Sob, sob, sob...
In the mountains and forests, waves of a child's crying drifted through the air.
Little Adorable Dragon, with two tiny golden horns atop his head, was so aggrieved that he had nowhere to vent it.
He could not understand why his perfectly good life as a dragon prince had turned out like this.
Yet he could not curse out loud either. He feared that if he accidentally did, that elusive Senior Torch Dragon would appear beside him again to crush his spirits.
Of course, if it were merely some verbal blows, he would not mind. What he feared was that this senior would simply take him back and send him off to the Azure Dragon Realm.
They said the Azure Dragon Realm was where Dragon Clan seniors went for further study, a place established by the Dragon Clan's ancestor, Azure Dragon. But in Little Adorable Dragon's eyes, it was a place where criminal dragons were exiled.
He was the dignified dragon prince of the Eastern Sea. He refused to go to such a place.
Roar...
A beast's roar came from deep within the dense forest.
Little Adorable Dragon was furious. As the king of all beasts, how could some beast dare roar before him?
So he roared back directly. His dragon cry reverberated, intimidating the entire forest.
A tiger's roar sounded from afar. Seemingly displeased that some beast dared challenge its authority, its imposing aura came rushing at him from a great distance.
At the sight of this, Little Adorable Dragon turned around, pumped his short little legs faster, and rode the wind away.
More than half a month later, Little Adorable Dragon finally emerged from that forest, bedraggled and dirty. Facing a Myriad Races City in the distance, he cheered, spread his arms, and ran forward