Do you believe me when I say I’m not a dragon?

Feeling the medicine rapidly working in his body, Chiyo took a long breath and lay on the bed.

"Pain Pain..."

Her expression was distorted for a while, she adjusted her breathing, closed her eyes, and slowly fell asleep.

...Chiyo had a dream, and the scene in the dream was familiar. It was an empty and dark house. The house was spacious and clean, and the furnishings in it were considered expensive on the floating island.

However, in this house, no one existed except for himself. With the smell of corpses floating in the air, Chiyo could even hear the sound of his own blood flowing.

It felt like I was immersed in an abyss, struggling and wandering in suffocating loneliness and helplessness, falling slowly in the abyss.

"what!"

Chiyo suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.

Cold sweat soaked her back, and she clutched her injured internal organs in discomfort.

"It's this dream again..."

The dream was blurry, but Chiyo knew every detail in her dream because this nightmare had been repeated countless times.

In order to get rid of this dream, she has been escaping for more than ten years and has been struggling from childhood to adulthood.

Chiyo took a breath and looked at the clock beside him. He had been asleep for half a day.

Feeling the lonely space he was in, Chiyo simply pushed the door open and wandered around in this formidable cave.

The sky was already dark from the vent, but with the light of the lava, the place was still in full swing, and the forgers seemed to be working tirelessly to forge fine iron.

"How can such a creature survive?"

At this time, the sound of an argument not far away attracted her attention.

There, the hunter team was talking fiercely to Gulu.

"You haven't seen the power of that black dragon. Do you allow this monster to live with you day and night?" Bom covered his chest and shouted: "My ribs were broken by it!"

"So what? After all, it's still your own problem."

Gulu replied with a livid face, obviously in a bad mood.

Charlotte also took a deep breath and replied to Gulu: "No matter what, we will report it to the hunter headquarters. Don't stop us. It will be good for you if such a powerful monster is eliminated."

"—what are you arguing about?"

Just as Gulu raised his eyes to retort, Chiyo came over and glanced at them.

Chapter 88: The fear of the black dragon descending

"Chiyo-sama, you're awake!"

After seeing Chiyo's arrival, the tense atmosphere here relaxed a little.

"What were you talking about just now? Why don't you add me?" Chiyo said calmly.

Hearing this, Gulu said with a bad expression: "They planned to submit the task of conquering the black dragon to the Hunter Guild, but I stopped them, and that's it."

"What do you mean 'just like this'? Have you seen our injuries? With such strength, how can we stay here peacefully?" As soon as he finished speaking, Charlotte argued eagerly: "It's not just us, How can other hunters dare to come to you in the future?"

Chiyo crossed his arms and looked at Charlotte, his eyes swept over his companions, all of them looked lucky to survive the disaster.

Obviously, in the battle with powerful beings, they began to doubt themselves and even lost their calm.

"——Who cares whether you come or not! If you are not satisfied, just get out! Do you think I care about you poor people?! I tell you, either shut up or take your things and get out! Don't do it again in the future! Come here!" Gollum was also angered by their words and roared at them.

"you......"

"Okay, okay, you all calm down."

Chiyo sighed and looked at Charlotte and the others.

"What the village chief said makes sense. You shouldn't apply to conquer the black dragon, and even if you apply, it won't be of much use."

"But Master Chiyo, weren't you also injured by that black dragon!" Unexpectedly, Chiyo would think of Teng Ren when he spoke, so Charlotte looked at Chiyo in disbelief.

"So what? You go to your parents and cry because you can't beat others? What's the point?" Chiyo glanced at him and said: "Even if I was injured by it, it's because my skills are not as good as others. I won't be able to fight back next time." Okay? I won't do this kind of thing, and I don't agree with you doing this."

"But it's not like you haven't seen the power of that black dragon! Our weapons can't harm it at all, and we can smash the tunnel to pieces with just a slap! If it is allowed to stay here any longer, I'm afraid the volcano will be destroyed. They will all be destroyed by it..." Charlotte said with her eyes wide open.

"--Will not."

Before Charlotte could finish speaking, Chiyo calmly interrupted him.

