The journey of a heroine starting from the Dragon Clan

Raindrops crawled down along the vermilion torii and gathered into translucent amber at the corners of the stone lanterns. The moist wood fragrance wafted from the cracks in the stone steps. The painted horses that were knocked down by the heavy rain curled up in the dandelions.

The ink on the ema had been soaked by the rain, and the spread ink looked like a whale stranded on the shallows. When the wind passed through the shimenawa ropes hanging under the eaves, it drove the wind chimes hanging on the wall, making a crisp sound.

After a heavy rain, it was almost dusk.

She looked up at the wind chimes hanging by the window, thought for a moment, put down the teacup in her hand, and the red-haired girl in a shrine maiden's costume carefully took out a diary from under the table.

On the page that was opened, Eri solemnly wrote the number 365 in the blank space - exactly one year.

Looking at the diary filled with numbers in front of her, after a brief silence, Eri closed the diary and put it away, then picked up the teacup in front of her again and drank the hot tea in small sips.

But not long after, she couldn't help but rummaging through her small box again. After spending some time, she carefully took out a well-protected mobile phone from the bottom of the box.

But just like many attempts in the past year, the phone number in the phone still cannot be dialed, and the surface of the prop that was originally said to never wear out has been densely covered with tiny rust marks at some point, and the battery power is only 1% left, and it may shut down completely at any time.

“………”

Looking at the phone in front of her, the color in Eri's eyes gradually darkened, just like the sky outside the shrine that was gradually getting darker.

Just when her figure was about to be submerged by the dark sky, the light above her head was suddenly turned on, a convenience bag full of things was placed on the table, and a gentle voice accompanied by a slight smell of mist sounded above her head.

"Don't worry, sister will be fine."

“………”

"Really? Believe me, I've verified this with other people."

Looking at Eri who was still sitting there silently, Gen Chisei sighed helplessly and sat down at the table.

"Don't forget, she is the White King, the supreme being among the dragons. With her strength, it is impossible for anything to happen to her. The reason why she lost contact before might just be an accident. Don't worry too much."

"……Um."

It was not until a long time later that Eri responded in a muffled voice.

"I'll take you to the new world in a few days."

After thinking for a while, Yuan Zhisheng began to speak.

"Since you are so worried, then we should go and ask the current supreme king of the dragon clan in person... I have already made an appointment with him."

Although only less than two years have passed since the birth of the new world, the society and the world structure have undergone tremendous changes, and many forces have been reshuffled.

The new world where the dragons live and the human world where humans live, the two seem to be unrelated, but they are closely connected.

Under the leadership of the Dragon Queen, who has been in office for almost two years, the relationship between humans and dragons has reached an unprecedented harmony. Many dragons come to visit the human world to study and travel, and many mixed-bloods on the human side also choose to go to the academy opened by the dragons in the New World for further study.

Although the New World was still a wasteland two years ago, with the construction over the past two years and the extensive use of the Dragon Clan's mature alchemy, a city belonging to the Dragon Clan was also built.

Because of the promotion of the transformation cards by His Majesty the White King, for the sake of convenience, most of the dragons chose to transform into human bodies. If an uninformed human went to the dragon city in the New World, he would not even be able to detect any difference between the city and the human city.

As a direct party, the eight families of Sheqi have been extremely busy in the past two years, and as the head of the family, he has hardly had a good rest for a single day. Although he wanted to give the position of head of the family to the young girl, the other party would never obey him, and he caused a lot of trouble because of this.

...For example, some people believe that the conflict between the brothers was caused by a power struggle and they wanted to sow discord and take the opportunity to split the Eight Sheqi Families.

Because they were not in the mood to deal with such matters at that time, the incident caused quite a stir.

But the opponent was also unlucky, as they happened to run into the three siblings and their own father who was in a very bad mood because his sister had lost contact. Not only did their father, who hadn't held a knife for several years, rush to the opponent's base with a knife in hand, but even Eiry rarely drew her knife.

——That day, their family single-handedly conquered the opponent's entire island base.

Since then, Dad simply announced his complete retirement and went traveling around the world with Angers' group of old people from the last century. They just sent postcards last month, and this powerful group of seniors are already halfway through their global journey. Wherever they go, those ambitious people who are ready to make a move will flee in panic.

His father was relieved, but with his departure, the burden of the entire family fell on him and his young daughter. During the busiest time, he didn't even get enough sleep for half a month.

Fortunately, with the gradual establishment of a new order, he has finally become a little more relaxed in the past month and is expected to retire successfully before the age of 30.

……perhaps?

Exhaling, Yuan Zhisheng untied the wrinkled tie on his chest. There were still stained ink on his cuffs - probably from ink leakage from the pen when he was reviewing documents today.

The old-fashioned electric lights in the shrine cast a soft light like frosted glass on Eri's head. He saw that his sister was wearing a luminous bracelet given as a gift from a convenience store as part of a promotion. Tiny dust particles were floating in the faint blue halo.

The wind chimes on the eaves rang again at this time.

"By the way, Lu Jun sent a postcard last week."

While placing his untied tie on the table, Yuan Zhisheng took out a card from the bottom of the convenience bag. It had a picture of a prestigious academy printed on it, with dried cherry blossoms stuck to the edge.

"They have been there for almost two years and are very familiar with the place. When we go there, they will pick us up at the station... By the way, he also mentioned that it would be best if our identities this time were kept secret."

Eri rubbed the edge of the card with her fingertips. Perhaps because it had just rained heavily, there was still a slight trace of moisture on the postcard.

