Emerald-green pupils stared coldly at the black dragon eyes, and a frigid voice rang out, seemingly suppressing the resentment and fury in her heart.
"Do you know why I plotted to kill you all?"
Gris did not reply; he simply glared at Veitris with a deathly stare, wishing he could cut her into a thousand pieces.
Veitris hadn't expected this Black Dragon to answer her question anyway, so she continued talking to herself.
"That period of time back then... whenever I think back on it, I can't help but feel a sense of joy.
Over two hundred years ago, that was when I first met him.
He was a Prime Age White Dragon—a bit of a fool, but very interesting, and a responsible Prime Age White Dragon at that.
I traveled the Jesup Continent with him. We went to the Whit Kingdom to fool the Orcs, to the North Ice Plains to bully the Frost Giant, and also to the Black Reef Sea to watch the sun rise and set.
Those beautiful years should have continued forever. However, she appeared—an adult Female Black Dragon.
She was a cunning thief who stole Harmody from my claws, stole Harmody's heart.
I tried to stop it, but... all my schemes and calculations were for naught.
In the end, he only said to me, 'Veitris, your desire for control is too strong. I don't think we can find happiness together, so... I'm sorry.'
Heh, that idiot! With just a single 'I'm sorry,' he negated all of my efforts!!
Just because I am a Green Dragon, just because we are known for being insidious and cunning, even a fool wouldn't choose me!"
Veitris clenched her dragon claws, her face full of resentment as she lost her composure and roared out loud.
"So I hate! I am furious!"
Sharp dragon teeth ground against each other, making a piercing sound.
"I want revenge! I want to seek vengeance!
I want to destroy everything that makes me unhappy!
Revenge on his mate, revenge on his offspring.
And I, Veitris the Green Dragon, have succeeded. After all, I have never failed.
Over a hundred years ago, he suddenly left Barosar Swamp, that filthy and disgusting place.
Looking at the direction he left in, he might have gone to the North Ice Plains, or perhaps he went to find trouble with the Orcs?
It doesn't matter, I don't care. I only want to take revenge on him, to destroy the happiness he desired!
I took that opportunity to find Lord Seranos and had him assist me in completing my revenge.
Hahahahaha! And you, Harmody's last offspring, are the final target of my completed revenge! Jie-ha-ha-hai~!"
Veitris's expression was manic and her manner was crazed, just like a... a yandere?
Gris coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood; he no longer had any spare energy to denounce this creature.
At this moment, his gaze was calm as he slowly opened his dragon mouth.
"You... truly deserve this... Heh, trash like you... how could you be worthy of... my father? You... have always been... the most pathetic one..."
Just as Gris finished speaking, his final breath began to dissipate. His life force slowly extinguished, and his black pupils began to lose focus.
"Gris!"
Seeing all this happen, Jona Velli could no longer suppress her emotions and roared in a breakdown.
At this moment, Gris's dragon eyes brightened slightly, as if across endless space and time, he saw Jona Velli struggling within the River of Time.
The black dragon mouth curled up slightly, his gaze softened, and a gentle yet weak voice carrying a hint of strength rang out.
"Older Sister... I didn't expect... that before dying, I would still be able to..."
In contrast, Veitris's face turned gloomy after hearing Gris's words.
Swish—
Bang!—
The Green Dragon tail whipped across, the sound of breaking air following as it severed Gris's dragon head on the spot.
The words Gris hadn't finished were stuck in his throat, never to be spoken again.
"No!!"
Jona Velli let out a scream.
Snap!
The scene stopped abruptly. With tears in her eyes, Jona Velli's gaze became even more determined.
"I will definitely save you all, absolutely!"
Jona Velli endured the pain coming from her dragon body and increased her speed.
By now, the dragon scales on Jona Velli's body had long since lost their former luster, and her wing membranes were tattered from being washed by the River of Time.
The bone-chilling pain struck her very soul, but Jona Velli refused to give up.
She kept swimming upstream, swimming and swimming—
She didn't know how long she had been swimming or how much longer she had to go; she had only one thought, and that was to keep swimming.
Even if her body rotted and her soul dissolved, she had to persevere, to persist until the point in time before she fell into slumber.
Suddenly, Jona Velli kicked up another spray of water, and another moving historical scene was projected out.
It was a scene of a Red Dragon fighting against two other dragons.
"Tch— Dammit..."
The heavily injured Friel gritted her teeth and spat out a mouthful of dragon saliva, her eyes filled with defiance.
the two dragons opposite her also had various degrees of injuries all over their bodies.
But at this moment, a trace of alarm flickered in the eyes of those two dragons.
"To think that a greedy fellow like you actually awakened a Space-type Talent. This is unfair!"
A burly Prime Age Red Dragon spoke with undisguised jealousy in his tone.
Friel's dragon mouth curled slightly, revealing a mocking smile.
"What? Jealous? Hehehe... Trash."
"You are nothing more than a spent force now, why bother putting on a brave front?
Perhaps if you kneel down and beg me, showing your submission, I might be happy enough to reluctantly sign a Slave Contract with you and spare your dog life."
Seraphina's poisonous tongue was equally unforgiving.
"Hehehe, if it weren't for the fellow beside you, do you think you could have pushed me to this point?"
Seraphina's temporary mate, the Blue Dragon Wolf, mastered the Laws of Lightning; both his speed and power were immense.
Because of this, Friel was hampered in every attack. Even when she deployed her domain, she was at a disadvantage.
There was no other way; every time Friel ducked into space and reappeared to seize an opportunity to attack, Wolf would immediately transform into lightning to block her strike.
This resulted in the current situation.
While they spoke, a new round of battle began. Friel frequently fell into a disadvantage under the siege of the two powerful dragons.
She had thought about using a Power Burst to briefly increase her combat strength, but unfortunately, as old fellows who had lived for over a thousand years, their combat experience was extremely seasoned. They would absolutely not give up the chance to attack and further wound the already heavily injured Friel.
Even if the wind-up for a Power Burst might take less than a second, Friel was certain that the Blue Dragon, Wolf, could deploy his domain in that second and use lightning methods to strike her into a state of heavy injury.
Watching the besieged Friel in the image, even though she knew this was a historical projection and her current self had no way to intervene, Jona Velli was still anxious enough to pace in circles.
But soon, Jona Velli calmed her heart.
"I can't be anxious. This is just a segment of historical imagery. My current self doesn't have the power to stop all this from happening. To avoid all this, the only way is to return to that point in time! I absolutely cannot lose my composure because of this."
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