Confirmed

Having been found out, Solam was not embarrassed. Though he had not expected Shattered Demon Crystal to see through him so quickly, he did not think there was anything wrong with using tricks against something as rotten to the core as Shattered Demon Crystal.

"That's a minor issue. We don't need to worry about it. Continuing from what I was saying, look, I'm a Beast Elf. My maximum lifespan is only six hundred years. But what about Klauth? Even if he can't transform into an ancient dragon, he'll definitely live for several thousand years, right? Six hundred years with me, several thousand with him—which do you think is the better deal?"

For ordinary intelligent creatures, a sentence of several hundred years and one of several thousand years were basically no different, because most intelligent creatures would never live that long. But Shattered Demon Crystal was different. It could exist for tens of thousands of years at a time, so several hundred years and several thousand years were unquestionably vastly different to it.

A few hundred years could be endured and would pass before long. But several thousand years meant enduring for a truly long time. Worse still, a red dragon's lifespan had no fixed limit. If Klauth really was that formidable and lived to become an ancient dragon, then things would get interesting. That would truly have to be measured in tens of thousands of years. Even Shattered Demon Crystal had to carefully weigh such a long stretch of time.

Shattered Demon Crystal fell silent for a long while before finally saying, as if it could endure no more, "A lifetime? Really?"

"Absolutely!" Naturally, Solam would not tell it that he could extend his life. As long as he wished, he could keep himself alive with spells.

"Becoming an undead