Chapter one
Eragon contemplates over what he'd done over 18 years after he had stabbed the mad King Galbatorix in the heart, saving Alagaesia in the process.
After Eragon had left Alagaesia, he travelled on the Edda River for eight days and sixty leagues until he and his companion elves reached the end of the Edda River, where there was nothing but a seemingly endless plain there. After walking eastward for another league, they reached an enormous lake, at least four times the size of Lake Leona, in the shape of flower petal. They named the lake Naran, and decided to build the city of the Riders next to it.
Building the city was arduous work, it had taken Eragon and the elves over two years to build it even with magic. The city was named Dras Edoc'sil, Unconquerable City, after the seemingly perfect defence plan that Eragon laid out for the city. The city has a defence matrix that Blodhgarm designed himself, the matrix is supposed to launch powerful attacks able to take down a dragon when it detects hostile targets up to three leagues away, the matrix used an energy reserve stationed in a tactical position where people can store their energy in it for an attack. The defence matrix can also set up a barrier around the city to absolve any attacks thrown at the city. The city was also impregnable as the only ways to invade the city with a human force was to either try to barge through the steel city gates openable only by permission or magic from Eragon or fly over the walls.
The entire city was surrounded by an enchanted stone two hundred feet (sixty metres) tall walls. In the centre of the city was the Rider Parliament, where Eragon intended for it to be the building with the most political importance as it would be where the High Rider Council would be debating and disputing its matters with other leaders. A three minutes' walk away the Rider Parliament is the Trade Centre, where people from all races around Alagaesia will come to buy and sell goods. The city also have schools, public libraries, services, amphitheatres, etc. The roads were spacious, allowing up to four fully mature dragons to walk shoulder to shoulder. The city was also built to be able to support over one million people with their needs, which is more than any other city could wish to hold.
As soon as the city was finished, people, elves, dwarves and Urgals poured into the city like ants, many of them eager to start a new life, become rich or simply to learn more about the world. After six months, the city had a population of four hundred thousand.
It was then the first eggs hatched. The first Rider to join the New Rider Order was a dwarf by the name Ethoc'k and his dragon was a female amethyst dragon named Viola. Saphira had been doing barrel rolls an entire day after she learnt that she was no longer the last female dragon. After that, more and more eggs starting hatching, until there were two dozen new Riders, one of them being Eragons niece Ismira, who was bonded with a male aquamarine dragon named Hu'thr at the age of thirteen. Before Ismira departed for Dras Edoc'sil, Roran had Eragon told to take care of her, so he picked her as an apprentice and trained her until she was a full-fledged Rider for five years. Although the new Order now has more number, there was still a shortage of Riders who have completed their training as well as High Council members. There were only twelve full-fledged Riders, excluding Eragon, Murtagh and Arya and five High Council members, including Eragon, Arya and Murtagh.
Murtagh came back from the north one year before Dras Edoc'sil was finished and became the Rider ambassador. He had tried long and hard to repair the damages that the Empire did and had earned forgiveness from most of the Alagaesian population, even the dwarves. Though some individuals still loathe him for what he did as they knew nothing of the Ancient Language and true names.
During the 18 years that Eragon was in Dras Edoc'sil, the other races lived in harmony and flourished. Now most humans could afford a house, and could send their children to school. Even the people living in Dras Leona had their living conditions improved. The elves population nearly doubled under Arya's rule. The dwarves also came out of underground to join the rest of the world and the Urgal tribes united into the Great Urgal Monarchy with Nar Gazhvog as its king. Slavery was also deemed illegal and punishable by all races.
Despite all he'd done, Eragon still felt like as if something was missing. In his heart he knew that it was Arya, as he only get the occasion to meet her every change of season. "Four times a year," he muttered to himself "Not even nearly enough for a man and his heart."
"Then you should go and visit her by yourself sometimes." Saphira said, with her mind.
"Saphira, you know better than anyone that I can't go back,this is my fate."
"Fate does not bind the most powerful being in the world." Saphira argued.
"We shouldn't be too proud of ourselves, Saphira. The world is big and who knows, there might be somebody out there vastly more powerful than the both of us combined." Eragon said it with some doubt in his voice though, and Saphira detected it.
"Oh, please, the only ones more powerful than us in this world is a wiser, stronger, smarter, more experienced version of ourselves." Saphira voiced her words in the Ancient Language this time and seeing how it had no consequences, it was true.
"You know what, Saphira? Perhaps you're right, perhaps I should go and visit Arya myself. We're packing tomorrow, tell Ethoc'k that he's in charge while we're gone, tell Ashyllen to pack her bags as well. We're going back to Alagaesia!"