Vol 4. Chapter 132: Make Your Move! Lord Holy Dragon King!
"What the hell am I even doing?! Aaaaaah!!"
After smashing the lollipop into pieces in one go, Melilov-Baroze couldn't help panting as she cursed furiously.
However,
Recalling how she had completely lost herself in eating the candy after accepting the lollipop just now, Melilov-Baroze couldn't help feeling a lingering sense of fear.
At this moment, she finally understood why Vinarola and several members of the Asumos Church had suggested that she recuperate in the Forbidden Palace for a while.
Her soul had yet to perfectly integrate with her new body, and during this stage, she was extremely susceptible to external influences.
If she wasn't careful, she might genuinely be influenced by her body's instincts and turn into one of those stupid little girls who only knew how to beg for candy.
The fact that her formerly mighty and imposing self had already been reduced to a dragon loli with slender arms and legs was enough to leave Melilov-Baroze deeply conflicted.
If she actually turned into a brainless little girl on top of that, then her lifelong reputation as the Holy Dragon King would truly be...
After briefly imagining that nightmarish scenario, Melilov-Baroze frantically shook her little head, desperately trying to throw all those strange images out of her mind.
"Stop waving lollipops in front of me!"
As she spoke,
Melilov-Baroze abruptly raised her hand and waved it, sending a burst of pale golden light sweeping toward the ground.
In an instant,
The lollipop fragments scattered across the floor were completely obliterated by the Holy Dragon King's powerful magical impact.
Afterward,
Melilov-Baroze widened her pale golden dragon eyes and glared fiercely at little Yuan'er beside her with a threatening expression.
"Don't you dare take out any more candy! Understand?! If you try anything funny again, I'll eat you!"
After delivering this stern warning,
Melilov-Baroze finally calmed down a little. Narrowing her eyes, she carefully examined the pink-haired girl who had intruded into the forbidden area.
After being thoroughly tormented by the other party's candy, she had nearly forgotten something extremely serious.
Namely,
Although the little girl before her appeared completely harmless, she was still an illegal intruder in a forbidden area!!
Breaking into the forbidden area and tempting her with candy?
Could the hostile forces on the continent have somehow learned about her resurrection?!
And then sent a little girl to tempt her with lollipops so that she would lose sight of her true self?
...
Hmm, that didn't seem very realistic...
After thinking about it for a moment, Melilov-Baroze dismissed the bizarre idea in her head.
However, the suspicion and vigilance in her dragon eyes did not diminish in the slightest.
Ignoring the pink-haired girl's harmless appearance, Melilov-Baroze slowly crouched in front of Yuan'er and raised a finger toward the little girl's forehead.
"Why are you here?"
"Me?"
Yuan'er raised a hand and pointed at her own little face, asking in confusion.
"Obviously! Is there anyone else here besides you?"
"As for me, hmmm, I came here to explore and hunt for treasure?"
"What?"
Melilov-Baroze's eyebrows twitched slightly.
"You're saying... you came here to explore? Exploring the academy's forbidden area? Tell me the truth! How exactly did you get in here?"
"I-I... I just walked in normally?"
"Walked in?"
Hearing this answer, little Melili couldn't help frowning, her pale golden vertical dragon pupils filled with suspicion.
Although all the nearby guards had been sent away to prevent news of her resurrection from spreading, the four layers of magical barriers protecting the forbidden area were still functioning perfectly, weren't they?
Not to mention the powerful puppet army stationed nearby.
She just walked in?
What kind of joke was that?
Did she seriously think the barriers established outside by the Red Moon Tower were merely decorations?!
"Then what did you come here to do?"
"To find something..."
"Find what?!"
"Um... the Holy Dragon Heart..."
Yuan'er chose not to lie to this silly little girl who might become her good friend.
Although entering the forbidden area to search for the Holy Dragon Heart was something she shouldn't reveal to others, Yuan'er felt that it was okay if the person in question was this silly little loli.
In fact, after answering, Yuan'er even asked a question of her own.
"Little Meli, do you know where the Holy Dragon Heart is?"
"L-Little Meli?!"
𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
Melilov-Baroze immediately bristled at Yuan'er's form of address.
"Don't call me by such a cute name! Call me Lord Holy Dragon Ki... Ah, no! Call me Lady Melilov-Baroze!"
The dragon loli emphasized sternly.
At the same time,
The solemn look in her eyes grew increasingly intense.
So she was actually searching for the Holy Dragon Heart?
You little brat, you really did come here with ulterior motives.
There's no way your entry into the Forbidden Palace was a coincidence, either. At the very least, it's impossible that you simply walked in like you claimed...
Although this little girl looks completely harmless,
There must be some kind of powerful force hidden inside her.
