Chapter 273 Memories of the Dead (Additional update, please vote for me)
Deep in the Shadow Flame Volcano, there is a magma channel.
Princess Anxia came alone and stood at the end of the passage, looking at the shadow flame dragon with only one head exposed in the rolling magma.
The Shadow Flame Dragon did not open its eyes or even move. The magma continued to nourish its body and repair the wounds suffered during the battle. But the most important thing is that the power of the earth is rolling in the magma, converging from all directions.
These powers of the earth will brew in the magma, condense into a more powerful force, and then feed back to the Shadow Flame Dragon to help the Shadow Flame Dragon restore its origins.
As long as the volcano is not extinguished, it will not die.
As the warm place continues to expand, its power will continue to flow.
“Your Excellency Yingyan.” Princess Anxia stared at her for a long time before speaking, “I’m sorry to bother you.”
The Shadow Flame Dragon still didn’t respond.
Princess Anxia did not expect how the Shadow Flame Dragon would react, but said to herself: “Marquis Arnold came with a message from my father. Originally, he hoped that Kunstein could marry a duke and princess of the kingdom. ,but……”
After choking slightly, Princess Anxia continued: “But Kunstan died in the battle, and Marquis Arnaud told me that my father would not change his mind about the marriage. Therefore, if Kunstan cannot marry, then only Kunlaya will take the lead.”
The Shadow Flame Dragon made no response.
Princess Anxia felt a sense of powerlessness coming over her, and couldn’t help crying: “I don’t want to agree, I hate the blood of the Lieyang Royal Family flowing in my body, and I don’t want even Kunlaya to leave me… But I don’t know How to object!”
She collapsed directly on the ground, covering her face and crying: “I dare not disobey my father, and I don’t have any confidence to disobey him. The only time I disobeyed him since I was a child, but it made me ruined and became the leader of the kingdom. The shame…”
While crying, Princess Anxia could not help but recall the terrible memories of her youth, memories that she did not want to touch in her life.
That year, when she was seventeen, she fell in love with a young guard at the palace.
After falling in love, tryst, and obsession, she mustered up the courage for the first time to throw away all the restraints of the world and agree to elope with the guard.
They succeeded. The princess of the kingdom followed the poor knight and escaped from the cage-like palace.
The young Princess Anxia did not find any pursuers from the palace, nor was there even a pursuit notice posted along the way, nor was there any roadblocks set up.
She thought that the letter she left behind had successfully appeased her parents and made them believe that she would be happy.
The two fled to the manor in the countryside. They wanted to escape further to the cave, but the cave was too cold and Princess Anxia could not bear the hardship. However, even in a country manor, Princess Anxia could not adapt to it. She could not do any work.
The knight soon became addicted to gambling, lost all his money, and sold all the gems Princess Anxia brought out.
Next, the memory seemed to suffocate Princess Anxia.
The knight no longer loved and respected her, but often beat and scolded her for money, and even threatened to sell her to a brothel to pick up customers if she didn’t pay.
At this point, all dreams are shattered.
Princess Anxia cried and confessed her identity to a nobleman from a nearby manor and asked for help. The nobleman was not surprised and took her back to the palace with a smile, and the queen mother did not blame her.
Although her father did not see her, he did not punish her.
It was as if the elopement never happened.
But soon, she heard the news that the knight was thrown into the snowy field and froze to death because of gambling debts.
The knights who guarded her before, regardless of gender, all went to the snowfield battlefield, and no one came back. From that time on, she could no longer take a step out of the palace, or even say another word to the male guards.
Then, it was a year later.
That day she finally saw her father again. His smile was gentle, but what he said made her completely heartbroken: “You have brought shame to the Lieyang Royal Family, An Xia, now is the time for you to repay your kindness and wash away the shame.” Go…go and breed heirs.”
Ignoring her pleading, the king of the Fiery Torrent Kingdom chose to marry Princess Anxia to the naturally dull Marquis Quintero…
After being attacked by the memory of the dead for a long time, Princess Anxia was tired from crying: “Your Excellency Yingyan, I am just an innocent and stupid woman. I thought I could live a good life guarding Kunstan and Kunraya. Go down…”
“Now, now, everything will become a luxury, even if I can still live in the Red Castle and live a prosperous life with no worries about food and clothing. But what’s the point of all this, I can’t even protect my daughter!”
With her hands on the ground, Princess Anxia was silent.
After another long period of silence.
In Princess Anxia’s ears, strange syllables like bubbling magma suddenly sounded. These syllables Princess Anxia had worked hard to learn.
Moreover, she is also a costumed knight with fighting spirit and can understand the meaning contained in the syllables.
This is the dragon’s language for the evolution of magic power: “It is difficult for the weak to save themselves, and Shadow Flame has no time to take care of itself.”
“Ah!” Princess Anxia wailed miserably. The crow’s feet on her beautiful face gradually became thicker, and her whole body seemed to have aged several years.
She stood up staggeringly and walked towards the magma channel as if she was crumbling.
Just when her heart was filled with despair, the syllables of bubbling lava sounded in her ears again, instantly giving her a glimmer of hope like a drowning person grabbing a straw: “Russell Fluorescent Mushroom, Shadowflame likes this A little guy.”
“What, Your Excellency Yingyan?” Princess Anxia immediately turned around and asked in disbelief, “You…you…you will choose him…”
Unfortunately, she could no longer hear the dragon language of the Shadow Flame Dragon. The Shadow Flame Dragon was still dormant in the magma, as if there had never been any communication before.
“Mother, mother…”
The voice of little princess Kunlaya brought Princess Anxia back from her memories.
She looked at the narrow sky above her head and showed a gentle smile: “Let’s go back to the palace.”
Back in the palace, the little princess Kunraya whispered again: “Mother, I don’t want to marry to the kingdom, I don’t want to leave you… I will practice fighting spirit, strive to become a female knight, and then contract with the fantasy beast , contracted flying dragon!”
Princess Anxia gently stroked her daughter’s hair: “Okay, mother will not let Kunraya leave. Mother will watch Kunraya get married and have children.”
“What? I don’t want to get married and have children.” Little Princess Kunlaya became shy.
……
After leaving the inner castle palace, Russell was a little confused and couldn’t figure out the exact reason why Princess Anxia invited him to dinner.
But after eating it, I no longer have to worry about why.
“March is coming soon, and I have to go to Heiting Mountain to visit my sister.” Russell thought as he walked on the road. “Find some time to visit grandpa, and then send grandpa some Yunwu series cigars to see if he can get a batch of orders.”
He used all the ice beads obtained on the snowfield battlefield to raise dragon eggs.
If he doesn’t make some money, his pockets will be unable to make ends meet, and he has to hoard a batch of funds as soon as possible to open up a warm enclave in a year and a half, so that he can have money to build it.
You can’t just rely on the support of Fluorescent Castle for everything.
“A penny stumps a heroic man. I always feel that I have taken too big a step… It’s all the fault of the Shadow Flame Dragon. It insists on giving me the dragon egg, so I can easily pull the egg accidentally!” A thought grew in Russell’s heart. Happy troubles.
(End of chapter)