Death... and me

3053  Declaration

Rean put those thoughts behind his head and checked the girl's body with his Spiritual Sense. 'Stage Eight, just as mentioned before. A faint bloodline... is it a Divine Sea Demon Beast Bloodline? Well, it explains why the Golal Sharks rule this country's sea. Even just a faint Divine Demon Beast bloodline would give them a great advantage over the others.'

Tana finally let Yuan go, looking at Rean right after. "Who... what are you? I don't remember a Sea Demon Race similar to yours."

Yuan quickly explained in Rean's instead. "Ah! Tana, this is... Garfield... he is a Sea Demon Beast from the Spiritual Canyon. He helped me escape the Canyon before the Slaughter Formation activated."

Rean's collection of cartoon aliases continued to grow nonstop. "Hello there, Senior Tana. I helped Yuan, but he also said I could join the Saramina Sea Demon Palace with him if I did that. I hope that is not a problem." Well, Rean was definitely the one who was supposed to be called a 'senior' instead.

Normally, joining the Saramina Sea Demon Palace was quite difficult. However, Tana was the daughter of the Palace Leader, so it wasn't really an issue to her. "Oh! So you helped my pet. Very well, as payment, I will arrange for you to join the Palace under Yuan's care. Well done, little one."

Rean smiled and nodded. "Thank you, Senior Tana."

Tana then turned her attention to the guards around. "Alright, there is no need to keep an eye on me anymore. Shoo, shoo! Don't bother me." Turns out the guards were there to prevent Tana from going after Yuan. She was known for always look after her subordinates, and even Yuan, who was considered trash between the Sea Demon Beasts, wasn't an exception.

The guards didn't like to be there either, so they accepted the orders and left almost instantly. "Somon," Tana called the elder. "Arrange for Garfield to join the Palace, understood?"

"Yes, Lady Tana." Somon nodded, feeling relieved. He was the one put in charge of watching Tana after he returned from the Spiritual Canyon. He hated that, and now it was over. Somon took out his own CD and asked Rean for his CD as well.

"Sorry, senior," Rean apologized. "Yuan explained to me about the CDs and many other things. However, I've lived in the Spiritual Canyon up to this day. After we left, Yuan didn't want to wait, so he brought me here straight away. I haven't had the chance to acquire a CD."

"Oh!" Somon nodded, feeling even more contempt inside. "I'll get one for you. Just give me a drop of your blood."

Rean smiled and did as asked... Well, he didn't give his own blood, though. He connected to the Dimensional Realm and used the blood of a Swordhorn Fish from the various he killed back in the Spiritual Canyon.

Somon quickly left after that. He wanted to finish this task as soon as possible.

As he disappeared in the distance, Tana turned around to return to her cave. "Alright, Garfield, Yuan, come! Tell me everything that happened inside the Spiritual Canyon after the cave collapsed."

Rean and Yuan didn't mind. However, before they could do so, another Sea Demon Beast arrived, bringing a message from Tana's father. "Lady Tana, your father and the high elders are calling you over. You must bring Yuan with you as well."

Tana sighed in response. "Sigh... when will he give up? Anyway, since he also calling Yuan, he probably wants to know about the Spiritual Canyon. Yuan, come with me. Garfield should come too."

The trio followed the Demon Beast to the main palace underground, which was a big natural formation of blue crystals that few had the right to enter. Various eyes from the Demon Beasts there looked at Rean and Yuan, and the contempt due to their humanoid forms at Stage Six, was quite easy to be seen. Yet, most of the attention was definitely on Yuan. 'You seem quite famous,' Rean commented to Yuan through Spiritual Sense.

Yuan scratched the back of his head. 'Well, I'm being allowed to follow the Daughter of the Saramina Sea Demon Palace Master, after all. They all think I don't deserve to serve her. It is that simple. Tana doesn't care about it, though.'

Rean nodded, happy to ignore everyone.

Finally, they arrived in a big hall of crystals where a few Sea Demon Beasts in humanoid form were waiting for Tana. At first, Rean was expecting Stage Nine or Transition Realm Sea Demons since this was a gathering of elders. Yet, he also saw a few Stage Seven and Eight Younger Sea Demon Beasts in the middle. Those at Stage Seven were in their real forms, while the Stage Eight ones were in humanoid ones.

"Tana, you are here," said another Demon Beast resting on the back of the room, right in the middle of the line of elders of the Demon Palace. He was in his real form, which expanded over a hundred meters. No doubt that was Tana's father, the Leader of the Saramina Sea Demon Palace, Drefin.

Tana looked at her father and then at the younger Sea Demons. "I hope you won't talk about that again. I brought Yuan. Just ask him about the Spiritual Canyon."

"That can wait," Drefin completely ignored Yuan. Even if the escape from the Spiritual Canyon was important, that was only so for young Demon Beasts of the Palace. The Spiritual Canyon didn't have much importance for him. "And yes, I brought you here for that same thing. Tana, it is about time you select your mate. You have the bloodline of the Charybdis, and just like your ancestors, you have to pass it forward."

'Charybdis?' Rean pondered a bit. 'So that's the very faint Divine Demon Bloodline I felt in her body. That also explains the Golal Sharks' strange form for the shark Demon Beasts. That Drefin over there also has it, but in a slightly higher concentration, most likely due to his cultivation.'