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

Serafina gently stroked the edge of the dragon scale, feeling the residual magical fluctuations on it.

A human knight who encountered another dragon king in the wild chose to wear a mask, lower his voice, and change his name when he met another dragon king.

There are only two explanations for this behavior.

Either he has a secret he's hiding, or he knows her and doesn't want her to recognize him.

The fleeting panic in his eyes wasn't wariness of a stranger, but rather a guilty conscience that thought, "Oh no, I've run into someone I know."

"I'll see how long you can keep up this act."

Serafina folded away her scales, turned, and walked back to the palace. Her steps were graceful and unhurried, the hem of her silver robe drawing a beautiful arc in the morning light.

Xiao Yan, Shi Hao.

Different surnames, but all related to something—this naming method seems to be an interesting habitual pattern in itself.

She didn't know why he changed his name, why he wore a mask, or why he pretended not to know her.

But she has plenty of time.

He can pretend for a day, a month, or a year, but he can't pretend for a lifetime.

One day, he will reveal his weakness.

At that time, she would ask him—why did you run away so fast back then?

Meanwhile, Luo Ye, lying on his pillow in the room, stared at the dark purple magic patterns flowing on the stone wall above his head, his brain rapidly reviewing all the loopholes, and he secretly groaned inwardly.

It’s over.

He had completely overlooked the Soul Link feature before.

He thought this was just a passive skill used to improve combat coordination, but he overlooked the simplest fact: in a contract of life and death, the souls are connected in two directions.

Both parties can perceive each other's physiological state—including changes in heart rate—through the connection.

This means that when he interacts with other dragon kings in the future, his heartbeat will be transmitted to Elvia in real time.

Worse still, she can also sense the magnitude and timing of his heartbeat changes—she can tell if he's scared or something else, and whether his heart rate increases before or after seeing someone.

Lies can be embellished, expressions can be faked, but the truth of a heartbeat cannot be hidden.

He rolled over, buried his face in the pillow, and let out a muffled wail.

I should have been more careful when I was trying to seduce Seraphine...

No, if he had known the world was this complicated, he shouldn't have gone around trying to seduce female characters!

But it's too late to regret it now; he has to find a way to make amends.

First, he needed to confirm exactly how much Elva had discovered.

Judging from the conversation just now, she only has suspicions and no concrete evidence.

But her intuition was accurate, and she and Seraphina had known each other for thousands of years; her understanding of Seraphina far exceeded his imagination.

Secondly, he needs to prepare a flawless explanation.

If Eluvia continued to press him, he would have to come up with a plausible explanation.

It shouldn't be too complicated, as complexity leads to errors. Nor should it be too simple, as simplicity makes it easy to see through.

As for Serafina...

He rubbed his temples, feeling a slight headache.

The way Seraphina looked at him clearly conveyed the message, "I've seen through everything, but I'm not going to expose you." She definitely recognized him, but simply didn't confront him on the spot.

Why didn't she expose him?

Are you trying to see how long he can keep up the act? Or do you have some other plan?

he does not know.

But what he knew was that he was now in a very dangerous situation—being targeted by two dragon kings at the same time.

One was his contractual partner, and the other was his former target.

These two have known each other for thousands of years.

This relationship was a hundred times worse than he had imagined.

He took a deep breath and opened the system panel.

A semi-transparent light screen unfolded before his eyes, displaying his personal information and mission progress.

