Chapter 273 Dead Memories (Additional Update, Please Give Me a Monthly Vote)
Deep in the Shadow Flame Volcano, a magma channel.
Princess Anxia came alone and stood at the end of the channel, looking at the Shadow Flame Dragon with only its head exposed in the rolling magma.
The Shadow Flame Dragon did not open its eyes, and did not even move. The magma continued to nourish its body and repair the wounds suffered in the war. But the most important thing is that the power of the earth rolled in the magma and continued to gather from all directions.
These earth forces will brew in the magma, condense into a more powerful force, and then give back to the Shadow Flame Dragon to help the Shadow Flame Dragon restore its origin.
As long as the volcano is not extinguished, it will not die.
As the warm land continues to expand, its power will continue to flow.
"Sir Shadow Flame." Princess Anxia stared for a long time before speaking, "I'm sorry to bother you."
The Shadow Flame Dragon still did not respond.
Princess Anxia did not expect the Shadow Flame Dragon to react, but said to herself: "Marquis Arnold came with a message from my father. He originally hoped that Kunstan could marry a duke or princess of the kingdom, but..."
After a slight sob, Princess Anxia continued: "But Kunstan died in the battle, and Marquis Arnold told me that my father would not change his mind about the marriage. So, if Kunstan cannot marry, then only Kunlaya can take over."
The Shadow Flame Dragon did not respond.
Princess Anxia felt a sense of powerlessness coming over her, and could not 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 Kunlaya to leave me... But I don't know how to object!"
She collapsed on the ground, covering her face and crying: "I dare not disobey my father, and I don't have any confidence to disobey him. From childhood to adulthood, the only time I disobeyed him made me lose my reputation and become a shame to the kingdom..."
While crying, Princess Anxia could not help but recall the terrible memories of her youth, which were also memories she did not want to touch in her life.
That year, she was seventeen years old and fell in love with a young guard in the palace.
They fell in love, had trysts, and were obsessed with each other. Then, for the first time, she mustered up the courage to throw away all worldly constraints and agreed 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 the palace pursuers, and there were no hunting notices posted along the way, let alone roadblocks.
She thought that the letter she left behind successfully comforted her parents and made them believe that she would be happy.
The two fled to a manor in the countryside and wanted to escape to the cave, but the cave was too cold and Princess Anxia could not bear the hardship. However, even in the country manor, Princess Anxia could not adapt, and she could not do any work.
The knight soon became addicted to gambling, lost all his money, and sold all the gems that Princess Anxia brought out.
Next, the memory seemed to suffocate Princess Anxia.
The knight no longer loved and respected her, but beat and scolded her for money, and even threatened to sell her to a brothel if she didn't pay.
At this point, all dreams were shattered.
Princess Anxia cried and confessed her identity to a nobleman in a nearby manor, and asked for help. The nobleman took her back to the palace with a smile without any surprise, and her mother didn't blame her.
Although her father didn't see her, he didn't punish her either.
It was as if the elopement had never happened.
But soon, she heard the news that the knight was thrown into the snow and froze to death because of gambling debts.
The knights who guarded her before, both men and women, all went to the snow battlefield, and no one came back. From that time on, she could no longer step out of the palace, and even couldn't say a word to the male guards.
Then, it was a year later.
That day, she finally saw her father again. His smile was gentle, but his words chilled her heart: "You have brought shame to the Lieyang royal family, Anxia, now is the time for you to repay your kindness and wash away the shame... Go, and breed offspring."
So.
Ignoring her desperate pleas, the king of the Blazing Torrent Kingdom chose to marry Princess Anxia to the naturally dull Marquis Quintero...
After being attacked by the dead memory for a long time, Princess Anxia was tired of crying: "Sir Shadow Flame, I am just a naive and stupid woman. I thought I could live well with Kunstan and Kunlaya in this life..."
"Now, now, everything will become a luxury, even if I can still live in the Red Castle and live a rich life without worries about food and clothing. But what's the point of all this, I can't even protect my daughter!"
Princess Anxia was silent with her hands on the ground.
After another long silence.
Princess Anxia's ears suddenly rang with wonderful syllables like bubbling magma, which Princess Anxia had tried hard to learn.
Moreover, she was also an armored knight with fighting spirit, and could understand the meaning contained in the syllables.
This was the dragon language evolved from magic: "The weak can hardly save themselves, and Shadow Flame can't take care of themselves."
"Ah!" Princess Anxia wailed miserably, and the crow's feet on her beautiful face gradually thickened, and the whole person seemed to have aged several years in an instant.
She staggered to her feet and walked towards the magma channel like a shaky person.
Just when she was about to die, the syllables of bubbling magma rang in her ears again, and instantly made her like a drowning person grabbing a straw, and a glimmer of hope rose: "Russell Fluorescent Mushroom, Shadow Flame likes this little guy."
"What, Lord Shadow Flame?" Princess Anxia immediately turned around and asked incredulously, "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 been no communication before.
"Mother, mother..."
The voice of the little princess Kunlaya brought Princess Anxia back from her memories.
She looked at the narrow sky above her head and smiled gently: "Let's go, we're going back to the palace."
Back in the palace, the little princess Kunlaya whispered again: "Mother, I don't want to marry to the kingdom, I don't want to leave you...I will practice fighting spirit well, strive to become a female knight, and then contract a fantasy beast, contract a two-legged dragon!"
Princess Anxia gently stroked her daughter's hair: "Okay, mother will not let Kunlaya leave, mother will watch Kunlaya get married and have children."
"What? I don't want to get married and have children." The little princess Kunlaya was shy.
...
Leaving the inner castle palace, Russell was a little puzzled, and couldn't figure out the exact reason why Princess Anxia invited him to dinner.
But since I had already eaten, I no longer worried about why.
"March is coming soon, and I have to go to Black Court Mountain to visit my sister." Russell thought as he walked on the road, "I'll find time to visit my grandfather, and then bring him some Cloud Series cigars to see if I can get a batch of orders."
He used all the ice hail beads obtained on the snowy battlefield to raise dragon eggs.
If he doesn't make some money, his pockets will be in deficit again, and he has to hoard a batch of funds as soon as possible, and wait for a year or two to open up a warm enclave, so that he can have money to build.
You can't rely on the support of Fluorescent Castle for everything.
"A penny can make a hero fall, and I always feel that I've taken too big a step... It's all because of the Shadow Flame Dragon, who insisted on giving me dragon eggs, so that I can easily pull the eggs if I'm not careful!" Russell's heart was filled with happy worries.