Chapter 150 Chapter 150 Tremor.
Su Cheng crashed directly into his arms.
Given the height difference between them, she buried her face in the man's chest the moment he opened his arms.
His cheekbones brushed against the cold, hard ridges of the leather buckles, while the tip of his nose pressed against the elastic, full muscles.
She also hugged the other person, "Why are you here?"
"I sensed you weren't in a good mood. Also, I wanted to see you and apologize for what happened in the Echo Plane."
"...Is that your memory?" Su Cheng looked up at him, "How could your memory be collected by the people of the Vatican—"
Kai raised his hand and touched the top of her head, his gesture as gentle as ever. "When they defeated me, they took something away."
Su Cheng suddenly felt a little regretful, "Sorry——"
"No," he interrupted her immediately, "that's not a bad memory. Let's go."
His voice was still as deep and pleasant as in my memory, with that kind of gentle patience, and his aura still exuded a familiar coldness.
But it still felt like a hug between kindred spirits.
She thought of the rocks of the Lightless Ruins, the ancient dragon ancestor who went mad in front of the cliff, and the raging black flames burning under the sky.
——That breath seems to still linger in the nasal cavity, blending with the feeling at the moment, making people feel inexplicably comfortable.
"……good."
Su Cheng said in a low voice.
The hot summer wind blew dust and smoke across my cheeks, and the whole world dissolved in the hustle and bustle.
The hollow rumble of wind within the shattered walls of the holy city, the incessant screams and prayers, all faded away at that moment. They passed through the veil of space and reappeared in the pitch-black heart of the volcano.
A choking smell of burning filled the air. The dark rock walls intersected with each other, forming a broken dome that cut through the red sky.
"Have you fully recovered?" Su Cheng thought for a moment, "I mean, after those two defeated you—"
"Yes, don't worry." Kai held her shoulders. "In a sense, they liberated me. When I woke up after falling asleep, I finally found peace. The moment Aeglinis gained godhood, my authority was complete. Before, I had been sharing a part of things that did not belong to me, which led to me... you see."
Kai became a little depressed as he spoke, with self-blame and regret appearing in his cold golden eyes.
He slowly raised his hand, as if wanting to touch the cheek of the girl in front of him, and then stopped.
"sorry--"
"No," Su Cheng grabbed his wrist and rested her head on the man's palm, "I think you are cute."
Kai looked down at her, "After what I did to you?"
"That's nothing," Su Cheng said subconsciously, "It's not directed at me. You're just going crazy. Um, have you also got that memory?"
He nodded slowly. "Yes, actually, it has something to do with you. Kykleus in the Echo Plane likes you very much. Any existence that triggers his thinking may cause him to lose control. Otherwise, he will just continue to sleep."
Su Cheng blinked, "So your past memories, I mean the real ones, have all been recovered."
"Yes," Kai nodded slightly, "After obtaining that piece of bone, it was almost complete. In fact, what happened in those years had almost nothing to do with me."
Apparently, the Chaos Dragon Ancestor was sleeping most of the time, so he had no idea what was happening in the outside world.
"Even the Trial Gate, I've never operated it myself. It was other dragons who did it..."
He seemed to be trying hard to recall. "I remember the three-eyed snake told me about the source fire, but I didn't care at all. I thought the world was ruined and that was it."
Su Cheng suddenly smiled.
Although this matter was very serious, she found it a little funny whenever she thought about the scene, and the name also sounded funny.
Su Cheng: "...Anyway, it's all over."
Kai nodded silently, looking around at the abyss of the Sunless Ruins.
Clusters of black and red crystals grow wildly in the mountains, emitting an ominous glow. Viscous blood-like magma flows in the cracks of the rocks. From time to time, the sound of bubbles bursting can be heard. The red sky imprints everything with the color of hell.
"I integrated that memory," he said, gazing at the empty bottom of the cliff. "When I saw you, it felt like a reunion after thousands of years."
Su Cheng turned his head and looked at him quietly for a few seconds, then hugged him again.
Almost at the same time, Kai also put his arms around her, and with eagerness and strong strength, he held the girl tightly in his arms.
It is not only the comfort of reunion after a long separation, but also a hug that fills the emptiness and strives to confirm each other's real existence.
"...I once thought I would never see you again," Su Cheng whispered, "I thought so many times, but I thought maybe I could hold on for thousands of years..."
The iron-strong arms wrapped around her back, and she buried her whole body in the hard and cold chest, fully able to feel the muscle lines bulging like rocks with her body.
Then he held her waist and picked her up, burying his head in the crook of her neck. "I regret it too. I should have been with you instead of using the time before to sort out my memories—"
His voice was a little unclear, and his breath spread over his shoulders and neck, blowing through his scattered hair.