[Host: Luo Ye]

[Current Contract: Iluvia - Wings of Eternal Night (Black Dragon King)]

[Affection Level: 55 (Trust/Dependence/Emerging Possessiveness)]

[Level: 15 (Job Changed)]

[Current Class: Night Dragon Knight (Unique Hidden)]

Strength: 138 (+300%)

Agility: 111 (+200%)

Endurance: 125 (+400%)

[Magic Power: 100 (+500%)]

Health Points: 700/1200 (Recovering)

[Dragon Power: Not fully mastered (current utilization rate 20%)]

[Awakened Skills: Dragon Power (Passive), Dragon Thrust (Active), Dragon Riding (Passive), Dragon Soul Resonance (Active/Contract Exclusive)]

[Unawakened Classes (Hidden Conditions Not Met): Fire Dragon Knight, Frost Dragon Knight, Holy Dragon Knight, Light Dragon Knight]

[Current Strategy Quest: Quest in Progress *N]

[System High-Risk Alert: The system has detected multiple inter-race bonds and connections between the host, exacerbating inter-clan conflicts and causing clashes between the two Dragon King bonds. This could easily trigger high-risk events such as Dragon King conflict, contract breakdown, identity exposure, and inter-clan warfare.]

[Please be mindful of your words and actions, and avoid risks.]

Luo Ye looked at the message, sighed, and slowly pulled the blanket over his head.

When in doubt, just take a nap.

This game is so hard! Why are all the female characters so difficult to romance?!

Serafina stood on the edge of the cliff of Silvermoon Peak, with the vast sea of ​​clouds surging and undulating below her, and the high-altitude winds tearing the clouds apart and causing them to move in all directions.

As the morning sun broke through the clouds, it bathed her waist-length silver-white hair in a translucent pale gold, with tiny, faint silver magical sparkles floating at the ends of her strands, swaying gently in the breeze.

She has made her decision.

The sound of wind cutting through the air grew louder as a handsome young silver dragon broke through the sea of ​​clouds and swooped down. It folded its broad wings, which were covered with ice-silver scales, and the wind generated by its scales gently smoothed the tangled grass on the cliff edge. After landing, it lowered its head, its posture extremely respectful.

With her back to the silver dragon servant, Serafina stood tall and aloof, her voice as cold and indifferent as ever, revealing no emotion: "Prepare yourselves, I'm going to the Night Dragon's Nest."

The silver dragon attendant behind him suddenly looked up, his icy silver vertical pupils contracting sharply, his surprise impossible to conceal.

Everyone in the dragon community knows that the relationship between the silver dragons and the black dragons is, to put it nicely, "non-interference," but to put it bluntly, "never seeing each other again and occasionally sabotaging each other."

Serafina, as the supreme dragon king of the silver dragon race, is proud and aloof, and has never taken the initiative to set foot in the black dragon territory in five thousand years.

In the past, conflicts between the two races were always initiated by Eluvia coming to Silvermoon Peak to cause trouble; Serafina never took the initiative to cross the border.

She went to the Eternal Night Dragon's Nest on her own initiative, something that has never happened before in history.

"Your Majesty," the silver-dragon attendant quickly suppressed his surprise, carefully choosing his words, not daring to contradict him.

"Your relationship with the Black Dragon King has always been very poor, and you are extremely wary of each other. In the battle of the Eternal Night Rift a few days ago, the Black Dragon King was ambushed by the Hunter Alliance, and his primordial magic power was greatly depleted. He is now the weakest and the most vigilant."

"If you go there rashly, it could easily cause conflict between the two tribes and create unnecessary misunderstandings."

"Misunderstand?"

Serafina slowly turned around, the morning light falling into her silvery pupils, rippling with a layer of light. A gentle smile slowly curved her lips, her expression calm and gentle on the surface, but concealing a calculation and amusement that her servants could not fathom.

"My purpose in visiting was entirely honest; I came specifically to check on Eluvia's post-battle injuries, which is perfectly reasonable. And by the way—"

She deliberately slowed her speech and paused for a moment, a cunning and determined glint flashing in the depths of her silver eyes, her emotions as if she were toying with her prey were plainly revealed.

"By the way, let's see for ourselves what makes a human dragon knight so special that he can make a proud, aloof, and sex-averse Eternal Night Black Dragon willingly bind his soul to a contract and place him in the dragon's nest for close protection."