Todd Riordan's Academic Research: The Three Draconic Transformations 💬
📍 The Xianzhou Luofu Scalegorge Waterscape
System
A figure is standing here, completely silent as it gazes at a statue in the distance.
Blade
...It's you.
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It's me.
It's you!?
Hello, Bladie.
Blade
Elio has other plans for you, so you may leave here alive.
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What are you doing?
What are you doing here?
Blade
...Mourning for folly.
Blade
That guy, was he happy?
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I think so.
I don't think so.
...
Blade
...
Blade
Everybody dies. Some people die harboring hatred, while others get to visit their own burial site.
Blade
But I can only live, and keep living on, endlessly forever.
System
The man lets out a lengthy sigh and stops looking at you.
System
The guy stares at you in silence.
Blade
Elio has other plans for you, so you may leave here alive.
Options
What are you doing?
What are you doing here?
Blade
Call me that again and I'll be answering you with my sword.
Blade
Elio has other plans for you, so you may leave here alive.
Options
What are you doing?
What are you doing here?
System
A child stands alone by the sea and, for some reason, his young face looks rather familiar.
Todd
There you are.
Todd
I was just hanging out over at the high elder statue and there was this guy, completely silent, who couldn't take his eyes off me. I thought he could be from the Ten-Lords Commission, so I snuck over here.
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How did you turn into... this?
What in the world happened?
Todd
...
Todd
Hehe, I just was a little sloppy with my experiment. An inevitable result.
Todd
I thought I'd gained immortality, but unfortunately things were not that simple.
Todd
My body, it keeps shrinking. My skin, muscles, organs... Indeed, I'm getting younger, you see, but this "youth" doesn't seem to have an off switch.
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You're de-aging?
Kind of like the Vidyadhara tradition of hatching rebirth...
Todd
Yes. But so far as I know, their "rebirths" have a limit.
Todd
Test results indicate that this de-aging process seems to have no endpoint. It won't be long before I'm illiterate and won't be able to understand my own reports — which would seem no difference from regular dementia.
Todd
In the end, I might even become an egg again, just like the Vidyadhara. Perhaps I could become a human embryo once again — I mean, I'm not Vidyadhara, am I?
Todd
Ahh... Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?
Todd
My wish came true — just not in the form I thought it would take. The oldest stories in human civilization are fables that take this line. Seems like they aren't just a cliche, after all.
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What can I help you with?
Do you want me to fetch a healer from the Alchemy Commission?
Todd
...
Todd
No no, no need this time. You've already done so much for me. More than my teachers and apprentices combined. And I don't want to bother anyone else anymore.
System
Todd's little eyes lit up with a flash of arrogance that was beyond his years.
Todd
That look in your eyes... Are you pitying me?
Todd
Please, {NICKNAME}. There really is no need for anything. Just coming to chat with me is cause enough for celebration.
Todd
In this life I've been far better off than most people, who don't even know what they want, let alone how to get it. I became a published author, and I've taken on countless apprentices. I may have no children, but there are several of my students of whom I'm rather proud.
Todd
Best of all, I lived to see the results of my research — despite it all turning into a nasty joke. But... Enough, that's enough for now. I'm satisfied.
System
The child's cherub face seemed to be smaller yet again.
Todd
...Sorry. That was a lot to just dump on you.
Todd
I just wanted to... say thanks to you, {NICKNAME}, for being there for me right from the start.
Todd
By the way, I've recorded all the data from my experiments here — whether you want to pass it on to my apprentices, destroy it, or even hand it over to the Xianzhou authorities... The choice is yours.
Todd
...
Todd
Goodbye, my friend.
System
The child gazes back at the sea, humming a nursery rhyme that nobody can understand.
System
Every now and again, he seems to notice you and he looks on with curiosity. But before long, he can no longer concentrate as he's distracted by the fantastical landscape.
System
The sea seems to be calling for the child.
Todd
Go, {NICKNAME}. Leave me be here.
System
The child gazes back at the sea, humming a nursery rhyme that nobody can understand.
System
Every now and again, he seems to notice you and he looks on with curiosity. But before long, he can no longer concentrate as he's distracted by the fantastical landscape.
System
The sea seems to be calling for the child.
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