3112 Final Spark (Part 2)
"He's-" Valtak hawked to clear his airways and cut Lith short.
Then, the Father of Fire started to snore with the grace of a jet turbine.
"The farm?" Lith checked again.
Valtak's heartbeat was indeed weak but stable. The Elder Wyrm's mana core had degraded to cyan, but after that its mana flow steadied. Demon Grasp perceived that even though it was a very slow process, the world energy was nurturing the Fire Dragon's body.
It would take ti, but Valtak's physical and magical strength would return.
"How is this possible?" Lith asked.
"If you are asking what just happened, I have no clue." Salaark shrugged. "If you are asking how Valtak could survive, instead, I can answer that."
"Anything is better than nothing." He replied.
"Origin Flas, all kinds of Flas, don't actually burn your life force, Featherling, or every ti you breathe them, they would shorten your life span. If that were true, Dragons and Phoenixes would never sell their Origin Flas and use them only for themselves.
"To give you a better idea, imagine that your life force is like a candle, and it's length represents your lifespan." She said and Lith nodded for her to continue. "As you age, the wax evaporates and it's lost forever.
"When you use Origin Flas, instead, the wick burns stronger for a second. Part of the wax lts and drips down the candle but it's not lost. With ti and rest, the wax turns solid again at the bottom of the candle and raises it to its previous height.
"It's the reason you suffer no permanent damage from using Origin Flas, but if you lt too much wax at the sa ti, you can still die. Your life span is temporarily cut short and your fla easier to snuff out."
"I see." Lith nodded. "That's why Invigoration can't help recover my strength after I use Origin Flas too much. Because it has nothing to do with mana and physical strength."
"Exactly." Salaark continued. "Earlier Valtak reached the point all the wax was lted. There was nothing left to burn while the liquid wax turned solid again and once the fla goes out is out.
"It doesn't matter if it's because of an illness, a sword, or Origin Flas. Death is always the final destination. Valtak avoided it by turning those sparks of life force into wax and using them to hasten the solidification process."
"Can we afford to move him?" Tista asked.
"We better not." Tyris shook her head while checking on the Father of Fire. "Here there is more world energy than on any part of Mogar and the Life Maelstrom in the soil is helping Valtak assimilate the nutrients at a steady pace.
"I would keep him here until he wakes up on his own, just to be safe. Also, you too need to rest, child." She took a chair out of her pocket dinsion and the mont Lith sat down, all the stress and fatigue that the adrenaline rush had neutralized until that mont hit him like a sack of bricks.
It took Salaark a few minutes to reassure Kamila and Solus that Lith too was alright. They knew of the matter of the Void Demon Dragon from the mind link and now that Valtak was fine, their worries about Lith moved to the front burner.
"Thank the gods, which is you guys, Valtak will make it." Kamila said, referring to the six original Guardians. "Because once he's back on his feet, I'll make him shrink enough to kick his alps! He made almost die of fright twice in a single day."
She put the babies on the Fire Dragon's long neck. It was big enough to carry dozens of people and Elysia and Valeron were finally reassured of Valtak's well-being via their Dragon scales.
They could feel that he was very tired but happy. There was a bright mory of a brownish-red scaled Dragon on the surface of his mind that brought him great peace and made the babies cry for their mother.
"I don't get it." Solus said while trying to pacify Valeron. "One second ago, Valeron fought like a Dragon to go to Valtak and now he's glued to like he hasn't seen for days."
"Sa here." Kamila had no idea why Elysia used air magic to wrap herself in Kamila's black hair but let the baby girl do it.
"So, this is the moon, uh?" Dawn cleared her throat once the situation was resolved and everyone seed to have completely forgotten about her. "This place is amazing. Do you mind if I share this experience with Acala?"
Lith looked at her and groaned in frustration. Her assumption wasn't off the mark. Lith had actually forgotten about her in the rush to save Valtak's life.
"I'm too tired to think or even get angry." He said. "Soone makes this decision for , please."
"Depends." Solus felt responsible and embarrassed for her blunder. "Does Baba Yaga's seal apply to him as well or can he speak about freely?"
"No, it doesn't." Dawn shook her head. "I would never take his free will away. Not again."
"Then no. I'm sorry."
"No problem, miss nadion." The Horseman was annoyed but if there was sothing she had learned from her relationship with Acala was that trust had to be earned, not demanded. "Can we at least bring my mother here? She would love it."
"That I can do. Be back in a jiffy." Solus entered the tower which disappeared and reappeared in the ti to find two suitable alignnts with Mogar's mana geysers.
"By the Great Mother, is this really Mogar's moon?" Baba Yaga walked through the tower's door in her Maiden form, looking like a girl 1.6 (5'3") ters tall with waist-long golden hair and clear blue eyes.
"Respectively, you are welco and yes, Yaga." Tyris nodded to the Red Mother who didn't know where to turn.
She stood on the surface of the moon, staring into the starry vault of space while Mogar spread its blue light everywhere. On top of that, standing in the presence of three Guardians and realizing the gap between nadion's tower and her own didn't help.
"Thanks for saving my child, Lith." Leegaain had rushed there right after composing himself. "For a mont I thought I had lost him."
"Valtak did everything by himself." Lith panted. "I just brought him here. If you want to thank soone, thank Grandma and Valeron. She kept Valtak alive and Valeron showed him whatever the golden flas are.
"To , they are just a problem for another day."
The Father of All Dragons thanked them both profusely, making Valeron happy and Salaark blush.
"It's no big deal." She said while playing with the necklace he had gifted her during her first visit to his moon lab.
"I know that it sounds stupid, but is there sothing I can do for you guys? Anything?" Baba Yaga wanted to repay Solus and Lith for the marvellous gift but she knew that compared to the Guardians and away from her tower, she wasn't much.
"Depends. Do you know how to make them stop cry?" Kamila asked while rocking a desperate Elysia.
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