“I hoped I had a mirror right now”

  Iko was testing her new clothes, and she was happy because the clothes weren’t exactly her size, but after putting them on, the clothes changed to match her size, and she thought she looked gorgeous, but she’ll need the opinion of someone else for that to be true, which she didn’t had, at least until Rainari got out of her egg, or for some reason Jaul got a new toy he want’s to throw to the pretty big and actually pretty cage.

  Talking about Rainari, she looked over to the egg, that was still unmoving, and thought if it was like it looked when she was inside her own, that now that she thought about it, she didn’t know how long she was inside there.

  “Not like it really matters… I have nothing to do except level up”

  As Iko thought of what to do, she remembered there was something she had yet to check, something she totally forgot before and now too, the quest she got when she evolved, when she first got it she totally forgot to check it, and now she finally had time to do it and remembered, so she opened the quest to see what it was about.

  “Damn, that’s heavy, so, the world tree had another king apart from the one of the stories. Or is it talking about the same person?” Iko herself didn’t know how she could act so indifferently to the notice that she was supposedly the heir to the old king of the world tree AND the heir of a forgotten energy, or whatever the corruption was.

  “So, I need to find these… fragments? And I can’t lose the quest? And no time limit… that is weird considering the rest of quests I got and I heard of… they all got at least 1 failing condition and punishment, the time limit wasn’t always there, so it isn’t really that surprising to not have one…” Iko was mumbling to herself for a long time before she heard a *Crack*

  She looked at the sky, and he saw him, Jaul, with dozens of other humans, they looked better than her when she first got there, but the hate she felt for him wouldn’t disappear that easily, as soon as she saw him, she opened her wings and started flying towards him, not before being stopped by the claws of a tiger the size of her body.

  Emilia was running, she didn’t know why, there wasn’t anyone following her, but she had a bad feeling ever since she got out of her cell, why? Because there was no one here.

  There were dozens of people in the cells when she was awake, but now there was no one. She didn’t notice at first because of her new system and the alarms going off, but it was strange, there was no one, not even the 2 guys that told her about the lab, she had a sensation on her neck, like she was being watched, she couldn’t stop running.

  The system had been quiet for a while, she guessed it was because this new voice was only supposed to tell her about her mutations, not about everything she had questions about.

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  She turned on a corner and saw it, all the people the man kidnapped on a single line in front of a door, but it wasn’t the fact that the door was a teleporter that startled her, it was the black liquid that slowly leaked from the door, it was stuck on the feet of the people so she guessed it was sticky, it looked horrible honestly, and apparently, they were forced to walk over it into the portal.

  What’s happening over there?

  She wanted to follow them, for some reason, she knew she had to escape, and this was her one chance to do so, but for some reason, she wanted to follow them into the gate, it was as if she was being pulled, called, she didn’t know how to call it, but she wanted to enter.

  The collar in her neck was most probably the reason, he probably ordered the ones that still had collars to go, and as she was knocked out it didn’t affect her, but the remnants of the order were still inside the collar.

  She tried to resist, but the feeling only became stronger, and her thoughts couldn’t escape from entering that door.

  She grabbed her neck, more specifically, the collar.

  Her collar started to tremble, and tiny cracks started to appear all around the collar, then it exploded, stopping in midair and becoming dust, then flying straight at her core, she felled knee’s first to the ground, her breathing was heavy, but the urge to enter the door had disappeared.

  The collar gave me 20%?! That crystal only gave me 5% last time!

  While trying to recover her equilibrium, she looked around, there were less people at the door this times, instead of the dozens, they were only 6 left, she really didn’t know what she could do to try to save them in that instant, so she had to escape to help the ones that are going to survive to the moment she comes back.

  “Where do you think you are going~?”

  Before she could move, she heard the voice of the blue-eyed woman behind her, she turned around just in time to see the woman had a halo and 4 wings with blue eyes on them, all of the woman eyes started to shine a bright gold, she started running away, because even if she couldn’t see her level, she knew the woman was stronger than her, before she could take 5 steps, she felt something in her wrists, golden chains were wrapped around her hand, not allowing to escape.

  “Lux Vincula,” Said the woman, meaning that she was trapped by a spell.

  “I’m sorry, but the man said we get everyone to the door, he left you alone since he thought you were dead, but by making so much noise he found out you survived” the woman moved her hands and started to caress her face. “So, will you be obedient and come with me? Or are we going to fight?”

