Hate Me, Miss Witch!

Chapter 175 Xia Ya: Am I the Minister of Tuogu? (triple)

"The Lost Island."

Xia Ya's eyes moved slightly.

The reason why he took such a huge risk was to return to the First Era even though he had to travel through three eras.

Everything is for his golden elf teacher.

However, even in the First Age at this moment, high elves are still out of reach for humans.

Even from the perspective of a strong man in the human kingdom, all he knows about elves is only those half-elves with meager elven blood who are in the hands of slave traders, or they occasionally exist in the underground world, hiding in the shadows. Just the dark elf drow.

And high elves such as forest elves and golden elves only exist in the vague legends of bards.

They are the silver race who are born with the ability to control elements and have a long lifespan.

In that glorious era of blooming flowers and brocades, he had a status that was equal to that of the ancient dragon clan.

The Lost Island is the legendary place where the high elves live, far outside the Western Continent, a certain habitat in the endless sea.

"If I remember correctly, the reason why "Lost Island" is named after it. "

"It is precisely because of the history of disasters that countless great navigators and adventurers have set out to sea, hoping to find the legendary island that is said to be floating outside the Western Continent and contains countless relics and wealth of the glorious era."

"However, without exception, the navigators and adventurers who went to search for the island either returned in vain or were lost in the waves of the endless sea."

After hearing Xia Ya's words, the golden dragon also spoke again with a hoarse voice.

"That's a given."

"When the cataclysm broke out, before the Elf King completely fell into corruption and madness, he used his last authority as the Elf King to mobilize the power of the World Tree and cut the Elf King's Court from the World Tree."

"Created a huge barrier, permanently sheltering the elves' habitat within the barrier, protecting them from the intrusion of the forbidden sun."

"Similarly, that is also a barrier distinguished by blood. If you are not a high elf, or you have permission, you will never be able to enter it even if you reach the periphery of the Lost Island."

"but--"

"In the early days when Hui Yao still existed, whether it was a giant, an elf or an ancient dragon, our royal court once existed attached to the World Tree."

"Even if the First Glory is extinguished later, the World Tree will also die."

"However, there are still branches that remain and become the foundation of the world."

A faint light flashed in the golden dragon's turbid eyes, looking back at the vast and desolate ruins behind it.

"Here is one of the fragments of the World Tree, but it has died long ago."

"But, even so, as the former owner of this royal court."

"But I am also the only person in this world who can use the connection between the branches of the world to awaken the world and find the lost island for you."

The turbid light in the dragon's pupils faded slightly, and the golden dragon stared at Xia Ya with burning eyes.

"Unless you can find the Giant King's Court..."

"And after thousands of years, the giant king's court still has the inheritance of authority, and there are still beings who can communicate with the branches of the world."

"If not, then I am your only choice... Even if you find other true gods who are not crazy yet, you will never be able to find the Lost Island."

It slightly raised the half-black, half-light golden dragon claws.

next moment.

The dragon egg, shrouded in the thin night, deep and mysterious, like a dragon egg dotted with stars, appeared in front of Xia Ya.

The giant golden dragon looked at the egg of night in front of him, with a bit of sadness in its turbid dragon eyes.

"It's not my child."

"In other words, I'm not qualified to be its parent."

"It is the king's child."

"Even before the Elf King lost control, he had time to use up his last strength to separate the Elf King's Court from the World Tree, create the Lost Island and the Curtain Barrier of Eternal Night, and protect more than half of the High Elf tribe from danger. "The Bane of Light". "

"As ancient dragons that are more powerful than high elves, we should be able to do better than the Elf King."

"It's just that... when the Sun God fell from the throne of the sky, it happened to be the moment when the king had just completed his pregnancy and passed on most of his power and authority to his child, when his own power was at its weakest."

"At that time, as the appointed successor to the royal court in the future, as the most powerful pure-blood dragon in the clan besides the king, he was also the only ancient dragon with the power to mobilize the branches of the world."

"I'm a coward..."

The golden dragon's eyes flashed with uncontrollable regret.

"When my tribe needed me the most, I was clouded by the huge fear of life and death and chose to escape."

"And when I finally made up my mind to return to the royal court, everything was irreversible."

"The giant dragons that fell into madness and out of control under the illumination of the fallen sun have followed the most primitive instinctive desire to devour and evolve in their hearts, and ate the king who lost his power after the pregnancy was completed into pieces——"

"Then, in order to usurp the divinity that each other shared, they started killing each other."

"When I arrived, the only thing that greeted me was the desolate and dilapidated ruins of the royal court... and the remains of countless ancient dragons who once lived in close proximity and contented themselves with each other, but now they are eager to eat their flesh and blood."

