Chapter 466: 356
Before Suolin could speak, a messenger ran over quickly.
"Lord Long Yi, the emperor has an urgent summons!"
Urgent?
It’s been a long time since Long Yi heard this word.
"I think, what His Majesty the Emperor wants to say, is probably what I’m about to talk about," Suolin said.
"Let’s go!"
Long Yi waved his hand, and a group of people immediately rushed towards the Imperial Palace.
Inside the Imperial Palace, Long Yi has a high level of privilege. For example, the Emperor once said that anywhere Long Yi wanted to go, he was free to go within the palace. Anyone who came with Long Yi was allowed to come and go as they pleased. Thus, when Long Yi showed up with such a group, there came with him two young dragons, a Fairy Dragon, a Female Giant, a Female Demon, a Crystal Girl, and a faceless girl, no one found it strange.
After all, it wasn’t the first time something like this had happened.
When Long Yi burst into the study, he saw obvious agitation on Kirei’s face.
"Long Yi! You came at the right time! I just received news that less than six hours after the Emperor’s death, the Crown Prince Yake of the Black Dragon Empire suddenly appeared and immediately declared his succession to the throne! Moreover, he has now turned into this!!"
A portrait that almost exactly matched the Yake that Suolin had seen.
Suolin takes the portrait and nods.
"Yes, that’s what I wanted to tell you. Yake has resurrected, moreover, he has become incredibly powerful."
"How strong can this ugly fellow be?" Long Yi asked with a laugh.
"Besides Isrile, I don’t think any of us could beat him."
Who is Isrile?
Although she seems to only be a larger eating machine than Long Yi, her actual identity is the powerful Dragon Hunting Spider. This was understood by Suolin immediately after she formed a contract with Long Yi, and now she is comparing the reborn Yake to Isrile.
"Alright, looks like we have some fun coming our way," Long Yi scratched his head and said.
Once, Long Yi had chopped Yake into six pieces, and everyone thought Yake was definitely dead then. But his Black Dragon had desperately carried back his body to the Black Dragon Empire. Later, when news about necromantic methods was received from the Black Dragon Empire, Long Yi had a bad feeling. Now it seems, indeed, something bad is happening.
"His Fighting Aura has reached a quasi-ten Dragon Mark, which is hypothetically the limit for humans," Suolin said.
Quasi-ten Dragon Marks, what does that actually mean? When Elsa was leaving during the battle against the Black Dragon Empire, she had dispatched nine Dragon Knights with nine Dragon Marks with one sword, that was the power of ten Dragon Marks. And quasi-ten Dragon Marks, naturally, was just a little bit less than that.
Now, Elsa has gone to the Heaven Realm, and there isn’t a second Dragon Knight in the entire world who has reached that stage.
So, that seems to be the main problem now.
"Has the Black Dragon Empire made any moves yet?" Long Yi asked.
"No, there hasn’t been any changes in the entire Black Dragon Empire since he declared his succession. Especially the citizens of the Black Dragon Empire, instead of repulsing their prince’s sudden transformation into such a huge monster, they’re all extremely excited," Kirei said.
"The Black Dragon Empire was originally a country that worships power to a distorted extent. They don’t care about anything else, as long as there is power," Long Yi said.
"So... what should we do?" Suddenly, as if he remembered something, Kirei turned to Suolin and bowed slightly, "You’re Princess Solene Green, aren’t you?"
Suolin was startled, then quickly returned the courtesy and said, "Please don’t say that, Your Majesty, Princess Suolin is dead, I am just one of Brother Long’s servants."
Kirei smiled and said, "Then, may I know what are Emperor Jim Green’s thoughts on this matter?"
After thinking for a moment, Suolin said, "My grandfather... uh, Emperor Jim thinks that the Green Dragon has been too entangled with the Black Dragon Empire and can’t provide any direct help to the White Dragon on the battlefield. However, I think there shouldn’t be any negative assistance either."
Kirei finally laughed heartily, yes, this was the reply he was waiting for. He can’t expect the long-ailing Green Dragon Empire to provide any help to him, but as long as it doesn’t help the Black Dragon Empire, that’s enough!
"Thank you, Suolin. I think, there are no big conflicts between the White Dragon and the Green Dragon, peace is more important than anything else." This time, Kirei did not add the word ’princess.’
And Solene nodded in understanding, murmuring a soft "Thank you."
This pretty much implied that White Dragon no longer considered Green Dragon an enemy.
Although Yake ascended to the throne, that was about it. Internationally, there was no extra news from the Black Dragon Empire. Messages from all secret channels indicated that all plans of the Black Dragon Empire were still progressing in an orderly manner, with no changes whatsoever. Even the war that everyone once thought was imminent showed no signs at all.
