Carlos was quite pleased by the comfort his master offered. The beast's pupils, usually filled with a desire to hunt and destroy, had softened considerably.
It spread its dragon wings toward Xia Linyuan, raising its scales like a set of steps.
Xia Linyuan stepped on the raised scales and climbed between its two thick horns.
Watching this, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but marvel inwardly.
He hadn't expected Xia Linyuan and Carlos to be so close. Such a thing would have been completely impossible with anyone else.
At the same time, Huo Yuhao was astonished by how much the Molong Duke Mansion valued Xia Linyuan.
How much manpower and material would it take to capture a powerful dragon Spirit Beast like Carlos? And to make one as affectionate toward a person as this, how young would it have to be when they started building a bond?
What Huo Yuhao didn't know was that Carlos hadn't been raised by the Molong Duke Mansion at all. Xia Linyuan had found him while carrying out a mission in another world.
Still, he'd guessed half of it right. Xia Linyuan had found Carlos before he'd even hatched, and their close bond really had been cultivated from a young age.
"Hey, what are you standing there for?" Xia Linyuan frowned, his swordlike brows drawing together as he looked at Huo Yuhao, who was standing there blankly, lost in thought.
At the sound of Xia Linyuan's indifferent voice, Huo Yuhao's wandering thoughts snapped back. "Coming, coming!"
Xia Linyuan glanced at him, then looked away, as if even seeing him was a bother.
Huo Yuhao carefully climbed onto Carlos's head and wrapped his arms around one of the thick horns.
A familiar sensation washed over him. His vision blurred, and in the blink of an eye, they were