"Ze Zen? How could she be here?" Yarrow said in surprise.
Zen's tail sent Alisa flying, and she crashed heavily into the ground, creating a large pit. Dense, dark red magic rose up, supporting her body and lifting her into the air again.
"What is this thing?" Zen frowned. The aura emanating from that thing made even her feel a little disgusted.
Alisa had lost control. She let out a series of low roars. Zen's dragon bloodline, which brought extreme pressure to other creatures, had no effect on her.
The evil energy produced by her use of curse magic over the past sixty years could no longer be suppressed and burst out, circling and flying around her body like venomous snakes. Then, these evil magic powers began to condense together, merging into a terrifying giant python. It emitted black gas all over its body and let out a deafening roar that made the earth tremble.
"Go to hell! All of you, go to hell!"
Alisa lost her mind and roared hysterically as the evil python hissed at them.
Zen clicked her tongue in annoyance, waved her hand, and slapped the incoming evil python. Alisa's evil magic power, accumulated over sixty years, was actually dispersed with a single slap.
Only then, when she saw Zen's golden vertical pupils, did she suddenly wake up and realize what she was facing.
That was the gaze from the top of the food chain.
By the time she wanted to escape, it was already too late.
Zen gathered thousands of thunderbolts in her hand, forming a thunder spear. Her slender fingertips pointed forward, and Alisa was locked down by the terrifying pressure, falling to the ground and unable to move.
Without giving her any chance to beg for mercy, the spear flew out of her hand, carrying lightning and thunder, and arrived with a bang, annihilating everything in an instant.
Amidst the earth-shattering roar, countless gravel and trees were blown into the sky before falling back down. Serena erected a magic barrier to protect the two.
"This is... this is Zen's true level?"
After the smoke cleared, Yarrow stared blankly at the scene in front of him, which looked like the end of the world.
In front of them, there was a wide gully stretching hundreds of meters. The soil in the gully had been baked into crystals by the ultra-high temperature, and the trees on both sides had been burned to ashes, leaving no trace of life.
Serena's cave had also been blasted into nothing.
It was likely that Alisa was gone without a trace.
"Wait."
Yarrow finally reacted.
Wouldn't that mean the lost incantation was also...
"My happiness for the rest of my life!"
Yarrow wailed and slammed the ground fiercely.
"That's... a Dragonkin?" Serena saw the tall girl facing away from them, her swaying dragon tail and wings unmistakable.
"Yarrow, that's a Dragonkin!"
She looked at Yarrow excitedly but found that he was howling in despair on the ground. Serena twitched her eyes. Seeing him like this, she felt he was more devastated now than he had been in their life-or-death moment earlier.
She pursed her lips, sighed, and stepped forward to pat Yarrow on the shoulder.
"I... I will repay you in other ways. After all, you did it to save me..."
"That's right, it's all because of you." Yarrow raised his head, looked at Serena blankly, and suddenly jumped up.
"It's all because of you! Do you know how much you owe me? I gave up my happy life for the rest of my life for you! Now, even if you give me a hundred of you, it still won't make up for it!"
"Huh? Give birth to me? I won't—I, I will repay you in other ways!" Serena said in a flustered manner, her face turning red.
"Hmm, I always feel that my future fate will be miserable if I fall into your hands..." She pulled at her clothes and turned her face away.
"Huh? Is this your attitude towards a lifesaver? Prepare yourself to become a foot-washing maid for the rest of your life!" Yarrow roared at her.
"Tch."
A click of the tongue interrupted their quarrel. Only then did Yarrow remember that there was still another trouble no less than Alisa.
He turned his head and looked at the silver-haired dragon girl with a gloomy face.
"That... thank you for saving my life," he said quickly.
"Humph." Zen folded her arms and turned her head away.
"By the way, why are you here?" Yarrow asked.
Could it be that this dragon had been following him all along?
"It's none of your business. I was just passing by and came to take care of something disgusting here," Zen said coldly.
In truth, she had followed Yarrow when he was chasing Serena. After he teleported away, she lost track of him and could only follow his aura to find him after a long time. As soon as she arrived, she saw Yarrow and Serena being chased down. As the only clue to restoring her dragon form, she couldn't let Yarrow die here. In a moment of desperation, she took action to help.
However, now that she had acted, she hadn't figured out how to explain herself.
Admit that she was powerless against this perverted magic, so she had to come back to find him?
As a noble dragon, there was no way she could say such a thing!
Zen frowned and sulked, constantly making excuses for herself in her head.
Serena hid behind Yarrow and carefully observed Zen. She hadn't expected Yarrow to actually know this Dragonkin, but judging by their interaction, their relationship didn't seem very good.
Yarrow felt the atmosphere growing tense and tried to change the subject. "Um, let me treat you to a meal."
Zen didn't speak.
"Aren't you cold wearing so little?"
Zen still didn't speak.
"Are you used to this body?"
"As expected, I still want to kill you directly!" Zen suddenly became furious and raised her hand to grab Yarrow.
"I have a way to turn you back!" Yarrow said quickly in desperation.
Zen's dragon claws stopped just a centimeter from his throat, her body only a step away. Her beautiful, frosty face remained impassive, but those golden vertical pupils locked onto him coldly.
"What way?"
"This..."
Yarrow hesitated. He couldn't possibly tell Zen that he had to make her fall in love with him first...
"I can't tell you for now, but I can definitely turn you back. However, I have one condition—you have to guarantee my safety for the next three years."
Hearing his answer, Zen's golden eyes narrowed.
"You dare to make demands without telling me the method?"
"Anyway, I've said what I had to say. It's up to you to choose."
To be honest, Yarrow really didn't want to bring along a dragon girl with unstable emotions, and Zen didn't seem easy to win over. But after witnessing her terrifying strength, he decided it was a risk worth taking.
What terrifying power. As long as he increased her favorability even slightly, he would gain immense strength too.
So he really wanted to try.
He wanted to conquer a Dragon King!
He proposed that Zen protect him for three years. Three years—long enough to carve a mark even into stone.
"If you don't want to, you can kill me here and now."
After saying that, Yarrow straightened his neck, closed his eyes, and looked as if he had resigned himself to fate.
Zen lowered her gaze, digesting Yarrow's words. Apart from this proposal, she really had no other choice. She could only trust this human for now.
Although protecting a human was humiliating for a dragon, if it meant returning to her clan, she had no other option.
"Tch."
After a long pause, Zen snorted coldly and retracted her dragon claws.
"I am only responsible for your safety, ensuring that you don't die. But if you dare to order me around or make me do things I don't want to do, even if I can't turn back, I will kill you!"
"Also, if you don't fulfill your promise after three years, let me tell you, human, I will make you wish you were dead!" Zen glared at him fiercely.
"Okay." Yarrow made a nonchalant gesture.
He had actually fooled this Silver Moon Dragon King. He breathed a sigh of relief.
Serena and Zen had now joined the team.
Serena shrank her neck. She suddenly felt that the man in front of her was more mysterious than she had imagined.
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