Chapter 51 Night Creature
Kaelith stood still as the dragon let out a deep, rough laugh that echoed across the stone walls like grinding rock.
"It seems like you take me for a fool. Why will I grant something that I’ve led to the death of my kind? So you send me to join them?"
Kaelith didn’t reply right away. There was no point pretending. He knew exactly who he was, and what he had once been.
"This time is different," he said calmly, brushing off the ash from his sleeve. "I just have different goals now. I’m not interested in hunting dragons."
The dragon tilted its huge head slightly. The glowing cracks along its black scales brightened, then slowly dimmed.
"You want my blood," it said again. "But you’ll get nothing until you earn it."
Kaelith’s eyes darkened, his jaws clenching from suppressed anger. "How do I earn it?"
"Free me first."
’Did he hear what I just said? Now I wish I had my powers. I would have slayed him and drained all his blood. Now he even dared to give me conditions and... oh how far I have fallen?’
"When you’re strong enough to break these chains," the dragon continued, "when you can break through the magic runes that hold me here... then I’ll give you what you want. Until then, I offer only one thing."
Kaelith’s brows pulled together. "And what might that be?" he shouted from behind the pillar.