"This black dragon has been living in this volcano for more than ten years and will not have any impact on the volcano."

She paused and continued:

"Besides, this black dragon is not very aggressive. As long as you don't mess with it, you can even grill it in front of it, unless you actively mess with it."

"But with such an existence, even if you do nothing, it may be detrimental to the ecology..."

"This is just your wishful thinking." Chiyo sighed, feeling helpless at their words: "In short, this black dragon is the master of the volcano and a high-niche existence. What if we just kill it? What impact will it have on the ecology?”

Charlotte still wanted to say something, but Chiyo no longer wanted to talk any more on this topic:

"The job of our hunters is not to kill any creature, nor to protect any creature like a saint, but as explorers on this land to find the balance between humans and ecology - the ecology of volcanoes is now very balanced, you don't want to Trying to upset that balance for your own purposes, that’s all I can say to you.”

She sighed and turned around to leave, but then she suddenly thought of something and turned her head to look at Charlotte and others:

"By the way, if you don't want your achievements to be limited to this, you'd better put down such despicable thoughts and use your own courage to overcome the fear of the black dragon, otherwise you will not be able to grow for the rest of your life."

"..."

Hearing Chiyo's solemn tone, the hunters' faces turned livid, but these Chiyos didn't care anymore, but turned their heads and left.

——She returned to the room, lit the lamp and sat on the chair.

Chiyo took out a few scales from her arms and put them on the table to examine them. They were the scales she cut off from the black dragon.

"The ancients said that I can end this nightmare from the black dragon... But what is the method?"

Chiyo slowly frowned and looked at the scales with suspicion.

"Black Dragon...right." She thought for a while, her eyes lit up, and she took out a thick book from her luggage.

"I'm looking for a four-legged, two-winged skeleton... a dragon..."

The pages of the book kept turning, and gradually, Chiyo found a similar existence in it.

"Well...a special individual, the descendant of a gray scale dragon and a fire dragon, is suspected to be unique...whose body is black, has the abilities of a gray scale dragon and a fire dragon, and has primary and secondary double-layered scales... ..."

After reading this, Chiyo thought about it carefully and found out that this black dragon had two layers of scales. After destroying the outermost scale, the inner scale became even harder, and even his last thrust could penetrate it. .

"The discovery location was also in a forest across a desert...suspected death? Could it be it?"

Chiyo murmured to himself, but the body shape description above was a bit weird: the record of this black dragon was last updated around 11 years ago. At that time, he was four or five years old and was over ten meters tall. The current black dragon is also fifteen years old. He is six years old, and his body size is estimated to be... 25 meters?

"Monster, right?" Chiyo rubbed his eyes with a look of disbelief. He flipped through the pages of the book again and confirmed the growth cycles of the gray scale dragon and the fire dragon.

"15 years old and ten meters is about the same. What does this dragon eat to grow?"

Although it was roughly confirmed that the two black dragons were actually the same one, there were too many differences in the black dragon's changing appearance. Not to mention anything else, its sharp thorns alone made Chiyo feel creepy.

After confirming for a long time, Chiyo frowned and pinched the scales in front of her.

She took out the hunter's knife again and used the hammer at the end of the handle to tap the scales.

Under Chiyo's continued exertion, this secondary scale soon turned into a pair of powder.

"This ancient person couldn't explain it clearly... I have no choice, let's take a gamble."

After flushing the scale powder into the water, Chiyo struggled for a moment, then raised his head and drank all the scale powder into his mouth.

She is not worried about the so-called scale powder parasitism. If it can end that nightmare, this trivial matter is nothing. Moreover, if something abnormal happens, she can take medicine immediately - for a hunter of her level, being rigorous is the basis. All kinds of potions are carried with you.

After putting down the cup, Chiyo lay back on the bed, closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Chapter 89: Lava Crystallization

......

"Chiyo-sama, you don't seem to be in a good mood lately?"

In a place similar to a tavern in the cave, Chiyo took a sip of wine with a sad face, while Pom and the others sat in front of her.

"...It's you." Chiyo looked up at them and looked away: "I thought you would never contact me again."

