It turned out the archdragon had been telling the truth when he said earlier that she could inherit the position of Trainee Death God.
She had thought the archdragon was joking. After all, something like Trainee Death God sounded completely unreliable.
Maybe it was because she had rarely left the imperial capital. Or perhaps she simply had never encountered any of those strange yet powerful people.
Most importantly, she could not live for several thousand years, so she had no time to grow stronger.
Without becoming stronger, she would have no chance to play with powerful experts.
And without being able to play with them, she would have no opportunity to encounter strange professions.
Lucia suddenly felt that being a long-lived, playful archdragon who liked wandering around and grinding achievements sounded quite interesting.
Perhaps she really should seriously consider the first dream she had mentioned yesterday.
Becoming an archdragon as outstanding as the black dragon Lance.
The moment this thought appeared, the young dragon raised her claw and smacked her bald head several times. Envy had made her an idiot. How could a human become an archdragon? With only a hundred years, she would probably just be taking her first steps toward becoming an archdragon when her life ended.
Not every archdragon could become an archdragon as outstanding as Lance.
It was not as though archdragons had never appeared on the continent before. With so many archdragons, she had never heard of one who was like Lance—who only cared about having fun and neglected everything else.
The archdragons of the past were the real archdragons. An archdragon like Lance was a freak among archdragons.
It was not that the archdragons of the past were abnormal. Archdragon Lance was the abnormal one.
A normal archdragon definitely would not be like Lance.
Of course, if she were asked whether she preferred spending time with normal archdragons or with abnormal archdragons like Lance, she would say that she preferred being with abnormal archdragons like Lance.
Following an abnormal archdragon allowed her to learn things. Following a normal archdragon might get her pregnant. If archdragon Lance got you pregnant, he would at least wait until you were an adult.
Hmm. He would probably wait until the young dragon became an adult, right? Lucia could not guarantee it.
Oh no, the archdragon was looking over.
The young dragon hurriedly turned toward the painting on the wall in the corner. She had been so focused on listening to the archdragon and that Death God from Hell that she had not paid attention to what the archdragon Lance's strongest enemy looked like.
Huh? Why did the person in the painting in the corner have a crooked mouth and slanted eyes? He was so ugly.
Was archdragon Lance's strongest enemy really that ugly? Or was Lance simply bad at painting back then? It should not be a problem with his painting skills. He had painted that pretty big sister archdragon very well just now.
Could it be that the archdragon had intentionally painted his former enemy to look ugly?
That possibility was rather high.
The archdragon was petty and held grudges.
He really might do something like make his strongest enemy look ugly in a painting.
Brude Donahue.
That name was written in the lower-right corner of the painting.
It should be the name of the person in the painting.
The name Brude Donahue felt somewhat familiar. She seemed to have seen it somewhere recently. The young dragon lifted her head and carefully searched her memories.
Was this person a hero or champion recorded in history? The fact that the name felt familiar meant that this strongest enemy of the archdragon Lance had been a powerful figure remembered throughout history.
Where had she seen or heard it recently?
The young dragon thought for a long while, but still could not remember, and she grew irritated. She could swear that she had definitely seen this person—or at least this name—somewhere recently.
Why could she not remember it all of a sudden?
Had Smelly Imperial Sister knocked her silly with an iron basin when she was little? Smelly Imperial Sister!!! She remembered now! She had seen this name in Smelly Imperial Sister's study! Smelly Imperial Sister had even said that this person was her goal, the one she intended to surpass.
After returning to her palace, she had asked Eva to investigate this person. She had discovered that he was an ancient figure from more than two thousand five hundred years ago—a powerful person who had incited a God War and established a new temple and a new empire.
Lucia did not dare comment on this ancient figure, nor did she know how to describe him.
Smelly Imperial Sister had taken this person as her goal and regarded this ancient figure as someone she needed to surpass. At the time, Lucia had thought that Smelly Imperial Sister Asina was insane.
Brude Donahue was the first madman in history to refuse to pay taxes to the temples.
To avoid paying taxes to the temples, he had deliberately established a temple within his own country. He had chosen one god from among the many gods to worship, then used that god's name to oppose the War God Temple of the God of Light Court, which had been the most powerful force at the time.
The temple established by Brude Donahue was called the War God Temple.
He had chosen to worship the God of War.
The War God Temple's creed was: self-reliance, indomitability, fairness, justice, passion, valor, and daring to strike back against bullying by attacking the strong despite being weak.
The God of War, whom this ancient figure had forcefully elevated, had probably wished he could shoot a divine arrow down from the legendary divine realm and kill Brude Donahue.
Because during that period, the God of War was also a god worshiped by the God of Light Court.
And then... the God of War really did symbolize self-reliance, indomitability, valor, passion, fairness, and justice.
Using the God of War to oppose all the gods of the God of Light Court—mm-hmm. The young dragon only wanted to say one thing: this ancient figure not only knew how to have fun, he was also shameless. Most importantly, he had actually succeeded. The God of War probably had no idea what crime he could use to punish this believer.
Otherwise, Smelly Imperial Sister would not have taken this ancient figure as the person she wanted to surpass. Wait. Smelly Imperial Sister Asina had taken this ancient figure as the person she wanted to surpass. Could that woman also be planning to incite a God War?
The various temples in the imperial capital did not seem quite that excessive. However, in recent decades, the empire had indeed needed to pay taxes to several extremely powerful temples. Thinking of this, Lucia suddenly began to worry about her Smelly Imperial Sister. If she failed after making enemies with several temples, she might not only fail to become empress—she might not even remain an Imperial Daughter. Even the archdragon Lance, who was so powerful, did not dare provoke the temples on his own.
How did Smelly Imperial Sister dare think of something like this? Did she really think she was the ferocious ancient figure Brude Donahue? "You know him?"
"Mm—no, no, I don't. The person in the painting is kind of ugly."
Imperial Daughter Lucia knew him, but the young dragon did not.
It was even less possible for her to know what earth-shaking things this ancient figure had once done.
The name Brude Donahue was far less widely known in the human world than the heroes and champions recorded in history.
If she had not been curious about why Smelly Imperial Sister wanted to surpass someone like him, she might not have investigated him at all.
By coincidence, she had gained a rough understanding of this ancient figure.
But she had not thought much of it at the time.
"Lance, was he strong?"
"Very strong. If he hadn't been, I wouldn't have regarded him as my strongest enemy."
"You couldn't beat him?"
"I couldn't back then."
"What about now?"
"Beating him would be like beating up a child."
The archdragon was definitely bragging. This ancient figure had even dared to use the God of War, so he certainly would not have been afraid of an archdragon like Lance.
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