Dragon Raja: Starting with Summoning Erii

Erii had never properly discussed this matter with Natsumi before, and if she didn't bring it up now, she worried that she wouldn't have the chance later.

Xia Mi was silent for a moment: "At first, it was just out of curiosity. I was very curious about him because there was something about him that attracted me..."

"Later, I drank his blood, discovered the truth, and then I couldn't stop..."

"Moreover, I really don't want to continue the fate of being abandoned by my clan."

A look of world-weariness, a profound understanding of human nature, surfaced in Xia Mi's large eyes. "Going against the will of Heaven isn't a heroic or passionate act; rather, it's a matter of utter helplessness..."

"If that's the case, why don't I choose another path?"

After listening, Erii shook her head: "You know I don't care about these things. I just want to know... did you approach Mumu because you like him? Or was it to escape your fate?"

From Xia Mi's perspective, Erii's gentle face was very calm.

"The beginning of a relationship is often not so beautiful. Some are based on attraction at first sight, some on compatibility, and some may just be for fun..."

“He was a better choice for me, so I bet my future on him, that’s what I thought from the beginning.”

Xia Mi let out an eerie sigh from the child's body, "I never imagined I would get so deeply involved. If it were just about survival and escaping fate, there were other choices, but I chose to be your child, and I chose to inherit the power hidden behind him..."

She reached out and gently stroked Erii's smooth neck. "No matter what, the three of us are now completely intertwined. When you come back in the future, you'll understand what he meant."

"Having chosen this power, we must share its responsibilities; we will bear them together with him."

Erii nodded and gently tapped Natsumi's cute nose: "Please be good to him when I'm not around."

Xia Mi grasped her fingers and grinned, "Of course!"

"Well…"

After a while, Erii stopped again.

"Yiyi, what's wrong?" Xia Mi asked with concern.

Erii raised her right hand to her forehead: "Hmm... I feel a little dizzy... It's like some memories... are flooding back..."

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Xia Mi opened her eyes wide: "What is it?"

"Regarding the past... it's like living another life..."

Erii murmured softly, "It seems like I... never understood anything... before Mumu appeared... until Lu Mingfei..."

She suddenly opened her eyes, her pupils squinting. "How could I possibly like Lu Mingfei! It's a lie!"

"It's Nidhogg who's altering your past!"

Xia Mi immediately realized what was happening. With a gentle touch of her finger, the glowing green leaf touched Erii's brow and merged into it.

Erii felt the inexplicable memories in her mind vanish in an instant, leaving her feeling completely refreshed.

"Xia Mi, you're amazing." She couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

Xia Mi laughed: "No, it's your man who's amazing."

Beyond the path of light, black mist rolled like waves.

“Eri Uesugi, that is your true life. Natsuki should never have existed. Why are you afraid to face your true self?”

The divine sound, like the sea, shook the path of light.

Erii stopped and looked up: "No, without Mumu, my life is all a lie."

"I exist because of him."

With a single word that dispelled the illusion, the black fog dissipated.

"Yiyi, you're amazing!"

Xia Mi's eyes turned emerald green. "You actually locked onto the fate line directly, denying all the forks in the road and only retaining the possibility of its existence."

Erii hugged her tightly, gently touching her heart: "Because... I really feel that way."

"This anchor is very powerful. Although it was achieved with my help, it inadvertently eliminated any possibility of Nidhogg making any changes."

Xia Mi narrowed her big eyes, "Whether he modifies the past, rewinds infinitely, or creates a new world, he must erase you. But you are anchored to each other and cannot accept a future without each other, so everything is unchangeable."

"Xia Mi, do you think someone like me really exists?"

Erii continued walking forward.

"What do you mean?" Xia Mi asked.

Erii silently said, "I didn't have a life like Mumu's. It was very lonely, very lonely. The only color in my life was the day I went on the run, but I still returned home. In the end, I didn't wait for Sakura, the one I longed for, to save me. I was used by Herzog as a tool to cleanse my blood and became a dried-up corpse..."

Xia Mi paused for a moment, then said after a moment of contemplation, "This world has no parallel universes, no countless possibilities. It only has one path. It may be modified, but there is only one true past and one true future."