"We are not such narrow-minded people." Bom smiled heartily: "At that time, we were also scared to death. We were accidentally stunned by the black dragon. We have already apologized to the village chief. .”

He paused and suddenly said cautiously: "If you are unhappy, is it because of us?"

"Don't think blindly, this matter has nothing to do with you."

Chiyo sighed, rubbed his brow and waved his hand.

——After taking that cup of scale powder, nightmares still plagued her in the past few days, which proved that Chiyo was going in the wrong direction.

And after comparison in the records, it seems that the contagiousness of the black dragon scale powder is not as good as that of the gray scale dragon. Chiyo has not felt any signs of being parasitized in the past few days, but to be on the safe side, she still took the potion.

"Would you like to fight the black dragon again?"

Chiyo murmured to himself, and everyone in Pom was shocked after hearing this.

"...Chiyo-sama, what did you just say?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to collect some blood from that black dragon."

She said calmly.

"..." After being silent for a while, Bom suddenly laughed: "Hahahaha... Then I wish you good luck. Come on, this is my toast to you."

He raised the wine glass, then drank it in one gulp, and his expression changed drastically the next moment.

"Well...cough cough cough..."

The wine here is brewed from vines that grow in the crevices of volcanic rocks. It is the main food for the people and the creatures living here. It tastes extremely spicy, not to mention the taste after brewing.

Seeing his embarrassed movements, Chiyo took a small sip of the wine and held it in her mouth, fully feeling the warmth and heat in her mouth before swallowing and exhaling.

Looking at the elegance she inadvertently revealed, Charlotte's eyes were a little dull. Under his direct gaze, Chiyo looked over and made a nasal noise in confusion:

"Huh? What's wrong?"

"Ah - no, it's nothing." Charlotte suddenly came back to her senses, looked away, and whispered sheepishly: "I just don't know what you did before. Judging from your behavior, you seem to have received a good education." It’s like education, completely different from us..."

"What you said is correct, but I don't need to tell you." Surprisingly, Chiyo did not refute his question, but always had a neutral attitude.

After hearing that Chiyo clearly didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, Charlotte was embarrassed and didn't speak.On the contrary, Chiyo continued:

"However, I am very happy to see that you can come out of the shadow of the black dragon. After all, countless hunters have fallen under the fear of fighting powerful creatures."

Hearing these words, Bohm suddenly laughed, waved his hands and showed an indifferent expression, and his tone was drunken and frivolous: "That's for sure! We have also searched for information later. You know Once you know the information about this black dragon, you won’t be afraid anymore.”

"Information?" Chiyo was a little surprised when he heard what he said.

"It's a book published by the Institute of Ecology. I found a similar creature from it. As expected, this is it." Bohm's expression was a little triumphant: "Did you know? There were records around here more than ten years ago. You’ve passed this black dragon! If you didn’t look carefully, you wouldn’t have noticed that they are the same one.”

"Oh, I already know."

After understanding what he was referring to, Chiyo's expression calmed down again.

"Ah..." Bom's expression froze, but then he laughed like a normal person, coughing while drinking, and said:

"——But when I discovered that the black dragon would be in such a miserable condition, all emotions such as fear disappeared. It's a pity that it didn't die in the forest."

Seeing the contempt on his face, Chiyo frowned slightly, aware of what he was thinking.

The fear still has not dissipated from his heart, and his emotions have just changed from one extreme to another. If he encounters the black dragon again, the emotions hidden in his heart will explode immediately, and in severe cases, he may even collapse.

...However, that has nothing to do with Chiyo, a little reminder would be good for her.

"Anyway, that was news ten years ago. You all know its strength. If you encounter the same camp again, the ending will be different."

Hearing this, Bohm didn't care at all: "That's not certain. It was almost killed by a dragon hunting stake piercing its chest. Even if it has grown up in the past ten years, it will not be able to block that kind of attack." .”

"......maybe."

Chiyo stopped talking. After drinking the wine silently, he stood up and prepared to leave.

clang clang-

At this moment, everyone heard the sound of several metal being dragged from a distance. When they looked out the window, they saw forgers putting a large number of containers on carts and transporting them to a distant place.

"What's the situation?"