Chapter 609: Book 5: Chapter 207: Sorrowful Cry (3)

“Although it’s just a collector’s item, it should be quite sharp.” Three touched the blade with her index finger. In an instant, blood trickled down, leaving a clean, sharp cut across her fingertip.

“Dragon Bone?”

Seeing the blade that radiated a familiar aura, Lilith’s mind went blank for a moment, as if struck by a mental wave. Then, a fierce, fiery rage erupted from the depths of her heart, consuming her sanity with an unrelenting intensity.

Without knowing where she found the strength, she struggled violently once again, causing the chains to rattle loudly.

“How dare you use a dragon bone as a weapon! You’re finished! And the one you’re talking about will be hunted to the ends of the earth by the dragons!” Lilith roared, her eyes blazing red.

“Haha, if this were nine million years ago, I would have gouged out my eyes as an apology just for looking at this blade. But now…?”

Three scoffed. “The Dragon Clan has declined so far that if it weren’t for that old demoness holding on, all of you would have been erased from the Great World long ago. And saying that they want to hunt us down? How? By relying on your idiotic kins whose intelligence is on par with my dog’s?”

“Do not… insult my kins.” Lilith’s face twisted in fury as she hissed through clenched teeth, blood seeping from the corners of her mouth. “The only one who can call them stupid is—I!”n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

As that forbidden word, long unused, emerged, a golden thunderbolt from the void struck Lilith’s body instantly.

“Divine law?”

Three’s eyelids twitched. She quickly recoiled; this body she had taken over could not withstand even a trace of the Divine Realm’s Solar Thunder, or it would be obliterated along with her divine sense.

“Could it be that other Divine Realm beings are protecting her? No, it’s just a law seal. It’s similar to divine punishment; not a symbol of divine protection but rather a mark of divine anger.”

Three calmed herself quickly. Nowadays, no other deities would come to the aid of the Dragon Race. The presence within Lilith was such a threat that, even if the Dragon Race had sacrificed nearly everything in that conflict, they would still be opposed by the entire Great World.

That entity was the natural enemy of the Great World, a being that everyone had sworn to destroy. No one could be allowed to shelter it.

“I don’t know which deity marked you, but do you really think that fighting poison with poison will let you escape my grasp?” Three swung her blade, deflecting a sliver of thunder that exploded nearby.

“This will only wear down my patience.”

Lilith coughed. Electricity coursed through her body. Despite having experienced it many times, she still struggled to get used to it.

Fortunately, the lightning had shattered the chains and reinvigorated her heart, making it beat once more.

“Hehehe…” Lilith’s laughter was strained. “From your sudden anxiety, it seems that Four couldn’t hold Cornelia back for an hour.”

“Oh, you figured that out already, huh? Indeed, that baby-faced deity is more formidable than we anticipated. Four can’t even manage half an hour. But… so what?” Three responded indifferently. “Can you hold out that long?”

“I’ll have to try to know.” Lilith abruptly swung her arm, hurling a long object toward Three.

Not wanting to be delayed by any tricks Lilith might have, Three lifted her blade to block.

The long object, however, halted abruptly before the blade and then unfurled.

“A magic scroll?” Three’s eyes widened, but it was too late to react.

The magic scroll was activated too swiftly. A towering pillar of flame erupted violently. The immense force, representing the peak of the Saint Realm, swept through everything like a hurricane.

A shimmering shield appeared around Three, managing to block most of the fiery pillar, but her hair and eyebrows were singed, leaving her looking rather pathetic.

“Hehe, you seemed ready to kill just a moment ago, but you ran away without any hesitation.” Three sneered at the empty space where Lilith had been. “So much for the glory of the Dragon Clan.”

She was about to withdraw the shimmering shield around her, which had become a significant burden, when she noticed that, at some point, an unknown number of magic scrolls had appeared around her.

The scrolls glowed faintly, signaling their imminent activation.

“S̲h̲i̲t̲! That damn rich girl with a rich mommy,” Three cursed under her breath.

The scrolls erupted violently. The entire little world trembled uncontrollably, and the destructive force nearly shattered the seal Three had placed on it.

Amidst the deafening explosions, Lilith leaned against a rock, gasping for air.

For some unknown reason, the spatial scroll had only teleported her a short distance—merely to the base of Mount Coffin on the island in the middle of the lake.

What should have been a desperate escape had left her in need of a moment’s rest to recover her strength.

It didn’t seem like an intense battle, but Lilith felt an exhaustion she had never experienced before in her life.

“Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!” She vented her frustration by crushing a nearby stone into powder.

Lilith had never felt so angry and humiliated. Despite being insulted by Three and her remarks about the Dragon Race and her kind, she was forced to flee in disgrace.

The enemy was more powerful and… better prepared than she had anticipated.

Three seemed to understand the Dragon Race’s weaknesses—if they could even be called weaknesses—better than she did. She exploited them with meticulous precision.

Lilith was powerless to retaliate against her.

It wasn’t just the gap in their strength; Three hadn’t even revealed the full extent of her superiority. Instead, she played with her like a cat with a mouse, using humiliating tactics to drive her into a desperate situation.

The purpose was clear—to make her reveal “that”, the so-called “Dragon Eater.”

“Ha…”

Lilith wanted to laugh. Dragon Eaters… Just what exactly have all of you done to make everyone treat you like enemies who killed their fathers? Cornelia, and now with Three and her associates. Did you all really try to overturn the entire Great World?

“Anyway, I must not comply with Three’s wishes. My intuition tells me that if I reveal that power in front of them, something extremely serious will definitely happen.”

I better hold out until Cornelia returns. From what they were saying, Cornelia could still overpower them all.

Having rested enough to regain some strength, Lilith got up, dusted off her dress, and prepared to find a new hiding place. She couldn’t stay in one spot for too long, or Three would surely find her.

But just then, that familiar voice echoed in her ears once again.

“Dear Princess, how can you avoid using that power? That is precisely the purpose of my visit.”