The ice dragon flew westward, and then turned northeast over the Vinez River, the shadows of blue sky and white clouds flowing on the silver-white scales, and the whole body gradually disappeared into the sky as if transparent. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this way, the smaller spotted leaf dragons would stealth in the dense forests to catch their prey. The more powerful dragons disdained it...... But it's not impossible.

When the ice dragon landed, there was only a gentle breeze. Lake Xi'an is as peaceful as ever, and the small temple in the middle of nowhere near the lake seems to be empty. Transformed back into his human form, Iss carried Scott into the hall of the temple only to hear a subtle rustling sound.

A priest who was hunched over in front of the statue glanced up at him.

It was a wrinkled old priest, with a small and thin white robe, and he looked clean and unmarked. At this age, being left alone in such a remote temple to guard the door is most likely due to poor talent and low ability...... But the eyes, which had begun to cloud, were more profound and calm than many of the priesthood Ith had ever seen.

Iss was a little embarrassed - he didn't know what to say in this situation. Fortunately, the old man only nodded to him indifferently, and then concentrated on his simple and boring work, not only did not intend to stop him, but even seemed to intend to treat him as if he did not exist.

Relief breathed a sigh of relief, he casually found a room and threw Scott on the bed, retreated far away, sat down with his back against the wall, and began to be in a daze.

The room was small, not far away. His gaze wandered aimlessly, sweeping over all the rudimentary furnishings and weapon racks, and a forgotten bow and arrow on the weapon rack, before falling back to his bed.

There is no way to avoid it.

Iss stared at the charred skin on Scott's hand hanging beside the bed, mixed feelings.

He was worried about whether he was too badly injured, but he wanted to grab him and beat him again. The anger and frustration that had left him disheartened just a few months ago are still strong...... However, the concerns and apprehensions that have always been strong are no less intense.

Ice dragons are creatures that are cold by nature. He is not good at dealing with such strong and chaotic emotions, but he cannot ignore them...... And because of it, I was even more agitated. Perhaps, after all, he still can't abandon the dragon's greedy nature - visible or invisible, everything he has gained and cherished just wants to hold firmly in the palm of his hand, and he doesn't want to lose the slightest.

The waist was extremely uncomfortable with a hard and cold foreign body. Irritably, Iss pulled out the broken sword that had been brought out of the ground of Chrissus, and his mood became worse and worse when he wanted to throw it but couldn't throw it away.

He didn't want to touch it again, but Alan thought twice and shoved it to him anyway.

"It's safest in your hands. "If even you can't resist the temptation, it's only going to be harder for everyone else." ”

Iss is disgusted with the feeling of unconsciously indulging. However, Eren was right, and after realizing its power, he would not give it any more chances at all.

Scott most likely knows what it really is...... But they may not tell him.

Such a perception simply adds fuel to the fire. With a black face, Iss slashed his sword at Scott several times, but he couldn't get it out.

He waited impatiently. Outside the window, the shadow cast by a clematis plant moved silently on the ground, and the sunlight dimmed little by little. Scott's body occasionally twitched slightly in a coma, but his weak breathing gradually became steady, but he never woke up.

It wouldn't hurt if he could keep it that way until Ed came to him—in the silence, Iss thought frustrated and helpless. Otherwise, no matter whose soul is in that body, most of them will still fight.

Before it was completely dark, heavy footsteps could be heard outside the door. Philip Zeri shook in as pale as a geist, nodded to Iss very perfunctorily, looked at Scott, who was still standing on the bed, with a blank expression, and sat down on the edge of the bed with a chair in his hand, as if he didn't care whether he was dead or alive.

He did come quickly, but not at all like Ed said, "Know what to do." - Iss had never seen such an open-minded paladin so decadent.

He looked at him silently, surprised and wary. There was a strange aura about Fili...... Like an out-of-control Scott, a scorching and dangerous breath. Even if it's very small, it still can't be ignored.

"Hey, little dragon. The paladin suddenly asked headlessly, his voice hoarse and hollow, "What do you think God is?"

Iss frowned disapprovingly at the title he didn't know where he had learned, and wanted to blurt out that he was a "liar", but when he looked at the guy who had nothing to love even in the back of his head, his heart softened, and he silently endured it again.

He thought that what Filly needed now was probably not the answer.

“...... I do not know. Finally he replied, "The dragon thinks that your so-called gods are just another being from another world, perhaps incomparably powerful, but not omnipotent, to be destroyed, to be replaced...... Thousands of years ago, the dragon was the god of this world, and thousands of years later, in the minds of the barbarians, the soul of the ancestors is the only god. When they rush at you with the names of their ancestors, you don't feel like their faith is powerless...... The halflings, who worship the same gods as you, are almost extinct, and the Azorans, who are gods of the spirit of all things, are thriving on another continent. 'What is God?' will probably never have a definitive answer that will be acceptable to all people and all races. So perhaps the important thing is...... What the hell do you believe. ”

After a brief silence, Fili turned to look at him, his exhausted face encouraged by undisguised confusion and surprise.

“...... Are you possessed by something?" he said, "doesn't sound like the dragon I know." ”

Is's face was slightly hot. Fili's instincts weren't wrong at all...... Most of these words were said by the old man who had been sleeping under the Enzhi flower. He couldn't fully agree, or even fully understand, but instinctively felt that for a paladin who seemed to be experiencing the disillusionment of his faith, it was always milder to give him a little room to think with these vague sentences than to completely shatter what he had believed in for decades.

Naturally, he didn't believe in any gods...... But when he first realized that he was not human at all, and that everything he had believed for more than ten years was an outright lie, the heart-wrenching despair and anger at that moment could never be forgotten.

He didn't think there was much difference between the two.

. (To be continued.) )