Gawain watched as Miss Agent swayed and walked out of the room, and her former elegant, calm and reliable temperament was gone.

He was quite reluctant to go—he felt that he should stop the other party, and that he should arrange proper medical care and recuperation for him, and make adequate compensation—even if he was only unintentional, but he had really hurt the surrogate lady, which could not be explained.

However, after thinking about it calmly, he decided to give up on this idea - mainly because he was afraid that the dragon would die right here......

"Why are you so iron......" Looking at the direction in which Melita left, Gawain couldn't help muttering, "If you don't want to answer, you can refuse to answer......

A moment later, Hetty heard the news and came to the study, and as soon as the Imperial Archon entered, he spoke, "Ancestor, I heard reports that the agent of the Mithril Treasury was in a state when he left...... Ahh - what's going on?! ”

She noticed the blood splattering in the room and exclaimed.

"Let's get someone to clean it up," Gawain sighed, and looked at the desk that had been corrupted by Melita's blood (it had been used for less than two weeks), "and besides, it's time for me to change this table again - and the carpet." ”

"Huh? Oh, okay," Hetty was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly agreed, while carefully bypassing the bloodstains and coming to Gawain, "Ancestor, between you and that Mithril Treasury agent...... There wasn't a conflict, did it? ”

"No, but I may have accidentally caused a little bit of a mistake...... I think I will have to make up for it if I have the opportunity in the future," Gawain shook his head, and then his gaze fell on the bloodstains, and his eyes suddenly changed a little, "By the way, Hetty, it is said that ...... Dragon's blood is a valuable magical material, right? The kind that has a high research value. ”

"That's true," Hetty didn't know why, but nodded anyway, "The few records from the time of Ancient Gondor mention that dragon's blood has all sorts of wonderful magical properties, and that its pure magic can be used to analyze complex crystal structures......"

"Then find someone to clean up and find a way to collect the blood that hasn't dried up," Gawain said quite seriously, "and it can't be wasted." ”

He felt a lot of emotion in his heart: Melita is his dragon friend, and doing this by himself can be regarded as making the friendship full of value - when he has the opportunity to turn back, he will leave a place for Melita in the official information and add the name of "Friendship Dragon", anyway, he doesn't plan to let go of the meme My Little Pony......

Hetty could never see the commotion in the other party's mind from the serious-looking old ancestor, so her expression was easy to understand: "? ”

……

Outside Cecil, in a deserted valley, a figure suddenly burst out of the trees with fierce turbulent magic and strong winds, and stumbled onto a flat sandy land.

Melita Pernia stopped in this uninhabited place, and then suddenly let out a low roar - countless ordinary birds and beasts fled frantically from all corners of the valley, and even the more powerful monsters joined the fleeing queue in horror, and all the creatures in the valley fled from this place far away under the dragon's wia, and Melita herself was completely enveloped by a sudden light curtain.

In the surging change of the light curtain, a blue dragon appeared in the middle of the sand, she was prostrate there, her wings hanging weakly, the scales seemed to have lost their luster, and even fine beads of blood seeped out from between some of the scales, quietly converging on the sandy ground below her.

After injecting herself with several powerful synergists and emergency repair fluids, she breathed a sigh of relief, and then directly activated the communication with Talrond.

The pale gold communication interface opened in front of her eyes, and the voice of the support staff behind came from the other side of the communication interface: "Melita? How did you suddenly initiate an exclusive newsletter on this line? ”

"I can't fly for the time being...... I'm in a bit of a bad situation," Melita said weakly, "Noretta, aren't you getting my implant alarm signal over there?" ”

"The monitoring system here is just doing clock calibration, it didn't point to Loren just now, I'll take a look......" Noretta's voice came from the communication interface, and the next second, she exclaimed, "Oh my God! What happened to you?! Your heart ......"

"I had a rather stimulating conversation with Gawain Cecil," Melita's voice smirked, "and his words broke my heart—three ......."

