We traveled through time together, but I'm the only dragon? The others are all beautiful girls?

It seems the humanistic injection project is progressing very smoothly.

The great psychologist and philosopher Sigmund Freud was right!

"...What...what are you doing?"

Under that undisguised gaze, Eleanor felt her cheeks rising rapidly, as if an invisible flame was burning beneath her skin. She had already done such forbidden things, so why did she feel such unprecedented shame because of this pure gaze?

"Useless," Eleanor thought to herself, then straightened her back and looked directly into Akalion's grey eyes.

“Look at me like that.”

"nothing……"

Akalion slowly shook his massive dragon head, and after a brief hesitation, he spoke.

"I can also take you to my world."

It's not very meaningful to say it now; his world isn't much better than the Dark Souls where Eleanor is.

They're pretty much evenly matched.

However, this would probably make Eleanor even happier.

He liked to see Eleanor happy.

"?!"

Eleanor's figure appeared in front of Akalion almost instantly.

Her ruby-like eyes widened, filled with disbelief. A torrent of joy, at this moment, completely broke down the last dam of her composure.

"May I?"

“Of course!” Akalion nodded solemnly, giving the most certain affirmation. “But, that will have to wait until we return from the Dark Dimension.”

"it is good!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Eleanor immediately sat down on the spot, closed her eyes, and the lighthouse appeared naturally in front of her.

In an instant, the lighthouse, standing alone in the endless darkness, swept over her presence like an invisible wave.

Akalion did not resist; he allowed his consciousness to be drawn along with Eleanor's.

As Eleanor had previously stated.

The dark space has undergone earth-shattering changes.

The boundless darkness, which seemed to swallow even the purest concepts, was dispelled by a beam of light projected from afar. That light naturally originated from the lighthouse.

Where the light reaches, darkness recedes, and a realm of absolute peace, composed entirely of pure white, is born.

Anyone who sets foot here will be enveloped in a soft, holy aura, as if a goddess who has fallen into the clutches of an evil dragon has regained her divine power.

However, what Akalion found somewhat unsettling was—

Since the items and equipment can already be brought into this 'stable area,' then why—

Why aren't you wearing clothes?

His gaze swept over Luminous and Artoria, who were already waiting there, as well as Eleanor, who had just arrived. Without exception, they were all in the position of newborns.

"This is 'tradition'!" Ying said, hands on her hips, her face full of righteous indignation, as if she were proclaiming some unquestionable universal truth. "Every 'Blue Heir' must be here, maintaining their most primal 'birth posture'! Unbound by anything external!"

"?"

Akalion cast a questioning glance at the only person with a conscience present—Artoria.

"I... I couldn't stop her."

Artoria lowered her head in shame, even the ahoge (cowlick) on her head, a symbol of her mental state, drooped limply. However, deep in her soul, she almost completely agreed with Ying's wicked suggestion.

Yes, we are all 'me', and we are all different possibilities that extend from the same soul.

Since that's the case, then we should share the good times and the bad times together!

"Aren't you happy?"

Eleanor had somehow appeared beside Akalion, gently resting her body against his dragon form. Her slender fingertips traced circles on his scales as if drawing invisible magic circles.

"of course not!"

Akalion followed the deepest desires of his soul with utmost honesty!

He chose to confront his own heart! Whether as a 'human' part or a 'dragon' part, he was utterly sincere in the face of the absolute concept of 'beauty'!

"Dang Dang!"

Ying's face revealed a smug, devilish smile. She took out handful after handful of wild mushroom and chicken skewers from her personal space, which smelled so tempting and looked like they had just been roasted!

"This was bought with your gold coins! The Deer Hunter Restaurant is working hard to prepare the rest of the food! I haven't forgotten our promise!"

How many Mora can one gold coin be exchanged for?

Akalion asked with considerable concern. The common currency of Teyvat is 'Mora,' gold, which is primarily used as a precious metal for forging crafts and ornaments.

Using gold directly as currency is not very convenient.

"It's about 1 to 120,000 Mora."

