Chapter 150 Part 1
“You are a gentle person.”
The cool splash of the waterfall landed on Reina’s dazed face. When she looked up, she saw Calysia’s smiling face.
In a trance, the two had already arrived in the village below the stream.
On both sides were fields of corn and some rustic houses with thatched roofs. A few farm tools lay against the gray brick walls, and with a slight reach of her hand, she could touch the leaves of a hawthorn tree.
The two walked towards each other.
The road was sometimes a little treacherous, sometimes flat.
It wasn’t until they reached a shed at the foot of the mountain that they sat on a tree stump. Fragments and colors flashed in Calysia’s eyes, as if some images were flashing through her mind.
“I was a child who survived the war.”
“Defiant Dragon killed my mother. I was abandoned, exiled to the edge of the Dragon Realm, and no one was willing to take me in. So, I decided to just die.”
“I used the last treasure my mother left me… a spatial transfer scroll, to reach the human world.”
“Which is here.”
As Calysia spoke, the grass behind her actually began to move, and then, a smaller figure emerged from the grass, looking at the surroundings with fearful eyes.
When she stood completely before the two of them, Reina was almost too shocked to speak.
Her small body was wrapped in thick, coarse linen, covered in rubble and dust, and a few dirty leaves. She peeked out two small purple eyes from her messy clothes, cautiously observing the world. After confirming that there was no danger around, she finally came out of the grass, but she didn’t sit down to rest, instead continuing towards the village.
As if hindered by fate, just as the poor little thing began to walk towards the village, the sky suddenly became overcast, the whole world darkened, and a light rain began to fall. But the little girl didn’t slow down because of this, but rather quickened her pace.
A gust of wind blew the coarse linen covering her head, momentarily revealing her silver dragon horns. But the girl quickly covered her head, preventing her information from being exposed. After confirming that her small tail wouldn’t be revealed, the expression hidden under her thick clothes finally relaxed a little, and she continued to sway her body, moving forward stealthily.
“…She can’t see us.”
“This is the [past], and we are from the future. Unless it’s the Goddess of Light, no one can interfere with time and causality.”
Reina and Calysia followed behind. Although the rain in this world also fell on them, it slid down an invisible magic protective layer and fell to the ground. The little girl still couldn’t notice, just as Calysia had said, they couldn’t interfere with this world no matter what.
Her heart pounded.
When she smelled her scent again, Reina confirmed—the little girl was indeed Calysia.
But compared to now, besides her silver dragon horns and tail, she was like a completely different person.
Now she was like a poor child who had fallen into a mud pit and struggled for three days and three nights.
Until the two walked to a place that looked like a shrine.
The young Calysia stopped in front of the statue of the Goddess of Light and stood there.
Just as Reina was wondering if she also believed in the God of Light, the young Calysia actually quickly ran to the front of the Goddess of Light, and then…
Stole the offerings in front of the statue!
It was a few cornbreads and some corn soup. It was clear that the people here weren’t living very well.
Even Reina would probably have to think twice before swallowing these things, not because life in the Dragon King’s Palace had raised her standards, but because these things were basically spoiled, and even had a strange color… Did they really offer this kind of thing to the Goddess of Light?
But the young Calysia, as a dragon, wolfed down the cornbread without a care, stuffing it into her arms as she ate. She intended to run away, but after thinking about it, she went back and took another cornbread, hiding in a small bush to eat it, her mouth full of food scraps. Then, when her small bag for storing things was completely full, she didn’t forget to come back and take two more before stealthily running back to the bushes.
Behind the bushes was an abandoned horse pen, filled with various old wooden tools. The good news was that there was a lot of straw.
The young Calysia found a hidden corner and skillfully dug a small hole in the haystack, took off her clothes, and threw out all the little trinkets from the dirty linen, placing them in the small hole.
They were two small copper coins she had picked up from somewhere, a pile of cornbread, a few small stones that looked somewhat valuable, a ball of cotton, and an expired scroll.
“This is…?”
“A piece of cotton from my favorite stuffed toy. When I ran away, I knew I couldn’t take it with me, so I just took a little bit of cotton and kept it with me. This way, it feels like someone is with me.”
The young Calysia took off her clothes, took out a wet cloth, and began to clean her body… Her somewhat underdeveloped body was covered in scars. Although there were signs of healing, they still bled. Most were sharp weapon wounds from the war, and a small part looked like scrapes from falling down a hillside.
After completely taking off her clothes, Reina finally saw that the young Calysia’s long silver hair was messy. If she didn’t deliberately brush her hair aside, she couldn’t even see what her eyes looked like. Her chin was also a little dirty, and only after wiping it with a wet cloth soaked in rainwater did she look normal.
Her scales were long since incomplete, and because of severe malnutrition, they couldn’t grow back… Her tail and wings drooped, and there was a noticeable wound on one of her wings.
It seemed that Calysia was a pitiful dragon with no talent.
“How did you persevere?” Reina asked subconsciously.
But just then, the space, as if specifically for Reina, pressed the “fast forward” button.
A few humans with long spears ran into the young Calysia’s horse pen.
“Whose child are you?”
At this time, the young Calysia was still sound asleep. She only woke up when she heard footsteps and was about to cover her face, but it was too late.
“Oh my god, look at her horns!”
“Could it be a cursed person?!”
“Poor child…”
“Just kill her.”
Because of her injuries and malnutrition, the young Calysia wasn’t even recognized as a dragon.
When the humans with long spears were about to approach the young Calysia, a few of them started fighting.
Although the dragon race had an absolute advantage in strength, the food shortage had made her weak. She was like a little girl with slightly more strength, fighting with a few adults. After a long time, when she dragged her exhausted body out of the horse pen, those humans had no intention of continuing the chase.
Reina wanted to travel through time and help her.
But for her, this was ultimately an un-interferable image and fragment. Reina didn’t forget that they were still in the core of the ruins.
And no matter how much Reina thought, she didn’t know why the most precious thing in the Goddess of Light’s ruins was actually this projected world.
Reina followed the young Calysia’s footsteps.
In the battle just now, her leg was injured.
But the good news was that those stored offerings were not lost, but protected.
The young Calysia stumbled through the mountain forest and, like the beginning, found a place with a relatively high terrain.
The sun hadn’t risen yet, but she had already found a foothold, which was actually a cave.
Although she had to worry about the existence of wild animals, the young Calysia looked at the shrine with the statue of the Goddess of Light and was suddenly determined.
Time began to accelerate, and in the blink of an eye, it was evening, with the sun setting.
The young Calysia had found many wild fruits and vegetables, placed them in a depression in the small cave, and then headed towards the shrine.
It seemed that this village didn’t worship the goddess very often, at least there wouldn’t be many offerings.
