Chapter 398

It was like a bomb that had been buried for over twenty years finally being detonated.

Leon was relatively resilient, but Rebecca behind him would have fainted by now if Losweiser hadn't been supporting her.

"So, do you now understand why your master insisted on coming to the Sea Dragon race on the verge of death?"

Claudia said,

"He knew how serious his injuries were, so he just wanted to see Charlotte one last time before he left this world."

"The last time I saw him..."

Claudia patted Leon on the shoulder. "I know about your plans to rebel against the Empire. This is a revolution, Leon, and revolutions always come with sacrifices."

Leon is no longer listening to anything.

Like a puppet without its strings, he dragged his heavy steps to Charlotte's side and gently put his arm around her shoulder.

The master's wife was almost in tears, holding her husband's hand tightly and refusing to let go.

"Leon... did Rebecca give you that Imprint Stone...?"

Having seen his wife and fulfilled his last wish, Tiger wanted to use the last few minutes to have a good chat with his apprentice.

"Leave it to me... Master."

"Hmm... it contains crucial evidence exposing the empire's conspiracy. Make sure to use it wisely; it can help clear your name..."

"I understand... Master..."

"How have things been with the Silver Dragon King lately...?"

"We support—"

"And the granddaughters... the older sisters are already five years old, and Xiaoguang is three..."

"Master?"

"Why are you all so quiet? I'm the only one talking... it makes me seem so boring, haha..."

He can no longer hear.

His aged, cloudy pupils began to dilate.

"Kid... you must take your master's wife to meet them when you get the chance... tell them that their grandfather is actually quite powerful..."

"I really want to... I really want to hug them—"

"Unfortunately... there probably won't be much of a chance."

He gazed upwards with unfocused pupils, as if summoned by some force, but continued to mutter to himself.

"My life has passed by so hastily. Although I haven't achieved anything great, I'm still satisfied in the end."

"When I was young, I served in the Dragon Slayer Army, fighting everywhere and having no fixed abode."

"By the time I retire, I'll be past the age for dating and marriage."

"If I hadn't met your master's wife, this old man might have remained a bachelor for the rest of his life."

"I once thought that wandering the world was my final destination, but I never expected that my final destination would actually be you, Xia."

"However... it seems your family hasn't really approved of our marriage for over a decade..."

"But we still spent half our lives together. At the end of my life, I am so glad that you were by my side, Xia."

"I'm reminded of—cough cough—I'm reminded of a novel, and there's a sentence in it that seems to describe our experiences and our ending."

"The dragon should return to the sea... but the sea does not welcome me... so I will come—"

His hand slid down Charlotte's cheek, and in his last moments, he was still trying to wipe away the tears from his wife's eyes.

"Tiger?... Tiger! Tiger!!"

"Master... Master!"

"Dad!"

Rebecca threw herself onto Tiger's arm and cried her heart out.

Charlotte seemed to have run out of tears. She leaned helplessly against Leon's chest, overwhelmed by a sense of despair and helplessness that felt like the sky had fallen.

His master's last words lingered in Leon's ears for a long time.

The Dragon Returns to the Sea...

The prodigal son, who should have been wandering the world and making his home wherever he went, found a place to rely on and a home to call home, and when death came, he accepted it with joy.

Tiger Lawrence... this former Dragon Slayer ultimately died at the hands of the very country he had served with his life.

How can anyone accept this...?

"I want to save him."

At the moment when despair enveloped everyone, Charlotte's firm and resolute voice was like a sharp blade, piercing through the gloom and revealing the sun.

"His heart is completely ruined, Charlotte. Even the Nether Lotus Herb is ineffective."

Claudia said, "I—"

"I want to save him."

Charlotte strode up to Claudia, looking directly into her sister's eyes.

"Your heart is destroyed, right?"

"Um..."

"I have a way! I can use my Heart-protecting Dragon Scale!"

Heart-protecting Dragon Scale?

Upon hearing this term, Leon looked at his teacher's wife in surprise.

All he knew was that the thing was a "safety switch" for the Dragon Race's power, capable of saving the Dragon Race from death in critical moments.

It takes at least two hundred years to condense a complete Heart-protecting Dragon Scale.

In the future timeline, Losweiser fell into a long coma after her self-sacrificing attack because she was not wearing the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale.

This shows how important this item is to the Dragon Race.