"Also, the king would rather endure the pain of having his flesh and blood eaten by his own people and having his divinity swallowed up than to escape from the child who he must protect until death."

"The huge Ancient Dragon King's Court has met an irreversible tragic end because of my cowardice."

"Since that day, I have become an undead soul, or an innocent soul, entrenched in the ruins of the royal court."

"Because of my mistake, the glory of the ancient dragons has dimmed. Maybe some of the dragons escaped from the royal court and wandered to the Western Continent... But they fell into madness, even if they are still alive, even if they still have dragon blood flowing... Heirs, but they have no meaning anymore.”

"Those are just big lizards with a meager amount of dragon blood flowing. They have long forgotten the glory of the royal court in the past, so how can they be worthy of the name of ancient dragon."

"This is my sin. No matter how many years I spend to pay it back or atone for it, I can't make up for it."

The golden dragon's eyes fell on the egg of night, softening slightly.

"And the only thing I can do is to protect the child that the king wants to protect at the risk of his life."

"It is the king's child... and also the last remnant of the royal court."

"In the past thousand years since the great cataclysm began and the Age of Glory ended...it has been absorbing the power of the damaged fragments of the World Tree."

"It is that glorious era, the last witness to the glory of the Ancient Dragon King's Court."

"The history of this glorious royal court will eventually be sung by it."

The golden dragon paused slightly before speaking.

The next moment, a red-gold divine light suddenly burst out from the dim yellow and turbid dragon pupils.

The dark, decaying color faded from its entire body, revealing the red-gold scales underneath, which were extremely radiant.

It was only at this moment that the undead soul entrenched in the royal court regained some of its former glory as the golden dragon.

"The effects of the Fallen Sun continue."

"As a race that lives above the clouds, we have also suffered the most serious corruption. Even if there is a slight amount of sunlight, we will tend to lose control and go crazy."

"Even the high elves had to create the eternal night and hide themselves in the huge eternal night barrier. They will not be able to leave the Lost Island for eternity."

"No one knows how long the fallen sun will continue to shine. It may be a thousand years...or it may take several epochs."

"However, I know that we can't hold on here for that long."

"In the past thousand years, I relied on the power of the fragments of the World Tree in the ruins of the Royal Court to barely survive being eroded by the "Scourge of Light". "

"But now, the last strength of the branches of the world is about to be exhausted."

He looked directly at Char: "I know... Recently, a brand new contract method seems to have been developed among the human race -"

"It is possible to connect human spiritual power with the souls of extraordinary creatures through a contract."

"In the past, whether it was us dragons, giants, or elves, they all looked down on you humans."

"We believe that humans have neither innate powerful racial talents nor a long life. Any adult pure-blooded dragon can sweep away the strongest among humans, which is just the most insignificant black iron race."

"But now I realize that we were wrong."

"Just because you humans were born with nothing, without the transcendence and power given by the God of Creation, you are also free."

"Not bound by the fallen sun, you can walk freely under the sun."

"And only with the help of pure human souls and signing a contract with humans can we have a chance to suppress the madness and out-of-control tendencies of our superior races."

"not to mention……"

"Among human beings who are born with nothing, there are still people like you who can survive."

The golden dragon looked at Xia Ya and paused slightly.

"Contract with the king's child and take good care of it for the king."

"In exchange, I will use the authority of the heir to the Ancient Dragon Court to help you use the connections between the branches of the world to establish a guide to the Lost Island."

At the end, the golden dragon's words even contained a hint of pleading.

Xia Ya didn't speak, just stared at the dragon in front of him silently.

For some reason, being watched by Xia Ya, this golden dragon felt a little chill in his heart.

It seemed as if it had returned to its childhood, when it was first brought to the royal court by its parents and met with the high-ranking king on the throne.

Deep and mysterious.

"Have you really thought about it?"

The golden dragon heard a calm voice ringing in its ears.

"The power of this secondary plane can still last for about a hundred years."

"And if you do that, I'm afraid it will immediately drain the last strength of the world's branches."

"When the time comes that you lose the protection of the World Tree and are directly illuminated by the Fallen Sun, with your current soul and body state, you will definitely fall into madness, and there will no longer be the possibility of awakening your own will."

"When the time comes, in order to protect myself, I will kill you first."

Hearing Char's words, the golden dragon couldn't help but smile bitterly.

