Chapter 696: Answer (1/2)

One year passed at the Blue Mountain Tribe…

A lot of changes had occurred thanks to Vendrick, Arthur and Rosa's help. Well, Vendrick's just mostly paying attention to his training and would only occasionally give instructions to Arthur and Rosa which made the two the true new leaders of the tribe.

Thanks to their help, the living conditions of the tribe turned for the better. First they made numerous changes to the tribe. They dug wells, taught them how to raise animals, farm, construct better homes, fortified the walls, and all sorts of skills needed for basic survival in this dangerous land. They even educated everyone without discrimination, now everyone can read and write the language of the tribe. Vendrick supplied them with necessary materials and books they can use for research.

They also taught them how to become a human essentially, Rosa was in charge of teaching them how weave wool and silk into better clothing, she taught them sanitation, cooking, preserving food and etc. Meanwhile, Arthur was in charge of teaching them how to do better manual labor. All this while they never ran out of food again thanks to Vendrick who would occasionally hunt and bring back game en masse.

Sufficed to say, the Tribe had become a batter place for them. The comfort they are now enjoying not only made them happy and satisfied but also secured. Thanks to this, the population of the tribe increased exponentially as time went on.

If Arthur and Rosa was referred to as the True Leaders of the Tribe, Vendrick would undoubtedly be called their Guardian.

Like what was mentioned earlier, Vendrick didn't appear often within the tribe since he mostly focused on training and cultivating. Despite that however, everybody knew that all the changes that made their tribe a better place won't be possible if Vendrick wasn't around.

Everyone is aware that he didn't like the idea of looking after the tribe and they weren't resentful of that, they have Arthur and Rosa for that matter anyways so they just left him be. Still, all of these people treated Vendrick with outmost respect, it could be said that they were even worshipping him. To them, Vendrick was the reincarnation of the Berserker God who will lead the tribe to rise.

The old and corrupted tribe leaders along with their descendants had died and was forgotten by the tribe already. Why would they remember those who mistreated them anyway? There's just no use to that. Additionally, thanks to Arthur and Vendrick's instructions, a new wave of Berserkers are on the rise, these people are much stronger compared to those dead fools and every single one of them were loyal to tribe.

With a such a large influx of military strength, of course the tribe became self-sufficient as well. Right now, Arthur and Rosa wasn't as busy as they were before, therefore they too could focus on their training.

The two of them already activated all of them Berserker Veins, cleansed their blood and were now fortifying their bones. Transforming their entire skeletal system to a set of Berserker Bones would take a long time to do but every increase causes their strength to skyrocket.

Meanwhile, Vendrick as someone who had never been idling on his training, had already condensed his Dragon's Aura to it's absolute potency, now he's just a step away from condensing his Dragon Heart. That being said, it is rather difficult to condense a Dragon Heart, he had been accumulating for nearly three months just for this sake but he's missing the deciding factor to move-on.

”…what Law should I use as a core?”

Vendrick had been stuck in this phase, the last wall he had to break in order to advance was something that he, strangely, could've decided randomly.

Condensing a Dragon's Heart requires him to condense a Law and make it a seed he could nurture to become his Dragon's Heart.

Vendrick had invoked the essence of Destruction and Creation Laws to his Dragon's Aura before resulting in him basically cultivating both laws up until now. Technically, he could've used one of these two as a seed to form his Dragon's Heart but he was skeptical.

Destruction and Creation, two opposing Laws. Vendrick grasped the Destruction Essence thanks to his experience so that was nothing surprising. Creation on the other hand, gave him a shock.

He didn't receive 'Enlightenment' per se, he's a Dragonborn, he doesn't require that. What happened was he got an inspiration during one of the times when he was watching the tribesmen making all sorts of improvement on the tribe. Unknowingly, his heart yearned for Creation and it answered him.

Since then, he had to constantly keep these two in check since if doesn't, it'll spell his doom. It's not like he learned to how balance the two, he's just doing his best to that. In order to truly balance them, he needed to cultivate the essence of 'Balance' another Law, and that would just be unwise.

This is what making his advancement complicated. The moment he choose one of his law as a seed to condense his Dragon's Heart, an imbalance would be created. That might result on him exploding on the process and he would very much prefer for that not to happen. This is why he had been stuck for quite sometime.

”Hmm...”