"How about it?" I asked, after having offered my decision.
"Sounds good to me, Master Drake!" Surtr said happily. "Girls, are you up for it?"
"Sure! Sounds like fun if we can travel around the continent after a big battle!" Mina seemed really pleased.
"Mina, it won't be a slow-paced travel, we'll get there in like an hour." Said Nadia.
"Eeh? Ah… Okay." Mina sighed.
"Won't it be a bit too dangerous, what if we have to fight him or something?" Jamar wondered. "W-What if that Lame Emperor created himself a copy, a clone!"
"We'll fight it then." I laughed. "Not like we can do much about it… But it is putting me a bit nervous now, Aegir, what were you even talking about just now? You said it was strange?"
"Y-Yes…" Aegir sighed. "Whoever is holding the last fragment of my brother, its… a being that was once a great calamity, a threat. But I just… can't remember more than that. Ugh, my head hurts. I need to take a nap. Maybe I'll remember once I rest."
"Hmm, well, alright." I sighed. "But make sure to remember something more than just that, you're just scaring us for no reason."
"Stop asking so much of me…" She yawned, quickly disappearing, and going back to her ring form.
"I guess we'll have to be cautious." I sighed. "Though, whoever is this person, they most likely are trying to qualify for the inheritance. Perhaps to take the place of their master… I was actually planning for you two to join, Agni and Surtr. If we can catch him and defeat him, you two will be joining too."
"R-Really? Can we join?" Wondered Agni in surprise. "It would be an honor, Lord Drake!"
"Well, isn't that interesting?" Surtr wondered. "An inheritance of the Flame Emperor should definitely be something I would fight for! But we have to deal with whatever's over there first."
"Indeed." I nodded. "Is everyone ready?"
"Yeah, I'm ready!" Kate said happily.
"Any time, daddy!" Benladra said excitedly.
"Well, we've rested well enough, I suppose…" Miranda yawned. "Though I'm still a tiny bit sleepy…"
"For now, let's prepare to go." Benladann commented. "How are you planning to go there? Through flight?"
"Yeah, there's no helping it." I nodded. "Fuyu can move quickly as long as we cover her body in a powerful barrier of divinity and flames. With Surtr, Mina, and Agni's help, it should be doable."
"Sounds good." Mina nodded. "I'll help in anything I can!"
"Leave it to me." Agni was trying to be as reliable as he could.
Like that, we decided to prepare, covering Fuyu's giant body with several barriers of divine powers, with Mina and Surtr's help, Origin Flames and White Dragon Flames covered her body, not melting her, but instead protecting her from the immense heat of the skies of this continent.
I added some of my Primordial Ice to the mix, and with Rakasha's hammer and my own blacksmith arts, we smelted the barriers and magic arrays into her physical body's components. Surtr supported us with his Heavenly Smith.
And when it was finally over, Fuyu's appearance had given a sudden change! She did no longer look like just a huge frost castle but had gained a golden and red color to her, resembling a giant metallic fortress covered on gold.
"Ooh, I like this upgrade!" Fuyu celebrated. "I've gained enough resistance to be able to resist this sky's heated atmosphere… I think it should be possible to go to the coordinates you gave me in a couple of minutes at max speed. At most, half an hour."
"We're traveling thousands of kilometers, so that's really fast, actually." I explained, as I crossed my arms and admired my creation growing stronger.
I still remember when I had just begun building her. She was originally a small frost-made igloo, but slowly I kept expanding her and utilizing my magic and abilities in different ways.
Ultimately, I learned the ability to cut down my own soul, and used a small fragment, without mind and will to give her life, since then, she had accompanied us in every adventure, bringing us to our destinations across the skies.
She was both a place to call home and also a friend, Benladann is rather attached to her. While her soul became a Divine Spirit of my own Divine Realm, her physical form had become something like a giant, divine golem.
"I wonder if I could give life to my creations like Lord Drake could…" Surtr wondered.
"Just drop the honorifics, kid, no need to call me lord or master. Just Drake's alright." I laughed. "And it should be even easier for you, I am surprised you have not been able to. You can't manipulate or see souls?"
"I cannot…" Surtr sighed. "Is that a normal power?"
"Ah, well…" I wondered. "I guess not?"
I've had this power within me for a while now, it awakened out of my own ability to manipulate my soul, which I slowly kept expanding and expanding, and cutting down into bits, then Death Magic and Soul Magic became normal to me.
But maybe that's because of my Talent as a Dragon King, and also maybe my half-bloodline as a Dark Dragon, who have affinity with Soul Magic, Phantom Magic, and Death Magic, although at a lesser scale than True Death Dragons.
"But maybe if you put the soul of one of your siblings in one golem-like creation, it might be possible." I gave him a good idea.
"Oooh…" Surtr seemed really excited. "That's… amazing, now I've gotten a bunch of new ideas! I'll be working on their designs inside my Divine Real for now."
I wonder if he's going to make a mech for his mother's soul or something… That would be honestly amazing, and I think he would be the only capable of doing that, not even I have his unique power to imbue his family's divine dragon souls into skills or fuse them into materials.
"Well, how about we get going then?" I smiled. "Let's go, everyone!"
"OOOOOHHH!"
With cheers filled with excitement, everyone entered Fuyu, as I left behind a Doppelganger in the Fire Giant City and several Slimes to protect it, and we set off into the skies.
FLAAASH!
