The black dragon cleric sighed as she heard the news.
"Of course that crazy old dragon would get along with Cara. Maybe that's all that the Supre Lady needs? Going too long without a real friend might be why she gets bored so easily and causes incidents."
"I had no idea that the power level on this continent was so insanely exaggerated, though. I don't even fully understand where Supre Rank would fit in the power structure." Karl explained.
Nachtia shrugged. "Well, you have the Totems, Mythical beings, Immortals at various stages, and then those who are simply too powerful to be called re Immortals are called Supre.
Honestly, I don't think that they truly belong in this world. They have the power to leave at will, to go to another Realm. But for so reason, she does not. There have been countless theories on why that is, but many of the Dragon Avatars, our leaders, theorize that she is an anchor for this world. The reason that the world's magic can recover from the loss of the System's power might be because the Supre Lady and a few other truly powerful beings remained in this world, creating a link to other Realms, and leaking their intensely magical auras over thousands of years.
I rember in my history lessons, she was asked to help recover the fragnts of the World Dragon's scale, and she refused. Then she told the Orcs that it was hidden on another continent, and half the bloody species just up and left to go look for it.
One day, they just got on ships and vanished, it left Drodh and the other Orcish nations nearly depopulated."
Karl felt the butterfly perk up in her space. This was a huge lore drop, and it would make a great play.
Davis brought out a map, so the others could see where Nachtia was talking about. Once he could see it on the map, Karl realized that he could indeed detect a Guild Branch there, but it was simply labelled {Out Of Range}.
He couldn't communicate with it from here.
Remi laughed as Nachtia finished her story. "She just tricked an entire species into going on a ten thousand year long treasure hunt? That is epic. I'm not normally the sort for practical jokes, but to send them all hunting for sothing that doesn't exist and keep them at it? Glorious."
Nachtia chuckled. "Oh, it exists. They just haven't managed to find it. According to the Black Dragon's history books, it looks like this."
She took out a small holy book, similar to the prayer books that Tessa and Lotus carried, and flipped it open.
On the page was a hand drawn dragon scale, chipped and cracked. It was small, not a major armour scale, and sohow familiar.
[I think we have that.] Karl noted as he stared at the drawing.
[It's in a box in Hawk's space.] Remi agreed.
Hawk thought about it for a few seconds. He rembered that thing from sowhere.
The disappointing broken thing that he had stolen from the Totems. Where did he put that?
He flipped through boxes of treasures, and then found what he was looking for. A small golden scale, buried among assorted flawed gems and water elent items.
Hawk's equivalent of a trash pile.
He brought it out and dusted it off, now that he knew it was simply ancient and not junk.
It was a bit shinier than he rembered as well, while the other stuff in the box was dimr.
Did it need energy to reform? He could feed it all the water elent magic that Remi didn't claim.
Remi ntally rolled her eyes at him. Water Elent magic was useful, and the items were valuable for trading. Plenty of people wanted them, but Hawk wanted to hoard them to limit the amount of water magic in the world.
[Be careful, or you'll make your space water elent, just with all the items you are hoarding.] She teased.
[Karl, Remi is cursing at again.]
Karl did his best not to let on that he knew where the broken scale was, or laugh at the internal thoughts of the beasts. He didn't want to look like a crazy man in front of their new friend.
"Well, if they do manage to find the shard of the World Dragon's Scale, things will certainly begin to change in a hurry." Dana joked as she looked at the picture.
"They certainly would. It's said that once the shard is revealed and returns to its full potential, the entire world will enjoy the limitless potential of the System.
The problem is trying to keep it intact until then. More than a few groups, especially the stronger monsters, would prefer to see it destroyed, so that the weaker species can't use the System to usurp their power.
The humans have so mages among them, but out at the gate I saw a Slasher, a form of lesser Wrath Demon. Without the System, they can't make it over low Royal Rank. That one is an Overlord. The whole power balance of the world would change if the system collapsed entirely." Nachtia explained.
"And that would anger the Death God, as they have carefully balanced everything as it is now, and changing that balance so drastically would cause mass death." Karl realized.
The black dragon smiled. "You get it. The Death God likes things as they are. That's why I want to go on a hunting trip through the wild lands. To bring things back to a balanced state. But with Totem Ranked creatures out there, it's not a solo adventure."
Dana frowned at the cleric. She was really pushing to take Karl out on an adventure, but it was on that would not be safe for anyone under Overlord Rank. They simply didn't have the ability to properly defend themselves if a Totem Ranked beast attacked, and Karl would need to have all his focus on the battle, not on keeping his friends alive.
Why couldn't it have been a male dragon? This gender selective magnetism that Karl had was beginning to get on her nerves. What she needed was a fast way to get to Overlord Rank. If she could catch up in power, there would be no good reason to leave her behind.
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