Reincarnated

Chapter 9 - The Ancient Dragon (4)

Cain has lived more than thirty years and although it was not as long as how the Ancient Dragon had lived he still thought that the Ancient Dragon may be the greatest being when it comes to physical torture.

In the last few weeks, Cain had never experienced such pain that the moment he regained his consciousness he would immediately lose it again because he couldn’t handle how painful the process had been.

It was to the point where Cain considered his second choice which would make him wait too long of a time.

The next moment Cain woke up he couldn’t feel his own body. He felt numb all over that he couldn’t move, it was even a miracle that he was able to open his eyes and breathe but if he couldn’t even do that then it would mean that he was dead.

‘It would have been better if that was the case.’

Cain thought and took a deep breath. He roamed his eyes as he waited for the excruciating pain to come again and lose his consciousness, however, it didn’t come.

No matter how many minutes Cain waited for the pain that he almost got used to didn’t come and instead he heard a voice coming from above him. At the same time, the face of a handsome man with a smile on his face.

For some reason, the smile that greeted Cain made him feel irritated and irked. Although it was his first time meeting the man looking down from above him, he instinctively knew that it was someone he knew.

“How was your experience of the pain?”

The voice was of someone he knew as well. It was, of course, the Ancient Dragon.

“Is that your way of being sarcastic?”

Cain threw a question as his answer. The Ancient Dragon laughed out loud that his shoulders trembled and held his stomach as if it was hurting from laughing too much.

“Unfortunately, no. I was asking to find out if something went wrong during the process.”

After the Ancient Dragon finished laughing, he turned serious and spoke. Cain didn’t take this seriously because he couldn’t feel any abnormalities in his now big body and there was another reason for that.

It was because he trusted that the Ancient Dragon wouldn’t let anything go wrong with the process.

“Are you sure about asking me that? Aren’t you confident that everything went well?”

That was why Cain could sarcastically answer the Ancient Dragon’s question.

“Ha! No way!”

The Ancient Dragon shook its head side to side as if Cain’s question was so absurd.

“What’s your name by the way?”

Deep in his thoughts, Cain realised that he was yet to know the Ancient Dragon’s name, and so, he asked.

“My name is not worthy for you to say.”

“Then should I call you Ancient Dragon, Ancient Dragon?”

The Ancient Dragon was irked by how Cain called him. It was true that it wasn't a mere human to speak of its name but the fact that that particular human calling him as his title didn’t feel good as it should be.

It made it feel like it was an insult rather than a title.

“Filzer.”

The Ancient Dragon spoke in a low voice, no, it was practically a whisper. A forced one at that.

“Filzer it is then.”

Filzer flinched after hearing his name for the first time in a long time. However, he was even more surprised at how it sounded so casual when it came out of Cain's mouth.

"Haa."

Filzer couldn't help but sigh and shrug it away

"So, what's your plan now?"

Filzer asked Cain even though he had already chanted all of his plans for Cain's future.

Cain noticed this and had his eyebrow raised. He wondered what was making Filzer considerate of his situation. He then thought that he must have sprouted something while in the middle of the unbearable pain he felt for the past month inside the spatial dimension.

“That’s what I want to find out as well. What do I do now?”

Can truthfully be said. He doesn’t know what to do now that it has come to this. Although he was certain that he didn’t get reincarnated here for no reason what he doesn’t know was why. It was the reason that he doesn’t know of.

Filzer noticed the confused expression in Cain’s face and thought that his mind might be in a mess right now.

“I don’t know how to say this, but you look cool now that you’ve grown big.”

Filzer looked up and down on Cain’s now big structure. Cain, of course, was not buck naked. Filzer had casted magic on him earlier and made him covered with cloth.

Cain looked down on his hands and realised that he was indeed bigger in size. He looked like a man in his thirties just like how old he was in his former life.

All of a sudden, Cain frowned while looking at his big and slender hands.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s just… something feels wrong.”

“Yeah. That’s normal. By the way, I almost forgot to tell you. You can change your appearance."

Cain's gaze flew to Filzer. He was utterly surprised at what he just heard.

"Like shapeshifting?"

"No."

Cain's eyebrows raised. How could he change his appearance if he couldn't shapeshift?

"Well, technically, yes and no. What I meant was you can change the way you look by age. If you want to look like a kid or a teenager you can, but you can't change your appearance based on your age that was past your former life's age."

“I see. That’s convenient.”

He commented. It was a good skill if Cain were to disguise himself. However, Filzer seems to have a different understanding of what Cain said.

“It really is convenient. You can experience childhood again and not to mention experiencing it in this world will be a good chance for you to grasp the basic rules of living here.”

Cain looked at him dumbfounded.

“I don’t have any time for that. I know that there must be a reason why I was reincarnated in this world, much more in a demon child’s body-”

“Alright. Hold on for a second there. Must I remind you that the last sage’s fragment of will has been fused to your soul and as time passes that fragment is being drained of the last sage’s willpower as well as life force that has been inserted into the will.”

“How did you know that I have the sage’s-”

Cain stopped in the middle of his sentence when he realised something.

“What do you mean the last sage’s fragment of will?”

“Hmm? Wait, didn’t you know that the great sage’s disciple, the last sage, is already dead?”