"I'll be calling you Sorlus from now on. That's fine with you, right?" Ning asked.
"That's alright," the dragon said. "Alright, I will do what you say from now on, that's the oath we made after all."
Ning smiled. "It will be easier if I do this though," he said as he placed his palm on the dragon's stomach. "Now, don't resist."
Suddenly, a massive amount of energy was pushed into the dragon's body and his mind was overwhelmed.
Ning felt the amount of energy draining from his body and couldn't help but be surprised at just how much was needed to dominate a Dragon capable of using Tier 7 spells. Its ran was truly quite high.
Fortunately, even the massive amount that was taken away from him was basically nothing to him at this point. He simply had way too much energy for his normal needs.
Once he was done, Ning got off the dragon. "Shrink," he ordered the dragon.
Sorlus, as he was now called by Ning, shrunk his size until he was no bigger than the Axolotl the group had fought just a few moments earlier.
"Uhh… can't you change to a human form? That will help me so much more," Ning said.
"Sure, master," Sorlus said and quickly changed his form to a young body no older than 12 years old.
The young boy was small, slim, had bright blue eyes as well as hair, and was currently naked.
"Dammit, can't you make yourself some clothes?" Ning said in an annoyed manner before creating some clothes to give to the young dragon.
The dragon wasn't phased by Ning's annoyance and quickly wore the clothes. "How is this, master?" he asked.
"Not bad," Ning said. "But why are you a kid?"
"A kid?" Sorlus asked with a confused look. "This is what I envision myself to be as a Dragon."
"Are you saying you are that young?" Ning asked with a hint of surprise. "How old are you?"
"I'm only 6 thousand years old, master," Sorlus said with a proud face. He was proud of the fact that he had managed to reach Tier 7 with mana when he was only 6 thousand years old.
Compared to normal people, Dragons needed a lot of talent and mana to advance, so his being Tier 7 was in fact quite a feat.
'Tier 7… that's SSS-ranked,' Ning thought. Correlating the actual mage's ranking to a hunter ranking, a SSS rank was the same as a Tier 7 mage.
From SS down to D were the rest of the tiers from 6 to 1. There was no Tier to correspond with the Hunter rank E. That was simply because Hunters that were ranked E were simply normal people in any world with mana.
The only difference between an E-ranked hunter and a normal human was the fact that an E-ranked hunter had been fully acclimated to the mana in the air and had thus formed Mana circuits in their body to start accepting more mana.
Ning walked up to Sorlus and grabbed him by his underarms before picking him up into the air.
"Good," he said. "Thankfully your weight didn't increase. Let's see if you can go in now."
With but a thought, Sorlus simply disappeared in front of Ning. Ning quickly checked the beast space where he had sent Sorlus, and he was in fact there.
"Nice," Ning thought. "Thankfully it works with beasts that have turned to humans."
As he thought that, he heard a set of footsteps approaching him and saw the 5 Apostles come close.
"N-Ning… where's the dragon?" Kim asked with a fearful face.
"Hmm, why are you scared?" Ning asked when he saw their face.
"Wh-why did the dragon turn into a kid? Was that your doing? Did you do that?" Park asked with a quivering voice.
"Not only are you strong, but you also have a lot of secrets about you," Soo-Yun said.
"Where did that dragon go?" Bak asked the same question. "Did you not kill it?"
"Don't worry. I've gotten rid of the dragon, so we can leave the dungeon now," Ning said.
"Leave? How?" Bak asked.
"Umm…" Ning looked around and even sent his spiritual sense all around the place, but he couldn't find any form of exit at all.
"That's weird," Ning said. But he had gotten rid of a boss from this dungeon. Did putting Sorlus in his beast space not count?
Ning quickly brought Sorlus back outside. "Did you want something, master?" the Dragon asked.
At the same time, the 5 Apostles backed off instantly and prepared their attacks to fight off the dragon.
"Ning, are you our ally or our enemy?" Kim asked as dark energy dripped from her palm, falling onto the surface of the water underneath.
Ning looked at the situation and sighed. He didn't think about the Apostles for now and turned towards Sorlus. "So, the dungeon didn't disappear even when I put you away. It seems the beast space counts as if you were still part of this dungeon. So, I'm going to send you someplace else for the time being," he said.
"Oh, where?" Sorlus asked.
Before even answering Sorlus, Ning had to ask him. "Can you breathe in outer space?"
It wasn't until Sorlus found himself in this empty void with no light that he understood why Ning had asked such a question.
He quickly held his breath as he truly was in outer space.
Ning suddenly felt the space tremble when he put Sorlus into his own world. "The hell?" he thought when he sensed that.
He could understand why the portal had appeared next to them. That was his purpose in hiding Sorlus after all, but he couldn't understand why whatever was happening was happening.
"Well, we might have to leave quickly," Ning said to the 5 Apostles who were looking at him with curious and suspicious eyes.
Ning couldn't help but smile when he saw that. "You must be eager to go and tell your gods about what you saw here today, aren't you?"
The others cringed a bit when they heard that.
"I'm afraid I can't really let you guys show everything," Ning said. "I will have to manipulate your memories a little."