"Your Majesty, nothing can be hidden from you." This may be the first time since the opening of the First Age that the Ancient Dragon Clan has used the name "Your Majesty" to address a human. "However, Your Majesty, please do it yourself." "As a sinner of the dragon clan, I have lived here for a thousand years." "It doesn't make much sense to live for another hundred years." "My only hope is that the king's child will no longer be trapped in this ruins full of dead souls." "Instead, he can walk upright under the light." Xia Ya raised his eyebrows: "Aren't you afraid that I will not be moral - just devour your king's child and use it for myself?" "The offspring who inherited half of the power of a dragon king is still in the juvenile stage... If he appears on the Western Continent, even the true gods will be tempted, right?" "And your Ancient Dragon King's Court should have close allies in the Glorious Age, right? Why don't you ask your allies, but choose to hand it over to a stranger like me?" Although Xia Ya is very confident in his charm, after all, the person in front of him is not a human but a dragon. Xia didn't believe that he could make the other party trust him completely and entrust the king's child to him just by meeting him once.

"I have no choice."

"After the catastrophe, even those mythical creatures that still retained their rationality and seemed to walk the earth normally were actually eroded and corrupted by the light disaster in their souls."

"On weekdays, they just rely on various means to suppress them, and they may lose control at any time."

"Compared to them, I would rather believe in your majesty as a pure human."

Of course, there are some things that the golden dragon did not say.

For example, when it was in a good state before, it had left the secondary plane of the world tree fragment to study humans in the outside world.

Therefore, the legend of the evil dragon and the princess and prince was left in the small human country called the Kingdom of Trees.

However, although ordinary humans can be immune to the influence of the Fallen Sun, it is impossible for ordinary humans to bear the contract with the ancient dragon and help the ancient dragon eliminate the influence of corruption and madness with the strength of their souls that have never experienced cultivation. Before the golden dragon could conduct further research, the sequelae of being directly exposed to the sunlight of the Fallen Sun when it went to the outside world appeared, and it fell into a semi-mad state. It relied on the remaining trace of reason to prevent itself from harming the Night Egg. If it had not been awakened by Char, it would probably have continued to be in a daze until its physical functions were completely exhausted and it reached the end of its life. At this moment, the young human in front of it, whose origin was unknown but extremely powerful, and who easily awakened itself from madness, was its only life-saving straw. If it was really just an ordinary person, how could it be qualified to let it entrust the king's only child. The golden dragon looked at Char and suddenly blinked its turbid dragon eyes. "The power of the dragon race may be extremely precious to those mythical creatures... but it seems that your majesty is not on this path."

"Besides, I believe in the vision of that snake."

"The person who can be followed by the mercury snake must have good character."

The light of mercury flashed and disappeared.

Xia Ya's mind moved slightly, and the mercury-colored little snake jumped out of his soul contract space and looked at the golden dragon in front of him: "Do you know me?"

"I heard the king talk about you."

"The darling of fate, the mercury snake."

Looking at the mercury-colored little snake in front of him, a trace of nostalgia flashed in the eyes of the golden dragon.

"I heard from the king that in the early days of the Glorious Age, you were particularly fond of the treasure house of the Ancient Dragon King's Court."

"Every time I counted the treasure inventory of the King's Court, I often saw you lingering on a holy relic with a silly look on your face, unwilling to leave for a long time."

"Once, the elders of the dragon clan proposed to put you in a cage, but the king smiled and refused every time, letting you leave, and sometimes even gave you some small things."

"But since I joined the King's Court, I heard that you have disappeared and never saw you again."

"Then, there was the disaster of light, the great catastrophe..."

"Now that I think about it, I'm afraid you got a warning from fate and predicted the great catastrophe in advance."

Xia Ya couldn't help but glance at the snake on his shoulder.

This guy has such a dark history?

Going in and out of the ancient dragon king's court treasure house full of holy relics at will?

That's really enviable... no, it's outrageous.

Instead, the snake spit out its small pink letter in confusion.

"Is that true? Why don't I remember it?"

"It's strange that you remember it."

Char knocked on the snake's head and threw the mercury snake back into the soul contract space.

He finally realized that he couldn't treat this thing as a mythical creature.

This is a pure idiot. No wonder he was a person who experienced the First Age, but when Char really asked about the specific details, he didn't know anything. He had to go and investigate it himself.

Of course, on the other hand---the great catastrophe at the end of the Glorious Era caused the once powerful ancient dragons, giants and elves to suffer, but this mercury snake with no fighting ability was safe and sound.

It seems that the so-called darling of fate is really not a lie.

The golden dragon also set its inquiring gaze on Xia again.

It is still waiting for Char's answer.

"In that case, then——"

"The deal is established."

Xia Ya spoke softly.

It just so happened that after that trip to the Garden of Eden, there were still many vacancies in my soul contract.

Even though he contracted the Mercury Snake with his seventh soul contract, his fourth soul contract and sixth soul contract are both vacant at the moment.

