THAT DAY I BECAME A STAR

"And I suppose you guys can do that, right?"

"Yes, but you can't. For now, at least. But, you can partially absorb the power contained in those hearts. Just take one of them into your mouth and suck it."

"W-wait, what?"

"What?"

There are now ten or so Longinus around me trying to hit me. I evade most of their attacks and block the others with Sphere. After killing three or four of them, I take a crystal and put it in my mouth.

At first, it has no taste but then, I gradually feel a surge of sweet nectar in my mouth, like honey, no, even sweeter. It is so sweet it is nauseating..

"What the fuck?!!"

"And now, use STAMPEDE."

"Eh? I-"

"KRIEEKKK!!!"

The two beasts which I saw falling from the hole finally appear. Everything is just turning to ashes as they advance towards me. Even the soil is turning grey.

"Just think of it and say the name."

"Alright. STAMPEDE!"

As I say the name, draconic power completely envelops me. All the surroundings disappear from my sight and then, a human figure appears right next to me. It is all red everywhere. It must be entirely made of draconic energy, there are two things that look like breasts and two pairs of three horns on his head though. Wait, breasts, and horns?

"Cissa?"

"You seem to understand pretty fast."

Wait, how? But-

"We can discuss later. For now, let's focus and destroy them."

As she says so, the storm made of draconic energy disappears but most of the Longinus who were encircling me have disappeared, they are just crystals everywhere on the ground. There is only ten remaining, together with the two beasts.

Now that I take a good look at them, they are pretty frightening, with six legs and a gigantic tail, they must be pretty powerful.

"Pay attention to those. Their tail is especially tough, and they use it a lot."

"Okay!"

Cissa then creates a raizen made of draconic energy out of thin air and jumps on one of the beasts.

"Krieek!!"

Two of the remaining small ones try to block her path but she slices through them like butter.

The other beast moves towards her as well.

"Are you forgetting me?!!"

I launch three bullets at his leg and as they explode, I see it flying off in the sky. Wait, three bullets and your leg is already gone?

"Seriously?"

"KRIEEKK!!"

The beast screams so loudly the surrounding trees shake, the other Longinus also turns towards me. So, now you see me, huh!!

I jump in the fray and hit the beast's head with Titanic slash. One of his eyes gets punctured but that's pretty much it. two Longinus jumps behind me but I block their attack with Sphere and moving to the side. I use another one of my creations.

"LUMION!"

***

I tried to associate the different techniques I learned from Rose and Mark during my time as a knight. The one that I liked the most was the Cross Slash. It was easy to use and didn't have a lot of blind spots before and after using it. So, if I could combine it with Angas in a way that would generate both a short and mid-range attack, then… And that's how I created it.

"Lumion!!"

As I slash the air, Three Cross made of Lightning and fire Angas appears and strikes the Longinus. The two littles ones instantly die while the beast loses another leg. It managed to evade somehow at the last moment.

"KRIEKK!"

"Tch! Just die already!"

I pounce on it before it can recover and blow his head off using TREMOR.

"Phew…" At last, the beast falls in a heavy sound and disappears, leaving a crystal bigger than the previous ones, the size of a hand this time, and shining with a stronger and blue light this time.

When I turn around, Cissa had already finished on her side, though. She is stronger than me?

"I am more experienced." As she says so, the human figure disappears and the draconic energy it was made of returns to me.

"You are more experienced?"

"I told you only arch dragons can become an origin."

"yeah, well, I thought it was a matter of age, not strength."

"Older doesn't mean stronger or wiser. You should remember that."

"Okay, okay."

***

"Mr. Dragonroad!!"

As I come out of the forest, Cissa and K'nor come to me. They went to a glade and waited for me.

"Mr.Dragonroad. Your hair…"

"My hair?"

What is wrong with them? I look at my reflection in my raizen and my hair have turned back to their silver color, my eyes have turned back red as well. How…

While I am wondering what happened, they gradually turn back to black again.

"What in hell?"

"Could it be you have become a DIZ'KAR?"

"What?"