He had scanned a lot of books. Enough to tire a bookworm like him, in fact.
He looked through a lot of spell books trying to find a way to remove the curse placed on Porath. He found three spells. An universal curse breaker, an universal charm breaker and even a powerfull magic ceasing spell.
The first two seemed to be absorbed by the stone and disappear, without effect. The last one had a different response, though. When the beam met the stone, the pillar absorbed the energy and glowed, as if reacting to the spell. However, the coatl never expected the powerful shock wave that sent him flying many yards away as the construction regurgitated all the energy it received.
Regaining his composure, Kanaloa gave up. It was an unbreakable curse, the ridgeback was going to be embedded on that pillar forever, he sadly told himself.
The male shifted his focus: he decided to look for more information about that place and what monster could be among the group.
He found a book that was placed in what seemed to be an altar. Scanning through its pages, he found an image of the pillar. He read the page aloud:
"Eons ago, a raging war was devastating the world. Because of that, dragons from many different races gathered together and decided to found a city where they could be safe from the rest of the world. They builded a small village in the middle of a forest, constructing every facility they would need.
Among the founders, there was a powerful wizard. He dominated many kinds of magic and used his powers to help the other dragons. With the agreement of the other dragons, the wizard placed a magical barrier around the city, which hid and protected the city from the rest of the world and prevented dragons from trespassing the urban area and entering the dangerous forest around.
The citizens lived for ages there, safe with each other, a mystery to the rest of the world. Too peacefully, in fact.
A group of 15 dragons specialized in dark magic discovered the existence of the secret lands. After many failed attempts, they destroyed the energy barrier that prevented them from accessing the town and wrecked havoc across the village.
In a desperate attempt to stop the evil intruders, the wizard created 15 wing binds, placing an unbreakable spell on them: once attached, the victims would be pulled towards the central city pillar and would only be freed when their leader, the worst dragon from the group, was sentenced.
In an encounter with the bandits, the wizard instructed the binds to attack, only to have them reflected and infused with dark magic by the intruders. One of the binds was infused with too much dark magic. It flied all across the city glowing, unable to stand the two kinds of magic fighting within itself. Unfortunately, the binds attached to the wizard's wings and took him with them into the forest, where he was drowned by his own invention as it fell into a lake.
Without the wizard's help, the town was destroyed, every citizen was killed by the murderers.
It's unknown if the magical barrier still works or what effect the dark magic had on the other 14 binds or their location, although it's believed that they are still somewhere on the city, waiting for victims to be bound."
Everything started to add up. The bounds attacked the group and would only break when the rest of the group "sentenced" the monster among them.
Intrigued by his discovery, he exited the bulding and went lookinf for the group, wanting to share it with them.
He wandered around until he spotted them. He ran towards the other dragons. They seemed to be discussing about something. What could it be? When he arrived, there was a quite thick tension in the air. Kanaloa quietly asked Thanatos "What I missed?", the other coatl quickly telling him about the hairs, his vote and Togami's reaction.
The blue dragon began to gather information about Togami on his mind.
The fact that the imperial was kind of bossy matched to some readings he had about mentality, one that stated that people who were hiding something seem more confident than they really are.
His thoughts were interrupted by the steel hard stare he was receiving by the accused imperial. The dragon's words echoed through his mind "
Why don't you admit you're guilty and die?" That words shook him deeply, memories from quite a long time ago striked the coatl as soon as the words left the imperial's mouth.
Shaking his head and trying to ignore his emotions, he stated, feeling numb "Why don't you continue telling us your version, Togami? As all evidence we have to to this point indicate you are... you know... Right now, I'm voting on you".
((I voted on @
DaiyaOowada))