Even if the Fourth Soul Pact may not be able to sign a new Fourth Soul Pact due to Ogutina's anomaly, the worst that can happen is that the Dog-Licking Holy Grail will give up its seat to the Sixth Soul Pact.

As for helping to share the madness and pollution brought about by the fallen sun——

Sorry, this illusion master has always been a crazy tailed beast special attack.

"good."

The golden dragon received Char's response and nodded quickly.

next moment.

boom--

The red-gold flames burned violently around the golden dragon.

The original turbid black color faded away, replaced by the mythical creature form of the golden dragon.

That was the golden dragon burning its last source of life.

Charia was not required to complete the contract and fulfill the transaction responsibilities first.

No means of overseeing the completion of the transaction were proposed.

The golden dragon knew very well that he had no right to bargain when faced with Xia, who could easily suppress him and then wake up from half-madness.

This young human with black hair and black eyes was the leader of this transaction——

The only thing it can do is to do its best to show its sincerity.

boom--

In the blazing hot flames, the originally desolate and dark world, as well as the desolate and dilapidated Ancient Dragon King's Court, also made a roar.

That is the ruins of this dilapidated royal court, responding to the last wish of the former heir to the royal court and now the sinner of the dragon clan.

At this moment, Xia Ya saw the shadow of a huge ancient tree quietly emerging in the sky above this desolate secondary plane.

Then.

Some kind of connection that transcends time and space, vague and vague, spreads out along the shadow of the world tree.

In the end, the connection reached somewhere in this world.

Wow.

The lush branches and leaves spread.

Xia Ya saw a leaf of the World Tree slowly falling above the huge shadow of the World Tree.

There is a drop of pale golden liquid gradually rolling down from the leaf.

snap——

In an instant, the pale golden droplets turned from shadow into substance.

The drops fell on Char's forehead.

There was a cool feeling between the brows.

And at the moment when the drop of World Tree sap dripped, Char felt that in his spiritual ocean——

The dim sea of ​​stars condensed by hundreds of sands of time all flickered at the same moment, blooming with dazzling starlight.

Xiyana, who had been practicing hard in the Garden of Eden for ten years, had already stabilized. His mental strength, which had not had any major breakthroughs for a long time, actually increased a bit at this moment.

The increase in mental power is not large, but if one takes into account the size of Xia Ya’s mental ocean at this moment, such an increase is enough to be considered astonishing...

If it were just pure meditation, the current improvement would be enough to be worth a year of hard training.

At the same time, Xia Ya also felt an illusory coordinate and connection, which was engraved into his mind along with the falling pale golden droplets.

That's what the golden dragon promised——

The coordinate guide of the Lost Island where the high elves are located.

“Originally, the ‘Blessing of the World Tree’ was enough to increase the racial potential of the ancient dragon clan who had just joined the royal court by one level. "

"However, with the remaining strength of the branches in the world today, it can only do this."

The golden dragon's voice became much softer.

Around it, the originally burning red-gold flames gradually faded, and the golden dragon scales also dimmed.

With its body in such a damaged state after being corrupted for thousands of years, burning the source of life at all costs also means that it is about to die.

However, despite this, the golden dragon was still looking at Xia Ya.

In those golden dragon eyes, the light dimmed little by little.

"I just hope that Your Majesty can keep his promise."

"The children of King Rang will not follow in our footsteps——"

"I hope it can grow up healthy."

"Then, walk in a free and bright world."

Its sound gradually faded into nothingness.

The vitality is fading away from this originally powerful ancient dragon, returning to pure death.

The fire of life in his eyes also gradually extinguished.

But, the next moment.

The golden dragon suddenly opened its eyes wide.

It saw the young man with black hair and black eyes, and squatted down gently.

Then, he placed his hand on the ruins of the desolate royal court.

The illusory light spots scattered, then spread out.

In the mercury light, the ancient dragon king's court full of vitality appeared in front of the golden dragon's eyes.

In the bright sunshine, people of the same race came and went.

The green dragon is entrenched in the grassy valley, planted with a sea of ​​gorgeous flowers, and the fantasy dragon is hovering above the sky, weaving beautiful or sad dreams for all living beings on the earth.

There is also an ancient dragon that has transformed into a human body, playing the lyre and the bone flute, cheering for the gladiatorial battle between the metal dragons.

Rich delicacies can be seen everywhere, and the gold coins in the treasure house are piled up like mountains, and they are inexhaustible.

The king of the ancient dragon clan was sitting on a high throne, quietly overlooking everything in the royal court.

"king……"

The golden dragon whispered.

Its flesh and blood faded away quickly.

It turned into a pale golden light and disappeared into the gradually dispersing shadow of the World Tree.