Law of the Dragon

"Because you are here," Thakro said softly, "Because of you, this space is different from other spaces. I have never thanked my father as much as I do now. He left me with both faith and blood." The most precious treasure. They are in another powerful space, still able to call me back, of course, and you, Eros, I must say, promises are a strong bond."

After hearing these words from Sa Keluo, Eros was very moved, but his arrogant personality still couldn't help saying: "The blood of human beings is really as powerful as cockroaches."

"I came back here," Thakro smiled, "because there are my compatriots here, who can bring back the part of my humanity, and of course, my beloved...do I need to say more?" Black Looking at him with a smile in his eyes, the inside is no longer dark, but just like before, the tenderness and true feelings that belong to human beings.

Eros's face turned red all of a sudden, and he said quickly: "No need!" He turned around and immediately changed the subject—speaking of changing the subject, Eros finally thought of the missing Yarrow: "Let's find him quickly." Arrow, she's been missing since just now!"

"...you don't want to know what I've been through," Thakro murmured, looking at Eros's back.

"But I'm very happy, you will want to go back to that world," before leaving, his mother stood there and said to him, her tone was neither comforting nor "happy" in the slightest, "for I will tell your father that I am glad to have met him, whether he believes it or not."

They saw Yarrow outside the land of the dead—that is, on the outskirts of the imperial capital. The girl was sulking alone.

"Looks like you're really not welcome in the Land of the Dead," Eros whispered behind Yarrow.

Yarrow was taken aback, and turned around to see Eros and Thakro standing behind her. She glanced at the thick fog and asked, "Are you lost too?"

"Why do you say that?" Eros asked back.

Yarrow said as a matter of course: "Because it seems that you didn't find the castle either, and you came out of the thick fog again."

The castle... Eros did not see it, so he had no way to refute it.Although he did see the God of Neutrality, it was obviously not convincing in front of Yarrow.

"I already know what the princess is looking for," Thakro said softly, "I have been to that castle."

"What is the princess looking for, and also, why is this castle suddenly swallowed up to the land of the dead?" Yarrow asked quickly when he heard that Sa Keluo had been to the castle, "How are the people in the castle? how many people?"

"This... I don't have a specific number of people," Sa Keluo was stunned, and then added, "But I think this place will return to its previous appearance in a short time, but the space connecting the land of the dead and here has been closed by us. Tear it apart, so it’s best not to allow anyone to rush in.”

"Let's worry about ourselves," Yarrow said coolly, "Did you find that thing?"

"I found it," Sacre nodded lightly, "Let's go back now."

"But you haven't told me what it is..." Yarrow hurriedly chased after him.

Sa Keluo walked ahead holding Eros's hand, saw Yarrow kept asking, so he had to say: "I can't tell you yet, I need to see the princess...I want to talk to her."

"What are you talking about?" Eros interjected at this moment, listening with pricked ears, "Are you familiar with the princess, why do you want to hide it for me? What did the people in the castle give you, so that the princess can't help you?" Something to sit on the throne?"

"Yes." Thakro replied, and he didn't say anything else.

Until returning to the imperial capital.

"What? The contract of the dark merchant?"

This sentence was shouted by two people. To be precise, it was a black dragon and a spider. Although the spider was trapped in the ring, it was immediately understood as a dark merchant.

"Oh, you're Xilu." Thakro narrowed his eyes and glanced at the ring on Eros's hand. Eros felt the ring on his hand tremble, and quickly put the hand wearing the ring behind him.

Thakro looked at Eros's hand hiding the ring, took out a rolled parchment from his pocket, and gently spread it out: "The dark businessman named Roger gave me this."

"How could he do this, how could he give you this thing—" Although Xilu couldn't see it, he could hear the word "contract", and he accused his companion of being irresponsible and spineless with righteous indignation.

"I believe that if it were you, you would do the same," Eros actually wanted to comfort Xi Lu, but this sentence sounded a bit ironic, which happened to be the truth, so Xi Lu suddenly The aggressive look turned into that of a wronged little daughter-in-law.It's a difficult look for a spider locked in a ring, but it manages to convey its emotions—and it earns Thakro a few more glances, and he's completely silent.

"Contract... what are these words?" Eros asked, pointing to the words on the parchment, "I don't understand."

