"Dragon, choose another condition. We are traveling companions. I won't abandon any of them!"
Shade spoke decisively as he tucked Mia into the inner pocket of his coat, preparing to fight.
More precisely, whether a Flame Demon or a Dragon was stronger depended on their respective ages and species. But since they had been able to defeat the Flame Demon on their first visit, perhaps, in this "Traveler Mode," where they did not know whether the enemy had been weakened or they themselves had grown stronger, they could defeat a Dragon as well.
Clearly, Shade was not the only one thinking that way. The Unicorn's golden horn was already gleaming with glimmer, and the Witch was even angrier than Shade.
"Choose another condition?"
The enormous dragon head considered this:
"Then there is only money. Lots and lots of gold, or powerful relics, precious ancient books."
Shade certainly did not have any of those. Though the Witch had brought some items that might help them, they were not particularly expensive either.
Realizing this, silver-white electric arc crackled in Shade's lowered right hand. He had always heard that the Thunder Spear and Sunlight Gun dealt special damage to pure-blooded dragons. Since he could not verify that in the Sixth Epoch, this was the perfect chance to test it.
But before he could truly make a move, the dragon head's cave-like nostrils suddenly twitched again. It asked Shade suspiciously:
"How interesting. I thought I had smelled wrong just now. Why do you carry the scent of a mother dragon?"
Shade frowned slightly, recalling the "scent of a mother dragon" that Fiona, the Demigod Red Dragon Witch, had left on him when he used Eternal Night City's Time Key for the fifth and final time during the Battle of Randall River Valley. Though that