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Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 406: The Unyielding Blue Dragon
“Human, what have you done!”
Bryant didn’t have time to ponder why an ordinary bard had suddenly become so powerful.
All he knew was that his sapphire was gone!
He couldn’t even spit it out!
The dragon’s stomach acid could easily corrode a sapphire.
“Return my sapphire to me!” Bryant trembled with rage, shaking his dragon head forcefully.
But there was no way to shake off the peculiar bard clinging to him.
With no other recourse, he began to descend.
About ten meters from the ground, he threw the other bard into a bush.
With the canopy acting as a buffer, the bard wouldn’t die from the fall. Bryant then immediately switched to his human form.
As blue mist enveloped the surroundings, Xi Wei felt an emptiness in his hand. He had grabbed the blue dragon and was falling towards the ground. Channeling qi into his entire body, he stabilized himself with a roll upon landing, the King of Conquest Long Sword held firmly, locking onto the blue dragon in the sky.
“So, it’s a knight disguised as a bard!”
Bryant, having transformed back into his dragon form, watched Xi Wei coldly.
He could feel the surging qi emanating from Xi Wei. In his eyes, the knight’s kidneys and heart shimmered with dazzling colors, the spectrum of qi energy.
The presence of qi spectrum around the heart indicated that this knight was a genuine Champion Knight.
Considering the aura displayed by this knight, Bryant inferred that the knight was on the verge of reaching the Legendary-grade threshold. He was not capable of contending with such a seasoned Champion Knight.
However, even if he couldn’t win, he could escape.
After all, even if a Champion Knight could fly, they wouldn’t be as fast as him, a naturally flying monster.
“Human knight, Dragonflame City, I will remember you!”
Bryant sneered, “You will soon understand how terrifying it is to be targeted by a Five-Colored Evil Dragon!”
After issuing his threat, Bryant intended to retreat. If he hurried back to his dragon’s lair and regurgitated his stomach, he might still be able to salvage the sapphire. As for the bard, he would forget about him.
With this Champion Knight blocking him, he certainly wouldn’t be able to take the other bard with him.
However, just as he was about to turn and leave, he suddenly felt a wave of drowsiness.
This drowsiness came on with overwhelming force, seemingly unstoppable, much like when he had advanced before.
But this was definitely not an advancement; how long had it been since he’d matured?
Bryant was no fool. Although his thoughts were already slowing down, he immediately realized that his current state was closely related to the sapphire that had been swallowed into his stomach.
That human knight had done this deliberately!
“Damn human, what did you do to the sapphire?”
Bryant grew increasingly drowsy, staggering and falling into the forest.
“What sapphire? There was no sapphire at all,” Xi Wei approached the blue dragon step by step, a cold smile playing on his lips. “That was just a piece of crystal, and an artificial one at that! Only a foolish big lizard like you would mistake a common crystal for a sapphire.”
“That was wa… crystal?!” Bryant’s eyes widened.
He understood now. The bard competition, the sapphire prize, all of it was merely bait to lure him into a trap. It was a ruse!
“Cunning, despicable human, do you want to slay dragons?” Bryant stared at the approaching Champion Knight, his voice like muffled thunder involuntarily tinged with fear.
The long sword in the knight’s hand gleamed with a cold light. He had no doubt that this sword could pierce his dragon scales.
This was his strong intuition.
“Human, if you kill me, the Five-Colored Dragon Island will not forgive you, and you and your country will face destruction. Do you know what happened to the dragon slayers of the past?” Bryant threatened the knight. “They are all dead. Foolish humans only know the glory of being a dragon slayer, but they underestimate the grudges and greatness of the dragon race!”
What Bryant said was not an empty threat.
The dragon race did indeed hunt down dragon slayers to the last.
Furthermore, this kind of vengeance was common among both Metal Dragons and Five-Colored Dragons.
Perhaps kind Metal Dragons would do nothing to dragon slayers, but dragon slayers would lose the opportunity to forge friendships with Metal Dragons forever.
Even if a bond had been established, it would turn cold the instant their identities were exposed.
It was almost impossible for dragon slayers to hide their deeds.
Because no one could resist the temptation of bathing in dragon blood and consuming dragon hearts.
After bathing in dragon blood and consuming dragon hearts, one would inevitably be branded a dragon slayer.
With just one glance, dragons could immediately perceive the dragon slayer in the midst of their dragon-slaying act, raising their swords and roaring ferociously.
This was a way for dragons to perpetuate their race.
A portion of the souls of deceased dragons would eternally linger around the dragon slayer, warning every dragon who approached them.
“You’re thinking too much, foolish blue lizard,” Xi Wei had already reached Bryant’s side.
He rubbed the King of Conquest Long Sword against Bryant’s neck. The clashing sound of the sword against the hard scales grated on Bryant’s fragile heart.
He feared that this Champion Knight might accidentally plunge the sword into his main artery.
“A living dragon is much more useful than a dead one~”
As soon as Xi Wei said this, Bryant knew he would live, but he couldn’t help but shiver.
Memories of his early life, of stories told by the Mother Dragon, flashed through his mind.
It was said that humans would capture dragons, keep them in captivity, extract their blood periodically, and even chop off their horns and tails to accompany drinks.
Dragons possessed strong regenerative abilities.
Humans, precisely by exploiting this, would repeatedly exploit them.
In the end, these dragons captured by humans invariably became emaciated, dying with resentment and pain.
“Could this human knight be planning to do that!”
Bryant felt a shudder just thinking about what he might endure.
“No! Absolutely not!”
“I am a noble dragon, how can I die at the hands of humans like a penned pig?”
No matter how drowsy he was, Bryant’s heart burned with anger and fear.
His dragon eyes blazed with embers.
Lightning and magma instantly condensed in his mouth. At this moment, he gambled his life, wanting only to fight with all his might.
This desperate attack gathered all the strength Bryant could muster.
His dragon breath erupted with extreme speed, his sac-like organs storing dragon breath fluid operating at full capacity, causing him pain.
“Roar!”
Furious lightning surged forth.
The entire jungle trembled with this roar.
However, just as this lightning was about to strike Xi Wei.
A small hand clad in lightning suddenly extended before the blue dragon. Then, the lightning dragon breath seemed to spray into a black hole, completely absorbed by the small, open hand.
