Chapter 220: I will look forward to the day I wear a wedding dress for you (5k)
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[Title: Dragon Tamer]
[Rarity: Gold]
[Title Holder: Shaya Egut]
[You have tamed a royal Ancient Dragon and achieved 100% soul pact compatibility with it.]
[Within all Beast Tamer systems, Dragon Tamers stand at the pinnacle.]
[As a Beast Tamer recognized by the Ancient Dragon royalty, this brand will be etched deep within your soul, causing all beings who face you to feel the majesty of the dragon race.]
[Title Attribute 1: When worn, you and your familiars will deal 20% to 100% additional damage to all creatures with the “Dragon” attribute.]
[Title Attribute 2: When worn, you will gain “Dragon’s Might.” Creatures with a racial level lower than “Emperor” will experience varying degrees of mental deterrence based on their own racial level when facing you.]
[Remark: There are many ways to tame a dragon, such as beating it into submission with force and fists… or, seducing it, dating it, and making it shy.]
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[Historical Legend Status – One Who Bathed in Dragon Blood]
[Rarity: Gold]
[Owner: Shaya Egut]
[Dragon species, the most powerful fantasy species.]
[Throughout history, countless heroes and brave warriors have proven their supreme martial prowess and honor by bathing their bodies in the blood of dragons.]
[In ancient legends, bathing in dragon blood grants the protection of immortality.]
[Even as the divine era recedes and true pure-blooded Ancient Dragons have long since gone extinct, the vast majority of heroes have only defeated large lizards that flowed with a meager amount of dragon blood… Yet, this did not stop them from being crowned with the title of “Dragon Slayer,” immortalized in bardic epics, and sung of by later generations.]
[But today, the radiance that once belonged only to the heroes of the mythical age shines into reality once more.]
[Not a sub-dragon with diluted blood, but a pure-blooded dragon of origin.]
[You have become the first human in history to conquer a pure-blooded Ancient Dragon and personally bathe in its blood.]
[Although the method by which you bathed in dragon blood, and the parts of your body that bathed… may differ from what most people imagine.]
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On the soft bedding.
Shaya opened his eyes, feeling refreshed.
However, the azure blue light screen that soon appeared in his mind made him feel that something was not quite right.
“Although it got a bit messy, I can understand the description of bathing in dragon blood.”
“But something’s not right.”
“That was just a dream… Why would the System record it as a real title and historical legend status?”
“According to this logic, wouldn’t I just need to let Augustina help me create a bunch of targets with divine titles in my dreams, and then cut them down like vegetables, and I could furiously upgrade my ‘God Slayer’ title?”
This was clearly impossible.
Shaya rubbed his chin.
Although it didn’t really affect him, and in fact, he had gained a gold-rarity historical legend status for free.
However, Shaya had always been the type of person who liked to get to the bottom of things.
It wasn’t due to some “I’m curious” spirit of inquiry, but because he disliked things being beyond his control, whether good or bad.
Shaya mobilized his mental power. With his current mental power, which had become an ocean of its own, he looked down from a higher vantage point, scrutinizing his entire body.
With Shaya’s current status, his control over his body had long reached an unimaginable height.
Aided by his powerful mental strength, he could even perfectly record his body at every moment in time, including his limbs, organs, muscles… and even the distribution and state of every drop of blood, cell, and magic factor.
By then retracing his past physical states based on these records, every minute change that had occurred within him could be discerned.
Thus, soon—
Shaya discovered some imperceptible anomalies on his body.
More precisely, in the lower part of his body.
He found that not long ago, the product of the transformation of a massive amount of blood and magic factors within his body had silently flowed away.
No, more accurately, it had been stolen by a Dragon of Darkness whose true body was not present.
“Hiss…”
Shaya understood everything in an instant and gasped for air.
In plain terms, he had been “reverse-pushed” by Augustina in his dream, and then his dream had come true in reality, and he had been “storm-sucked” by a certain Dragon of Darkness.
“It was I and Augustina who acted in the dream, turning the world upside down.”
“But the actions and their consequences can manifest truthfully in reality.”
“Blurring the boundaries between dream and reality… distorting and rewriting reality with the power of imagination.”
“What kind of cheating authority is this?”
“Does the Dragon of Darkness, who wields the authority over eternal night and dreams, get to do whatever it wants?”
Shaya’s slightly speechless thoughts were silently transmitted through his fourth soul pact with Augustina.
After Augustina had completely opened her heart to Shaya,
his fourth soul pact had thoroughly sublimated into a perfect state of 100% compatibility.
If Shaya and Augustina were together in reality, they could know each other’s thoughts with just a single thought, without needing to speak, just like Shaya’s and Yin’s telepathic communication.
