Volume 3 Chapter 254
by Need_More_SleepVolume 3 + Chapter 254: Self-Important?
“Xia Yi……”
This was the last sound Tia could manage, she used her final strength to call Xia Yi’s name.
She raised her trembling hand, stretched it out with effort, and gently touched the indifferent face of Heart Demon Xia Yi.
The power gap between dragons and humans was simply too great, under such suppression she could not resist. Darkness enveloped her, her hand fell, and she lost consciousness.
If Heart Demon Xia Yi put in just a little more force, she could have completely buried the fainted Tia.
Yet she found it somewhat strange.
“What’s wrong with this one—why does she show no hostility toward me?”
Heart Demon Xia Yi couldn’t figure it out.
Her life was literally at Xia Yi’s mercy, yet she did not struggle or resist, with all her strength, she only brushed Xia Yi’s face once.
What was that supposed to mean?
The golden-haired girl felt different from the other Holy Order Knights.
If I just crush her now…
“Ugh.”
A peculiar anxiety welled up in Heart Demon Xia Yi’s chest.
It seemed if she actually did that—killed this strange one—Xia Yi would surely feel bad…
“What a bore!”
Heart Demon Xia Yi flung Tia to the ground and showed a look of displeasure.
She glanced back once, there were hardly any living Holy Order Knights left nearby.
The only one who could fight was that big golden armored tank from before, the others were utterly helpless—like stepping on ants. Doing that over and over wasn’t even a fight, it quickly bored her.
“No one worth fighting left, this is boring. Let’s go.”
Heart Demon Xia Yi stepped through the blood and left Black Swan City.
…
“Hurry, hurry, over here—”
“Is that the Knight Princess? The Knight Princess is here!!”
“Doctor, come and help quickly!!”
In a fuzzy daze, Tia thought she heard other voices.
She felt that someone was administering an alchemical potion into her.
The alchemical medicine took effect and began to heal her body.
In her blurred vision, a woman in a white lab coat appeared…
The woman put a finger in front of Tia and said something while moving her finger.
Tia instinctively followed it with her eyes.
“She’s fine, she should recover soon.”
“Thank God—at least the Knight Princess is okay. Thank you, Doctor.”
“What a pain. If it weren’t for getting out of prison, I wouldn’t bother helping you tin cans…”
Tia felt a soft holy light as someone cast Awakening.
When she recovered, she saw members of the Holy Order Knights, and Doctor leading alchemists from Rhine Alchemy carrying out rescue.
“That’s great, Knight Princess, thank God you’re alright—this is a miracle!” the Holy Order Knights exclaimed.
“Where is she…? Where did she go?!” Tia demanded of the Holy Order Knights.
“I-I don’t know who you mean…” the Holy Order Knights answered, puzzled.
The Doctor laughed, “Tia, you mean that cute little assistant of mine earlier? She probably left Black Swan City after having her fun.”
“Xia Yi, she—”
“Oh my, unbelievable. Who would have thought that seemingly harmless little assistant could be so terrifying!” Doctor produced a lollipop, “Holy Order Knights, you’ve really hoisted a rock only to drop it on your own feet~”
“Doctor!! You’re leading Rhine Alchemy’s emergency rescue for the Holy Order Knights right now, not here to sneer! If you don’t want to go back to prison, watch your words!!”
The Holy Order Knights were enraged, nearly losing their restraint and drawing weapons.
The Doctor shrugged, “No sense of humor.”
“…”
Tia stared at the bloody scene before her and sank into silence, her spirit had suffered a massive blow and her mind was in chaos.
The Holy Order Knights and Rhine Alchemy were together conducting rescue, searching for survivors.
The Doctor’s gaze drifted, she kept moving about, ignoring wounded people’s calls for help.
She hadn’t come here merely to get out of prison sooner—she’d come to find something.
“Hm, what’s that…?”
The Doctor discovered a holy spear stuck in the ground, its shaft stained with blood.
From her experience, she instantly recognized it as dragon’s blood.
The Doctor’s heart pounded, her expression betrayed uncontrollable excitement—her body became inexplicably exhilarated.
On it there was not only dragon’s blood but dragon scales as well.
She carefully took out collection tools and gathered the samples.
Looking at the long-dreamt-of “results,” a manic sound escaped her throat.
It seemed these tens of thousands of deaths were not in vain.
Those idiot knights’ lives could still produce some value.
What a splendid death!
“Hee hee, hee hee hee…”
The Doctor covered her face, laughing madly with joy.
“Ha ha ha!! Hahaha—!!!”
…
The Holy Order Knights’ battle contingent led by one of the Four Great Commanders, Silver Edge Knight, ambushed the dragon in Black Swan City but failed and were slaughtered, the Holy Order Knights were annihilated.
This bone-chilling news quickly spread throughout the human world.
That event on that day became known in history as the Black Swan Incident.
…
“…”
“Awake?”
“What is this—”
Xia Yi opened her eyes.
Huh?
Why did she just hear familiar voices?
She looked up and found she was alone in the wasteland, ahead ran a small creek, and she hurried over to it.
The water reflected her current state, silver hair and silver eyes in dragon form, and next to her stood someone who looked exactly like her.
Even the stray tuft was identical.
It was the Heart Demon!
“Heart Demon!” Xia Yi was surprised.
“Mm.”
“I remember, at that time I—”
Xia Yi recalled that in Black Swan City she had been ambushed by the Holy Order Knights, then the False Sword Saint had used some strange method and launched a soul attack against her—
Could it be that at that moment the Heart Demon took over her body?
So she hadn’t been in Black Swan City herself, there were no enemies around.
“Heart Demon, thank you!” Xia Yi smiled.
“For what?”
“You helped me, didn’t you?”
Heart Demon Xia Yi showed extreme disgust, “What are you talking about? Acting like I care about your safety? Don’t use that sickly phrasing. I—”
“Wasn’t it you who did it?”
“I admit I was forced to take over this body then,” Heart Demon Xia Yi said disdainfully, “but I only did it because those ants annoyed me. They’re just a bunch of weaklings who think they matter… As for you, who cares about you? You’re so full of yourself!”