Lucia showed off the ancient Dragon Language she had just learned in front of the evil dragon Lance, happy and excited that she could accurately pronounce her first Dragon Language character.
The evil dragon's pinyin-based Dragon Language learning method was incredibly effective. Before yesterday, she never would have believed that she could learn to pronounce ancient Dragon Language within two hours. Even if it was only one character, it was still tremendous progress for her.
Ancient Dragon Language characters had many strokes, and the writing seemed to contain some kind of magical power, making them rather laborious to write.
Take the character for dragon in Dragon Language, for example. The character for dragon in the human world had very few strokes and was simple to write.
The dragon character in Dragon Language had many strokes, like an ancient rune. But when written in her notebook, it was clearly much prettier than the human world's character for dragon.
After learning pinyin came learning how to form words.
Forming words was simple. For example, when the evil dragon told her to make words with dragon, she could say black dragon, evil dragon, giant dragon, and young dragon.
Write it down, write it down.
Lucia took out her diary, lay on the ground, and began writing.
Time: Year 3455 of the Black Dragon Calendar, June 19, night.
Under the tutelage of the evil dragon Lance, young dragon Lucia learned to pronounce and handwrite her first Dragon Language character: dragon.
This was a small step in the evil dragon's teaching, but a giant leap in young dragon Lucia's study of Dragon Language.
Thank you, evil dragon Lance.
After finishing, Lucia closed her diary, and a scene surfaced in her mind of returning to the imperial capital and elegantly complaining about her awful Imperial Sister in Dragon Language.
Hmph, awful Imperial Sister. The Imperial Daughter who was captured by an evil dragon had not only the risk of becoming pregnant, but also the possibility of becoming a Dragon Language historian.
Maybe by then, I can even use Dragon Language to chant spells.
Imagining the wonderful future of returning to the imperial capital, the young dragon walked toward her sleeping spot with her eyes closed.
It was so late. Time to sleep.
Lucia discovered that she could walk no farther. She turned her head and saw that the evil dragon had one enormous foot planted on her tail.
Good grief, stepping on a dragon's tail. Did he learn that move from the evil dragon?
"What are you doing?"
"G-going to sleep."
"Before you sleep, follow me through the Life Nurturing and Longevity Exercise once."
"..."
Did he really have to be this health-conscious?
Health exercises in the morning and health exercises at night. As an evil dragon, how many years did he plan to live?
She did not dare refuse. She would just follow along with the exercise.
I, the Imperial Daughter of the Farolyn Empire, began practicing health cultivation at fifteen, following an evil dragon in doing it.
The evening exercise was pretty simple. Just stand in place without moving and close your eyes.
The evening exercise was kind of interesting. She felt a little silly while doing it. The evening exercise was way too difficult. Someone save me. I don't want to do health exercises anymore. I want to sleep. Boo-hoo.
Lance thought the young dragon he had picked up was quite amusing. It was easy to guess what she was thinking from her expressions.
When she encountered a simple, easy-to-learn movement, her expression looked like this: ()
When she encountered a more complicated movement, her expression looked like this: ￣へ￣
Now she had gone and curled up there to sleep.
He had no idea what she had thought of just now. After closing her eyes, she suddenly opened them again and cast a hesitant glance in his direction.
He guessed she wanted to say something but was too embarrassed. Could she need to use the toilet?
There was no toilet in the Dragon Lair. The toilet was near the seaside.
She was still sneaking glances at him, this time with one eye open and the other closed.
Today was only their second day together, and the young dragon was still somewhat afraid of him.
The psychological pressure an adult giant dragon placed on a young dragon was greater than he had imagined.
"Do you have something to say?"
"Ah, no."
Lucia closed her eyes. Before long, she quietly opened them again.
"I-I have a question I want to ask you."
"Go ahead. From now on, ask directly whenever you want to know something. You don't have to look so cautious. I'm not as frightening as you imagine.
"Red dragons have much worse tempers than black dragons, and they lose control of their emotions very easily. I'm different. I rarely lose control of my emotions, and my temper is better than a red dragon's.
"So when you're facing me, don't worry about me losing control and beating you up."
"..."
Evil dragon, doesn't your conscience hurt when you say that? Did you forget what happened this afternoon, when you threatened me with your Dragon Fist and made me smash into the ground? You're bullying me because I'm timid and don't dare expose you.
"What I want to ask is, if your powerful enemies weren't in Hell, would you still look for them?"
"I wouldn't deliberately go looking for them. But if I happened to remember them one day, or needed to use them, I might try to find them."
"Oh, oh."
"Why are you asking this?"
"I was thinking that your powerful enemies are all very impressive figures. If I could learn something from them, would I become stronger? For example, that person called Brued Donahue."
"???"
The young dragon he had picked up seemed to look down on him, an adult black dragon, just a little too much. What was he supposed to do if she looked down on him? A small lesson should do.
The evil dragon Lance swung his tail and made Lucia bob her head against the ground three times.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow!" Lucia hugged the head that the evil dragon's tail had just struck with her claws and complained pitifully, "You lied to me, you lied to a dragon! You just said your emotions were more stable than a red dragon's, but the moment I finished speaking, you hit me with your tail."
"You're a young dragon. You planned to learn from your father's powerful enemy. If I didn't beat you, who would I beat?"
"..."
That did seem to make some sense. Saying in front of the evil dragon that she wanted to learn from a human seemed somewhat disrespectful to him. She had not meant it that way, and it was even less possible that she looked down on the evil dragon.
Fine. Since the evil dragon had misunderstood her, maybe getting beaten was only right. Wait??? No, that wasn't right. Why couldn't she learn something from powerful humans?
Hadn't the evil dragon transformed into a human and learned from humans before? The young dragon, who had lacked confidence a moment ago, instantly found her courage. "Y-you-you-you also learned from humans before."
"..."
Oh no. How had this silly-looking young dragon managed to think of that?
"It's different. Back then, I didn't have your good fortune. If I had encountered an amiable and powerful adult giant dragon like me during my youth, I definitely wouldn't have thought about going to the human world to study.
"I would have first learned from the adult giant dragon. After mastering all the adult giant dragon's skills, I would then have gone to the human world to understand its power system and compare the two.
"Only after determining that the human world's power system had something worth learning would I have considered studying it."
Lance had managed to convince himself with this explanation. In truth, it really was the case. If he had encountered a friendly adult giant dragon back then, one willing to teach him all kinds of abilities, he definitely would not have gone to the human world before mastering everything that adult giant dragon knew.
Lucia's luck as a young dragon was truly excellent.
She had met him at exactly the right time, neither too early nor too late. If she had met him a few hundred years earlier, or a few hundred years later, he might not have been willing to let the young dragon stay on the island.
Different times brought different thoughts.
Just like men in the human world, when they reached a certain age, they would always awaken some strange habits, such as fishing, drinking tea, getting foot massages, or practicing various health exercises. Speaking of which, how had he, at 3,455 years old, suddenly awakened the habit of raising a young dragon?
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