Asai's fierce gaze scrutinized Azul, who deliberately paused, allowing his statent to sink in. However, even after a dozen seconds passed, the dekan was quite honestly disappointed as he was unable to siphon out any clues from the man's posture and emotions.
"You, you are also capable of stealing abilities from outside bloodlines no?"
Seeing the human refuse to portray any emotion upon his face, as well as the zero-response and unfaltering party-mbers who continued to stand behind him like statues, Azul gave up trying to dig for any information for now.
"I don't know whether or not you've seen it in person or not, but my race has an innate ability to consu the hearts and flesh of other living-beings, to absorb a fraction of their prowess to further our own. Whilst that is a skill that all dekans innately carry within their bloodlines, mine is a tad bit special. I am also capable of consuming corpses that had long-since died out, and absorbing not just their bloodline-abilities, but also their racial-traits.
The best example I can give, is that my dragon manifestation is a size much larger than others-" Azul's nose rose higher as he was finally able to brag about the size of his dragonic-dick-size in comparison to his brethren.
"-By consuming giants, their racial traits of gigantification was bestowed upon . Perhaps, if luck were to permit it, by eating a dhan I would obtain their ability to lurk within the shadows."
"You, you've eaten an elf before haven't you?" Asai threw quite the random question out, sothing that was tickling his mind for a while.
Azul, finding the question to be a hit, grinned as his fangs spread and revealed themselves to be sharp like a sharks. "How did you know? Ah! Wait, don't tell ..." Scrunching his brows together, and filtering through the multiple lines-of-thoughts his brain was juggling, he quickly caught on to the biggest clue he had given out. "-Ah, my story... Human, I'll enlighten you as a reward for catching that little fish. We dekans, usually live up to 100, but the warriors who actively and continuously consu others, will get to live for so much more. The last king I was aware of, lived up to 500, whilst as for my self...
I stopped counting after reaching the 2000 mark. Which therefore, marks as the oldest-elder within dekan-history. I am legendary, I am history, past, present and future in the flesh." Azul smiled, as he bragged of achievents that would supposedly make him famous throughout ti. And yet, until this day, Asai hadn't a clue of this dekan. Thus, he didn't share Azul's enthusiasm.
Sowhat lost in thought, Asai poured himself a cup of whiskey before equally offering one to Azul, who swiftly accepted, downing the drink and ignoring the sharp-katanas surrounding him.
"Oh, I hope you don't mind delaying your departure, you can't bla can you? After all, you're trying to gather up multiple kingdoms to bully my ancestral ho, and whilst I may have been exiled from the land, my cousins, nieces and nephews are probably still living sowhere there with their offspring..."
"Understandable, we're enemies after all. Which ans, you also won't mind taking your life correct?" Shoving his words right back at him, Asai switched his karambit out for [Ruin] as he slowly-deliberately pulled the blade out, dragging it against its cover as the screech rang out. "You can't bla can you? After all, I'm just defeating dekans, the race who seeks to turn my ho into a wasteland."
Azul's blue eyes widen in shock as the human raised the blade above head, his two hands funnelled mana into the evil sword as the air around it began to rumble in a violent and excited manner.
"W-WAIT! We're friends right? We spoke, chatted for a while, spoke about our lives, and even shared a drink together. That makes us friends no!?"
Fight or flight instincts clashed within the dekan's mind, as his body urged itself into transformation. And whilst escape was highly possible, he didn't feel that confident in duking it out against four hostiles who were all relatively close in combat-ability. "I CALL UPON THE FAVOUR IN WHICH THAT IS OWED TO ! THE PAR'TALUCCA BLOODLINE OWES A FAVOUR!"
Hearing the desperate plea, Asai halted the convergence of his mana, as he felt obligated in asking further questions. Catching onto the desperate gaze of the dekan, which lead to the ring upon his finger, Asai realized that Azul had recognised the ring of [Par'Talucca]
"Explain." Asai seated himself atop the desk once more, as he impatiently sighed. A short mory resurfaced within his mind, the deal he had made with Sakura no Par'Talucca, which prevented him from spilling giant blood. "Wait, he said he obtained the giant's trait, their bloodline-ability? Does that make him half-giant half-dekan or sothing?"
Seeing the annoyed expression upon his interrogator, he quickly caved in and delivered his story.
"I- Before the battle for the throne occurred, I served as the king's adviser. Whilst trying to understand the beings that occupied the other half of Bahran Island, I t and spoke with the monarch at that ti. Your great great great great... great grandfather ca to with a deal of sorts, that if I were able to convince my king against total-war against the dhans, then a favour would be owed.
What matters is that I predicted the two prince's battle, and desired refuge elsewhere if I failed. With a risky future before , I accepted and successfully advised the king of Arnes into viewing the dhans as a live-stock, a farm that required no manpower to run as they would naturally breed and multiply by themselves.
And to consider the occasional feeding, hunting, to be training for our young. With the nature of our religion revolving around war and battle, naturally the king accepted. And when shove ca to push, and the prince I favoured was devoured, I fled to Par'Talucca and received their assistance. Thankfully, the notions I had left imbedded within the people of Arnes were kept, as they never engaged in all-out-war against Par'Talucca.
Ahem*
Your great great grandfather at that ti received guests from Draftt. The giants had crafted their own boat and sailed on over, but theirs was a scouting party of warriors, seeking battle not friendship.
Promising to resolve the problem at that ti, the giants took a liking to as they considered to be a baby-wyvern in my dragon form... Thus, I returned with them to Etton and shared our cultural differences and information.
Years later, as I've already told you, they had entirely forgotten about . But rumours kept going around that the royal family of giants had a hidden weapon, a secret pact with a dragon, a ssenger from the heavens. Naturally, I accepted the role and image they deployed upon . I an, who wouldn't right?
And- And I'm not making this up, I swear to the celestial-dragons that I'm not lying, but so pink haired dhan nad Sakura spoke to . Ordered to sway the minds of the giants away from invading her kingdom and children. From what I rember, I was scared, I was frightened rightfully so.
She invaded my mind, and I was unable to move a single limb, thus I accepted her deal. And well... I've been controlling the giants since then.
So, your kingdom owes one. You can't kill ."
...
"Screw backwards, his story checks out..."
Asai ignored the dekan as he walked into his storage-room and armoury, dashing all of his weapons and armours, even if ceremonial in nature into his [Inventory] before leaving Azul dazed and relieved. Cotton, who was riding within Asai's hood gave the blue humanoid the middle-feather as his master continued to stroll away.
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