Chapter 224 – Black Dragon Sacrifice

A fifteen year old wanted to learn magic, but a mage to learn from is hard to find.

Most mages would ask first if she had money.

Therefore, most of them refused. "You can't learn magic if you don't have any money, go away!"

However, this did not discourage Paris. She continued to look for mages. After being rejected by three mages, she finally found a female mage. However, the female mage used her as a lab rat. She fled after suffering an unbearable pain during a "pain deprivation" magic experiment.

She gained injuries and didn't learn any magic.

Hungry and cold, she became ill, and nearly died. She was rescued by a group of thieves living in the sewer, and she became a thief like them.

She felt like she was living the life of a rat, in filth and depended on stealing.

Then came a mistake that led to her being involved in a huge event. Paris quietly narrated the story, “In the Red Maple Mountains of the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf, there was a Light Dragon, which made the entire Red Maple Mountains appear like a mirage, and no one can find where it is.”

Because of this dragon, everyone who lived on or near Red Maple Mountain moved away.

At this time, the great court magician of the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf came up with an idea. He wanted to steal the mysterious power of the white dragon.

“I don't know what magic book he read, but what he claimed to read was that, under certain conditions, a human being killed by a Light Dragon would become a ghost, a White Dragon. So he made the dragon blood scheme, and with the support of the aristocracy, he fooled a lot of rats like me and helped him create the White Dragon Gang.”

Her face showed a hint of hatred. "I am one of those rats blinded by the dragon blood. If the accident hadn't happened, I would have been long dead."

 “So, you didn't die, but became a white dragon ?” Liszt was surprised. This was the first time he has heard that the person killed by the dragon would become a ghost.

It wasn't like anything he had heard of in ancient legends.

Paris shook her head, “The real White Dragon is like a ghost, do you think I am a ghost?… The great magician did not know that a thief had stolen his research notes, so we came to our senses about it. But It was  too late, the Light Dragon had appeared in front of us. “

The Light Dragon was not so huge and it appeared from time to time. The rats were engraved with a certain mark of interest by the magician, which is an indelible magic, refining human resentment even after death. This combined with the Light Dragon's mysterious power, would condense into the white dragon he wanted.

The rats were killed one by one, but the White Dragon never came out.

“We're thinking about countermeasures while we were on the run, avoiding being captured by the dragons and the great mage. The thief who stole the notes came up with a way to reverse the magic mark, which was to voluntarily be a living White Dragon……Eventually, we did it, and we became a living White Dragon.”

“Living white dragon?” Liszt's eyes looked back at Paris. He couldn't figure out what it was like.

Paris seemed to understand Liszt's confusion.

She stretched out her left hand and rolled up her sleeves, exposing a pair of fair arms, which dazzled Liszt's eyes.

However, a moment later, her fair arm suddenly turned blue and from the flesh grew scales. Her fingers gradually twisted from hands to claws of a beast. “Human beings have never seen a dragon-type human, because the power of the dragon corrupts all human beings. This corrupted power is called by the magician as 'evil power' and the evil power of the White Dragon is the ultimate result of the corruption of human beings.”

Liszt cast the Magic Eye.

Liszt can see that Paris' left hand was filled with active magic. Even magic from the air condensed on her arms, forming a faint black mist.

"A real White Dragon is a ghost and we are willing to sacrifice ourselves and be corrupted by the dragon power in order to survive. As long as the corruptive forces continue to grow, sooner or later, we would be swallowed completely into being a true white dragon.. It would probably be our death."

Paris reversed the magic on her arm and it returned to its fair appearance.

However, Liszt couldn't forget the hideous beast arm that had left a shadow on his soul. He couldn't help but marvel and but also feel lament. “This kind of corruption is irreversible?”

“Yes, as long as the power of the dragon is used, the corrosion will deepen, so if I don't use the power that can compete with a sky knight or the great magician, I will probably live for ten years.” Paris sighed, and there was nothing but regret. “We later called ourselves the Black Dragon Gang.”

She paused, and suddenly added, “I think if I used my full force, I could kill a Sky Knight.”

The meaning of this statement was clear – Liszt should carefully weigh how she should be treated, and not rely on his Sky Knight father.

Maybe he was just taking the story too seriously.

Liszt didn't think before asking his next question. “Are you sure that that power can really kill a Sky Knight?”

“Of course, otherwise how else would we have killed that great court magician?”

“You killed the great magician?”

“We have four successful black dragons. One person with one claw, tear apart the court magician students.” Paris laughed out loud. “Later, we killed a bunch of n.o.bles who tricked rats like us to their deaths. He even formed a mercenary regiment until the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf dispatched Dragon Knights to come after us … We avenged ourselves and left the mercenary regiment to take refuge somewhere else. “

Paris and others were still wanted at the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf.

After hiding for a while, a new round of war broke out between the Steel Ridge Kingdom and the Eagle Kingdom, and she quietly returned to her hometown. Her story then led to Flower Town.

Story time was over.

Liszt thought for a full quarter of an hour before he said, “Paris, you didn't kill n.o.ble people then? You can live for about ten years without using your power, and you can use it to kill a Sky Knight. You never killed anyone in the Grand Duchy of Sapphire and in the end, you are only wanted by the Grand Duchy of Maple Leaf? “

Paris nodded.

 Liszt asked again, “So, what about your stealth ability?”

"We inherited the ability of the light dragon to manipulate light around its body and achieve a stealth effect.. Just a little trick." She finished and took a sip of milk tea, “My ident.i.ty has been revealed. What other doubts do you have about it?”

 “Trust takes time to build.”

Liszt didn't plan to ask any more questions, and said immediately. “Given your strength and special abilities, I hope to hire you as my guard to protect my personal safety. If you accept it, I am willing to pay you one gold coin per month. “

 “I can accept the task of security, but a gold coin is not enough. I also need a large house, preferably with a garden; I want to restore Maggie's freeman status, and have an earth knight to teach her how to cultivate qi; I want another horse, and it's better if you give me two more servants. “

“Stop!”

Liszt stared at her, “I asked you to come to work, not to enjoy it.  A reward of gold coins, Maggie's freeman status, and then, a house in the aristocratic residential area. For the other ones, you will resolve those yourself!”