The First Dragon God

Leo's heart fell to his stomach when he heard the roar. He clenched his fist and squeezed Nightshade as he looked at Ms Ves who was still walking safely towards the building.

Leo didn't know when he let out a sigh of relief. He thought that the roar came from a zombie that was about Ms Ves, or a mutant creature, but there was nothing.

He smiled in encouragement when he saw Ms Ves turn back to look at him, before she turned back and continued walking to the building.

Even though she tried to hide it, he could see the unease and nervousness on her face.

While Ms Ves was making her way to the building, Leo prepared himself to move in immediately if he saw any sign of her being in danger.

Even though he allowed her to risk her life like this, it doesn't mean that he's going to stand back if she's in danger.

He's aware he's not yet strong enough to face off the multitude of zombies around, but that doesn't mean he won't be rescue Ms Ves and escape if he wants to.

From the description of the abilities of Nightshade, he knew that they were no joke and in addition to this, he's faster than before.

Leo was carefully watching Ms Ves and didn't notice someone standing behind him until a soft wind was blown into his ear.

"Hello, my friend with benefits," a sweet voice said into his ear, jolting him and causing him to take a defensive stance, with Nightshade held up in front of him.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk. We haven't seen each other for so long and the first thing you do when you see me is to point a weapon to my face? Not so friendly I would say," Tatiana said, pouting, but the playful glint in her eyes gave her away.

Leo sighed in relief when he saw that it was the vampire princess. He felt it strange that something was able to sneak up so close to him without him being aware but he was relieved that it was Tatiana.

He didn't want to think what would had happened if it was a mutant creature or a zombie.

"Can you please not scare me like that again? I nearly did something dangerous to you," Leo said, as he let out another breath of relief and put Nightshade down to his side.

Tatiana giggled when she heard what Leo said. She walked closer to him and pressed a finger on his chest, while licking her lips slowly.

"You said you almost you almost did something dangerous to me. Did that come out wrong or you actually want to do something dangerous to me? If you really want to do it, we can go ahead.

After all, we are friends with benefit, right?" She traced her finger slowly on his chest up to his neck, and pressed it a little, before stepping back with a smile that looked predatory to Leo.

Leo didn't understand what just happened. He felt like someone just played with his heart and pulled some unknown strings.

He looked at Tatiana and saw her her lips curled into a teasing smile, her eyes flickering with mischief, causing his eyes narrow.

He felt something dangerous when she touched his neck for a brief moment. It felt like he has been marked by an apex predator and would be devoured at a later time.

'Now that I thought of it. Tatiana is a vampire and vampires sucks blood. Would she?...' He asked himself, as he looked at her.

He saw the same mischievous look in her eyes and he shivered as a chill ran down his spine.

He still couldn't shake the chill from her touch. Her predatory smile wasn't just teasing, it was a reminder of how far removed she was from the fragility of humanity.

She was a predator, one that could end him on a whim, and that realization only deepened his unease.

"Oh, please. Don't be like that. Don't give me that look. If I wanted to suck your blood, I would had done it a long time ago. You can't stop me and besides, as royalty and a high level Exalted being as myself, I don't need to feed on blood to survive," Tatiana said with a smile, but it only served to make Leo even more uncomfortable.

Tatiana saw that Leo was still looking at her strangely and decided to explain.

"There are seven classes or ranks for everything. In your case and mine, classes, living creatures. It's also the same for items and skills.

For us, it's Awakened, Evolved, Exalted, Overload, Disaster, Apocalyptic, then there's Celestial and Divine but the last two are way out of reach.

They are things reserved for the two special races in the universe," Tatiana said, doing her best to explain but she saw that Leo still has that look on his face.

"You do know that explaining things is never your strong suit, right?" Leo asked as he continued to look at her strangely.

"You!... Why do I even bother explaining to someone so... dense?" Tatiana harrumphed and stumped her feet in annoyance, as she looked away. She wasn't going to waste her time on a newly Awakened like Leo.

Elda who was standing at a distance behind couldn't help but smile when she saw Tatiana's reaction.

"Seeing the princess show such reaction is amusing. She has always been stuck up around those scions but seeing her act do free around Leo is refreshing."

She looked towards Leo in curiosity and with caution in her eyes. She was very curious to know everything about Leo and why he's so special.

She wants to know how and why he was able to wake up minutes after the apocalypse while it took other almost an hour.

She was curious to know how he was so strong and have a faint traces of the aura of those two races on him.

'Was he touched by them?' she thought of a possibility but she felt it was impossible, as there's no way that anyone in those two races would bother with someone from such a backwater world.

She was still studying him but her eyes narrowed the next moment, when she noticed the black blade in his hand.

"Shadowsteels? How?"

Elda's sharp eyes fixated on the black blade in Leo's hand.

'Shadowsteel... here?' Her mind raced.

There's only one place she knew Shadowsteels can be found and for Leo to possess a weapon from it it wasn't by accident. If so, then it means that 'that person' has plans for him.

She couldn't help but feel a strong sense of unease when she remembered the being that lived in that 'place'.

"This world is going to go through more than just an awakening."