Chapter 32: The Difference in Time Perception

Chapter 32: The Difference in Time Perception

“Huh? Is this really okay?” Upon hearing Zheng Yichen wanted to go out, Petty immediately felt anxious. If possible, she really didn’t want to expose Zheng Yichen’s existence, even during a fight… No, right now she basically couldn’t get into any fights, at least not before she truly obtained a summon that could actually fight!

As for that Harefolk, calling it a combat summon was a stretch—it was more for being cute, serving tea and water, and cooking was fine too, but fighting… Its profile made it clear it couldn’t be used for battle.

“If I stay like this, no one will notice, right?” Zheng Yichen waved his hand, directly opened Petty’s pocket, and crawled inside. “This will do.”

Seeing that Zheng Yichen had no intention of changing his mind, Petty hesitated but nodded. The decision was his, not hers. No matter what, if Zheng Yichen really wanted to go out, she couldn’t make him change his mind.

At most, she could just voice her opinion. As for defying him, she didn’t have the strength or the standing for that.

“Dragon Lord, where are we going?”

“Oh, let’s go to the Library first… By the way, call me…” When it came to the name, Zheng Yichen hesitated. Use his real name? That seemed a bit odd. Although he felt perfectly fine about his own name, in this world it was just unusual…

“Call me Connor. And drop the ‘Lord’ stuff, it sounds awkward to me.” Anyway, he was a dragon, and a Young Dragon at that. Comparing was fine. Another day, he’d find a way to get a hand-axe that suited him.

“Huh? Is that really alright?” Petty was slightly taken aback. It wasn’t that she thought Zheng Yichen was giving his True Name, but since he actively asked her to call him that, did it mean the relationship between the two of them had taken a step forward, that she had at least gained his initial acknowledgment?

“No problem, that’s fine.” Peering through the pocket’s opening, Zheng Yichen looked at the building ahead. A Library, especially an Academy’s Library, was always massive. After all, this place represented the Academy’s foundation in every sense. Being too shabby was an issue of face.

“Connor, what kind of books do you want to look at?”

“Hmm, start with those related to the Dragon Clan. I want to see how you Humans evaluate us,” Zheng Yichen said. To hell with evaluations—what did other people’s opinions matter to him? What Loris told him was mostly about Cursed Dragons. She rarely mentioned normal Dragon Clan affairs.

This Cursed Dragon business… it was really tough. Even if some were very strong, facing the full-scale hunt by the Dragon Clan still left them helpless. And once someone became a Cursed Dragon, there was no way back. The Dragon Clan’s special body would gradually assimilate the soul of the ‘body-snatcher,’ but it could never turn it into a true Dragon Soul. At best, it became a mismatched creature.

This was also like a Curse for stealing a dragon’s body. The twisted soul could no longer attempt to seize another body. Even with a body of the highest compatibility, the result would ultimately be failure!

As for him, so far his Soul remained normal, still his original appearance, not changed at all. Regarding this, Loris had also emphasized: don’t forget your original appearance. If you forgot what you looked like, even with a special soul, there was a high chance of being twisted.

For this reason, Zheng Yichen used Magic every day to pull himself into his own Dreamscape… to look in the mirror. From any angle… he was still this handsome!

Ahem!

Using Petty’s body as cover, Zheng Yichen began flipping through the few books about the Dragon Clan that she had brought over. After skipping the unimportant descriptions and focusing only on what he wanted to read, Zheng Yichen’s reading speed immediately picked up. He completely ignored those parts describing how incredibly power ful the Dragon Clan was!

How powerful were they? He currently had a dragon’s body, so he knew very well. How powerful would he be in the future… Apart from possibly not growing bigger and not yet Reaching the Tier, Zheng Yichen already felt quite strong. He mainly focused on the current state of the Dragon Clan, which made him discard another portion of books to read.

Looking at the date of the last book in his hand… hmm, written twenty years ago. “Are books about the Dragon Clan always this old?”

Seeing the date, Zheng Yichen’s mouth twitched slightly. This one was still okay. The previous book’s publication date was sixty years ago, and the ones before that went straight to over a hundred, two hundred years ago.

“Because dragons live for a very long time,” Petty thought and said. “A few years for ordinary people might be just a few months or even shorter for the Dragon Clan. The pace of life for Longevity Species is very slow, especially for dragons. Once they settle into a rhythm of life, without other factors affecting them, they might not change for decades. They might even sleep through a long nap that lasts over ten years.”

“So you mean… this book in my hand, which is twenty years old from your Human perspective, is at most from just a few months ago from a dragon’s perspective?”

“Mm-hmm,” Petty nodded with envy. Besides wanting to become stronger, wasn’t another reason for their cultivation to live longer after becoming powerful?

And the Dragon Clan, from birth, without doing anything, possessed things that other races couldn’t obtain even with a lifetime of effort. This left them with nothing but envy.

“…” Watching Zheng Yichen carefully flipping through the book, Petty felt puzzled inside. What she said wasn’t particularly special knowledge. She knew it, so Zheng Yichen should know it too. After all, Adult Dragons were no less intelligent than Humans. They themselves were an extremely special, envy-inducing intelligent race.

Judging by Zheng Yichen’s size, he had already grown this big. Wouldn’t his Mother Dragon or father dragon have taught him this kind of knowledge?

Don’t think that just because the Dragon Clan lived long, they didn’t care about many things. At least regarding their offspring, they placed great importance. For a Young Dragon, education definitely wouldn’t be lacking. If it was lacking, what if one day he was lured away?

You must know there were many types of Contracts. The Contract Petty mentioned to Zheng Yichen before was just the one she could currently access and learn. There were other Contracts later, such as the Symbiosis Contract that a Summoner could only sign once in their lifetime.

In the materials Petty had read before, there were related accounts. Someone had lured a Young Dragon and signed a Symbiosis Contract with it—if one died, both died. The Contract signer thought using this method would force the Dragon Clan to compromise. But after the Dragon Clan investigated and found out the other party used underhanded means, the outcome was different!

A bridge similar to those in stories, where the dragon and the dragon knight begin a Legendary tale… did not happen…