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

Eluvia was stunned for a moment, then realized she was being held in his arms.

She instinctively wrapped her arms around his neck, like a cub hanging from a tree, too afraid to come down, her tail even tightly wrapped around his waist.

"What are you doing, you idiot dragon knight? This is so embarrassing!" Her voice suddenly rose, her dragon horns turning bright red with embarrassment, and she frantically tried to slide off him.

"Let me go, I don't want this—"

"Didn't you just say you wanted to learn the complete bond ritual?" Luo Ye spoke softly, her voice gentler than ever, yet it instantly disengaged the strength from her wrist.

"Now let's test what we just taught you."

"I'm not going to study anymore... It's too difficult..." Before she could finish speaking, he gently lifted her up, and she couldn't say anything more.

……

About two or three hours later, the once lively and ambiguous secret room finally became completely quiet.

Eluvia had completely lost her previous domineering and arrogant demeanor, nestled softly in Luo Ye's arms, too weak to even lift her hand.

Her voice was hoarse, with a heavy nasal tone, each word sounding like a coquettish plea stuck to the tip of her tongue, even her calling his name was weak and feeble: "Stupid dragon knight..."

"Hmm?" Luo Ye responded softly, his fingertips gently combing through her sweat-dampened, disheveled hair, his movements extremely tender.

"That's enough...it's really over for today..." She slumped against his chest, completely giving in, and never again mentioned taking the lead in the ceremony or challenging him to a duel.

"I really can't take it anymore if it goes on any more..."

"Who was so tough just now, saying they would never admit defeat? Whoever stops is a little dog?" Luo Ye chuckled softly, teasing her on purpose, but his arms tightened around her even more gently, unwilling to let go even a little.

"Well, you can't do this much at once... The book doesn't say it takes this long..." Her fingernails left a shallow scratch on his shoulder, the force so soft it had no power whatsoever.

Looking at her adorable, stubborn, and shy demeanor, Luo Ye felt an overwhelming surge of affection and could no longer bear to tease her.

He chuckled softly, rolled over and lay on his side on the rug, then pulled her into his arms.

His slender fingers gently stroked her sweaty hair, as if coaxing a kitten that had finally calmed down.

"Okay, stop fooling around, go to sleep."

Eluvia buried her face in his chest and mumbled, "Have you been secretly practicing...?"

"Hmm? What are we practicing?"

"Train your physical strength and endurance. Otherwise, how could you... how could you possibly keep up with me?"

You must know, she is a dragon, the legitimate Eternal Night Dragon King who has lived for four thousand seven hundred years.

Their physique, endurance, and recovery ability have always far surpassed those of humans, but that confrontation just now—no, it didn't even amount to a confrontation; it was a complete defeat.

The stupid dragon knight's stamina is ridiculously strong, which is completely unreasonable.

Luo Ye smiled but offered no explanation.

His physique has been strengthened countless times by the system. Although his level is only twenty-nine, his true attributes, plus the five-fold bonus from the Dragon Knight, have long reached a terrifying level.

Moreover, it also contains the power of three Dragon Kings within its body—

The tyranny of the eternal night, the purity of the moonlight, and the fiery dragon's reverse scale that he didn't know when he could return felt slightly hot in his chest, like a small furnace constantly forging his muscles and bones.

These forces layered upon each other within him, rebuilding his foundation and elevating his physique far beyond that of ordinary humans.

But of course he couldn't say such a thing.

He lowered his head and placed a very light kiss on the top of Eluvia's head: "I didn't practice, I just got lucky."

"Good luck?" Eluvia lifted her head from his embrace, her gilded vertical pupils filled with disbelief.

"You call that luck?"

"I'm really lucky to have met you. Isn't that lucky?"

The straightforward yet tender words of love instantly struck Eluvia's heart.

She froze for a moment, then her cheeks flushed bright red. Embarrassed and annoyed, she gently patted his chest and said coquettishly:

"Don't think I'll let you off the hook just because you say those sweet nothings! And your attempt to change the subject was so abrupt!"

"Oh? Is it stiff? Then why does Your Majesty intend to not let me go?" Luo Ye raised an eyebrow slightly, his fingertips unable to resist gently rubbing the delicate scales on her waist, deliberately teasing her.

A slightly itchy sensation instantly swept through her body, causing Eluvia to stiffen. She quickly shrank into his arms, immediately admitting defeat: "Don't, don't move! I was just kidding!"

"Then why did you just say I wasn't good enough?"

"Fine, fine, you're the best, okay?"

Her face flushed red, and she blurted out whatever came to mind. As soon as she finished speaking, she realized how embarrassing a trap she had fallen into.

So he grabbed the blanket next to him and wrapped himself up from head to toe, leaving only the tip of his fluffy dragon tail sticking out.

Seeing her ostrich-like appearance, Luo Ye laughed and got up to put on his robe: "You wait here, I'll go get something to eat."

But just as he turned and took a step, an anxious shout came from behind: "Wait!"

Luo Ye paused and looked back.

Eluvia, wrapped up like a caterpillar in a plush blanket, struggled to peek out a small part of her flushed face from the gaps in the blanket. Her eyes held an unusual mix of trepidation and guilt as she whispered, "You...you come here for a moment."

Luo Ye turned around and leaned closer, asking gently, "What's wrong? Are you still feeling unwell?"

Eluvia stared at him for a long time, her lips moved twice but no sound came out. Finally, she simply stretched out her arms and wrapped them around his neck, burying her face in the crook of his neck, clinging to him like a spoiled kitten.

"Hold him for a while before you leave."

Her voice was muffled, carrying a hint of feigned fierceness and wariness, but the arms around his neck tightened even more, as if afraid that if she let go, the person in front of her would disappear.

"Okay," Luo Ye replied gently.

He tightened his arms, pulling her steadily into his embrace. His chin rested gently on the top of her fluffy hair, and his palms softly stroked her back, patiently coaxing the little dragon in his arms.

"Just for a little while," Eluvia said in a muffled voice, with a hint of wary fierceness, but she tightened her grip on his neck even more.

"I will do as Your Majesty wishes," Luo Ye replied with a smile.

Soon, Eluvia started muttering "What? It's okay?" "Finally, it's a success," as if she were giving a final summary of her chaotic bond-building plan.

The voice grew softer and softer, more and more indistinct, until finally the head gently touched his chest, and the breathing gradually became even.

She fell asleep.

Luo Ye looked down at her sleeping face, her long, disheveled, dark purple hair, her lips still swollen and red, and her dragon tail unconsciously wrapped around his waist, refusing to let go.

"You stupid dragon knight... you're mine now, and you're not allowed to run away again..."

Luo Ye didn't respond, but tightened his arms and pulled her closer to him.

Then he spoke silently in his heart.

"system."

[Yes, host.]

"Tell me honestly. Is this world really a game world?"

[This is the game world, host. Once you complete the main quest, the game will be finished and the game will end.]

Luo Ye remained silent for a long time.

He looked at Eluvia sleeping soundly in his arms, at her unguarded sleeping face, and felt the faint pulse from the dragon tail wrapped around his waist.

Her body temperature, her breath, the almost obsessive seriousness in her voice when she cried and said, "Wherever you go, I will follow,"

Are these all just "real-time evolutions of game NPCs"?

Luo Ye sighed, making up her mind: "Then can I not answer the question from the capital and not proceed with the main quest?"