, but down from where they had been, which was somewhere.……………………The beep was small.A single, clean tone, not loud, not insistent, just there, cutting through the tent's quiet with the specific quality of something electronic in a space full of human things.Roderick went still.Then his hand went to his coat pocket slowly, the way a hand goes to something when it knows what it's going to find and is not certain it's ready to find it. He pulled out a device,small, circular, the surface of it carrying a faint orange glow that pulsed in the s
Chapter 506
“That Wabash knew."The tent absorbed that."He knew." Kael continued.“That something like this was possible. Valthorax would have shown him, not the specifics, not the date or the hour, but the shape of it. The possibility of it." He looked at the flame for a moment. "And he went anyway." He looked back. "Because that is what he is."He held Roderick's gaze for another second.Then…"The other vessels. Status."Roderick looked at the tent briefly.At Jabber lying on the cot.At Asta.Asta opened his mouth.‘’’Lie to him.’’’The Emperor Dragon's voice arrived in his head without warning,not loud, not urgent, but absolutely certain. The specific certainty of something that had weighed this thoroughly and arrived at an answer.‘’’Lie to him. Right now. If Kael learns what happened to Jabber tonight,what Loki did, what the memories showed, what Dero's technique may have reawakened,he will not send help. He will send containment. He will lock Jabber in a Dragon Prison for assessment
Chapter 507
‘’’Emperor Dragon.’’’He said it inward, to the presence that was always there, the warm settled weight of it in his chest.‘’’Tell me what you couldn't tell me in the tent.’’’The Emperor Dragon was quiet for a moment, not the quiet of reluctance, the quiet of someone beginning something that has a lot of parts and is deciding where to start.‘’’What Dero did to Loki.’’’He said. ‘’’With that technique, the memory recall, the forced recollection, was not simply showing him the past. It was specific. Targeted.”’ A pause. ‘’’The technique she used reaches into the deepest sealed layers of a consciousness and brings up what has been most thoroughly buried. Not random memories. The ones that were hidden the hardest.’’’Asta walked. The camp was quiet around him, people in their tents, fires low, the particular stillness of a place that had used everything it had tonight and was resting.‘’’Loki buried something.’’’Asta said.‘’’Loki buried a great deal.’’’ The Emperor Dragon said.
Chapter 508
"Though I understand your team had their own difficulties.""We were handling it." Web said."You were handled.” Dero said. "There is a difference.""Dero…""High Official Roderick and a woman I don't recognize put an axe through your back via the portal." Dero said. "I'm not commenting on your competence. I'm commenting on the specific incident of the axe."Web's jaw tightened."At least we didn't lose our target.”Kyx said.Dero turned and looked at her.Fully turned. The full attention of someone who has decided that a statement requires a complete response rather than a partial one."Careful." Dero said. Quiet. The specific quiet of something that doesn't need volume."I'm just…""What you are just doing." Dero said."Is speaking to me in a way that will require me to demonstrate, for what I hope will be the final time, the difference between what I am and what you are." She looked at Kyx steadily. "I have no interest in doing that tonight. So I would encourage you to st
Chapter 509
The Grand Master looked at the green flame.At Valthorax looking back at him through Wabash's eyes."I know what you saw." He said to the dragon inside the eyes. "I know what you showed him. I know that he knew some version of this was coming." He held the gaze of the ancient eyes inside the young face. "And he came anyway, because that is who he is." He paused. "And you let him, because you understood that this moment was necessary."The green flame in Wabash's hands flickered.Something moved in the green eyes,something that was not quite agreement and was not quite denial."Goodbye, Valthorax." The Grand Master said.His mouth opened.And from it came something that should not have been possible, a red, deep, cellular light, not a flame, something older than flame, the light of a process that had been designed to do one specific thing that nothing was supposed to be designed to do.Wabash felt it.The pulling.Not from outside, from inside, from the deepest inside, from the