Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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The legend of the evil dragon’s territory had been circulating among the human race for hundreds of years.
The bards compiled those ferocious and terrifying adventure stories into poems, so the children of the human race were familiar with the dangers here, and the adults would threaten them and say, “If you don’t obey, I will throw you to the territory of the evil dragon.” Hearing this, no matter how crazy the child was at that time, he would be frightened into silence.
Everyone knew that this was a forbidden area for the human race, a cursed and dark place.
According to rumors, in the core of the Dark Land, across the entire territory of the evil dragon, you could see the evil dragon’s castle under the moon. Occasionally, when travelers passed through the forest outside the territory, they would hear the high-pitched and clear dragon roar at the end of the long night, driving straight into the moonlight.
But no one had ever seen that castle. The corpses of brave men were piled on the road into Dragon City. The piles of bones stretching towards the night sky looked desolate and cold, like unwilling and desperate pilgrims.
The legend ended today——
After trudging through the death-long silence, they finally cut through a network of thorns, and Gu Nian and her party finally saw the end of the long night.
What appeared in their field of vision was a ferocious, rugged and strange old castle.
Under the moonlight, the towering and terrifying shadow fell into the long night. It was as huge as a giant beast, as if it wanted to swallow up and cover the entire night sky.
“It’s the evil…Evil Dragon Castle…”
Someone in the guard team suddenly came to his senses and said in a trembling voice.
Gu Nian seemed to wake up from a dream and turned around with a frown.
The slender figure stood calmly behind her, with long black hair hanging down from his shoulders, and the cold moonlight slipping from between it.
He slightly raised his head and looked at the castle, which even made people frightened in the night, but his eyes were calm and silent, as if he was looking on his lowly creation.
Only for a moment.
After a moment, he lowered his head, and his gentle and harmless eyes met Gu Nian’s, “Your Highness?”
Gu Nian came back to her senses and sighed softly: “Thank you.”
“Thank you for what?”
“With you here, we could get here so smoothly.”
“For Your Highness, this is what I should do.”
“…”
Gu Nian really didn’t expect that they could get here unimpeded like this——
Except for the fact that when the war horses reached the edge of the evil dragon’s territory, they were frightened by the aura of some kind of monster in the air and fled privately. On the entire road that followed, they did not encounter any intruders or monsters.
The white bones on the roadside all told the story of the bloody and dangerous nature of the road. The repairman leading the way seemed to have a magical sense that could lead them to perfectly avoid any danger.
So along the way, except for some people who accidentally ate highly poisonous wild fruits, there were no casualties in terms of personnel.
All of this was obviously due to Xiu.
Gu Nian should have been grateful for the surprise, but the almost silent and long journey made her feel a little uneasy.
A fierce battle was imminent, and she didn’t have much time to think about it.
Gu Nian turned around and whispered to the captain of the guard: “Instruct everyone to rest where they are, don’t light a fire, try not to make any noise, and prepare to enter.”
“Yes, Your Highness.”
Naturally, Gu Nian was also in need of rest.
As she sat on the rock, drinking water and resting, her maid snuck up from a corner at the back of the procession.
Before entering the outskirts of the evil dragon’s territory, the maid said with tears in her eyes that she would die if she had to, but she must stay with Her Highness – This courage and loyalty obviously could not be used as a bonus to physical fitness, and it did not stop her from going to at the back in the end.
At this moment, the maid’s face was still pale. She had a rare tense expression and looked very nervous as she approached Gu Nian.
“Your Highness…”
“Huh?” Gu Nian looked up.
“Do you think this cultivator is a bit weird?” The maid looked at the slender figure standing by the thorns in the distance uneasily, “How could he, how could he lead us through the territory of the evil dragon such that we haven’t encountered any danger yet, it’s as if he knows this place well?”
Gu Nian nodded: “It’s very mysterious.”
“This is not mysterious,” the maid turned back, “Do you think he…is really a human?”
“Yeah.” Gu Nian answered firmly.
“Why is Your Highness so sure?”
“Where’s our war horse?”
“Ran, ran away?”
“Well, animals are much more sensitive to the scent of monsters than humans. If he was not human, he should have reacted long ago.”
“…”
The maid breathed a sigh of relief and her shoulders relaxed, “That’s right, but he is too mysterious, so my mind started to think wildly, how could there be a monster in this world that can turn into a human form?”
As if she thought of something, the maid suddenly stopped talking and looked at Gu Nian.
After Gu Nian looked at her, she smiled knowingly: “The half-demon boy who saved me back then, apart from the gem scales on his forehead, neither the war horses nor the cattle and sheep dared to approach him.”
“Very good.”
The maid was completely relieved.
Gu Nian shook the kettle filled with water. After it was quiet, she suddenly said softly: “And even if he is not a human, he won’t do anything.”
“?!” The maid was startled and looked back.
“As far as this matter is concerned, the process is not important, the result is important – there is only one purpose.” Gu Nian raised her gaze and looked at the dormant castle in her field of vision, “Slay the dragon.”
“Your Highness…”
Dressed in light armor, the princess stood up holding a spear. She turned sideways and faced the guard captain standing beside her in the darkness. Her voice was soft but firm: “Let’s go.”
“Yes.”
It was a fierce battle.
When she stepped through the gate of the castle, everything in front of her dim eyes suddenly turned into blindingly white flying snow and an icy cold wind cutting her face, Gu Nian suddenly remembered that she had read somewhere in an ancient book in the palace collection. It said: According to legend, the evil dragon was good at illusions and could kill people invisibly.
Gu Nian didn’t have time to remind everyone.
The ferocious wolves and monsters in the ice and snow, the man-eating magma lizards in the sea breathing fiery fire, the ruthless puppet soldiers under the bone-piercing knife mountain…
The members of the guard team fell down beside her one after another, and bright red blood stained her vision. Gu Nian didn’t stop or retreat. She stepped on the blood flowing like a river under her feet and moved forward step by step.
Even illusions had an end.
As long as she killed the evil dragon that could create this kind of illusion while sleeping, all the companions who died in the illusion could be resurrected.
The shadow covering the kingdom would eventually be dispelled.
The last realm.
The maid’s blood dyed Gu Nian’s light armor red.
She fell down and crawled towards Gu Nian’s feet. Gu Nian reached out to pull her, and then saw with her own eyes as that hand passed through her body and dissipated like a phantom of foam.
Also what dissipated was the endless illusory void in front of her eyes.
At some point, Gu Nian had already come to stand alone deep in the castle.
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