We Live in Dragon’s Peak

I don't know what the power is for me. Old Sleighsta dares to lower his back to me with a question mark over his head.

As they say, I sit in front of old Sleighsta.

What am I going to do now? [M] I look up anxiously, not knowing what Old Sleighsta is thinking and trying to make me do.

Old Sleighsta looked down at me quietly with her golden eyes like that.

"Hmm, don't be anxious and shaky right now. First you have to believe in me, calm your heart, and do as I say."

It's not like I don't trust you. I just figured you'd be anxious if you didn't see ahead. I want you to tell me what you're gonna do. Though I do, I try to calm my mind. But how can I calm down? I don't usually think about that, so I think extra weird.

"Close your eyes slowly in an easy position."

As they say, close your eyes. My vision darkened. There will be no such thing as letting your eyes meditate.

If Old Sleighsta cares about it, open your eyes or run away, I'm in a flash.

"Don't think strangely about this. Feel the world without a heart."

Shit, they read my thoughts.

What does it mean to feel the world? I have no idea, but let's not dare waste our thoughts.

I try to feel the world in a dark, closed world. [M]

It's dark because I'm closing my eyes, and I don't even feel what's in front of me in the world. Still, as I was told, I calmed my mind and kept meditating.

When I close my eyes for a long time, I get all sorts of other senses sharper.

A soft breeze runs through the moss square.

The wind contains a deep smell of ancient trees, delivering a calming scent to the nasal cavity.

In the distance, ancient trees swayed in the wind, rubbing together branches and playing gentle sounds.

Right on the side, you can hear Old Sleighsta's deep, slow breath. Even though he was a giant dragon like Oyama, his breath blended in quieter and more naturally than a breeze.

but there is a slight sound. Around the front leg of Sleighsta old. I lay tight in the center of the moss square and thought I would only move it up from my neck, but I wonder if my body is moving unexpectedly. I've only seen it as a giant, so I've never noticed a small move.

From behind the woods of ancient trees, I heard animal ringing. He said it was a sacred place, so I thought there was no one nearby but a giant dragon, but unexpectedly the sound of animals was heard nearby.

I can hear the little bird chirping. Behind the woods of ancient trees. And even from overhead. I heard wings of flicks and birds.

Yeah, from a much higher position, I can hear the bird chirping slightly. I wonder if it stays in the branches of the spiritual tree.

Far away, from overhead a distance farther than the ancient trees, I heard the swings of the trees. Slowly shaking in the wind.

A tree far bigger than a giant dragon like Oyama, I've never seen or heard of.

I realized that I had been meditating for a long time on my consciousness toward the Spirit Tree.

"Can you see the spirit tree now?"

In a small voice to such an extent that it does not interfere with my meditation, says Old Sleigh Ista.

I don't see it. Because my eyes are closed. But for some reason, I had a clear view of the branches of the spiritual tree above my head.

"Spirit trees are far more vital than ours. So much so that you can see it in your soul without having to see it with your eyes."

Sure, I feel something strong I can't say from a spirit tree. I don't know what that is at all.

"Now, if you see the branches of the Spirit Tree, look at the trunks along them."

I felt like I could see it somehow.

I feel the branches first. [M] Following it, he turned his consciousness to the trunk of the spirit tree at the end of the moss square.

It's a long way off the square. I felt like I could see a mountain standing very huge vertically at the end of a deep forest of ancient trees.

No, not the mountain, that's the trunk of the spirit tree. A body of spiritual trees that are very, very fat and full of life.

Strange, I feel a spirit tree nearby that should be far away.

And when I look at it as a giant tree full of life, I realize that it is sucking something up from the earth forcefully, and that makes it more vital.

"Ho, do you feel the dragon pulse in a day"

I can hear old Sleighsta like I was impressed.

"Even the Dragon Nation becomes a frontier where you can try to train for years. Now follow the dragon pulse and feel the world."

Is something that the Spirit Tree is sucking up from the earth called a dragon vein?

I now turned my consciousness to something that was being sucked up by the Spirit Tree.

I wonder what a dragon pulse is. I can't believe the dragon tribe is able to see things after training as much as I meditated a little bit.

I wonder if it's some kind of mistake. But it doesn't even seem like Old Sleighsta is wrong.

Anyway, I meditated deeply and turned my consciousness to something being sucked up by the Spirit Tree.

At first, I thought it was water. Trees suck up water and feed, and they grow.

But something's different.

I feel more overwhelming than water.

The Spirit Tree was sucking something up from deep, wide stretched roots beneath the earth.

Something overflowing with power spread like a sea plain beneath a spiritual tree. Yeah, it wasn't Kaihara. It was so big, I looked like the ocean at first, but it wasn't. It wasn't a sea plain, it was a great river.

Something that gives a big twist and flows as powerfully as a great river.

It followed a long way from where the spirit tree stood, and in front it also followed the street beneath the moss square and into the back of the ancient woods.

