Volume 13 Chapter 8 (1/2)

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Final Battle

‘C-can’t win… but if I lose, papa would become worse. What should Baolilong do?’

Baolilong’s eyes were wet, and tears were threatening to fall. No matter how hard it tried to bomb, old papa did not seem to be afraid.

‘I can’t win, but I have to win. What do I do?’ Baolilong felt helpless, and it called out to Liola in its heart. If Liola was right here, Baolilong would have rushed into papa’s arms.

‘Papa! Why are you still sleeping? Baolilong misses you very much.’

Having sensed Baolilong stopping its attacks, Miluo almost seemed unhappy. Suddenly, a few black rays… no! They might have been black “rays” to the giant Miluo, but to others such as Kaiser, they were practically “black pillars.” The pillars erupted from the ground and shot straight up into the sky. From the ground, the pillars looked endless, as though it was connecting the ground to sky.

Baolilong was surprised by the sudden attack, and immediately dodged to the side. However, the black pillars from the ground became more and more numerous, and they did not seem to go away after they were shot. Gradually, more and more pillars were shot out, and it became harder and harder for Baolilong to fly around them.

Before long, Baolilong suddenly realized, the black pillars had become a bird cage, and it could not escape from it.

Baolilong was mad!

It suddenly spit out lightning towards the black pillar. However, not only did the pillar not buckle under the lightning, but because Baolilong diverted its attention to attack the pillar, another pillar slammed right into it. The momentum sent Baolilong flying, landing on yet another pillar. Painful Dragon roars continuously emitted from his mouth.

“Baolilong!” Purity covered her mouth, with sympathy filling her eyes.

‘It hurts! Papa!’

The s.p.a.ce became more and more narrow. Even for Baolilong, whose speed and reaction time were first cla.s.s, it was still having trouble. In addition, having rammed into pillars, its back and left wing were both in pain, and its flying became slightly unstable.

With another carelessness, Baolilong suffered the same fate again, and it was worse this time: because the distance between pillars had decreased, the moment Baolilong sc.r.a.pe a pillar, its flight path had been altered slightly, causing it to run into another pillar. Even after barely returning to a stable fight, it had no time to dodge another pillar from the ground.

Before long, Baolilong’s snow-white body was full of wounds, and blue blood frequently dripped down while it flew in the air, along with painful roars often coming out of its throat.

“Stop! Hurry and stop!” Purity yelled loudly at Miluo, “It still is a little child, and it’s even your child. Stop hurting it!”

In the end, Baolilong really did seem to lose its ability to reason from the pain. It saw the countless number of pillars around it, and with a dizzy head, it thought there was nowhere to go… Its wings were hurting, and it wanted to stop flying. Baolilong looked around, and found a blackish place where there was no pillars. He happily flew over, landed on the place, and opened its wings happily to rest.

All the audiences had wide open dropped jaws… H-how could it go and land on Miluo’s back? That’s basically delivering victory to Miluo.

Miluo paused, and became infuriated; he viewed Baolilong landing on his back as an act of intentional provocation. Black smoke emitted from the giant body, and Baolilong was caught by the viscous air. It desperately flapped its wings to try to leave this terrifying place, but the black smoke held it in place. Even being the Sacred White Dragon, Baolilong seemed to be almost suffocating thanks to this black aura.

‘No! It’s scary! Papa—’

Baolilong desperately called out to Liola in its heart…

* * *

Daylight was in the room, reading the book he got from the royal library, when he suddenly received a communication via telepathy from Flames.

‘Master, its Highness, Baolilong, can’t hang on anymore, it’s already… impossible to win.’

The book suddenly slipped out of Daylight’s hands and fell on the ground. Sitting quietly on the side, Mizerui seemed rather calm; he asked lightly, “Lost?”

“Mhm.” Daylight, who saw him being extremely calm, thought he had already decided to take Liola away, so he also became calmer. Although he had always been firm about not lying and follow through promises… this time, however, even he was in favor of Liola running away. Not only because the match unfair to begin with, but also because Liola must eat the Heart of the Dragon Emperor if they lose, and he would no longer be himself. As his companion, Daylight did not want to see him ending up like that.

“Hurry and take him away.” Daylight urged, unsure of why Mizerui was still sitting still; would it not be better to take Liola away as soon as possible?

“It’s impossible.”

