"I’m glad you’ll take part in this journey, young Ernas. For too long the burden of responsibility has forced you to grow while worrying about others. To achieve true power, however, one must learn to be egotistical when needed."
Leegaain took a small wooden box out of his pocket dimension that contained four pins the size of a button.
"I am just lending them to you so I expect to get them back upon your return." He put one pin each on Tista’s and Phloria’s collar of their shirt, giving the remaining two to Lith.
"You should always remember that a hybrid counts double." Leegaain looked at Feela, but winked at Lith.
"What the?" All three of them suddenly had a splitting headache that brought them to their knees.
Countless words and idioms they had never heard before flashed into their minds, making them speak what sounded like gibberish but actually was a mix of dozens of different languages.
"A dimensional library of that size can be unpleasant at first, but you’ll get used to it." Leegaain said.
"Dimensional libraries? Do they even exist?" Friya asked.
"Yes, child. Asking your friends to waste months to learn and practice multiple languages that they are going to use just for a few days would be beyond cruel. Each one of those pins holds the necessary knowledge to fluently speak all the languages on the Jiera continent." Leegaain loved seeing the thirst for knowledge burn in the eyes of youths.
"How is that even possible? I am a dimensional mage myself and so is my teacher, but I’ve never heard or even thought of such spell." Friya hogging his attention made Faluel, Feela, and Tyris scowl.
The Emperor Beasts because they found it improper for a youngling to address a Guardian in such a casual way, and Tyris because she knew that, with the right audience, Leegaain would talk non-stop for days.
"That’s because you’re a fake mage. Dimensional magic needs to be mixed with Spirit Magic to create a mind link with the storage space through a complex system like that the libraries use to index their books." Leegaain said.
"Are you saying that you can create mind links with things as well?" Friya knew what he was talking about because the Ernas’s library used a similar device.
The thought that Spirit Magic, Forgemastery, and dimensional magic could work together in such wonderful ways reassured Friya to have made the right choice by not giving up on her apprenticeship with Faluel.
"Now step back and stay quiet. This might be rough." A wave of Leegaain’s hand made everyone get away from him, leaving him enough space to turn into his true form.
His Dragon body now stood over thirty meters (100’) tall, covered in black scales larger and thicker than a tower shield. Each one of his fingers looked like a pillar and ended in a claw bigger than an adult man.
His colossal size made it impossible to look at him as a whole from so up close, so they could only look at one limb at a time. Leegaain had burning yellow eyes with a vertical pupil, giving him a feral look only tempered by his calm.
He had dark bony protuberances on his head that resembled a crown, and a set of enormous membranous wings came out from his back.
The beat of his heart sounded like war drums and each breath he took produced gales so strong that Tyris had to conjure a barrier to protect her subjects from the unrestrained might of the Father of All Dragons.
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