The Heartbeat of the Cruel Elves

It tilted its head and glanced at the two bugs on the ground with surprise.

Wait - something seems to be wrong. As it stared at it, the two insects that had been motionless finally moved, but the imagined words of praise still did not come. They just looked at each other, looking at each other in bewilderment, without saying a word.

"What's wrong?" The dragon finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked in a muffled voice.

"Your Excellency, the noble dragon," a rumbling voice woke the two from their astonishment. Du Feiya hesitated for a moment and stammered, "Could you please say it again?

"You just now," she explained rather embarrassedly, "speaking too fast, we...didn't hear you clearly."

what? !

The dragon opened its mouth slightly and was stunned.

It's a pity that it has been waiting for so long with great anticipation.

An inconsolable depression suddenly rose from its chest, and it swung its tail, causing rocks to fly all over the ground behind it.

But soon, a gleam of light flashed in its pupils.

"Oh, I see." It said in a tone of sudden enlightenment, "Human and elf bugs have dull ears and limited brain capacity. It's normal that you can't keep up with the speed of our dragons' speech and thinking. Sorry."

It even apologized sincerely - but for the people it apologized to, whether it was Li Yin or Du Feiya, accepting the apology was more or less humiliating.

"Okay," it said in a calm voice, and its mind was calm again, "In this case, let's start over again."

"Considering your ability to understand," it even put itself in your shoes this time, and was very considerate, "let's break it down into sections."

"Repeat after me: Sakalinatu—"

"Sagarinatu." Li Yin tilted his head back and recited the words one by one. This scene made him feel like he was back in the classroom when he was a child, learning the spelling, speaking, reading and writing of basic characters from his Chinese teacher.

However, there was nothing wrong with that. He was indeed learning another language, Dragon Language, and he was indeed starting from scratch, just like a child. Of course, Li Yin was quite confident in his learning ability. Therefore, as soon as the dragon finished speaking, he immediately responded fluently.

"Wrong!" As expected, the dragon immediately criticized in a loud voice and without any hesitation.

"Sagarinatu," it tried to correct Rein's pronunciation.

Li Yin's eyes widened. Although he understood the dragon's intention, but...the two times sounded exactly the same!

However, he did not dare to copy it exactly, so he could only guess and blur out one of the pronunciations, and then recited it with gritted teeth:

"Saga... Renato?"

"Wrong!" The blind cat did not catch the dead mouse. The dragon spoke again, denying his pronunciation, and became more impolite, "Absolutely wrong, even worse than last time."

"Have you studied hard?"

"Don't you think the name of the great dragon is not worthy of your little brain to remember?"

"I'm absolutely serious!" Li Yin was extremely terrified and vowed, "Sir Julong."

"It's just..." He hurriedly tried to make excuses for himself, "The vocal organs of humans and dragons are completely different. We are now like parrots trying to learn how to speak. It takes a little more time and effort, so... I hope you can understand."

"Okay," the dragon's anger was barely suppressed, "then do it again and repeat after me."

"Okay." Li Yin responded tremblingly.

"Sagarinatu."

Li Yin's lips, which had just opened slightly, froze. There's absolutely no difference!

But under the dragon's majestic gaze, he had to say it. But the dragon was already so angry, if he said something wrong again...

"Puchi," at this moment, a crisp laughter suddenly came from beside me.

Li Yin turned his head in surprise, only to see Du Feiya's face full of an uncontrollable smile.

She covered her lips with her hands and laughed for a long while before finally suppressing her laughter. She said lightly and cleverly, "The pronunciation of Dragon Language is quite complicated and it is difficult for beginners to master it."

"Why don't I try it first?"

She said this first in the Dark Elf language to Li Yin, and then in the Dragon language to the dragon.

The dragon nodded. It had no opinion on who arrived first. As for Li Yin, he nodded repeatedly, looking at her with eager eyes as if he had seen a savior descend from the sky.

He almost forgot that Du Feiya had learned dragon language and could communicate with the dragon freely.

"Shagarenad." A few crisp syllables came out from Dufiya's rosy lips. Although it was still complicated and tortuous, Li Yin could hear that it was indeed slightly different from his previous pronunciation.

