"Mathias," The dragon king growled coldly. "How is Arianna these days?"

  Despite being the same size as the dragon's eyes, Mathias was pletely calm as he looked at the colossal crimson h above him.

  "Master's good. She's been busy with her trainily, so she hasn't had the time to visit you," Mathias replied indifferently as he looked back at Wukong. "But I'm sure she'd be more than happy to take some time away from her training to show her appreciation for the kindness your subjects have shown her you disciple."

  "How long has it been sinyone has dared threaten me, Ignus, the king of the dragons?!" Ignus snarled as his red reptilian eyes focused on the man in front of him. "Don't think you talk to me like an equal because of your master.

  If I wish to kill you and all those other ants you wish to proteo one should even think about stopping me."

  "You might be right," Mathias shrugged, pletely unphased by the dragon's threat. "But you and I both know that Dragons would bee extinct by the end of the month if you did that."

  Yasha, who was barely scious at that point, believed the dark-haired man eaking out of his arse.

  Ignus was the king of the dragons for a reason; he rime saint. Meaning he was oep away from being a deity. Even amongst the other prime saints, he stood at the top due to his being a mighty dragon.

  There were only four beings capable of exterminating the dragons as Mathias cimed, and this Arianna woman wasn't one of them.

  Yasha fully expected his leader to kill this foolish human for his bsphemy, but for some reason, he could feel his king's growiation. If he didn't know aer, he would've thought Ignus was scared, but that should be impossible.

  "Your subordinate hurt one of my juniors, and I punished him for it. As far as I'm ed, we're even. As long as you promise that no saint-level beasts from your Dragon's pit step foot in Silverlight iure, I give you my word; we won't make any attempts to retaliate for your as here today." Mathias said, seemingly willing to take a step back.

  Ignus hated the feeling of having his back against a wall, but he really didn't have much of a choi this regard.

  As a prime saint-level dragon, the only individuals he should be weary of were the four knowies of the Yun ti. One was pletely ral and rarely ever even ied with others. Then there were the two humaies, each leading the twest empires in the human domains, and the st was the true ruler of the forest of darkness and the only knowy-level magical beast.

  Thanks to the presence of the ruler of the forest of darkness, y-level human was allowed to act directly against a noy-level beast uhey were provoked first, which meant that as long as he didn't do anything to provoke those two monsters, Ignus shouldn't theoretically have ao fear. But that couldn't have been any further from the truth.

  Though he was widely regarded amongst the other saints as the most powerful being uhe deities, he khat as long as that woman was alive, he could only be sed.

  A few decades ago, he had secluded himself in another failed attempt at breaking through to the deity level when Mathias, who had yet to break through to the saint level, somehow stumbled into his private ir.

  He decided to vent some of his frustration with a game of cat and mouse, chasing him halfway across the forest. He'd been surprised by the strength and speed the man had shown, but as a powerful prime saint, he'd seen more than his fair share of talented humans.

  When he'd had enough pying around, he went in for the kill, but when his jaw smmed shut, instead of the ch of human bones being crushed by his razor-sharp teeth, he tasted nothing but air.

  When he looked up, he saw a blonde-haired woman with two katanas strapped to her back looking down at him indifferently.

  He could sense she was a saint, but as he'd never heard of her before, he assumed she couldn't have been anyone worth paying attention to.

  Just as he had prepared to sna both humans, she indifferently pointed her index fi him, and before he could eve, a beam of light pierced straight through the top of his mouth aed the bottom, moving at a speed that he couldn't even begin to follow.

  She had no iion of finishing the job as she indifferently led Mathias away, but her parting words were ohat stuck with him to this day.

  "Think of this as a warning, if you ever harm any of my disciples, I, Arianna Qingya, will personally hunt and kill every dragon on the ti."

  That name has haunted him ever since. And even though he never saw her again, he uood that although she might be a saint like him, they were on two different levels.

  Ignus stared deeply at Mathias and Wukong before looking in the dire of Silverlight City. Though there were a couple of miles separating them, with his vision, he could see the violet-haired fire mage iing the army of beasts that desperately wao escape, not sparing a single one.

  "That woman who came with you. Is she another of Arianna's disciples?" Ignus asked, his tone void of aion.

  "She is," Mathias admitted calmly.

  "I see," Ignus replied as he casually lifted the rge bck dragon on the ground, not paying any attention to his injuries. "As long as none of you ehe dragon pit iure or impedes our iigatioher this city nor your people will be harmed. Not by the dragons, anyway."

  "It's a deal." Mathias decred as he watched the dragon king take his leave.

  With the dragons gone, Mathias gently picked Wukong up, trying not to worsen his injuries, before flying in the dire of the city.

  As he neared, a regretful sigh escaped his lips upon seeing the corpses of all the city's soldiers spread across the ground. He khere was nothing he could've done differently, but he still wished he had gotten there sooner.

  "Wukong?!" Ace blurted out in worry when he saw his dition whilst being carried by who he guessed was the senior brother Veneriioned. "Is he gonna be alright?"

  Mathias turned his head towards the young boy in surprise. This was the st pce he expected to find a child so young.

  His surprise only seemed to grow as he realised the boy was actually a warrior of the sed rank. He couldn't help but look to the bloodied City lord questioningly. He uood that Silverlight was fag a camity of epic proportions. Still, he hought Venerin, of all people, would resort to enlisting children, no matter how talehey may be.

  "It wasn't Venerin's idea to have young Ace here participate in the war," Lauriel expined, seeing the doubt on Mathias' face. "Apparently, little Kong recruited him from Feni and decided that the beast tide would be the perfect pce for Ace to try and take that final step in being oh the give."

  Mathias' eyes widened when he heard that. It wasn't that Wukong decided t him to an enviro like this to train that shocked him. He knew Wukong could be more than a little reckless when it came to training. Bringing a talented child to train in a beast tide sounded precisely like something his junior brother would do.

  What shocked him was that a child who didn't even look to be ten years old was even close to prehending oh a on. Not even Wukong, who was easily the most talented of Arianna's disciples, became oh his staff till he was ten…

  "Did you do it?" Mathias asked, uo hide his excitement. "Did you mao bee oh the give?!"

  That was wheiced that Ace seemed more ied in Wukong's dition than in answering any ued questions.

  The fact that Mathias was floating in mid-air without any assistance was a clear indicator that he was a saint.

  Almost any other child, when spoken to by a lofty saint, would be stumbling over themselves in an attempt to leave the best possible impression. So for Ace to not only retain his posure but also focus his attention on w for someone else spoke volumes about his character.

  An amused smile suffused Mathias' lips as he looked at the boy in front of him. "Don't worry. Little Kong'll be just fine in a week or two."

  "That's good," Ace replied in relief.

  It'd been a long time since he'd seen anyone suffer burns that bad – normally as a result of his ability. Though in his old world, it'd take more than a few weeks to heal from wounds that bad, he knew better than to uimate the abilities of his new one.

  "In ao your earlier question," Lauriel said as she floated towards Mathias, lovingly taking his hand in hers. "I personally firm that he has prehended oh the give. It was one of the first things I noticed when I arrived on the se."

  Hearing that, even Venerin, who had been too preoccupied dealing with the Wyrm to keep an eye on Ace, was in shock. He knew Ace was talented, but this…

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