Chapter 401 - Part of the empire (1/2)

The group had a set of mixed reactions to hearing Bliss mention the word Dragon's blood. The students found it hard to keep their laughter down until eventually, Flynn couldn't take it anymore.

”Haha, seriously, I know you might want to keep the secret ingredient a secret, but Dragon's blood, that doesn't even exist.”

However, as soon as he said this, he saw the look on the faces of the others, and they all were very serious, not a single one of them seemed to be laughing.

”Wait, you mean dragons are real!” Wendy asked.

”Well, In all honesty,” Martha replied, ”We're pretty sure they are indeed real.”

”Yeah, we've even seen one,” Kyle added.

”Stop your gibberish, do you really think I would believe that?” Flynn replied.

”Well, not exactly a Dragon,” Harry replied. ”It was a Wyvern if I am not wrong. You kids are new, so you don't know much about this, but when the Shadow Plague had attacked, it was what saved us at the time. A giant blue wyvern. If they can exist, then I'm pretty sure at some point and time dragons have also existed.” While saying these last words, Harry couldn't help but look at Bliss's expression.

She truly was an ancient being who had lived for a long time. She knew things which weren't common knowledge. She wouldn't be lying at all about something like this, Harry thought. The real question was, how did she even get her hands on a Dragon's blood in the first place since they were the most fearsome beings in existence.

”A Dragon huh…” Scarlett mumbled with her head down.

”I didn't mean to disappoint you,” Bliss said with her hand reaching out.

But when Scarlett raised her head, she just had a serene smile. ”No, don't worry. It just means I'm one step closer in achieving my goal. Now we know something works. Maybe we can find something that replicates it, and who knows maybe the Dragons aren't extinct and have just gone into hiding. All we have to do now is to find a way.”

Everyone there felt like Scarlett was truly an amazing person. Somehow she was able to put a positive spin on things, and Bliss didn't want to ruin that. Like she said, maybe not all Dragons had died, some may have gone into hiding; in fact, there was one right under her nose. The blood from Ray wouldn't work right now, but maybe one day as he started to evolve, they would eventually be able to use his blood.

'That's if that guy even lets us use his blood.' Bliss thought.

The group continued on with their task of clearing out the land; they needed a few acres if they wanted to grow a decent amount of crops to boost the city. They would also have to build a storage place and most likely living quarters for those protecting the farm. If all went as planned, this would bring a lot of benefits in the upcoming future.

Each time, Bliss and Lenny would go into action a set of beast creatures who were nearby would come towards them. Most of them were dealt with quickly as they were of the Basic Tier. This was as expected due to where they were, along the outskirts of the border. Only deeper into the shadow continent did the high tiered shadow beasts exist. This made their work pretty easy.