But Leon had no idea that the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale could actually... save lives?

"No, Charlotte, if you give him your dragon scales, what will you do then?"

"I don't care, I must save him."

Charlotte!

"Four hundred years!"

Leon rarely saw his teacher's wife truly angry, but this time, she was genuinely furious.

"Sister, for four hundred years, I have always listened to you and Father. The Only One decision I made on my own was to marry Tiger. Because of this, I haven't been home for thirty years."

"Besides... Tiger saved my life back then, so now it's my turn to save him. What's wrong with that?"

"Besides... do I not even have the right to rebel twice in my four hundred years of life?!"

"Charlotte..."

"Let me do it, sister... please."

Claudia's gaze shifted from anger to peace, and finally to helplessness.

She closed her eyes and sighed deeply.

"Suit yourself, I really can't control you. Everyone else come with me, just leave Charlotte here alone."

Claudia led everyone out of the secret room.

Charlotte walked slowly to the ice bed, looked at her husband, and said softly.

"I won't let you leave me like this, Tiger."

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"It seems that only I can answer your questions."

Outside the secret room, Claudia, arms crossed, leaned against the wall and slowly began to narrate.

"Thirty years ago, the war between the Empire and the Dragon Race reached its climax."

"At that time, our Sea Dragon race had not yet chosen to live in seclusion, so we were forced to join this war as well."

"One day, after a battle in which both sides were severely injured, our rescue team arrived at the battlefield first because it was our home ground and searched for survivors."

Charlotte is not a combat-type Dragon Race, but she is quite accomplished in the field of healing magic. She thought that this mission was only to treat the wounded, so she took the initiative to ask her father to join the rescue team.

"Father agreed."

"But the reality was completely different from what Charlotte had imagined."

"In addition to bringing back the wounded in time, the rescue forces also need to deal with the remaining enemy soldiers still alive on the battlefield."

"Charlotte has never killed anyone; that kind of thing is simply too difficult for her."

"So she could only focus on treating the wounded, thinking that she could go back as soon as possible after completing the mission."

"However, she still ran into what she was destined to run into."

"She encountered a dying Dragon Slayer, who was lying amidst a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. It seemed he had been wounded while protecting his comrades, even though his comrades eventually died."

"Perhaps you've guessed it, this severely wounded Dragon Slayer is your master."

That was the first time they met.

"As for the outcome, it shouldn't be hard to guess, right? My sister let him go."

"The matter should have ended there, and the two of them should never have crossed paths again."

"Until..."

At this point, Claudia's tone became somewhat somber.

"The Empire has begun collecting the Heart-protecting Dragon Scale of our Dragon Race."

"And Charlotte is one of their targets."

"She was not good at fighting, and after falling into the hands of the Empire, she was naturally powerless to resist."

"Many Dragon Race were also captured with her, and they were all unable to resist. The empire's transport forces planned to take them back to the Imperial City and then seize their Heart-protecting Dragon Scale."

"At the same time, after many battles, Tiger gradually noticed some clues about the Empire and the dark side of this war."

"But he couldn't be sure what the conspiracy was. On one hand, there was the raging war, and on the other hand, there was the sense of justice in his heart. The two intertwined in Tiger's heart, causing conflict."

"In the end, he chose to leave the Dragon Slayer Army and planned to retire at home."

"But at that time, wars were frequent and there was a shortage of manpower, so the empire forcibly assigned him to the transport unit. It was this move that led to his reunion with Charlotte."

"To repay the life-saving grace he received last time, Tiger secretly released Charlotte and hid her in his home to avoid the Empire's pursuit."

Claudia sighed and continued,

"Like all clichéd love stories, they soon fell in love."

"But because there had never been a precedent for a human-dragon union before, they had never dared to have a child and could only adopt one from an orphanage."

"Yes, that's you, Leon."

Claudia paused, then looked up at Leon and Losweiser, staring at the couple for a moment before chuckling and shaking her head.

"Your master and mistress haven't dared to have children for thirty years, but you and your wife have had three in five years."

To be honest, Claudia really admired these two; the young people not only had a knack for it, but they were also incredibly daring.

They gave birth so suddenly, without even blinking.

The couple blushed with embarrassment at Claudia's teasing.

Losweiser looked away in embarrassment and remained silent.

Leon scratched his forehead. "It was actually... a beautiful accident."

"Ha... life is full of surprises."