Volume 4, Chapter 67 – The Path

The awakening of Pride’s power did not only affect Mihiel’s side. Tianyin, who was fighting the Black Dragon King, also sensed Pride’s power rampaging.

“Black Dragon King, what did you do to Lucifa?”

Although she did not know what state Lucifa was in right now, Tianyin also understood in her heart that Pride’s power going berserk was never a good thing. Back then, after Lucifa’s Pride rampaged, even she, the vessel of the Seven Original Sins, had been attacked by it…

“What did I do? Aren’t you just asking what you already know, little one…”

After all, it was a clash between beings of the same tier. Even though it was one against two, the outcome could not be decided in a short time, so up to now the Black Dragon King could still answer Tianyin’s questions with ease.

“It’s just a contingency I left behind to prevent Pride from being rescued. What’s wrong, little one, are you that surprised?”

“‘A contingency?’ I knew it. This kind of thing really is something only you would do…”

Although it was Samael speaking the words, Tianyin was also feeling rather angry in her heart.

Compared to Tianyin’s anger, the Black Dragon King’s attitude seemed much calmer.

“I don’t really care either way, little one. Compared to that, for you right now, I am afraid you do not have much time left, do you?”

The Black Dragon King’s seemingly casual words made Tianyin’s mood plunge into an abyss in that instant.

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“What do you mean?”

It sounded like a lightly tossed out “not much time left”, but those words made Tianyin involuntarily think of the duration of her own Seven Original Sins.

This feeling was not without reason, and Tianyin felt that the Black Dragon King before her really did seem to know something…

“‘What do I mean?'”

The Black Dragon King’s massive body coiled nimbly in the sky. After dodging Ysera’s Frost Dragon Breath, his lantern-sized pupils flickered with mocking light.

“What I am talking about, you know very well in your heart. Of course, I also had my doubts about this information at first, but after fighting you again and again… I verified how true this intel was… If the intel is not wrong, little one, your Original Sin power actually has its own time limit, right?”

A time limit.

It was only short words, yet at this moment they directly exposed Tianyin’s hidden secret.

The power of the Seven Original Sins actually had a time limit.

“You… what do you know!”

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Samael, who was controlling her body, attacked even more fiercely, but without the knight’s sword, the Black Dragon King could block Tianyin’s attacks just by relying on the scales covering his body.

Gluttony’s power had the special effect of damaging an enemy’s very soul, but in front of the nearly magic-immune Black Dragon King, it could not inflict any damage at all.

So even though Tianyin, who had activated her Original Sin power, held an absolute advantage in speed, that tiny edge felt utterly powerless in front of the Black Dragon King’s staggering defense.

“Feeling angry out of embarrassment? Little one, this intel was not something I discovered either. If you want to blame someone, blame those outsiders. Your information was actually told to me by those outsiders too…”

Watching Tianyin’s movements grow flustered, for some reason the Black Dragon King directly told her why he knew about this intel.

Outsiders.

Of course, the reason the Black Dragon King was so unreserved in telling Tianyin this was also because he himself had been “screwed over” in a roundabout way by that outsider.

『Outsiders?… Samael, he said it was an outsider who told him???’』

The term the Black Dragon King suddenly brought up made Tianyin involuntarily think of Sister Xiaomu and Little Mengyao. Naturally, she snuffed out that suspicious thought the moment it was born.

However, it should be true that an outsider had given the Black Dragon King this information. By that logic, among the outsiders Tianyin knew, only Little Mengyao and Sister Xiaomu knew that her Seven Original Sins had a duration…

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The pieces did not fit together, yet after thinking it over for a moment, Tianyin still chose to believe that Sister Xiaomu and Little Mengyao would not sell her out.

“Oh? Looks like you do not really know either… It seems you do not even know that outsider who leaked your information. How interesting. How did that outsider learn this intel?”

Tianyin’s silence let the Black Dragon King guess that she did not know who had sold her out. He felt a little disappointed, but he also grew extremely interested in that outsider known as “Yunchou”.

“Little one, I originally planned to come for you only after I had taken Lucifa’s Pride, but I did not expect you to come to me yourself… It surprised me a bit, but it also saved me a lot of effort…”

“I don’t understand… Why are you so obsessed with the Original Sin power? You’re already Throne-tier. Do you still need other power?”

“Throne-tier?”

The Black Dragon King let out a laugh.

“Is Throne-tier that strong? Does being Throne-tier let you escape the shackles of this world? Back in the day, my Dragon race had so many Thrones, and in the end we still crumbled with the passing of the Creation Dragon God. Up until now, have you ever seen or heard the stories of my Dragon race once ruling the world?”

“….”

The Black Dragon King’s words left Tianyin silent, because in the information the System’s Light Orb had given her, the records on the Dragon race were only brushed over. Other than pointing out that Dragons still existed in this world, there was no description at all of the Dragons once ruling the entire world.

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“Do you understand? The saying that legends never die and Thrones are eternal is nothing but a joke in my eyes… So what if you are Legendary? So what if you are Throne-tier? Even a Throne as strong as that has an end of its own… That is why I want to pursue even greater power. Is there anything wrong with seeking power?”

From the Black Dragon King’s point of view, the goal of pursuing power was not wrong in itself.

However, that depended on the person. To Tianyin, if the prerequisite for pursuing power was hurting Lucifa, then in her eyes that was wrong.

“I really can’t agree with your view… Black Dragon King, if pursuing power means hurting the people around me, then no matter what, I will stop you, I will stand in your way…”

“Hahahahahaha… I do not agree with your view either, little one. Do you not know that you have already stepped onto the path of pursuing power without even realizing it…”

In response to Tianyin’s firm words from the bottom of her heart, the Black Dragon King’s huge draconic eyes carried a look with an unclear meaning.

“Don’t treat me like you, Black Dragon King… I’m not the same as you. My power is to protect the people around me, but you are just a Dragon King who will do anything for power!”

“Do anything? In your eyes I will do anything, but to me I am only making full use of my own advantages. Little one, you say you are different from me… but do you understand that the path you and I have stepped onto is actually exactly the same…”