TEASER CHAPTER 8 PART 4
The scene that Nozomu
saw as he slept slightly.
Raging cold and heat
waves. Conflicting weather conditions were alternately blowing over the land,
robbing the few people who lived there of the energy they needed to survive.
The seeds that had
been planted froze along with the ground overnight, and the sprouts that
finally emerged withered away in the blink of an eye along with the hot winds.
Furthermore, raids by
hungry monsters and demon beasts further plunged the devastated humans into
hell.
There was no hope.
Hunger and resignation drained the humans of their energy.
She watched such a
scene from the sky.
(Horrible……)
That was Tiamat's
first thought when she saw the scene.
All her possibilities
were being seized from her in an environment that she had no control over. And
she had been avoided by her own people because of her birth. However, their
environment seemed far more miserable than her own.
An ordinary human
being would have lamented their own powerlessness and simply surrendered
themself to the death that would come.
Fortunately, however,
Tiamat had the power. She may be a bottom feeder as a member of the dragon
race, but she was far more powerful compared to humans.
So, she extended her
hand a little.
Using her own
elements, she temporarily changed the direction of the raging nature.
She suppressed the
shining sunlight with the power of darkness and transferred her own life force
to the withered plants. She also sent the darkness that had stored heat during
the day high into the sky during the night, causing rain to fall.
As a result, the
withered buds sprang back to life, and the wasteland was transformed into a
green meadow in the blink of an eye.
She had miscalculated
her power and created forests here and there, but thanks to her, the people living
in the area were able to sustain their lives.
For her, it was just a
trivial task.
However, the words
that people said to her at that time struck her heart strongly.
(Thank you)
It was the first time
in her life that she had ever received such words from a small existence. It
brought her a feeling she had never experienced before.
A sense of
fulfillment, contentment, satisfaction, and accomplishment.
Then little by little,
she began to help humans.
She helped the wind to
be calm, the sun to be healthy, and the land to be bountiful.
As a black dragon, she
could only do so much, but each time she did, the humans expressed deep
gratitude to her.
And to her, the people
who lived there had turned into irreplaceable beings.
The demon beasts that
had been ravaged by hunger became docile, and eventually, some of them began to
coexist with humans.
Eventually, her
friends joined the land and it grew into a large country.
Alharant. A land where
spirits, demon beasts, and humans lived together in an ideal world.
