"Yes! The Ice Dragon Clan! Give him this Dragon Scale! With this scale, he will be the Ice Dragon Clan's Dragon King!" Asata opened his mouth and spat out a translucent pale-blue Dragon Scale. The scale slowly flew toward Long Xi's body until it vanished inside her.
"You're even giving away your reverse scale? How generous. But with a Golden Dragon around, he wouldn't need your reverse scale to command the Ice Dragons, would he?" Long Xi asked in confusion.
"The Ice Dragons will unquestionably be loyal to the Golden Dragon, but that does not mean they will necessarily be loyal to humans!" Asata said meaningfully.
"But didn't the Ice Dragons split apart?" Though she did not want to ask so bluntly, Long Xi could not help speaking up for Roland's miserable life. What if Roland used Asata's reverse scale to command the Ice Dragons someday, only to discover that they belonged to the splinter faction? That would be a real disaster.
"Split apart? Heh! Why do you think I was buried here?" Asata snorted softly. His eyes were full of smugness, and his face practically said, Go on, ask me!
"???" Long Xi was startled. The memories inherited from the Light Dragon clearly stated that the Ice Dragons had split apart, and no one had ever managed to sort out the muddled accounts of that Human-Dragon War!
"The branch of the Ice Dragon Clan that Extreme Dragon King Medusa split off..." Long Xi ventured.
"Medusa? That guy split off? Hahaha! Then guess why I was the one buried here?" Asata suddenly laughed, his tone full of implication.
"I was the one who issued the order for the Ice Dragons to split! From beginning to end, I supported Lagrange! Medusa was merely a newly ascended Dragon King among Dragon Island's