Daylight suddenly glared at Mizerui. Was it really him who said that? Daylight tried to ask, “What did you say?”

Mizerui stood up slowly, and walked to the bed where Liola lay, and watched the person sound asleep on the bed. He started to explain, “Ever since last night, I’ve been trying, but I don’t know what the Dragon Emperor did to Liola. Although I can seem to teleport away, I cannot find a way to take Liola with me.”

Hearing his explanation, Daylight began to panic. Then… what should they do? Were they really going to let Liola eat the Heart?

Mizerui took out a s.h.i.+ny dagger from underneath his robe. The expression on his face was extremely rigid, as though he did not act this way, and would not have the courage to do what he was about to do.

“I-isn’t that Meinan’s dagger?” Daylight looked suspiciously at the dagger, then, suddenly realizing something, he hurriedly pushed Mizerui aside, then stood between him and Liola. He roared, “What are you doing?!”

“This dagger was handed to me by Meinan personally.” Mizerui stated calmly, “Kaiser said, instead of me using Magic to blow him into disfigured pieces, it is much cleaner to use a dagger. After all, there are still people waiting for Liola to come back; therefore, even if we cannot bring Liola back alive, we can at least keep him looking good.”

“Kaiser and Meinan…” Daylight was deeply shocked, “They want to kill Liola?’

Mizerui was suddenly infuriated, for he had held it in for a long time. He roared, “Would you rather we kill Liola now?! Or let the Heart of the Dragon Emperor kill him, and use his body to hurt those he cares about?! You pick one then!”

Daylight’s face also turned rigid. He thought about Caffey; after being controlled by the Heart, not only did he kill his wife and his Sacred White Dragon, he even murdered his own son… What would Liola do then? Of course, Liola did not have a wife, but he had a Sacred White Dragon who was basically his son, and he had his companions. If Liola was truly controlled by the Dragon Emperor, everyone who used to stand by his side would have no choice but oppose him. In the end, they would all either be killed by him, or kill him…

Daylight’s always upright body suddenly collapsed, and instead it was now warped from tiredness. He reached out his hand towards Mizerui, and said, “Let me.”

Mizerui hesitated a moment, but still handed the dagger to Daylight. Instead, he focused his attention on the surroundings, in order to prevent the Dragon Emperor from sending people to take Liola away immediately after winning the tournament.

Daylight turned around, facing Liola on the bed, and smiled bitterly, “Liola, I’ve never ever imagined it would be me who would end your life with my own hands. B-but if you’re awake, you would definitely choose to end your life rather than eat the Heart of the Dragon Emperor… that has been what you were thinking since the beginning, isn’t it?”

“As such, maybe it’s best if I send you the rest of the way, so you wouldn’t have to hide in a corner to commit suicide, and we won’t even be able to find your corpse for a proper funeral.” Daylight smiled lightly, and the dagger in his hand was raised suddenly. He carefully aimed it at where Liola’s heart would be, hoping his companion could die without suffering any pain.

No matter how careful the aim might be, it should not take much time, but Daylight held the dagger up for quite some time. With his eyes overflowing with tears, Daylight closed his eyes turned his head, and swung his hand downward…

In that instant, a slender hand suddenly grabbed Daylight by the wrist. Since Daylight did not expect this, the dagger suddenly fell out of his hand.

“Liola?” Daylight was deep in shock. He did not expect Liola would wake up in this moment, but he was not worried Liola might misunderstand him. Instead, Daylight was worried Liola would not allow him to complete the euthanasia, and carry the weight of killing his own companion.

“Dragon Magic… I know it.” Liola answered irrelevantly. He slowly got up from the bed, and said absent-mindedly, “I saw Lucifer’s Dragon Magic…”

Daylight’s eyes widened; Liola knew Dragon Magic? Then the match…

* * *

Baolilong was caught in the black smoke, and the pain it suffered was immense. Kaiser and others yelled several times to surrender, but Baolilong remained firm and cried that it would never surrender, no matter how painful.

“Baolilong!” Kaiser really wanted to slap himself. Why did he have to spell out everything to Baolilong before hand, resulting in it unwilling to give up? But now everyone could tell, there was no chance it could win, and prolonging this battle would only result in more pain and suffering.

“Baolilong, Purity beg of you; surrender, and stop fighting!” Purity cried out to it.

“No…” Baolilong also cried back. It did not want papa to become how he was before, no…

‘Baolilong…’