Of course, he had no intention of striking up a conversation with this Dragon Queen either.
If he had a sword in his hand right now, he would have stabbed it into her back long ago.
It was an occupational hazard for Dragon Slayers. The moment they saw a dragon, they wanted to cut it down. There was nothing to be done about that.
A little over three hours later, they arrived at a mountain outside the Imperial City.
Losweiser returned to human form, wrapped her tail around Leon's waist, and slowly descended onto a massive tree at the mountaintop.
Thud—
Creak—
Losweiser threw Leon onto the trunk, then tilted her chin toward the Empire in the distance.
"There. That's your home."
Leon climbed to his feet and looked ahead.
The Empire was brightly lit. The Imperial Tower, symbol of the Empire's highest authority, stood in the center of the city, towering into the clouds with solemn majesty.
Leon could not make out the city's finer details from here.
But simply being able to look at it from afar was enough for him.
Returning to one's nest was the instinct of all living creatures.
It was only that humans had dressed up that primitive phrase as "homesickness."
Then perhaps Losweiser had not brought him here merely to mock him. Perhaps she understood his longing for home, which was why—
Leon slowly turned around, intending to ask Losweiser what exactly she meant by this.
But the moment he opened his mouth, he was so shocked that no sound came out.
The Silver Dragon Queen had removed her clothes, wearing only two pieces of close-fitting underwear. Her silver tail swayed slowly behind her waist.
She walked toward Leon at an unhurried pace, her smooth bare feet stepping upon the rough trunk as though she felt no pain at all.
Leon instinctively took two steps back. "Don't tell me you want to do this here—"
Whoosh—
Losweiser's tail lunged at him without warning.
Leon swung his arms, trying to block it, but Losweiser adjusted her direction in time and effortlessly swept him off his feet with her tail.
Then she walked over to Leon, placing her feet on either side of his ribs, and used the nimble tip of her tail to undo his belt.
"Losweiser, I advise you not to go too far. I won't let you have your way with me like I did when I first woke up!" Leon threatened.
But Losweiser merely smiled disdainfully and stroked the Dragon Mark on her chest.
The originally silver Dragon Mark now glimmered with a faint purple light.
That light was seductive and rippling.
One look was enough to tell it was nothing decent.
"When two people bear Dragon Mark imprints, if one wishes to have relations with the other, the other person's Dragon Mark will react. It itches, burns, becomes unbearable—"
Losweiser slowly sat on Leon's lower abdomen. "Humans truly are the lowliest creatures. You cannot restrain your breeding instincts at all, can you, my Dragon Slayer Hero?"
Without waiting for Leon's answer, Losweiser reached out and gripped his throat.
Her strength was measured, though, not enough to stop him from breathing.
She pushed upward, forcing Leon's chin up and making him look toward the Empire in the distance.
At that moment, the Empire appeared entirely upside down in Leon's eyes, like a bustling city hanging from the sky.
"Look at your homeland, Leon Kasmod. Look at it. Right before it, I will make you lose your dignity once again."
Losweiser began tormenting Leon once more.
Just as Losweiser had said, even a trained Dragon Slayer could not control the breeding instincts of a living creature.
Especially a male.
Creak—creak—creak—
With the tender rhythm, the branches groaned in a steady cadence. To Leon, every sound was painfully grating.
The lights of the distant Empire reflected in his pupils.
But even such beautiful light could not illuminate Leon's eyes as they gradually lost their shine.
"Don't blink, Leon. Look carefully at your home."
"Yes, look~~ Mm—look at it!"
"All your honor and dignity came from there. Everything you did was for there as well."
"But... ah~—but tell me now, what are we doing? Hmm?"
"Say it, Leon. What are we doing? What are we doing right in front of the Empire you defended!"
Whenever Losweiser was swept away by emotion, she always seemed a little out of control.
Whether that was simply her nature or the pleasure born from a dragon's revenge, he did not know.
Leon could not resist at all.
That silver tail restricted his movements.
Losweiser was like a nimble venomous snake—seductive, alluring, and deadly.
She reveled in the joy of successful revenge while continuously stripping away the last remnants of Leon's dignity.
"Do you see it, Leon? For your Empire, you endured humiliation and hardship, only to be ravaged by me like a toy."
"But what has your Empire ever done for you?"
"Now you can only endure this humiliation while looking at the land you fought desperately to protect. Neither of you can save the other."
"Do you want to preserve your last shred of dignity, great Dragon Slayer?"