After Du Feiya finished speaking, she did not continue to look at him, but immediately turned her gaze to the dragon, seeking its confirmation.

"Hmm..." The dragon nodded slightly, "Although it has some flaws, it's at least much better than human bugs."

"Just let it read like this for now."

So, under the watchful eyes of a dragon and an elf, Li Yin began to recite syllable by syllable.

Now he is like those lazy students in the past, who were forced by the teacher to stand up and recite in public under the gaze of classmates and teachers...

Although he had always had excellent grades, he never imagined that he would have such a day.

"Sa-Gar-Re-Na-D." He read it word by word with trepidation.

"There's still a long way to go, but the progress is obvious." The dragon commented.

Next, Du Feiya began to correct Li Yin's pronunciation word by word, explaining to him the specific pronunciation method of each syllable, the use of tongue, lips and teeth, and the subtle differences from some similar and easily confused dark elf voices...

After a few minutes, Li Yin was finally able to pronounce each word similarly to Du Feiya, but since he was a beginner, the words he connected together were still very stiff and not smooth enough.

"Sha-Gar-Re-Na-D." He raised his head and said to the dragon with a knotted tongue.

"That's it for now." The Sapphire Dragon said with a look of "I shouldn't have expected too much from you if you're just making do," and said uninterested, "Let's start the next practice."

"Repeat after me: Invergid."

"Invergid." Li Yin repeated.

"Wrong! Wrong again!" the dragon flapped its wings and said angrily.

"Invergida." Du Feiya's cautious voice came from the side.

Li Yin glanced at the dragon and saw that it showed no signs of anger, nor any indication of correction, so he followed Du Feiya and began to recite.

A few minutes later, with Du Feiya's constant guidance and correction, he, who was exhausted from practicing, finally got the dragon's reluctant approval and could proceed to the next step.

"Is there a next step?" Li Yin asked subconsciously, with a bitter look on his face.

But he soon realized that this was perfectly normal - when the dragon described his name before, he had said a long list of names in a row.

However, after realizing this, the sadness on his face suddenly became more intense. It was so painful at the beginning. If it continued, wouldn't it be...

This is not the way to learn a language... He said indignantly, shouldn't we learn the basic syllables first, then the spelling method, and then the specific words, and even the phrases and sentences? Now he gave himself hundreds of new words that were not connected together and had no complete language logic, and even the meaning of each word was not clear, and forced himself to memorize them, isn't this too much...

"Of course," the dragon raised its head proudly, swishing its tail, looking quite complacent, its complacency so evident that it was almost overflowing.

Li Yin looked at it in surprise, wondering what it was so proud of.

Little did they know that what the Sapphire Dragon was thinking at this moment was: Do you think that all races have names as short as yours, you two-legged bugs?

Language contains the truth that drives the universe and the laws that run everything. It is a symbol of power and authority. Of course, this only refers to the dragon language. Therefore, the length of a dragon's name represents the depth of its life, the strength of its power, and the brilliance of its glory. The ups and downs, gracefulness, and grandeur of each syllable...the different tones and timbres compose a magnificent movement, which shows the unique spirit of each dragon.

Shagarenad Infurgida@＃￥￥%￥%...She didn't expect the human insect to understand this truth, but she had to convey her real name to it, just as she had to demonstrate her true and complete existence in this universe.

Darkness cannot conceal her glorious and magnificent figure, and ignorance is by no means a reason to obscure her brilliant true name.

"But don't worry." She lowered her head, looked down at the human bug, and said to him sympathetically, "The next one is very simple."

"Tugo," she opened her mouth slightly and uttered two unusually light and short syllables.

"Tugo." Li Yin continued.

The dragon nodded. It was indeed very simple. He didn't even bother Du Feiya to teach him this time. He mastered the correct pronunciation in just one try.

“Come again.” Seeing that the “student” was not completely hopeless, the dragon regained a little interest.

"But be careful, this time it will be a little more difficult." It did not forget to remind him, lest the human bug become arrogant because of an easy success.

In fact, Li Yin had no such idea at all. Because he had not yet forgotten the countless syllables that the giant dragon had uttered in one breath. He had only learned a little bit, and only the simplest one among them could be easily mastered. What next?

