Chapter 126: The Tale Of The Seven Dragons

The book did not look all that special, and under normal circumstances, he would have likely ignored it without a second thought.

But then he remembered one simple, important detail from the system message the other day, the mention of seven dragon bloodlines.

His fingers tightened slightly around the book as his tired eyes sharpened, because suddenly, the colorful little thing in his hand no longer looked harmless. It looked hidden in plain sight, disguised as something no adult would bother taking seriously.

Max quickly opened the first page, tracing each line as his eyes moved across the simple words and faded illustrations.

He had already confirmed that it was a book meant for children, with short sentences and old painted scenes that looked almost laughable at first glance, but the longer he stared, the more he felt that something beneath those simple words was not simple at all.

"Long ago, the seven dragons created the world we know right now. Four brothers and three sisters, all carrying a part of the stars inside their hearts. Fire was the eldest. His fiery golden hair danced in the darkness, lighting up the world as he cut off his beautiful hair and combed it into the great ball of fire we now call the sun. But he had nowhere to place the sun. Therefore, the second eldest brother sacrificed his multicolored hair. He was called Sky. His light blue hair rose like waves, creating the sky we know now, but so did his black hair accompany it."

Max stopped for a moment, feeling his heart beat wildly inside his chest.

His gaze remained fixed on that one name.

Sky.

Because until now, he had not found even the smallest useful record about such a clan. The system had confirmed seven dragon bloodlines, yet the world he had seen only carried traces of the ones still known. Fire, Ice, Wind, and Thunder.

But Sky was different. It sounded too vast, too strange, and far too important to simply disappear without a reason.

"So the bloodline I haven’t found yet is called Sky? Sky dragons... what kind of magic would they possess?" Max muttered, his voice low in the silence, but after a moment, he shook his head and forced himself not to get lost in speculation.

If this children’s book had given him one answer, then there might be more hidden inside it.

He continued reading.

"Yet the dark sky felt too empty. The eldest sister felt her second brother’s pain and sacrificed her beautiful silver hair to create a small ball..."

Max turned the page, only to see ripped edges where the next sheets should have been.

"You must be kidding me..." He cursed under his breath as his eyes narrowed.

Around five pages were missing from the middle of the book, all of them torn out by someone’s hand. It did not look natural at all.

The edges were rough, but not old enough to match the age of the book itself, as if someone had found this children’s tale long after it had been placed here and ripped out only the parts they did not want anyone else to read.

His eyes drifted back toward one of the faded illustrations near the torn section.

Seven small dragons were painted around a half-formed world, but two of them had been scratched over so violently that only their shapes remained beneath the damage.

Behind them stood a taller figure, or at least what was left of it. Its entire shape had been burned through the page itself, leaving a dark scar where its face and body should have been.

Max stared at it for a while, his brows slowly furrowing, because the system had said seven dragon bloodlines, the book was called a tale of seven dragons, and yet someone had burned away an eighth presence from the illustrations as if its existence alone was forbidden.

"Could it be..." He shook his head, letting the idea die the second it was born.

The next lines he read did not bring him any new answers, but they gave him enough to make the mystery worse.

"The youngest sister. Ice. Felt that the world was too hot, so she sacrificed her purple hair to create strings that stuck to the water her brother had made. Yet his powers were too strong, dyeing the purple ice with a tinge of soft blue until it became almost translucent. And so, the seven dragon siblings created the dragon world. Even now, we worship the great progenitors. They are our gods, for without them, we would not exist..."

Max’s eyes paused on that line for longer than he expected. Purple ice dyed blue by Water’s power.

It sounded like something written for children, but after everything he had witnessed, after Agnia’s golden flames had mutated into blue fire, he could no longer dismiss the wording as simple nonsense.

If even this childish tale carried fragments of truth, then dragon bloodlines might not have been meant to remain separate forever. Their powers could touch, mix, change, and maybe even return to something far older than the clans themselves understood.

Max turned to the last page, only to find that there should have been one more.

But even that one had been torn out.

His fingers tightened around the book as a slow, uncomfortable silence settled over him.

"Whatever lies in the missing pages was important to somebody, but why? Is it because the other dragon clans are missing? It doesn’t add up..."

His gaze lowered back to the faded children’s book, but the childish drawings no longer looked harmless to him.

"This confirms three dragons for me. The one who created the oceans had to be Water... but then... who created the moon? What was her name? And what power did that dragon possess? And that burned figure behind them... was it another dragon, or something above the seven?" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

Max remained silent after that, staring at the torn pages as the weak oil lamp flickered beside him.

A simple children’s tale had just given him more answers than all the ancient records in this library, but the most important parts had been ripped away long before he ever found it.

Someone had understood that this little book was not just a story. Someone had known what those missing pages revealed, and whoever they were, they had deliberately torn that truth away, wanting to erase an entire part of dragon history before anyone else could ever find it...