Episode 81

"So you were saying in return for your Oath of Protections.. you want me to take in your kin?..".

"Yes…they have been asking me for years…it broke my heart to see my kin were hunted down like animals..". (Griksu'um)

His only request was for me to take in his Kin, which is the Lizard men race, according to him for decades his kin were hunted by human, killed, enslaved like every demi-human on Fantasma. He once tried to interfere, but the human interpreted he's act as a larger threat and an omen to a disaster, and started to form a coalitions and launch a war on him and the lizard men, which resulting on him nearly being killed and hundred thousand of his kin were killed and forced to flee their homes.

"Well I don't see any problem in doing that…sure tell your Kin to come into Aeternum…But, they all have o follow my nation rules and law…just because you asked for it..I wont bend the rules for them..".

I'm not that desperate to have Griksu'um oath, the reason I follow along was just to see what a dragon looks like, as for the rewards, if it comes with the expend for me to sacrifice something, then I wont receive it.

"Of course that is to be expected…I only want them to have a safe haven to live…normally they would be you subject to rules..and from what I see, they will be in good hands under you..". (Griksu'um)

"Of course..".

I reasure his words with a warm smiles on my face.

"By the way..can you please grant me one of those hills on the north of your wall for my home?..".

There's a few small hill on the northern wall bordering the Desert Of Nothing. Giving him one wont be a problem to me, of course I agree to it.

"Then I would begin the Oath…Give my your hand your Highness….".

As he hold my right hand, he bit his index finger and draw a tribal marks and draconic words on my hand, from my fore hand down to the end of my fingers was fill with bloodied drawing.

"I Griksu'um The Wise, Pledged my Oath, On my name and on My honour as the Great Ancient Dragon of Earth..To Protect Aeternum Kingdom for as long as it's stand, And in return Aeternum shall shelter my kin under it rules…May the Oath Of the Ancient be Approved…". (Griksu'um)

As he end his words, the bloodied runic on my hand suddenly burns and it moved slowly downwards until it goes on to Griksu'um left hand, covering half on his and half on mine. Then out of nowhere, there's a breeze of wind swirling, engulfing both of us for a solid 5 seconds before dispersing. As he released my hand, a small black draconian words saying Oath of the Ancient appeared on my palm, liked a tattoo. It looks kinda cool, so I don't really mind it.

"so that's it huh…well I guess you can tell your kin to moved to Aeternum now..as you know..there's not much time till the Monster Stampede months..".

"i Supposed so…hmm….by the way, I think you should prepare to see elves coming to your kingdom…". (Griksu'um)

"Why?..".

��Because your daughter is about to come of age…I guess you really does loves your garden…hahaha, I never seen the proud mother tree loved another race other than Elves and druids before…". (Griksu'um)

"Is She sentient?..wait..alive?..like aware of everything?".

"Sentient?..what is that?..Alive?..of course she is..this is the mother tree..She is a demi-god figure in Fantasma…anyway, the elves in the moon forest already lost their mother tree…seeing a healthy one in here..will probably shook their nations..if not this probably will shook central continent…".(Griksu'um)

Knowing that the little tree was actually a real life demi god was kinda mind blowing to me, I guess that's why it's a big deal. As for the Eleven reactions, I don't really care, I don't mind if they want to see it, but if they tried to take it, I'm probably gonna start a war for it.

"You seems calm about all this..". (Griksu'um)

Seeing my nonchalant expression, Griksu'um was intuiged by me.

"To me that tree is just a tree that I grow..and I like it, and if something would happen to it..I probably get angry, it's as simple as that….by the way is all dragon like you?….you know..calm?..".

"Hahaha..some of it..Earth Dragons like me were normally just lazy..the Water Dragons kinda keep to themselves…as for the others..they mostly just arrogant and self centred….Dragon is a prideful race, only those who reach ancient hood or Elder hood, had more reserve mannered….mostly....it's kinda depends on the individual I guess..". (Griksu'um)

"let's say if..IF..I want to kill a dragon..is there some type that I can or cannot?..".

Actually I kinda have some interest to fight or probably tame a Dragon. Because what kind of fantasy world experience if you don't fight and ride a dragon.

"you can hunt a dragon..but I suggest you only hunt the fallen or the wild dragon, because those kind had no intelligence whatsoever..they only know to kill and raise havoc…those kind even I you kill millions of it, no Dragons will even care….<Munch!>..". (Griksu'um)

As he gently munch on the chocolate chips cookies the Old Dragon spoke as it all of it were nothing to him.

"is that so…".

"Hmm..Also avoid killing a sentient Dragon..who knows which child or which tribe it's come from…if you do kill one..there's one hundred percent a dragon will come and burn your kingdom…if there's some that annoys you, just beat them to pulp is enough….if you acidentally killed one..well, I can help…but there's not a lot that I can do..because I'm the only Ancient Earth Dragon that available…". (Griksu'um)

"Available?…is there's more?..".

"Of course there are…but, I don't know where they were…Hahaha..we Earth Dragon loved lazying around, the last time we convene, everyone still alive.... now they should be out there….probably..". (Griksu'um)

From his expression I knew this old dragon don't really cared about his colleague, But seeing his personality, probably all the Earth Dragon carried the same lazy personality. To them as long as their friends weren't killed they always going to stay out of each other ways.