Chapter 91
Chapter 91: Dragon? Princess?
The knights looked at each other in dismay and finally cast their gazes on Princess Falanier.
The man at the head frowned, his voice carrying a slight hint of dissatisfaction.
“Lord Divine Envoy, relying solely on yourself is probably not enough to take us away from here, unless we have that divine Train object…”
“Alright, Atush, trust Lord Divine Envoy. Presumably, a Train is not something mortals like us can board, right, Lord Divine Envoy?”
Princess Falanier patted the shoulder of the knight named Atush and looked at Ye Qiyan with a smile.
“Lead the way.”
Ye Qiyan responded with a smile and didn’t say much more.
He was quite curious about what this Princess Falanier was actually planning to do.
Stepping onto that small boat, the already relatively crowded vessel became even more cramped now.
Ye Qiyan stayed alone at the stern of the boat with his eyes closed to rest, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
Yet in reality, he was loafing around and lurking in the public Chat Room.
An hour later, the small boat stopped.
Bursts of heat waves suddenly appeared ahead.
Ye Qiyan opened his eyes and saw a huge worm, more than three meters long, entrenched right there.
The worm let out a bizarre cry and snapped its jagged maw open, lunging toward the small boat where everyone was.
“Oh no! Why has the hell worm awakened?! Protect the princess quickly!”
Atush shouted loudly, but before the few knights could make a move, a thunder-like sound rang out from behind.
“Bang—Bang—Bang—!”
Gunfire broke out intensely.
Ebony and skyhawk opened fire simultaneously.
Ebony’s bullets easily penetrated the worm’s body and exploded within it.
Squish, squish. Dark green bug blood splattered everywhere, and even those knights and the princess couldn’t escape unscathed.
One of them, hit in the head, let out an even more miserable wail.
“Protect the princess!”
Atush gritted his teeth and led the remaining people to intercept all the aftermath.
This sense of conviction made even Ye Qiyan silently applaud them in his heart.
“Found it.”
The worm’s outer shell was blown open by the bullets, revealing a heart-like flesh ball inside.
The bullet passed through, and the flesh ball burst.
Accompanied by the worm’s wail, it completely collapsed.
“Let’s continue walking. Just tell me if there’s any danger.”
The knights looked at Ye Qiyan in dumbfounded silence, and one of them even knelt down directly with hands pressed together.
“Gods bless us, gods bless us! To think such a powerful Divine Envoy has come, it seems we can continue on—”
The knights were extremely excited and shocked by Ye Qiyan’s attack.
Especially Princess Falanier; her gaze swept over Ye Qiyan, seeming to ponder something special.
The fluorescent river was very long, but it finally came to an end. Remaining on this small boat, the path ahead was completely blocked off.
A large amount of shattered stones blocked the front.
“Lord Divine Envoy, the road ahead is blocked. If we want to leave this cave, we can only open a path from here.”
“Alright, just leave it to me.”
Ye Qiyan nodded, stepped forward two steps, inadvertently brushed his palm against Princess Falanier’s shoulder, raised his gun, and fired.
“Bang!”
The bullet exploded, and a gap appeared in the blocked opening ahead.
“The road has been opened!”
Atush and the other knights cheered one after another.
In their minds, as long as they left this place, they would be safe again.
However, how could the Train’s task be settled by Ye Qiyan so easily?
Just as Princess Falanier left the small boat surrounded by the knights and walked through that gap to head forward…
Ye Qiyan, who stayed in place, suddenly spoke in an inexplicable tone:
“Wait a moment, Princess Falanier.”
Princess Falanier stopped her steps, slightly lifted her skirt hem, and responded with a gentle smile:
“What is it, Lord Divine Envoy?”
However, when the pitch-black gun barrel aimed at the top of her head,
Atush’s expression changed drastically in an instant.
“Divine Envoy! What are you doing?! Protect the princess!”
“Too slow.”
A bullet precisely hit the ‘princess”s head.
However, the expected scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere did not appear; the princess was still standing there unharmed.
The bullet’s warhead was spinning right between her eyebrows, resembling a spinning top.
“How did you discover me?”
The princess’s voice became much heavier and deeper.
Her eyes gradually transformed into the vertical slit pupil shape seen at the very beginning.
A pair of dark green wings unfolded behind her.
The prestige belonging to a giant dragon instantly knocked all the knights, including Atush, tumbling to the ground.
“I thought I hid myself very well. Even this human’s parents shouldn’t have been able to notice.”
The dragon-humanized Princess Falanier flew arrogantly into mid-air, coldly looking at Ye Qiyan amidst the despairing and fearful gazes of the knights.
“I knew from the very beginning. I just wanted to see what you were actually trying to do, but now, there’s no need for that anymore.”
[Treasure Dragon (Level 6)]
[The owner of the treasure cave. Because its life is heading towards a countdown, in order to prolong its life, it constantly captures humans from the outside world to sacrifice them to a certain special existence, thereby obtaining a longer lifespan.]
[Sacrifice completed. Current status: Quasi-dragon-human form.]
Treasure Dragon—that was the name of the giant dragon at this station. It was Princess Falanier.
Inside this unlucky princess’s body was no longer herself; after being sacrificed, her consciousness had been replaced by a giant dragon.
So the hidden quest was just like this?
Ye Qiyan maintained the posture of raising his gun.
“Human, do you really think this short, small weapon can cause damage to me? Even this human body cannot…”
“Bang.”
The black armor-piercing bullet easily penetrated the dragon wings behind Princess Falanier.
“Roar! How is that possible!?”
She let out an angry roar, her dragon wings snapped, and she fell to the ground, kicking up a burst of dust.
“Damn you!”
“Bang!”
Another shot.
The other dragon wing was likewise snapped off by Ye Qiyan.
He walked up close, his thunder-light leather boots emitting a dazzling radiance.
With a stomp down, he directly trampled Princess Falanier into the dirt.
A Level 6 giant dragon, having changed into a human body, even with some enhancements, was simply no match for him.
Just as he was about to finish her off, Atush, who had fallen to the ground, suddenly picked up his sword and charged at him with a roar.
“Let go of the princess!!”
“Caw—!”
Demon Card: Bewitchment.
Raven Demon appeared out of thin air.
Huge bird talons pinned Atush underneath.
“She is no longer the princess, Lord Atush.”
“No, impossible! Her Highness the Princess is the princess! Damn it, let her go!”
Princess Falanier, trampled underfoot, seemed to have seen a savior. She abruptly retracted her vertical pupils and said in a panicked, tearful tone:
“I, I am not a giant dragon, I am Princess Falanier!”
