Above The Sky
Chapter 431 - 431 401 Terra Dragon Shadow 23

431: Chapter 401: Terra Dragon Shadow (2/3) 431: Chapter 401: Terra Dragon Shadow (2/3) It had only been one night, and Ian had not forgotten a prophecy made to him by the psychic child Linda—a little girl.

She said, in her precognition, something quite important was happening in Nauman City.

The Spirit Insight Institute there had joined forces with another power and ultimately acquired an ‘ordinary yet precious’ object from a certain church.

Linda was just an Artificial Human, taught by Baron Leyan to have wisdom for not many years.

The Terra Continent was so vast; there were many things she didn’t recognize and naturally did not know how to describe to Ian.

But merely these bits of information were enough.

——A treasure had appeared in Nauman City, and the Spirit Insight Institute would obtain it amid the contest of various parties.

The precondition was that Ian didn’t exist.

Or rather, Ian didn’t interfere with them.

This was clearly unrealistic.

Because Ian had always been around, and in the morning, or more precisely, at dawn, he had even killed a likely Deputy Director of the Spirit Insight Institute, who was responsible for the experiments of Baron Leyan’s family.

To say that such an action had no impact on the future, Linda might believe it, but Ian would not.

That treasure obviously could no longer be acquired by the Spirit Insight Institute.

And moreover…

“Perhaps the changes had already started a while ago, since I left Harrison Port,”

Suddenly sensing something, Ian raised his head to see a shiny, silver, glowing orb streaking across the sky above, the dazzling light reflected in his sapphire-like pupils, and then it rapidly flew towards the north.

The expression on the young man’s face froze for a moment.

But his gaze remained firmly fixed in the direction where the silver orb had vanished: “…A meteor?

No, that’s something alive…”

Seconds later, Ian’s eyes widened as he realized: “Is that a dragon?!”

The dragon’s shadow swept across the land.

This unknown dragon had flown out from the mountains west of the Bison Mountain Range, crossed the Agate Stone Plains, flew past Nauman City, and headed straight toward the direction of the Favette Mountain Range.

Wherever the dragon wings went, the clouds descended, and the light of heaven was stolen by them.

But its target was clearly not the mountains on the surface of the earth.

Mounted on a Camel Beast, Ian arrived at an open space in the forest.

He was currently located in the jungles to the east of Gold Leaf Town, watching this scene from afar.

The young man stared as the light from the dragon climbed higher and higher, reaching above the clouds in the high sky.

Eventually, it disappeared into the deep blue expanse of the sky, becoming a barely visible speck of starlight.

And after that, from the direction of Nauman City, many specks of light slowly rose—yet the dragon was already gone.

“So dragons fly this fast…”

Ian murmured to himself, “I can’t tell its Power Level, but it’s definitely not above the Fifth, yet its speed has already reached at least twenty times the speed of sound.

That’s enough to travel to outer space orbits…

No wonder I’ve never heard of many below Fourth Energy Level True Dragon Slayers on Terra.”

“After all, even various Sub-Dragons are daunting adversaries.”

And True Dragons…

Thinking so, he raised his hand and gently pressed it to his chest.

The young man knew there were dragons on Terra, and the Ancient Dragon Heart Core in the center of his chest came from an Ancient Dragon’s chest and was passed on to him by his mentor with a Silver Chip as the link—but he had never thought that he would see a dragon soaring through the sky and sweeping across the land just in the first month of starting his journey.

As he ventured, the world still turned.

With this in mind, Ian took a few deep breaths, then frowned slightly, “Wait, the Dragon Worship Cult?”

He remembered Linda’s prophecy and the warning of the Radiant Nun, and immediately awoke to the possibility in his mind: “Was that dragon really just passing by?”

“That important yet ordinary treasure…”

With this thought, he took off his helmet and removed the Frost Butterfly, which was dozily perched on his head, and contemplated his future strategy: “I should go immediately…

Hah, blood-red.

Indeed, Nauman City is truly a nest of dragons right now; I’m sure to get no good from going there.”

“Go there later…

light red?

That’s acceptable, within expectations.”

“It seems what the Radiant Nun said was indeed true, Nauman City can now be compared to a Dragon Nest.”

