Chapter 42: XLII. Night Escape
Ssaull and Rophttys were running stealthily and incapacitating anyone they had to knock out unconscious to prevent these people from setting off an alarm or trying to catch them. For he was easy, it was not the first time that he had to escape from a base with several individuals who wanted to take his life, even if he had to take care of his sister this would not be a problem for him if it were Morkhex prison maybe there would be a real battle to escape.
"Do you think Alexandra is okay?" Rophttys asked as he ran and hid with his brother. "She seemed pretty bad for hearing the truth from the Greater Dragons."
"I told her it was not good for her, but she insisted anyway" the dragon observes the area and indicates to her sister that they could move.
"You know she just wanted to know the truth, now Alexandra doesn't know if she can trust her mother" the dragon remembers her look of doubt and uncertainty after hearing that her mother had possibly participated in the slaughter of humans.
The dragon, remembering the look of the poor girl, feels empathy for her, no son expects to hear that his mother or father are heartless murderers and that they killed defenseless beings without allowing them to survive or live. Ssaull recalled that he never forgave his parents for killing and eating their daughter and trying to give it to him as if it didn't hurt to lose her, he intuited that if Alexandra felt sore enough she would not try to go back to see her mother.
"Dragons!" When a watchman sees him, he fires a special short-time flare alerting the entire camp.
He was going to hit him, but Alexandra had gone ahead ramming the subject and hitting her face hard, surprising both dragons.
"Alexandra !?" the dragons are surprised to see her defend them.
"Quick if that red signal is what I think it is then we should move fast" she indicates running and using her holy relic to hit longer without exposing herself as much.
"Do you think you are leading us into a trap?" Rophttys asks her brother.
"Use the holy relic without problem, it does not seem to have any evil intention, we can trust it"
Alexandra along with the two dragons managed to go to find the place where the people kept the dragon's favorite horse, Ssaull had no intention of going without his horse since he seemed to have a great attachment and affection for the animal.
"Hello Santa Claus, daddy is here" the dragon hugs his horse.
"Yes, you love that horse"
"Very good Rophttys" the dragon rides his sister on the animal "Listen to your run and avoid colliding with people or puddles of water or they will notice your presence" explains the dragon "Shuriz Hox"
Rophttys and the horse became invisible, Alexandra is impressed by such a spell, but Ssaull starts spitting some blood worrying both girls for him.
"Ssaull !!"
"Don't worry, this spell requires a blood payment so that it does not depend on the mana of the user who uses it, you will have an hour of invisibility so you can flee without being detected"
The dragon smiles and wipes the blood from his mouth looking happily at his sister.
"What !? And you !?" she looks at her brother worried about her.
"Santa Claus is the best horse to flee if required, but he will not be able to with the weight of the three on his shoulders. Unlike you Alexandra and I are warriors and we have full magic power and advanced fighting skills"
"But I also fight" she was going to get off but the dragon manages to take her hand and squeeze it gently.
"I will be calmer knowing that you are not in such danger, Alexandra and I will see you in my store, just make sure that nobody sees you enter the circle and wait for my signals. I promise you that we will arrive safely with you" the dragon smiles clearing all fear in the dragon.
"Make sure you keep your promise and don't wait long, if they decide to use that sound device they will kill you no matter where you hide" she expressed trusting in the dragon. "Please Alexandra protect my brother" the human girl nods.
The dragon is moving away with the horse to be able to flee without being seen, only the galloping was heard but Ssaull still knew that she and the horse would be fine, with the confusion and chaos that he and the human would do they would have the most attention to them. Without wasting time the dragon and Alexandra ran to find the power source to deactivate it for a while so that the other humans would not activate the sonic system that could kill it. Alexandra asked him that it was not necessary to destroy the energy source because she did not want to leave them unprotected against the other dragons to which the dragon told him not to worry, he would only disable it but that they did not have to worry, the two warriors ran towards a place that according to the blue dragon had discovered there was a kind of special battery that fed the entire camp with infinite energy.
Ssaull was curious about said battery, never before has there been an artifact with such an inexhaustible source of power and this was a rare thing that he should see and hopefully he would learn to replicate it for his benefit, beat and knocked down every guard they came across. there to direct their gazes towards the path they were traveling and Rophttys was further from danger. Marcus noticing a pattern in the unconscious guards deduces the place where the dragon could be going, he had to gather up his courage and follow it alone, if he was going to look for reinforcements it would take a long time giving the dragon time to do damage to the energy source of his home.
