Book 4: Chapter 68 (1/2)

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” A red dragon lay on the ground, prostrating. Her eyes were swollen shut, and there were a few bitemarks on her tail. Beside her, a golden dragon was in similar shape, also lying on his stomach. His paws were covering his head, and their scales were covered in a layer of frost. Above the two dragons, a third dragon, a sky-blue one, was towering over them, a cursed elf sitting on its head.

“So you know you did something wrong?” Sera asked, peering down at the trembling red dragon. “If you knew it was wrong, why’d you do it in the first place?”

“It wasn’t my fault!” Sung said and let out a few exaggerated sniffles. “It was Prika’s fault! She rushed in, and I couldn’t even explain anything to her! If she waited, I would’ve picked out a nice and stable world with lots of hot dragons, but—eh? Why are you getting angrier at what I’m saying!?”

“Angry?” Sera asked and tilted her head. “What do you mean angry? I love it when dragons are irresponsible and play around with the stability of the world. If a few dragons poured into the world, I bet we’d have a nice fine and dandy party, wouldn’t we?”

Sung bit her lower lip. “Err….”

“Does your mother know?”

“Of, of course, she does….” Sung swallowed upon seeing Sera’s smiling face. “…n’t. Of course, she doesn’t.” She swallowed again. “Don’t tell her, please? You already punished me in her place, isn’t that enough?”

“Not quite,” Sera said and sniffed. “That was for sending my son into an unknown world with a dubious teleportation system. I—”

“It’s not dubious!”

Sera glared at Sung.

Sung swallowed. “Sorry, go on.”

“As I was saying, that was just punishment for endangering my son,” Sera said and nodded. “But shouldn’t you be taught a lesson for endangering the whole world?” She nodded again. “I think you should.”

Sung scratched her swollen head. “I mean, there are some safeguards I put into place to prevent our world from being run over by dragons.”

“Oh?” Sera raised an eyebrow. “What about being run over by invasive species? This cursed elf was very particular about that.” She pointed at Lindyss, who was still on top of her head for some reason. After thinking about it, Sera sharply tilted her head to the side, causing Lindyss to yelp and fall to the ground. Sera cleared her throat and nudged Lindyss. “Go on, explain the invasive species to her.”

“I know what invasive species are,” Sung said and rolled her eyes. “They’re people who break into your den and take your stuff.”

“No, those are burglars,” Lindyss said. “Invasive species are species transplanted from one area to another, and they thrive extremely well, usually causing populations of local fauna to die out. An example of this would be humans. You see, my continent used to belong to elves and only elves. Then the humans came along, bred like rabbits, and what do you know? They practically own the place now.”