Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

"What the hell kind of Holy Giant Dragon is terrifying like this, you Black Dragon are the one that's bloody terrifying, you have completely taken advantage of the Sacred Golden Giant Dragon Constandy."

"And you, Black Dragon, are just severely depleted of breath and blood, not a single drop of the Dragon Blood flowing from your body or spewed out is wasted—all of it reclaimed by yourself."

Golden Giant Dragon Austin was infuriated by the first words uttered by the awoken Black Dragon. His father-in-law, being a Holy Golden Giant Dragon, was beaten from the sky to the ground twice by the Black Dragon. If Constandy is said to be terrifying like this, shouldn't Holy Giant Dragons be terrifying like this too?

To him, the truly terrifying one was the Black Dragon.

Thinking about his two battles with the Black Dragon, where neither he nor Erinna could force the Black Dragon to use the Sky Flipping Seal, he was incensed.

The proud Golden Giant Dragon couldn't admit that he was so much inferior to the Black Dragon.

Thunder Giant Dragon Erinna's feelings were similar to those of Golden Giant Dragon Austin. She prided herself on being as strong as any adult Pureblood Dragons of her age until she met the Black Dragon, who had defeated and suppressed her twice. Just now, she had watched in frustration as he fought evenly with the Holy Giant Dragon.

The might of the Black Dragon... it put immense pressure on her. Before the Black Dragon appeared, she had been training hard to grow stronger, even learning swordsmanship from the human Lance in order to defeat the Black Dragon, a mastery so profound it impressed Lance.

Yet even so, she was no match for the Black Dragon.

It seemed no matter how strong she became, the Black Dragon was always a step ahead.

During her first duel with the Black Dragon, she was defeated but felt she wasn't far behind in terms of strength.

After mastering swordsmanship, in their second duel, she realized how wrong she was. The four of them attacked the Black Dragon together, and even with Sophia employing the Summoning God Technique, they couldn't bring down the Black Dragon. That was when she realized the Black Dragon was far stronger than her.

Now, even the Sacred Golden Giant Dragon Constandy couldn't decisively defeat the Black Dragon, which made her doubt the extent of Black Dragon's strength... Could he be infinitely close to a Holy Giant Dragon?

He was only short of condensing Divinity and igniting Divine Fire to evolve into a Holy Giant Dragon.

This suspicion wasn't new. When the four of them failed to defeat the Black Dragon last time and were suppressed, she had doubted the Black Dragon's true power.

If the Black Dragon's strength was infinitely close to that of a Holy Giant Dragon, then her defeat didn't seem unacceptable.

If anything was unacceptable, it was that the Black Dragon was better than her, the Thunder Giant Dragon.

Erinna landed beside Sophia. "Is his blood energy truly that severely depleted?"

"Yes, it's far more depleted than last time, almost burnt out. I've only seen this in some humans who are on the brink of death. It seems during his battle with Lord Constandy, he's used something akin to a Blood Burning Secret Technique to forcefully elevate his combat power."

Sophia understood why Erinna asked this; Erinna doubted whether Black Dragon's weakness and blood energy depletion were just a ploy.

She too had harbored such doubts, but the condition of the Black Dragon's body just now convinced her that his depletion was real and serious, bearing signs of having burnt his blood energy...

It was reminiscent of how human Martial Artists would burn their blood energy in a desperate attempt to boost their strength—

The Blood Burning Secret Technique.

Such a technique is domineering and dreadful; no one would use it unless in dire straits.

It was surprising to her that the Black Dragon, for the sake of his dignity, resorted to something like the Blood Burning Secret Technique.

Considering that the Black Dragon had been wandering the Human World, it wasn't far-fetched that he might have learned such a technique from strong human warriors.

Such a foolish move.

The Blood Burning Secret Technique used by the Black Dragon was especially likely to damage his foundation; he had indeed hurt it to some extent.

Had she not been there, it would have taken him at least two or three years of resting and healing to recover that bit of his foundation.

Streams of emerald healing energy continued to flow relentlessly into Lance's body.

Lance suddenly felt... Sophia wasn't bad at all. Just the day before yesterday, he had thought about taking away her War God Armor. Yet today, when he was "injured" so badly, she still voluntarily offered him healing.

What a good person.

Good thing she wasn't his daughter; if she were, he'd make sure she understood the cruelty of the world with that kind-hearted nature of hers.

Then again, with Sophia's strength, maybe there was no need to worry. If someone dared to harm her, she could easily suppress them with her power.

This emerald energy... it felt rather comfortable... like a force of rebirth.

Yet different from the regeneration power of Squid Girl.

"Thank you."

Lance gave Sophia a grin and uttered a "Thank you."

He didn't want his daughter to be too saintly, but that didn't stop him from liking good people.

Who would hate a good person?

He had always liked good people since childhood, and to those who were kind to him, he ensured they were rewarded.

"Ah? Oh oh oh... no no no need for thanks."

Sophia was flustered for a moment, not expecting the proud and domineering Black Dragon to actually say "Thank you."

She had thought Black Dragon wouldn't know how to say "Thank you."

Hehe...

No wonder she didn't resist interacting with the Black Dragon. It turned out that the Black Dragon... wasn't an ignorant, arrogant... impolite Black Dragon.

She could sense his "good."

And she could faintly sense his "evil."