Back to where we left off—when the young dragon transformed into a loli dragon girl.
Even though she had taken on the appearance of a human child, the loli dragon girl realized nothing had really changed.
Now in a humanoid form, she didn't know how to walk or run, so she could only crawl clumsily on all fours.
Still, in that state, she couldn't escape the demon king's grasp.
She thought she was doomed to be eaten, but then discovered that the demon king had given up on eating her.
Instead, the demon king threatened that if she ever turned back into her dragon form, he would immediately roast, deep-fry, or steam her—basically, as long as she obediently stayed like this, she wouldn't be harmed.
In any case, she managed to narrowly avoid death.
However, that didn't mean she was let go—instead, she was kept as a pet by the demon king?
Sometimes the demon king would even hug her and obsessively rub his face against her chubby, soft cheeks.
It was incomprehensible. The young dragon girl didn't understand the meaning behind it.
At first, she was terrified, thinking he was going to turn her into a doll or eat her.
Since her power was sealed, she couldn't escape, couldn't resist—so in the end, should she just enjoy it? Had she become a living pillow?
Later on, one day, the demon king seemed to have come up with some idea about her.
He began to tempt her with all sorts of things, saying that dragons are gluttons, and presented her with all kinds of delicacies.
"Hmph! I may not be an adult yet, but I'm not dumb!" she thought.
Her plan was just to eat, eat, and eat, bankrupt the demon king, and ignore him completely. But unexpectedly, one day she absentmindedly drank some of the demon king's wine—and found herself liking the taste.
The demon king quickly noticed this, flashing a disturbingly gentle smile that sent shivers down her spine.
Originally, she had tried to resist the alcohol, but eventually she couldn't resist the temptation and started drinking.
At some point, while tipsy and dazed, the demon king whispered into her ear, asking her to hand over a part of her source power.
The dragon girl refused.
But once, twice, three times... eventually, after being forbidden from drinking for a long while, the demon king offered her a great amount of fine liquor.
Overwhelmed, she got drunk and foolishly extracted part of her source power to exchange for the wine.
One might wonder, why didn't the demon king just kill her and take her source power?
The answer: it wouldn't work.
A dragon with special powers, once killed, would have her abilities return to the world.
Since that day, the demon king rarely came to tease her anymore. Still, she vaguely understood why.
The conflict between the demon king and humanity had escalated—humans were no longer a match. Even the gods had started to step in to fight the demon king.
Eventually, even the dragon race came to see him as their enemy.
Then one day, the demon king came to see her again.
But instead of looking at her with that usual perverse gaze, he suddenly froze—and then expressed disdain.
Why? Because the once-loli dragon girl had grown up.
No longer a loli, she had become a slightly awkward adolescent girl. The demon king said she no longer had that 2D charm, and that she was boring—so he dismissively drove her away.
In reality, that day... the demon king had probably intended to set her free.
As expected, just a few days after the dragon girl left, the demon king went to full-scale war with the gods.
Who could have predicted that right at the start of the war, the demon king would unleash his ultimate weapon—Ikaros, a man-made super dragon, along with a vast army of artificial dragons and angels.
These mindless killing machines, unaffected by pain, quickly caused massive casualties among the gods. Especially Ikaros, which had a cheat-like ability akin to "reloading a save."
That said, although the demon king's god-slaying beasts were terrifying, they couldn't threaten the top gods much.
Those were dealt with directly by the demon king himself—who, by that time, had grown so powerful he was practically beyond comprehension.
In that era, the divine realm was not only in a higher dimension. Arrogant gods had established their domain above the earth—in outer space, on golden moons that looked down on the world from on high.
Then, the demon king somehow summoned void lightning—a force that descended like a thunderclap, tearing through space, time, light, and all tangible and intangible things.
It struck the gods' domain.
In that moment, there was no dazzling explosion—only a soundless nothingness. The vast divine realm, along with the golden moons, was completely erased.
At that point, the dragon god could no longer stand by and led the dragon race into battle against the demon king.
Thus began the true mythic war that tore the heavens and earth apart.
No one knows how long it lasted—until one day, the demon king forced out an indescribable entity. The moment they saw it, all understood: it was the source of the world.
Whoever claimed it would become the true ruler of the world.
The demon king was in the process of forcibly consuming this source. Of course, the others couldn't just watch—but it was already too late.
From that moment on, the demon king, having devoured half the world, began to distort the laws of reality.
Flight ceased to be flight.
Fire became water.
He inverted all logic for his enemies, driving them mad and causing them to kill themselves in their confusion.
After that, it was simple. The demon king easily conquered the entire world. For centuries, the races of the world lived in trembling fear under his rule, not knowing what he was doing.
Sometimes, he would go mad and shatter the barriers of reality itself.
One day, the once-imprisoned dragon girl—who had always stayed silent and uninvolved—was suddenly sought out again by the demon king, sending her into a panic.
But this time, the demon king wasn't there to imprison her. He wanted her to do one thing—kill him.
She couldn't understand. The demon king... wanted to die?
He explained that his soul was bound to the world's source, making it impossible to separate the two. As long as he existed, he would remain tied to the world, and eventually, he would go insane and destroy it.
How could she kill him? Her power wasn't enough—unless she could erase half the world in an instant, which was impossible.
But there was a way.
The demon king told her: she needed to erase all traces of his existence.
As long as there was any information about the demon king—any legend of "Rostar Ignatius" etched into the world—he could never truly die. He would remain tied to the world until the end of time.
So the demon king entrusted her, with her ability to influence history, to erase every trace of him from the world's records, until the world nearly forgot he ever existed.
And so, hundreds of years later, after a long history of erasing his existence, the former young dragon returned to the demon king's castle—only to find that Rostar Ignatius was truly gone.
"Strangely enough, the thousand years after the demon king's disappearance were the most peaceful in our world's history."
It sounded like a sentiment of deep reflection, but it was filled with a bitter, self-deprecating sorrow.
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T/N:
Sadge that our cover photo got taken down.... Lucoa mama😭😭.