"Nadalia?"
Bai Xuan stopped, his gaze sweeping over the Half-Dragon before him, whose body was covered in snow-white scales. Surprise flashed in his eyes.
He had never expected to meet the legendary Creation Dragon here.
He remembered that Marée Alaira's character quest seemed to be connected to the Creation Dragon.
But wasn't this the World Illusion? Why would someone seemingly unrelated appear here?
Unless—
Wait.
Bai Xuan suddenly understood.
Perhaps the Creation Dragon was not unrelated to Seliphina. Perhaps she had always played an indispensable role in this story.
That was how the Young Dragon exiled to the Land of Extreme Cold had come to grasp the Ice Supreme Principle.
"Then—"
Just then, Nadalia spoke softly. "Why have you come here? And why help this exiled Little Ice Dragon?"
She tilted her head, her gaze as still as a frozen lake. "You seem to know a great deal. About... the future?"
"I helped Seliphina for no particular reason. I simply know her," Bai Xuan replied evenly. "As for what I know, how can you tell it concerns the future?"
"I can't be sure. It's just... intuition," Nadalia said calmly.
"Intuition?"
Bai Xuan smiled. "Then your intuition is sharp. I do know a few things that haven't happened yet."
He made no attempt to hide it.
After all, the Nadalia before him was only a phantom within the illusion.
Nothing he did here would affect reality.
"Oh? Then you're no ordinary person."
Intrigued, Nadalia bent closer. She stood a full two heads taller than Bai Xuan, and now looked down at him with a faint smile. "May I ask you something?"
"Go ahead."
"Is Kandra... still worth saving?"
Bai Xuan fell silent.
Kandra was the world of Dragons where Marée Alaira and the others lived. Now it stood on the brink