Chapter 186 Working Life

What was even more troubling was that after all this practice, he seemed to have lost sight of one thing while focusing on another. He had just recalled the first few syllables in his mind, and with good study habits, he wanted to review and consolidate them, but he was shocked to find that he was already a little unsure about some of the subtle parts of the pronunciation... He had only just begun, and he had already lost a little while learning. What was next?

"Excuse me," Li Yin asked anxiously, sweat dripping from his forehead, "Great Lord Dragon, how much more do I need to learn next?"

"It's very simple," the Sapphire Dragon raised a claw, "Considering the limited learning ability of human bugs and dark elf bugs, I divided the entire learning process into 138 parts. I divided it into two long and one short parts to make it more rhythmic and easier to remember."

There was a clear light twinkling in her big blue eyes, and the corners of her grinning mouth were slightly raised, giving her a look that said, "I'm very smart and considerate, right?"

Li Yin took a breath and said, "So, there are still one hundred and thirty-five?"

"No," the Sapphire Dragon corrected him patiently, "two long and one short, that's one part."

"But the total number is not much different from your estimate. In short, we still have 137 parts." She shook her paw and said with a smile.

Not only Li Yin, but even Du Feiya, who had learned dragon language, couldn't help but put away his smiling face and looked embarrassed.

As for Li Yin, his face was completely devastated and he was in a state of panic.

He almost knelt down before the sapphire dragon and said that he was a hopeless case and asked it to have mercy.

"Why?" The Sapphire Dragon keenly noticed the unhappy expressions on the faces of his two servants, "Do you have any questions?"

"Isn't it a great honor for you to use ten or twenty days of your boring life to remember the true name of a great dragon?"

"Will you ever have another chance in your life to come into contact with such glorious, classical, elegant, profound, and meaningful words?"

"No," Li Yin apologized quickly with a smile, "We have absolutely no objection to remembering your honorable name."

“Not only do we have no opinions,” Dufia added, “we are hungry for knowledge!”

The dragon nodded with satisfaction, "That's more like it."

Du Feiya and Li Yin breathed a sigh of relief.

"But," Unexpectedly, the dragon immediately looked at them curiously, "Then what were you struggling with just now?"

Li Yin and Du Feiya were stunned and looked at each other.

Finally, it was Li Yin who pondered for a while before speaking slowly.

"Your Excellency the Great Dragon, I was wondering, how can such humble beings as us be worthy of reciting your honorable full name?"

"Isn't it an insult to you that your real name, which is so glorious, classical, elegant, profound and meaningful, comes out of our clumsy mouths?"

The dragon was stunned.

After a long while, it scratched its head and said, "How can it be so serious?"

"Believe me," Li Yin said firmly, and immediately took over, "It's really very serious."

"That's right," Du Feiya echoed, "Among most intelligent races, there are strict regulations for the titles of different classes to demonstrate power and status."

"Your power and status are far superior to ours, so, logically speaking, we are not qualified to call you by your full name."

"Really?" The dragon scratched his head again, not quite believing it.

"Really!" Li Yin and Du Feiya responded in unison.

"In that case," the dragon hesitated for a moment and asked, "In your opinion..."

"In my opinion," Li Yin said hastily, with his mind fully prepared, "it would be better to call you 'Saga'."

"For a humble race like us, it is a great honor to be able to call you two words of your great name."

"Any more is too much for me."

"Okay," the dragon thought for a moment and said, "That's it."

After saying that, it added with regret, "I even tailored a detailed study plan for you."

Before it could finish, Li Yin and Du Feiya shouted with smiles on their faces, "Master Shaga."

The connection was so fast, as if there was a giant dragon chasing behind.

"No," the dragon, who was in deep thought, suddenly shook his head, "The study plan I painstakingly designed cannot be wasted."

Li Yin and Du Feiya's expressions changed at the same time.

The dragon raised its eyelids again, its azure eyes sparkling with light. "Although according to you, you are only worthy of calling me by the two characters in my name."

"But this does not prevent you from keeping my real name in mind."

"Remembering the full name of your employer is every servant's duty, right?"

"So, you still have to learn my full name and follow the study plan I tailored for you."