Not long ago, when she had just received the reply.
That very night... she had even had a dream.
In short, it was a terrifying nightmare.
In the dream...
Luo Ge was viciously stomped into the snow by a fierce-looking, terrifying man, hundreds or thousands of times scarier than the Superd Tribe.
Amid the swirling wind and snow.
Luo Ge lay on the ground, his face filled with despair, his entire body a mangled mass of flesh and blood without a single intact patch.
He crawled laboriously across the ground like a maggot.
Dragging his broken body...
As he crawled, he kept screaming miserably at her, "Teacher! Save me! Hurry and save me, aaaah!!!"
"Why?!"
"Why... won't you save me, Teacher?!"
Whenever she instinctively tried to reach out and pull her disciple up, Roxy would wake from the nightmare.
Her whole body broke out in a cold sweat.
Luo Ge was dead.
That became a grief Roxy could never let go of.
Meanwhile, on the other side.
The scene shifted back to the Red Dragon Mountains.
Luo Ge had no idea that his family was burning incense in his memory, or that his teacher Roxy was privately grieving for him.
At that moment, he was enduring an extremely difficult struggle to survive in the wilderness.
On a sheer cliff above a bottomless drop.
He climbed laboriously alone, his fingers digging into cracks in the rock and his toes resting on barely visible protrusions, every step like treading on thin ice.
Below him lay swirling clouds and a vast abyss...
Fortunately, he could cloak himself in Touki, and his training since childhood had given him a monstrous physique.
Luo Ge could still hold on.
Besides the steep cliff and the extremely harsh conditions, the most important thing was to remain constantly on guard against the flocks of Red Dragons overhead.
If a single Red Dragon attacked him now, he would face a beating from an entire flock. One careless mistake would send him plunging into the abyss to be smashed to pieces.
Although Luo Ge felt that, with his current strength, dealing with a lone Red Dragon probably would not be much of a problem.
The terrain here simply was not suitable for fighting.
Having died once, Luo Ge treasured his life all the more. This time, he would rather go slowly than recklessly get himself killed.
And so, he clung to the rock face like a gecko, laboriously climbing upward at a snail's pace.
Whenever a Red Dragon approached, he quickly found cover and hid, only moving again once it had flown far away.
Sometimes, after finally finding a foothold, he had to change his route at the last moment because it was too close to a Red Dragon nest.
What a pain...
If only I knew flight magic. Luo Ge had thought that more than once as he climbed.
Just then, he spotted another Red Dragon nest nearby. Several adult Red Dragons circled in the vicinity, seemingly patrolling their territory.
Fortunately, Luo Ge possessed the Transparent World talent, allowing him to conceal every trace of his presence perfectly.
The Red Dragons therefore failed to notice Luo Ge. Before long, they beat their wings and flew off into the distance to hunt for prey.
Luo Ge had just breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave when his foot suddenly slipped, missing its foothold.
Huh?
Unlucky him.
His entire body promptly... tumbled into one of the caves, a Red Dragon's nest.
"Oh no!"
He silently cursed his rotten luck. He had actually fallen into a Red Dragon nest by accident. It was sticky underfoot. Luo Ge reached down to touch it, then brought his hand to his nose and sniffed.
A foul stench instantly assaulted him.
It was a dung heap.
Bleeergh, bleeergh, bleeergh!!!!
Luo Ge retched violently... nearly throwing up even his New Year's Eve dinner.
When your luck turned bad, even a sip of water could get stuck between your teeth.
He had finally made it out of the labyrinth, only to fall into a dung heap.
He was inside a damp cave.
Fortunately... it was daytime, and the adult Red Dragons had all gone out to forage. The nest was empty, with only a few Red Dragon eggs lying there.
Red Dragon eggs.
If he took them out and sold them, he would definitely make a fortune. He had heard that those Asura nobles loved nourishing things like these. They would absolutely fetch an astronomical price.
But Luo Ge had no designs on those eggs.
If you don't court death, you won't die.
He did not want a moment of greed to bring the Red Dragon flock's frenzied retaliation down on him.
Just as Luo Ge turned to leave, one of the eggs suddenly made a faint cracking sound, instantly drawing his attention.
"Huh?"
"What's that?"
From where Luo Ge stood, he saw a crack open in the eggshell, followed immediately by a tiny Red Dragon breaking out.
Its wet little head poked out, curiously surveying the world outside. As he licked up the egg fluid, those large golden eyes were filled with innocent wonder.
Luo Ge glanced at it without thinking much of it... then turned to leave.
But he had barely taken a step when he felt something bite his trouser leg.
He looked down.
"What are you looking at me for?"
They stared at each other. Biting his trousers... was none other than the newly hatched Red Dragon from just now. Seeing him biting, Luo Ge raised his arm, ready to give the dragon a beating.
He could not afford to mess with a flock of Red Dragons.
But surely he could beat one tiny Red Dragon hatchling? If pushed too far, he would simply stew him.
Yet Luo Ge seemed to notice... that the little fellow meant him no harm.
His face wore an ingratiating expression.
As long as Luo Ge stayed put, he would roll around affectionately, exposing his little belly. The moment Luo Ge tried to leave, it grew anxious.
It squeaked and squealed.
Then insisted on biting Luo Ge's trouser leg.
It looked determined not to let him leave.
"What the fuck are you making all that noise for? You want a beating?"
Luo Ge glared at it irritably. He felt uncomfortable all over, his body sticky and stinking to high heaven.
Right now... he just wanted to get out of here quickly, find somewhere deserted, and use water magic to take a hot bath before anything else.
Seeing that it was about to cry out again.
Luo Ge worried that it would attract the Red Dragons outside, so he simply covered the hatchling's mouth with his hand and made a shushing gesture, signaling it to stay quiet from then on.
Unexpectedly... the little fellow was highly intelligent and actually seemed to understand.
However, whenever Luo Ge showed signs of leaving, once the little fellow realized it would be abandoned... it would eagerly trot after him and cry out.
What a pain... could it have mistaken me for his parent?
Luo Ge was thoroughly frustrated.
Not only had he fallen into a dung pit in a Red Dragon nest, but now a little Red Dragon had latched onto him. Ever since he met the Dragon God... he had been having terrible luck every time.
"Damn you, Dragon God! You must be secretly setting me up, right?"
Luo Ge punched the ground, finding himself caught in a dilemma.
There were only two choices before him now: either kill this Red Dragon hatchling to stop him from making noise.
Or take it with him.
After a moment's consideration, Luo Ge chose the latter without question.
Although that choice was more dangerous.
After all, taking the hatchling along could very well draw other Red Dragon flocks into pursuing him because of its scent.
But Luo Ge decided to go big.
The timid starved to death, while the bold stuffed themselves to death.
Still, come to think of it, if he really could tame a Red Dragon, he could ride it and become a dragon rider in this other world... If he encountered the Dragon God again, he could ride his Red Dragon right up to his face and unload on him.
Even if he could not win, he could still make a clean getaway.
That guy would surely stamp his feet in fury down on the ground, right?
Hehe, hyah!
The image of Dragon God Orsted's sour face losing its composure surfaced in Luo Ge's mind, and he could not help looking forward to it a little.
Just thinking about it felt pretty good.
Anyway, that settled it.
He was going to raise a Red Dragon, and together they would beat up the Dragon God!!!