With a slight nod, Ian made his choice, “Indeed, we shall go to Nauman City later, I will stay a bit longer in Twin Trees Town…

Huh?”

Twin Trees Town was an agricultural and trade town, not far from Nauman City.

Its Twin Tree bread was quite famous, and one could gather a lot of information too.

Many adventurers from South Ridge intending to cross the Agate Stone Plains and pass the Indigo Mountain Gorge Entrance would make their final preparations in Twin Trees Town before starting their journey.

But at that thought, Ian suddenly paused, “Deep blue…

turning purple?

Mixed with a bit of light red…

Danger and chance coincide?”

As if understanding something, he nodded slightly and smiled, “It seems it is indeed worth waiting a bit longer.”

With that thought, Ian made eye contact with the Frost Butterfly that was cocking its head innocently at him and then rubbed its little head, “Little guy, the speed of the Fae is said to be on par with dragons, or even faster—you must not lose face.

You have to be as fast as the dragon just now, fast enough to fly up to the sky!”

Flap flap, the Frost Butterfly took off, then comfortably perched back on the boy’s head.

Ian smacked his lips, clearly having no expectations for the little guy, he had to rely on himself.

“Let’s go, destination Twin Trees Town.”

Sunlight pierced through the foliage, casting specks of golden light on the Camel Beast and the Knight, embellishing the path ahead in the forest.

They set off on another chapter of adventure.

…

Some time later.

Solitary Flame Peak.

The Valley of Battle.

The city guards hadn’t had the chance to clean up the area yet, and emissaries from the Naling Noble Court hadn’t managed to arrive immediately due to the delicate situation in Nauman City at present.

On a perch surrounding the valley’s mountain peaks, a shadow quietly emerged, gazing distantly at the battlefield’s chaos.

Shrouded in a cloak that shimmered with watery hues, the figure appeared like a chameleon emerging from the rocks.

He was able to twist light and conceal his form in broad daylight precisely because he was clothed in that cloak.

“Deputy Director Solas is really dead…”

Adjusting the focus on his observation glasses, the shadow whispered to himself, “Baron Leyan couldn’t possibly possess such strength.

We know him well; the Deputy Director had three contingency plans against him, each capable of resolving him within five minutes—Baron Leyan definitely had help!”

“The question is, who helped him?

Is it a local noble from South Ridge, or his kin from the Mountain People?

Or could it be from Fiery Flame Land?

Unbelievable as it may be, these are the possibilities…”

After observing for a while, the Spirit Insight Institute’s observer concluded another point, “No, that’s not right, Baron Leyan wasn’t killed by the Deputy Director either…

The Lamenting Blue Poison has little effect on Rockwood Whitestags, the Baron could have only had some physical discomfort at most, how could he have died so tragically?”

“He was killed by someone else too!”

Upon confirming this, the observer from the Spirit Insight Institute couldn’t contain his shock, “Wait, does that mean there’s a mysterious person of unknown origin who first killed Baron Leyan, then killed Deputy Director Solas, and then…

then had Moqiu activate the Spirit Energy to cover their tracks?

And in the end, they killed all the Spirit Energy children to silence them…”

“Oh, Ten Thousand Spirits, such brutality, it’s horrifying!”

Though an observer of the Spirit Wisdom Institute, in essence, just a researcher accustomed to fieldwork, he was shocked by this possibility, “But the question remains, who has the ability to so easily kill two men who were among the highest at the Second Energy Level?!”

As images of renowned powerhouses from South Ridge flashed through his mind, the scout negated them one by one—they were all impossible, either not present or unlikely to act that way.

South Ridge was not peaceful of late, the whereabouts of all the powerhouses were quite clear, almost all converging around Nauman City.

“Could it be…

really Fiery Flame Land, or the Dragon Worship Cult?”

Eliminating all impossibilities, he finally guessed a possibility, “Yes, that must be it!”

However, just as this scout came to his conclusion.

[Oh?]

A grating hiss arrived, carrying the cold metallic edge and sparks of electricity.

A hand clutched the neck of the Spirit Insight Institute observer, and a deep male voice rose: [Tell me your speculation]

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