Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 222 Re-entering the Sea
This series of bombshell news left Roberts' mind in a complete mess. He lay on a makeshift bed of branches and leaves, unsure of what to say.

"What's wrong with my memory?"

“That year, Betty passed away… You said you didn’t want to carry these secrets anymore, so you asked me to find a wizard to concoct these potions to make you forget these memories.”

“Joan…why are those people chasing Joan?”

Many thoughts swirled in his mind, but in the end, he asked the person he most wanted to ask and cared about the most.

Wendy shook her head.

“I don’t know, but perhaps it’s related to all the Christ’s blood in Joan’s body… Roberts, do you remember the mummy high priest we met in Egypt?”

"remember."

Roberts nodded. He had experienced countless dangers in his life, but that was still one of the most thrilling. The ancient high priest who could summon wind and rain and control the dead and monsters was one of the most formidable enemies he had ever encountered.

The Egyptian high priest, awakened from an ancient curse, despite being a mummy, still attempted to resurrect as a living person, nearly succeeding in the end. It was only through the combined efforts of Roberts and Wendy that their resurrection was finally stopped.

"Don't you think... this incident is somewhat similar to that one?"

Roberts paused for a moment.

In that incident, the deceased Egyptian high priest attempted to find his only surviving descendant and use the blood connection between them to seize the descendant's body in order to resurrect himself.

"You suspect that Joan became some kind of sacrifice or something because of the Christ blood within her?"

Roberts offered his speculation.

Wendy nodded in response.

"The Priory of Sion has had the World Key for far longer than any other organization. Since the 15th century, the Priory of Sion has been trying to uncover the secrets within the World Key, but the statue possesses a special property that prevents it from being destroyed by any external force. However, although direct evidence is unavailable, the Priory of Sion generally believes that something is sealed inside."

Wendy paused for a moment, then murmured.

"As Uberto said, perhaps it was something sealed inside that triggered all these events."

"What do you think those guys are trying to do with Joan?"

Roberts always gets so nervous when it comes to Joan.

"As of now, Joan's identity remains a secret. You have forgotten these memories and rarely see Joan. In the past eighteen years, I have been carefully protecting Joan's secret. I have never let Joan go to the hospital. Even when she occasionally catches a cold, I use home medicine to protect this secret."

"Besides that Uberto, I'm afraid only you, me... and that guy underwater know about this."

When Wendy mentioned the creature underwater, she paused, a hint of apprehension on her face.

"That guy... is the most powerful monster I've ever seen. After I fell into the sea, I accidentally landed in a dragon tomb and awakened my dragon bloodline. But that guy's power far exceeded my imagination."

"Its power is so great that I would believe you if you said it could shatter the sun in the sky."

When the King Unogaya from the seabed was mentioned, even Roberts shared her fear.

That was a terrifyingly powerful monster; there was probably no way to defeat it on the entire planet.

"Perhaps we can take Joan and hide away..."

Wendy shook her head, rejecting Roberts' idea.

“It’s impossible now. Joan has been targeted. Even if we try to hide, it’s useless. Just like with the Egyptian high priest, we’ve been targeted, and there’s no point in trying to escape.”

The path of retreat has long been blocked. From the moment Joan was born, her fate was sealed. It seems that the only way forward is to shatter all these conspiracies.

Roberts knew that any attempt to compromise at this moment was futile. He took a deep breath, but it aggravated his still-healing wound, causing his facial muscles to twitch in pain.

Seeing the twitching of his facial muscles, Wendy bent down to examine the wounds on his body that were barely held in place by the trees, and asked softly.

"It hurts?"

After Roberts nodded, Wendy bent down, stuck out her tongue, and gently licked the wounds on Roberts' body.

"you……"

Roberts was both surprised and anxious, and was about to do something when Wendy pressed his hand down.

"Don't move, it will aggravate the wound. Dragon saliva will help you heal quickly."

A soft voice whispered in Roberts' ear.

Looking at the beautiful woman's naked body before him, who was bending down to lick his wounds, Roberts' eyes were filled with complex emotions.

"Wendy, when we do this, don't you think about Betty...?"

Betty is gone!