"Then hold it in. Hold it in, hold it in, understand? Hahaha—"
Creak, creak, creak, creak, creak—
The branches groaned faster and faster, as though they were about to snap beneath the pressure.
Losweiser raised her head, and the light of the Dragon Mark on her chest turned completely purple.
At that moment, she truly wanted to crush the ribs of the man beneath her.
The Dragon Race expressed excitement with nothing more complicated than destruction and ruin.
But Losweiser still restrained herself.
Other than the first time they reproduced, when pregnancy was inevitable, the Dragon Race could use this contraceptive method within twenty-four hours afterward.
Its success rate was 99.99 percent.
She quietly savored the lingering warmth of this revenge, closed her eyes, and silently activated magic to destroy the foreign substance within her body.
After a long while, Losweiser gave a soft, mocking laugh.
"You failed, Leon. As the Empire's most renowned Dragon Slayer, right beside it, you committed such shameless acts with an evil Dragon King."
"Haha, hahahaha—how does that feel? Hmm?"
"Answer me, Leon!"
Answer?
How was he supposed to answer?
Leon only felt like a puddle of mud.
Perhaps he was even worse than mud.
After all, mud would not be toyed with so wantonly by a Dragon Queen.
"Not even scraps of your dignity and pride remain now, understand? From now on, you can only be my prisoner, kept at my side on a leash like a pet. Do you understand?"
"Shall we come here once every month, Leon? Shall we?"
"That way, you can see your hometown once a month."
"Heh heh, hehe—"
She laughed sickeningly, her laughter nearly crazed.
"Losweiser." The man's deep voice interrupted the Queen's unrestrained laughter.
Something seemed not yet extinguished in those dead-water eyes of his.
"You can humiliate me, trample me, carve Dragon Marks into me, and toy with my dignity like garbage, but—"
He suddenly surged up, gripping Losweiser's shoulders tightly. Like an enraged guardian statue, like a roaring lion, he shouted,
"You can never kill a Dragon Slayer's conviction!"
"I will wait. I will wait slowly, until that opportunity comes."
"When that day comes, I will return everything you have done to me twofold!"
Losweiser was surprised that this man still had the will to resist her.
But she was only surprised.
She reached out, seized Leon by the neck, and shoved him back down.
"Fine. I'll wait for you, Leon Kasmod. We will fight to the death!"
After exchanging their threats, neither of them continued provoking the other.
Losweiser walked aside, picked up her long dress, and put it on unhurriedly.
Leon also straightened his clothes.
Once they had both tidied themselves up, Losweiser turned around, returned to Leon's side, and without another word wrapped her tail around his waist, lifting his entire body into the air.
Before Leon could say anything, Losweiser spread her Dragon Wings and leaped from the top of the giant tree, landing lightly on the ground.
After landing, she casually tossed Leon aside and strode toward the other end of the forest. "Let's go."
Leon got up and glanced at the deep forest ahead.
From the outskirts of the Empire to the Silver Dragon Sanctuary, even the Silver Dragon Queen, renowned for her speed, needed at least three hours of flight.
With such a long journey ahead, did she really intend to walk back with Leon?
After taking a few steps and seeing that Leon had not followed, Losweiser stopped and looked back. "Hurry up. Our daughter is still waiting for us at home."
She said it as casually as if the Empire and the Silver Dragon Sanctuary were neighbors upstairs and downstairs.
If they really walked back to the Silver Dragon Sanctuary, then by the time they saw Mu En, that little dragon girl would probably have become an adult female dragon.
But Leon said nothing. He merely dragged his exhausted body after her in silence.
Since Her Majesty the Queen wanted to indulge in the romance of walking, Leon would accompany her to the end.
He followed slightly behind Losweiser, maintaining a certain distance.
But Leon had clearly overestimated his current condition.
He had only just awakened from a two-year coma, then immediately been crazily drained by this Dragon Queen. He ought to have been in that post-climax haze, perhaps smoking a cigarette afterward, yet he had no choice but to wander through this damned forest with Losweiser.
Before they had even walked for half an hour, Leon was drenched in sweat and gasping for breath.
He walked to a tree, braced one hand against its trunk, and wanted to rest for a moment.
Losweiser stopped and turned to look at Leon. "Can't walk anymore?"
Leon raised his head, glanced at her, and stubbornly replied, "I can walk."
Losweiser smiled faintly. "If you can't walk anymore, you can tell me. It's not as if I'm heartless."
Leon paused slightly at her words.
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