After taking care of everything that happened around us, we restored the destructions and crater-filled lands with broken forestry to make the place look more decent.

We just filled the hollowed lands, collected the tree logs and uprooted the broken tree trunks and piled them to one side and completely incinerated them. Lam’gurd said that it’s okay because it will grow back in the future.

Me, Messiah along with Wendy sat to the side of the camp that we’ve set up in the barren part of the foggy forest along with the lying, huge body of the Lam’gurd who’s resting. Then Lam’gurd started to talk.

“Atoria is a World governed by the Seven Gods of Races. It has many continents and we are in a continent named ‘Dracoia Continent’ that is under the authority of the one that I serve as my Lord God, Dragon God • Shelzard.”

Uwah~, that sounds like a foreshadowing that would make troublesome events to happen if ever I get involve.

“That’s right! I remember that when we came here, we were inside a temple in the middle of the plains away from here. Do you know anything about that place?”

It would be suspicious if we know name of the temple when we just arrived here. I’m not sure if the [Game System] existed in this world too, but base on my conversation with Lam’gurd, it seems that’s not the case.

“That place is called ‘Dragon God • Shelzards Temple. It was built by the Races Civilization of that time on the only place that was part of the ‘Dragon Holy Lands’ that was accessible by the Races a long time ago.”

Oh, so this place had a civilization here.

“What’s the ‘Dragon Holy Lands’, we didn’t encounter any city ruins or civilization on the way here, is this civilization a little more distance away here?”

This ‘Dragon Holy Lands’ probably the Plateau in the North, the huge ocean bodies in the west and the vast barren lands in the South when I just got out of the temple in the DragonEye Plains. It really is not accessible by anyone by looking at what I saw in the [Mini-Map] even if it was opened by the Dragons at that time.

“The ‘Dragon Holy Lands’ was the lands that was ones blessed by our Lord God Shelzards himself. I was only a Lesser Dragon at that time when these lands were a home to the majority of the Dragons who roams this world. And only the DragonEye Plains, which is the name of the place you have arrived to, was opened to the Races that have ones lived just outside of the Istreadore Mountain Ranges, which was the natural boundary that separates the Dragon Holy Lands and the Civilization at that time.”

Ah! So this civilization is only after I got out of these mountain ranges. Maybe Lam’gurd is something like a guardian that guards the entrance to this Holy Lands.

“The civilization you’re talking about is only after this last mountain, right? They’re the ones that built that temple there. Why’s the temple so far away from the civilization.”

“Elder Dragon Lam’gurd, may I also ask what happened to this civilization and to the Dragons in ‘Dragons Holy Lands’?”

Messiah also asked Lam’gurd. Yeah, I was kinda curious in regards to that too.

“First, Dragon Knight Carlos, you are right. The name of this civilization is the Kingdom of Alandal and I am sorry to inform you that I am not very familiar with Alandal. By the time that this Kingdom was at its peak, I am only a Lesser Dragon that resides within the DragonEye Plains. Even though it was my home, I still didn’t have any contact to the civilization at that time and didn’t care about the temple they’ve built there. “

Yeah~, and because of your pride, it didn’t get you to give us any helpful information at all.

“Alandal was a Kingdom that makes Lesser Dragon their companions to strengthen their military might. And the home to a majority of the Lesser Dragon at that time was the DragonEye Plains. But as I, a promising Lesser Dragon at that time, I cannot accept an inferior race becoming my companion and because of this, I don’t know any useful information as to what exactly happened to Alandal and how it perished. All I know is that they have angered our Lord God Shelzard and brought upon an Apostle of our Lord to fully erase the Kingdom of Alandal from the history”

Ahh~, that didn’t really give us any useful information about our circumstances. And what’s up with the tragic story, should every ancient civilization always have a dark background?

