[We rarely encounter each other. But at that ti, they ca to on their own because I was behaving like a brat. And they were so much bigger and more powerful than I was at that ti.] Ferdinand thought.
"Oh, they were?" Arabella got wanted to know more.
"Yes. But I eventually caught up after so ti. It was just because I was the last one created among the primordial dragons. They had a head start," Ferdinand clarified, not wanting to seem weak to her.
"Oh, you were the youngest?" Arabella tilted her head. That was sothing new she learned about her husband again.
"Yes, sothing like that. But only because I was the last one to be created among the primordial dragons. And I wasn’t weaker than the others at all."
[Tsk. Why did I have to be the youngest among them?] He thought and Arabella giggled.
"You don’t have to worry about things like that. I know you are very strong. And even if you had weaknesses, I don’t mind them at all," she assured her husband.
Ferdinand was glad she thought that way, but he still did not want to seem weak to her so she let it be.
[Her nightmare was far too detailed to be a dream. Instead of a dream, it was as if soone let her get a peek at my mories.]
"Arabella, can you let check you for a second," Ferdinand said and she nodded.
’He’s right. It’s far too detailed to be a dream. And I rember it all upon waking up. Since it jives with what he rembers, then, perhaps I was indeed given a peek at his mories. Or if I was Ellie in my past life, then it was my past self’s mory from a very long ti ago.’
Ferdinand’s eyes glowed as he examined her.
"Hmm. Nothing seems to be wrong," Ferdinand said, then frowned. "No, a part of your soul seems to have ventured into the past again. But since it wasn’t in your own past, it was in mine instead? You said that back then, I look in your direction at tis, right?"
"Y-yes," Arabella replied nervously.
’This wouldn’t give him a clue about my secret, right? Venturing into the past is completely different from being reborn again in the sa life.’
[I do recall a third party that was always present beside at that ti. I didn’t feel ill-will towards so I just let it be. If it was her, then I felt her presence but I was never able to touch her no matter how many tis I tried. I thought she was my savior’s friend at first but they never interacted. She just followed around. And she was gone after I went berserk so I thought she was a part of my benefactor’s soul. Could that be Arabella? Did soone bring her soul to that ti in the past? But why?]
"It’s just a theory for now. But I think soone brought your soul to the past if you were the one that I had been sensing at that ti. I could not see your appearance so I didn’t know what you were exactly. Just sothing transparent in the shape of sothing I thought was mini-human or fairy size. In your dream, did I try to touch you with my claws a lot of tis?"
Arabella was wide-eyed at that. "Yes, you did. You seed so shocked the first few tis when your claws passed through ."
"I rember that!" Ferdinand was wide-eyed too.
[It was her?! I already encountered her so long ago? But why was she sent there?]
Ferdinand concluded that her soul had indeed ventured into the past. But the motive of whoever did it was still unknown.
They settled to observe what happens the following nights. Staying in Estrella and being in the presence of his original body, exposed to a lot of his mana was affecting her, or receiving his mana could also be the cause.
Arabella then continued with her inquiries since she still had more questions for him.
"The humans back then were so huge. Including everything in the surroundings. Is that how everything was in the past?" Her curiosity was still at work.
"Ah, yes. The humans before that generation were even larger. All primordial creations were so much bigger than the ones you see today. Everything gradually grew smaller as the world’s mana began to be used up and the resources grew much lesser."
Ferdinand further explained that due to his awfully long lifespan, the growth of his body was delayed when compared to humans and other creations back then that grew much faster. He said he did not notice at all until he began leaving the island to search for other kinds of food.
That was why, back then, he was smaller than the humans of that ti because his growth had not caught up yet. Further, he could already understand human language but cannot speak to humans yet because he was used to communicating telepathically as he does with his fellow primordial dragons.
"Oh, and everything back then also had longer lifespans. Animals could live for hundreds of years to thousands when not hunted by predators. Humans usually lived up to 1000 or 2000 years old before dying. There were even those who managed to live up to 3000 years old. Magicians could live to up to 5000 or beyond if they were able to learn how to prolong their life."
"Wow. Everyone was like the long-lived races. Then doesn’t that an, all the long-lived races had even longer lifespans?"
"Yes."
Ferdinand said that dragons, elves, and giants were among the ones with the longest lifespan. But after living for so long and watching generations co and go, the primordial giants were among the first who chose to sleep for as long as they could.
"The Primordial giants were bigger than the mountains you see today. They could reach the clouds when they rose. But the generation following them was half their size. And they grew even smaller in size with ti."
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