A silver dragon was reborn again and again, leaving dozens of volcanic islands in this sea area.

But with each rebirth, she grew faster and kept the volcano under control for less and less time. Later, the dwarves had to switch to an island for decades.

And that's not the worst of all, as the rebirth progresses, the silver dragon finds that he is beginning to forget some of the earliest things. After creating the twentieth volcanic island, she couldn't remember where she hatched in the first place. It seemed that every time she reached Nirvana, her memories died with that volcano.

She began to panic.

She was afraid that she would forget who she was, that she would lose control like a volcano, and that the dwarven civilization she had cultivated would be destroyed in her own growth.

After thinking about it for a long time, she made a decision: get out of here.

The silver dragon called the leader of the dwarves to his temple, explained his thoughts, and promised that she would leave a part of her life on the fire before leaving, and that the last volcanic island would remain in a stable state: neither completely erupted, but also enough lava to flow through the furnace.

At that time, because she insisted on not showing her face, most of the dwarves had long since forgotten the true face of the mountain spirit, and only the leader of the dwarves still kept this secret, which was passed down from generation to generation.

The dwarven leader was very young, in his early hundreds, and he knew that no matter how much he tried to persuade him, he would not be able to make the silver dragon change his mind. However, while the silver dragon was busy preparing for his departure, he carved murals with chisels on the walls of the hall.

"You ask the dwarven leader not to reveal your whereabouts," the dwarven leader defended in the face of the silver dragon's questioning, "After you leave, I will die for more than two hundred years at most." When the time comes, no dwarves will know about your existence, so can't I leave the last mark on you? No other dwarf could read these words. ”

The language spoken to her by the dwarven leader was specially used to communicate with the silver dragon, and it was the dragon's vague memory of the magical world, and the annotations on the mural were written in this language. Later, however, she began to forget even the language, and the dwarven leader learned it wrong.

"Then what's the point of you carving out these petroglyphs?" asked Yinlong.

The leader of the dwarves offered the last of his offerings, a silver piece of metal, the silver dragon's favorite thing. Actually, this thing was nothing more than some polished white iron sheets, but in the eyes of the silver dragon, this was the biggest connection between her and the dwarves.

"I think one day, you'll come back here. The leader of the dwarves said.

The silver dragon didn't blame him, but when he was gone, she scraped her image off the mural with her claws, but the obsidian drawings on the dome were not so easily destroyed. It was a self-portrait created by her bored moments with dragon breath of various intensities.

She smeared the viscous magma on the dome, obscuring the pattern on it, obscuring her last image here.

Then, she left without looking back.

In the years since, the dwarves have continued to live on the island, using lava at just the right temperature to forge countless divine weapons, but no one knows where they came from.

And the silver dragon who left here, after taking his own volcano on the sea, was reborn again and again, and finally completely forgot these past events, but his preference for those small silver objects could not be erased no matter what.

Then, she left the boiling sea and wandered for many years, until she met Lukka, who sank the volcano.

"So, you're going to have to pay me a volcano. Thea concluded, "Just convert it into silver coins." ”

"Don't be in a hurry to get into money, I still have questions. Lukka was clearly trying to divert the subject.

"What's the problem?" Thea was actually quite easy to cajole.

"You said that every rebirth awakens a new volcano, why didn't we pick it up this time?" Lukka asked.

"You know you picked me up, how can you wake up the volcano if you pick me up without touching the bottom of the sea?" Thea asked rhetorically.

"But later, when we went to the underwater ruins, you were still an egg, didn't you roll on the ground several times? Don't tell me that underwater ruins are not the bottom of the sea. Luca remembers it well.

"Of course, but I'm about to come out of my shell at that time, so what are you doing with the volcano?" Thea said.

"That makes sense, the volcano is useless, what do you want me to pay?" Lukka began to mess around.

"No! it's useless, it's mine!" Thea said angrily.

"Let's not mention that, how did you hatch without a volcano?" Lukka continued to change the subject.

"Who told you to hand me over to the fire elves?" Thea pointed at Nora, "Her flames are much hotter than volcanoes, and it will take me at least ten years to hatch in volcanic lava, so let her take them, you calculate, from turning into an egg to coming out of the shell, it will be less than half a year in total!"

"I didn't roast you over fire. Nora hastened to clarify.

"I don't know about that, it's much easier to stay with you than to hatch in lava. Thea said.

"Maybe dragon eggs don't absorb the same amount of heat as we do, and besides, Nora slept with dragon eggs every day, and maybe she accidentally rolled into the fireproof clothes. Shut up and said.

"Well, let's just take that for now. But how did this volcano, which you had given up, start to erupt again?, and what happened just now?" Lukka continued.

"Do you remember when the dwarves said the lava started to swell?" Thea asked rhetorically.

"More than three months ago?" Lukka suddenly realized, "Isn't that the time we came to the Boiling Sea?"

"Yes, there are no volcanoes around me this time, so as soon as I got to the Boiling Sea, it resonated with the largest volcano here. Thea paused and corrected herself, "No, it's not this one, now these volcanoes in the Meze Islands have formed a whole, and they can all be counted as a part of me." ”

"And then, when you come into contact with the portrait you left here, these volcanoes give you all the memories of the past?" Luca guessed.

"Yes. Thea nodded, "At that time, every time I extinguished a volcano, I was also extinguishing a part of my memory. ”

"So, you've activated these volcanoes now? that's kind of dangerous. Lukka touched the ground, but luckily the temperature didn't rise.

"Don't worry, I couldn't control the volcano at that time because I was still a young dragon. Thea looked confident, "Now, after so much growth, these volcanoes won't get out of control anymore. ”