Who the fuck is this guy?

  Iko looked at the man that called himself Ruby, and now that she looked at him with more intensity she could notice that his breathing was different from the other soldiers, his was more... wild, the soldiers were composed and didn’t lose control of their breathing even when Leo had gone mad for a second, but his breathing is like he hadn’t had any experience near strong people.

  “Sorry but I don’t know of anyone inside the dungeon for the exception of the general daughter, but I do know there is a section with dozens of people that got trapped in the creation of it” Iko said honestly.

  The man sighed, Iko didn’t catch if it was relief or desperation, but kind of hoped for the last one, it makes the meat taste better.

  Wait did i just think about eating a human being?

  “Well, you can leave now, a lady needs her 8 hours of sleep” Iko said while holding the urge to vomit from the thought of eating a human.

  “Oh. Sure!" The boy said, he didn’t sound that old, so he was now “the boy” in her mind.

  As soon the boy left the tent, Iko started to throw up, but only black blood came out of her mouth, she felt sick just by thinking of eating a human being but... it came as natural as breathing, thoughts of eating other humans were sickening but she craved for it, her mouth was watering, she could feel her tail trying it’s best to stab the soldiers walking around the tent.

  N-no! Iko control yourself! B-but a tiny bite in the arm wouldn’t hurt no one would it?

  Of course it wouldn't! You're a royal dragon! Even if it did, what can they do about it?

  W-who said that?! Iko recognized that voice, it was the same that said the purple, but black stone would fit in her eye.

  Don’t be so scared to embrace your blood, humans are weak and lesser beings. Us dragons are the closest one can be to the divine! If you crave for their flesh, then get it! It’s your right as member of the strongest race!

  Crave their flesh? N-no! I would never eat a human... but a bite won’t do any damage, right?

  Iko could smell the desperation inside the soldiers around the tent, the guilt Leo felt for sending her daughter to that quest, they all smelled delicious, but the one that smelled best... was her own fear of that unknown voice.

  “A-a bite won’t hurt, would it?” This time, the voice didn’t answer.

  Iko slowly lifted her human arm towards her mouth, the smell of her own fear wasn’t like anything she had smelled before, for some reason, even corrupted blood didn’t smell as... appetizing.

  She opened her mouth slowly as she brought her arm to her face, her teeth slowly piercing her skin, but it didn’t hurt, blood slowly began to drip from her arm, her own blood tastier than the blood of the harbinger.

  Her meat was soft and easy to bite through, she started chewing, her teeth easily destroying her meat, her arm had regenerated and Iko finally swallowed that piece of her own arm.

  After Iko finished swallowing she saw around her, pieces of her own arm of the floor, blood flooding the tent, her face was covered in her own flesh and blood.

  Did I just?

  Iko throwed up once again, or she supposed she did, her mind was anxious and doing her best to throw up, but her body refused, it wouldn’t let go of her own flesh.

  The mask Iko had made had fall to the floor a good while ago, her eyes dropping tears as she desperately tried to throw up.

  “THROW UP! THROW UP! JUST THROW UP!” Iko clawed at her mouth with her dragon arm, making it drop even more blood than before, covering the entire place in it, her eyes were shaking desperately as if trying to escape.

  This is sick... IM SICK! I COULDN’T BITE A HUMAN SO I ATE MY OWN FLESH?! I HAVE TO BE GOING CRAZY! MY OWN FLESH! BUT WHY?! WHY DOES IT TASTE SO GOOD! MY BODY WON’T LET IT GO, WHY I WON’T JUST THROW UP? THAT’S IT! IM GOING TO GET IT OUT MYSELF!

  Iko stopped clawing her face and when she was about to pierce her own stomach with no end everything stopped moving.

  What are you doing? JUST PIERCE MY STOMACH AND TAKE MY FLESH OUT OF THERE!

  No matter how much she wanted to destroy her own stomach to purify it, she could only look as her claw stopped inches away from her stomach.

  She looked around as her head was apparently the only thing that wasn’t frozen, and to her side, just on the entrance of the tent she saw a man, or what she assumed was a man, it’s body was bulky and well build, but it entire form was a dark silhouette, it face had a sinister smile and it eyes looked deep into Iko’s, in its hand there was a collar, a slave collar, not like the one that Jaul used on her to make her obey him or seal her emotions, that collar was simply for the looks, she could easily break it with her claws, but for some reason she was more scared of him than she was from eating herself.

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  “W-who are you?” Iko said, fighting her own urge to start crying once again for some reason.

  “?? ?????... ??? ??? ??? ??, ??? ??? ???'? ?????? ??, ??? ????????? ??, ???? ??????. ??? ??????'? ???? ?? ????, ??? ???'? ?? ???? ???... ??? ????? ? ??V? ?? ??? ??? ???????, ? ???? ?? ???????? ??? ?? ??? ?????? ???? ?? ???? ??? ?????????~” The figure said, it creepy smile becoming bigger in unnatural ways, it eyes began to melt as the started covering it body.

