Chapter 14 — The Dragonfire Pearl and Hearthfire (1/2)
These wretched things, why would they be so kind as to help detoxify her? Yun Wu reckoned they were actually offering her up as a sacrifice… and that the object or being of their worship was within this very magma pool.
She dared to make such a bleak claim because, beneath her feet, she felt the slow stirrings of a silken creature.
Damn…
She blanched and immediately wanted to climb out of the magma pool. The giant python and man-eating vines hissed threateningly.
Then.
Whoosh!
A colossus creature suddenly flew out of the magma pool, followed by a resonating dragon’s roar. When the creature appeared, the nearby python and the man-eating vines all obediently bowed their heads, as though to welcome their king, making for quite a strange sight.
“Hahaha, this prince has been imprisoned for hundreds of years and deprived of human flesh for eons. This time, my vassals, you have done well.” The crimson dragon cackled, its drool dripping down to the ground. The beast, clearly in a buoyant mood, eyed Yun Wu with a terrifying gaze.
The giant python and the man-eating vines seemed pleased by the crimson dragon’s praise, for they began to hissing in delight.Meanwhile, in the magma pool. When Yun Wu caught sight of the crimson dragon, her expression turned a bit unsightly.
She completely ignored the dragon’s excitement because her own sense of crisis was crying out. A peculiar passage of information flashed through her mind, further darkening her expression.
The Dragon Clan’s Eight Prince, the Redfire Dragon: Fire-attribute, valiant offense. Ill-tempered with an inherent love for slaughter, the Redfire Dragon is a blithely gluttonous beast and thus one year, it launched an expedition of unruly massacre.
Humans serve as the Redfire Dragon’s primary food source, though it bears a preference for females. After surrendering to a Summoner from the Yun family, the Redfire Dragon was subjected to imprisonment within Yun Manor’s Forbidden Grounds.
Yun Wu honestly didn’t know why her mind was capable of providing her this sort of information, but if everything it said was true, then her situation…
“Old geezer, quick, do me a favor! Save me, ah!” At this point, the only person who came to mind was her savior from Beast Forest; that old necklace spirit. After all, he was able to manipulate a ray of light to reduce a group of lousy beasts to dust, meaning his strength was irrefutable.
“Brat, it’s not that I don’t want to help you, it’s that I’m also helpless. I am a sacred relic-spirit, but your body is lifeless, so there is no way for us to form a spiritual contract. I just—” An elderly voice spoke in her mind, but without waiting for him to finish rambling, Yun Wu cut in with gritted teeth.
“What about last time? Make an exception. Wait until I get out of here, I’ll definitely revive my body and form a contract with you. Right now, saving my life is more important—”