Chapter 23: Dragon's Birthday
Experience can sometimes be a burden on the mind. Because I have experienced too many things in the past, I mistakenly think that I know things that I don't particularly know about are also understood, and this kind of thing exists. The possible result is that there will be serious consequences.
"Tick, tick......" Anne's blood is dripping on the stone dragon egg drop by drop, and the shaking of the earth is becoming more and more obvious, the light and shade of the dragon egg are changing colors, and in this dark space faintly gives people a sense of unease.
Anne's blood flowed more and more, but the dragon egg still showed no obvious signs of qualitative change. Finally Anne felt cold, her eyes darkened, and she fell limply to one side.
Just as Anne was about to fall to the ground, a figure suddenly flashed and held Anne up. But Anne was bleeding so much that she didn't see who the other party was, and then fell into an unconscious state.
The figure held Anne and slashed her hand over Anne's knife wound, and Anne's bleeding stopped.
"Lord Hat, you're taking human life for you to risk young people like this. The figure slowly turned around, and a sickly, skinny old man came into view, it was the old man who gave the dumb stone dragon egg.
"Fortunately, the old man has been keeping a breath to pay attention to the situation here, otherwise this little girl died here, and both of us would be a great sin. The old man said with a very serious expression on his face.
"I'm sorry, Your Excellency the Seventh Pope! I was wrong, I overestimated her connection with Dumb, and I did take too much risk. Mr. Hat admitted his mistake in a very sincere tone.
"This little girl doesn't have much connection with Jakes right now. Although her origin is unique, she has not yet awakened, so her connection to Jax is not strong enough. As he spoke, the old man looked at Anne's face carefully, and slowly injected Anne's body with a bright magic, and then the old man's eyes showed a trace of sadness.
"If I'm not mistaken, she's been drugged to block her magic, and she's taken quite a bit. If Jax hadn't cleared her of some of the toxins, she might never have been able to use magic again for the rest of her life. The old man spoke amazingly, revealing the secret that had not been known before.
"I was attacked by the young men of the Celestial Cult some time ago, and I am now dead. So I don't know what happened to them. Generations have changed, and we are all old. 'Old Seven', we have to hurry up, your successor has not yet been officially taken over, it is really a huge problem. Mr. Hat said word by word, and the old man was completely lost in thought.
"Hat-sama, I understand what you mean. But now is not the time to discuss this. Rescuing Jax first is the most important thing right now. The old man came back to his senses, as if he had taken the opportunity to avoid the topic, and slowly placed Anne on the ground, and pressed one of his hands against the dragon egg, regardless of Anne's blood staining his own hand, and said one by one: "In the paradise of God, you were born from the heart of the first human ancestors. At that time, mankind was not aware of your existence, and you told the ancestors of mankind that humans are sons of God, and that man can become like a god with boundless power and wisdom. The first human beings did not resist the temptation of this power and stole the fruit of God's magical power. God is furious, has driven mankind out of Paradise, and has cursed you to make you ugly. Since then, you have become synonymous with human desire and magic. The king of the dragon race, the seventh pope of the Celestial Cult, has summoned you to show you the way of salvation of the gods, and now lends your reincarnated body, and the special dragon eggs of the descendants of the dragon race, and awakens you with the blood of your dear people, wake up, wake up......"
At a glance, the sound of a not-so-powerful spell echoed throughout the depths of the secluded hell.
"Bang Bang Bang", the rocks that were lying on the ground leisurely seemed to suddenly gain strength, and kept jumping up and down, and the ground crackled.
In the circle, circles of mist were like smoke rings drawn from smoking, slowly spreading outward from the stone dragon egg.
"Boom ......" earth-shattering thunder continued to roar in the ears, although there was no lightning.
In this way, the vision lasted for a long time, and suddenly everything stopped again, as if everything before was all an illusion.
"It's done!" The old man said as he left the dragon egg, and helped Anne, who was hovering between confusion and sobriety, to a position away from the dragon egg.
I only heard the slight sound of eggshell cracking sounded, and a very small cute little head was exposed.
