57 Resurrection (1/2)

A human and a humanoid dragon were fighting against each other inside an immense cave, there were no spells or weapons, it was a contest entirely of brute physical power and martial arts, body against body.

The humanoid dragon had a heigh of 4 meters and a weight around a ton, with every swing of his arms gales of winds were created, and the human had a hight a little less than 2 meters and although his body was full of muscles, they could not compare with the ones the humanoid dragon had.

Despite all that, every time their fist crashed against each other, it was the humanoid dragon that ends as the weaker party.

´It's like if I am hitting the pointy end of a spear that treated to penetrate my arm,´ This was the feeling that the humanoid dragon had when he saw that ´tiny´ fist.

The ones fighting were Ezequiel and Rax, and the kobold was constantly on the losing side even though his body looks so much more impressive than his opponent. The metallic scales in his body cracked every time Ezequiel manage to impact an attack and when the kobold connected his punches on the body of his opponent it was like hitting a block of steel that was tempered to the maximum.

Ezequiel body may look weak and small compared to the immense draconic body that Rax has, but it was the opposite, his body had suffered dozen of compression as he advanced to rank 1, making his bones, muscles and organs reach so a density that it will be easier damaging a peak rank 0 magic armor than him.

The two continue fighting and every movement they take seems to be flowing perfectly, moving their bodies exactly the right amount putting them in the perfect position to continue their attacks, dodge or distance themself, generating endless opportunities and variations that were maximizing their power with every step they take.

The two were practicing their path techniques, more specifically the part which describes the control over their body and martial techniques. At the beginning neither of the two thought too much of them, after all, although they use their bodies during a battle they mostly did it in a raw and brutish way but the moment they begin practicing it, they were marveled by the possibilities that opened to them in a fight, so they were competing against each other every day to polish their abilities.

They were not the only ones in the caves, there were hundreds of kobolds in this place, although calling them kobold felt wrong seen that every single one looks like dragonborns. Some were meditating, others were practicing spells or martial arts and a couple of them were processing the bodies of magical creatures to eat them later. The discipline and effort that everyone in the cave put in every single task was amazing, well except for a little dog that spent all his time running from one place to another.

Zatiel was in a corner of the cave and besides him was wooden coffin, he was observing them and was pleased with they attitude everyone was showing and from time to time they came to him to ask about their doubts and he did his best to help them, but seeing the aura in this place some thoughts came to his head.

´Why does this place look like a sect from the Immortal Plane, and I look like a sect master?´ As Zatiel amuses himself with the comparison with one of the major powers of the universe, someone enters the cave.

It was a beautiful blue-haired woman with mysterious red eyes, she searches for Zatiel and came flying to him, in his face was a gorgeous smile and for some reason, it looks like she had dropped a great weigh of his shoulders. The woman was Sophia that had returned after a couple of weeks being out.

Once she reached Zatiel, he looks at her and speaks. ”By your expression, I guess that everything went well with the village that you grow up.”

”Yes, even though some years had passed all the people were still there, I moved them to a safe place inside a mortal kingdom and manipulate the minds of all the nobles so they will protect them, and just like you said, I make sure of leaving no evidence of my involvement.” Sophia knows that those people are his soft spot, so she made sure of erasing any connection she had with them, otherwise, they will become a target due to their weak power.

”I almost forgot, here are the materials you ask me to collect, some of them were pretty difficult to get. What are they for?” Sophia handed Zatiel his spatial ring that was now full of all types of material that were full of negative natural energy.

”It is for bringing back the mother of Kylo. The simplest spell that involves resurrection is a rank 3 one, but I was able to alter it so it will be rank 2, although this will limit greatly the abilities of the spell, since I will only use it to bring back the soul of a rank 0 being, it will be more than enough, but even then a rank 2 spell is beyond my current capabilities so I will have to use runes to activate the spell.” Zatiel assesses the content of the ring and nodded as he found everything he needed.