SSS Ranked Reincarnation: Dark Dragon Legacy

You watch your mouth, Kendall,” one of the members of the Arcane Council snapped, glaring at Kendall with burning eyes.

Kendall simply looked at him and burst into hearty laughter. “Look at all of you, playing god in this small world.”

Silva stood there watching everything unfold. He didn’t fully understand what was happening, but he knew that if he kept observing, something interesting would come up. After all, these were the leaders of the Arcane Council—the same people he had been told he wasn’t qualified to meet, now standing in front of him because of his fight with Kendall.

One of the council members turned toward Silva.

“So you’re a demigod,” he said, eyes burning as he questioned him.

Silva shrugged. “I wasn’t supposed to tell you that, was I?”

The man gritted his teeth. “How dare you toy with us like that?”

“Toy with you? I didn’t do anything except become a hunter under your organization,” Silva said casually.

“Do you take us for fools?” the man bellowed. “That you, a demigod, would just come here to become a member of our Arcane Council’s hunters on this planet? To become a floor hunter? You expect us to believe that?”

All seven members now stared at him.

Silva shrugged again. “I didn’t have anything in mind. I just wanted to understand my environment, and becoming a hunter seemed like the best way.”

It was hard for them to accept that a being with demigod divinity would willingly lower himself to become a simple hunter on a low-level planet. There were a few demigods living on this world, but each one ruled something—territories, laws, ancient domains. They only stayed here because they had reached their peak and wanted to feel like gods among men. Only rare cases, like Aris, lived quiet lives because they were running from something. Even then, they were still feared. Demigods weren’t supposed to mingle with mortals. Pride was built into their divinity. It was absolute.

“Hahahaha!” Kendall burst into laughter again, dragging their attention back to him.

“The truth is,” Kendall began, “that kid over there is actually new. A new demiggod. A strong one, too. But it seems he barely knows anything. He probably thought you old farts were important people who could guide him on the right path. He didn’t realize he was shooting himself in the foot by mixing with you.”

“You will shut your mouth,” one of the councilwomen snapped.

“And what will you do, Elizabeth?” Kendall said, smirking.

Her eyes widened. “How dare you use my name?”

“Of course I’ll use your name. You ran away from our organization just to join the Arcane Council as a lowly council member on this lowly planet.” Kendall’s smile sharpened.

Her eyes burned with rage. “How dare you—”

“Oh, please don’t start,” Kendall interrupted. “You were a failure. A demigod stuck at the second circle after living for more than five hundred years. After all that time, you realized you were a waste. You tried to grow—another thousand years passed, and still nothing. So you came to this planet, leaving behind everything our organization gave you.”

Her face twisted, her expression turning grim. “If you keep talking, Kendall, I swear I’ll take you down.”

“We’ve been monitoring you doing whatever you want on this planet, but that ends now,” she bellowed.

“Please, by all means, come at me,” Kendall said mockingly. “I’ll show you the difference between a prodigy and a washed-up demigod who had to scrape by with ancient artifacts, drugs, and whatever alchemy you could find. You ruined your own foundation. There is no progression left for you. You’re finished.”

His words cut sharper than any blade.

“Um, excuse me,” Silva suddenly interrupted them. “I have a question.” He folded his arms as all eyes turned toward him. “In the Lumis Region… where exactly does this planet stand?”

He finally asked the question that had been bothering him. He knew the Lumis Region was massive, and this planet was considered a starter planet. Even if lawless to a degree, he believed it still held some level of importance. But from the way Kendall spoke and how the council reacted, Silva began realizing he might have wasted his time staying here this long.

Kendall looked at him and smiled.

“This planet barely registers,” he said. “Every washed-up…” He glanced at Elizabeth. “Broken, failed, and newly born being that enters the expanse ends up here.”

He continued, “The Lumis Region is extremely large, one of the major regions of the galaxy. And this planet isn’t considered important in the slightest. Honestly, there are many other far better starter planets. This one goes under the radar, so plenty of people… do things here.”

He grinned. “It borders between lawless and civilized. That’s one of the reasons I carry out some of my experiments here. It’s a wasted planet whose resources have been drained, ruled by a few selfish wannabe gods.”

He cast another mocking look at the council before turning back to Silva.

“I don’t know what you’ve been doing here, or what you plan to do, but for what it’s worth… I advise you: leave and learn about the Lumis Region. That is the only way you’ll grow. Whatever ‘knowledge’ you’ve gathered here is adulterated, doctored garbage meant to make this place seem like it matters when it doesn’t.”

He shrugged. “I’m sure they told you platinum hunter is the highest level they can give through an exam. The real Arcane Council doesn’t limit ranks, they give what you earn. But these seven here? They can’t give anything above platinum because in the real council… these seven are barely above platinum themselves.”

His words struck the seven like a hammer. Their expressions twisted; fury and humiliation flickered on their faces. But they did nothing. They couldn’t.

They knew who backed Kendall. If he died here, the entire planet might cease to exist.

So they swallowed their anger.

Silva looked at them, thoughts racing.

“Why didn’t Aris tell me any of this? Was he trying to limit me here too? Did he have a reason? Surely he must have known this.”

He stared at the seven council members.

“Is this true?” he asked.

They looked at him sharply.

“How dare you question—”

“Shut your mouth,” Silva cut in coldly. “You act like gods on this planet, but he’s been speaking to you all this time and none of you had the guts to respond. Now suddenly you want to bark?”

The air tightened.

“Look,” Silva continued, “I’m a really peaceful person. But I really, really don’t want to get pissed off. So I’ll ask again: Is what he said true?”

His eyes burned.

“And what if it is? What are you going to do?” one of the council members snapped.

Silva looked at him calmly.

“Nothing. I just wanted to know.”

Then he smirked. “And from your childish reaction… I already know it’s true.”