"It's so cute!" As soon as Anne woke up and opened her eyes, she saw Xiaolong and couldn't help but say. Struggling to get up and ready to step forward, he took a closer look at the little dragon, but was pulled back by the old man.
"Don't underestimate newborn dragons, they're actually very powerful!" After mysteriously reminding him, the old man motioned for Anne to stay where she was, and then walked in front of Xiaolong.
"It's so cute!" The old man was fascinated by Xiaolong's cute and harmless expression, and couldn't help but reach out and want to touch Xiaolong.
"It hurts!" The old man suddenly shouted energetically, shaking his right hand vigorously. I saw that on his right hand, Xiaolong was biting tightly at the moment, and he didn't mean to let go at all.
"Are you okay!" After waking up and seeing the old man, Anne knew that the master had appeared, and now that the master was in trouble, he naturally wanted to come over to help the master.
"Hurry up and help get it down!" The old man was so sore that his forehead was covered with sweat, and the image of the master was completely ruined at once.
Seeing this, Anne gently pulled the grinning dragon and tried to pull it down.
"What are you doing?" asked Mr. Hat suddenly in a cold tone.
"We're trying to figure out how to get the little dragon out of the old man's hand!" asked Annie, not understanding what Mr. Hat meant.
"Where does he have a dragon in his hand?" "Seven, you won't be tricked too!" Mr. Hat said seemingly in a fog.
The old man closed his eyes when he heard this, and the next moment a white light came out of his body, and after the white light, Anne realized that she and the old man had only taken two steps forward, and the two of them had not walked to Xiaolong's side at all just now.
"I'm sorry, I was negligent. I didn't expect such a small dragon to have learned how to cast illusions on people, it's really terrifying!" The old man's heart will be shocked or shocked, after all, there are so many winds and waves that he has experienced over the years, and being subjected to illusions by the newborn little demon dragon can definitely be called capsizing in the gutter.
"You have to be careful, how do you think that Gretel, who was devout and powerful to the gods, was possessed by the demon dragon? Dealing with the magic dragon, regardless of its size, they are born to calculate humans!" Mr. Hat is educating the two of them on the petrified dumb head, and people who don't know will probably think that the stone statue is talking and educating humans when they see this scene!
"Little girl, let's be careful next, we don't need to roast this little dragon with the real fire of the human heart, Jakes will not come back!" the old man was reprimanded by Mr. Hat, and turned to tell Anne.
"I'll do what you ask!" Although she didn't know much about the current situation, Anne tried to choose a course of action that she felt was most reliable.
"You will come with me, I will take you, don't let this little guy be confused!" the old man said as he led Anne, a faint white light emitting from his body, and walked towards the little dragon step by step.
This time, there seemed to be no danger, and the two walked smoothly to Xiaolong's side.
"Alright, let's do it!" the old man was a little worried about the dragon's mouth, and put his hand to his chest, ready to cast his magic.
"Mom...... Mom" Xiaolong suddenly slurred his speech, stared at his watery and cute little eyes, and shouted to Anne cutely.
It was like being pierced by a burst of electricity, Anne heard this voice as if she had seen her own child, although she knew in her heart that Xiaolong was definitely not her own child, but suddenly she couldn't suppress her emotions and hugged Xiaolong in her arms.
"Annie, what are you doing here, didn't you tell you not to be fooled by the little one?" Mr. Hat said a little unhappily when he saw Annie protecting the little dragon tightly.
"Old man, Mr. Hat, we shouldn't hurt it!" Anne hugged the little dragon, her thoughts racing as she thought about how she could convince them.
"Little girl, I understand your thoughts. When the old man saw Anne's current state, he immediately knew that Anne would definitely protect the dragon to the death. He simply lowered his hand from his heart, took two steps back, and sat on the ground.
"The world is already the world of your young people, you have your own ideas, and we certainly can't say it's wrong. We're just going through a little bit more than you, and experience isn't always right. Please listen to me and tell us what we think, and the choice will be left to you young people!" the old man said, looking at the dark sky of hell.