Well, life still has to go on.
Long Yi has graduated from the Dragon Knight Academy. According to the standard for all graduates, the first thing to do is to find a job. However, Long Yi has long since been a member of the Third Legion and even a part of the Bone Crushing squad. All Long Yi did was go to the base of the Third Legion, give a greeting, and he was officially in.
However, the person in charge of the legion base insisted on not allowing Long Yi to join the legion. This was an order from Van Sen, the Third Legion’s Group Leader, who believed that keeping Long Yi in the legion would limit his abilities, so he specifically ordered that unless it was an emergency, Long Yi should never come to the base.
Of course, there was another reason behind this, however, the person in charge at the time just glanced at the dazzling curve behind Long Yi and didn’t dare to say it out loud.
Since he wasn’t allowed to stay in the Legion camp, he had to find a place himself. It wasn’t really appropriate to always stay at Ai Lin’s house, so Long Yi simply planned to buy a house for himself. He originally planned to let Wesley and Chef Bajie, who were locals of the Imperial City, come and appraise the property, but these three had gone to report to the Legion.
Unsurprisingly, all three of them joined the Fourth Legion where Osborne was.
In fact, they had initially wanted to join the Third Legion as well. However, their families vehemently opposed it due to the astonishing casualty rate of the Third Legion.
Since it wasn’t the Third Legion, joining any other legion would do. Thus, the three of them simply all went to Osborne’s Fourth Legion. Their valiant performance immediately won them a place in the legion. Now, Chef Bajie, having a gentle girlfriend on one hand and a successful career on the other, was in high spirits.
They were already gone before Long Yi was stabbed, and since it wasn’t time for the Legion’s holiday yet, naturally they could not return.
So, buying a house was something he had to do on his own.
In the White Dragon Empire, housing was not freely traded. It needed to be applied for at the city council, but as soon as Long Yi stepped into the city council’s entrance, he was immediately pulled away by an envoy sent by the Emperor. Then, quite soon, Long Yi and the others were taken to a three-story villa next to the Imperial Palace.
"The Emperor said that from today on, this is yours. This is the deed. Well, I’ll be leaving now," the envoy said, stuffing the documents into Long Yi’s hand and running away.
"That bastard probably did this to make it convenient to summon me in the future, right?" said Long Yi, looking at the shadow cast by the nearby Imperial Palace.
The entire place was brand new, from the inside out. The Emperor clearly had this planned for a long time. All thirteen of Little Zi’s female demon avatars, each dressed in a glamorous maid outfit, began cleaning the entire villa. Ai Lin was tending to the lawn, while Isrile was in charge of fixing the fence, and Solene was standing by with Lingling, daydreaming.
Seeing everyone busying around, and not being able to help, Solene felt quite helpless. Lingling didn’t have a soul to begin with, she was just a humanoid tool with independent consciousness, she couldn’t even do basic tasks without Long Yi’s command. But she, at least, had a human soul... Over the many years, she had never learned any life skills.
It was an utter failure.
While thinking about it, Solene suddenly remembered that there was something in her private space.
She opened her private space and took out the Dragon Egg.
Because it had been soaked in disinfectant for a long time, the shell of the dragon egg was corroded beyond recognition, but the Dragon Power inside the dragon egg was still abundant.
"Huh? A dragon egg? Where did it come from?"
Long Yi, who was moving the heavy stone table outside, came over and asked.
"I got it from the specimen room in the Black Dragon Empire’s laboratory. But the Dragon Soul has already left, so it can’t hatch into a dragon anymore. I always felt that it might be useful to me, so I brought it back to show you," Solene said, then handed over the dragon egg.
Long Yi took the dragon egg and looked at it. He injected his Giant’s Power to examine it carefully before saying,
"Because the Dragon Soul has left, the Primordial Substance inside the dragon egg can no longer transform into a dragon. However, the Primordial Substance contains the purest life force and Dragon Power, and it will surely bring great benefits to you, but..." Long Yi hesitated.
"Brother Long, just say it. I’m not afraid of anything," Solene said.
"What I’m trying to say is, hatching a dragon egg requires a Dragon Soul as a guide, and primordial substance without a Dragon Soul, although it can increase your personal power, your ability to transform..."
Hearing Long Yi say this, Solene couldn’t help laughing.
"Brother Long, you don’t need to worry about that anymore. Haven’t I already told you that I don’t care so much about my appearance anymore. Just as you said, this is a special kind of beauty."
Long Yi looked at Solene’s face. Although he couldn’t see any expression, he could truly feel Solene’s contentment and joy. (To be continued. If you like this work, please vote/recommend it on qidian.com. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile users, please visit m.qidian.com to read.)
