With his eyes covered in tears, Rus sadly thinks about his family and those happy days that will never come back. Since he cannot do anything to defend himself against Fatri, he prefers to die rather than work for Fatri as a slave. Rus already suffered too long being treated as if he did not exist for everyone in the tribe, all he was obliged to do was look for those stones every day, if he did not go to the mountain every day to look for stones, the guards wouldn't give him food. With his decision made and without fear of death, he says "I-I will never help you... Cough!"

"Will you never help me? Are you sure that will be your answer?" Fatri asks with the veins sticking out of his forehead, verifies that Rus does not seem to mean anything else, he only sees that the boy has an empty look as if he were waiting for his death! He looks at Nacus and in a chilling voice says "Put the Rushu flowers in his mouth"

"B-but if we do that, the child can die and we need him alive to make our plan work" It is the first time Nacus sees Fatri acting strangely, he even feels some fear, suddenly a chill runs through his body. Nacus feels that Fatri looks at him as if he were going to kill him at any moment "I told you to put the d.a.m.n Rushu flowers in his mouth!" Fatri says loudly with his spit splas.h.i.+ng everywhere. Nacus did not expect Fatri to be so blinded by anger that he even forgot to lower his voice to prevent the tribe's night guards from discovering them!

With sweat all over his body, Nacus nods, takes some Rushu flowers from the bed and approaches Rus "If you're lucky you can survive..." He looks at Fatri to see if he truly wants to do this to the boy, but he doesn't seem to change his decision. Even he feels some sympathy for this child who is about to suffer pain that no child should endure, even adults can die from that pain. Nacus knows very well what happens when Rushu's flowers come into contact with the mouth or, to be precise, with the saliva that is still in contact with the skin: the eyes, nose, ears, and mouth begin to bleed after 5 seconds of contact with the mouth, while the person loses a lot of blood, from one moment to another unimaginable pain travels throughout the body to the point of wanting to die to avoid feeling that pain. He has even heard that there are some people of the races of the dragon G.o.d of ground, who have very resistant bodies that died from the shocking pain.

Rus sees that Nacus slowly brings to his mouth the Rushu flowers he used to wrap the stones a few hours ago, he does not know the effect of the Rushu flowers when entering the mouth, but he does not care, since due to Nacus's behavior, it is very likely to cause death. Rus suddenly remembers some words that his mother said when he was 9 years old, a year before they died, her mother told her that what she regretted most in her life was not being able to graduate from the magic academy and that is why her family came to hate her. After saying those words, she smiled and said that she is also grateful that those things have happened, because thanks to that she was able to meet his father.

With the words of his mother resonating in his mind, his will to live that once was a small flame that seemed to be extinguished at any moment rapidly expands to become a great flame. His eyes that were previously empty seem to regain their brightness and, with all the force that can be acc.u.mulated in his jaw, he bites Nacus's hand that is putting the Rushu flowers in his mouth.

"Ahhh!" Nacus quickly withdraws his hand with a cry of pain, looks at his fingers and sees several teeth marks, even sees some blood coming out of the wound, looks angry at Rus, but sees that the boy is smiling while his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth begins to bleed. Nacus' anger at being bitten in the hand decreases when he sees that the child's suffering is beginning.

Rus smiles as he rejoices that he has at least made one of them suffer before he dies, although, honestly, he is no longer willing to die, he has to take revenge on the tribe for killing his parents, teach his mother's family a lesson and, of course, until he graduates from a magical academy! With the taste of blood all over his mouth, he clenches his teeth, as he feels some bursts of pain running through his body little by little until the pain becomes incredibly intense.

Fatri looks with surprise at the boy who previously seemed to have abandoned his will to live, since for some reason now he seems not to want to die for anything in the world. Then he realizes what he has been doing, looses Rus's neck immediately, does not understand why his anger increases so much for the actions of a child, his original plan was to hit him a little for him to cooperate, but now things they got out of his control... "Huh?" Fatri sees a lot of red fog coming through the many holes that Rus's old wooden house has "... What's going on?" Then he feels that something warm slips down his cheeks, touches his face, looks at his hand and sees that he has blood.

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Nacus stopped looking at Rus since he does not like to see people suffer, he is looking at the red stones in his hand, he has always wanted to stop being a guard, live his life surrounded by beautiful women and have one of the best houses in the tribe! He look with a silly smile at the red stones, suddenly he sees something strange in the stones, a red smoke starts coming out of the stones and in just a few seconds each of the 5 stones in his hand turns into smoke!