"You're still in the mood to joke at a time like this!?" Norretta's voice sounded anxious, "All of your auxiliary hearts are down, only one of your native hearts is beating, and it can't drive all the functions in your body - how are you doing?" Can you still move? You must return to Tallund for urgent repairs! ”

"As I said, I can't fly for the time being...... I may need the 'recycling team' to help," Melita said slowly, "and remember to bring enough 'Big Wave' synergists, I just used up all my quotas." ”

"Okay, the recovery team is online, and they'll be taking off in ten minutes - with the 'Big Wave' synergist you wanted. Damn, you're probably the only dragon in the last two millennia who has gotten yourself into the need for a recovery team while on a regular field mission...... What the hell are you talking to the Human Emperor? Noretta couldn't help but ask curiously, but then added, "Ah, if it's inconvenient to say, don't say it......"

Apparently, she realized that this was not a "safe signal zone" located in the upper layers of the atmosphere, and considering that the communication at the moment might have attracted the attention of the dragon god, she reminded Melita.

"It's really inconvenient to say here......" Melita thought of the terrible news she had talked to with Gawain, of her abnormal actions and the memories of her strange disappearance, even though she still had palpitations at this moment, she shook her head slightly, her voice was low and serious, "When I go back, I think...... Seeing God, this may need Speaker Andal's help to arrange. ”

Before her friend on the other side of the communication interface could speak, Melita heard an old and majestic voice suddenly intervene in the communication: "I'm online—Melita, you want to meet the gods?" ”

"Yes," Melita said earnestly, after a moment's thought, "I have some questions that I would like to get answers from the gods, and I hope you will help me convey them to High Priest Heragor......"

As soon as she was halfway through her words, a majestic female voice that seemed to be superimposed by countless voices suddenly came into her mind, and with an irresistible oppressive force and momentum, she suddenly saw a pale golden phantom appear in front of her, and her mind exploded: "I allowed it." ”

For a moment, there was silence on the entire line, and all the "people", including Speaker Andal, fell silent, and a tense and solemn atmosphere filled the communication channel, and even in this silence, it seemed to be full of awe.

Melita felt her only remaining biological heart twitch even a little, and she swallowed with difficulty: "God...... My Lord ......"

"Relax," the voice continued, "you can come and see me whenever you return to Tallund. ”

In the next second, the voice and the coercion it carried left, everything seemed to be just an illusion, it left so simply, even as if it was deliberately telling everyone on the communication channel: I am gone, you can just continue to talk.

However, no one dared to really relax, and Melita heard her friend's nervous voice break the silence: "Just now...... It was the gods who intervened......"

"Looks like you've had a special experience," Speaker Andal's voice rang out, "Melita, rest where you are, stay safe, the recovery team has lifted up, they'll be going to pick you up soon, and we'll talk about it when we come back." ”

Subsequently, the old dragon speaker also left the channel.

For a while, only Melita and her friend who served as rear support were left in the communication line.

The effects of the synergist had been fully realized, and the pain and abnormal signals in various parts of her body had been temporarily relieved, and Melita's chaotic thoughts continued to fluctuate, and finally, she temporarily threw all her irritability behind her and hid the communication interface. She adjusted her body slightly, and lay quietly on the ground in a relatively comfortable position, her eyes fixed on the dark mountains that had fallen into the night in the distance.

Above the dark mountains, the night covers the sky, and the stars are twinkling, dotting the entire sky.

After a long time, she suddenly heard her friend's voice ringing in her ears: "Melita, are you okay?" ”

"Haven't you finished your correspondence?" Melita moved her neck slightly, "I thought you were offline." ”

"I'm a little worried about you," Noretta said, "I don't have any other contact here, and the other expatriate dragons heard about your accident and gave way to the line...... By the way, Pector is staying in the Mossy Wood area, he just has nothing to do, do you need him to go over and take care of it? ”

"You don't have to...... I don't want to be ridiculed," Melita said immediately, "the synergist has worked, I'll just be here for a while." ”

"Okay......"

