The Guardian gods

Chapter  73

Red has no parent and wasn't a born dragon so the amount of information he got was a lot, to make up for his lack in knowledge as he can't be a full ascended dragon without the knowledge to back it up, that said the inheritance memory overlapped the small memory he has before his transformation which was he didn't recognize his name.

Combining through his thoughts, Red began to see and understand where the name came from and the memory behind it, not only that he noticed that in his real name, "Red" was part of it. Real name is something all true dragons have to distinguish them from dragon beasts who are also dragons but have no inheritance memory or dragon related abilities.

Smirking to himself, " I wonder how those prideful old dragons will feel knowing that one of their own was named by a origin god"

Opening his eyes, Red saw Ikem brushing his scale . Standing up to his full height. Red took down his head a breathed out from his nose ruffling Ikem hair " The little ape has finally grown"

Rolling his eyes, Ikem said with a smile on his face " Nice seeing you again red"

" Where is your father?" Red asked as he looked around.

" Sleeping," Ikem answered as he shrugged.

Red chuckled, his deep rumble echoing in the forest. "Ah, the luxury of slumber. I envy him."

Ikem chuckled in response "You've been sleeping for quite some time, Red. The world has changed," Ikem said, glancing at Red with a thoughtful expression. n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

Red nodded, acknowledging Ikem's words. " Is this change, what woke me up from my sleep?"

Ikem understood what Red meant, nodding his head " The rain of fire wasn't the only change, the whole world itself has been changing since your sleep"

Red shook his head before replying "I was woken when the child of chaos made his presence know"

" Child of Kaos?, how do you.." Ikem stopped himself from asking the question remembering his father specifically warning about asking Red anything that can be related to his change.

In his father's words, it is something above him. Changing his words, Ikem said " Is that what it is called?"

Red picked up on Ikem change of word but didn't react much, nodding his head " Yes, they are destroyers and enrichers of world, and from what I have seen, this one was enriching your world"

" Are you referring to the rain of fire as enrichment?" Ikem asked with his voice raising a bit. Hearing that what was killing his people being called a gift was something Ikem found outrageous.

" Why the anger boy?" Red asked, confused.

Ikem looked up to Red as he said " What you refer to as enrichment was a disaster for my people and the kingdom i was building"

A weird look came upon Red's face as he regarded Ikem " You haven't really seen what fell from the sky have you?"

" Not really, made my way here immediately after seeing my people was safe," Ikem said as he calmed down.

" What are you really doing here then? '' Red asked Ikem as he turned walking back to the farmland.

" The disaster made us lose our food resources, even the stored one, then i remembered dad having a place like this" Ikem answered as he gestured to the farmland.

" Oh" Red said before laughing " consider yourself lucky boy, If i wasn't awake then you will have had nothing left here"

Ikem hearing that nodded " I was curious on how this place looked untouched from all the disasters"

" Even though I didn't remember much after I woke up, I still consider everything around this place mine so when the rain of fire started I wasn't going to watch it destroy what is mine" Red said proudly.

Ikem was surprised as he looked back at Red " You could move with all that pressure coming from the child of kaos?"

" Not really but I had some help" Red said with a smirk.

Ikrm only looked deeply at Red but didn't say anything as he focused his attention back on the plants and fruit around him.

Walking up to a tree an grabbing the fruit off it, Ikem bit into it as he close his eyes to savor the juices and taste " Wow the amount of mana in this fruit is catching up to mana of a first stage apeling"

Red also picking up a fruit and throwing it into his mouth said " It is something created by your father after all"

This continued for a while with Ikem and Red talking, Ikem mainly telling Red about all the years that he has missed when all of a sudden Ikem stopped laughing from the joke Red told him.

" I forgot to inform my men that I was safe, '' Ikem said as he disappeared from where he was standing. Ikem while running picked up on the mana signature of his men getting farther away.

The mana inside Ikem moved, strengthening him as he picked up his speed, with every step he took plowing the ground. Soon the back view of his men appeared in front of him, bending his knee and taking a huge leap. Ikem fell from the sky to appear in front of his men who were blinded from the dust he caused from his fall.

Tilting to the side, Ikem dodged a wind blade that flew out from the dust, swiping his hand. Ikem blew away the dust to see his men on guard with each of their hands glowing with magical light.

"Good reaction" Ikem said as he saw their dumbfounded faces.

One of his men screamed out loud "Grandpa, we thought you were dead" The Zephyr clan apeling that screamed out covered his mouth quickly as he realized what he just said.

All apeling understood they were offspring of Ikem, so they all knew he was their grandpa but no one refers to him as that except for head children from the cursed clan.

The other men around moved away from the apeling that said that, but to their surprise, the reaction they got was Ikem laughing " No need to look so horrified son, I was the one at fault for not informing you of my safety first"

Seeing that their leader wasn't showing any anger, the apeling calmed down before one of the Ember clan asked " My king, did you find the resource?"

" Not only did i find the resource, I got to meet an old friend, follow me" Ikem said as he started walking back to the farmland while at the same time explaining to his men of the visage of red as to get them prepared when they meet him.

Ikem stopped as he took on a serious expression " No matter what, never ask him what he is, just view him as another magical unseen creature"

" Understood" His men answered cautiously before Ikem nodded as he went back to his usual appearance.

It didn't take much time before they all came to the farmland, the clans men following Ikem stood stunned at the entrance as they took in the sight of red giant form laying down while eating fruit.

Red was also looking at the apelings at the same time a weird look crossed his eyes as he looked back at Ikem "Are you all related?" Red asked.

" Yes, they are my grandchildren" Ikem answered proudly as he gestured to the apelings to come closer.

" Now I understand why you were so angry" Red said as he looked at the apelings.

Red looked at the scared and petrified apelings " Handle your case with them, we can continue our talk after, meanwhile let me go out and see what i have missed"

Ikem glanced at Red appreciatively as Red unfolded his wing to fly off, sound of taking a deep breath could be heard as Ikem looked back at his men.

" I told you guys to be prepared," Ikem said as he looked at their shaking legs.

" My king, I don't think any normal person will be prepared enough to meet such creature" One of the Zephyr clan member said.

" Still that was disgraceful of you guys, you could have at least given him the respect of a greeting. I may not have told you guys but he is a good friend of my father, Your god Ikenga" Ikem said as reprimanded them.

" We apologize for our manners your highness" The clansmen said as they all took a knee.

" I know his presence is scary, but he made no gesture of being a threat. I hope to see something better next time" Ikem said as he looked back at the trees.

"Understood," the men said as they bowed.

" Now back to why we were here in the first place, Which among the Zephyr members here is the fastest?" Ikem asked.

" I am your highness" One of the Zephyr clan members stood up.

Ikem opened his hand as wood tendrils appeared out of thin air turning into a huge rattan bag, which he threw at the clan member who caught the huge bag.