From the mainstream, the tributaries branched infinitely, and the earth was stretched with rivers large and small infinite.

I am stunned by the overwhelming scale and the power of it.

The long torso seemed to swim in the sky as it flowed bendingly and vigorously.

"What I'm feeling now is life in the world. The power to keep the continent full. Spiritual pulse. The dragon clan calls it the dragon vein."

I slowly sink old Sleighsta words into my heart. [M] Was the world overflowing with such great power?

I never noticed. [M] Yeah, no one in the people has noticed. Even the Dragon Nation said they couldn't see without training.

But why did that look like me?

Turning his consciousness to Old Sleighsta, Old Sleighsta found himself smoking a dragon pulse along with a slow and quiet breath.

"Beasts, bugs, people. Plants will certainly have life as well. Just like that, the earth and the world are alive and alive. It's just hard to notice. It's too huge."

It's been around since birth, as usual, but it's too big to feel. I wonder if that means that what you can't feel is taken for granted and you're not even aware that it has.

I don't know.

Old Sleighsta smiled a little bitterly at my thoughts.

"That was a difficult story. Whatever it is, the first step is to feel the dragon pulse."

Say it, Sleighsta. Old man took one, deep breath, as relieved.

"Keep going, keep feeling the dragon pulse."

I kept turning to the dragon pulse. [M] I can easily capture the existence of a spiritual tree, but if the dragon vein doesn't continue to meditate deeply, I was going to lose sight of it soon.

It's strange though it's a far more gigantic force than a giant dragon's Sleighsta old or spiritual tree or something.

I wonder how long I've been meditating. I felt it for many, many long moments, and I feel like a shorter time.

The clutter grew and it became gradually more difficult to continue meditating deeply, making it difficult to perceive the dragon pulse in proportion.

I give up and stop meditating.

At the end of his gaze, Old Sleighsta looked down at me satisfactorily.

"You're too good for your first day."

"Have you ever felt a dragon pulse"

"Dear Left, as I said earlier, even the Dragon Nation will be a frontier to reach before years of training. Even if this is by the spiritual tree, directly above the mainstream of the dragon vein, I don't think I can feel it in a single day."

Really? I wonder if I've done something amazing.

"Guha, by the time you get this far across the sanctuary's boundaries, you've done great things."

When you asked me, I did. The truth is, no one can come here, right? Even if I could come, maybe Old Sleighsta would eat me.

Old Sleighsta protects spiritual trees and stays in this sanctuary, but I wonder if there might be any intruders other than me.

"Of course, I'm here. Those who stray like you are rare, and those who break into the woods in bad faith from the beginning are endless."

Really? But it is, isn't it? You wouldn't exactly think there would be spiritual trees, but some would try to cut banned dragon forest trees, and there are other bad people, wouldn't there?

That's what I thought, and my gaze went to old Sleighsta's front leg.

Speaking of which, I felt movement during meditation on my front leg.

I guess I should say right hand. At the tip of that finger, the base of the nail was slightly submerged and bleeding.

"Oh, you're injuring the tip of your finger. What's wrong?"

I was surprised. Old Sleighsta is of the Dragon Forest, the legendary giant dragon. It's an ancient species of old dragon. That's what's causing the injury and bleeding.

I figured you fought an intruder, and you were injured.

"Hmm, this one"

Old Sleighsta moves his sushi fingers.

I wonder if it doesn't hurt.

Or what power is it to break through the scales of ancient dragons and submerge them?

"I don't care about this wound"

One slightly worse appearance, Old Sleighsta misled.

I wonder if the injury is disgraceful or something. I felt like I shouldn't go into too much and ask.

If you're injured, I wish I could apply a universal snot.

"This wound, well, it stays like this for a while"

Old Sleighsta with a bitter laugh.

After all, it's a disgraceful wound, and maybe I'll leave it out of self-restraint.

I'm also concerned about the person who wounded old Sleighsta, but I wasn't likely to hear this when.

"Come on, time for meditation is up. Yang has a little more. I'll teach you how to dance next."

"Eh."

Sleighsta, I didn't understand the old saying.

You want to teach me how to dance? What for?

"Your dance is too lousy. Let me teach you something called my dance. A man has a way of dancing."

Oh, my God, am I going to be a dancer? I'm confused by something I never thought I would.

"Bring two affordable branches from the firewood you have collected."

Unable to hide the wolf, I still travel to the place where the firewood was collected.

In the corner of the moss square there was a lot of firewood and fruit.

Why are tree branches used to practice dancing?

Yeah, speaking of which, yesterday, I forgot my slender midsword here.

The medium sword, not the branches of a tree, would be nowhere.

I look around for firewood and fruit and look out over the square.

But no medium sword had fallen anywhere.

"Oh, I threw away that seemingly sword"

Oh, my God!

That was the sword my parents finally bought me with the money they saved and my dime. It may be blunt from the Dragon Clan, but it's important to me.

"Ha, never mind"

I'll kick your ass.

I was too old to cry. [M]