Ying extended her slender white index finger and gently touched her lips. The gold coins in Ansersheen City weighed about ten grams. According to the price conversion, 12,000 Mora per gram of gold was reasonable.

"However, some shops are just too unscrupulous, so I have no choice but to..."

At this point, she didn't continue speaking. Instead, she made a gesture of clenching her fist and then swinging it downwards, followed by a gesture of picking it up. Her meaning was self-evident.

"You can still use your own power?"

Akalion was somewhat surprised. If the seal of the Ruler of Heaven had been completely broken, then the first powerful figure in this group had suddenly appeared.

"Can't do it!"

Ying immediately shook her head, denying his guess, but then a confident yet sly smile appeared on her face.

"But I can directly approach the Statue of the Seven and obtain the elemental power of the world! Currently, I have already obtained the power of 'Wind' and 'Rock'! With four times the aptitude, I am much stronger than the protagonist in the game!"

Volume 1 Snowfield Dragon Lord: Chapter 35. The Stable Domain (Part 2)

Four times the aptitude translates to four times the strength.

Akalion still believes that four times the aptitude is better.

Take himself as an example.

Even the Red Dragon, the leader of the five-colored dragons at the pinnacle of dragon species, or the Gold Dragon, the king of metal dragons, could not compare with his current phenomenal growth curve in his juvenile years.

To make a less precise but easier-to-understand analogy of how true dragons exist—if the dragons in the world of The Elder Scrolls are bipedal flying time machines, then the true dragons in the multiverse of Dungeons & Dragons are the dragon-shaped incarnations of the fundamental laws of the world and the power of the primordial elements.

Take the Red Dragon, the leader of the five dragons, as an example. It can be described as a walking volcano, or as the manifestation of the primordial fire elemental power.

The land area within the dragon's nest domain, with a radius of tens of kilometers, would frequently experience small earthquakes due to its presence.

The water within the realm will heat up and boil, becoming heavily tainted with the smell of sulfur; volcanoes and geysers will tear the earth apart without warning; and the air will be perpetually filled with the smell of smoke and coke.

This is why the life of the true dragon species is almost eternal.

When time has passed long enough to erase the traces of civilization from the world, they will integrate their own will into the pulse of the world and become a part of it.

Or perhaps they too will ignite the divine fire, embark on the path to godhood, and become 'dragons of divine conferment'.

Or perhaps, they will actively integrate their selves across the multiverse to become the absolutely unique 'Dragon of the Other Shore'.

In conclusion, a fourfold increase in potential means that Akalion's weight as a 'world' has been enhanced, and the possibilities that come with this are far more profound than simply strengthening his power.

Applying this theory to fireflies yields even more exaggerated results.

As a 'Descendant,' her very existence is already comparable to that of a world. The combination of four times her potential, in its simplest literal sense, means that she is capable of simultaneously being an enemy of four worlds.

However, in the real, higher-dimensional power calculations, the amplification would only be more terrifying.

For those who uphold justice, and even for 'justice' itself, this is tantamount to—'Family members, the SSR you stole has automatically upgraded to UR!'

However, the current 'Heavenly Principles' seem to be in a state of shutdown, so the seal that imprisoned Ying can only futilely consume all its energy over a long period of time, eventually collapsing on its own and forever losing the opportunity to ask, 'Hey, can we reconcile?'

"Will you still be able to meet Paimon?"

Akalion suddenly asked, harboring rather complex feelings toward that flying sprite that always floated in the sky—no, that could fly.

Although Paimon is very talkative, always making all sorts of self-righteous decisions for the protagonist, his role as a guide is almost negligible, and he has an amazing appetite... well, to be fair, he doesn't actually like him that much!

However, he must also admit that if that white figure were truly absent from his journey, traveling alone would indeed become rather dull.

“I was walking along the road when Paimon fell from the sky like a shooting star and landed right in front of me.” Ying frowned slightly, her beautiful eyebrows furrowing, her tone revealing obvious helplessness and vigilance. “There’s definitely something fishy going on here. I just don’t know if it’s the work of the four shadows under Fanes.”

