Ray's POV
"Your time is over! Hand over your papers, or you shall face the consequences."
A man with short black hair and void like gray eyes finally said, after two hours.
The Theory Test was over and Ray was ... conflicted.
After that question, he found out many other questions related to him, that he couldn't possibly understand.
'Descendants? With who? What do you mean there's a whole community of historians trying to discover my gender? And why is the most popular opinion the one where I am female. The future is insane, I would rather go back to the past. Why didn't I wake up earlier.'
He had failed to realize that, after three hundred years, things that seemed clear to the people of the past were now completely different from the perspective of the younger generations.
'But isn't this a little too much? I was known as the King of Dragons! If I was female, wouldn't I be known as the Queen of Dragons?'
Despite that, Astra's lessons had come to be quite useful. Some of the other questions had been manageable. The biggest challenge after all was to write what humanity thought was correct and not what really transpired.
For example, it was believed that the reason why Gideon stood up as the Last Hero to fight him was because he was his threat to humanity, and he wished to protect them.
Ray naturally knew the truth. Gideon did want to protect humanity, but there was a bigger reason why he had targeted Rex Draco so much.
Revenge.
To avenge his family, friends and the citizens of the Nest that Rex Draco had destroyed.
He was a good person indeed, but revenge was always on his mind, even if his words and actions did not translate such feeling.
Anyway, Ray had to force himself to answer the questions according to how the history books had depicted certain events and not how he and everyone at the time perceived them.
Luckily, that problem vanished when the topics regarding the events that happened during the time he was sealed.
They were mostly the creation and founding of the countries that were now present around the world.
It was not difficult per se, but the certain terms and expressions were entirely foreign to him, so it complicated things.
*Sigh*
"What are you sighing about?"
Suddenly a voice could be heard right beside him.
Ray looked at the source of the voice.
The owner of that voice was a tanned skin girl with white hair and amber colored eyes. She was wearing rather revealing clothes, showing off her belly and most of her legs. She had a playful smile plastered in her face.
"Did you hear me?"
"Yes, I did."
"Then why didn't ya answer me?"
"Didn't want to."
"Rude. But that kind of way to talk suits you."
"It suits me?"
"Yeah! You have that kind of bad boy vibe, ya know?"
"No, I don't."
How could one know if a person was "bad", was it something like an ability of hers? He should be cautious.
"Who are you, anyway?"
"Oh! I didn't introduce myself yet? My name is Tania, an amazon that has come from our land to learn about the culture here and kidnap a man to become my mate!"
The people around started looking at the shameless girl.
'Are the people of this era that bold?' Ray wondered.
"I'm Ray, just Ray."
"Come on! You can do better than that! Introduce yourself with more energy!"
"I'm Ray, if you want something else from me, you will have to shut up and behave properly otherwise, screw off."
"Wow, calm down tiger, there is no need for such hostility, I just thought you should express yourself more! People look better when they are not acting gloomy, after all!"
"I was not acting gloomy."
Ray was not acting gloomy, he was just disappointed on the people of this era. They were weaker and weirdly open about what they were thinking.
"Then why were you sighing about? Weren't you depressed because the test didn't go as you planned it?"
"No! I was just weirded out with something that the historians theorized."
"Oh? Like what?"
"Why is Rex Draco, the KING of Dragons, theorized to be female?!"
"That's not weird at all! The shaman of my village believes that Rex Draco wasn't even a dragon!"
Well, that was even worse, what could he possibly other than a dragon? Well, he was now in the body of a human, but that didn't matter at all!
"But that isn't something to be gloomy about, tough? Are you some kind of Rex Draco's fanboy?"
Fanboy? What a weird word.
"What is a fanboy?"
"Huh? You don't know? It's like a super enthusiastic fan, that so happens to be a boy."
"No, why would I be a fan of Rex Draco?"
'Yeah, why? I killed tons of humans and caused genocide a couple of times, why would one be a fan of such a figure?'
"Well, I don't know much. But I heard there was a trend recently, about some teenagers that were hardcore fans of Rex Draco. The type that is kind of edgy? They are like, 'Rex Draco was right, humanity is a disease, and they should be eliminated', you know?"
'What kind of logic is that?'
Since when had Rex Draco said that humanity is a disease? He just killed because they were easy to kill and because they were kind of dumb, and due to the little lifespan of a human they often tended to forget the extent of his power. They mostly died accidentally, really.
The only time that he had searched to kill humans was when one of them stole one of his treasures.
It was in that incident that he met Gideon's older brother, who was believed to be the resurgence of heroes.
He was not that strong, but his brother, who was just a child at the time, had so much potential that Rex Draco couldn't look away. From that day forward, he killed so many humans to feed Gideon's thirst for vengeance, until one day, he appeared in front of him with power to rival his.
Anyway, there was something terribly wrong with the heads of those kids to think such a thing.
"And they truly believe that? And since when has Rex Draco said that humanity was disease?"
"Never! As far as records go, he was just a beast like the other monsters rampaging across the ages ever since the end of the Era of Heroes."
'I think I did more thing than rampaging at the time, though.'
"Anyway, you seem really interest in Rex Draco, huh? Are you really sure you are not a fanboy?"
"No, I'm just interest in the Era of Monsters, he just so happened to be the biggest figure of that era."
"Debatable."
"..."
'What did she just say?'
"What?"
"You just said debatable, explain yourself."
Oh, Ray was so looking forward to that explanation. What do you mean ""debatable"?! He was the strongest of that era, no one could defeat him, and it took the Last Hero Gideon and The Sage Astra to Seal him, they couldn't even kill him!
"Well, there are other figures that flash in my mind before the King of Dragons when someone talks about the Era of Monsters."
"Like Who?"
"The Last Hero, The Sage, The First Saintess and of course The Eastern Spirit Fox!"
'That damn Fox?!'
"Hm?"
"By "Eastern Spirit Fox" you mean the Nine-Tailed Fox?"
"Correct! You know, the older people from my tribe used to travel a lot, in one of their travels they ended in the lands of the rising sun, they had so many stories and legends about the nine-tailed fox, I couldn't help but becoming a fan."
"Stories?"
Ray was not liking where this is going.
"Interested? I heard a lot of amazing legends, like, do you known the phantoms? Beasts similar to the monsters of the Era of Monsters? According to legends, they are the offsprings of Rex Draco and the Nine-tailed Fox! According to legends, ever since his defeat, the fox spirit has guarded his previous lair in the hopes of his return so that he can support their children!"
'WHAT?!'
Children? Support? Since when? He was never involved with that sly fox, she was only a pain in the ass trying to learn his methods of demonic power manipulation. She had moments where she constantly teased about such things, but to think that she would really do it. It left him exasperated.
"Haha! I had the same reaction when I learned this! To think that the great King of Dragons was an absent father running from Child Support!"
After laughing, she made a sound of realization before speaking.
"Thinking about it, most of her legends included Rex Draco in some way, and they were all kinda weird. But don't worry, my friend, until we reach the end of this hallway, I will tell you everything."
Ray subconsciously looked to see the extent of the journey he was about to embark.
This Hallway, though.
'It's way too long!!'