Five Years after the Dragon King saw his Phoenix combust into ash

 

“Your Excellency, we, your humble helpers, are all in agreement that you must have an heir! We have done as you said and waited, yet…”

“Speak further and you will lose a limb, humble helper…”

Silence overwhelmed the area…

A dozen men were on their knees in front of one man, a strong immortal that had the aura of a King. Only being one man, he dominated the room as though there were many, and his threat did more than bring silence to the room as the kneeling men in front of him also started to sweat…

The men, who called themselves humble helpers, were people that helped the King of Kings bring order to the countries yet had not been given a real status. They wished that they could be called ‘ministers’ or ‘governors’, but the Dragon King did not permit it.

Since he had made his rule, these humble helpers had come to help yet all this time they had not gained what some of them truly desire, leaving many of them in the past to leave.

It was good in a way, as the Dragon King found who was loyal to the people and who wasn’t. But, till this day, he believes that he will not give these people any kind of status to think that they held any type of power. He’d lived a long life and he did not care to much for people fighting over each other and that of a monarch…He’d much prefer to not have the power exist in the first place!

 

Because they all believed in the Dragon King and wanting to help him flourish, they were all in agreement for one reason of gaining an heir, yet it seemed they still did not have the complete courage to continue this conversation…

At first, because the golden maiden had wanted to marry this King, they had suggested marriage. They had known back then that the Dragon King was in fact immortal and didn’t need to be hasty on this subject, yet they had been able to process this marriage…For it to only to fail.

As the time had gone by, the golden maiden had wanted them all to approach the King of Kings like it was an advantage that he had an heir. If they state that it would be good for the people, it was a reason that they could use to appease the golden maiden. She had obviously made it to Immortal Realm as well, being able to live so long and give them more reason that she belonged with the King of Kings…So, they have tried now for years to get them together, only for them to always fail…

 

The men here had their families tell them that the golden maiden had come to the King of Kings a few centuries ago and since she has been the only one known to them to have come this far in cultivation, how could they suggest otherwise!

She was beautiful and compassionate, she was strong and had the aura of a beta. Even though she was not an alpha aura, it was overlooked because she was immortal and accepted into the palace…Yet, they do not know the reason why she could reside within the inner palace, as none of the helpers had ever been. Was it because her and the Dragon King already had a relationship? But if they had a relationship, why couldn’t they tell anyone?

And so, the rumors had already gone around, yet the Dragon King does not give out any type of response. Instead, he had other reasons that he kept the golden maiden, named Sharlae, close by.

Knowing of the creature that she held, he wished he could depend upon it, yet he was not entirely confident to trust her.

Having an indifferent attitude towards any type of romance, the Dragon King did not let on that he was ever interested, but he did let Sharlae stay close to him…So he could keep an eye on her!

The problem was, she was using her ‘position in the inner palace’, making things difficult!

He has thought about making her leave, yet, he also didn’t want her out there and doing whatever she pleased!

…She was immortal and that meant, he was the only one that could stop her if she were to do anything wrong, so, until he could find any type of grounds to detain her or somehow try to kill her, he would keep her close by instead.

Yet…She had not done anything wrong, except talk his helpers into making him marry!

And so, to this day, the King of Kings could only keep an eye on the other immortal, while these little helpers seem to have come under her command!

 

The one that had spoken for the rest of them had opened and closed his mouth a few times but did not utter another word…What was he to do!?

The lovely, golden maiden was waiting! She had said that if she were to become the Queen of Queens, she will implant a new system for them where they could hold some power and authority…Which was a big reason why nearly every helper was insistent upon the King of Kings to marry her!

If only she were to rise as the Dragon King’s wife, then they will be bathed and riches and power! But…They were still unable to get the King of King’s to even speak of the subject!

The humble helper wished dearly for these matters to occur himself, where the Dragon King would have an heir, but the idea of having more power and riches made him want to go that step further!

Yet…That step further was such a big leap! Especially if one of his limbs could be taken away!

He could not even bring up the idea of the Dragon King having more then one wife, as another way to approach the subject…It was an idea that they had used once already, which ended up being enough for the King to get engaged to the golden maiden all those years ago, but now…Now it was a completely different story!