It's impossible that Paimon is the very essence of the natural order, right?

“But whether Paimon is a sugar-coated bullet thrown by the enemy,” Ying said, sticking out her pink tongue and gently licking her lips, her golden eyes gleaming with the light of a apex predator, “I will fire the bullet back, and then eat the sugar coating!”

"You don't... really intend to eat Paimon, do you?" Akalion asked in a teasing tone.

“Of course—” Ying’s gaze subconsciously swept over Artoria beside her, and after catching the ahoge on the other’s head that was trembling violently because of her words, she changed her tone, “—No. I’m not some cold-blooded demon, I can’t bring myself to bite such a cute little thing.”

Upon hearing these words, the ahoge (cowlick) on Artoria's head finally calmed down, much like a soothed, bushy tail.

"However, she may truly be Tianli, or she may be connected to Tianli in some way!"

In that instant, the expression on Ying's face suddenly switched to a dark and cruel mode that mixed joy and cruelty.

"I'll just give her to Akalion as a 'weapon,' and play with her until she thanks me!"

"?!"

Artoria's ahoge (cowlick) stood up abruptly, like a flagpole struck by lightning!

"Shouldn't we retaliate with a tooth for a tooth, with blood for blood? How could we humiliate our enemy in this way?! This violates the moral bottom line of being a human being!"

“...Lily.”

Ying suddenly suppressed all her expressions, putting on a tearful look, and her golden eyes quickly filled with a layer of glistening mist.

"Have you... forgotten how miserable I looked when I was sealed away?!"

"No!" Upon seeing this, Artoria's ahoge (antenna-like hair sticking up) swayed violently like a candle in the wind. She quickly stepped forward, grabbed Ying's hands, and her emerald eyes were filled with sincerity and urgency. "I absolutely didn't mean that! But—"

“Simply sealing away the guardians of justice will not quell the hatred in my heart!” Ying immediately interrupted Artoria’s advice. She was certain that she would never forget the extreme pain of being imprisoned in eternal nothingness and having even her senses taken away.

"Eleanor thinks so too, doesn't she?"

“I think Akalion might not be willing to ‘report’ the cross-dresser Gwyndolin.” Eleanor remained pressed tightly against Akalion’s dragon body, only slightly peeking out with her delicate head, gazing at Luminous with her slightly warm red eyes, and said earnestly, “Besides, rather than that roundabout method, I prefer to shoot them all out. Ideally, use the ‘Piercing Man’ method to turn them into a piercing forest!”

As she spoke, the corners of her mouth naturally curved upwards.

"Or perhaps we could learn from Empress Lü's advanced experience in dealing with Consort Qi, cutting off their limbs, gouging out their eyes and smoking out their ears, forcing them to be mute, and then abandoning them in the latrine, turning them into human pigs!"

"this--"

It was somewhat too cruel, but considering Eleanor had been imprisoned for so long... Artoria's face showed an extremely troubled expression. Her gaze involuntarily drifted towards Akalion. As 'Blue Heirs' of the same origin, the knowledge and information they had encountered before their transmigration were naturally shared.

Those books about cross-dressers, and those about Liu Bei... I've used them before.

In reality, human ethics are still a strong shackle.

But Akalion Lanthus is a dragon now!

The nature of dragons... is truly hard to say.

Volume 1 Snowfield Dragon Lord: Chapter 36. Future Plans

"Hey!"

Akalion keenly caught Artoria's gaze, which was filled with suspicion and worry. He immediately felt it necessary to defend his pure and innocent soul and his clean and honest body!

"I just transmigrated here less than two and a half months ago! I haven't even completely submitted to the primal instincts of this body yet!"

Otherwise, he would have taken every single one of those elves into his harem!

This is better than giving in to your appetite and eating them all.

This statement came out.

The gazes of Ying and Eleanor were like four sharp swords, all directed at Akalion.

The meaning behind that look was simple—how can you be so shameless?

"what happened?"