It's no wonder that Eros is uneducated, because West Road knows the common characters of dark merchants used on the parchment scrolls, but it doesn't want to speak now, so it doesn't talk to it.

"Some people call it the 'dark text', which is a magical text used by the dark businessman to confirm the contract," Thakro explained. After reading it, he said, "There are two copies of this contract, the dark businessman and the imperial daughter. One copy each, the princess's is written in common language. Although I can understand the general idea, but the details... isn't the spider in your ring a dark merchant, let him come out and translate it."

"West Road?" Eros held up the ring.

The spider in the ring didn't move at all, as if it was really an ordinary spider covered in pine resin tens of thousands of years ago.

Eros coughed softly: "You'd better hurry up, I think Sa Keluo has no patience since he became a demon god."

This is the threat of Chiguoguo!Xilu thought angrily, but still replied firmly: "I will not betray my companion."

"I can unlock your seal." Since Eros liked the ring quite a bit, Thakro had no choice but to propose a peace plan tactfully.

Xilu was a little moved, but in order to prove that he was not so easy to be bribed, he said disdainfully: "I don't want the mercy of the demon god."

Sa Keluo laughed: "You are the first dark businessman who dares to talk to the devil like this."

"...Well, the content of the contract is..." West Road translated for them in a low voice, and ignored Eros' words, "Sure enough, I will threaten you."

×××

It's not yet dawn, and the mornings in early winter this year seem to be colder than in previous years. Frost has formed on the grass leaves in the garden. Before the sun comes, the whole garden is full of chills.

Wearing a dark red cloak, the princess walked lightly through the garden pillars. She saw that some servants had already gotten up to clean the palace. After a while, the place would become lively.

She turned around, lifted her skirt and walked up the stairs to the top floor of the palace, where there was an open terrace.There is an exquisite fence on the roof to prevent people from falling. I remember that when she was young, she liked to come to the roof. Here you can see the buildings in the upper city. The father was worried that she would fall, so he ordered people to build a solid circle overnight. The fence, the fence is only a head shorter than her.Her father happily told her that whenever she grew taller, he would order people to reinforce it so that it would neither fall nor block her view.

At that time, the father who loved her so much, but later wished that she would die.Not only exiled her to a desert full of resentful spirits, but even sent killers to kill her several times in a row. Finally, when there were no more killers, she thought he had given up, but got the news of his death—— Even on the sick bed, he still sent two waves of assassins.

Last night she had seen a black crow's feather on her dresser, the imprint of Roger the Dark Trader, and a note beneath it that simply said Rooftop.

Is it Roger?The princess thought happily, but then thought something was wrong, Roger would not meet her in this way.If he wanted to see her, it could be anytime, anywhere, and her guards hadn't heard from the castle from the suburbs—if not Roger, who would it be?

After thinking about it all night, the princess went to the rooftop as promised.Because the person who left the note was not Roger's words, but should also be someone who knew about Roger and her.She couldn't think of who it was, but now that the arrow was on the line, she couldn't help she hesitated about many things. Without Roger, she couldn't become the queen.

The wind of early winter blew through the imperial capital with a chill, and the entire imperial capital was under serious alert. Although the matter of the imperial daughter had not been officially announced, many people could hear the news and know what the royal family was doing.These people are waiting for the news to see who can occupy the throne more powerfully, so the imperial capital is calm on the surface, and no one even asks about the whereabouts of the Minister of Finance and the Prime Minister. General Luo, it seems that they are gone for granted.

The princess tightened the cloak on her body. She hadn't dressed yet, and her long golden hair was scattered on her shoulders. When it was blown by the wind, it revealed her prematurely aging appearance.

A man stood beside the armrest. His black cloak felt suffocating, and he looked even taller and colder in the cold winter wind.

"Who is it?" She didn't dare to get too close to this person, so she asked from a distance. At this time, she regretted not bringing the guards up.

"It's me," the man turned around, looking at her quietly with black eyes.

Seven years have passed, and they have transformed from teenagers and girls into adults who can take care of themselves.No longer naive, no longer honest, everyone has learned to deceive and doubt, to use and to discard.

However, when two people make eye contact, they both know that the other person is no longer the person they used to be.