Golden Dragon: Six Thousand Years of Empire.

Chapter 44: The Great Prayer
"What an idiotic question!"

This was Noah's response to the young man's question, but Teddel could no longer hear his answer. With just a bottle of honey wine, the young man was already drunk. He lay on the ground in a daze and fell asleep.

"Your Highness, he..."

The great fairy Sifrea appeared. She looked at the young man lying drunk on the ground with an embarrassed look. She had now been promoted from the housekeeper of the flower garden to the housekeeper of the Dragon's Nest.

"Don't worry about him, just let him sleep here."

Noah glanced at the young man. It would be a joke to tell others that Yao Guang Jin, who had been an adventurer outside for two years, would be knocked out by a bottle of honey wine. But who made him want to get drunk?

"Yes."

Sifrea breathed a sigh of relief. There was no area in the dragon's nest for visitors to rest. As a housekeeper, she couldn't let the guests sleep on the ground, but since His Highness had already spoken, she didn't have to worry about it.

Noah did not accompany the young man in the reception room. Outside the Dragon's Nest, someone had been waiting for a long time.

"Where's Tadel?"

"He's drunk and sleeping in there."

Noah was not surprised at all when he saw his adoptive mother. After all, she was his biological son. How could he not feel sad to see her become like this?

"Drunk? Have the elves brewed so much mead?"

Noah shook his head. Although the birth of the Great Elf had greatly improved the quantity and quality of the mead he brewed, it was still not enough to drink.

"I only gave him one bottle."

Selina was silent for a long time, then she sighed.
"A bottle of wine!"

"Knowing that he had someone protecting him throughout his training journey was a big blow to him!"

Noah looked at his adoptive mother. He controlled the dragon's nest and of course had a sense of the surroundings. The lady of the lord had already been outside after he brought people into the dragon's nest.
"In addition, he blames himself very much. Taidel feels that the companions and friends who died or were injured during the training were all due to his influence."

"Silly idea."

Selena made a blunt comment.

"Does he think reality is a fairy tale? No sacrifice, no bloodshed? All the beauty in this world is based on strength. If you want to get it, you must pay for it."

"Wait a minute, Auntie, I understand all these principles. Why don't you wait until Teddel wakes up and preach to him, and I won't have to repeat them for you!"

Noah couldn't help but interrupt his adoptive mother.

"What else did he tell you?"

Selena paused and then asked.

"No, that's all."

Noah flicked his tail lightly and curled up in the flowers. There was a vine bridge woven specially for him by the elves for him to take a rest.

"He didn't tell you that he lost all the friends he made during his training?"

"No. What's going on?"

"He didn't come back alone, he brought back all the companions he had made."

"Oh, I remember you said that he made these friends by hiding his identity, so after he revealed his identity, these partners and friends felt strange about him, or were disappointed, and felt that there was an insurmountable gap between them, so they all abandoned him?"

"You are partly right. It is true that some of the adventurers he brought back left after learning his true identity. But they were only a small number. Most of them stayed. But they are no longer Taidel's companions and friends. They can only be his followers."

Noah was shocked, he understood this, it was Runtu from the Forky Ox and the tree man master.

That is to say, after regaining his identity, Tidel, the son of a legend and heir to the Dukedom, was separated from his companions and friends whom he met during his adventures by a tragically thick barrier.

Therefore, it is not wrong to say that he lost all his friends.

“This is a necessary course in his life.”

Noah didn't think it was a big deal. How many people would love to have this kind of experience but can't.

"This would be very painful for him. He never had any friends to share his feelings with since he was a child. It was not until you were born that he had someone to talk to."

Serena looked at Noah, with a glimmer in her bright eyes.

"Now, he still only has you."

"I think you guys have to share some of the responsibility for this. Why don't you give him a brother or sister? That way he'll have a blood brother to grow up with."

Noah couldn't help but complain.

Humans are a short-lived species and, unless there is any special external influence, they have always had many children, and this is especially true for the nobles. It was abnormal that his adoptive parents only had one child. In his opinion, this was because the offspring of metal dragons were not so rare.

"Can't give birth."

The adoptive mother was very frank and told Noah a secret in a casual and indirect way.
"Teddel's birth was the result of my great wish."

"Great Prayer?"

Noah was stunned, the wish spell was a nine-ring spell, but with the addition of big, it was no longer a nine-ring spell, but a legendary spell, but this was not something that a wizard below the legendary level could cast.

"Your parents also gave us a lot of help in this regard."

"How come you can't have children normally?"

Noah was a little confused. Even if he knew a little about magic like wishing, he would never touch it.

The dragon race's heritage only briefly describes it, and there is no method for learning it. No ancient dragon wants their descendants to learn it.

"The stronger the creature, the harder it is to leave offspring. When I met Cassius, I was already at the Ultimate Realm. However, as a human, I still have a good chance of conceiving offspring. But Cassius' bloodline is too strong, so we have no choice but to rely on the art of prayer.

In theory, a wish will grant the caster nearly any wish, but in practice, it has many limitations and can have unpredictable consequences.

As it stands now, the backlash from this spell has only resulted in Cassius and I having a mediocre child who has not inherited any of our talents. However, this is still a good result. "

Serena looked at the young dragon who was unable to understand, her tone remaining calm.

"No matter what, a human who can break through before the age of eighteen and master the power of golden light cannot be called mediocre."

After hearing the lord's wife's comments about her children, Noah spoke up for Teddel.

"Cassius achieved a breakthrough when he was fifteen and awakened the bloodline he possesses now, and I already possessed the Golden Soul when I was thirteen."

Serena said lightly, she looked at Noah who was speaking up for Ted, with a faint smile on her face.
"Compared to true genius, mediocrity is the highest praise I can give to Tedel."

(End of this chapter)