While Alex went through an epiphany, the female dragon writhed on the ground, struggling to heal her wounds. Even as she ate her pills, she was surprised to find that they barely healed her at all, forcing her to eat another pill.
And the pills only healed her body as well, doing nothing to deal with the pain she was going through. There wasn't enough healing energy in those pills to fix her pletely.
Alex belatedly realized what was happening and walked over to her, quickly scanning her body with his spiritual sense. While he couldn't sense much beneath the surface, he could see that she had sufficient healing within her. Even though she wasn't pletely healed just yet, she had no risk of dying in the slightest.
Given time, she would be back to full health.
That was if he let her.
Alex stepped on her back, the force of his push crushing her body. The dragon burst out with a painful wail, but Alex continued.
"You attacked me first, so I will give you this one chance," Alex said. "Swear to the heavens that you will let me study your body, and I will let you live. No harm shall e to you while I do so, and I may even help you on occasion. However, refuse, and I will kill you right here and now."
If his words weren't enough to convince the dragon, her breaking bones were. The pain within her amplified to a point where she could not fight back. She knew there was nothing she could do to harm him.
So, her only options were to agree or to run away.
Her bloodline power flared within her immediately, teleportation aura surrounding her.
Azure Dragons' teleportation were strange to Alex. They didn't
manipulate space as much as a regular teleportation did.
For a normal teleportation, one didn't just teleport a person to another space, but rather the entire space itself. If the two spaces were buckets of water, with a person belonging in one of the buckets wanting to teleport to the other one, a regular teleportation would be akin to using a jug to scoop out some water along with the person. At the same time, another identical jug would scoop out the same amount of water from the other bucket, and the two jugs of water would be transferred to the opposite buckets, thus pleting the teleportation.
However, in the case of the Azure Dragons, instead of scooping them out of the bucket, they were picked out by just their body and deposited in the other bucket while replacing just that much volume of water in the first bucket.
It was an incredible feat of power that would require one to train an incredible amount to properly encapsulate just the space that was their body and nothing else.
It was for that same reason that when they teleported, they barely gave out any teleportation aura as a sign, pletely catching everyone off guard.
Unfortunately for them, barely was enough for Alex.
The moment the dragon activated her teleportation, he noticed it. He couldn't tell where she was teleporting to, but he didn't have to.
Immediately, three spatial Daos activated around him all at the same time-the Dao of Spatial Expansion, the Dao of Spatial Contraction, and the Dao of Distortion.
The first two Daos were just catalysts to make the third one work much better.
As space expanded and contracted at the same time, they distorted, along with it distorting almost everything in the surroundings. The connection the dragon had made with the other space shattered in
the distortion, the teleportation failing pletely.
When the dragon realized what had happened, her pained eyes were wide with such shock that if someone were to tell her this was a dream, she would believe them in a heartbeat.
Sadly, one usually woke up when one was in pain, but even as her scales and bones cracked, she could feel no freedom from it. This was real. Everything that had just happened was real.
"I said that was the only chance I was going to give you," Alex said. "You should have-"
"I swear!" the dragon quickly shouted. "I swear! Don't kill me. I swear."
Alex paused. He felt the surrounding aura and knew no oath had been
made.
"Speak the words right," Alex said.
"I'll... I'll let you study my body as you wish if you won't hurt me," she said. "I swear to the heavens."
The oath settled this time.
"Alright," Alex said, immediately getting away from her. He didn't want to give her a way out of the loophole by continuing to hurt her. He wasn't sure if she had thought of the loophole herself or said it by accident, but he had promised no harm would e to her, so he would stand by his words.
The dragon finally let out a sigh of relief even in the midst of all the pain as she realized she was going to be fine.
Alex brought out a pill and gave it to her.
The dragon gave a strange look, unbelieving that she was going to get
the pill after everything that had happened. She didn't take it
immediately, however, still very wary.
Alex sighed. "I'm not going to hurt you now that you've said the oaths," he said. "Seriously, take it. It's a really good pill."
The dragon finally accepted the pill and ate it. There were some
reservations still in her look, but they vanished the moment she sensed the incredible healing power that burst forth from within her
body.
Within seconds, a warm energy passed through all of her physical
body, not just mending broken bones and healing wounds, but also alleviating the pain she felt. Even her missing arm was back as if nothing had happened to it.
The dragon remained dumbfounded at the power of the pill.
"Why..." she asked.
"Why what?"
"Why give me such an expensive pill?" she asked.
Alex smiled, bringing out a bunch of pill bottles. "They're not expensive to me," he said. "I have tons more where that came from."
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