Little Dragon in the Flames (Third Update, Celebration for a Ten-Thousand-Coin Donation 1/2)

This bonus chapter was brought to you in celebration of "My Horse Feeds Sheep"'s ten-thousand-coin donation.

There was a legend in this world.

A phoenix lived for five hundred years. When it was about to die, it would gather many branches and burn itself to ashes. From those ashes, a new phoenix would be born, and so the cycle went on and on.

Another legend said that after a phoenix died, worms would breed within its bones. The worms would continually devour one another, eventually growing into a new phoenix.

Of course, there was also a legend that phoenixes lived in volcanic craters, that they were new creatures born after the death of Fire Dragons.

"A five-hundred-year cycle... That sounds somewhat like the legend of Dragon Valley Virginia told me about. Legend says Dragon Valley is where dragons undergo reincarnation. Old dragons return to Dragon Valley and arrange the secrets of their own rebirth... It seems these legends are all connected."

When it came to legendary creatures, reincarnation and immortality were probably the only miraculous phenomena humans could imagine.

He placed the Phoenix Feather on the table, then had a servant bring him paper and a pen before beginning to write a letter. The letter was addressed to Marquis Merlin, expressing his gratitude and hinting that he would look after the Long-Yam Family. At the same time, he asked Marquis Merlin for more information about the Phoenix Feather.

Where had it come from? Were there truly living phoenixes?

After finishing the letter, he lit a candle, scooped out some rosin and melted it over the seal of the envelope. Then he took out a long rectangular seal engraved with the half-Snake Script name "Lis" and pressed it into the rosin, leaving behind his personal mark. He handed it to