"Will this really work?"
Ciri lay in the grass of the Bone Duke's garden, watching the fountain at its center.
"Um... Elder Enya, are you sure the Grand Duke of Blood said all we had to do was soothe his emotions?"
Joshua, like Ciri, was lying in the garden grass. Elder Enya lay beside him.
The elven elder had always found lying flat on the ground uncomfortable, so she kept adjusting her posture.
"Lord Redri has been corroded by the gray mist for too long. Many of his emotions have already been devoured by it. We need to try to awaken some of his positive emotions."
Elder Enya ultimately had no choice but to lie on her side as she explained things to Joshua.
"So these are the late-stage symptoms of gray mist corrosion?" The Inquisitors Joshua had encountered were mostly in the early stages of gray mist corruption.
Their fragile minds simply could not withstand the madness brought by the gray mist, so they were transformed into inhuman monsters by it.
This black dragon had once been the Guardian of the World Tree and possessed the power to suppress the gray mist within his body.
During the disaster that destroyed Aserkelo, the black dragon had chosen to devour the core in order to eliminate the gray mist shrouding Aserkelo...
Joshua vaguely guessed that the so-called core was something similar to the "door" on the Frost Plains.
After swallowing the core, the black dragon had begun constantly fighting the gray mist within his body.
Joshua was not sure whether he had succeeded or failed by now, but one thing was certain: this black dragon had once fallen into a berserk rage because of the gray mist, just like those Inquisitors.
The Black Dragon Duke's reputation for cruelty and brutality had