How I Became the Strongest Sovereign

[Congratulations! You have completed the quest!]

[50,000 Exp has been received]

That was two floors done. Now for the final one.

"This one\'s going to be an easy one." I said, taking out Voadhailis\'s claw and cracking my neck left and right.

We all stared at the ginormous three headed beast, saliva drooled from its mouth and sharp canines protruded out of its mouths. It tried several times to charge at us but large iron chains held it down. So this Cerberus was the final boss?

Great.

It seemed like we were in some sort of medieval tower. A massive two doored gate stood behind the Cerberus. What was it protecting?

"Let\'s begin." Numen and Dianmu both released their mana pressures making me stumble back. I had forgotten how powerful these guys were - S rank beasts.

I also released my pressure and my demon aura. We spread out and darted from three directions and charged at the chained beast.

Suddenly, the chains dropped from around its neck and limbs and it began charging towards the nearest target wildly.

The Forest King was calm and immediately conjured thick green mana vines to appear out of the ground and wrap around the beast but it cut them all with its claws or shrugged them off with its might. I threw countless fireballs at it, causing them to detonate at contact with its dark fur.

It howled in pain, before one of its heads looked at me and opened its mouth. I could see a dark glow coming from its mouth.

"Don\'t get hit by that!" Dianmu warned as she spun her golden staff and struck down, causing a blinding thunderbolt to strike down at the beast.

The Cerberus shook its heads gathering itself from the shock before charging towards Dianmu. Lucky she could fly, she managed to weave around distracting the cerberus, while Numen and I thought of a plan.

"I can\'t distract this thing forever you know. Hurry up!" She yelled, showering the ground with lightning strikes.

"Numen immobilise it, I\'m going to get close and finish it off." I said zigzagging around, running up the walls and circling the beast. Numen nodded and captured the beast with its mana vines, this time he used a lot of mana to strengthen the vines.

I spun Voadhailis\'s Claw in my hand and leapt up into the air, violent streaks of lightning covered me and formed into a lightning dragon\'s head; it opened its mouth ready to bite down with force.

"Aaarrghhhhh!!!" I let out a battle cry, my voice reverberated in layers as my voice mixed with my demonic aura.

I struck down with all my might. The dragon, made of violent streaks of lightning, bit down on the cerberus\'s neck.

It let out a loud and painful shriek before its pupils turned white and it fell dead as a doornail.

[You have used 2000 MP]

[Congratulations! You have Created a new Spell]

[What do you want to call it?]

\'Drago del Fulmine\'

"What the h*ll was that?!" Dianmu rushed over to me and slapped my back playfully as I huffed and puffed.

That technique was a modified version of the \'Holy Grail: Twin dragon\' spell I used to use in my previous life. If only I had two short swords, it would have been a perfect copy..

"It\'s dead now." Numen walked over with Cerberus\'s heart in his hand.

"So what now? Haven\'t we cleared it? Don\'t we get rewards or something?" I asked, straightening myself and finally regaining my breath.

"I\'m not sure, I haven\'t cleared a dungeon in such a long time." Dianmu shrugged.

Why did I have an ominous feeling though? I looked back at the carcass of the cerberus. It was definitely dead.

"What about those big doors? Do you want to check it out?" I pointed towards the large doors at the back of the hall.

"That\'s strange. This is my first time seeing doors like those in a dungeon. Come, Let\'s check it out." Dianmu walked ahead of us.

"Zeref! Watch out!!" I felt a strong push making me tumble to the side.

A powerful dark beam burned the Forest King\'s body crisply as he protected Dianmu from the powerful attack. He used his body to shield her from the attack.

"Numen!!" Dianmu cried out.

I picked myself up and saw the Cerberus up and well on its feet. But how? We killed it. Then I spotted something wrong, one of its heads was dead and limp. It made sense; the Cerberus probably had 3 hearts - one for each head.

"Dianmu, calm down. That\'s not the real Numen, it\'s his clone. We need to focus and destroy its last 2 remaining hearts." I released my mana pressure and charged towards the beast, I took a quick glance at the still shocked Thunderbird.

For some reason the Cerberus was much faster and reacted to my blade\'s movements much more viciously. Its speed of firing that dark beam also quickened and I was taking damage.

[You have taken 1000 damage]

Sh*t! It only skimmed my arm.

"Dianmu! Hurry up and help me." I shouted as I wrapped the beast in flames.

It roared in agony and dashed towards me trying to bite me down. I side stepped quickly and sliced off one its heads cleanly, making it drop to the floor.

The fire dissipated and the second head started to heal back. What the h*ll was this creature?!

"I\'ll destroy you!!" Loud thunderous cackles of lightning formed around Dianmu\'s body; she leaped into the air holding her golden staff with both of her hands. Her eyes went blue and her navy blue wings spread out.

"Don\'t!!" I tried to warn her but it was too late. The Cerberus turned its now regenerated second head towards her and fired the same concentrated black beam.

I threw an exploding fireball at its faces, making a large gulf of flames cover its heads. Dianmu\'s unconscious body fell down, descending towards the ground. I quickly travelled towards her, catching her and holding her in my hands. Damn! She was heavy.

How did these guys let their guard down? So much for being S rank beasts.

I laid the knocked out Dianmu down next to the charred Forest King and formed an ice box around them. That should keep them safe for now.

As for the Cerberus, I was going to end its whole career.

ROOAARGHHH!!!

The Cerberus let out a deafening shout.

"Puppy Sit!" I said pointing at the beast.

Immediately, its body sunk into the floor being pinned down. I released my killing intent, shaking the whole hall. Large cracks formed like spiderwebs underneath the Cerberus\'s immobile body.

[MP is dropping rapidly!]

