"Pa!"
"It's fine, Eiko. Nothing bad will happen to us."
"Pa!"
Lux assured the baby Slime, who was now on his shoulder, that everything was going to be fine. After they were taken to the barracks, he was locked inside a room with two DragonBorns watching over him.
The Half-Elf tried to ask the two guards several questions, but they didn't answer him.
They just looked at him in disdain, which angered Eiko, making her call the two Guards "F*ckers" which amused Lux. However, since he was teaching the baby Slime to not use curse words, he reprimanded her and asked her to apologize to their Guards.
However, instead of apologizing, Eiko only stuck out her tongue to the two Guards, and glared back at them.
Lux had already thought of the possibility of something like this happening. The Elysium Compendium had informed him that the Dragons and the DragonBorn were very proud individuals.
Although not all of them look down on other races, they still thought of themselves as superior, and those who lived on the land below were not their equals.
Again, not all DragonBorns thought like this, but the majority of them did, making the Half-Elf sigh in his heart.
After waiting for more than an hour, the door finally opened and the Captain of the Guards, whom Lux had met before, appeared.
"Unchain him," the Captain ordered.
Immediately, one of the Guards moved to remove the chains that bound Lux's hands and backed away obediently.
"So, this is the Half-Elf who will be under my supervision from now on."
An arrogant voice reached Lux's ears, making him shift his attention to the black-scaled DragonBorn that had followed the Guard Captain inside the room where he was detained.
"As expected of a Half-breed, you are ugly," Cethus said with a smug expression on his face.
Lux, who had just been called ugly, didn't react because he knew that this wasn't true.
A quarter of the ladies his age in Wildgarde Stronghold had a crush on him, so why would he believe the words of an ugly lizard, who told him that he doesn't look good?
Eiko, on the other hand, wasn't pleased with having her Papa called ugly, so she immediately spat a blob of water at the DragonBorn's face, soaking it completely.
The Guard Captain and the two Guards, who knew of Cethus' background almost laughed out loud, but thanks to their discipline, they managed to reign it in.
However, Cethus, who was quite sensitive about how others viewed him, was angered by the baby Slime's disrespect, and was about to slap it to oblivion when the Dragon Token in his hand suddenly became too hot to hold, making him cry out in shock before he dropped it on the ground.
The Dragon Token then rolled harmlessly towards Lux's feet, stopping only when it hit his shoe.
Since the token belonged to him, the Half-Elf picked it up and stored it inside his personal storage before shifting his gaze to the black-scaled DragonBorn, who was glaring at him.
"Listen well, Half-Elf. I am the Great Cethus," Cethus declared. "The Dragon King has assigned me to become your supervisor. If you even do anything funny, I have been given full authority to give you any punishment that I see fit."
The "Great" Cethus, whose rank was only in the middle of the Initiate Rank, pounded his chest proudly before looking at Lux smugly.
"Do you have any questions?" Cethus asked.
Lux nodded and asked the question that was on his mind. "What is going to happen to me? Did the Dragon King say anything?"
"Good question." Cethus smiled. "For now, nothing will happen to you, so you can thank the Dragon King's benevolence for it. As for what His Majesty said, I am to take you to the Outer Reaches, where Humans, and other races, are allowed to live side by side with Dragonkind. They are the people who have been granted special privileges by the Dragon King himself, so make sure to get along with them."
Cethus then smirked before saying the rest of his speech.
"After all, lowly birds of the same feather, always flock together."
The black-scaled DragonBorn laughed loudly as he placed his hands over his waist. The guards on the other hand just looked at him with a fed up expression, informing Lux that Cethus wasn't well liked by everyone.
"Ugly F*cke–"
Eiko wasn't able to finish her words because Lux immediately covered her lips.
For some reason, the black-scaled DragonBorn was annoying the baby slime, which rarely happened because Eiko was someone who liked to get along with others.
Perhaps, she sensed that Cethus was a bad egg, so she didn't want to be around him that much.
Cethus, who was oblivious of the baby slime's contempt, waved his hand and asked Lux to follow him.
Since he had no other choice, the Half-Elf decided to just follow for now, and see what kind of place the Outer Reaches was.
He just hoped that wherever that place was, it would still be on the Floating Island. His Guild Headquarters could only be built in Karshvar Draconis, so anywhere else was bad news for him.
"Ah, before I forget, can you fly?" Cethus asked as he eyed the Half-Elf with a teasing gaze. "If not then I can have one of the Dragons carry you if you ask nicely."
Lux smiled before equipping the Favonius Legacy, which allowed him to fly in the sky.
Cethus was surprised when he saw that the Half-Elf was covered in green armor. However, after sensing that the armor's rank was only at the Mythical Rank the black-scaled DragonBorn chuckled internally.
In his eyes, Mythical Ranked Gear was as good as trash. His armor and weapon, that he had inherited from his Grandmother, were all Legendary Ranked. Because of this, he had long disdained Mythical Equipment, which those who lived on land treated as their family heirlooms.
"Follow me," Cethus said as he spread the Dragon Wings behind his back proudly. "Make sure to not get left behind."
Without another word, Cethus flapped his wings and immediately shot into the air like a cannonball.
He then glanced behind him, thinking that the Half-Elf would be unable to match his speed, but to his surprise, Lux was only a few meters away from him, despite the fact that he was flying faster than usual.
"Not bad, Half-Elf," Cethus said.
The DragonBorn could still increase his speed, but he decided to not show his full strength to the Half-Elf, whom he decided to turn into a lackey.
For DragonBorns, having subordinates of their own showed that they had the ability to lead people.
Among the members of the Royal Guard, which Cethus was part of, he was the only one who didn't have subordinates serving him.
Since he was notorious in the Dragon Capital, no one wanted to work under him, making him a disgrace among those who served the Dragon King.
However, Cethus believed that, as long as he could do something good, he would earn the Dragon King's approval, and the people's opinion of him would change.
Because of this, he was quite happy that he was given the opportunity to carry out a mission for his King.
After seeing Lux, he decided to make the Half-Elf his first underling. He thought that as long as he showed the red-headed teenager how strong, and awesome he was, the Half-Elf would come to admire him.
What he didn't know was that the person he wanted to become an Underling, was someone that didn't want to be bossed around by other people as well.
If Cethus was a bonafide troublemaker then Lux was someone who attracted trouble wherever he went. In short, the Half-Elf was a troublemaker in his own way.
The Dragon King initially thought that making Cethus Lux's supervisor would make the Half-Elf suffer and force him to leave the Dragon Kingdom on his own accord.
However, he didn't know that the Half-Elf was born a different kind of breed.
This meeting of the two troublemakers, who were currently being treated as an eyesore in their own Domains, would give birth to a series of consequences that even the Dragon King wasn't able to foresee.
Although the future was uncertain, Lux was still quite optimistic, even with the challenges ahead.
After all, no matter where the black-scaled DragonBorn was going to take him, he had people who believed in him, and people that would help him deal with the problems that Cethus, and the other DragonBorns, would throw in his direction.