  Emilia just stared at her and nodded with a defeated sigh, if she just touched the chains she would be able to escape from them, but not from her, there is no way she could escape from an angel the same level as her, less an angel higher level than her.

  “Good girl, now please, follow me” she said while pointing at the door with her hand, there wasn’t anyone there now, but it was still open, she was about to follow but…

  “You forgot the chains…”

  The angel turned towards her and blinked.

  Once

  Twice

  And the third time was that she noticed, but instead of unsummoning them, she moved the start of the chains from the floor to her hands, then she entered the door, pulling Emilia with her.

  Iko couldn’t forget that paw, after all, it was the paw that almost killed her last time.

  “Shit…” Iko couldn’t move from her place under the paw from the king of the jungle, “It didn’t take you as long as I wanted to find me”

  “With the mess you made with that T-Rex and those roars, it wasn’t that hard, I have a keen ear” Said a feminine voice coming from the tiger.

  Iko brain felt like it was hit by hammer.

  “Now way, you are female?!”

  Silence filled the jungle for a minute, then two, then Rakikas increased the pressure on her paw, making Iko cough blood.

  “Wait, please… I’m gonna die” said Iko with a dry throat.

  Rakikas took her paw from Iko and the moment she did that, she jumped to the sky trying to get away from the tiger.

  “Stop”

  Iko body froze.

  “I’m the owner of this jungle, you are currently residing in it, so I can give you simple orders”

  Iko wasn’t able to fly high enough and now she was frozen in the face of the tiger that had already tried to kill her, but now that she was thinking, why hasn’t the tiger killed her yet.

  “What do you want from me?” Said Iko while thinking how to get far from this destructive force of nature.

  “Your power… does not hurt? You are covered in the filthy energy but you look fine, but my tail is only covered a little and it hurts as much as when I fought that human who trapped me here” said Rakikas with a serious face, or how serious a tiger could make a face look.

  Iko didn’t know how to answer, was really this being that could kill her like a fly, asking her a question about is she was hurting or not?

  “Not that I’m aware of, more than pain, it feels like a warm embrace if you know what I mean” Said Iko with honesty, she wouldn’t get anything from lying to this force of nature.

  “A… warm embrace? I feel dirty in my tail, it hurts so much I want to cut it off, and you say it’s… a warm embrace?” the air around them became heavy, Iko couldn’t breathe, not that she really needed it, but the feeling was uncomfortable.

  “Maybe… is… because of… my race…?” said Iko in short breaths, even if she didn’t need it to survive, she still needed the air to talk.

  The pressure went down, making so breathing was accessible but she still couldn’t move.

  “Your race?” Said the tiger with doubt on her tone.

  “Yeah, you have identify right? Does it not say?”

  “Are you playing games with me? Nothing about you except from your level appears!” Screamed Rakikas with a roar.

  “Wait! wait!” screamed Iko while blood started to flow from her ears.

  “I’ll tell you my race just don’t kill me!” as long as she was near the beast, she had to act weakly, otherwise, she might just turn into a pool of blood in the ground, or worse, a world ending threat.

  “My race is a Corrupted Dragon…”

  “A corrupted dragon?”

  “Yes” Said Iko trying to nod but not being able to.

  “So what does have to do with my tail?”

  “Your tail is covered by corruption, is like a element but also the end of the world”

  “You are saying you are a dragon with the power to end the world? And my tails is covered in the power to end the world?” Said Rakikas with a heavy tone, swinging her tail from side to side.

  “Well not end it literally, but more like destroying all life on the world, I don’t really know how to explain it”

  “IT’s your power and you don’t know how to explain it?” Said Rakikas with a tone of amusement.

  “Hey I was human before that bastard kidnapped my soul into another body and transformed me into this, he is the one that know about this, I just know how to wield it in low levels” Said Iko, now remembering that the man was just a few kilometers on top of her in his little invisible platform, she turned her head to look at him, there was more people now, even Angela and Berg were there! And there was a woman that didn’t look like an adult just yet in chains Infront of him.

  She is trapped, Iko knew it pretty well, normally you would just do what your captor tells you to do in that case, but she touched her chains, they turned into dust and started to spin around her.

  Then she jumped