Reincarnated As A Dragon With A Godly Inheritance
Chapter 28: Let’s find out

Chapter 28: Let’s find out

Kaedros faced her. He had known this day would come, but now that it had arrived. He hesitated. Should he kill her right there and then?

It would be easy to blame it on the assassins after.

"What do you mean?" he asked cautiously.

"You’re too powerful for a stage four Mage ..." Taria said slowly.

"Stage five. " Kaedros corrected her. He’d nearly forgotten the faint pulse of mana he felt after killing the assassins. He was already in the peak stage four already and the mana from them who are in stage eight helped push him to stage five.

That was the story he had in mind. He would do everything to bring his fake rank to his real rank so that he could began to cultivate aggressively.

She shot him a sharp look. "Even worse. You’re way too powerful for a stage five. And from what I know, Mages can’t use multiple types of magic. But I’ve seen you use fire, light... even shadow. It’s almost like... you’re not a mage."

Her eyes widened. She was putting it together. "What’s your path?"

Kaedros raised both hands slightly, offering a half-shrug. "Alright. You got me. But let’s not have this conversation in a blood-soaked alley."

They slipped back into the flow of foot traffic, blending with the stream of people moving through the night-dimmed streets.

"I’m a Sorcerer," Kaedros lied smoothly. "Rare Ascendant path. That’s why I can cast different types of magic. But my specialty is sun."

When he received the Light of Annihilation. Kaedros realized that it’s not only the sun but darkness, light and fire was what made up the new core.

He was still trying to untangle it. And that Codex said it was only the seed. What would the real deal looks like? Kaedros’s eyes shone with greed.

Taria gave him a look of awe, seeing him in a completely new light. So that’s where the confidence comes from... the arrogance too. "But that still doesn’t explain how you’re this strong as a stage five."

Kaedros puffed up slightly, smirking. "I’m something of a genius. I also have a dual path."

Taria stumbled. "Dual class?" Her eyes widened again.

"If Sorcerers are rare, then that’s... that’s almost unheard of. One in a million. That’s amazing! Why are you hiding it?"

"What do you think would happen if the Celestial Order or the bouhty hunter’s Association found out?" Kaedros said flatly. "They’d dissect me. Nobles would try to own me. The Order would never let me walk free."

Taria nodded slowly, then smiled. "True. Even without knowing all that, you’ve already caused enough trouble. So that explains it. The power. The multi-type casting."

"Exactly. Mages are locked into their path. They can only use magic tied to their path abilities. Sorcerers are flexible. We have an innate connection to mana. That makes our spells more adaptable—and more dangerous."

Technically, he wasn’t lying. The Noble Dragon class functioned like a Sorcerer in many ways, only with significantly more... monstrous benefits.

"But that sounds like a huge advantage. Learning nore types of magic must make you unstoppable."

Kaedros shook his head.

’....t’s not that simple. Sure, I can learn anything, but mastery is another matter. I chose sun because it’s fast to learn and... because that’s what I was originally born with in the Dragon City....but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to develop the others...already, I can use the darkness..’

"It’s not that simple. You have to chose one or three to focus on."

"But why not master everything?"

"Because it’s hard enough to master one type of magic, even with our connection to mana. Spreading out too much leaves you average in everything. You’ll never reach true mastery that way."

Taria’s face fell. "So... Sorcerers and mages end up the same? Just stuck in one magic path?"

Kaedros arched a brow. "No. You think a mage could use shadow magic the way I did earlier, when my main path is sun? Even basic cross-discipline spells give me an edge. And I cast faster than most."

Taria stared at him for a long moment. How powerful is he really...?

Path are attributes that Ascendant are born with. Assassins with inborn trait to use shadow magic. Warriors with their internal usage of mana.

She clenched her fists. She had been useless back there, frozen, helpless, waiting for death.

"Do you know who sent the assassins?" she asked, her voice low but steady.

"I do."

Kaedros tensed as something brushed against the edge of his awareness. He had layered a mental bubble earlier to detect nearby threats, and someone had just passed through it.

’...we’re being watched..’he thought.

"You do? Then tell me," Taria said. This time, she wouldn’t freeze. She wouldn’t fall apart.

Kaedros looked at her, expression flat.

"I appreciate the sentiment, but you’re too weak to fight them."

"And you’re not?" she.

He wasn’t. Not really. Facing multiple high-level bounty hunters would be suicide, even in his true Dragon form, especially while hiding under a human skin.

"I can hurt them," he said.

"Then let me fight with you. I’m weak, yes, but I won’t hold you back," Taria said firmly. Her voice didn’t shake but her heart did.

Kaedros blinked. For a moment, he almost laughed. A weak human, pledging herself to his cause. Almost laughable.

Back in the Dragon City, even regular Dragons had spit on him, a noble prince.

"You don’t even know the enemy," he said with a quiet smile. "And I never said I was going to fight."

"What? They tried to kill us! At least tell me we’re reporting this to someone!"

Kaedros stopped her with a hand on her shoulder. The inn came into view just ahead, and something was off.

The innkeeper and a servant were standing outside, faces taut with unease.

"It might be impossible to report it," Kaedros said calmly, eyes scanning the building. "The Celestial Order sent those assassins. And there were no witnesses."

As they approached, he pulled his awareness inward and began silently weaving a defensive ward around both of them, one of the more subtle spells he knew.

Since he took the new core in, Kaedros had been using all the knowledge he gained through reading spell and technique books in his crumbling flying ship to began to create and adapt to his new powers.

Taria shivered at the tingle of mana. She stared at him. "You’re casting on me?"

"And I said trust me."

They were close enough now to see the nervous twitch in the innkeeper’s lantern hand.

"Good evening, Master Kael and Miss Taria," the innkeeper greeted with a wobbly bow.

"Why are you standing out here?" Kaedros asked bluntly.

The man hesitated. "Well... em... You have a guest."

Kaedros didn’t need more, he understood what was happening. A guest the innkeeper couldn’t refuse, that was what was in that inn.

"I see. Thank you."

He took a step toward the door, then paused. "Taria. Give them some coin. Let them find another place to sleep tonight."

He couldn’t sense the people inside. Whoever they were, they were cloaking their presence. But he could tell, there were three of them.

Taria returned to his side once the innkeeper and servant had gone.

"I don’t understand," she said quietly.

Kaedros gave her a calm smile. "Let’s find out together."

And then, he opened the door.