Dragon Child: The Journey Begins

Chapter 19

I was wondering a bit about where the crazy females were. I had just assumed that they were still in that carriage thing . Who knew that they decided to come here instead.

In any case, the main problem I have now is how to find my precious crystals! I am certain they are here somewhere.

I must admit that now I am uncertain how to proceed. I could always use the same earth prison I created before. However, it seems like it would be too hard to simply aim at all the bandits individually.

I have a feeling that if I went all over the place with the earth prisons, I would get the three females imprisoned as well. That's something I definitely don't wanna do! Who knows how that crazy Lilliana would react if I covered her in an earth prison! No thank you!

So now, my only other option is aiming directly at the bandits themselves. That proves even harder to do. With so many of them walking about wherever they please, it's hard to get a grasp on their individual locations.

Well, I think the best thing for me to do at the moment is to see if I can search for my crystals with my new method. It's way more important to me to at least find the culprit who took it in the first place!

I closed my eyes and sent my senses out through the earth. I could feel the bandits walking. Their every move was felt through the earth.

Although I couldn't feel the crystals on any of them, that could simply be because they weren't completely covered with the earth. Or, I need to practice more. Either way, my search method wasn't currently working.

Hmmm. Although I couldnt feel my crystals, maybe this could enhance my aim? I can also feel the exact location of the females. They are stationary, so I could easily avoid them.

The problem is, I can't seem to extend my current search system to cover the entire camp. I could visually aim at them all without using the new search method, but then I run the risk of Lilliana getting caught. That's something I don't wanna see. Just thinking about it gives me the shivers!

How to do this? Eh, forget it. What will be, will be. I'm a mighty dragon's child! Why should I be afraid of an elf's reaction? I'm gonna do it!

And with that determination, I simply covered everyone in sight with my earth prison. I had to look around to make sure I caught everyone. Yep. Everyone I see has been nicely wrapped up.

Uh oh. The problem is that it was everyone I could see. And now I see another bandit running out from a cloth covering. I'd better trap this fellow as well.

Just as I thought that, I made my earth prison cover him. However, much to my surprise, the earth prison crumbled and fell back to the ground.

What was this?! Did I make it wrong? Let me try again. And so thinking, the same scene replayed itself. Unfortunately, the scene that replayed was the entire scene, including the crumbling earth prison.

Did I not make it strong enough? Why does it keep crumbling? And now that fellow is looking right at me with a strange smile. It gives me the creeps just looking at it. It reminds me of when my mother smiles at me right before she makes me do something horrible, like lifting a gigantic rock over and over again.

"Hehehe. Little boy, why don't you try that again?" The free male asked me.

Hmmm, okay. This time I tried strengthening the prison. Instead of just one layer, I used seven. Why seven, you ask? Does there have to be a reason? That's just the number I randomly decided to use! Don't ask me silly questions!

Anyway, the seven layers formed around the male at the same time. I didn't want to risk putting up one layer just to have it crumble before the next one appeared. And that's why I put them all up at the same time!