Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her

Veer woke up with a splitting headache. Trying to ignore it, he sat up and rubbed his eyes, as clarity returned to him. He looked around him, finding the situation a little odd.

"We are currently under the water," Aurora smiled and said, obviously happy with his recovery. "I just made this barrier so that we can take some rest, instead of floating in water all the time."

"Good idea!" Veer nodded, rubbing his forehead. Feeling a hand on his head, he smiled and said, "You have already overworked so chill. It'll get better, so you don't need to waste that."

Elara shrugged, but still healed his headache, making him shake his head in resignation. Then she said, "So, what do we do? Are we still going with the plan of attacking the Island's centre today?"

After that, everyone looked at Veer as the decision fell upon him. He also didn't answer immediately, as he considered his options and turned his head, only to see Rain sleeping soundly.

"Did she do something stupid?" He asked.

"Yeah, she devoured the mist to save me, but you don't need to worry. She's completely fine now," Elara said. "She just needs some rest."

"Well then, the answer is clear," Veer said. "We will go to the platform today and if we still had time and everyone was in their prime, we will attack the Island's centre, which I doubt highly. Otherwise, we will spend one more night here."

Turning towards Aurora he asked, "Do you have more of those pills?"

"A few."

"Good! Then, let's get out of here. We don't have much time left," Veer said, standing up. "El, carry rain outside, okay?"

"There is a problem though," Elara said. "When I went out to check things, I saw a big hammer head shark."

Veer instantly understood what she was implying and said after lingering for a while, "Hmm, I actually have an idea for that, but let's go. I will try it later."

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Elara nodded and the group then left their temporary home, which of course Aurora carried with her. Given there was Aquatic life, who knew where they would have to make their home again?

Fortunately, they didn't encounter any big Creature, aside from some fishes and Novice Stage Magical Creatures. Coming out of the surface, they identifed their location and began to swim towards the other side where the hill was.

The river's breadth was huge, so they had to spend some time and effort to go there. Surprisingly, Aurora didn't have a boat which made Veer a little disappointed.

Finally, after almost half an hour of swimming, they finally reached the shore and climbed out of it. Slumping on the sandy beach, Elara shifted Rain on her back and said, "Oye! I'm hungry."

"Yeah, yeah," Veer rolled his eyes and took out some meat they had prepared beforehand.

The group had a swift, delicious breakfast and then once again set off for their destination. They knew the importance of the sunlight and also knew they had to return before the sun set below the horizon.

The hill was quite in the distance and they had to cover a sense forest to reach there. It took them a couple of hours of walking and running to reach the base of that hill.

The forest didn't stop there and instead climbed on the gentle slopes of the hills. So, the group proceeded forward without stopping even for a second.

The only good thing was there were no Magical Creatures so they didn't have to slow down their progress. Everything depended on how fast they could move around the dense forests of evergreen tall trees and vines.

As he jumped over a rock, Veer muttered, "It's weird, isn't it. The mist could kill the cells of living beings but the trees are still intact. Why is that?"

"Well, not all of them are," Aurora said, pointing towards a few trees which had rotten parts.

The evergreen trees were just too vast and sense so he didn't notice it, but Aurora did. The trees weren't unscathed, as they were also damaged by the mist, but it was very negligible.

"Weird," Veer muttered. "If I have to guess, then the mist's cell killing effect is an passive one, so why didn't all the trees die?"

"Yeah, maybe the trees have match it's weakness and could ignore it," Aurora nodded and said. "What do you trees have that Magical Creatures don't? Or maybe the opposite?"

"I don't know, maybe souls," Veer shrugged. "But some of the tree type Magical Creature has them, though. Wait! We haven't met those too even though we're practically moving around in a dense forest."

"Yup, it definitely have something to do with souls," Aurora said. "But let's not come to conclusions so soon. We can't test it anyways."

"I know, but it's still better if we knows thing, right?" Veer said, as he kicked a fallen trunk, smashing it out of the way.

"Hmm, Boss, food."

Just then, they heard a whimper as stopped, turning towards Elara simultaneously. Veer was the first to react, as he came near her ard took rain from her back.

Looking at her face, Veer frowned before understanding dawned on him. He said hurriedly, "Quick, give me the meat I prepared for her."

Aurora nodded and took out a one metre long arm of a beast they had slayed. It was cooked properly and even seasoned with Veer's special recipe.

Veer quickly tore a part of it and fed it to Rain, as he watched her swallow it even in her sleep. Elara had already told him everything, so he could guess the reason why Rain was still sleeping even after being healed.

Her Aspect made her hunger grow as she needed that extra energy to devour and assimilate things. Rain had already spent her reserves when she tried to devour the mist and had gone beyond it, so of course she would be too exhausted to wake up.

But knowing that was the case, Veer felt relieved because it meant Rain was completely fine now. He had been worried over health since morning, so this was definitely a good news.

He patiently fed her the meat, as others either waited or scouted their path ahead. It could be useful as they would know where to go.

After fifteen minutes when she had eaten almost half of the meat, Rain's eyes fluttered open as they met with Veer's dark, bemused eyes.

"Boss?"

"I told you not to devour that mist, right?" Veer frowned and scolded her. He was grateful to her since she had saved Elara's life, but that didn't mean he was willing to let her sacrifice herself. She was dead if not for Elara's Sub-Aspect.

"I'm sorry, Boss," Rain smiled weakly and said. "I had to make a quick decision and that was the best option I could think of."

"As long as you remember that," Veer sighed and streched her bubbly cheeks. "Now, get up and eat the rest yourself. I know, you have recovered enough for that."

"B-But Boss, I'm still injured," Rain cried out, as tears formed in her eyes. "Please feed me."

Veer was speechless, as he flicked her forehead and said, "We don't have time otherwise I would have granted your wish."

"Really? Boss really cares about me, hehe," Rain giggled and sat up using Veer as support.

Then, with swift speed, she devoured two limbs of meat, making others wonder where the whole meat went. As they looked at her face, her bosom and her thighs, they understood everything.

"Hmm? Boss likes my legs?" Rain grinned and teased, showing her legs even more. "It's all yours, Boss. Or maybe you want the sho— ouch!!"

Veer shook his head, after flicking her forehead again. "If you're done then let's go. I don't think we can reach the centre of the Island today. So, let's gather the things from Platform and go back to the river."

He faced everyone and said, "Also, don't check them now. We will probably not have enough time to return otherwise, so just store everything in storage ring and head back. Understood?"@@novelbin@@

"Understood!"

"Good!" Veer nodded and looked down at Rain. "How are you feeling now?"

"Strange, but I can walk," Rain jumped on her feet and smiled. "I won't slow you down."

Veer ruffled her hairs and turned around, "Let's go then.

It took them more than an hour to climb to the top, where the platform had crashed, sending them flying across the river. Atop the hill, they could see the platform buried inside with half of iron throne poking outside. The area around it was also destroyed, making a wide crater.

Looking at the platform, Veer muttered, "Fucking hell! It won't be easy to dig up our treasures. Let's get to work."