The only response he received was his upright dragon eyes and his stubborn voice.

In those vaguely familiar eyes, Roberts no longer saw the gentleness and tenderness of the past; instead, there was a wild strength and stubbornness. It seemed that after awakening her bloodline, Wendy's personality had also changed. "It was me, it was me first, I was always the first one here... Whether it was getting to know each other, becoming friends, or falling in love with you, it was always me first."

"Why did it turn out like this? I had someone I liked for the first time, and I even helped my friend escape from her cage. But why did it turn out like this... Why did you all end up together? And why was it Betty in the end?"

Looking at the man in front of him, Long's voice was somewhat dejected.

Then, as if she had made a decision, she looked directly at the man beneath her.

“If Betty were still here, I would keep this feeling buried in my heart and never say it out loud, but Betty is gone, so now you are mine and can only be mine.”

"My heart is only for..."

But before Roberts could finish speaking, her lips were forcibly sealed with a kiss...

Those immature lips, though at the prime of a woman's life, were as naive as a young girl, utterly lacking in finesse. Yet, their greed and desire surpassed anyone else's, their dominance and yearning almost suffocating.

After a long while, their lips parted, leaving a thin, transparent thread.

Touching her moist lips, the girl who was once gentle yet vaguely insecure seemed to have matured completely, her face radiating confidence and natural strength. The dragon looked down at its prey and declared.

"I'm not asking for your opinion now, I'm informing you!"

"You are mine, and you can only be mine! I am a dragon, an evil dragon, and no one can stop the dragon's greed. Whether you agree or not, I will tie you up and force you to agree."

……

three days later.

Two people and a dragon on the beach.

For some reason, Roberts' wound healed exceptionally quickly. Normally, a fracture would take at least several months to heal, but Roberts was almost completely healed in just three days, which Joan found particularly strange.

But for some reason, when she asked her dad, he hesitated for a long time and couldn't give a reason, so she had to give up on the question in the end.

"Are you ready?"

Wendy, or rather the dragon, turned its head and looked at the two people on its back, asking in a low growl.

The two people sitting on the dragon nodded.

"Hold on tight, we're off!"

The dragon spread its broad wings, leaped up with its hind legs, and with the swirling wind and fluttering wings, the dragon plunged into the sea from its flight.

An invisible barrier blocked out the seawater from the outside world. Gazing at the increasingly deep and dark waters beneath him, Roberts inexplicably drifted into thought, recalling what had happened three days ago...

"I am pregnant."

"Snuggling up to Roberts," the woman said.

No previous major news could compare to this simple sentence.

"It was on that day... when we were still on the moon, my body gradually began to turn into a snake, so I asked Uberto to finish me off before I lost my mind in the snake form. After I was gone, he would help you. At that time, I thought I was beyond saving, so I wanted to make up for my last regret."

"It was after that incident... that I found out I might be pregnant."

As she spoke, the woman lying next to the man raised her head, looked at the man in front of her, and said.

“Uberto knows the most about all of this; he knows how to solve the World Key problem. In a few days, we’ll go to the sea to rescue Uberto, then find the World Key, and then let that arrogant and conceited guy solve it himself.”

"Let's go back to England and get married after we've sorted things out."

"The World Key, the Priory of Sion, the Holy Grail, the Grail Knights... let's forget about all that. Roberts, okay?"

……

Looking down into the deep, dark, and terrifying sea, it seemed as if countless monsters were lurking and eyeing him menacingly, much like the predicament he was about to face.

But holding his daughter's hand, Roberts looked at the dark sea before him and understood that, for Joan, for Wendy, for the unborn child... he had to break through this darkness.

……

Deep under the sea.

Inside the palace of Nano City, a snake-man leaned on the railing, gazing up at the sky barrier.

"Do you really want to leave? Is this place really that bad?"

A clear, cold voice rang out, and the beautiful, otherworldly snake-woman princess looked at Uberto before her. Uberto glanced at the snake-woman princess behind him, said nothing, and continued to look up at the sky, waiting for his companion who seemed unlikely to ever return.

Ya'an Jiemu looked at the figure with a complicated expression.

(End of this chapter)