“And this all happened almost 1000 years ago. Like I said, I was only a Lesser Dragon at that time. After the destruction of the Kingdom of Alandal, majority of the Dragons left the Dragons Holy Lands and I was one of them. The Elder Dragons at that time didn’t gave us the exact reasons why that event happened, but after I became a full pledge Dragon, I was appointed 500 years ago as a guardian of the one of entrances to the Dragons Holy Lands, which is this Istreadore Mountain Ranges”

What!? All of that happened almost 1000 years ago? That shouldn’t have any connection as to how we arrived here, right? That happened so long ago!

And I think Lam’gurd is saying the truth. Base on how he described the Evolution of Dragon. In [Fantasy End], the background story of how a Dragon naturally evolved is that after hatching, they become an Infant Dragon for 20 years, Then Lesser Dragon until they’ve reached 200 years to fully become a full pledge Dragon. And after passing 1000 years, they become an Elder Dragon just like Lam’gurd.

“What do you think, Messiah? I don’t think this Kingdom of Alandal is the one responsible for us being here.”

I know I might be jumping into conclusion, but with that time frame, I don’t think it has any connection with us being here.

“I understand what you are thinking, Young One. But we can’t rule out the fact that we’ve arrived in a placed built by this Kingdom of Alandal. We can always investigate this, so don’t to rush and make any conclusion.”

“That makes sense. I got it, Messiah. We can just always come back here.”

Messiah was right. It just that this is all too troublesome~, I get to finally come to another world, is there a need for a reason to come here? I guess Messiah needs one.

“Okay! Since we didn’t get the exact reason on why and how we got here. We have to learn common sense and thing about this world first. I’m going to expect things to you Lam’gurd.”

“You are right, Young One. We need to know how the standard citizen lives in this world. It would be troublesome if you stand out too much in the start. Many things will be in our way if that happens.”

I understand what Messiah is saying, but I will not hold anything back if it’s necessary. I always hated the protagonist of certain novels where they have the strength to do things but choose to hide it because of some unknown enemy might target them.

“I want to apologize as I am not able to give you any useful information about your circumstances here. I will do my best to answer all your questions or request if it is within my ability.”

I know that he doesn’t know about the relevant things that we needed and we can’t do anything about it now. It just that this Elder Dragon should be familiar with what’s the exact details when it comes to what happened to his own kind. Hah~, I was just disappointed.

“It’s okay, I understand. You should be familiar with this World, especially with the topography of the Dracoia Continent, right?”

“Do not worry, as I know very well this continent as I was one of the Dragons who almost roamed the whole Dracoia Continent. And because of that I am quite familiar with some of the few Kingdoms that I visited in this continent. I’m just not sure if it’s still the same because all of that happened 500 years ago, but I can assure you that I know the common sense of the inferior races that I visited”

“What? You visited a Kingdom? You didn’t scare them?”

“For us Dragons, especially me, an Elder Dragon, Shapeshifting is one of the basics for us to learn to be a full fledge Dragon. It should be the same with other higher classes of life forms. Great Spirit Messiah should be able to do it.”

What!? Then why are you not doing it, Messiah?

“You didn’t ask. Why would I purposely shapeshift as a human?”

Ah! Is that right? I guess I’m the one to blame-. Like that’s the case! And how the hell did he know what I was thinking, I didn’t even talk!?

“Hah~, then how about you Lam’gurd, why can’t you just shapeshift into human right now?”

“I usually do it just to disguise as a part of the Race particular to the Kingdom. I don’t really like to look like them as it is making me feel like I am equal to the inferior Races. And I don’t have any energy right now~ I need to rest.”

Ah okay, is that so? This Dragon is really annoying when it comes to how arrogant it is. Can I kill you again?

“Okay, I understand. I will ask questions so if you too have questions, Messiah, just ask too, okay?”

“I got it, and Wendy too would like to ask some questions too.”

*Swoosh *Swoosh

“I understand, I’ll answer them to the best of my abilities.”

*****

And we ask questions related to what is common sense here in Atoria. We also asked how the topography of the Dracoia continent looked like.

We learned that besides the familiar Lord God of Lam’gurd, Dragon God • Shelzard, we also got to know the other six Gods that make up the Seven Gods or Races.

