"I don't know, it's such a pity. I was actually thinking... oh well."

Green opened his mouth but ultimately didn't say anything. He looked at Yuzuriha beside him, who happened to be looking at him as well. Their gazes met in the air without any reaction.

"Let's go, Yuzuriha."

"Alright."

Upon hearing their conversation, Ophiel and Karinovsky were visibly stunned. It seemed they didn't expect Green to make such a decision. They thought Green might help them, but upon careful thought, there didn't seem to be any reason for him to do so.

Feeling uncomfortable, Ophiel frowned and bid them farewell.

Just as Green and Yuzuriha were about to leave, a hidden gaze stared fixedly at Yuzuriha, bypassing Ophiel and Karinovsky, and locked onto Yuzuriha's body.

The two were within arm's reach.

Success!

This thought had just emerged when the field of vision was filled with a flesh-colored object. It was followed by a searing pain.

Only to see Green extend his arm and punch the incoming person into the ground, squarely hitting their face.

Ignoring the astonished expressions of Ophiel and Karinovsky, Green grabbed the person by their neck and lifted them up, revealing a man with Mediterranean hairstyle, with green skin that had a hint of black, shimmering with multicolored lights.

Then, Green shifted his gaze to the trembling hand of the intruder, who was holding an oddly-shaped instrument. Particularly, the sharp end could faintly be seen shimmering with a cold light that made one's gums tremble.

"What is this?"

Just four simple words, devoid of any emotions, made the Mediterranean man tremble all over.

Seeing the man's reaction, Green smiled with interest, then let go and allowed him to fall to the ground. He then snatched the item in the man's hand and examined it closely.

"This looks like something that can kill people, doesn't it?"

Green looked at the sharp end shimmering with a glow, and tentatively pressed it with his finger. Instantly, he felt a tremendous suction force coming from inside, as if it wanted to drain Green dry. Startled, Green immediately withdrew his hand.

The Mediterranean man initially sneered at Green's fearless action, but when he saw Green's disdainful retreat, the sneer froze on his face and turned into terror.

Green also noticed the change in his expression, and his smile gradually became menacing.

"Ophiel, what is this thing?"

Green held the object in his hand, which resembled a water bottle but had a protruding spike, and asked. Ophiel observed it for a moment and shook his head.

"I'm not sure. It looks like some kind of item."

"That's stating the obvious..."

Green quipped, then walked over and squatted in front of the Mediterranean man, aiming the spike at him.

The man's body visibly trembled, and he hurriedly reverted to his original form, his body instantly transforming into a huge dragon amidst a cloud of black mist, soaring into the air, attempting to escape.

But how could Green let him get away so easily?

Green took aim at the small black dragon flying in a sorry state in the air and slightly exerted force to throw the object in his hand like breaking through a thin sheet of paper. In an instant, the spike penetrated the black dragon's body.

Then, a shocking scene unfolded. After the spike pierced into the black dragon's body, the other end suddenly swelled. At the same time, the dragon's body rapidly withered and shrank, turning into an empty husk in just a blink of an eye.

Seeing this scene, Green couldn't help but be dumbfounded. It was obvious that he didn't expect this reaction. If he had stabbed Yuzuriha with it just now, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

Green walked over and picked up the swollen object, with a bead of cold sweat on his forehead.

"This thing is too dangerous..."

Thinking this, Green mercilessly crushed it into pieces.

At this moment, Ophiel suddenly had a look of realization. Without waiting for Green to ask, he excitedly said:

"I remember now! This is an item that was used by the former subordinate of the Black Dragon King. It can collect the life energy of the intruder and inject it into the body of the Black Dragon King. Apart from the Black Dragon King, no one can utilize the energy contained within it. If one fails to control it, they will end up like that..."

The hollowed-out black dragons were not very attractive, and Green glanced at them disdainfully before crushing them all at once.

Looking at the still curious Yuzuriha, Green pondered for a moment. The enemy's target just now was Yuzuriha, not him, the strongest one here. This meant that Yuzuriha likely possessed some kind of ability that he didn't know about.

If that was the case, he had to be more vigilant.

But just then, Green suddenly remembered something and his heart trembled.

"I've made a decision. I'm going to eliminate all these guys."

"Huh?"

Meanwhile, in the lower world.

The western continent.

This kingdom, which revered the dragons as its faith, was currently under attack by the dragons themselves.

Hundreds of black dragons ravaged the sky, spewing black flames from their mouths. At the same time, nearly half of the dragons transformed into humanoid forms and infiltrated the crowd, extracting the life force from the people one by one.

An unwilling mage summoned a huge flame golem to attack the black dragons, but the enemy just used that strange object to poke at the flames, instantly absorbing them. This strange method was completely unheard of among the mages present, leaving them helpless and unable to fight back.

At this point, the fleeing people were no longer seen as living beings in the eyes of the black dragons, but as energy sources.

"These guys... monsters! They're all monsters!"

A female mage fell to the ground, her face filled with despair as she watched a strange man with peculiar skin color and hairstyle approach her. Especially the object in the man's hand, the end shimmering with radiance, instilled an inexplicable fear within her.

Fear drove her to unleash a frenzy of attacks, but no matter what kind of magic she used, it would be absorbed by the object in the man's hand the next moment.

In the end, she closed her eyes in despair.

However, a few seconds later, the expected pain did not come. Instead, there was a deafening explosion.

She opened her eyes and saw a boy with a "little girl" by his side, currently "settling the score" with the surrounding black dragons. White energy bursts erupted from the boy's hands, and no dragon was left alive where they touched.

The newcomers were none other than Green and Yuzuriha.

After Green cleared the black dragons attacking her, he didn't even spare her a glance before leaving the area.

"So powerful..."

Although Green cleared them quickly, he also noticed that these black dragons would disappear in the blink of an eye once they realized things were going south.

If it weren't for the many innocent people here, Green would have wiped them all out with a single blast.

Not only that, on the way Green arrived, the Dragon Sanctuary also experienced changes. The ancient black dragon king's troops began appearing wave after wave, and the ones Green cleared were only the first batch.

What's more, Green could already sense a large number of forces rushing towards the central continent from afar.

"Yuzuriha, hold on tight."

Green flew up and after Yuzuriha sat firmly on his back, he accelerated and flew back in the direction they came from.