After The Abyss Dragon Woke Up-Chapter 102.3
Dragon and the Dragon Slayer (3)
When no one else noticed him, he slowly walked along the small mountain of treasures, his eyes lingering and reminiscing on the possessions that belonged to him.
Half angrily and painfully, Shi An noticed that several of his gems had not been cared for.
The initially smooth and beautiful surface was covered with a thick layer of volcanic ash, making them look dull and gray.
He gritted his teeth and clenched his fingers.
Damn.
That group of mercenaries must pay for this.
But then, Shi An suddenly stopped his pace.
He seemed to think of something and looked thoughtfully into the pile of treasures in front of him.
One point seemed very strange.
If these treasures were looted from the batch at Aiwen’s auction house, why had he just clearly turned a big circle but could not see one of those gems that the auction house had once listed in the pending auction list?
If other treasures covered it, it could be explained.
But…
The number of abyssal stones in the pile of treasures at present was large.
It was almost like the batch that… another group of people had stolen.
***
The abyssal rift had fully unfolded, a dense and filthy gray-black poisonous fog enveloped the sky, and the ugly faces and fierce eyes of the abyssal species flickered in the darkness, waiting for an opportunity to invade this unsuspecting continent.
“Are they enough?”
Several pieces of metal ore were piled on the ground.
It was very few, but it was enough to make a dagger.
They were non-silver, non-iron, oddly shaped, capable of standing alone without refining, and shone exceptionally brightly in the darkness.
The protective suits on the mercenaries had begun to corrode, even the ones on Xu Feng.
“Enough,” the black-robed man said in a slow and hoarse voice.
Immediately after, he raised his hand and covered the metal with his withered palm.
His black and sharp nails cut through his wrist and the sticky dark red blood gushed out of the wound slowly as if it were tar dripping down.
The black-robed man’s mouth chanted an ancient incantation in a low voice.
The scarlet glow flickered in the darkness, slowly expanding until the metal in front of him was completely covered.
Everything looked very evil and discomforting.
However, the mercenaries could only feel extreme excitement and frenzy.
No one noticed that the black-robed people who wore protective clothing just like them near the abyssal rift now appeared to be utterly unaffected by the poisonous fog and could resist the erosion of the surrounding abyssal poison gas simply by releasing their magic power. ℞Αɴố฿Ěṧ
Xu Feng gazed at the metal in front of him, the light under his eyes greedy and excited.
“Can it be done?”
The black-robed man withdrew his hand.
His wounds were no longer bleeding and his withered fingers, which were considered pale, took on a sickly, miserable color like crumpled and discolored paper.
He replied, “Yes.”
Xu Feng’s eyes fell on the black-robed man’s body and he asked, “By the way, I remember you said you wanted to get another thing in this abyssal rift. Did you get it?”
The black-robed man gave a hoarse and short laugh at this.
He nodded slowly and said, “Yes.”
Xu Feng had only asked the question in passing and did not care whether the other person could achieve his goal or not.
At this moment, one of the mercenaries under his command ran over with a terrified and shocked expression on his face.
“C-Chief! Our communicator could work again suddenly just now… Although it was intermittent, we still received information from our brothers outside–”
Xu Feng looked over. “What?”
“After we left, the Bureau brought people to our base!”
Xu Feng’s expression sank.
“How could it be?”
He never worried about his men leaking such critical secrets, not because they did not want to but actually could not.
A long-lost spell bound all the mercenaries who knew the base location to ensure they could not reveal it. It was because of this spell that Xu Feng was able to get away with it for so many years and for the same reason, even though he knew that the mercenaries he sent out were captured, he would still leave the camp without worrying that someone would reveal the secret.
The mercenary under his command shook his head in bewilderment.
“Are the Bureau’s people still there?”
Xu Feng frowned slightly and there was a cruel and ugly light in the depths of his narrow eyes.
“N-No.”
The mercenary squeezed the communicator in his hand and stammered in reply, “B-But, the brothers outside told us where the Bureau would go next.”
At that moment, the black-robed man behind him spoke at the appropriate time. “So far, our deal is done.”
Xu Feng turned his head and looked toward the black-robed man.
Only to see the other party stand up and slowly walk toward him. “Since it’s already like this, I should also fulfill my promise.”
A creepy smile appeared on the face covered by darkness.
“You want to know who the dragon is and where it is now, am I right?”
Xu Feng narrowed his eyes and slowly nodded his head.
The black-robed man tucked his ugly hand back into his sleeve and said in a voice laced with hissing, “The dragon is beside the dragon slayer and even… move together with the dragon slayer.”
Xu Feng froze for a moment, somewhat unable to understand.
What?
The dragon and Mu Heng together?
“The dragon and the dragon slayer together? How could it be?” Xu Feng asked rhetorically, with his brows furrowed in disbelief.
“Yes, how amusing.”
The black-robed man’s smile, hidden in the darkness, slowly widened, and the wrinkled skin was pulled, forming an ugly arc that looked horrifying and eerie.
“Based on our deal, I’m obliged to tell you the name of the dragon’s hidden identity.”
Finally, it was time to get to the point.
Xu Feng subconsciously held his breath, staring at the black-robed man in front of him with deadpan silence.
“It’s Shi An.”
The black-robed man let out a hoarse, scalp-tingling, rapturous laugh and said in a frightening and delighted voice, “The eldest son of the Shi Family in the Central District, a student at the Ability Academy, and…. Mu Heng’s sweetheart.” 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
“If you guys want to hunt the dragon, you have to hurry up… or else, the dragon slayer will move soon,” the black-robed man said with deep meaning in his words.
