Chapter 1662: Chloe Reappears

"Dragon, please change to another condition. We are companions traveling together; I will not abandon any of them!"

Xia De said decisively, while stuffing Mia into the inside pocket of his coat, preparing to take action.

To be precise, whether a Balrog or a giant dragon is stronger depends on their age and specific species. But since they were able to defeat the Balrog when they first came, in the "Traveler Mode" where it was unknown whether the enemy was weakened or they themselves were strengthened, perhaps they could also defeat a giant dragon.

Clearly, Xia De was not the only one thinking this; the unicorn's golden horn was already flickering with a faint light, and the witch was even angrier than Xia De.

"Change to another condition?"

The huge dragon head pondered for a moment:

"Then there is only money, lots and lots of gold, or powerful relics, precious ancient books."

Xia De certainly didn't have these on him, and although the witch brought some props that might help them, they weren't very expensive either.

Realizing this, in Xia De's right hand hanging down, silver-white electric arcs crackled and jumped. He had always heard that "Thunder Spear" and "Sunlight Spear" had special damage effects on pure-blooded dragons. Since it couldn't be verified in the Sixth Era, this was just the right time to test it.

However, before he truly took action, the dragon's nose, which was like a cave, twitched violently again, and it asked Xia De suspiciously:

"It's really interesting; just now I thought I smelled it wrong. On you, why is there the smell of a mother dragon?"

Xia De frowned slightly, remembering the "smell of a mother dragon" left on him by the demigod red dragon witch Fiona when he used the 【Eternal Night City】 time key for the fifth time at the end of the Battle of Randall Valley. Although this smell was not a simple scent, it would slowly dissipate over time. Although its power to intimidate wild animals had dropped a lot, fortunately, it hadn't completely dissipated.

"I know a half-dragon witch."

Xia De answered. In this era, not to mention Fiona, even Miss Feilian and Miss Olanod had not been born, so even if he said it, the other party couldn't find any information:

"That witch left some smell on me, but that's not the point. We don't have anything valuable; we just want to pass."

During the conversation, "Red Dragon Power" had been activated. To deal with an enemy of this huge size, strength was also necessary.

The unicorn also walked to Xia De's side, and the light on the golden horn had spread to the surroundings. The dragon looked at the hostile man and unicorn, thought for a while, and moved aside slightly:

"Since that's the case, you go ahead. The source of the smell on you, that mother dragon is really powerful; I don't want to be chased by other dragons later, especially those bad-tempered red dragons."

But Xia De didn't see where Fiona had a bad temper; on the contrary, the Miss Fiona Delage he knew was somewhat weak in character.

"Let us pass? Let me confirm, we travelers, don't need to spend a large sum of money like the last person who passed, right?"

Because it was in a story, Xia De deliberately brought out the title "Traveler" to ensure the other party wouldn't lie.

"Go ahead, go ahead."

The dragon said impatiently:

"And the last witch who passed didn't give me money either."

The voice of the second half of the sentence was much smaller:

"I just wanted to scare you; the last witch beat me up, otherwise where do you think the ice crystals on my head came from? I am a dragon, not an elemental creature; it's definitely not normal for icicles to appear on my body."

It complained while retracting its head. As the huge shadow swept across the high sky, everyone felt the world go dark, and when the light reappeared, they returned to the familiar camp.

The campfire was bright, snowflakes were falling in the sky, and the surroundings were the misty forest in the dark night. Despite encountering a giant dragon and being prepared for battle, it was unexpected that the contact ended in such an anticlimactic way.

Looking at it this way, this dragon must have been injured when fighting the last witch who passed by, at least it affected its combat power, otherwise, there was no reason to let the group pass just because of the smell.

The bard was writing something quickly again. Xia De looked at the witch, and the latter shook her head:

"Although Laks was excellent, I am sure she could not defeat a dragon of that size alone. The last witch who passed by was definitely not the person we are looking for."

"My sister had just been promoted to the eighth rank before she went missing."

The black-dressed maid also added. Xia De nodded knowingly, and the deity's voice had already begun to narrate again:

"The traveler under the moon had blind confidence, and the path he chose led the group to the dangerous dragon territory. The giant dragon appeared and asked you to pay the toll, or leave some companions behind. Although the travelers had empty pockets and were unwilling to abandon their companions, relying on the deep friendship with the demigod red dragon in the past, the traveler under the moon successfully persuaded the giant dragon to let you continue forward."

