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In his room, Elijah lay on his bed with his face on his pillow.

His ears cheeks and ears were red.

And even more so, Agri was mocking him.

[Supreme Dragon Of Fire Agri laughs at your shyness.]

"Shut up."

Elijah shut him up as soon as he heard that notification.

[Supreme Dragon Of Fire says that someone is embarrassed.]

"How was I supposed to know she would suddenly kiss me?!"

Elijahs protested, but Agri on the other hand was dumbfounded.

[Supreme Dragon of Fire Agri asks if you did not know.]

"Yes! I didn't know.]

[Supreme Dragon of Agri sighs at how dense you are.]

" The heck?! I'm not dense!"

Cried Elijah, but unfortunately, the reality was that he was dense as fuck.

[Supreme Dragon Of Fire Agri Says you are.]

"...I'm not in the mood to argue with you."

Elijah finished the 'pointless discussion and got up and headed to the training room.

There he sat right in the middle, in a meditating position, and then finally began to breathe.

Each breath of his was controlled, and ultimately fire could be seen dancing around his figure.

It covered him, bathed him in it, and strengthened his very figure down to a cellular level.

Elijah continued this for hours until he ran all out of mana.

He laid down on the ground breathing haggardly as his red-hot body released steam amd began to cool itself.

"Haaah...Haaaa."

He gasped for breath, his veins which were showing when he was training his mana technique disappearing, and the pump in his muscles disappeared, but that did almost nothing in reducing the size of these muscles.

"...I'm still not strong enough."

He muttered as he rested.

[Supreme Dragon Of Fire Agri Comforts you by saying you are plenty strong for your age.]

"Am I really?"

[Supreme Dragon of Fire Agri says it is pointless to compare your-]

"That's not it."

Elijah cut Agri off and said something that Agri did not expect.

"I'm not comparing myself to Alan...I'm just afraid."

[Supreme Dragon Of Fire Agri says it's normal to be afraid.]

"...is it?

What if I was even a second late in the labyrinth?"

There was no response from Agri.

"If I was even a second late, Serena along with all the others would have died."

When will I be that lucky?

When will I be that lucky to appear in the nick of time, To save the ones I want to save?

What if I was weaker?

What if I didn't have decimation?

What if I didn't have my Bloodline?

What...if I wasn't even this strong in the first place.

"They would've all died."

What if...because of the fact that I am weak, they all died?

What if I didn't have this system that granted me the potential to reach so high?

And why was I even granted this system?

Everyone else didn't have these privileges?

Only I did.

But why?

What did the System mean when it first met me?

[You have been chosen by the ******* and Ce****** to defeat The Dragon Of Oblivion.]

[The system will provide you with the best faculties for growth to give you a fighting chance.]

[We give you our best wishes to succeed this time, Elijah Ardor, The Hero.]

Elijah remembered those messages vividly when the 'System' first introduced itself.]

What did they mean?

And then a little while Later, while training in the forest he met Agri, in his human form.

Agri trained Elijah from a young age, he received the system even earlier.

It always...felt like he was just following planned scenarios he did not know of.

Like all he did was follow a path that someone or something else designed for him.

Who is the Oblivion Dragon?

And why must I defeat it?

"Hey Agri, will you tell me now, who the Oblivion Dragon is?"

And there was no response, just like all the times Elijah asked Agri that question.

Elijah knew what the answer would be, but he still asked.

Agri would always go silent for a few days when that question was asked.

Who?

Just who is this damn Dragon of oblivion?

Is it the final boss or something?

But then why? why do I know nothing about it?

This system, Agri, why do they all shut up and never answer me?

Why do I need to go and beat him?

Why me? I'm not some revered son of a massive hero, I'm just the son of my father, who owns a fried chicken restaurant.

I'm not some hero.

So why?

I'll do it...if it means that the ones I love and care for live a good life....but would it kill you all to tell me why I'm the one that has to fight?

But I guess no one will.

No one has until now.

Elijah got up and started to do pushups.

If he couldn't do mana training he would do physical training.

They were normal pushups yet they felt so heavy.

As if he was carrying a weight so large it couldn't be measured.

A weight he didn't even know of.

***

"Hey Agri, will you tell me now who the dragon of Oblivion is?"

A massive scarlet dragon seated on top of a volcano heard Elijah's voice.

Agri, the Current king of Fire Dragons, heard the voice of the one he chose to be his successor.

But..he could not answer.

He had a restriction placed upon him to not say anything, a stupid restriction that he didn't know why was placed.

But it was not because of the restriction that He didn't speak.

Agris's breathing was haggard, and his figure was shaking...from the moment he heard 'Oblivion Dragon.'

An existence that had given the true meaning of fear to all Supreme Dragons and some even above the rank of Supreme...

Some had overcome it...but Agri...who was hit the hardest had...never overcome it.

He laughed at himself on the inside...

What a pathetic king I am...to be afraid...

To be afraid...because he could not protect his people when that...monster had attacked... every time.

Agri...had failed every time to protect his kin when that monster emerged.

His people...who looked at him with reverence and pride because he was their king, were unaware of their fates in the previous iterations.

They...who saw him as their hope, their pride...all died because he was unable to protect them.

Elijah and Aranus....two pitiful souls.

Elijah, chosen by Agri because of his immense talent in the attribute of fire.

And Aranus...the one chosen by Suleras And Lanesha because of his immense talent in their attributes.

How ironic...Aranus, Who was chosen by the only sane chaos dragon...became the biggest threat...became the one thing Suleras tried so hard to make him not be...

And how laughable my actions are...

Agri had grown immensely attached to Elijah...even if he didn't want to admit it.

'If only...I hadn't chosen you...if only I had not chosen you at that time...'

Agri thought as he frantically scratched his head with his claws.

'...I could have saved you...I could have saved you... from that a cursed fate.'

I could have saved you...

If only I had hidden your potential...they would not have noticed and forced you into this role...

This hopeless fate...of fighting against plete.

'Monster.'