“What you are seeing is a possibility. Perhaps Nidhogg deliberately erased Xia Mu’s existence, and the world automatically deduced this possibility and tried to make you believe it. But we all know that Xia Mu cannot disappear, so this possibility is destined to be impossible to become reality.”

Erii breathed a sigh of relief.

"I understand!"

A smile returned to her face. "I just can't accept that in another timeline, I wouldn't know Mumu, and I would fall in love with someone else..."

"It's perfect as it is now."

Chapter 424 That's your girl!

"What did you do to Yiyi?!"

Xia Mu roared to the sky.

Trapped in the vortex of black mist, he was unable to sense anything or escape.

Although, Nidhogg was equally helpless against him.

"As you've seen, I altered her past, making her believe you didn't exist, so she fell in love with the first boy who brought her light."

The sound came from the black mist.

Moments ago, illusions began to appear.

Xia Mu saw the world without him, saw Xia Mi's death, and saw Erii's death.

Those stories were exactly the same as the ones he remembered!

"What truly exists, even if modified, is merely an error created by memory, not a change to the real past, because time is immutable!"

Xia Mu looked at the sky and said slowly and deliberately, "Just like you changed Chu Zihang's fate, what happened in the past has already happened. It's just that from the moment you changed it, everyone forgot about him. It doesn't mean that he didn't exist in the past."

"So what if you see through it all? Once you're gone from this world in the future, your past will be completely erased from the memories of all living beings. What difference will there be between you and someone who never existed?"

Nidhogg's large face emerged from the black mist... and Chu Zihang's appearance.

"Don't worry, if I win, you will not only not disappear, but you will also exist forever in the long river of history, for future generations to look back, learn from, and reflect on themselves."

Xia Mu snorted coldly.

It was at this time that Xia Mi was born.

Although he couldn't see it, his mental world was in turmoil, and the black mist that enveloped the whole world also changed.

A vibrant life force suddenly tore through the darkness, and its source was...

As Xia Mu gazed ahead, a hint of green suddenly sprouted in his eyes, gradually replacing the original golden hue.

He looked toward the source of the energy in his heart, and countless radiant green leaves drifted away, forming a path of light beneath his feet.

Xia Mu did not hesitate and stepped onto the light path, walking step by step.

The person he wanted to see was right ahead; he knew it.

"Do you know what preparations Uesugi Erii made when she came to see you?"

Nidhogg's voice followed like a shadow, never fading, "I didn't expect you to place the Sacred Heart there, but you probably also didn't expect that Uesugi Erii, after I bestowed upon her the White King's Dragon Bones, would truly become the White King..."

His voice gradually rose, "You've taken back the four monarchs, the three Black Kings, and a pure White King. How could you possibly lose them all?"

Xia Mu stopped abruptly.

Nidhogg found the key to turning the tide.

"If you continue down this path, when you finally meet her, the moment she willingly gives herself completely to you, you'd better think it through."

Xia Mu's face was ashen.

In an instant, he realized that Nidhogg was right.

The reason why the light path underfoot can guide the way and protect us is not because of his will, but because of his lack.

He retreated step by step.

He quickly retreated to the edge of the green light path.

What a joke! To make him absorb Erii, to make him endure that heart-wrenching pain again, to make him watch helplessly as his beloved girl disappears...

This kind of thing!

How could that possibly be possible?!

“Nidhogg, I have a suggestion.” Xia Mu suddenly looked up.

"Please speak."

Nidhogg appeared very polite in the black fog.

That's all.

Xia Mu clenched his fists. "Let it all end here. The world is yours, you can rule it, but these powers that belong to all living things, please return them. And I will be watching you like a sword of Damocles. Perhaps this is a good ending."

He knew Nidhogg was untrustworthy, and he also knew that he had a grudge against him and should fight to the death.

But all of this pales in comparison to Erii's life.

The black mist churned, and after a long while, Nidhogg's voice finally rang out: "You must relinquish the power of creation, or I will be unable to create the life I desire."

"The power of creation?" Xia Mu raised his hand and looked at it. "You mean... the power of the three Black Kings?"

"good."

"Absolutely impossible!"

Xia Mu waved his hand and said, "If I lose these, I will be at your mercy. Only by having them can I negotiate with you."