  W-who is Helen? And what do you mean by father? W-why is this happening to me? W-why do i crave human flesh!? Those were all question Iko wanted answers for but no matter how hard she tried she wasn’t able to form a single word.

  Before the figure was able to say any other word, a flaming scythe cut its head in a single moment, Iko wasn’t even able to blink in that state, and she missed the move of the skeletal figure standing behind the figure, where it’s eyes should be there were green flames, it body was covered by a cloak like the one Iko had created but more old and damaged, it scythe was made of green burning flames.

  “??’?? ??? ????????? ?????, ?????” Was all the figure said after being beheaded before disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

  The skeletal figure started to float towards her, but she couldn’t move.

  “Master... I'll take care of this mess... take a needed rest” Was all it said before Iko’s eyes were closed by the skeleton.

  Moments before the figure appeared

  Veythar had gotten worried when suddenly the pocket space had become a dungeon, luckily for him, he was an ancient level threat, so those chains were no match for him, but the one he had been asked to watch had been kidnapped by the chains, another good luck for him was to find her outside the dungeon a day later, she had changed her clothes somehow to a cloak and a mask, and he had to be honest, that cloak was way better than his.

  After following her for a while, she got a message from his master, Elaine.

  “Veythar, remember the girl I sent you to watch until she died?” Elaine said with a low yet beautiful voice.

  “I do remember master; I'm watching her right now” he said with practiced elegance and respect.

  “Well, our master is back, and she is the vessel that contains him, so you are to treat her with respect and take care of her” Elaine said before cutting the connection.

  Excuse me? She is the vessel of the grandmaster?!

  He looked at her once again, was she really the vessel of the dragon of the end of the world? The being that once cause destruction and pain on the whole world? The one that he has given his life to serve?

  Not that i doubt master but...

  He decided to continue watching how his new master would act.

  And he was quite proud; she was able to make a deal with someone a hundred level higher than her and was able to convince them to not use the holy energy, but she must be really connected to the dragon to hate the holy magic so much, he still didn’t like that she had those chains, but there was nothing he could do about it until he got permission.

  In the night he went to the tent the so-called Leo and Kilon were in after her master started to talk to the boy, he wanted to be sure they wouldn’t try to do anything to her, after a few minutes everything froze expect him, as he was an ancient monster, tricks like time stop were easy to escape from, but he had to see his master and make sure she was safe, and when he got there he was shocked.

  The entire tent was full of blood, a black figure was standing on the entrance, but the important part was that his master was full of blood on her whole body, parts of her flesh were floating on the blood on the ground, her claw was inches from destroying her stomach.

  Who dares?!

  Veythar then summoned his trusty scythe and beheaded the figure, then went straight for his master, her eyes were terrified and scared, even thought he wasn’t near as old as Elaine, he was still pretty old, so he knew how to read people, her mind was in shambles, she was facing her own sanity.

  It can’t be easy to be the vessel of the grand master.

  “Master... I’ll take care of this mess... take a needed rest” he said before closing her eyes.

  Veythar then touched the mess on her face and on the floor with his scythe, all the filth burning by his green flames.

  Iko woke up with Leo next to her, he was looking at her with worry on his eyes, but she couldn’t care less about that, she went straight to the exit of the tent and started throwing up in the grass for a good minute.

  “Wha-what kind of nightmare was that...” She said with heavy and uncoordinated breaths.

  Leo followed her out and helped her get back to her feet, but something the nightmare got right was that she could only vomit black blood, so Leo looked at her with concern the moment she looked back.

  “H-hey are you ok?! Why did you just vomit blood?! And why is it black?” He bombarded her with questions and even called medics!

  Iko pushed him back as she answered, the chains on her arm noticed but not mentioned, “I'm fine, it’s just... a condition” Iko didn’t really know how else to explain it without revealing being a dragon and all.

  “What kind of condition makes you scream while you sleep and vomit black blood? Where you poisoned or cursed? Maybe that’s why you hate holy energy...”

  What are you even saying?!

  “No, just leave me alone, and tell those medics to not annoy me” She said before he or the medics touched her clothing and get corrupted hands like what happened to Rakikas.

  “Are you sure? Vomiting blood, and black one at that isn’t healthy, you could die if not treated!” Leo said with what Iko could only guess was fake worry, since he must likely only want to find her daughter and if she did die well, he is fucked because he would not find her.

  “I'm sure so please get away from me” Iko said while using her human hand to push Leo away from her, the chains more obvious than before, but Leo still didn't mention them.

  “General, we are all ready to go!” one of the soldiers shouted, as it appeared that Iko and Leo tiny discussion over her health had taken a while, or maybe they are just that capable.

  “Good, now let’s go* Iko said while going north from her current position, as Jaul had said, to his laboratory, or what was left from it either way.

  Leo stayed back for a moment looking at her and then commanded the soldiers to follow up, even the old man went with them at the end.

  Before they left, Iko looked once again at her arm, the one she had taken a bite from on her dream, and the cracks that appeared around the place she had taken the bite from didn’t gave her any comfort.