Tania POV:

My name is Zothrax, I am a warrior and I am part of the Adventurer's Guild. Here in the Overseas Territories, the country of Zantar is the freest country on the continent.

Humans and other races are free to come and go and there is no discrimination as in the Sinitrar Empire or the Majestia/Kanda-ar Kingdom since they merged.

The northern lands of the demon lord are taken over by Sinistrar.

They made an incursion into Orc territory and took over the Argonian lands north of Orc territory.

The Orcs are scattered now but they have been decimated by the Imperial Dragons.

You look like you're new here. You really don't know the kingdom of dragons?

I: "I was captured like an animal by slave traders and during the journey, the slaves taught me to talk and a little magic. Then we mutinied and Aurore who had nowhere to go stayed with me. I'm very wild, like a barbarian, but I don't eat humans. I was human before I was like this..."

Zothrax: "My God, what can we do to help you regain your appearance?"

Me: "Above all, I love my new life and for nothing in the world I wouldn't change! Thank you, but I'm happy like that!"

"And feathers and teeth and claws??? it's not too hard????"

Me: "I love my feathers, they are chic, my teeth, perfect for the raw meat that I love and my claws, no need for swords... And it repairs itself, no maintenance, just sharpen it up a little...

Zothrax: "MMMM I see, but others might think you're a monster... Yes, joining the guild would be a good idea. Let's go there"

so Zothrax, Aurore and I went to the building with a round dome on top.

Inside, shaded areas for a little freshness and a massive stone structure on columns generated a light but pleasant breeze to give a relaxed and fresh atmosphere to the adventurers and merchants who came and went.

A few guards were put down there and there but obviously the place was peaceful.

Ideal for a successful business.

We arrived at a counter and a small bald man with pointed ears, a kind of gnome was standing on the counter, impossible for him otherwise, otherwise all men would have to lie flat on the counter and look down to see him.

"Ladies??? Ah Zothrax! Are you here to introduce us to some new recruits? Thank you, I'll take care of it."

Skig: "Hello Miss??? and Madam????? You're veiled, and I can't see your face clearly."

Aurore: "Hello Mr. Skig, it's me Aurore, Annabelle's daughter. Do you remember?"

Skig: "Ah, yes, Annabelle??? It's been a long time since I've seen her..." He saw that Aurore was starting to cry... "Oh, no, my little one, I'm sorry" and he handed her a handkerchief. "Keep it to dry your tears. Don't tell me that..."

Seeing the mark of the bracelets still visible..."

"No, poor child... Come into Uncle Skig's arms..." it was the opposite, but the intention counted.

"Are you travelling with the lady?"

Me : "Tania!"

"Thank you Tania for taking care of the poor Aurora. Come into my office, we'll have tea together and it'll be more discreet."

Skig jumped off his counter and signaled to us to follow him.

We went down a few stairs and went into a corridor with many rooms separated by thick canvases but letting the air pass through by lace patterns. The windows overlooked the sea delta and the beach. It was much cooler and carpets hanging from the ceiling connected by a rope and the rope to a water wheel served as ventilation.

Now I understand why the ceilings are high, it was to hang carpets that chase away hot air.

Skig jumped on a stool and took a teapot and served the three of us some tea and then served himself.

"Orangette? Sugar?"

He served us candy made from lokum, a kind of gel and sugar marzipan.

A DELICE.

My hands and head were heavily hidden by sails and my "Burka" fell to my legs and tail.

I was giant here and Skig could fit in the palm of my "Hand" let's say I could swallow it all at once without even chewing a little.....

Zothrax: "Voila Tania is, how can we say, an intelligent creature, a kind of Raptor endowed with a spirit, a kind of dragon or a lizard woman, very marked. But she hides her appearance..."

Skig:" I see but before you get prejudiced, Tania, could you touch the globe here? This will make it possible to create an identification valid throughout the kingdom. Of course, everything here is confidential. I as one of the guild masters can manually force the globe to give you an identification in case the globe doesn't work but I can't influence the statistics which are only indicative

Aurore then placed her hands on the globe and a light appeared and symbols were reflected on a parchment leaf.

Dawn:

Breed: Human

Origin: Zantar

Skills (Particularities) :

Apprentice Mage level 3

Warrior (w"specialty"): 3

Title :

Dragon Pupil

Class: E

Skig: "Well, you have a promising future, Aurora. Ah, you have the blessing of a dragon... wonderful. Welcome to the guild. You can join a team of the same level and you can already go hunting.

Your turn, Tania. I am on the same line with you because you have taken little Aurora under your protection and you have freed her from an infernal yoke.

You can put your hands on the globe.

I put my hands on the globe, which instantly began to shine so brightly that surrounding fabrics began to smoke.

Then a reflection appeared on a parchment leaf:

Tania:

Breed: ex - Human / Now Dragon Deinonychus Queen

Origin: Earth (Overseas)

Skills (Particularities) :

Mage level 12

Warrior (specialty): 80

Title :

Class S Heroin

Hidden: Queen of Raptors (The raptors submit to Tania and execute her orders without any form of resistance)

Master Hunter

Hidden: Master Assassin.

Skig trembled when he saw the leaf.

"I understand why you hide your appearance.

Can I just see your eyes?

Skig glittered when he saw just my eye revealed...

"Well, I'll be fine, thank you... I trust you because Aurore trusts you but be careful not to scare people. It could bring you misfortune and suffering. I know you have a good heart.

Here, here's your guild membership card and I advise you to put on a tail ring like great lizard men do. With the guild logo it makes them more human. Put on gaiters and a loincloth and keep your mouth veiled, some barbaric jewellery and ornaments on your feathers and a little top on your chest as you are a female And you should be fine. As you are, slave traders could jump on you. I know you have nothing to fear, but they have connections and it could make you criminal and wanted by being innocent."