Otherwise, there's no way she could have appeared before me so effortlessly...
Moreover,
There's something about this girl's aura that gives me a strange sense of pressure. It even feels somewhat familiar.
Thinking this, Melilov-Baroze narrowed her eyes slightly, a cold glint appearing within them.
Although her strength and perception had yet to recover after her body and soul had only just merged, Melilov-Baroze still retained the beastlike instincts of the dragon race.
Once she calmed down and suppressed the childish thoughts arising within her, she could still vaguely sense that there was something unusual about Yuan'er.
There's something wrong with this girl...
To verify her suspicions, Melilov-Baroze disregarded the warning Principal Vinarola had given her earlier.
She abruptly mobilized the surging magical power within her body.
In an instant, waves of violent wind and pale golden light began rippling outward in every direction, with the dragon loli at their center.
Bursts of golden light filled with majesty and murderous intent suddenly surged within Melilov-Baroze's vertical dragon pupils.
"Dragon King's Eyes!"
Melilov-Baroze roared fiercely in her heart and unhesitatingly activated her signature detection skill.
Under the meticulous scanning of her dragon eyes, Melilov-Baroze quickly discovered something unusual within the seemingly harmless pink-haired girl.
That black energy suppressed inside her body by some unknown force...
In other words...
?!!
!!
"Th-this is... Shadow of Silence Power?!... This girl is an Abyss Demon?!"
Upon sensing the fluctuations of Shadow of Silence Power within Yuan'er's body, Melilov-Baroze's pupils suddenly contracted.
As an expression of extreme vigilance appeared on her face, a feeling of sudden realization gradually welled up within her heart.
As expected,
Her suspicions had been correct.
The pink-haired girl before her was definitely no ordinary child...
To think she was actually an Abyss Demon, and one that had taken human form at that?!
A humanoid Abyss Demon...
...
At this moment, Melilov-Baroze couldn't help biting her lip tightly.
The existence of a humanoid Abyss Demon once again reminded the Holy Dragon King of the scene of her own death.
The figure of that black-haired girl, who had resembled the Grim Reaper himself, surfaced in Melilov-Baroze's mind once more, causing her entire body to tremble involuntarily...
No.
Calm down. This little girl isn't her.
There's no need to be so scared...
Taking a deep breath, Melilov-Baroze steadied her somewhat agitated emotions.
When she slowly opened her eyes again and met Yuan'er's heterochromatic red and blue eyes, a fierce glint had already appeared in the dragon loli's gaze.
No matter how one looked at it, a humanoid Abyss Demon sneaking into the forbidden area and searching for the Holy Dragon Heart... definitely had sinister intentions.
Even if the other party looked extremely adorable, she couldn't afford to let her guard down.
This girl... is an enemy!
The instant she reached this conclusion, the pale golden magical power surrounding Melilov-Baroze and her surging dragon might erupted simultaneously.
They transformed into waves of terrifying energy that swept across the entire Forbidden Palace hall.
The floor and walls suddenly cracked, and even the surrounding space showed signs of shattering.
"L-Little Meli?"
Accompanied by Yuan'er's astonished cry, Melilov-Baroze flashed forward under the explosive surge of magical power, instantly appearing directly before her.
"Boom~~"
Pale golden light illuminated the Forbidden Palace hall.
Following a deafening explosion and a cloud of scattering dust, Melilov-Baroze's little hand suddenly seized Yuan'er by the throat and pinned her firmly against the ground.
The terrifying dragon might surrounding them abruptly transformed into an overwhelming pressure that crashed down upon the pink-haired girl's delicate body.
Like a massive boulder weighing tens of thousands of tons, it pressed Yuan'er down so heavily that she couldn't move at all.
Before Yuan'er could react, Melilov-Baroze's icy words slowly entered her ears.
"Don't even think about hiding anything. Tell me the truth! What exactly are you planning?! Why are you looking for the Holy Dragon Heart?!"
"Uuuuu..."
Having suddenly been pinned to the ground, little Yuan'er unhappily puffed out her cheeks and let out a pitiful whimper.
"Stop acting cute! Answer me honestly!"
Melilov-Baroze roared without showing the slightest tenderness toward the girl.
However,
Yuan'er did not answer her question.
Instead, after staring blankly for a moment, she unexpectedly turned her head and looked toward the Forbidden Palace's entrance in the distance.
It was as though she had sensed something.
"Hm?... Mo... Mother?"
"Mother?"
Hearing those words, Melilov-Baroze's pupils suddenly contracted.
Her entire body immediately went on high alert as she spread her dragon wings, and surging pale golden magical power began gathering between her dragon claws.
Mother?
This little girl has accomplices too?!!
However,
Hehehe.
Perfect timing!
Now I can catch them all in one fell swoop!