It was all in a simple instant, all in that one momment, the great scaless dragon was descending from the skies, emanating the sounds of pure terror and agony to the sight in front of his eyes, an mere human, preparing his filthy weapon to strike the [Sacred Crystal], the item that Seath did so much to adquire, the item that maintained death away, would all be over?, this was it?, the end of it all?, what would happen when the crystal was destroyed?, he would die?, he would survive but become mortal once more?, the terror of this thoughts flooded the mind of the serperntine dragon, he could see the weapon of that creature at one inch of hitting the crystal, he rose his hand on the direction of the hollow, he could try to use a [Soul Arrow], however the hollow was to close to the crystal, there was nothing that he could do, all was lost, as he heard the sound of the crystal being broken, Seath close his eyes and prepared himself for the worse.
Seath could hear the breeze arround him flowing,he could hear the sounds of his creations arround him and once he opened his eyes, the crystal was intact, the hollow was gone and he felt his head cleaner them ever, he could hear himself think, something that was becoming dificult in more recent years, he also could feel his body a little different, din't knew what exactly had changed ; Seath began to fly again, going away from his crystal, seeing his Crystal Golems and his Moonlight Butterflies, protecting the place, strangely he could remember the hollow having killed them to get to the crystal, 'What is going on?', he though to himself ,reaching the upper levels of his archive.
Something was wrong, this was the first thing that came to Seath mind once he felt the smell in the air, that smell, a salty and yet wet smell, it was the ocean, this was impossible, the Archives were far far away from any ocean and yet, once he flew to the most upper floors, he could see, together with his servants, they were on a coast, the entire archives building, including his underground floors were also on that coast, but how it was possible to something like this to happen?, even more concerning was that, Seath could see some of his creations were a little different to, their movements, their actions, they all looked more, alive?
-Channelers!, i demand you present yourselfs now!
Seath ordered in immense confusion transformed into rage, each Channeler that could hear his voice presented himself on all the places of the archives, even on the bookcases, they all bow their knee over their master, looking down in Channelers were beings that looked a little in-human at first glance, being a little taller them your average human male, they possesed a kit of equipment ,being a helmet in a bucket like shape, however that at the end it sprouted like the head of a shroom, having six painted eyes on the helmet, while the armor were a succession of blue plates with golden edges on the sholder pads and on the middle chest, following by a chain mail covered by blue robes, all of them having a trident containing strange details, being apparently made of a brown metal, having various small pieces and conections, reflecting the mobility of the weapon, it could in fact spin, even inside a target, a fearsome weapon and object of pain; Seath them continued, now more calm seeing his forces present and loyal.
-Any of you know what place is this?
The Channelers looked arround, some going to the windows to have a better view, but none of them knew what place was that one.
One of the Channelers manifested himself after giving a good look on the surroundings.
-Im sorry my lord, but i belive that none of us know what kind of place is this, however, i ask you to not worry, we will investigate the surrounding area and understand what is happening before anything can happen.
Seath was ammused, this was the first time that he saw a Channeler being so cordial, even more, having actually a good diction, he for times felt that he understood them without words, but he also feels that this probably were some fruits of his insanity.
-Very well them, find whatever you can and bring the information back to me.
With those words, Seath began to remember the project that he was focused on, he them after he gave the orders to his Channelers, he decided to go to his laboratory, looking for his projects, the Pisacas.
The laboratory was a large area to confort Seath size, being surrounded by gigantic book cases holded in place by collums of blue crystal ,on the walls implemented to them there were jail cells, or as Seath would call 'experiment cases', were he would maintaing his more taimed experiments, in more recent years, Seath was tryng to reproduce his species, the True Dragons, not the mere fake creatures that recived that name, no, Seath wanted to produce his kin, the dragons that possesed scales so durable that any mortal attack would be ignored, scales so durable that even death would not reach one of them and them, once he produced one of his own kin, he pretended to see if it was possible to make a transplant using the living body of one of his kin, to finally adquire the scales that would permit him escape death ; Looking at the cases, he saw that sadly, the majority of the Pisacas died during the germination of the fetuses inside of them, he took of the bodys, looking at it, the creatures that were once human womans, now reduced to a serpentine like body, covered in blue scales and with the head full of blue tentacles, while their mouths all the teeth had fallen off, leaving only a long sharp tongue in place.
-I probably am getting out of woman.
He began to think, while looking at his living experiments that frightened in the conners of their cells.
-What happened, why the entire place had come to this place?, why im feeling myself weird since them?, why my insanity had gone away?, i know that i was insane, im aware of it, and yet, im not anymore, why?, what is this feeling?
