Son of the Hero King

Chapter 241 CH 216: TEASING A DRAGON

'Interesting.'

Tiamat thought as she stood up from her throne.

Sol's training had been extremely interesting in her opinion. She was surprised to find that she had learned many things.

For one, his decision to cut short his training in Tartarus surprised her since this had happened in none of the futures she had seen.

At the end of the day, her foresight, future sight wasn’t her specialty and she could only observe a limited amount of possibilities in the stream of time.

Still, she was gratified by his sight since it showed that he understood his limit very well and was ready to strive for greater heights.

Sol already had pretty interesting skills. What he did with his dimension in order to avoid Nabu's attack particularly intrigued her.

Dimensional Mages had the highest survival rate because even at the King or Demigod level, there weren't many who could directly affect space and time.

Even for those that could, it wasn't as if they could completely counter dimensional mages either.

One of the reasons was clearly because a dimensional mage could enter his dimension at any moment and the more skilled they were, the less time it took to hide in the dimension.

But what Sol did was completely different. In the first place, the different dimensions had different ways of working so it was expected.

For most of them, once they entered their dimension, they could not see what was happening to the other side without opening a portal.

But Sol, even in his dimension, could see everything that happened in another dimension. At least from what she understood.

This was perhaps the reason why he was able to do what he did.

'I wonder what his dimension encroachment would look like.'

She smiled at the thought. It had been a long time since she had been so excited about training someone of the young generation.

Not even for Blaze since there wasn't really much to teach to a Chaos Dragon aside from knowing what kind of hit one should take and what should be avoided.

With Sol, on the other hand, she had finally found a true inheritor that would receive all her skills.

'Let's work on the schedule program again. I will leave him to Kiyohime for a week or two to help him unwind.'

For the training in Tartarus, the most important wasn't how much they evolved while being down there, but how they changed after coming back to the surface.

Some of them became dominated by the killing intent while others never managed to get their sanity back.

Of course, this happened to a very small minority of weak-minded dragons. If Sol crumbled from only so much, then it would be extremely disappointing.

All she could do now was wait for the Nornes sisters.

—--

‘Ugh! It feels suffocating.’

The moment Sol appeared above the sea, he was so surprised that he didn’t even bother taking out his wing and fell down helplessly with a splash in the water.

Since then, he had been floating aimlessly, letting the waves send him wherever they wished to.

He felt so sluggish. He wished to do nothing. He didn’t even wish to sleep - just letting his mind stay completely still and void.

Strength came back to his eyes as the depression and sluggishness was completely swept away.

He remembered why he came to the Astral World and how much he was willing to sacrifice for them. Even though his mind was tired and he did need some rest, he couldn’t let his mental states deteriorate further.

Kiyohime, who had been observing Sol, was quite surprised. She didn’t find his previous state foreign.

After leaving the gloom and darkness as well as the stained energy of Chaos in Tartarus, all young dragons would fall into a daze.

How long this lasted depended on the individuals but, while most always managed to break away, some others would fall further in the abyss of madness.

'Even after deteriorating, his mental state is still quite good.'

"Let's go back to my Island. You need to rest."

Sol didn't bother arguing and followed her Kiyohime.

The call of a comfortable and large bed did sound very appealing.

—--

[7th Heaven]

While Sol was climbing up the heavens on Kiyohime's ship, Isis was facing a very uncomfortable situation.

Currently, Isis was being surrounded by a group of people composed of dragons, elves, and dryads.

While Dryads were originating from the Territory of Yggdrasil, this didn't mean that they couldn't settle down outside of their home.

'I have been careless.'

The last time, when Isis descended on the 7th heaven alongside Nent, nothing noteworthy had happened and their outing had been pretty mundane.

This gave her the illusion that she could do everything herself and as such, she decided to come to visit a store with Sheherazade's help.

At first, everything had been alright and everyone was happy.

But suddenly one crazy woman came and asked her to sell Sheherazade to her. The worse was that, once this didn't work, she began to threaten them and even found a Dryads to play the witness.

Isis didn't care whether Sheherazade was really a criminal or if it was just a ploy. There was absolutely no way she was going to give her friend away.

"I said that this fairy is a criminal in our territory, are you really willing to protect her?"

"I don't care."

"You...!"

Faint black flames began to flicker as Nent wondered whether she should just burn all those bastards alive.

"What going on?"

Isis turned towards the source of the voice that interrupted them and then squinted.

She usually didn't pay attention to people in general because of her upbringing, but she still remembered the man that appeared.

After all, from what she heard, he was supposedly one of the most powerful young dragons Sol would have to face.

He was none other than the descendant of Fafnir–

–Kaiser.