The Dragon King had come utterly loyal to his phoenix and the idea of him having more then one wife seemed to be something they could no longer use!

 

“Your Excellency…” Was all he could say, unable to state more in fear in unknowing how to bring up the subject.

Could he instead state that a Queen is needed? But…They had already done that! His answer was that the phoenix will be Queen as soon as possible then!

Could he state that females where lining up from each country to meet him, even though the King of Kings was hardly seen? That even the King’s of the countries that they ruled were waiting for the Dragon King to finally have his own harem?

It had started to look extremely comical, having other King’s laugh at his lack of women! Yet, he was the strongest of them all! But, if he opened his gates to women, he’d have a harem of a thousand in probably just a month, yet…They are unable to bring up the women that would want to be with His Excellency because the golden maiden didn’t want other women in the palace!

So…What were they to use then!?

 

“If you are so eager, then I will go out and search for her personally once again. I have spent these years tending to crucial matters and have already thought of this particular idea. In just a few months, I will search for my phoenix!”

Looking up at the King of King’s, the ‘humble helper’ was unable to say another word.

It seems that the Dragon King was adamant and was even personally going out to find his phoenix now…The golden maiden will have to forgive him…

Perhaps, in due time, the Dragon King will return empty handed and then they could bring up this conversation again, but until then, there was nothing that he could do!

“Then, Your Excellency, I hope you will obtain what you desire, so that we can celebrate her upon your return.”

“Could I accompany you, My King?”

Turning, the ‘humble helper’ saw the golden maiden and couldn’t help but feel bad for not being able to achieve what both of them had wanted.

“No, I will leave on my own. It is also a good time to personally see how each country is doing.”

 

 

Years went by, forming a change to the Questro country and their King. With the Dragon King finding out that his phoenix had once been there, he took his revenge in bringing back order into Torte and personally dealing with quite a few of the people living there! It was truly the fastest time that a country had come back to being in order, from the Dragon King being the King of Kings!

Normally in the past, he had not left his castle to personally come to the countries, but since he was personally there and being his dominate, alpha self, everything was done very quickly! Especially since he found that he was absolutely angry and dissatisfied, so he didn’t tolerate any more misbehaving, disloyalty or greedy people!

He truly became a tyrant, not long after he flew into Questro, and that didn’t seem to disappear for a while…

Not just a few were imprisoned and tortured for information, but a few people were killed in finding witnesses, or other evidence, to state that some of them had tortured his phoenix!

Feathers were found, uncurable sickness being cured and old blood, that was different to everyone else’s, was found to support much of these claims to punish many of those in the Mosquito Clan!

 

Laws were put in place and old laws were renewed and retold to the whole country!

Written pages, that continuously spoke what was written on them in the Dragon King’s personal voice, flew out everywhere, stating that it was forbidden to enslave others, and the Dragon King demanded his humble helpers to rally this information through speech in the whole country of Questro!

Through having more and more people helping and even a few people giving information of those that were enslaving others, quite a number of people were packed inside one area one day and a storm had suddenly approached them.

They had thought that they were all going to die, and some of them did, being beheaded right in front of them…But, some were strangely hit by lightening and everyone scattered away from those who were shocked into being unconscious and a bit hurt…

What was more alarming…Was that those people could no longer enslave anyone or no longer become enslaved by another. This fact becoming known to others, really did change a few people’s perspectives and decided to let their slaves go, whereas a few instead went further into hiding, not wanting to let go of their slaves…

 

Being in Questro did indeed take quite some time away from the search for his phoenix, but could he have really let Questro go?

No! There was not a chance of letting off anyone who had hurt his phoenix!

The problem was, when he had gone to Dura, he found even more recent evidence that his phoenix had been there as well!

In Questro, it seemed the evidence could be found back as late as forty years ago, one even stating forty-five years ago! Here in Dura, the most recent evidence found was the knife that had been found from where the phoenix had combusted and became ash!

Rage was filling him up more and more, making him uneasy and unsure on what he will do with his phoenix once he found her…Would she be completely scared now? Will she not let him touch her at all, even to hold her hand? Will she automatically think he would attack her from the start? Will she let him in, let herself love him at all!? Would it be too much to ask her to be with him?

Never did he feel so restless and unsure of himself!

 

The Dragon King had never had to coax a woman!