Xia De definitely didn't have any illusions; the witch and the maid definitely swept a meaningful look at him.

"The giant dragon's wings cleared the way for you, and you successfully reached the scheduled camping spot before dark."

On top of the card deck, the next card flipped automatically, which meant that the event of this night was not chosen by them, but appeared on its own as the story developed to the present.

The card depicted a small single-person tent standing in the background of a blizzard.

And just as the four people confirmed the card face, at the edge of the forest that was not illuminated by the campfire, a faint light lit up, and then it became brighter and brighter, until it illuminated another small camp composed of a campfire and a tent in the snow.

At that moment, the storm mixed with snowflakes came rushing toward them. No one could see clearly what was specifically in that small camp, only the figure sitting in the camp rising and walking toward them.

The deity's voice carried a smile:

"On the night of the sixth day, the travelers in the snowy night reached the scheduled camping spot, but didn't expect that someone was already resting here. Meeting strange travelers during the journey is also a very important link. It's just that I don't know if the travelers can get along harmoniously with this stranger."

That not-so-tall figure walked toward them in the blizzard. As the figure got closer, the face became clearer and clearer, and Xia De stood up at once. Bai Yin-white long hair, a brown fur-collared coat over a gorgeous dress. The demigod witch with golden eyes—Miss Chloe Marcus Marx, walked toward them with her back to the wind and snow.

Even if he knew in advance that Chloe might appear, Xia De's eyes widened at this moment, and Miss Andriana the witch also stood up, recognizing that this was the demigod from the Zalas Academy.

But Chloe frowned and looked at the man in front of her and the group of animals behind him. Her eyes seemed not to recognize Xia De at all.

This was a very strange thing. As a demigod who left the Bai Yin Mountains, her memory would not be erased. And the powerful memory of a demigod should also not let her completely forget Xia De in the short twenty years from 903 to 923.

Even if she really couldn't remember clearly, the fact that Xia De was male but wouldn't trigger the witch's curse couldn't let her be so calm. Therefore, the only explanation was that although Xia De didn't turn into an animal like his companions, his appearance in the story was definitely not his normal appearance.

"Who are you? A circus ringmaster?"

Clearly petite and cold-faced, but when she spoke, she had more oppression than those tall and arrogant great witches of the Sixth Era.

Clearly, the test of this incident was to get along peacefully with other travelers encountered on the journey, but Xia De wanted to do more to let Chloe recognize him.

He signaled Miss Andriana the witch who stood up beside him not to speak. Just as he wanted to say something, the cat in his arms called out again.

Speaking of which, the number of times this cat called in the Lost Forest was clearly too many.

"Meow~"

Because when Xia De entered the Bai Yin Mountains for the second time, this cat had also seen Miss Chloe, so facing the witch in front, the meow was not the vigilance and warning when facing a stranger.

And hearing the cat's meow, Chloe frowned her beautiful eyebrows suspiciously, and then looked down at Xia De's arms, as if she had just noticed that he was still holding a cat.

This also made Xia De realize one thing: although he brought the cat both times he came, in fact, Little Mia had never appeared in the travel story narrated by the deity; the god had never described the existence of Little Mia. Even if it would also follow Xia De into scene after scene in the story, because it didn't come the first time, it was not judged as part of the travel team.

That is to say—

【Inside the story and outside the story, this cat is real.】

"She" summarized gently.

"This cat is... Mia?"

The short witch with silver hair called out the name of the cat that Xia De had called, and then looked at the man's face in shock. She dazed for a moment, only then realizing that the person standing in the snow in front of her was actually a male. And that face that seemed never seen before also revealed its true appearance the moment she realized the other party was male. Or rather, she suddenly realized what this face meant.

Twenty years of longing, twenty years of memories of the "climbing journey" of the Bai Yin Mountains in her dreams, all turned into real emotions at this moment. And that beautiful, unique orange cat also confirmed that this was definitely not an illusion created by the snowy mountain:

"Is it you?!"

"You recognized me! Great, I was just thinking about how to explain it."

The silver-haired witch couldn't care about talking anymore, walking quickly toward Xia De in the snow, and then opened her arms and stood on tiptoe to hug him.

She was trembling all over, and the familiar warm breath made her recall the short time they spent together in the tent when climbing the Bai Yin Mountains. And the cat squeezed between the two struggled dissatisfiedly to Xia De's shoulder, meowing to express its mood. ===== CHAPTER 1663 =====