I approached the immobilised Cerberus and cut off one of its heads with a flick of my blade. It struggled and started charging up its beam to shoot it at me with its other head but its efforts were all in vain.

"Bad dog." I said, piercing its tough skin and crushing the last two remaining hearts, "Someone didn\'t train you properly."

I didn\'t want to show my full power to the other two. If they became enemies in the future, it was better they underestimated me.

[Congratulations! You have completed the quest!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You\'re now level 74]

[You have 50 Available stat points]

[MP has been restored]

I sighed before opening up the system.

[Strength has increased 145 -> 155]

[Intelligence has increased 90 -> 110]

[Agility has increased 154 -> 174]

I put 10 stat points into Strength and 20 into Intelligence and Agility. From this fight alone, I thanked myself for having a high agility stat, without it I would\'ve been caught countless times by that strong mana beam. It was able to knock out two S rank Beasts.

I also needed to increase the potency of my spells, most of my flame attacks were shrugged off by the beast, increasing intelligence was important. Lastly, Strength: I lacked the strength before to cleanly cut the Golem\'s hard defence; I needed a good strength to overcome strong defences like the Golem\'s.

Creakk!

Voadhailis\'s Claw started to vibrate in my hand at the noise.

I turned my head towards the Large two doors. They were finally opening…

**

\'Oh my god.\' is the thought that was constantly going through my brain. Why would such a thing even be here?

I really had a thing for encountering dragons.

I walked inside, it looked to be some sort of tomb for the dead lying carcass of a mighty dragon. It had bright red scales that still hadn\'t lost their glow and a domineering presence. I could only imagine how powerful it was when it was alive. It had two large yellow horns protruding out of its head.

I had bad experiences with dragons so seeing another true dragon made my hairs stand up.

I read the name of the beast with my demon eye and as I got closer and closer to the dead beast Voadhailis\'s Claw resonated more and more in my hand.

[Name: The Dragon of Flames, Voadhailis]

[Level: ???]

[Mana pool stage: ???]

[Weaknesses: ???]

Damn! So many question marks. Just how strong was this True Dragon?

So this was the beast that my blade was made from. I remembered quests I received a year ago, to do with this Dragon. The first quest was to buy the blade and I did; the second was to retrieve the dead body and the third was to revive it using the potion of life.

This guy could become an awesome asset!

I put out my fist in front of the dead mighty Dragon\'s body and it slowly absorbed into my dimension ring. Only dead things and tangible objects could be stored in the dimension rings.

[Congratulations! You have completed the quest!]

[You have leveled up! You are now level 75!]

[You have 10 Available stat points]

I put stats into defense and continued searching around the tomb.

[Defence/ Durability has increased 148 ->158]

There seemed to be tonnes of Gold, armour, enchanted clothes, swords. I put most of it in my dimension ring, to sell them later on and make a better profit.

"So you\'ve been here, taking all the loot huh?"

I turned my head around and looked at Dianmu struggling to stand upright.

"Oh, yeah. Finders keepers, you guys were last in, plus I defeated that Cerberus so I thought I deserved to loot first." I said, walking up to her and helping her walk back.

"Fair enough. Anyways, I wanted to ask you something." her voice was croaky and she looked dreadful.

"Go ahead."

"Do you want to sign a contract with me?" She asked, looking into my eyes.

I heard contracts were mostly done with mages, who specialised in beast magic but normal mages could form pacts with magical beasts too.

"What are the conditions?" I queried, helping her walk to the blue portal that opened up.

"I will try to give you help whenever you demand it, just call my name and in return for my services I want you to take care of my kin if I ever die." She said solemnly, with the eyes of a mother.

"You have kids?" I frowned.

"Ahhah, I may look young but I\'m over a hundred years old young demon. I have 4 young daughters and 2 sons. If you promise me to take care of them once I die, I will undoubtedly follow you to the ends of the world."

I liked her offer but there was only one issue: I wasn\'t too keen on babysitting Thunderbirds, let alone magical beasts. Taking care of people was fine, but that many magical beasts. Hell no!!

"How about I give you a counter offer?" I smiled, "You become my familiar and come to me when I call for help and in return I will teach your kin your lightning techniques.

"I know it\'s hard for beasts to teach their kin spells and skills as that\'s something they need to learn themselves. Most young magical beasts die at an early age due to that. So what do you say?" I offered.

"I agree under one condition."

"What."

"You will also look out for them if they\'re ever in trouble."

I couldn\'t guarantee the last bit but I accepted anyway.

"Fine." I agreed.

"Yayy! Now let\'s sign the contract." Before I could react, she pulled me closer. Her lips nearly connected with mine but I pushed her away, accidentally pushing her by her throat making her cough.

"I\'d rather do it the traditional way…" I awkwardly smiled, taking out Rakeria\'s dagger and slitting my palm. She looked at me shocked as I grabbed her wrist.

"What?! No!" she tried to pull away but I had already split the skin of her palms making her cry out in pain.

"Too late." I smirked, shaking both of our bloody hands and shaking vigorously to increase the pain.

I squeezed her hand slightly before she yanked her whole body away from me and fell backwards on her bum.

"Yay! Now we are like siblings. Blood to blood bond." I smirked sarcastically as she glared up at me with a scowl on her face. I shook the blood of my hand, self healing.

[Congratulations! You have Successfully made a Master and Familiar Contract!]

"You\'re no fun." She whined entering the portal pouting. She must have wanted the kiss instead.

I looked back at Numen\'s charred clone one more time and I made sure to put on my eye patch before finally exiting the portal.

[Congratulations! You have completed the quest!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You have leveled up!]

[You\'re now level 78]

[You have 30 Available stat points]

The portal closed behind me instantly and I was greeted with a shout.

"Put your hands in the air! Now!"