A bright spot of light flashed before his eyes, and Lucian fell rapidly in the air.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a smooth stone floor. He managed to sit up and was delighted to find that he now had the body of a succubus - and he was wearing clothes.
It's great to be able to become a human.
He looked up and around. He saw a tall stone wall and a faint glitter at the base of the wall. It was not until he approached the glitter that he realized it was actually a pile of broken diamonds.
'Dear host! ! You have not left behind the little system that you have come to us with all your heart! '
The loud voice of the system rang in Lucian's ears. Lucian blocked his ears with his fingers and said with empty eyes: "You are finally reliable this time."
System: “Boo-boo-boo.”
"Where do you think this is?"
Lucian asked the system and walked deeper into the corridor. The system then said, "This should be the memory of the unfamiliar dragon cocoon in the stone..."
"Cocoon? Isn't that an egg?"
"No. Newborn dragons are usually born from eggs. Dragons with great magical powers will transform into cocoons before death and revive through cocoons. The thing in the stone is obviously a cocoon, not an egg. As I said, an egg cannot have memories..."
"This looks like a dragon's lair." It heard Lucian's voice.
"How did you know that?"
"Look." Lucian pointed forward.
The system followed Lucian's line of sight, and the next moment it was so frightened by what it saw that it almost bit its tongue—if it had a tongue.
Appearing deep in the corridor, it was a vast cave. At that moment, the system finally understood the meaning of the word "pile like a mountain".
The treasures in the cave were piled up like a hill. The piles of gold and silver coins were mixed with various gems, gold cups, and swords. Lucian lowered his head to pick up a gold coin and saw the age of the coin from the iris print on it. This brand new gold coin was minted and circulated three hundred years ago.
"Why are you in my house?"
An ethereal voice sounded behind him, Lucian turned around and saw a young girl.
The girl had fiery red hair and golden eyes. The moment he saw her, Lucian suddenly understood the meaning of the coined word "Gu Yan". The girl was extremely bright and beautiful, with an ancient and inviolable majesty. But the way she tilted her head made her look like an elf who had not experienced much of the world.
It is worth mentioning that her attire allowed Lucian to identify her in an instant. The girl was not wearing any clothes, but she was not naked—many dark red scales were attached to her body, like fashionable and beautiful scales. However, Lucian knew that these scales originally belonged to her, along with the pair of iconic golden eyes.
—The girl who suddenly appeared in the cave is a dragon.
Red dragon.
The gaze of the dragon's eyes would make all living beings instinctively feel pressure and fear. The system quickly told Lucian to be careful and not to get killed in this strange place, but Lucian did not show any sign of being affected.
"I don't know how I got here. I took a nap and woke up here." Lucian spread his hands to her, looking innocent and natural. "Where is this place?"
"This is my home." said the girl.
"Where are you from? Oh... what's your name?" Lucian asked.
"Edith."
Edith... The Nightmare Dragon Edith! Before the human wizard "Gray River", he was the holder of the dragon's sacred object!
This cocoon hidden in the stone actually contains Edith's memory!
"Just sit down anywhere you like," Edith said. "No one has been here for a long time. I'm going to eat."
After that, she walked into the sea of gold coins as if no one was around, leaving her back to Lucian. Lucian noticed that Edith's logic was a bit strange - he didn't know if it was just her memory (and therefore could only make limited reactions), or if it was just her real (real dragon) personality.
Edith sat on a pile of gold coins, fished out a crystal stone, and crushed it in his mouth like a popsicle, chewing it. Lucian also found a pile of gold coins and sat down, and asked the system to look up the relevant plot details in the book.
He did vaguely remember the story of Edith and the dragon's sacred object.
Edith is a powerful female red dragon known for her ferocity. Like other dragons, she likes to collect gold coins and gems. Among her collection is the sacred object of the dragon race - a crown with rubies.
Her cave was in the Moon Goddess Mountains. The Moon Goddess Mountains were adjacent to the Demon Realm and the Ester Kingdom of the human race. Three hundred years ago, the human race's territory was dotted with kingdoms and principalities of all sizes. They waged wars to annex each other or to strengthen themselves. The Ester Kingdom was one of them.
The Kingdom of Ester is a vast oasis in the wilderness, stretching for hundreds of years. The royal family of this generation is a pair of sisters. The elder sister is the ruler of the kingdom, the glamorous but cold Queen Asta. The younger sister is known for her beauty, named Chloe, gentle and beautiful, and she is called the "Sapphire" of the Kingdom of Ester.
Asta is good at swordsmanship, while Chloe is good at knowledge. Although Asta, who had been competitive with Asta since childhood, won the throne in the end, this did not damage the relationship between the two. The frail Chloe was always Asta's loyal sister.
The red dragon Edith entered this story belonging to the human race one autumn three hundred years ago.
In that autumn, a duke was about to betray the Kingdom of Ester. He refused to pay respect to the queen, refused to enter the royal city, and joked several times at banquets that he wanted to seize power and become king. The duke had long been rebellious and was extremely powerful, and there were also a large number of guards on his fiefdom. While everyone was nervously waiting for the development of the situation, Queen Asta made an unexpected move.
She married her younger sister Chloe to the duke.
There was an uproar inside and outside the kingdom. The queen's behavior looked like an act of seeking peace, and the traitorous duke arrogantly and happily accepted the marriage proposal. Like many men, he coveted the "Sapphire" Princess of the Kingdom of Ester and regarded her as a gift from the queen.
