Origin

*The dialogue and monologues in this chapter is spoken in animal languages. For your convenience I translated it into basic English spoken by the Main character. Now enjoy!

In a gigantic cave known as Dragons Lair I was kneeling before the Dragon King himself. Six years I worked for him searching ways to increase his power and the increase in power was evident just by looking. The Dragon King now was two times bigger than before and his scales turned a strong dark red color. His scales were more refined and nothing could injure him. He was eating a red flame fruit as I was giving him reports. His strength represented my greatest achievements. Every time I looked at his Majesty I couldn't hold myself and start to tear up. He is truly deserving the title of the strongest being in this world.

His strength is now far above others and if he becomes stronger nobody could stop him. He was far stronger than before but there is one problem. His Majesty wants to become stronger.

Eragon the Dragon King smilingly asked me, "For almost a year you had no progress in your reports. I think you have to get some rest. I will give you a vacation!"

I thought about his offer but declined it by saying, "I don't need such things. I am perfectly fine. I hope to continue working!"

How can I rest? I wouldn't waste precious time given by his Majesty. After reports I kneeled again and went back towards my cave.

In the cave I was welcomed by the love of my life, Igraine. She came towards and kissed me, after which we both went towards the kitchen and started eating dinner.

Our table was full of foods that I never dreamt of before. But now they looked so common and given. I slowly ate my food but my mind was in chaos.

Looking at me Igraine asked, "Are you troubled with something. For a year already you seem so troubled."

I looked up and said, "His Majesty wants to become stronger!"

Confused she asked, "Is there a problem?"

I smiled wryly and answered, "There is a huge problem! He is already the strongest being in the world, but he still wants to become stronger. Whenever I asked him why he wants strength. He would always say that he needs strength to beat someone. I never met that creature but I'm quite sure he is not as powerful as King thinks he is!"

"Why do you think so?" Asked my wife.

I smiled and said, "King lost a battle when he was just born. Dragons have the greatest talent in this world. The person who won against child dragon was just an elf. Six years ago I saw those so called "elves" with you. They were not only ugly but I didn't feel threatened at all looking at them. But when I saw King six years ago my bones shook and I experienced true fear. Dragons have greatest talents and those elves could never beat dragons!"

"I still don't understand why becoming more powerful is bad!" Igraine said.

I became serious and said, "Because of his loss his Highness could never be truly satisfied. The strength he needs is not physical but mental. Because of loss he would always think that person is stronger, not noticing he's the strongest being in the world. If I just keep making his Majesty stronger he could never be satisfied. I have a short life in comparison. I can't always be by his side. I have to find a way to cure his inferiority complex. Or he could end like the father of the Frist Ape King. Consumed by madness, obsessed with something that he could never get. I don't wish for his Majesty to end like that!"

I looked at everything that I have. They were all given by his Majesty. I just can't let him suffer. After dining I kissed my beautiful wife and went to my lab. Lab was dark and messy. There were too much garbage in a cave. But one thing stood out in this dark cave. It was a small reptile in a cage. He was the answer that would help me help his Majesty.

After many researches I tried tracking the movement of mana in our bodies. Mana enters from our mouth and moves towards our heart. The mana vessel is located in our heart and from there the stored mana would somehow enter the blood stream and spread all around the body. This makes our body stronger. The bigger our vessel is the stronger our body gets. But this is just an after effect. Vessel has far more mana than the ones spread around the body in our bloodstreams. It is only used when releasing mana from our bodies. The bloodstreams could contain just a limited amount of mana. But what if we used all our mana in the vessel to spread around the body. This would strengthen our bodies to an unimaginable level.

Reptiles have different anatomy than me and Igraine but they too have heart lungs and blood veins. When I forcefully tried to increase the amount in a blood stream the small holes started to appear on the reptiles body. From it blood started to gash out and in just few moments all of the blood on reptile's body left it. My clothing were painted with reptile blood and from a healthy reptile a mummified corpse was left. It is possible to increase the amount of mana your bloodstream could hold but it would explode you from inside.

I have to do more research for his Majesty.