Hearing a female voice in his mind, Minos was surprised to realize that the one behind the strongest aura he had just felt was actually a female dragon.
One's gender would never determine one's potential. However, given the more violent and often rebellious nature of males, it was much more common to see high-level specialists or even leaders of organizations of the male gender throughout the world.
In the history of the Dragon Tribe, few women had ever led their people.
But from what Minos realized when he reached the top of a giant volcano where some of the strongest of the Dragon Tribe were, in this generation, a woman was leading the tribe.
Seeing a dark red, wine-colored, mountain-sized scaled Dragon, Minos immediately lowered his head and greeted her and the other two who were there at that moment.
"This junior greets the elders of the Dragon Tribe." He said, sensing the auras of those creatures, two at level 99 and one at level 98.
That tribe had a third level 99 Demigod, but he was currently busy with the war with the Sky Whales.
Minos could see that, but he wasn't surprised by the strength of this tribe.
The most powerful races in this world had an average of one to six level 99 Demigods per generation.
It was rare to see a tribe with more level 99 elders than that or none at all.
The only exception was the tribe of elves, the most talented beings who could live the longest in this world.
But even if the woman who had first spoken to him was the only one in that tribe, Minos was sure this would not make that tribe weak in the slightest.
This creature was at the absolute peak of her level, and given the chaotic energy in her being, she probably had more than an 80% chance of advancing to level 100 if she absorbed Divine Medicine.
She was so strong that not even a monster like Maximillian could compare to her.
Feeling her power as she smiled at him, Minos was confident that not even Maximillian's divine weapon would be of any use in giving such a Demigod an advantage in a battle against that Dragon.
Argy, the leader of the Dragon Tribe, looked at Minos when she saw him break into a cold sweat. She had known about this human even before he met Umuss.
She had heard about Minos from a contact in the Pantheon of Honor. What's more, after this man had used his supreme weapon so close to this area, she had seen and heard almost everything he had talked about with Umuss after he had separated from his group.
That's why Umuss had found it easy to get through to his tribe leaders without even having to tell them why he was there with a human.
"Your dragon aura is very strong. Which elder gave you your heritage?" The level 98 Demigod, a dark blue scaled dragon, asked while a frozen cipher on his forehead caught Minos' attention.
"The 4th Divine Dragon of your tribe."
"Brammet?" Argy murmured, seeing that the Deathlord hadn't left without leaving something behind.
"So it was him." The other level 99 Dragon, a male with dark green scales, said as he looked at Minos with eyes that looked like two giant balls of fluorescent energy.
"And where did you get our energy?" Such an individual with a penetrating gaze asked Minos, making the human feel the spiritual pressure of a level 99 Demigod.
That pressure was nearly 20 times greater than what he could generate himself!
But it wasn't just a quantitative difference. Even if his spiritual pressure were equal to that of the expert, Minos would still lose if he didn't have the same quality!
"The same as you elders." He said as he felt his knees shaking.
"Oh?" The green being pushed him a little harder when he heard that, causing Minos to slam his knees to the ground.
"Brailzryrus!" Argy said that, and the green creature immediately removed his pressure on Minos.
"What do you mean, Minos?" Argy asked him.
"You got some of your chaotic energy from your high-level origin. Dragons are the direct descendants of a being who transcended the boundaries we know. However, as distant descendants of that being, you are born with only a fraction of that special energy.
Most of what you have came from your ancestor, the Ancestral God of Dragons. I got what I have similarly. But of course, I didn't use your ancestor. I used the ancestors of other powerful races in our world." Minos was sincere when he referred to the giant bones he had access to.
"You can do that?" The level 98 Dragon was surprised to hear it.
But their surprise was that Minos could do it, not that there were other ancestors.
They were aware that there must be others like their ancestor in this world. Minos' words only confirmed their theories about some higher powers in the Spiritual World.
'The damned whales must have something like that, too...' Brailzryrus thought as he made an ugly face, thinking that Minos had probably found the ancestor of humans.
The other two thought the same thing as they looked at each other, but they didn't find the fact that Minos had achieved something like this so worrying since other powerful races hardly didn't have the same advent as they did.
However, the fact that Minos were weak and among them gave them a great advantage, something they didn't have against the established groups.
"Minos, would you be willing to join our tribe?" Argy 'suggested,' trying to make sure that he would be on the side of the Dragons when things got complicated for this world.
With the support of the dragons and the things he had already achieved on his own, it was almost inevitable that Minos would reach the peak of cultivation in a few centuries. Facing him, the Dragon leader couldn't miss the opportunity to win him over to her side.
It would be foolish to eliminate Minos. Of course, it would be best if he was on the side of the Sky Whales. But since he had not yet made any real commitments to anyone, it was better to have him on their side than to lose him!
'With someone who has the potential to become as strong or stronger than us, we can reach the peak more easily.' Argy thought as she looked at Minos, less concerned about the threat to the Spiritual World he feared and more interested in raising her tribe's power to a level never seen before.
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