Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix

Chapter 526 Understanding the system

They could see a lot of the sea folk around the area, looking for seaweed and other things that they normally eat. Some of them were carrying octopuses and other sea creatures as well... it seemed that not the entire sea was their ally or friends.

"Seara has sure clear teeth... I wonder how, considering the kind of things that she eats here, is it because of the salty water?" Rain thought.

In any case, the capital was even larger than the capital of the human kingdom, and the houses were also made of coral, but they had all kinds of shapes and sizes... Rain wondered if they had beds and would sleep on them and wake up with their faces on the ceiling.

Thousands and more thousands of people stopped doing their things and began to look around at the unexpected visitors... they had heard of Rain, but it was the first time that he had come there. Seadrei never imagined that Rain would be able to come to their territory like that, so the marriage ceremony had been in the port town.

In any case, when they approached the castle. There was this massive staircase there, and Rain wondered why they had that and why it had so many guards when they were swimming above it. Still, the guards began to swim and blocked their paths. They couldn't talk underwater, so they only stared at Rain.

"Only I am allowed to enter?" Rain asked, hoping that the guards would read his lips.

The leader of the guards nodded... wasn't that convenient? Rain didn't hear from Seara that they could do that... he didn't ask either. Regardless, Rain left the others behind and then began to move toward the center of the castle. The place was too big and too empty as well. Although Seadrei had a bunch of kids, not many of them were living with him anymore.

In the end, Rain found him sitting on his throne looking bored out of his mind... Rain thought that he would find a bunch of people like advisors and generals with him, but he assumed that he dismissed them.

"Not really, as long as the next generation surpasses the previous one and everyone recognizes that, that can be done even for someone who is twenty years old," Seadrei shrugged. "Twenty years for me would be the same as six months for you; it is a short amount of time."

Seadrei was quite good at math... and he knew that time is relative. Regardless, it was too much for him to expect a kid to become in twenty years stronger than him.

"I won't make any promises, I am planning to teach my kids all the necessary skills to survive and thrive in this world, but not to become that strong, I can't decide their lives," Rain said. "Anyway, I have something else to ask you, is this place completely empty and no one can hear us?"

"Yes, why?" Seadrei frowned.

Rain explained to Seadrei that he was trying to break the limits of the system and he was also trying to see if mastering all the skills of their initial path would help with that. The idea seemed interesting... but Seadrei also felt like it was trying to make water dry, what was the point of doing that when it was as natural as gravity?

"My guess is that the dragons know the way to break the limits of their initial path and that is why they are so strong even when they are so young," Rain said. "That also would explain why they grow so much stronger the older they get and a lifespan like that, it would make sense that thanks to their lifespan, some of them learned such secrets of the paths system."

"That is an interesting concept, but if that is true, wouldn't just that broke the limits of a single path?" Seadrei asked. "The other limits probably will have to be done in the same way."

"I am also thinking of ways to improve that; I will more motivated once I confirm that is true or not," Rain explained.