Dragon God • Shelzard, the ones who rules over War and Strength Beast Goddess • Fenu’rir, the ones who rules over Abundance and Fertility Divine God • Jesu’wha, the ones who rules over Life and Death Fairy Goddess • Xyara, the ones who rules over Craft and Magic Demon God • Gaius, the ones who rules over Justice and Destruction Light Goddess • Ryteia, the ones who rules over Harmony and Heaven Dark God • Ulysses, the ones who rules over Chaos and Underworld

The Dracoia Continent is under the Dragon God • Shelzards authority, so does the other continents all over the world of Atoria. All the Gods have their own continent under their authority but not all continents were under the authority of Gods. It just shows how big Atoria is.

And the bad sounding name of some Gods doesn’t mean they’re evil. It just that they’re authority balanced the world to keep it out of destruction.

We acquired such information about the possible countries within the Dracoia Continent that we can go to, and the most nearest country is just after a jungle past a line of mountains straight to the east. It is called the Avalon Kingdom.

About the things with monsters we encountered, we learned from Lam’gurd that there is no such thing as ‘Miasma’ in this world of Atoria. All of those that is categorized to have intelligence is called the ‘Races’ and the one that remains is called ‘Creatures’. ‘Magic Creatures’ can be either a ‘Race’ or a ‘Creature’ depends if it have any intelligence. And for the last part, ‘Creatures’ that use instincts to think is being categorized to two, ‘Monsters’ if it is harmful and have hostility to anyone or ‘Animals’ if it is useful and tamable to be used by the ‘Races’.

It was at this part that I finally realized that this should have been solved if I just looked at the [Bestiary]. It was of course, Messiah who reminded me this and got criticized again because of it. Lam’gurd was kind of confused as he didn’t get what we were talking about and just explained that Messiah can just tell the differences of the life forms.

The standard quality of the Race of Human, who is able to live by being a mercenary, can kill an Orc by himself. And I was told by Lam’gurd that the Red Orcs, it was called Brutal Orcs, we encountered on the way here is a higher class compared to the normal Orc a human can kill.

About the unusual phenomenon that happened in the DragonEye Plains, Lam’gurd explained that he didn’t know that the Mana Concentration of the whole Dragons Holy Lands, DragonEye Plains was a part of this, was slowly diminishing when he left and by the time he became a guardian, he just learned that the Mana Concentration on the whole Dragons Holy Lands finally disappeared. We told him that just a month ago the Mana Concentration began to fill the lands again.

We came to the conclusion that this phenomenon was something related to us arriving in this world. But because we don’t have any supporting evidence besides it started when we arrived, we will just make sure to include this in our investigation.

As for what Wendy wanted to ask, the Dragon Holy Lands, this includes the DragonEye Plains, will have a high Mana Concentration again. The Spirits that roams around will be drawn to this place and Wendy wanted to let this Spirits live in this place for a while when there’s no other Races, Magic Creatures or Creatures in it yet. Of course Lam’gurd said yes and also promised to protect them as long as it is not too troublesome.

And finally about the civilization that one’s prevailed here will be on the way so we planned to check it for a while. We might at least get the slightest bit of useful information if we visit that place. It is a vast ruin of the kingdom that is covered by thick forestry. And it is only after the mountain we are on right now.

And that is our destination right now. I was offered by Lam’gurd that he will guide us the Ruins of the Kingdom of Alandal.

After the three days of resting and fun accompany of Lam’gurd, we started to clean up the camp and the get ready to journey again.

“If it is okay with you, Dragon Knight Carlos, it would be great if we fly toward the ruins by riding in my back, is that okay?”

“Ah, it’s okay. Messiah and Wendy can keep up with us. Is that alright with you, Messiah?”

“Whatever you want, Young One”

*Swoosh *Swoosh

And we finally left the last mountain the Istreadore Mountain Ranges. Our Destination is the Ruins of the Ancient Kingdom of Alandal.