The cry of "Faster" echoed across the snowfields, crossed the border of the Shadowflame Grand Duchy, and vanished at the edge of the Golden Plains.
The Peat Dragon beat its wings desperately, as if some great terror pursued it. It continuously burned its essence and blood to accelerate its flight.
Several gashes had split open across its belly, spilling an unknown amount of dragon blood. Now, with the Golden Plains finally in sight, its wounds had closed and stopped bleeding. But from excessive blood loss, its strength had already been utterly drained.
"Wooo!"
It let out a mournful cry. Scalding tears slid from the corners of its eyes, freezing into ice crystals in midair before falling into the skylight of an underground cavern.
A freeman was searching the skylight for moss to stave off hunger when an ice crystal suddenly struck him. He clutched his head and rolled to the ground. Once he saw what had hit him, he curiously picked it up. The ice crystal was unexpectedly warm.
Then it instantly melted into his body.
He felt the Battle Qi Seed within his body, which had already grown weak and listless, suddenly begin to pulse with vigor. Unfortunately, it was still not enough to bloom.
At the same time, he felt a heart-rending sorrow and could not help bursting into loud sobs beneath the skylight. "Wuwuwuwuwuwuwu!"
The Peat Dragon had already flown far away.
Its body swayed unsteadily, yet it stubbornly refused to fall, gliding toward Kingtop Castle.
When Kingtop Castle came into view, the Peat Dragon could no longer hold on. Its dragon eyes closed, and its body fell like a shooting star.
Boom!
It crashed directly onto the grassland near Kingtop Castle, smashing out a huge crater.
"It's Lord Howard!" The guard knights of Kingtop Castle rushed