I said, "Thank you. I'll take your advice and thank you for the tea!"

Zothrax: "Impressive. I wouldn't stand a chance against you......

But if you're looking for a group of adventurers, you could come and join us if you want?

It is the "dragon's tail" team that we called it and I am the leader of the group. Of course, Aurore can come and she only has to stay in the back and she will catch up with us quickly.

We are a level C group, one of the strongest in the city."

"And what do you do as an adventurer?"

"We explore the ruins of ancient temples and collect artifacts that we have identified to the guild or the guild of the magi, to the academy."

"I need equipment..."

Zothrax then took me to an alchemist and I made my requests to him

lead salt of copper and zinc sheets, sulphur and coal and saltpeter, olive oil and lead oxide, blue vitriol, and alum and silica powder

I was asking to use his laboratory.

I boiled the saltpeter and the blue vitriol

and alum

And I got nitric acid

Then, by lowering the temperature with salt and water in a water bath I obtained ice and cooled the nitric acid and then I boiled olive oil with lead oxide and obtained glycerin.

Then came the dangerous moment, when I mixed the silica powder with the other 2 components and obtained dynamite!

I wrapped my dough in papyrus leaves to make sausages and made black powder into a paste by grinding the coal into nanopowder and mixing it in saltpeter and sulphur.

I obtained my primers and wicks them by dipping the mixture in wax.

With a few kilos, we then went to the blacksmith's and I presented the dwarf with pieces of my dragunov.

Me: "I want the same one in 3 times bigger! and the ball tips are hollow"

The dwarf tells me: this blowgun is very complex and whoever produced it is a genius...

This will take time and be very expensive. At least 100 gold pieces!"

Obviously I don't have that amount........

Mr. Dwarf, I have something that could be used to destroy rocks in mines. If I give you the formula, can you make me my gun?

They went into the back room and I told him: "Show me the hardest stone that resists magic...

Hummer:" MWI this'Roch the eski hurts my back the most to break. We don't know how to move forward.... When you fall down lad su, it's the end of the mine. but the most beautiful gems are in it....

A small hole was drilled in the rock and I put gunpowder in it and I packed it with a wood and put a long drill bit.

I lit the bad guy and told him to get out!

BAOUM! the rock exposed in a thousand pieces.

A THOUSAND first!

Bachi bousack!

The dwarf was sounded but he saw gems trapped in the rock and released...

SUPER. I'm going to make a fortune with this.

I gave him a small barrel as a down payment and he started working.

He asked me some questions about how to make the gun and I made him some diagrams of precision tools, including the construction of a lathe and a milling machine and gearbox, soaking and nitriding by cooking in oil.

We spent a week exchanging techniques but he found my ideas for standardizing tooling brilliant and he moved his forge near the river where he installed a paddle wheel with his friends and leather belts and a whole mechanism on the ceiling to make an automatic bellows, a belt lathe and a belt milling machine.

A tube mill for mandrels and a complete metrology system, the shape of the cutting tools and the use of cutting oil and white water.

In one month, his workshop went from a medieval forge to a workshop at the end of the 19th century... roughly speaking, he made a 1000 year technological leap.

I gave him the plans of a pocket watch and a miniature electric motor and copper wire with rubber insulation braided with fabric and vulcanized.

He had no idea, but he made me magnets, mini magnets. I had all the plans in the GPS and map assistant because there was an encyclopedia in it and lots of technical plans to rebuild a civilization...

My goal was to rebuild detonators and time bombs and provide me with equipment.

I had concluded with him that if he betrayed me or sold the technology to others, I would personally take care of him.

For that I showed him my mouth full of teeth and I showed him the screen with the map that even underground I will find him and Aurore shot me an arrow on it to show him that my feathers are more solid than mythrile and impenetrable as the best armor.

I wasn't kidding.

Then I went to meet Zothrax at the Adventurer's Guild where she was waiting for me to introduce me to her friends.

Hello, my name is Sibile, a Kajit, dressed in suede leather, an armor equipped with nails and iron rings well arranged to stop a stabbing and the typical clothing of thieves.

"My specialty is finding and defusing traps."

Hello:" My name is Montaron, I am a magician of chaos and I love everything that burns! But you are very tall, my dear, but I also like tall ones. He was dressed in a brown dress with a stick and an eye on his cape."

Zothrax: "Don't mind him, he's the pervert of the group. He's after everything with a skirt. Even the Argonians, although... "

Montaron: "You're hard on me but I love it when you hit me with Zothrax"

Hello, I'm Arkans, I'm the priestess of the group and I take care of an orphanage and I make ends meet with my adventures. But I can't stay in the church because I'm a half wolf. "

And she showed her pretty white tail and sharp wolf ears.

"I hope you don't mind?"

Zothrax:" Yes, Tania is special and is a unique breed. Don't be afraid. "

I took off my sails and showed myself under my true appearance.

"I can't hide forever, so take a good look at me.

Well I love fresh flesh and blood like any super predator but I don't eat humans. I was born human but the corruption of a portal transformed me as well.

I'll stop you right there.... I love my new appearance... so I don't need your pity.

I know how to be very kind, but don't make fun of me. I knock first and then I tell you... OK? Then we'll be good friends.

I'll let you know right away. All that has to do with portals is my preserve, okay? I don't care about the rest!

The others swallowed when they saw me and my pretty teeth, especially the claws.

To reassure the group, Aurore jumped on me.

Come on, Tantante, I'm hungry!

We all went to the tavern for a drink and discussed our preparations for our next adventure in the big labyrinth near the city, a new dungeon that has just been discovered.

It seems that there is "The Eye of God" at the bottom of the labyrinth according to the deciphered inscriptions at the entrance.