Even if they were separated by a certain distance in reality and could not achieve real-time telepathy… as long as they were not too far apart, not separated by an entire world barrier like the Abyss and the Prime Material Plane, then although there would be some delay, Shaya could still vaguely perceive the other’s intentions.
It was equivalent to establishing a communication line between them.
And not long after, Shaya’s fourth soul pact received a response shrouded in a thin layer of night.
From the response, Shaya could perceive Augustina’s hearty laughter.
And also, her smugness after successfully achieving her goal and getting what she desired.
It was as if she was saying: “Sorry, the Dragon of Darkness can indeed do whatever it wants.”
“Is your race truly the Dragon of Darkness, not the Dragon of Fantasy?”
“By the way, without even the true body arriving on the scene, you can do everything you want and then enjoy the spoils – what kind of innate holy body for cheating is this?”
Shaya rubbed his forehead, feeling that his future was once again shrouded in shadows.
Normally, he was already drained by Little Ai and the others every night…
Even during his sleep after being utterly exhausted, he was still destined to be exploited.
After returning from the bottom of the Abyss, Shaya felt that he had made significant progress, finally able to vent his anger and improve his standing in the family by taking the lead.
But now, thinking about it—
There are only tired oxen, no fields that cannot be plowed.
The ancients did not deceive me.
…
“Forget it, no matter what—”
“In short.”
“From now on, I am a Dragon Knight.”
Facing the morning light, Shaya made his solemn declaration.
But soon, he heard a clear and cold voice from the doorway.
“From now on, you are a Dragon Knight?”
“What Dragon Knight?”
Shaya turned his head stiffly.
He saw a maiden with disheveled, light golden hair, holding a meal tray, standing at the bedroom door.
On the silver tray, oatmeal and a sandwich with ham slices still emitted steam.
This was in stark contrast to the maiden’s beautiful, yet utterly cold, cute face.
“Originally, I felt a bit sorry for you, Shaya, after just returning from the Abyss and being exhausted by Your Majesty and Miss Sylvia last night… I thought you wouldn’t be able to get up today.”
“So, I was planning to make breakfast first and bring it to your room to feed you.”
“But now, thinking about it… Classmate Shaya is indeed Classmate Shaya. Despite having such an exhausting night, you still have a lot of energy…”
Aerora placed the meal tray and a cup of hot milk on the bedside table, looking at Shaya with a smile.
“Cough—”
“Dragon Knight, it’s a Dragon Knight literally…”
Shaya chuckled and took the glass of hot milk: “Little Ai, isn’t this just me being a bit chuunibyo this morning?”
“Doesn’t every man dream of riding a mighty dragon across the battlefield?”
“There’s a saying in my homeland… A true man born in troubled times should wield a three-foot sword and achieve everlasting merit.”
“Although we are no longer young, we still need to be a bit chuunibyo when it’s time, otherwise, wouldn’t life be too boring…”
However, Aerora continued to watch Shaya’s performance with a smile, her icy cold cute face showing no sign of softening with his explanation.
“Is that so?”
“But why is the Dragon Knight I know a different version?”
“Since you have become a Dragon Knight, then—”
The maiden’s beautiful cute face, the faint smile gradually intensified.
“Who is your little dragon girl?”
“Little Ai, why are you rummaging through my novel drafts again?”
Shaya sighed: “That kind of book is for adults. Little Ai, you’re not married yet and still a virgin; aren’t you afraid no one will want you if you read those books?”
“Oh?”
The blonde maiden leaned down, looking into Shaya’s eyes: “Classmate Shaya, are you saying no one will want me?”
“How could that be…”
Shaya quickly shook his head.
“My Little Ai is so cute. I cherish her too much to ever abandon you.”
“After the matters of the First Era are completely resolved, our wedding can be put on the agenda.”
Aerora did not reply, but fluttered her sky-blue eyes.
She leaned closer to Shaya and sniffed his collar.
“Miss Augustina?”
Cough, cough, cough—
Shaya almost choked on the hot milk he was drinking.
“Don’t tell me your five senses have become so acute that you can detect traces of something that never happened in reality?”
“No.”
Aerora shook her head: “I guessed it.”
Her expression, which had been on her beautiful cute face, relaxed slightly, and she sat down on the bed.
Leaning on Shaya’s shoulder, she took the unfinished sandwich from his hand and took an elegant bite.
“The First Era, those five hundred years at the bottom of the Abyss, I was also by your side.”
“In that City of Snow, I also witnessed Miss Augustina’s actions.”
“Day after day, year after year, you remained alone in the depths of the cold and lonely palace, taking care of you—”
“In order to allow you, who was in a deep sleep, to bathe in a trace of sunlight from the outside, she even spent years studying and perfecting the texture of that sunlight.”
