Volume 3 Chapter 166

Volume 3 + Chapter 166: Roar

Facing an enemy that was almost impossible to defeat, Hill already knew there was no chance of surviving.

Even escaping is impossible now, these monsters surrender very quickly.

Even so, she would never surrender to the enemy but would choose to fight to the very end.

With the resolve to die, she stood before the damaged city gate of Laurel City, ready for the final battle.

At that moment, an unexpected scene appeared.

The Calamity Legion, which had originally been advancing toward Laurel City, suddenly stopped and turned their gaze in one direction.

Hill was very puzzled. She lifted her head, and what entered her sight was actually… a dragon??

It was a dragon that looked very small—perhaps just a little bigger than a cat—covered entirely in silver.

The little silver dragon flapped its wings and flew into mid-air.

“This… how is this possible??”

Hill suspected she was seeing an illusion.

How could a dragon exist in the human world?

Weren’t all dragons living in the Dragon Kingdom to the north of this land?

What shocked her most was that this dragon was a silver dragon.

The current ruler of the Dragon Kingdom was of the Silver Dragon lineage, and Silver Dragons were of royal blood!

All dragons were terrifying and powerful creatures, yet when Hill saw this little silver dragon, she did not have that thought.

Instead, the little silver dragon looked extremely cute to her, even a bit like…

A pillow?

The black ocean churned as if boiling, and all the monsters roared menacingly toward the little silver dragon in the sky.

However, the little silver dragon did not seem to feel any panic at all.

“What is this little silver dragon going to do?” Hill stared at it.

The little silver dragon hovered in mid-air, then opened its mouth and let out a roar—

“Rooaaar——!”

Hill was stunned again.

Was this… trying to act cute?

But the next moment, that thought was immediately overturned.

A crushing pressure, as if the heavens and earth were collapsing, descended upon the space. Hill half-knelt on the ground, feeling as if even her blood had solidified.

This absolute pressure from a higher being filled her with an overwhelming sense of powerlessness, leaving her unable to muster even the will to fight.

It felt as if she had fallen into a bottomless abyss, endlessly sinking.

Not only her—even the mutated beasts and calamity beasts were all suppressed.

The boiling black ocean was forcibly stilled under those silver eyes.

Hill felt that no words could adequately describe the scene before her—they all seemed pale and powerless.

So this… was the terror of dragons?

She almost lost consciousness.

But at that moment, she realized something.

This seemed like an opportunity to escape.

All the monsters were immobilized. If she could act now and leave, she could return safely to Laurel Tree Academy.

However, this meant she had to endure—and even resist—the dragon’s pressure.

Could she really do it?

At that moment, she remembered her teacher—Wright Schubert.

Her teacher had never flinched, even when facing the Silver Dragon Queen. As the disciple of a Sword Saint, she absolutely could not lay down her sword!

Just like her teacher!!

“A swordsman cannot only train in swordsmanship but must also temper their… sword heart.” Hill whispered softly.

This was her teacher’s teaching to her.

She fought desperately against the pressure. Though her eyes were gradually losing their light, her unwavering conviction kept her from giving up in this desperate situation. Finally, she felt something completely different from before—as if she had grasped a beam of light in the darkness.

“…The heart is like a calm mirror.”

Hill stood up. In her daze, she had already stepped into a new realm. Staggering, she walked toward Laurel Tree Academy, leaving this place behind.

“I really must thank… that little silver dragon… otherwise I might have…”

…

“Ughhh… My head hurts!!”

Xia Yi, having released her true dragon form, lay on the ground, clutching her head as if it were about to explode!

Just now, she had unleashed the Dragon King’s pressure against that group of monsters.

Using the Dragon King’s pressure was somewhat taxing for her, after all—she had not yet truly become a Dragon King, only possessed the qualification to become one.

She was nothing like Xia Lulu, who could use it as easily as breathing.

Now that she had unleashed an AOE Dragon King’s pressure, her mental strength was almost completely drained.

But still, this move was just too effective for this kind of situation.

All these monsters were now restrained, and she no longer had to face an endless wave of small fry.

In truth, she had also been curious about the result—what effect would using her maximum Dragon King’s pressure have, and how much would it consume?

The result was…

“Next time, I’m never doing this again!!” Tears welled up in the corners of the little silver dragon’s eyes.

She felt that if she tried this again, she might literally crack apart on the spot.

“I need to head back. I have to find Hill quickly!”

Xia Yi returned to her humanoid form.

However, this time she was not in her usual disguise as a human loli, but as a dragon loli with silver hair, silver eyes, and a big tail.

She moved quickly through the piles of monsters and soon arrived at the city gate entrance.

If things went as she expected, there should be no one here now—everyone must have evacuated.

Makes sense too. Someone like Old Biden, seeing this many terrifying monsters—how could he possibly not run?

It seemed that a fierce battle had taken place at the city gate. Xia Yi saw monster corpses everywhere and a destroyed city wall, but no humans.

“This means everyone should have returned!”

Xia Yi reached her conclusion and felt a bit relieved. She entered Laurel City, where the streets were now completely empty.

“In this state, I can’t return to Laurel Tree Academy. There’s only one way.”

She took out a Transformation Potion and looked at the alchemical vial in her hand.

Only by drinking the Transformation Potion could she suppress her dragon bloodline and disguise herself as human.

Looking like this now, there was no way she could return to Laurel Tree Academy—she still had to claim Xia Lulu’s gift too…

“Damn it, I’ll risk it!”

The little dragon girl steeled herself, uncorked the potion, and tilted her head back to drink it all in one go.

“…Ah, not good!!”

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[Author’s Note: About the plot: actually, I wanted to explain this at the end of Volume 1, but never found the right place in the main story, so I’ll just say it here.

1. 1. The dragon guard defeated by the human Sword Saint at the start was not a trainee guard but an official guard. If it were a trainee, they would not have the qualification to stand by the Silver Dragon Queen as her guard. As for why Xia Lulu said it was a trainee guard—that was purely her mindset of messing with her own daughter.

 

1. 1. The curse that turned the human Sword Saint into a dragon was in two parts: the first was the dragon curse given by the dragon guard, and the second was the Dragon King’s curse given by Xia Lulu. The Transformation Potion can suppress the dragon curse to some extent, but to suppress the Dragon King’s curse requires a targeted approach—hence the need for Xia Lulu’s hair.

Without Xia Lulu’s hair, the Transformation Potion cannot suppress the Dragon King’s curse, though it can still suppress the dragon curse.]