The Imprisoned Dragon - Blade, Dan Heng IL

3. Dan Heng

"Oh?" Blade tilted his head as he was keeping his evil smirk "You're not willing to speak?" he asked as he saw the man in front of his eyes opening up his ones like he wanted to reply, but his body was trembling.

The red eyes of the swordman noticed how the chains around the neck, the wrists and the feet had actually spikes of metal, piercing the skin of the man. He raised his eyebrow as he noticed blue strings getting absorbed by those spikes.

"What is this" he made the prisoner get closer to his face "A torture room?" he asked "Are you the treasure the previous Emperor care to hide forever?" he asked and he got surprised once he noticed the blue eyes of the prisoner shine as the stare of him was turning into a mad one.

Blade smiled once he noticed water flowing around the prisoner, who gnashed his teeth as he kept his mad stare at Blade, but he then coughed blood and all the water fell on the ground.

"Oh?" He laughed, leaving the hold on the chains, making the prisoner fall on the ground without energy left like he used all he had to actually try to escape from the sight of Blade "This... This is all yours?" he asked as he pointed at the hourglass with all the blue mana that was shining even more like it was being recalled.

He stroke his own hair and sighed.

"What a nuisance" he commented "I didn't expect to have to deal with something similar to a kidnapping..." he said annoyed before leaving a side-eye to the man, who was crawling slowly back to the shadow. 

He could notice that the body of that man was totally at the extreme of survival. He did wonder for how long he was been held in that room, and if it was since the previous Emperor, he wouldn't have been even be surprised if that prisoner forgot how to speak.

"Da..." the man laid his back against the wall, raising his head to look at Blade, who didn't want to look surprised to hear his voice.

It was actually... a calm soft voice, that weirdly made him feel for a moment at ease.

"Dan... Heng" the man said as he closed his eyes between the pants, like he was trying to keep himself from collapsing.

Blade moved his sword as he was alternating the stare between Dan Heng and the hourglass.

"What an unfortunate day for you" Blade commented walking towards the man, to crouch down as he was pointing the sword on the floor, next to the hips of the half dragon "I am not the hero of the situation if you hope that" he smiled and Dan opened up his eyes as he made him feel for a moment like he was staring deep in his soul.

He tried to speak but he fell asleep in front of Blade, who was close to him.

"Hey..." Blade laid his hand on his cheek, giving little slaps "Are you... seriously" he got annoyed once he noticed Dan really actually collapsed with no energy left, and Blade couldn't even tell when he would wake up considering most of his vital energy was getting pulled off from those chains to contain it in the hourglass, that was literally a mana storage, to probably tame and keep imprisoned Dan Heng in that room.

Blade felt something inside, an inner madness. He wasn't getting the reason why the Emperor would imprison a man like that in a sanctuary.

And why trying to tame him by absorbing his mana till the point of making him just crawl and do nothing.

"That insane... Emperor..." Blade passed his hand on his face, trying not to think too much about that man "He felt like he was a God and had rights to play with life and death like this..." he got annoyed to then slash fiercely the hourglass.

"This is the most unsatisfying mission I have ever done" he swore before destroying the glass of the hourglass that literally pushed Blade against the wall and Blade's eyes opened up once he noticed all the blue mana condensing and forming a giant blue spirit dragon that rushed against the collapsed body.