Man is infinite, and his ambition is to slay the dragon

"Well - you invited me to board this ship before, and before I leave, I have to come and tell you. I don't want to escape, Sieg. I have to face her power countless times, face the fear she brings me, and move forward towards the clear end of existence."

"......I see."

Without thinking too long, Sieg took a deep breath and said, "I respect your decision, Wang Ma. After your injury is healed, I will send you back to the American continent. Then you can go find the King of Claws by yourself. I just hope that next time we meet, I can still see you alive."

"I will - I've had a very fulfilling five years, and thank you for letting me see such a wide world."

"...Go get treatment first. I'll cure you completely first."

After saying that, Sieg lowered his head and started eating again.

......

An hour later, after being completely healed in the healing hot spring.

The Black Iron King Horse left the Crainhild through the teleportation device and went to the American continent alone, becoming the second person to disembark after Gargantina.

52. Meeting with the Roaring King

"Ouma is gone too."

Inside the transporter room of the Crimsheed.

Watching Wang Ma disappear in the transporter, Edwards couldn't help but sigh: "First it was Tina, then Wang Ma. I didn't expect that we would say goodbye to two friends and family directly this time... Do you really think this is a good idea, Sieg?"

"Can I still stop him?"

Sieg sighed, "Ouma is not someone who can be easily persuaded, and I can tell from the look in his eyes that he really means it. If I want to stop him, I can only break all his arms and legs and lock him in a room - but I wouldn't do that to my own friends."

"Besides, what he said is not completely unreasonable."

Because he was afraid of the power of the King of Minions, he planned to go to the universe to hone his skills for decades, and then come back for revenge after becoming strong enough.

After eliminating the element of "fear", this is indeed what Sieg thought and planned.

But Wang Ma thought this idea was cowardly, and he wanted to keep trying to kill him from now on - Sieg would have done the same a few years ago, but he would not do it now.

(Am I becoming mature? Or am I becoming a coward?)

(Am I making progress? Or am I regressing?)

With his hand on the operating table of the transmission device, Sieg did not raise his hand for a long time, thinking deeply about this matter.

Seeing that he had not responded, Edwards walked up to him and shook his hand: "Are you doubting your decision, Sieg?"

"Teacher...I'm sorry."

"What are you apologizing for?" Edwards said with a smile, "Conflicts between concepts and ideas are common, and it is normal for your current self to behave differently from your past self. We have told you many times that we unconditionally support your ideas and will only provide you with suggestions at most. You just need to make a decision that you will not regret."

"Are you regretting your decision on the King of Minions now?"

Sieg shook his head. "No, at this stage, we have no chance of defeating her, even if we risk our lives. Going to challenge her knowing that we only have a 0% chance of winning is not courage, it's just stupidity. If we want to challenge the King of Minions, we have to at least increase our chances of winning to 1%."

"I have no regrets, Sensei."

"Well, that's good." Edwards nodded gently, "If you were the one who had just started learning swordsmanship with me, you would have gone down with Wang Ma by now."

"Uh... maybe."

Sieg sighed softly, "Anyway, since Wang Ma's matter has come to this, it all depends on him from now on. He even cut off the telepathic communication between him and me. He is really determined to leave us."

"That's his style. All we can do now is to wish him the best in the future... I hope that the next time we see him, we can see a completely transformed him."

"I think so too."

(The next time we meet may be decades later, but before then, please don’t die somewhere I don’t know, Wang Ma.)

Sieg took his hand off the console and was about to turn around and leave the transport room -

[Lord Sieg, may I bother you for a moment? ]

Brunhilde's voice suddenly came.

(What's the matter, Miss Brunhilde?)

[The Clinshid just received a communication request from Miss Tina who has already left.]

"Eh?"

Hearing this, Zigg couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

And Edelweiss asked, "What's wrong?"

"...Miss Tina has applied for communication with the Clinshid." Sieg's tone was somewhat suspicious.

What is this?

Wang Ma had just left, and Tina sent a communication request right after?

Could it be that she wanted to return to the Crainhild?

(No, no, no, how is this possible? She has always wanted to return to the Roaring Blood Clan. Now that she has finally returned, how could she possibly want to come back?)

(Then why did she call back?)

"...Please put me through first, Miss Brunhilde, and then transfer to me."

【learn】

As Brunhilde's voice fell, Sieg stretched out his hand and drew it downward in front of him.

A curtain of light suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and soon, accompanied by a burst of snowflakes, the figure that Sieg and Edwards were very familiar with appeared on the screen - it was Gargantina wearing a black heavy armor.

Quickly adjusting his mood to see Wang Ma off, Sieg said, "I didn't expect you to contact me, Gargantina. Haven't you completely severed ties with us?"

[…Yeah, especially after knowing that you became a dragon slayer of the Sun God Cult, I don’t want to see you even more.]

Gargantina said in a deep voice.

Her voice was steady, but after all, they had lived together for several years, so Ziggy knew her well - her tone now contained a hint of dissatisfaction and unhappiness.

"Then why did you call me? Are you looking for trouble? Or is life on the fourth floor of Hell Valley so boring that you want to call me to argue with me?"

[Although life in Hell Valley is monotonous, I have lived here for who knows how long and have already adapted to it. This time I contacted you on the order of my king.]

"...Bagram? The Roaring King wants to see me?"

【Exactly. 】

[My king said - the time and place are up to you to decide, but it must be within today. My king wants to meet with you.]

These words made Sieg frown tightly.

The Roaring King... wants to meet with him in private?

"why?"

Zigg asked this obvious question.

