The Two Dragons' Speculation

Kingdom of Donagunov, residence of the Peace Negotiation Delegation

"Bang bang"

"Bang bang"

A series of urgent knocks startled Diphiya awake from her nap. Diphiya glanced around and, finding the house empty, tensed instantly. She tiptoed to the door and whispered, "Who is it?"

"Sister Diphiya, it's me!"

Hearing that it was Anna outside the door, Diphiya breathed a sigh of relief. Diphiya gently opened the door a crack, looked around to make sure no one was watching, and then grabbed Anna's wrist and pulled her into Sordil's room.

"You brat, you went out without telling me! You almost scared me to death!"

Faced with Diphiya's complaints, Anna didn't whine or deny it as usual. Instead, she asked anxiously, "Sister Diphiya, when will Teacher be able to get back from Fostadu?"

Noticing Anna's unusual behavior, Diphiya abandoned her teasing and quickly asked, "Little Anna, don't worry, tell me what happened first?"

"Just now, while my sister was fast asleep, a servant came to report that Queen Irene had sent someone to the inn to deliver an order. I didn't dare disturb my sister's rest, so I went to the main hall alone to meet the messenger. When I arrived, the messenger told me that Queen Irene wanted my teacher to come to the palace immediately to discuss important matters. Following the method my teacher had left behind, I kept the messenger in the hall and then hurriedly ran back. Sister, has my teacher returned yet?"

After listening to Anna's account, Diphiya frowned slightly, then sighed and asked in confusion, "Sordil left Fostadu a quarter of an hour ago and began his journey back here. But he hasn't returned yet?"

Upon learning that Sordil had not yet returned, Anna was sweating profusely and pacing back and forth in the room, repeatedly muttering, "What to do? What should I do?" Meanwhile, Diphiya, who had lost contact with Sodir, no longer had the heart to sit and sleep; instead, she became like Number Two headless fly. However, unlike Anna, Diphiya wasn't thinking about solutions; instead, she was hurling insults at Sordil.

Just as the two were reaching their most anxious moments, a silvery-white light suddenly burst forth from the room, followed by Bobo spatial tremors that spread outwards from the center. The spatial tremors grew increasingly intense, the silvery light intensified, and finally, the light dissipated, revealing a spatial rift in the center of the room. Then, a silver-haired youth slowly stepped out of the spatial rift and stood in the center of the room. After the youth left, the spatial rift gradually disappeared from the room, as if nothing had ever happened.

Upon seeing the boy appear before her, Diphiya rushed over and yelled, "Sordil, you bastard! Did you go to someone else's house for New Year's Eve dinner before coming back? You're so slow! I could ride a snail faster than you!"

Rushing back to his lodgings, before he could even catch his breath, he was met with a barrage of questions from Diphiya, leaving Sordil completely bewildered. Overwhelmed by her overwhelming presence, Sordil stumbled backward, finally losing his balance and collapsing into a chair. Patting his wildly beating heart and trying to clear his slightly jumbled thoughts, Sordil weakly pleaded, "My lady, what did I do wrong? Please tell me, don't leave me in the dark!"

"Explicitly? Fine! Then let me ask you, why did you only come back now?"

"The Spatial Coordinates here are not very stable. It took me a long time to find them, which is why I came back late."

"Spatial Coordinates? What are those?"

"Spatial Coordinates are the specific location of a place in space. They are composed of multiple parameters that indicate the direction, distance, and precise location of that place. Therefore, if you want to travel to a place using Space Magic, you must first obtain the Spatial Coordinates of that place. I was late coming back just now because I couldn't determine the precise coordinates here."

"Oh! I see! So how did you determine the precise coordinates here later?"

"Oh, this is..."

Just as Sordil was about to demonstrate his intelligence to Diphiya, Anna quickly interrupted their discussion.

"Teacher, Sister Diphiya, Queen Irene's envoy is still waiting in the hall! Shouldn't we deal with this problem first before discussing Space Magic?"

After Anna's reminder, Diphiya finally remembered why she had been so eager to see Sordil. So she hurriedly said to Sordil, "Anna's right, you need to hurry to the hall to see the person Irene sent. What are you wasting time here!"

Sordil, 'bleeding from all seven orifices,' took the huge black pot, then grabbed Anna's hand and fled out the door to the hall.

Royal Palace, Central Court

Just as Sordil used Space Magic to return to Dragunov, Belserion and Acnologia, who were playing chess in the garden, suddenly looked up in the direction of the delegation's residence.

"Aku, can you feel it?"

"I felt it! Including last night, this is the second time."

"Aku, do you think it's that brat from Fostadu?"

"Judging from the magical sensations, it should be that brat. Bell, did you get any results from questioning Irene yesterday?"

"No! Irene said that brat hasn't shown his face since last time. Now all our communication with Fostadu is through one of the people they left here."

After Belserion finished speaking, Acnologia scratched his head, racking his brains for all the possibilities. Suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, and Acnologia quickly turned to Belserion and said, "Is it possible that that brat secretly sneaked into the capital?"

"I've considered that possibility, but Irene told me that apart from an embassy from Cuiyi'aorshu, no strangers have entered the city recently."

"That..."

"I know what you're going to say, but all the members of that delegation were humans; there were no dragons among them."

With that last possibility ruled out, Acnologia was completely at a loss. He stared blankly at the chessboard, silent. After a minute or two of silence, Acnologia suddenly thought of another possibility and said, "Bell, do you think that brat might... Never mind! Never mind! Forget I said anything!"

Seeing Acnologia swallow the rest of his sentence, Belserion said impatiently, "Can you just say everything at once? Don't keep me in suspense like this!"

Upon hearing his old friend's words, Acnologia mustered up his courage and spoke the second half of his sentence.

"Bell, do you think that brat might have disguised himself as a human and followed the delegation into the city?"

"Disguise as a human? Aku, how dare you say that! You must know how big the size difference is between dragons and humans, Aku? How could a dragon possibly disguise itself as a human?"

"But didn't Irene say that that brat Sordil can freely change his body shape? Wouldn't that mean he could possibly blend into the delegation?"

After Acnologia finished speaking, Belserion silently gazed up at the starry sky, hoping the heavens would save Acnologia's intelligence. Acnologia, unaware of the flaw in his reasoning, pressed on when his old friend hesitated to answer, asking, "Was I wrong?"

After his prayers were shattered, Belserion had no choice but to return to reality and explain his mistake to his incompetent teammate.

"Aku, do you really think that all those people around Irene wouldn't notice a 'person' covered in scales?"