From his voice, one could tell how delighted he was. "I was rely lucky, I still have a lot more way to go" Simon knew that there were many strong people in this world, thus he couldn't just let this praise get to his head.
Aldebaran smiled, took out a mysterious fruit from the erald green light that flashed on his hand and passed it to Simon.
"Eat this, it is called Gaia's fruit. It can quickly heal your wounds".
Simon took the fruit that looked like a strange pogranate and bit down on it without hesitation. In any case, Aldebaran wouldn't try to hurt him and especially not with such cheap tricks. The being even tried to protect him from the shadows.
A mysterious icy cold energy swiftly entered his body the mont he took a bite and soothed the nurous wounds in his body. His fractured bones, cracking joints and torn muscles everything swiftly healed at a rate visible to the naked eye.
Simon was astounded seeing such a mystical effect. The effect of this fruit was even better than the healing elixirs from his shop. Simon took large bites and quickly devoured the fruit down. He could feel all his wounds, internal and external all swiftly healing after that.
Haha… Aldebaran laughed seeing the stunned expression in Simon's eyes, after that he fixed his attention on Valdris and said.
"Brat, I believe you have no more qualms with this seed I chose? If so then I would like you to not get in his way any longer. You see, it was who had given this young fellow the trail to subdue all of the troublemakers of the north. I hope that you can give this old man face and let this young fellow take that dragon to his dungeon".
Although Aldebaran said it humbly, his voice still carried an ancient prestige to it.
"Hmph, even without you telling , I wasn't going to stand in his way anyways. And I have already told you a thousand tis, stop calling a brat. I am no longer that juvenile dragon from the past" Valdris spat in annoyance.
Seeing the two converse with so familiarity, Simon realised that they were acquainted with each other.
Aldebaran naturally saw the look in Simon's eyes and explained pointing at Valdris "This brat here was once sent by those old pedantic fellows from his clan here to get so experience from ".
"However, at that ti, he was too young and hot headed. Thinking that he can just trample everything underneath his power, this guy barged inside my territory".
"Stop talking" his face twitching a little, Valdris tried to stop Aldebaran from saying anything further. However, how could the king of ancient treants stop just because he was said to do so?
Aldebaran snickered and continued his story—"I obviously recognised the bloodline of this fellow the mont he ca to the Ghastly winding forest but I played along with his antics. Since he ca to seek trouble, I sent my people after him in droves and after he was all exhausted I sent those powerful subordinates of mine".
"They beat him up, tied him upside down and brought him to . Hahaha… you should have seen there to see the look on his face at that ti. This brat here begged us to not eat him, he thought that we were going to grill him on fire and eat him".
"I said stop talking..." Valdris' face was flushed red with embarrassnt, he roared trying to drown out so of the words. However, this pathetic attempt of his to hide so embarrassing facts from his juvenile hood was clearly a big fail.
Simon and the Earth Shattering Lower Dragon heard everything. The forr was trying to not laugh out loud while the latter was giving him so strange looks.
The adult dragon that made Simon worry so much, was actually beaten silly by Aldebaran and the ancient treants when he was still in his juvenile stage.
Simon knew that he shouldn't laugh but it was still funny hearing Valdris think that the ancient treants wanted to eat him.
While Simon was trying to suppress his laugh, Aldebaran on the other hand did not care for Valdris' face and laughed out loud. His laughter bood across the entire place.
"You damn undying old ghost, if you are here to make fun of then return back" Valdris shouted, his body trembling with fury. He had lost all face in front of his juniors, how would he be able to keep his act together in the future?
"Haha… that was so good laugh. Don't worry, I didn't co here only to laugh at you. But before I get down with my business, don't you have a favour that you wanted to ask this young fellow?"
"Tch… so you were even snooping on us too huh?" Valdris was not surprised that the latter overheard their conversation, after all, this entire ghastly winding forest was like his territory, nothing can elude his senses.
Only after Aldebaran ntioned it, Simon realised that he and Valdris were in the middle of a conversation before they were interrupted. He rembered that the latter had ntioned sothing about asking a favour from him.
After giving Aldebaran a vicious look, Valdris placed his attention back on Simon—
"Forgive , we couldn't finish our conversation because certain soone barged in the middle of it. If only they could shut up, we would have finished this a long ti ago. Anyways, the favour I wanted to ask you, is related to this guy behind ".
Valdris pointed at the Earth Shattering Lower Dragon behind him "Are you aware of so rules in our dragon clan?".
Simon shook his head, although he knew a little bit from the lightning draconic serpent, he wasn't sure that knowledge was accurate.
"I see, it's only natural that you don't know that. Allow to tell you so of the rules then. One of the first rules in our dragon clan is that, when an infantile dragon reaches the juvenile stage, they have to leave the clan and wander the outside world".
"This is done so that the individual can gain experience and grow stronger by surviving in the harsh unforgiving world. They have to live in the outside world, compete against others and claw their way up until they reach the adult stage and only then are they allowed to return back to the clan".
"I had to go through the sa experience and of course this fellow behind too. The adult stage for us dragons hold a special aning and thus no matter which corner of the world we are in, when we reach the adult stage we have to co back to the dragon clan".
"When a dragon reaches the adult stage, their body and power go through a comprehensive developnt. During that ti, they require an imnse amount of energy to go through that transformation. This kind of energy can only be found in our Ancestral Dragon Land".
"Thus the need to co back to the clan. This kind of transformation is also called the adult ceremony and represents an extrely great significance to all dragons".
Simon intently listened to Valdris, the gist of what he said, was more or less similar to what the lightning draconic serpent had inford him.
While he was having these side thoughts, Valdris continued—"The second rule of our dragon clan states that only those dragon that has gone through the adult ceremony, is qualified to get a na from the Elder Hall. I have received my na from them too. I believe I don't have to tell you the importance of receiving a na?".
Simon nodded his head, of course, he understood how significant receiving a na was in this world for a beast.
A na for a beast was vastly different than humans who simply use it to address others. For a beast, the process of naming is called a Bestowal. It uses an enormous amount of mana and life force to grant a na to a beast.
The na then becos a branding that makes the beast far stronger and higher ranked than before. Naturally, it can only be done by a high levelled being since it constitutes a great level of risk.
If a person isn't strong enough to grant a na, they can die from the process of getting all of the mana and life force sucked out of them.
His buddy, the Bloodthorn demonic warhorse, was also a beast without a na. It was not like Simon was unaware of it, he had inherited so mories of this process.
However, the reason why he hasn't given a na to the warhorse a na yet is because the warhorse was yet to reach the limit of his growth and secondly Simon had to beco more powerful than the warhorse to give it a na. Otherwise, he would only just end up miserably failing later.
Seeing Simon nod his head, Valdris went on to explain the other things.
"It looks like you are aware of it, then I will be honest with you. The Earth Shattering Lower Dragon has yet to reach the adult stage but once he does, he needs to co back to the dragon clan and go through the adult ceremony to receive a na".
"The favour I wanted to ask is that you allow him to co back with to the dragon clan once he reaches that stage. I believe it should also be beneficial to you, once this guy goes through the adult ceremony, its power would be incomparable to what it is now. At that ti, he would be far more useful to you than he is now".
Valdris patted the dragon behind him whose eyes glossed over when the na Ancestral Dragon lands was ntioned.
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