The Price is Everything of Yours (76 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 221

“Oh dear, time’s up already. I enjoyed our conversation with a sentient being—it’s been a rare delight.”

The dragon completely stopped speaking and gave a gentle smile. Darkness approached from afar. Flick, flick. The magical lights flickered.

“What exactly do you mean by ‘time’s up’?”

“Just as I said. I emerged only briefly through a momentarily weakened seal. That’s why you were able to enter my lair at all.”

“So, this place will once again be isolated from the outside world?”

“You may still enter physically, but everything within this lair is sustained by magic. Once the disturbed seal reseals itself, everything here will rapidly decay. Go now, children. Until we meet again.”

“‘Until we meet again’?”

“Yes. Once you defeat the children of Visto and release Palos’s power, I too shall be able to live as I once did.”

Defeat the imperial house and release Palos’s power. That was precisely what Neris had been thinking just moments ago. Yet she hadn’t realized that doing so would unleash the very same evil dragon from 600 years ago upon the world.

The dragon was dangerous. Though the one before her now seemed cheerful and rational, no one could predict what chaos might unfold if her true form fully awoke. Had she been weak, one might have said, “Let’s wake her first and see what happens,” but such recklessness was unthinkable.

It would be ideal if her awakened form sought vengeance only against Visto’s descendants—but the world rarely granted such convenient resolutions. If she chose instead to exact revenge upon all of humankind, who could possibly stop her?

After all, this age had not even a single hero, let alone the three flawless dragon slayers of legend.

Seeing Neris’s conflicted expression, the dragon smiled.

“Child of Elantria, I cherish peace. I also hold mortal beings dear. That’s precisely why I remained in this world instead of following my kin. And I care just as deeply for non-human races.”

Neris, of course, distrusted these words; naturally, the dragon would wish to break free from her seal. But… in Neris’s mind surfaced the image of her smile from the vision.

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