Before the phoenix rainbow and connection had come to him, he had not cared about women and had cultivated like his life had depended on it. That strange feeling went through him right up until he had reached the Immortal Realm, and then it had disappeared, yet he had not cared for women much and just got stuck into looking after the countries, taking in two at a time to bringing back order…

On the rare occasion, he did find Sharlae to be quite a beautiful woman and lusted after her, but he had not gone ahead and put those lustful thoughts into reality…Especially when she started to take over the helpers inside the castle!

He was a man though and did like looking at woman, just never had the urge to fulfil anything and would be able to continue his work quickly enough to not indulge in slight fantasy…

Upon knowing about his phoenix, was something that came to him upon reaching this ‘Immortal Realm’ and he has felt that if he were to cultivate into ‘Ascension Realm’, he would need her…But…That was not his only goal and finding his phoenix. No, he…Felt like he needed her…And in this regard, he felt like his phoenix may have also prevented him from indulging into his fantasies…Even when she had not even been born…

 

 

Doing similar things in Dura, to what he had done in Questro, took more time away, yet he made it very clear to everyone that he was not someone to be reckoned with!

More people died, more enslavement came to an end and a new King was put in place. His helpers were yet again demanded to help, and the Dragon King longed more and more for his phoenix.

With finding out such a past had happened, the Dragon King felt his heart become torn. If the phoenix would try to hide herself away from him, he could probably understand! He knew now that she had been tormented so much that he wouldn’t be surprised if she wanted to seclude herself from everybody!

With the lives that she seemed to have had, the Dragon King was losing his self confidence and wished he could find a way to see her!

But what would he do when he saw her? Say sorry because he had not done his job properly?

He had six countries to look after and he had selected two countries to work on at a time…Wasn’t his fault that he hadn’t paid too much attention to these two countries?

…He was very worried that he had lost his phoenix before he’d even found her!

But, to find her is a must! He needed her!

 

 

Upon the golden maiden finding out that the very slight connection that she had with the phoenix, was close by the Dragon’s last known area that he was heading to, she was unable to hold herself back and directly flew towards the Dragon.

If she could deter him from where the phoenix was, all would be fine, yet, if she wasn’t able to stop the Dragon from going towards where the phoenix was…Other measures will have to take place!

The Dragon King was hers and hers alone!

She had already cultivated into Immortal Realm, while the legendary phoenix is said to have never reached into Mental Mind Realm!

Contempt and mirth filled the golden maiden’s eyes and she couldn’t help but think that the phoenix was a lot more useless then she had originally thought! Perhaps she might have gone too far and hadn’t needed to curse her in the first place!

Even if the Dragon King had a connection to her, what does that matter when the phoenix is useless!

Yet…The golden maiden did not care to undo her curse in the slightest…No, she thought, the phoenix can continue going through hell and never be found!

 

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I was now fifteen, having stayed with the wolf clan this entire time.

Actually, it had been a while now that I thought of my previous lives and all the sorrow that they had brought to me.

Being sad over what I had already endured, didn’t seem right with the life I had now. It was like I had a whole new beginning now and I really did want to make the most of it…Especially with being able to see the sky…

Just like the start of my second life, I suppose, I was taking advantage of what I had, yet not taking it for granted. I liked that I wasn’t enslaved the most, then being able to see the sky. After that, I liked being part of a family and even living differently to the other lives that I’ve had.

I wanted to make the best of everything, even though we lived in the bush and didn’t have riches to be able to buy whatever we wanted.

Actually, I liked this type of life style, were we were hunting for our own food and banded together as one, not caring for politics in the capital, that was in the far distance.

It was slightly soothing to me and I have been relishing it all in, even wanting time to slow down so that I did not have to seriously start thinking about what I was going to do in the not so far off future…

The new beginning also gave me a new name, except this time, I took the name in, in a way of hope. It was just a day or two after finding me that they had named me Perdita, and because of the meaning of it, I liked it.

They told me that it was just a name, expressing what they had seen for the first time, and I completely agreed with them…I was lost…I didn’t have a home, I didn’t know how I should be feeling…I was…Lost…

To a strange degree, this new name did have a special meaning to me, just like Kendra did, and that name stuck, they had called me that so many times that I had gotten used to it very quickly!