Supreme Magus novel Chapter 3110

Chapter 3110 End of the Wick (Part 2)

3110 End of the Wick (Part 2)

'I know that it was Valtak's choice to help me unlock the blue flames but this happened because of me.' Lith thought. 'He could have put me down like a rabid dog and get out of the fight unscathed. Instead, Valtak chose to save my life at the cost of his own.'

As for Valeron and Elysia, they weren't familiar with the concept of death but they could feel the warm essence of the old Dragon growing colder and more distant. Solus, Kamila, and the two Guardians did everything they could to soothe the babies but they kept crying, begging the sleeping Wyrm to wake up.

Not far from there, in his lab, Leegaain felt Valtak's light dim. The Father of All Dragons perceived the death of all those who carried his blood and when he could afford it, he mourned for them in the privacy of his lab.

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Somewhere very distant yet very close, at the same time.

Valtak sat up abruptly, like a Dragon waking from a nightmare.

'Where am I and what's this noise?' He could hear the familiar racket of hatchlings wailing in the distance yet there was no one in sight.

The place around him was completely white, making it impossible to tell left from right and up from down. Valtak would have thought the place empty, but his senses perceived the presence of many things and countless people.

They were all around him, just at one hair breadth of distance yet he couldn't see them. It was as though the intense light filling the place blinded him to some things and allowed him to see everything else perfectly.

Like the Dragon that suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Valky!" It was a female dragon, a bit smaller than the Father of Fire with brownish-red scales of the same hue of the color of Elina's hair.

She waved at him her clawed hand, smiling with joy.

"Mom?" The Elder Wyrm froze for a second, his voice cracking with emotion. "Is it really you?"

Four thousand years had passed since Tharma, mother of Valtak, had died, but he still missed her. He still dreamed about her as it had often happened during his millennium-long slumber.

"Valky!" He hadn't heard that moniker for almost ten thousand years and that voice for a very long time, but he could recognize them both among millions.

"Mom!" He charged forward on all fours, tensing the muscles of his legs like springs before jumping in her arms.

Valtak had been strong ever since he had left his ancestral home. He had been strong for his brothers, for his wife, and for his children. Once he had taken the mantle of Father of Fire, he had been even stronger for Dragonkind and Mogar.

"Valky, I missed you so much." In the warmth of Tharma's arms, in the embrace of her wings, Valtak could finally allow himself to be weak.

As their scales touched, his form shrunk to that of a young Dragon less than one-third her size so that Tharma could easily lift and hold him to her chest.

"I missed you too, Mom. Every day since you…" The words died in his mouth as he realized that the reality in front of him didn't make sense.

"Me too, Valky." Yet as Tharma spoke, as her soothing voice filled the gaping hole that her demise had left, Valtak simply didn't care. "I'm so proud of you. You were a good hatchling who grew into a great Dragon and later you became an amazing father.