Chapter 22

1

A big iron hammer smashed down by the side of the island, creating a large pit that happened to be right next to me, splashing mud all over me.

"Master, it seems we're going to have a long fight with these '楽' people. They're different from the ordinary fishermen and sailors, they have strong attacking power."

"I don't care what they do, they brought this upon themselves."

"Qin Yang, this girl is new, right?" Perra used her unique sword to poke Ran's face, showing a disdainful expression towards her.

The seawater moistened my cheeks, the salty and wet feeling wasn't pleasant, but here the seawater was the only thing that could wash away the dirt from my face.

"My new maid... one of them."

Perra used her fair palm to lift Ran's arm, treating her as if she were a small animal.

"A person like you having a maid is just asking to be beaten, a special kind of beaten."

"I know, that's why I bring one along."

"Your maid's wounds healed too quickly, the power of the divine fire is impressive, not only whitening and anti-wrinkle, but also capable of rejuvenating? Can it make you younger?" Perra let go of Ran's arm as if it slipped from her hand.

"Give it a few hundred years and try, but you don't have to, remember the first time we met in that dilapidated church? Just a little blood and you could recover your youth and beauty."

"My beauty was given by you, so you need to take responsibility for it." Perra held my hands, which I was washing, and gently traced her fingernails over my wrists. She raised my right wrist and lightly licked the salty water off it with her tongue. Her long fangs were already exposed, but instead of biting directly, she played with my wrist, or to be more precise, the blood vessels on my wrist.

"Food is just food, when have you seen someone teasing their food before eating it?"

"But food is something that was once alive." Perra bit into my wrist, and although it hurt, in front of this beautiful queen, a man wouldn't cry out in pain.

2

We sat on the beach of the small island, and Perra didn't even wipe the blood stains from her mouth, as if she thought a queen with blood on her lips was even more regal.

"The '楽' this time really suffered a big blow, they're all going to die."

"Then be merciful and let that dragon out, they might be able to keep their lives, or give them to me to strengthen my clan."

"No rush, but I've always wanted to ask you, what are you here for?"

"For vampires, being able to return to The Demon Realm is certainly fulfilling their long-held desire in vampire blood, but the future of vampires is in my hands. I hope to find a piece of land for us, where we no longer have to parasitize in the dark side of humanity, where we can live under the light, we're not actually afraid of the sunlight." Perra said solemnly, she wanted to snatch a piece of land from humans, undoubtedly she wanted to confront them once again. It's understandable that in an era where every place has its boundaries, a race needs to have its own territory, they inevitably have to snatch from other races, from The Demon Realm and the Demon King, from The Human Realm they have to snatch from humans, unless Perra can open up a new continent in this almost saturated place.

"So, you chose here?"

Perra shook her head, indicating no.

"I just happened to pass by here and happened to discover this place with no one around, but only this strange dragon roar. If it weren't for yours truly giving a hint to those dumb island residents, they wouldn't have known it was the cry of the dragon."

"You're saying that if you don't tell them that it's Long Ming, no one will associate it with me?"

"Qin Yang, it wasn't me who said those words about the worldwide livestream. It's the connection between you and the Dragon race that makes people associate you with it. Besides, they were already planning to provoke Othrie without you."

"So, let those people fight it out there."

Long Ming's roar echoed through the sea, growing increasingly urgent.

"It's back again. I've been here for days, and I still haven't found its location." Perra drew a circle on the ground with her sword and said, "But it seems to be getting more anxious. As descendants of the Dragon race, we may choose not to help humans or demons, but Dragons cannot refuse to lend a helping hand."

"Anxiety is to be expected. The place where this Dragon is stuck is not an underwater canyon or a subterranean rift, but a rift in a different world. In other words... a spatial rift connecting to a world beyond the Three Realms. The complexity of opening such a rift is unimaginable, even for gods, humans, or demons. Dragons, on the other hand, have the ability to do it, but not just any Dragon can. The ones capable of doing so would not be stuck in the rift, as their encounter with it would have been a result of a Dragon opening it with external forces. However, as time passes, these rifts opened by external forces gradually narrows and disappears."

Perra turned back. She didn't understand why a Dragon would rely on external forces to open such spatial rifts.

"A Dragon's intelligence wouldn't do such a thing, right?"

"Some Dragons do have poor intelligence, and there are Dragons sealed by humans in this world. The methods used to seal them are remnants from the ancient war between the gods and demons in Yao Yuan. But I don't think this Dragon is incapable because of a lack of intelligence."

"Is it intentional or coerced?"

"In my memories, there were already Dragons from distant Yao Yuan who existed in this realm. But they were not born here, they were beings who came from other worlds through this method. None of them, including myself, remember where we originally came from. We only recently discovered that this is akin to 'exile,' and only Ma Rutian knows about it here."

At the mention of Ma Rutian, fear appeared on Perra's face. It was necessary for the queen to maintain an air of composure.

"Are there no other Dragons in your memories who arrived here in this way?"

"To be honest, up until now, this Dragon is the first. After that group of Dragons, the Dragons that appeared were their descendants."

"When you say 'up until now,' how many years ago are you talking about?"

"Huh? How many years ago? It's more than ten times thirteen million years, at least. I can't even begin to calculate the time from when I started counting."

Long Ming appeared once again, its pitiful cry trapped in the rift. Each minute, its lower body could be crushed and lost in the spatial rift, drifting to who knows where. It would be difficult for anyone to make any other choice in this situation.

Perra took off her shoes and lay by the edge of the beach, letting the seawater wash over her ankles. At first glance, it looked like she was on a vacation.

"Qin Yang, since you're here, I don't need to do anything anymore."

"Me being here is also a troublesome task. I'll leave it to Reisgolo." The golden giant sword appeared before me. The night had grown darker, but the luminescence emitted by the Dragonbone sword was still strong.

I took off my ring and placed the Demon Dragon's sword into the Dragonbone Ancient Sword, feeling a sudden surge of magic power throughout my body. I could feel the anxiety of this Dragon more intensely. I, Reisgolo, the Dragon of Time and Space, was about to save a chubby Dragon stuck in a rift.

"This ring seems to be the infamous 'L' particle ring, just looks like an iron ring."

"These few rings are all broken, the initial rings have no system and have not been adjusted. They overload with just a slight deviation." There was a burnt smell inside the ring, and the particles couldn't be activated.

"Ah, that dragon is roaring again."

"Alright, watch this."

A ball of white light rose in the palm of my left hand, and this light woke up the group of foreign fighters who were fighting fiercely. The white light flew out of my hand and flew between them, illuminating their eyes.

"'Gewei' [Note: transcription of a name], I'll give you only one chance, leave!"

Let these foreign fighters run as far as they can. Anyway, either death or injury awaits them. Even if they manage to run far, they may not be unscathed. Those who can't run far will just be unlucky.

3

It's chilly underwater. The magic protects me and allows me to move freely under high pressure underwater. The deeper I go, the closer I feel to the dragon. The newly arrived dragon doesn't know yet if it is a land, sea, or sky dragon. If it's stuck in a crack, it's probably a chubby land dragon. The sea dragon has a more flexible body, but the sky dragon doesn't like going underwater.

In the depths of the sea, it's pitch black, except for the glowing fish. And in an even deeper sea, there is a pair of half-closed dragon eyes. Its eyes carry a sense of fatigue. Dragon eyes emit light, but the light in tired eyes is not bright.

There aren't many fish around the dragon, it seems like they've all been swallowed by it. This dragon has been here for quite some time.

My dragon soul speaks in Dragon language and starts to communicate with that dragon...