"What!?" Nacus not only sees the stones turn into smoke, but he also sees a red mist that comes out of the bite wounds that Rus made him, he tries to cover the wounds with his clothes but the fog pa.s.ses through the clothes! He looks at Fatri nervously, but what he sees is a lot of red fog that covers the entire house! Suddenly he feels intense dizziness that causes his body to lose his balance, tries to stand, but finally falls to his knees, looks at the ground and sees that many red drops fall to the ground "B-blood?" Nacus says with a trembling voice, he remembers the symptoms that appear when a Rushu flower enters someone's mouth, then he feels that his stomach is somewhat strange and that something hot is going up to his throat "Blergh!" Nacus vomits a lot of blood, with blurry eyes, his eyesight darkens and falls on his blood.

Fatri, who is very close to Rus, feels that his body is surprisingly weak, the blood does not stop leaving his body, he believes that everything that is happening is due to that child, he looks at him and sees that all Rus's skin has veins red, but the boy no longer bleeds anywhere, in fact, he sees that the fog is being absorbed by Rus's body. Fatri tries to stretch his arms to touch Rus with the intention of killing him to try to stop the blood that leaves his body, but as soon as he moves his arms, his body stops responding and falls to the ground with a sound of "Plaf" With his last breath left he says "N-not, this was not what had to happen..." Everything around him darkens to never see the light again.

Rus's mind is full of his inner screams, the pain he has been feeling since Nacus put Rushu's flowers in his mouth is too unbearable! He has been about to lose consciousness several times, but every time he feels like he is going to pa.s.s out, he bites the tip of his tongue, which makes him recover his mind.

While enduring the pain, he sees that without warning a fog enters his house, he can barely keep his eyes open, but still he sees that the fog is approaching him and, without delaying a second, all the fog begins to enter his body. Surprisingly, the pain he was feeling disappears just when the fog enters his body, but his sight turns completely red, his body that until now could not move due to the intense pain begins to tremble aggressively, when Rus thought the pain was gone, a wave of heartbreaking pain suddenly invades him, the pain is so strong that he can no longer contain his scream!

"Grrrroooowwwwww!!"

As if a dragon were roaring, Rus breathes heavily, all the surrounding mist finishes entering his body and, as if all his force had been drained, falls to the ground on his back. His sight recovers, seeing everything normally, he looks at the body at his side with an expression of confusion, since he can barely recognize what Fatri body is supposed to be, since the condition of the body is very unpleasant! All of Fatri's skin is attached to the bones as if he had no flesh in his body! Rus looks at Nacus' body in the distance and also sees that he looks the same as Fatri.

With great effort he tries to stand up, Rus has some fear about everything that is happening, he does not know how Nacus and Fatri died, but one sure thing is that if they find the corpses of the two in his house, the chances are that he is sentenced to death!

Just when he was getting up, he sees that his hair is a different color, it's red! Since his hair is so long that he can even cover his eyes with it, it is not difficult for him to realize something that is too obvious, Rus quickly thought it was blood stuck in her hair, but after a little thought, it makes no sense that all your hair is so red! With his right hand, he touches his hair and feels that it is not wet at all! In fact, he feels that his hair is very dry and soft as if he had washed it, it is completely different from how he had it before, since his hair was very greasy due to how dirty it was.

"What exactly happened to me?" Rus wonders with much confusion marked on his face.

...

In another place of the tribe, far from Rus' house, in the largest house in the whole tribe, where there are many incredibly detailed black dragon statues placed in each part of the house, inside the house there is a large hall, In the middle of this hall there is a man sitting majestically looking at all the people who are kneeling in front of him with cold eyes. This man is Krum, the head of the Kellai tribe. He has long black hair that reaches his back, his pupils are black like obsidian, all races of the dragon G.o.d of darkness have these same characteristics, but Krum looks much more imposing than the rest of the Kellai tribe who They are in the hall.

"Have any of you found the cause of all that red fog that covered the entire tribe?" Krum says while his finger constantly touches the chair with small black dragon statues on the sides.

A man in robust armor with metal parts says "We only know that it is probably caused by the mountain of Rushu flowers, but what I can't explain is the roar of the dragon that was heard just now."

"I understand... Keep investigating the cause of everything, including that roar" Krum doesn't want to let this matter go by, it's been a long time since a dragon was seen near the tribe since all the pure-blooded dragon are too proud to be close to the races of the dragon G.o.ds.