Chapter 349 The True Intentions of the Dragon Race
Ronragruk felt a bit disappointed from ending the battle in that way, but he knew that battling against Yale without his artificial increase of power wasn't fun at all, so he could only hope to battle again at some other time.
"You really surprised me with your attacks. As I promised, I will agree to one of your requests. Of course, as long as that is possible for me."
Ronragruk didn't plan to go back on his word, but if Yale were to ask him something like to get rid of a Law God, there was no way Ronragruk could agree even if he wanted.
After all, although Ronragruk was powerful and the Dragon Race worshiped him, he wasn't omnipotent and could do anything the others asked him.
"We can talk about that later. Let's return to speak in private."
Yale didn't plan to say his request in public, so he wanted to leave first, and Ronragruk understood that and followed Yale to the secluded place where both of them had met for the first time that same day.
Even after Yale and Ronragruk left the area, the people remained without words after seeing that battle. Most of them were just impressed because the fight was something that surpassed their comprehension, but those who comprehended it added Yale to their personal list of people who never offend, and among those who noted that were the three Law Masters of the Dragon Race.
After all, none of the three felt that could survive to one of Yale's slashes that injured even Ronragruk because their defense and regenerative abilities couldn't be compared with the ones of a divine beast like Ronragruk.
However, the ones who obtained the greatest impression were those of Yale's group.
Swordmad obtained a new insight about swordsmanship improving his own comprehension of the Sword Law and thanks to that enlightenment he reached the 1-star Sage Warrior immediately.
Moreover, that improvement wasn't the best part because Yale's combination of Laws also helped him to improve his understanding of the coordination of the Magus path and the Warrior Path which provoked a breakthrough in Swordmad's Magus path reaching the Sage Rank.
Sebe also reached the 1-star Sage Rank at the moment that his comprehension of the Fire Law and the Death Law increased, but his overall increase of understanding of the Laws had been lower than Swordmad's.
Nurvey, who still had Wyba on her arms, had also obtained some benefits after seeing Yale's usage of the Life Law. Although the Life Law had been overshadowed by the other Laws making sensing the way it had been used more difficult, Nurvey was able to see through it and understand some things about it.
Sadly, she didn't obtain and enlightenment nor a breakthrough, but she had already planned new ways to use her support magic in battle more efficiently.
The last one who obtained a benefit from that battle was Lar, but she didn't obtain any new understanding about swordsmanship due to seeing Yale's battle.
However, in her past life, Lar had battled countless times against Liye and had also seen him fighting against others, so the effect of seeing Yale's five Law combination battle style had triggered some of her memories, which also made make a consecutive breakthrough until becoming a 2-star Grandmaster.
Of course, although Nurvey's improvement in understanding wasn't noticed, the three breakthroughs were clearly noted by the Dragon Race, which shocked them again because they knew how difficult was to make a breakthrough or having some enlightenment, but one minute had been enough to provoke three breakthroughs.
Moreover, two of the persons who made a breakthrough were at the Sage Rank, and the other had skipped from 7-star Elder to 2-star Grandmaster, and that fact was shocking for everyone.
The lizardmen who accompanied Yale's group were also shocked by everything, but they had already assumed that everything related with Yale's group was unpredictable after sensing that powerful aura backing them, so even if everyone turned Law Gods in a fraction of second, they would still think that was normal despite their shock.
Without knowing the effect of their battle to those who observed it, Yale and Ronragruk sat in the secluded area while Ronragruk changed again to his human form.
"We are already alone, what is your request?"
Ronragruk felt normal that someone like Yale wanted to say the request in private, especially when outside there were a lot of people who Yale didn't know.
"That matter can wait a bit more. First, you need to tell me your true intentions and the plans of the Dragon Race. I bet that telling me about this was the reason for you to ask me to come to speak with you, right?"
Ronragruk nodded his head after hearing Yale's words because he had such plans in mind indeed. In fact, since he didn't think that Yale would win in the show of talent, he planned to speak about that just after finishing, but his plans got slightly altered by Yale's victory. Thus, he was happy that Yale wanted to let his topic for later.
"Since you came with some lizardmen, I think that you will already have heard about the relationship between the two tribes."
Ronragruk sighed when saying that.
"I heard about it, and it doesn't have any sense. The version of the lizardmen has been altered by someone. If my guess isn't wrong, the Dragon Race wanted to fuse with them, but the fools of the Lizardman God Cult were always interfering and manipulating the lizardmen to create hate between both."
Yale knew that although the Dragon Race cursed the lizardmen and limited their territory, they had also protected them, or there was no way that they have survived so much time in their conditions.
"You are right. The Dragon Race is strong, but the dragon bloodline on their bodies make them have a weak reproductive capacity which has affected the tribe a lot. Thus, I hoped to increase their numbers by adding the lizardman tribe."
The western continent wasn't peaceful as the eastern continent, so although Ronragruk was a great deterrent for enemies, it wasn't impossible for others to deal with him or at least block him until exterminating the Dragon Race. Thus, he always wanted to strengthen the Dragon Race, to make them capable of resisting an invasion.
"Then, let me continue my guess. Your intentions aren't just joining with the lizardmen because you want to make them evolve into members of the Dragon Race. After all, the chances of becoming Law Masters for the Dragon Race are higher than those of the lizardmen."
Ronragruk was shocked after hearing Yale's words because Yale was just on the spot.
"How did you manage to reach that point?"
Although guessing the part about the lizardmen having the wrong impression from the Dragon Race wasn't that hard as long as one analyzed the situation from a natural point of view, the part about evolving the lizardmen wasn't that easy to guess.
"There is a lizardman in my group that came with me; he didn't belong to the tribe. Originally, he wasn't a lizardman despite being similar to them, and his bloodline was bad enough that he couldn't even reach the Apprentice Rank, so I improved his bloodline until turning him into a true lizardman. Having done a similar thing before, I can imagine your intentions since both species are rather similar and the improvement shouldn't be too difficult using your blood as the main ingredient."
Ronragruk observed Yale with disbelief because that was even more impressing than his battle prowess from before. Making a bloodline evolve to the point of changing species wasn't easy, and even Ronragruk wasn't' sure of how much time would he need to make it work in the lizardmen tribe.
"Impressive. Are you someone related to the Lizardman God?"
When hearing about creating a bloodline of a lizardman, Ronragruk couldn't avoid thinking on that Lizardman God that created the lizardman based on the religion of the lizardmen.
"The only lizardman I created is Shirk, the one who came with me, and no one taught me how to do it.
It seemed evident that Ronragruk thought that maybe the Lizardman God had taught Yale to improve Shirk's bloodline. After a small stop, Yale continues speaking.
"I don't know who is that Lizardman God, but I doubt that someone powerful enough to create the lizardmen would use that name, so even in the case I have met such person, just by the name Lizardman God there is no way to recognize that person's identity."
Yale was also curious about the identity of that Lizardman God, but it was just as he said, maybe he had met that person in his past life, but as long as that person didn't mention lizardmen it was impossible to make a relation between both identities.
Of course, even Liye didn't know every expert in the universe, so it was still quite possible that Liye had never met that Lizardman God. However, since the lizardmen came to Liye's father's world to seek refuge, Yale was sure that the lizardman should have had a good relationship with Liye's' father, or at least they weren't enemies, so there were more chances of Liye having met the Lizardman God.
"As I expected. I know that I have no right to ask for this when I am the one who should have been hearing a request of yours, but I will be grateful if you can help me improving those bloodlines."