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"I can’t seem to recall right now."
Bettina frowned in thought; the face of the Black Lotus Demon King felt familiar to her, she was certain she had seen him, just couldn’t recall where or when.
Lance smiled; he probably knew where Bettina had seen him.
Perhaps it was when he turned into his human form while giving some protective artifacts to the Dragon Cub.
Had Bettina seen his true face?
A coincidence?
Or was it... the Eye of the Demon God meddling in secret, allowing Bettina to inadvertently see his face?
The Eye of the Demon God wasn’t an inanimate object; it was conscious.
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Lance’s gaze shifted from Bettina to the Eye of the Demon God. Could it have sensed the "malice" he felt towards it before?
Then lent a bit of the Power of the Demon Eye to Bettina, allowing her to see his face?
Such a possibility... wasn’t entirely out of the question.
If Bettina remembered, then the fact that the Black Lotus Demon King was Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance... couldn’t be hidden much longer.
The little vampire Tiji had seen [Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance] turn into [Dragonborn].
If they put their information together, they could deduce that the Black Lotus Demon King was Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance.
Dragon Cub, oh Dragon Cub, if you don’t come out soon, I’ll have to start dealing with those old monsters from the abyss as a Dark Magic Dragonkin.
Who knows, they might even gang up on me.
In the Eye of the Demon God, the juvenile dragon was always planning outings with her friends, either fishing with her four friends in the lake by the Demon Academy or climbing trees and raiding bird nests with them.
The juvenile dragon wasn’t just playing; when she wasn’t with her four friends, she was quite busy, busy preparing gifts for them.
She learned sculpting from the Evil Dragon and thought about what gifts to give to her four friends; the first thing that came to her mind was sculpting the four friends she was gifting.
After thinking about it, she felt it wasn’t quite right.
In the end, she decided to sculpt their drunken states and give those as gifts.
As for herself, she wouldn’t leave a statue in this era; what if it were cursed?
Then she made four amulets of safety to give to her four friends.
The juvenile dragon found an excellent quality colored jade stone, and she cut and etched it herself.
"What is the juvenile dragon doing?"
"It looks like she’s making gifts for us."
"???"
"Making gifts?"
"Yes, our bedrooms each have a statue of ourselves as children; I saw the statue before and knew it was a gift, but I couldn’t remember who it was from.
Now I remember, it was from the juvenile dragon. What surprised me was that the inconspicuous gift was carved by the juvenile dragon herself.
It’s a purely handmade craft."
After speaking, Bettina seemed to think of something and pulled out a round jade pendant from her chest, "This also seems to be a gift from the juvenile dragon, an amulet of safety."
The fallen angel Mavis, Medusa Freya, and little vampire Tiji also took out the [amulets of safety] they had worn since childhood from their chests.
That’s right.
These [amulets of safety] were also gifts from the juvenile dragon back in the day.
She also told them to keep it close to ward off evil spirits, nourish and protect their bodies, moisturize their skin, and bring good luck and safety.
Warding off evil...
In the eyes of other beings, they were the evil creatures.
"Do you guys remember when the juvenile dragon disappeared?"
"I vaguely remember... not long after she gave us the gifts... she seemed to have disappeared."
"Does that mean... the juvenile dragon is about to come out of the Eye of the Demon God?"
"Should we still go to the Demon Academy now to dig up the [Time Capsule] we buried back then?"
"Wait a bit more?"
"Alright, it’s probably better to wait for the juvenile dragon and dig it up together."
Demon Princess Christine, Great Vampire Krastihela, and Suman, their concern wasn’t the juvenile dragon, but Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance.
In the Eye of the Demon God, Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance, who controlled the Judgment Royal Court, was many times stronger than their memories could quantify.
The key was this fellow was also nurturing his forces in secret, and there were several times he left the Royal City alone to go to the Land of Chaos and Disorder.
Cultivating loyalty to his own force, this they knew.
But Dark Magic Dragonkin Lance leaving the Royal City alone to go to the Land of Chaos and Disorder, this they did not know.
At that time, Lance shouldn’t have had the power to traverse the Land of Chaos and Disorder.
The Land of Chaos and Disorder also housed creatures capable of contending with the major royal powerhouses.
With Lance’s strength at that time, he should have gone and never returned.
...
In the Eye of the Demon God, the juvenile dragon immortalized the little devil Bettina, drunk and babbling while clutching a bottle of wine, in a statue.
With that, all four friends’ statues were completed. Next, she just needed to see if any part needed refining. If not, they could be packed up and when the right moment came, she’d give this gift to her friends.
Hmm... and the amulets of safety as well.
The amulets of safety were carved from another type of jade.
The jade was a gift from the 3,456-year-old Evil Dragon, and from it, she made four amulets of safety.
The juvenile dragon initially wanted to prepare a gift for Evil Dragon Lance as well, but thinking how he didn’t even want to know her name, she dismissed the thought.
That night, after dinner, the juvenile dragon held a textbook for younglings written by the Evil Dragon. Seeing that Evil Dragon wasn’t reading but instead eating grapes, she slowly shifted across to Lance and gave him a silly grin.
"Lance, I’m ready to leave this place."
The grape-eating Lance paused a moment, then pushed the plate of grapes toward the juvenile dragon, "Had enough fun?"
"Hey... It’s not that I’ve had enough fun, but I feel... if I continue to stay here, I might affect you.
Although the future you tends to hit me now and then, I think... the future you is pretty nice, loving life, carefree."
She didn’t want her own reasons to cause the future Evil Dragon [to be lost].