Abyssal Chronicles

Chapter 522 - 523: Unexpected Behavior [1/2]

Feeling the gazes constantly falling on her and the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart", Vinarola’s heart couldn’t help but speed up. After all, she was currently helping the Sacred Dragon King put on a performance in front of the whole world. If the truth about the Sacred Dragon King were to be exposed, it would undoubtedly cause a huge uproar. For instance, how would people react if they knew that the Sacred Dragon King had turned into a little girl who constantly wants candy? Vinarola wouldn’t allow the faith in her heart to be belittled by others.

Gazing at the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart" in front of her, emitting a white holy light, Vinarola silently prayed in her heart for the ceremony to go smoothly. To reduce the risk of exposure, naturally, she couldn’t let the Dragon’s Heart be displayed in public for too long.

--" My Lord, please complete the blessing ceremony quickly so that I can send you back to the forbidden palace as soon as possible."--

Through the fluctuations of magical energy, Vinarola carefully transmitted the message into the dragon egg.

At that moment, facing the countless expectant eyes, Vinarola couldn’t help but feel a sense of helplessness. She looked down at the beautiful silver-haired girl with eyes filled with guilt.

"Sigh..."

Vinarola subtly sighed.

She had a strong affinity for Mengxi, this genius girl. As the Headmaster of the academy, Vinarola had already learned a lot about the Holy Saintess trial through her own channels. She was very clear that Mengxi needed the approval of the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart" to complete the first task of her trial.

Feeling quite regretful about this, Vinarola whispered to herself in her heart, ’I’m sorry, girl, it looks like you won’t be able to complete your trial...’

The notion that one could take the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart" if approved by it was merely a term to appease various major powers. After all, there were many forces on the Continent that were dissatisfied with the academy holding the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart." Even with the backing of Asumos Church and Red Leaf Empire, there was still discontent.

To keep the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart" at the academy legitimately, the lie that only someone approved by it could keep it was created by the 13th Headmaster. However, unsurprisingly, those approved were always internal members of the academy. Outsiders could at best receive the Sacred Dragon King’s blessings; approval was out of the question.

Now, the Sacred Dragon King has reincarnated. Considering the Dragon King’s proud nature and recent resentment towards Asumos Church, how could he be willing to be treated as an ’item’ to be given to someone else for safekeeping?

Therefore, this child’s wishes are probably doomed to be in vain. Those who were looking forward to this ’Girl of Destiny’ becoming the new keeper of the "Sacred Dragon’s Heart" will likely be disappointed...

Harboring such regretful thoughts, Vinarola solemnly recited the blessing oath: "May the heavens protect you, as long as you hold a devout heart, the glory of the Sacred Dragon King will always be with you."

As the oath came to an end, a flash of white light suddenly appeared in Vinarola’s eyes, transmitting a message into the dragon egg, reminding the Sacred Dragon King to quickly release the power of the blessing and conclude the ceremony.

However, things didn’t seem to go as smoothly as Vinarola had anticipated.

After being stimulated by the magic, the ’Sacred Dragon’s Heart’ did not emit a golden rain symbolizing blessings as Vinarola had expected. Instead, it fell into a strange silence right in front of everyone’s eyes.

"What’s going on?"

At this moment, not only was Vinarola puzzled, but every teacher from the academy who knew the process of the blessing ceremony also became confused. Even those who had never seen the ’Sacred Dragon’s Heart’ but were invited to the ceremony looked perplexed.

Normally, after the oath is proclaimed, the ’Sacred Dragon’s Heart’ should start bestowing blessings on the Girl of Destiny.

So why hasn’t it responded yet?

"What is happening?"

For a moment, the square fell silent. The originally solemn atmosphere seemed to become a bit awkward due to this mysterious silence.

The bewildered crowd couldn’t help but cast their questioning glances at Vinarola, who was the host of the ceremony, making her face twitch involuntarily. As the dean of the academy, Vinarola still cared about her dignity. Seeing that the Sacred Dragon King remained motionless, she couldn’t help but continue to use her magic to secretly transmit her voice.

-"Sacred Dragon King, it’s time to bestow the blessing! Everyone is watching! Sacred Dragon King..."-

Vinarola kept calling out to Meliora.

However, there was no response.

As time passed second by second, the whispers from the crowd below became more and more noisy, and even the expression of the Girl of Destiny became strange.

This made Vinarola feel very uneasy, and her brows began to twitch frantically.

Vaguely, she even felt like crawling into a hole to hide.

’This is so damn embarrassing! What on earth is the Dragon King doing?!’

Vinarola rarely cursed inwardly.

Because her magical energy was currently connected with the dragon egg, she could clearly feel the situation inside it. Although the Sacred Dragon King had recently been quite sleepy since transforming into a little girl, Vinarola was sure that the Sacred Dragon King was not inexplicably falling asleep but was in a relatively awake state.

After all, the pink-haired little girl didn’t continue to pester the Sacred Dragon King to sleep together last night. The Sacred Dragon King should have enjoyed a rare good sleep and had no reason to be confused now.

’But if she’s not asleep and not confused, then what?’

’Why the silence now? ’

Thinking of this, Vinarola suddenly had an ominous premonition, and her gaze at the Sacred Dragon’s Heart gradually became strange.

’Could it be that the Sacred Dragon King...uh, could she have actually approved of Mengxi? ’

However, the moment this thought popped up, Vinarola immediately shook her head, denying her own speculation.

’No, no, no, no!’

’It’s impossible; the Sacred Dragon King herself said before that, in order to protect the dignity of the dragon race, she would absolutely not approve of such a child...absolutely not... ’

’The Sacred Dragon King’s sudden tremor must be for other reasons...’

Vinarola explained to herself.

However, just as Vinarola convinced herself and showed a firm and confident gaze, this twinkling white dragon egg very disrespectfully...slapped Vinarola’s face hard...

The next moment, accompanied by the gasps of countless viewers, under Vinarola’s dumbfounded gaze, the Sacred Dragon’s Heart suddenly trembled.

But the Sacred Dragon’s Heart that finally responded was not to bless Mengxi. Instead, it spun crazily, breaking free from Vinarola’s enveloping white magic.

"Sacred...Sacred Dragon King?!"

In Vinarola’s exclamation, under the puzzled gazes of countless people, the Sacred Dragon’s Heart suddenly landed, then rolled toward the silver-haired girl. Completely ignoring Vinarola’s eyes, which seemed to want to skin the dragon alive, the Sacred Dragon’s Heart started hopping around Mengxi cheerfully, occasionally rolling up to affectionately ’rub’ against Mengxi’s little foot, looking quite ’happy and delighted’? As if it was a cheering child?

The audience couldn’t help but wipe their eyes, showing incredulous expressions.

"What...what’s happening?!"

After hopping around for a while, feeling that the timing was ripe, the ’Sacred Dragon’s Heart’ hopped into Mengxi’s arms and then became calm, leaving the bewildered crowd and a highly skeptical Vinarola who seemed to be frozen in the wind.

After a moment of being stunned, staring at the ’dragon egg’ in Mengxi’s arms that was acting inconsistently, Vinarola found it hard to accept and held her head with her hands;

’Hey?! ’

’Hey, hey, hey! ’

’Sacred, ’

’Sacred Dragon King, ’

’My Lord! What...what on Earth are you doing?! ’

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On the other side, feeling Vinarola’s eyes full of astonishment, a certain blonde loli inside the dragon egg slightly curled her lips, revealing a smug smile:

’Hmph~’

’Mortals, what do you know?! ’

’We...ah, no, I...I am doing this for the greater good! I’m looking at the bigger picture, okay?!’