I, Valon, am frantically searching for my mother.

Inside the dragon's nest.

The golden scales belonging to Wayne circled repeatedly within Tia's enormous claws.

The green dragon mother was playing with the scales left behind by her beloved son with great interest, as if she suddenly realized something.

The next second, Tia's enormous body suddenly left the cave, soaring into the air, her wings spreading out to block out the sunlight, like a moving green cloud.

Tia discovered that the scales still contained the last message left behind by the little god.

It didn't take long for Tia to arrive at her destination.

It was a fairly spacious clearing in the woods, surrounded by huge ironwood trees, and the ground was covered with a thick layer of dark red moss that smelled of decay.

Sunlight struggles to penetrate the layers of tree canopy here; only a few soft beams of light slant across the ground, illuminating the swirling dust.

Tia's powerful sense of smell seemed to detect the damp earthy scent in the air and a faint, milky smell reminiscent of a young dragon.

Tia remembers this place.

This is where she first hunted with her cubs.

It was here that the young god first exhibited unusual breathing patterns.

While other green dragon cubs spew out green poisonous mist, her precious son spews out a huge ball of fire.

Tia still remembers being quite startled at the time.

Memories, like the wind, resurfaced in his mind, causing a rare, almost gentle smile to appear on the face of this usually cold-hearted master of the forest.

But that smile was fleeting.

Soon, a suffocatingly sickly look reappeared on Zhang Long's face.

"Little Divine Capital..."

Tia murmured softly, her claws gently tracing the ground, leaving deep scratches.

"Why can't you stay with your mother?"

"Does being with your mother make you feel so uncomfortable?"

Tia's voice grew lower and lower, more and more sticky, like a venomous snake flicking its tongue.

"Even every time you speak, it's for the sake of others..."

"Can't you...love Mom a little more?"

The green dragon's love for its cubs is almost pathological; it's a love filled with a desire for control.

In addition, green dragons are skilled in hypnosis and mind control. Sometimes, in order to satisfy their perverse desire for control, green dragons even go so far as to use mind control on their own cubs.

Tia's eyes flashed, and she was already secretly preparing to control her mind.

[Mental Domination]

[Fourth Ring Spell]

[Effect: Within the casting range, the target must make a Perception save; if they fail, they will be charmed.]

During the spell, if the caster and target are on the same plane, a telepathic connection can be established. At this time, the caster can issue commands to the target without physical action, and the target will obey the commands with all their might!

The casting range of Mind Control is not too short, but it is definitely not too long either. It usually requires the target to be within the caster's field of vision.

Under normal circumstances, Tia would absolutely not be able to control the situation from a distance.

But Xiaoshendu is her child, and there is an innate blood connection between them. There are also many items related to Xiaoshendu around Tia, and with the help of some scrolls obtained through trade and exchange with human sorcerers, Tia is confident that she can control Xiaoshendu from a distance.

As for Bondi...

From the very beginning, the other party was not part of Tia's plan.

After all, she had already given the other person a chance to live, hadn't she?

If Bondi cannot find Little God before she mentally controls him, it can only prove her incompetence.

Tia was always cruel to her incompetent relatives.

And now, only one last thing remains...

……

The forest clearing was deathly silent, with only Tia's breathing echoing among the trees.

Her enormous vertical pupils scanned the woods, and she quickly noticed something amiss:

At the base of a huge ironwood tree, there were obvious signs that the soil had been disturbed.

The mark was still very fresh.

It was clearly the work of Xiao Shendu.

"Little God... what exactly do you want to do by bringing your mother here?"

Tia murmured softly.

What could possibly be inside?

Even Tia felt a surge of intense curiosity for a moment.

What will a dragon born with such special characteristics leave behind?

Tia's claws gently parted the surface layer of soil.

There's nothing strange about it.

Only a fist-sized, shimmering, lustrous mineral was carefully buried on top.

Tia's pupils dilated slightly, and with a gentle flick of her claws, the ore fell into her palm.

Its skin is smooth to the touch and shimmering with light, making it fatally attractive to every dragon.

Then, she struck again with her claw.

"bite."

A gleaming gold coin, with teeth marks on its edge, leaped out of the soil and landed on her scales with a crisp sound.

Tia fell silent.

It was a silence that suppressed some kind of emotion that was about to erupt.

Her massive body began to exert force, her hind legs pushing off the ground, her wings slightly spread to maintain balance, and her sharp claws ploughed the soft soil like a plow!

"Splash—!"

Soil flew everywhere, and decaying leaves scattered.

As Tia moved, more and more things were revealed from underground.

Various kinds of beautifully colored, uncut raw ores; small gold coins of various antique styles; and even a few gemstones that are not perfectly polished, but are still dazzling.

Not many, but not few either.

For a fledgling dragon that is only a month old, it is truly remarkable that it has been able to collect so many treasures.

It's probably a collection that Little Wayne accumulated through frugality.

Tia stopped what she was doing.

She looked at the shallow pit that had been dug in front of her, and at the pile of treasure that still gleamed in the dim light.

Tia finally understood what the little guy had left her with:

That was... the entire collection of a fledgling dragon that was not even a month old!

……

"Achoo! Achoo!"

Wayne sneezed several times in a row, causing his massive dragon body to sway.

"That's strange..."

Wayne rubbed his nose, causing the scales to bristle slightly.

"Logically speaking, as a dragon, I shouldn't have caught a cold."

Wayne shook his head, attributing the inexplicable chill to the dragon missing him.

"Oh, this is really terrible."

Looking at his nearly empty savings, Wayne grinned and sighed:

"Now not only have all the family members run away, but we've also lost all our money."

Wayne poked at a few grains of sand at his feet, finding a bittersweet thought.

In the preceding series of battles, first he fought Anna head-on, then his mother battled against the little girl's mother, and then he was chased and forced to flee by the griffin Bondi...

After all this commotion, his followers had long since scattered like birds and beasts, leaving not a single one behind.

Now, Wayne has no family or relatives around him, not even someone to fetch water or give directions; he is truly all alone.

But that's nothing compared to poverty!