[My king did not explain it, he just asked me to tell him, but... this seems to be related to my king's concerns - um! Why am I telling you this! ]

After Gargantina finished speaking, she remembered that she shouldn't reveal these things.

[In short, give me an answer as soon as possible! And, I think you know it without me having to tell you, don't tell the Sun God Cult! This is a personal meeting between you and my king! My king will not go to war with you over this, nor does he intend to break the contract with you! ]

"Ms. Tina...you have returned to the Roaring Blood Clan and still want to take care of my affairs?"

Zigg couldn't help but laugh twice: "However, there is really no need to talk about this kind of thing - just half an hour later, this coordinate near Hell Valley, you know where it is."

As Sieg spoke, he opened the map and randomly pointed at a coordinate and sent it to Gargantina.

After receiving the coordinates, Gargantina did not stay for long. Instead, she seemed not to want to stay any longer and terminated the communication immediately.

"An interview with the Roaring King?"

"It's been a bit restless today - Ouma and Nene's defeat at the hands of the Claw King, your and my meeting with the previous Wing King, Ouma's departure from the Crimsheed, and now the meeting with the Roaring King... Do you want me to go with you this time too?"

Edelweiss asked.

Sieg shook his head gently: "No, I'll go by myself. And I hope you can keep an eye on Xue Cai. She's alone now, and something might happen to her."

"Well, leave it to me. You should be careful too. Even if we have signed a non-aggression pact, the other party is still the Dragon King. If a war is necessary, call me or Ning Yin over immediately. Ning Yin has almost recovered."

"I will."

53. Re-enactment of the scene from eight years ago

So, half an hour later.

On the land that had long been shrouded in darkness, Sieg appeared in a forest accompanied by the light of the teleportation device.

As soon as he landed, a reaction from an individual that he had sensed many times immediately appeared within his perception range.

"Are you here already? You're here pretty early."

Sieg looked towards the grove not far away.

Amid the sound of leaves rubbing against each other, Bagram appeared in front of him in a dark windbreaker. "You're here, punctual."

"I came here on time."

Sieg smiled, then asked seriously, "What do you want to talk to me about? You and the Roaring Blood Clan are on a non-aggression agreement now, so there shouldn't be any need for us to meet, right?"

"Someone is targeting you."

Without saying any unnecessary nonsense, Bagram got straight to the point and said, "The one targeting you is the Dragon King of the Eye Blood Clan, [Blind Dragon] Sigmario. He has sent out his most capable upper dragon, [the strongest and oldest second-tier] - [Machine Dragon] Grestenovak, who is expected to arrive here in five hours."

"And his goal is to capture you and the Thunder Beast for certain research and experiments."

"...Wait for me for a moment."

Hearing Bagram's expressionless words, Zigg's brain was unable to wrap its head around it, and after a short while of trying to understand...

"what do you mean?"

Sieg frowned and asked, "The Dragon King of the Eye Blood Clan has set his sights on me? He also sent the second-rank of the Bone Blood Clan to capture me? Why are you telling me all this? Why do you know all this?"

"Because the Roaring Blood Clan was also asked to participate in this capture operation, and I was in charge of making the plan."

Bagram gave the answer.

But this answer made Ziggy even more confused.

"...Can you explain the situation to me from beginning to end? I have no idea what you mean."

"......All right."

Although he sounded reluctant, Bagram seemed particularly patient this time.

[Time Slows Down]

The words that distorted reality came from under his mask. The moment Bagram finished speaking, Sieg felt that the world he was in suddenly became much slower - but he seemed unaffected.

"I adjusted the time around us to one-tenth of the normal time because I didn't want to waste time."

Bagram said this, then he straightened his words and explained the whole story to Zieg.

The story begins a hundred years ago.

According to the records of the Sun God Cult, hundreds of years ago, another special comet fell from the sky, destroying the Wing King and the Roaring King and sealing the Bone King. Since then, there are only three complete blood races left.

Now, although the Roaring Vampires have completed their generational change and the second generation of Roaring Vampires led by Bagram has emerged, there are still only three complete vampires, namely [Roar], [Scale] and [Claw].

Just a quick comparison will show that in these hundreds of years, another vampire clan was actually destroyed.

That vampire is the [Eye Vampire].

The blood clan that the Sun God Cult is currently fighting against is the Roaring Blood Clan, but at least a hundred years ago, it was fighting against the Eye Blood Clan, and at the end of the fight, the Eye Blood Clan was indeed defeated by the Sun God Cult, and all the upper dragons except the Dragon King were killed, and the Dragon King has been missing to this day.

The Eye Dragon King, whose clan was annihilated, actually fled to an island country at the far end of the east, accepted the protection of the Scaled Blood Clan, and has been living in the territory of the Scaled Blood Clan. For some reason, he also made the last survivor of the Bone Blood Clan, who had also been destroyed - [Mecha Dragon] Grestenovak - become his subordinate.

In the hundred years since then, the Eye Dragon King has been lurking in the east, preparing something in secret.

As for the Roaring Vampires... after becoming the Roaring King, Bagram was actually approached by the Eye Dragon King, who invited him to cooperate, but this was only a superficial statement. The two parties were more like "superiors and subordinates" than "cooperators."

Of course, the Roaring Vampires are [inferior].

Although they hardly had any contact with each other normally, Bagram would occasionally receive some orders from the Dragon King of Eyes - those were all orders that were difficult to do, and while issuing orders, perhaps to appease him, the Dragon King of Eyes would also make many promises that seemed beautiful, but upon closer thought, they were extremely empty.

Bagram never encountered a situation where even one of its promises was fulfilled.