Upon reaching the site Alexandra uses her sword to destroy the padlock and gives a strong kick alerting the two guards who were in the place Ssaull with a jump uses her gas to minimize the vision of the guards and between him and the girl they shoot down the Subjects, the dragon smiles when he sees the perfect synchronization he had with the girl, you could tell that he fought like his mother, the only dragon whose way of fighting suited him.
"Good way to fight"
"Thank you, ten years of hitting and slapping pays off" she mentions as she made sure the guards did not rise.
"Very well let's see what little thing they have been using as a source of power" the dragon with the girl looks at each side something that stood out as a source of power.
Both warriors as they entered Alexandra's relic began to move by themselves, this relic was pulling the human's arm with force in such a way that it seemed that it was about to rip off the girl's arm, she simply went to the place that the chain guided him and he told Ssaull to follow it, this was curious for both of them, the relic wanted to take them to a place for some reason or reason, luckily they did not have to wait long, when both warriors finally entered a door they manage to understand the secret behind the inexhaustible source of power.
"They're screwing me!" the dragon feels an immense rage to see the relic with the symbol of the skeletal dragons serving as the battery for the camp "Damn, this is the worst way to treat dragons, I know we are few worthy of empathy, but this is unforgivable"
Alexandra when looking at that level of disrespect towards the culture of a dragon that I always try to be good, she takes his hand to give him some empathy, the dragon looking at the girl's look of understanding tries to reassure, he was not someone who was out of control and needed his cool and calm mind to be able to escape without so much trouble.
"Sorry" she said feeling somehow responsible for the situation with the relic.
"Why?" he smiles at her. "You are not the one who did this hehe"
Alexandra notes how Colaza gave her the request to free her sister from this horrible suffering, that a holy relic could only serve as a tool of peace, not as a battery, the girl said aloud that it would be better than it was Ssaull who released the relic as it was the artifact of her species and she could no longer insult the dragon or her kind.
"Easy friend, if it is the will of the relics, I can not do anything about it"
"Sure?"
"Haha calm down, I won't be able to speak for the rest of the skeletal dragons" he gives a little tap to the girl's shoulder, "but at least as your friend I will have no problems if you are the one who takes care of it, I only ask that treat him with respect "they both look at each other with a smile.
"Well with your permission" she hesitantly approaches the relic container.
The dragon finds the switch and turns off the devices that connected the relic container with certain cables so that the girl would not be hurt by electricity, she looks at her relic hearing words of confidence from the Colaza, with a deep breath she touches the container and it was beginning to open. The dragon looks amazed, this was the first time that he could witness how a human was able to open one of the sacred containers of the relics of Mother Desthy before his eyes, the container began to change its symbol to that of a human and finally He showed himself three strange rings that he, much less the human, could understand.
"And that?" he asked as he approached.
"I don't know, I was hoping you would tell me" she answers curiously.
Both warriors observed the three rings with great attention when Ssaull wanted to touch them, this gave a shock to his fingers, implying that he did not have permission, only Alexandra could touch them, in that another voice is heard in her head, a more mature one. From what she judged, he told her to put two on her arms and the last one on her neck, Alexandra listens to the chain and it tells her to do what the earrings said and she does it. That amuses himself with a mocking comment until he sees how the earrings changed in size to fit the girl's arms and neck, she panics a bit, but the voice of the skeleton relic is presented as the Rings of Reshirium, these rings would give the girl great strength and resistance to certain attacks, especially if it was fire, water, or the wind blows, her skin would be the most resistant as if it were other armor. She with a big smile explains to the dragon the capabilities of this relic which he understands very well its function, skeletal dragons had armor thanks to their hard-to-break bones, however, they had a ridiculously low tolerance for pain, but the relic eliminated that and further reinforced their natural defense, too bad the relic did not consider it worthy of use.
"Miss Reshirium em, if I can tell you like that. There is no way you can support Ssaull, he would take better advantage of you than me by being a skeletal dragon" the girl received a simple but negative response to that request, which the dragon understood and did not give importance.
"This will mean that they will have more trouble finding an alternative energy, but I will leave you the map of a safe mine of electric crystals that you can use" explains the dragon taking out a paper and making the map and directions.
"Alexandra?"
They both get alert and turn their heads looking at the human who had a gun pointed at the dragon, Ssaull could easily do him a lot of damage or incapacitate him before a bullet could even graze his bones, but Alexandra makes concerning eye contact with the boy who couldn't. to believe.