“Even as an observer, I can clearly see that Miss Augustina’s feelings for you are by no means false…”
“And moreover…”
Aerora finished the sandwich with movements that were elegant yet astonishingly fast for Shaya.
She wiped her mouth with a napkin, then looked at Shaya with a serious expression.
“As the one she cared for for five hundred years—”
“You.”
The blonde maiden sighed softly.
“Although you always claimed to be a pure male chauvinist, saying that you would stop at nothing to achieve your goals and that you were not a good person.”
“However, I know with absolute clarity.”
“There is no one softer-hearted in this world than you, a Legend.”
She reached out and gently caressed Shaya’s cheek.
“You always call me a tsundere beautiful girl.”
“But in my eyes, you are the biggest tsundere.”
“You say you are a meticulous egoist… but in reality, everything you do, putting yourself in danger so many times, getting yourself so bruised and battered, how often was it truly for your own benefit?”
“If you were truly the meticulous egoist you claim to be, then back in Ceylon, you shouldn’t have risked so much to carry me out of that snowfield.”
“At that time, without having contracted the Holy Spear, I was merely a burden and cumbrance to you.”
“Without me, you could still have gone to Lokiia, the City of Knowledge, and apprenticed under Teacher Heiser… you could still have made a name for yourself in the Imperial Capital, entered Saint Roland Academy, and gained the favor of His Royal Highness the Princess.”
Even later, seeking revenge, Shaya chose to oppose the Borgia Family, the “Crimson Rose.”
But upon careful consideration, what hatred did Shaya personally have for the Borgia Family?
He was an orphan, and the old Ceylon hunter who had taken him in had long since passed away. He had not lost any family in the fire that destroyed Ceylon, so there was no deep-seated hatred.
As for losing his homeland… given Shaya’s talent, leaving Ceylon was only a matter of time. That small city of Ceylon was never his ultimate destination from the beginning.
Shaya had conflicts with the Borgia Family, but they were far from irreconcilable or deeply ingrained.
If he were pursuing his greatest interests, then when the Borgia Family had invited him back then, he should have accepted the marriage proposal without hesitation.
The reason Shaya had so resolutely broken ties with the Borgia Family was, from beginning to end, solely because of Aerora.
“And Miss Sylvia, Your Majesty Isadorella…”
“They have also told me about their past encounters with you in the Historical Echoes.”
“Your encounter with Miss Sylvia was merely a chance meeting; you were previously only in a superior-subordinate relationship with Your Majesty Isadorella.”
“Even if you had ignored them in the Historical Echoes when they later fell into despair, no one could have blamed you.”
“But you still did it, and you did it without hesitation.”
Perhaps from the very beginning, Shaya entered the Historical Echoes with a certain purpose, to gain benefits for himself.
But by the final act of the Historical Echoes, his selfless struggle could no longer be explained by the initial motive of gaining system rewards.
“Therefore, I know that when facing Miss Augustina, and this woman who descended to the bottom of the Abyss for you and stayed by your side for five hundred years.”
“You will ultimately soften your heart and choose to accept her.”
Aerora whispered softly.
As one of the earliest companions by Shaya’s side, she naturally did not want Shaya to continue being so soft-hearted.
She also had her possessiveness, she got angry and jealous, and didn’t want to share her most cherished treasure with other women.
However—
Although she liked to playfully tease… she was actually kind and pure, and her heart softened whenever she saw a girl being wronged.
This kind of Shaya.
Was the Shaya she knew and deeply loved.
Similarly, the Azure Silver Witch, the Empress of the Empire, and the oldest Golden Elf of the Black Tower, who were all queens of their respective domains…
They, who should have been high above, were drawn to Shaya’s side unconsciously for similar reasons.
“But—”
“Whether you soften your heart or not, and how many people are saved because of you.”
Aerora looked into Shaya’s eyes and spoke word by word.
“But, the first in your heart…”
“Must be me, and can only be me.”
” I won’t interfere with your interactions and bonds with other women, but—”
“When I am by your side, you must love only me with all your heart… only see me, think of me, long for me.”
She gazed intently at Shaya.
Suddenly, she gently kissed Shaya’s lips.
After a long while, they separated.
“After the matters of the First Era are concluded, will we get married?”
“Yes.”
Shaya replied: “I promise you.”
Aerora today was a little different from usual, becoming somewhat assertive and proactive, which only added to her charm.
“Okay.”
The blonde maiden in his arms nodded.
Her mind stirred, and she looked at a plain white, unfinished garment in her personal storage space.
“I will look forward to it—”
“For you, the day I wear a wedding dress.”
