Volume 6 Chapter 123
by Golden DragonVolume 6 + Chapter 123: The Omen
“So my true dragon form is also just a tiny little thing? No way!”
Heart Demon Xia Yi clutched her head and let out a wail.
She had just been laughing loudly at Xia Yi, but now she felt as if the boomerang she had thrown had come back and hit her right in the face, stinging fiercely.
Because Heart Demon Xia Yi and Xia Yi shared the same body, whatever Xia Yi was like, she naturally was like that too.
“Who asked you to be my heart demon? Face reality,” Xia Yi said calmly. “You and I are in the same boat, you know.”
If it were in front of anyone else, admitting that her true dragon form was so small would have made Xia Yi blush, lose her composure, and fall apart, but with her heart demon, she never would.
“I can’t accept this! I can’t accept this!!”
Heart Demon Xia Yi grew desperate.
“I am a terrifying demon! My true dragon form absolutely has to be a mountain-like silver giant dragon, radiating overwhelming pressure! How could it possibly… look like a little cat?!”
“I can understand how you feel…”
Xia Yi was utterly helpless.
How she wished her true dragon form were exactly as her heart demon had described.
But dreams are beautiful, while reality is cruel.
“Xia Yi… can’t you just get a little bigger?” Heart Demon Xia Yi asked.
“I’d love to, but how?”
“Grow up a bit!”
“I am growing, aren’t I!” Xia Yi retorted. “How could I become huge and enormous overnight? Don’t ask the impossible!”
“What about alchemy?”
“There’s no weird alchemy like that!”
“B-But…”
“Alright, alright, just accept reality.”
“…”
Heart Demon Xia Yi wore an expression that said life had no meaning. It seemed she would need some time to digest this fact.
Transforming back into a little silver dragon, Xia Yi walked up to the half-corps of the Human Envoy and began searching for it.
She turned everything inside and out but didn’t find many items of informational value.
There was a small notebook containing work records, documenting how many cities the Human Envoy had destroyed while carrying out cleanup missions during this period…
Judging by the number of entries and the time span, it was quite astonishing. To describe the Human Envoy as a diligent workhorse would not be an exaggeration.
Xia Yi flipped through the notebook several times from beginning to end. On her fourth reading, she discovered some content that was rather concerning.
“Xia Yi, what are you looking at?”
Heart Demon Xia Yi seemed to have finally recovered and came over to ask.
“This is the Human Envoy’s work log, recording what he’s been doing recently.”
Xia Yi held up the small notebook to show her heart demon.
“Oh, that guy really destroyed quite a few cities. But it doesn’t look like there’s much useful content,” Heart Demon Xia Yi commented. “Just dry work records.”
“Yes, but have you seen this?” Xia Yi pointed at the contents of one page.
“Hmm, this is…?”
“Besides carrying out cleanup missions to destroy cities and all life, the Human Envoy did one other thing, he performed partial data retrieval.”
“You’re right!” Heart Demon Xia Yi spotted the clue. “And the retrieved data are all elves, without exception, not a single outsider race.”
“Why only retrieve elves and not the data of others? That’s… really unsettling. Could this also be the Queen’s task?”
In a vague, indescribable way, Xia Yi sensed something off.
Perhaps this had something to do with the fact that all elves had voluntarily withdrawn from various countries and returned together to the Elf Kingdom.
Back when they entered the border of the Elf Kingdom, Balan, the elven bard, had also heard the “voice of the wind,” lost his sanity, and performed a series of bizarre acts.
“Unfortunately, these questions can’t be answered for now, after all, the Human Envoy is already in two pieces,” Heart Demon Xia Yi said.
“Yeah, maybe only by meeting the other Envoys can we get answers… Since there’s nothing useful here, let’s not waste any more time. We’ll set off now.”
Xia Yi put down the small notebook. She grabbed the communication device with her dragon claws, flapped her wings, and took to the air.
High in the sky, she looked down at the completely destroyed city below, then followed the direction indicated on the device and flew off into the distance.
…
Meanwhile, outside the Elf Kingdom.
Fox Hill, the Fox Clan Royal Palace.
“What exactly is going on with the Elf Kingdom?”
Yue Liu sat at her desk, looking at the documents and reports before her, utterly perplexed.
Recently, a major event occurred in the international community. The elves had broken off diplomatic relations with all other races, and all elves across the land had vanished. Rumors said that every elf had returned to the Elf Kingdom.
The Elf Kingdom was completely sealed off and impossible to enter.
“How strange… Has something bizarre happened inside the elf clan? Or is it a civil war? Such a decision doesn’t resemble that Elf King’s style at all…”
Yue Liu analyzed various reports but couldn’t come to any conclusion.
If the elves continued to isolate themselves like this, one thing was foreseeable.
The other races’ plan to form a Grand Alliance against the Central Alliance of dragons, vampires, and foxes would have to rely on the elves’ international prestige.
If the elves didn’t show their support, the formation of the Grand Alliance would fail.
“Is this situation… a good thing?”
Yue Liu raised an eyebrow.
For some reason, she felt little relief in her heart. Instead, she was uneasy, it felt very much like the calm before a storm.
She had a feeling that a great upheaval was about to descend upon this land.
“I wonder how my fated nemesis plans to handle this matter. She hasn’t contacted me lately… she couldn’t have forgotten about me, could she?”
Yue Liu muttered to herself.
“Could it be that the bat is sneaking around behind my back, driving a wedge between me and my nemesis!?”
“Trouble!!”
Before Yue Liu could think further, her train of thought was interrupted by a panicked voice.
She looked up and saw that the person rushing in hurriedly was Fenghua.
“What is it, Fenghua?”
“I am terribly sorry to disturb you, Fox Queen, but something enormous has happened!”
Fenghua bowed respectfully before Yue Liu.
This usually calm and capable minister then spoke a fact so startling that even Yue Liu was taken aback.
“Fox Queen, the World Tree has appeared within Fox Hill!”
“The World Tree?” Yue Liu shot to her feet. “Is that true?!”
“Yes, a newborn World Tree, there’s no mistake. It looks very much like the legends describe!”
Not only in Fox Hill, but almost on the same day, World Trees, which should have existed only in legend, appeared simultaneously in many countries. At the same time, the Calamity Beasts across the land also began to grow increasingly active.
Among the fox, vampire, dragon, goblin, giant, and human races, whether nations of higher species or common species, World Trees had appeared.
No one knew the reason, but one thing was certain. This was surely some kind of omen.
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