Mr. Dragon Knight, the dragon girls are chasing you!

Luo Ye gripped his spear tightly and followed their gaze into the depths of the cave.

"What's wrong?" he asked in a low voice.

"There's danger..." Serafina responded softly, her lips pressed into a thin line.

The next second, a low laugh suddenly came from deep within the cave.

The laughter was hoarse and aged, carrying a terrifying eeriness, as if it had pierced through layers of rock walls and tens of thousands of years of seals from the deepest abyss, finally arriving in this era.

"Hehehe... Interesting, very interesting."

The voice uttered the two names slowly and deliberately, with an almost savoring tone.

"Moonlight Sacred Dragon, Eternal Night Dragon Clan..."

"You don't actually think that killing this watchdog will allow you to walk out with that fragment, do you?"

The voice paused for a second, as if examining its prey.

"Strange, the despicable Eternal Night Dragon Clan, after hundreds of thousands of years, has actually managed to form contracts with dragon knights? This is truly an eye-opener for me."

Luo Ye's pupils constricted sharply, and he instantly shielded the two women behind him, gripping his spear horizontally: "Who's there? Show yourself!"

No one answered him.

But the entire space began to undergo strange changes.

The ancient, mysterious runes on the cave walls suddenly began to flash wildly, alternating between light and darkness. The dark rune light turned eerie and scarlet, and a violent aura surged layer by layer.

The previously calm shadow elements suddenly churned and surged violently like boiling water. The dark fog gathered and compressed wildly, enveloping the entire cave and completely swallowing the light, making the environment extremely dark and oppressive.

From the dense cracks in the ground, the gushing shadow mist grew increasingly thick and violent, carrying a bone-chilling cold that completely blocked all escape routes.

next second!

An indescribably terrifying pressure suddenly descended from the sky!

The oppressive aura was as heavy as a mountain and as vast as the sea. It was unlike the aura of any demon, dragon, or mortal. Instead, it originated from the desolate and lifeless ancient times, carrying an absolute level that crushed all things, and pressed down hard on the shoulders of the man and the two dragons!

Serafina and Eluvia reacted almost simultaneously.

Two figures, one in black and one in white, flashed in front of Luo Ye at the same time, shielding him behind them.

The pure white moonlight shield and the domineering dark purple shadow barrier were simultaneously deployed at full power. The two top-level defensive barriers were stacked on top of each other, firmly enveloping the three of them and resisting the terrifying pressure descending from the sky!

"BOOM!!!"

An invisible energy shockwave slammed into the double-layered shield!

The entire cave shook violently, and countless fine cracks instantly appeared on the surface of the shield as the holy and dark energies collided, canceled each other out, and dissipated.

Eluvia's petite body swayed slightly, and a very soft groan escaped her throat. She crushed a section of the shadow crystal ground beneath her feet, sending pebbles flying.

But she didn't retreat an inch or yield an inch. The dark barrier around her held firm, and she gritted her teeth and stood at the forefront, protecting the boy behind her.

"interesting."

"The sight of two dragons protecting a mere mortal is a rare spectacle, perhaps only seen once every few hundred thousand years."

The voice suddenly seemed much closer, as if it were speaking right next to Luo Ye's ear.

An invisible force enveloped him from all directions, from head to toe, even probing the deepest parts of his soul contract.

"This is very interesting. You human, the scent of your soul... seems a bit off."

Luo Ye felt a chill run down his spine: Not a buddy? What is this thing? Is it the GM of this game?

The eerie voice continued to rise slowly, carrying with it the indifference and mockery of millennia of silence:

"I have lived for hundreds of thousands of years and have seen the souls of all races in the world—humans, elves, dwarves, dragons, demons... I am familiar with them all."

"But your soul is uniquely mixed, peculiar, and strange; I cannot see through it or understand it."

"Interesting, it's getting more and more interesting."

"After 90,000 years of silence, I have finally encountered something interesting, and an interesting prey."

"In that case, I'll play a game with you."

The moment the words left his mouth, the air seemed to freeze.

The shadowy mist surrounding the cave suddenly surged, condensing into countless sharp shadow chains that shot towards Serafina and Eluvia from all directions.

Eluvia was the first to react, unleashing a torrent of scorching shadow dragon breath that instantly incinerated a large section of chains in front of her.

"Pah! What kind of coward are you! How dare you spout such nonsense!"

Her gilded vertical pupils burned with intense anger, her small face was full of arrogance and defiance, and she exuded an aura that said, "I'm standing right here today, what can you do to me?"

Serafina was far calmer and more composed than she was.

She raised her hand and activated the Moonlight Shield to expand to its fullest extent, steadily blocking all the shadow chains that slipped through. Her silver-white eyes were filled with a rare solemnity and vigilance as she rapidly reviewed the opponent's aura level.

She had lived for tens of thousands of years, witnessed the changes of the continent, and seen countless top experts and ancient beasts, but she had never felt such a strange, ancient, and extremely high level of will pressure.

This force does not belong to any known power on the continent today, nor to any existing race or bloodline.

It originates from an even older and darker ancient era—a terrifying time when the continent's structure was uncertain, dragons and gods vied for supremacy, and demons roamed the world in chaos!

"This place... actually has the shadow of demons. Are you the abyssal will left over from the ancient wars of the gods?"

She looked up at the cave's dome, a flash of realization crossing her silver eyes: "It seems the Shadow Core fragments weren't simply a condensation of shadow essence from the beginning—they were a vessel to seal the demons!"

"You are the remnant will of the abyss, sealed here by the Eternal Night Dragon Clan during the ancient wars of the gods!"

"You little silver dragon do have some knowledge," the voice chuckled softly.

"To be precise, I am a remnant soul left behind by the will of the ancient abyss. I was sealed under the rift by this damned eternal night for ninety thousand years."

"Ninety thousand years without seeing the light of day, ninety thousand years without seeing any living creatures."

"I'm really lucky today. I've managed to meet two dragon kings and a human with a strange and unique soul."

Its voice suddenly turned cold, all the joking and pleasure were drained away, leaving only pure malice and murderous intent, piercing the three people's eardrums like ice picks.

"In return, I will give you a chance to live—"

"Human, choose one."

"Two dragons, you save one to live, the other to die."

"Choose the silver dragon, and the black dragon will perish. Choose the black dragon, and the silver dragon will vanish."

"If you don't choose, we both die. If you choose, I'll keep my promise and let the other one go."

It waits quietly, filled with intense malice and anticipation, enjoying the cruel pleasure of forcing living beings into desperate situations and personally deciding the life-and-death entanglements.

"Choose."

After a brief pause, the voice rang out again, mockingly adding the most cruel option:

"Of course, you can also choose to sacrifice your own life in exchange for both dragons living."

"So, human? Make your choice."