Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 271 The Emperor Who Crossed World Lines
167 AD, Earth, Gaul.

In a wooded area.

"Human, let this end. I acknowledge your power. I can spare that descendant of divine blood, but you must agree to one condition."

After the fierce battle, the enormous beast finally lowered its head and flew in the sky, its outstretched wings almost blocking out the sun, casting deep shadows only on the knights.

The knight raised his head, but remained silent as he faced the colossal beast that was several stories high.

His body was covered in wounds, some bloody and others scorched by flames, but anyone could see that the knight had truly fought head-on against a dragon nearly a hundred times his size.

"Speak, dragon, what are your conditions?"

The knight's hoarse voice rang out.

"You must marry my daughter."

The dragon spoke, its upright golden dragon eyes looking down at the knight beneath it.

The knight's face was shrouded in his helmet, making his expression impossible to see, but it was clear that he had been silent for a moment before asking.

"why."

"Human, you are very powerful, among all humans you are among the most powerful. I am old and will soon die, but my daughter is still young and needs protection, and you are the right person for her."

The dragon's reasoning was straightforward.

But the Cavaliers clearly disagreed.

"I am human, not a dragon, we cannot be together."

The dragon did not answer, but gently raised its wings, revealing a girl timidly from beneath the membranous wings. The girl looked to be eleven or twelve years old, with small pointed horns on her head. She seemed very shy, hiding behind the dragon's wings and not daring to come out completely, only daring to secretly look at the knight in front of her.

"For dragons, the art of changing their form is not difficult."

The knight remained silent for a moment, then managed to utter a single sentence.

"She's still too young."

“My daughter is growing up very fast, and in a few years she will be able to have a child with you.”

The dragon answered casually.

"I already have someone I love."

"It's alright. I know it's normal for powerful individuals among you humans to have multiple partners."

"We've only just met."

"You have plenty of time to get to know each other."

"..."

The knight tried to refute, but the dragon calmly defused each one.

In the end, the taciturn knight fell silent and had no choice but to nod in agreement.

In the end, when faced with the knight's outstretched hand, the girl hesitated, looking at the knight and then at the dragon beside her.

Father, don't you want me anymore?

From the girl's mouth came a dragon language that humans could not understand.

No, Father is just going to join our ancestors.

The dragon lowered its head and let out a soft roar, comforting its daughter.

A strange sadness lingered in the golden dragon's eyes.

[My daughter, the dragon has been abandoned by this world; this world is no longer suitable for dragons to live in. From now on, you will be with this human, become his wife, and you and your descendants will experience birth, aging, sickness, and death like ordinary humans, experiencing a life that your father and ancestors never experienced.]

The enormous dragon head gently touched the girl's forehead, and the two sharp horns on her forehead disappeared.

From her appearance, she is just an ordinary human girl, and no one would ever guess that she has a special identity.

My daughter, the last dragon in this world, live on, strive to live on, forget your dragon heritage, perhaps that is the best ending...

But perhaps even the dragon itself was unaware of the faint hope deep within its heart.

If it can continue, perhaps... perhaps one day, the dragon's wings will once again be able to spread across the sky... The dragon gazed deeply at the girl before it, then spread its wings. The girl lost her balance and fell, but the knight caught her with lightning speed. The dragon, its wings outstretched, whipped up a fierce wind and flew deeper into the forest, eventually disappearing from sight.

The wind died down, the dust settled, and apart from the two witnesses, the dragon seemed to be nothing more than a dream.

When the knight found the sleeping descendant of the divine blood in the dragon's lair, the three of them rode away together on a single horse. Long after they had gone, a tremendous roar suddenly echoed from the direction of the forest.

The roar was filled with sorrow.

……

Meanwhile, in the distance, a young man silently watched all of this, while an old man wearing a cloak stood beside him.

"Husoluan, do you know what happened next?"

The young man spoke.

The old man bowed to the young man and said humbly.

"Your Majesty, I am foolish and dull."

The young man looked up, revealing a youthful face with long eyebrows, dark pupils, and thin lips; he was clearly a rare and handsome man.

He gazed at the sky, his eyes seemingly fixed on something extremely distant, not merely a spatial barrier, but something far more remote.

Looking towards that extremely distant place, the young man said.

"Husoluan, thereafter, the knight married a descendant of the gods and a descendant of the dragon, and their children swore an oath to protect each other for generations, sharing life, death, honor and disgrace."

"The descendants of the divine bloodline were later called the Holy Grail, and the descendants of the dragon bloodline were called the Grail Knights. Finally, in Earth calendar 2004, the seal was broken, the Holy Grail was taken, and the Grail Knights died..."

“Husoluan, I have tried to change all of this. I have been to the cross of Hannah, to Joan of Arc’s stake, to the underwater city of snake people, to the base on the moon… I have traversed the entire history of mankind, but it was no use. As that Frenchman said, it is not that someone awakened it, but that it was meant to awaken.”

"Just like gravity, no matter how water flows on the ground, it always flows downhill. The final destination is the same for everyone; this is fate..."

As he spoke, the young man glanced at the old man.

"Husoluan, there's no use running away. Face it, defeat it, defeat this inevitable battle of destiny, or this world line will also follow the same fate."

The youth's pupils shone like bright stars; before them, no darkness could hide. Under this powerful aura, the old man couldn't help but lower his body.

"Your Majesty, your subjects... your subjects are incompetent."

The young man looked at him and finally shook his head silently.

"Husoluan, this is not the answer I expected. You may leave, Husoluan."

The elderly man, who had long been overwhelmed by the immense pressure, was granted a pardon and disappeared from the spot.

The young man turned his head and looked at the three people and one horse that had disappeared on the horizon.

"Failure is not terrible, but Husoluan, what I expect from you is the courage to fight again after failure."

"Believe in yourselves, believe in your courage and wisdom, and fight with all your might. Only in this way can the brilliant light that bursts forth have a chance to defeat that beast and defeat this fateful duel. If none of you are willing to believe in yourselves, even if I go, I will still fail."

The youth silently gaze at the future.

In that future, decades later, he still couldn't let go, so he chose to travel to the timeline of Galactic Calendar 20763, where he fought the monster and died.

……

Galactic Calendar 22049, Around the World.

"The emperor has not approved our plan. Should we still carry it out?"

"What else can we do besides this plan? There are only 548 years left, we don't have much time left."

"That's 300 billion people around the world..."

"Courage? What do we have to fight that monster? What good is courage? To throw our lives away?"

"At this point, we have no other choice but to do this."

A group of psychic masters were discussing in hushed tones, arguing and debating amongst themselves, but after a long while, they reached a consensus.

Thus, a secret plan called "The Spark" was officially launched.

(End of this chapter)