The accident happened on the day of the princess' wedding. The princess took a carriage to the duke's fiefdom. The procession was very long, but at this moment...
A red dragon appeared in the sky!
The red dragon snatched away the princess with her hair full of jewels and flew away. Its red bat wings that blocked the sun looked like flames on the horizon. What was even more confusing was that the red dragon seemed to be an old acquaintance of the princess, and she said she was here to take her away. A maid heard the princess call the red dragon "Edith" with her own ears.
But how could the vicious red dragon be an old acquaintance of the kingdom's jewel princess? This statement was only regarded as a rumor and soon buried in the dust.
This news shocked Queen Asta and the Duke. Anger brought them together and they formed a team to defeat the Red Dragon.
The duke died in the first crusade, but the crusade also allowed the people of the Kingdom of Ester to see the huge treasures that the red dragon possessed. The second crusade was quickly organized. During the crusade, the princess was seriously injured by a stray arrow and was taken back to the Kingdom of Ester by the queen.
After that, the angry red dragon flew to the Kingdom of Ester, waving its huge bat wings to take the princess away from the tower. The princess escaped from the tower and begged it to leave. At that moment, a large number of ambushing red dragon troops appeared in the palace. The red dragon finally destroyed the palace of the Kingdom of Ester with dragon flames.
Its anger destroyed the palace and eventually led to its own death. Edith's huge body fell with countless arrows. It died as a dragon, not a girl. The dragon was killed, and all the warriors were cheering. The kingdom's wizards wanted to take Edith's body or look for her property. Only the princess called "Sapphire" crawled towards her sister. Just now, she knelt on the ground and begged her to let Edith live.
But in the end, those golden eyes still lost their warmth in her arms.
"You lied to me!" she said. "Was Edith's death also part of your plan? Or did you know about my relationship with Edith from the beginning... You used me! You told me you wouldn't kill her... You wanted to use her death to build momentum for yourself, to make everyone believe that you are the queen blessed by the gods, for your ambitions..."
“Stop!”
"You obviously didn't have to kill her, just like you obviously didn't have to give me to the Duke! I promised you, I took the poisoned dagger from you, I promised to be a disguised marriage gift, a real assassin and a knife, even though I have never killed anyone. I knew that as long as I killed him, I could eliminate the threat to you, even though I knew I would die after that... Later, when you came to the Moon Goddess Mountains, I killed him with an arrow... Sister! I fulfilled my promise to you. But what about you? You lied to me!"
"Chloe!"
"You want too much, sister. You want your country, you want to be a powerful queen, you want to use me, and you even want me to forgive you... Sister, no, Queen Asta."
"Chloe, come back!" the cold queen said out of control.
Her sister Chloe looked at her with hatred, her hair disheveled, holding the dead head of the red dragon, and imprinting tears and kisses on its face.
The queen locked her sister in a tower. But Chloe left anyway. When she left, she took the red dragon's heart with her and disappeared. After that, Chloe returned to the red dragon's lair and found the legendary dragon's sacred object.
She didn't expect that it was the red dragon who casually threw it to her and asked her to wear the crown. At that moment, she vowed to seize the power to control her own destiny.
After that, she became a wizard, which was a terrible thing for the people of the Kingdom of Ester. The people of the Kingdom of Ester believed in religion, and in their opinion, using witchcraft at the cost of the soul was a very blasphemous act. As a princess, Chloe was once the most devout believer.
In order to revive the red dragon, she betrayed her lifelong belief and eventually transformed herself into a lich. Over the years, she has used the alias "Gray River" and has been using the sacred objects of the dragon clan, trying to find a way to revive the red dragon.
This is the story of the dragon's sacred object in the original book. Lucian remembered that in the original book, Gray River died of despair, and she never found a way to revive the red dragon Edith. She fell from the lich, ate the drop of divine blood, and turned into a silent pollution. In this pollution, no changes can happen.
"Perhaps what I am looking forward to is not Edith's resurrection, but her saying something to me - even if that sentence is that she hates me."
This is the last sentence said by "Gray River" in the original book.
But now Lucian has entered the memory of the red dragon Edith. He raised his eyes and saw the red dragon girl still sitting on the pile of gold coins. She finished chewing a crystal and went to chew another one. This kind of crystal is considered delicious food for the dragon clan.
She looked indifferent and empty. When she noticed Lucian's look, she looked up at him, grabbed a crystal from the pile of gold coins and threw it to him.
Lucian:
"Eat." Edith's reply was still concise.
Lucian: “…Thank you for your kindness?”
"You look too thin." Edith said.
Lucian looked at the girl who looked only about 1.7 meters tall and said, "Maybe I look taller than you?"
"When I turned into a dragon, I weighed two tons." The girl said in a nonchalant tone, "Do you weigh half a ton?"
There was an inexplicable hint of pride in his tone.
Lucian: ...Of course not.
Edith: "Then eat."
… Lucian held the crystal stone and chatted with Edith, asking her why she was so calm. Edith tilted her head and said, "It's been a long time since a human came to my dragon's nest. You are the first one. And you don't seem to be aggressive."
"What do you usually do here?" Lucian asked her, trying to know what period Edith was in in this memory.
Edith was silent for a while, then said uncertainly:
"I seem to be waiting for someone," she said. "I want to find her and say something. But I..."
"I can't seem to remember who she is." Edith said.
Lucian: …
"No, she probably doesn't weigh half a ton." Edith thought for a moment and added, "She is very light, but her tears are heavy."