Chapter 529: 999/1000 (1/2)

'How many years has it been?' Ray wondered as he sat down on his own in a room created by himself. He started to think about the Dragon Krad and everything that had happened with the Shadow.

In the middle of these thoughts, the sound of crying could be heard. When he looked down, there was what resembled a fat potato with limbs.

”Boy, I know you just want attention but I have no clue what you want.” Ray said as he slowly started to swing his arms back and forth trying to calm him down.

”Can you please swing him gently, he's a baby. If he falls out of your hands what do you think will happen to him!” Sylvia said, agitated.

”Well he is my son, so he should at least survive a fall from this height.” Ray joked.

Taking the baby out of Ray's arms, Sylvia decided to take him to get some food before he threw up from being swung around too much.

'This parenting thing is difficult.' Ray thought.

As Sylvia left the room, another person had entered with a staff in her hand. She was once an enemy but now Ray didn't harbour any hard feelings towards her.

”What do you want, hag!” Ray said.

At least his feelings weren't as strong as before.

”You live a happy life now and you even have a kid, I just came to give you my usual warning.” Bliss said. ”Keeping that crystal from the Shadow Dragon will do you no good. It might cause more trouble than good.”

”I already told you I won't get rid of it. Do you have anything else you want to tell me?” Ray asked.

She paused for a second and wondered if she should say what she wanted to say, but after letting out a big sigh she decided to leave it.

”Ray, I have to thank you. You achieved my wish and everyone else's wish, but everyday you now live in fear. I feel you have to prepare for the worst that might come. You are only denying it.” Bliss said.

Ray knew what Bliss was talking about as they had gone over this many times before. When the shadow dragon was defeated, many things started to happen. The shadow remained in those that were infected but new infected no longer appeared. The land had also started to cleanse itself and the Redwings started to claim certain pieces of land bit by bit.

Several meetings had taken place between the kingdoms as to what to do with the shadow continent. At first, Ray thought that since only the Alure kingdom and Redwing kingdom had helped in defeating the shadow, it should be rightfully theirs, but Sylvia claimed that it wasn't the right thing to do and would cause more problems later on.

Finally they came to the conclusion that the land should split between all of the kingdoms, with the Redwings being able to pick their portion of land first. However despite being invited several times, the Empire had stayed completely out of negotiations, not responding to any of their invitations.

Everything seemed to be going well and Ray was even able to settle down. Finally Sylvia and Ray had made their feelings clear for each other, they had even gotten married and had a child. Everyone from the Redwings attended the wedding ceremony and Gary was even made to be their best man.