There was silence in the channel for a few minutes, and then Melita couldn't help but break the silence: "Hey, you're still there, right?" ”

"Yes."

"I suddenly wanted to ask you...... Do you know what it's like to have only one heart beating in your body? A heart that has not been modified in any way, that has been hatched from a dragon egg, the feeling it feels when it beats. ”

"Me? I don't remember......," my friend said confusedly, "I had my original heart swapped out when I was very young...... There are probably very few dragons like you who still retain their primordial hearts until they reach adulthood......"

"Yes...... I'm a young antique," Melita couldn't help but laugh, but then bared her teeth and grinned, "Hiss...... It still hurts a little. ”

"So don't get carried away - well, you haven't told me yet," came a friend's voice, "what does it feel like to rely on only a primordial heart?" ”

“…… It was weak, every heartbeat was unsettling, and all my life rested on a single fragile flesh organ, which gave me the feeling that I was going to die at any moment, and I was afraid that it would stop at any time, and there was no spare circulating pump to keep it alive......" Melita said in a low voice, the distant stars reflected in her jewel-clear eyes, the stars moving slowly against the background of the night, "but...... There's a wonderful sense of realism again. You can really feel that you are alive and living in a real world.

"I often feel like I have too many implants in my body, almost every critical organ that is assisted by implants, even every muscle and bone...... It made me feel like I was no longer myself, but a replica of 'Melita Pernia' made up of machines and auxiliary brains living in the same shell as me, hiding in the depths of my flesh and bones like a parasitic monster made of steel and polymers...... But now the parasite's heart has stopped, and my own heart is supporting this body...... It's a pretty good feeling. ”

Her consciousness was in a trance, a little drowsy, and in the middle of her dream, she heard Noretta's voice come indistinctly: "You have taken too much synergist, and you are sentimental...... But you are right, the feeling that you will die at any time is real......"

"Good night......" Melita said in a daze.

With the side effects of the synergist, she finally fell asleep.

A pale golden curtain of light appeared out of thin air the moment she fell asleep, tightly protecting her defenseless body, and above the light curtain, hundreds of pairs of eyes seemed to faintly emerge from the void, and these thousands of pairs of eyes floated indifferently, staring at the blue dragon protected by the light curtain without blinking.

……

In Typhon, in the middle of a town near the Eastern Desert, the church of the god of war stands silently in the night, its spire decorated with black iron spikes pointing to the sky, like a sword under the stars.

An ordinary priest with a lantern walks through the church, inspecting rooms and corridors.

Behind the doors were the usual rooms, and in the long corridor there was only the sound of the priest's own footsteps, and he gradually came to the end of this tour, and the room belonging to the priest was in front of it.

In the clerical system of the Church of the God of War, the "Priests of the God of War" are clergy who are a higher level than ordinary priests, who are usually deacons in small regional churches, and this is no exception.

There was a faint light coming through the door at the end of the hallway, and the side of the door was clearly hidden.

"Priest Costo, hasn't he rested so late......"

The visiting priest muttered curiously, and walked forward without slowing down.

Halfway through, however, a strange voice that seemed to be whispering in pain and like a dream came to his ears.

Under the special instinct of the transcendent, the priest instantly felt a sense of excitement all over his body, and a bad premonition flooded his heart.

Not right!

The priest reacted instantly, his steps quickened, and he rushed to the door of the room at the end of the corridor in a few steps, the smell of blood rushing into his nostrils at the same time.

Ignoring the number of rituals in the church, the priest decisively applied a triple protection to himself, prepared a stress-type warning spell, and then pushed open the hidden wooden door.

Behind the wooden door, only an amorphous mass of flesh collapsed on the ground, and gradually lost its vitality......