The entire postcard was written in dragon language. Unlike the broken and erroneous dragon language that the hybrids had painstakingly discovered before, this one was written in the purest dragon language, emitting a faint soft fluorescence.

"Well... because Finn... wrote a best-selling novel in the New World. You are quite popular in the New World."

Seeing that Eri had no intention of asking further questions, Gen Chisei coughed a little awkwardly and began to explain.

"If we go there without hiding our identities, there will be a lot of our fans coming to greet us. If there are too many people, it will easily cause some diplomatic problems."

After looking up at him, as if she had discovered something, Eiry suddenly reached out and poked his suit pocket, then took out half a piece of strange scale.

In fact, there was one thing he didn't say, which was that the dragon student not only gave him the scales on his body, but also boldly confessed his love to him on the spot and wanted to get married right away... Ying's face was extremely dark at that time.

…By the way, how did this thing get into my pocket again?

Just when Yuan Zhisheng was puzzled, a dull sound of something heavy falling to the ground was heard from the back hall.

Yaksha rushed into the porch carrying a package half a person's height, and Crow followed behind, busy picking up the scattered parts.

"Second Miss, there's a courier from the New World!! It seems to be from Ms. Nono... Uh, what is this?"

Looking at the items revealed after the package in front of him was opened, Crow couldn't help but look a little dumbfounded.

Because the eldest daughter has lost contact, the second daughter has been in a bad mood. In the past two months, she has been staying in the shrine in the mountains where the eldest daughter used to practice swordsmanship and refused to leave. The retainers are worried to death, but they can do nothing.

Fortunately, the second young lady still has a close relationship with the others. Although most of the others are in the new world, they will send packages to the second young lady regularly every once in a while, so she has long been accustomed to it.

However, the thing that was being sent to him now seemed to be different from the things that had been sent to him before - it was a giant emerald tree.

From the appearance, this thing looks a bit like a miniature model of a potted plant. A faint glow flows on each leaf, and liquid moonlight flows in the veins of the leaves.

I don’t know if it was an illusion, but when Crow’s eyes rested on the emerald tree, his originally anxious heart instantly calmed down.

"The latest alchemical product from the Dragon Clan...?"

While guessing in his mind, Crow carefully placed the emerald tree, which was nearly one meter high, on the ground. The thing in front of him was simply a work of art and he could not afford to be negligent in the slightest.

"Is this all you have? No instructions for use?"

After taking off his suit and putting it aside, Yuan Zhisheng stood up from the table.

Although Nuo Nuo had sent some strange things in the past, such as a bronze city model that would sing "The Most Dazzling National Style" in the middle of the night, no item was as unique as the emerald tree in front of him.

"No, just this one thing."

After carefully examining the package again, Yasha shook his head.

"Do you want to call and ask?"

"Cross-border communication is troublesome, and now is not the time to connect the two worlds."

While carefully observing the emerald tree in front of him, Yuan Zhisheng shook his head slightly.

"This thing should be a product of alchemy, perhaps... huh?"

As if he had noticed something, Gen Chisei turned his head and looked at Eri behind him.

At this time, the other party did not look at him, but stared at the mobile phone in front of her that she had not had time to put away. Yuan Zhisheng found that this mobile phone that had been out of service for a year was automatically charging. After the 365th day, the breathing light emitted a jade-green light for the first time.

"this……"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Yuan Zhisheng couldn't help but stand there in a daze.

While he was in a daze, the emerald tree behind him also lit up synchronously. Emerald green light flowed through the veins of the leaves, outlining a projected human figure like a virtual painting in the sky above the tree.

However, I don’t know if it’s because of the unstable signal or the unstable connection, but every time the human figure is about to take shape, it will suddenly shatter into fireflies all over the ground. After repeating this three or four times, the other party seems to have given up this plan. Emerald green light spots condense from the air and then slowly flow towards Eri like a galaxy.

Under the influence of those emerald light spots, the rust marks on the phone are gradually fading away, and the jade-green breathing light on it is becoming brighter and brighter under the influence of the light spots.

Under Eri's somewhat nervous gaze, an unknown call lit up on the screen when the battery was charged to 18%, but before she could answer it, the call was automatically hung up and a low battery display appeared on the screen.

With a quick wink to Yaksha, Crow carefully moved the emerald tree on the floor to the edge of the table, and with his action, the self-charging speed of the mobile phone suddenly increased a bit.

Looking up, Eri looked towards Gen Chisei with joy.

At this moment, when she looked into her brother's eyes, they were like obsidian immersed in spring water, in which Yuan Zhisheng's appearance was clearly reflected.

At this moment, as if the charging speed was a bit too slow, the emerald light that was originally converging on the phone suddenly split outward and disappeared into the dark night outside like an emerald galaxy.

As if in response to something, the wind chimes hanging by the window moved without wind, ripples appeared in the night sky under the light of the Milky Way, and the seventy-two stone lanterns at both ends of the shrine lit up one after another as the Milky Way flowed by, waking up the fireflies sleeping in the cracks of the blue bricks.

And in that galaxy-like light, a figure is gradually taking shape.

Looking at the familiar figure appearing little by little in the courtyard, Yaksha and Crow held their breath unconsciously, as if they were afraid of disturbing something.

But at this moment, a gust of wind suddenly blew around them, and Eiry stood up from the table and ran quickly to the courtyard outside.

As she ran, the hem of her shrine maiden's robe seemed to startle glowing swifts, which, together with the fireflies awakened from the stone lanterns, formed a brilliant galaxy at the junction of the new world and the human world.

On this day, the lost king returned to the world.

pa：Good morning(づ●─●)づ