Seath began to talk with himself, looking to his hands, puting one of his hands on his head, while letting the corpse of the Pisaca fall on the floor, his voice trembling on the fear of the unkown.
-No, i shall put my mind at work, i still immortal, the crystal still working, yes, i still have time.
Seath took one deep breath, before beginning the evaluation of the living experiments, seeing the state of the fetuses, seeing if they needed medical care and seeing if they would give birth to what he desires, however, he was surprised to see ; There were in total eight living experiments, three were demonstrating different results them before, they were demonstrating that they would truly give birth to dragons, even if he could say by the form of the fetuses that they were not what he intended to create, it was still a fascinating discovery ;He separated them three, giving them to the Serpent Soldiers, so they could be treated in every need that they might have.
Hours later...
Seath was re-reading his own researches from the times that he was insane, tryng to understand how they ended up in that place, maybe he tested some kind of teleportation magic?, similar to what Bonfires could do?, maybe he ended up touching a little to much on the idea of experimenting with Soul Magic and ended up creating an Soul Ilusion arround the place?, the first soul magic ilusion that ever existed in such scale?, but all of this was sended to the back of his skull when one of the Channelers returned, bowing down to Seath and them putting himself with one knee on the floor.
-Lord Seath, i come back with informations!
-Very good, i knew i could count with my schoolars, so, tell me, what do you discovered?
-For what i could gather, we are on the north coast of a kingdom named Holy Kingdom. We were able to find a small village, called 'Pedra Village', they found our armors interresting and confusing, however they welcomed us well once they saw that i was a human, they belived us to be nobles of their kingdom, but, after talking a little with the locals, i belive that this is't Arnor Londor.
That information would had surprised Seath some hours ago, but now?, this was already a possibility on his mind for quite a while, this confirmation only made him more relaxed that maybe he was right, maybe they ended up being teleported by the experiments of his inane self.
-This Kingdom apparently follows one called 'The Holy Queen', Calca Bessarez, and the religion of the 'Four Great Gods'. After talking more with the locals, me and my company decided to take some of them for experiments, since we noticed, this beings are not exactly the same as us, they look human, they speek like us, they act like us, but the more we look at them and hear them, the more we see that we are different.
-You did well, please, speak your name, so i shall remember you for the future.
-Im the Channeler, Baliri Hariford ,oh great one.
-I Will remember you, Baliri, now, i shall see more about the 'things' you brought back. Take a shower, read a book and enjoy your free time, you deserve it.
With those words, Seath flew from his Personal Archives area to the Prison Area, a place that was constantly maintained in a low temperature, while the crystals holded the place together, the Snake Soldiers were very active at the place, being more confortable arround the place, once they saw Seath, they all stood up and ready to his orders.
Seath could see each and every cell on his prison and it was't dificult to see what Baliri was talking about, he just needed to glance once uppon one of the woman and he felt it, the uncanny sensation of learning a new strange thing. This woman was similar to a normal human woman, looking at her on the surface, but looking at her in a more internal level, after an autopsy, he could say grantly that they were not the same as human, they were something new, a new step, apaprently having magical power inside their bodys in a way that Seath never saw before, he was able to preserve the corpse for future uses and studys, putting the body inside one of his crystals. Loking at the others, they were terrified after watching Seath for hours dissecating one of them in front of him, but now, he decided to see how a conversation would hold, looking at the people captured, he saw one small girl, her hairs were blonde and short, her eyes were brown as nuts, she was missing some of her front teeth, probably because of some violence while being captured, her clothes revealed some level of protection, even being just a leather armor covering the sholders, knees, chest and waist, her clothes under the armor seemed being made of a thick cloth, Seath took her on his hand, she was terrified.
-Hello, i have some questions and i belive that you may have the answers that i seek. If, and only if you collaborate with me, i shall give you freedom or maybe even a place among my ranks, now, lets begin with the simple, what is your name?
The girl cried out loud.
-PLEASE, PLEASE!, NILT!, SAVE ME!, PLEASEEE!
She was desperate, looking at one of the prisoners, a male, a man of great stature, possesing brown hair, with dark green eyes and a shivered beard, using only simple clothes, he looked at her, he began to cry in despair, almost looking defeated just from seeing the creature that was Seath.
-I see, you will not collaborate them?
He asked while approaching her from his face, to meet her face with his eye.
-IM SORRY!, IM SORRY, I WILL!, I WILL!
-So, please, i repeat, tell me your name.
-I-I...IM YARA!, YARA CASTIDADE!
-Please to meat you Yara, im Seath, the Duke of Arnor Londor, and the owner of the biggest archives in the entirety of the world, now, you will help me to understand even more of this world, Yara.