"...I promised you a complete story, but then I think about it, those memories still don't represent my past self. They just happened to me..."
Su Cheng raised his arm, crossed it over the other's broad back, then pressed the back of his head and rubbed it soothingly.
“It’s okay, I learned a lot,” she whispered, “and a lot of my questions were answered.”
"Well, that's good." Kai seemed relieved. "I could only see part of what happened in the Echo Plane."
"...It's not surprising. After all, most of them are very stingy," Su Cheng said casually, "If there is anything you want to know, I can tell you."
He chuckled softly, "Just say whatever you find interesting and what you want to say."
Su Cheng said nothing, but just hugged him even tighter.
The hug seemed to last for a century.
She leaned back slightly, and Kai immediately loosened his grip.
The two were able to look at each other.
His long, thick black eyelashes were like fluttering crow feathers, with a rusty dark red color flowing at the tips.
The color of the iris is like boiling gold, the cracked radial lines are like the marks of a quenched knife, and every arc of light is so sharp.
But the smile inside was gentle and non-aggressive——
"Honestly," Su Cheng held his face, "what's the basis for your appearance?"
Kai tilted his head slightly and rubbed the soft, slender fingers, "...My own preferences?"
"Ah," Su Cheng couldn't help laughing, "It seems we have the same idea."
He curled his lips, "Then I should feel honored."
Su Cheng put her arm around the back of his neck, stared intently at that handsome face, then lowered her head and kissed him.
Kai responded without hesitation.
It was a kiss full of aggression and possessiveness.
The entanglement was the deepest and most intense from the beginning. Both of them seemed to be trying to devour each other and plunder the breath from each other's mouth.
It was like a dying traveler in the desert who found a source of water and desperately drank the sweet spring water.
They kissed deeply and urgently, as if they wanted to embed each other into their bodies, or like wild beasts lost in the wilderness, expressing their longing in the most primitive way.
And the joy of celebrating what was lost and found.
Su Cheng was immersed in that intense ecstasy.
The pungent smell of sulfur in the air seemed to become sweet, and the cold black rocks under their feet seemed to turn into clouds, softly lifting them up.
This devastated ancient dragon's habitat seemed to have transformed from purgatory into paradise, sublimated in this soul-burning kiss.
After this long and passionate kiss, both of them were breathing steadily.
Kai lowered his head and bit the girl's crimson lips, "What?"
Su Cheng's eyelashes trembled, "I was wondering why that person didn't come."
Kai: “?”
He looked at her helplessly, "You wish He were here?"
Su Cheng: "Do you really know who I'm talking about?"
Kai shook his head. "Is there any other answer? If it was Iltienthe, you would have invited him to join you just now—"
Su Cheng hit him speechlessly, "Are you serious? Are you happy with this?"
He coughed lightly, "I don't like him very much, but I love you, so if that's what you think..."
"Wait," Su Cheng realized that this conversation was getting weirder and weirder. "I was just thinking, I thought this should be my happy moment, so He should come. You know, He's always like this. Before, Ian and I, um, we, went out together once, and He always came to join in."
The Ancient Dragon Ancestor in front of her was silent for a moment, then reached out and hugged her, "Okay, then I'll tell you the truth--"
"...It's just that I don't want Him to appear," Kai whispered, "At least here, today, if you miss Him, maybe -"
Su Cheng immediately kissed him, "Oh, then I'm relieved. I was wondering why I wasn't happy enough. No problem."
Kai rubbed her hair again, "...I thought you were used to having His company during intimacy, but no matter what, today is ours after all—"
"I understand what you mean," Su Cheng said with a smile, "I also want to be alone with you now. We haven't seen each other for a long time."
Kai looked down at her, resting his forehead against hers. "Yes, forgive me for wanting to have your time all to myself."
"Come on, I'm doing the same thing."
She reached out and grabbed the leather strap on his chest, pulling at the cold metal buckle, the hard buckle pressing against her soft fingertips.
Su Cheng couldn't help but pinch it, his fingertips sliding across the top of the metal buckle, feeling the bulging muscles tense up.
Those lines seemed to be condensed through thousands of hammerings, and every inch was filled with destructive power. When tied up by the shoulder straps that crossed across, they had a more primitive and wild look.
Her fingers moved slowly along the beautiful muscle texture, stroking the well-defined lean waist and abdomen. The firm and bulging muscles were like works of art carved by a craftsman.
Then she pressed the thick leather belt and ran her fingertips over the raised bronze buckle in the middle. The cool metal was slightly warmed by her palm.
The dragon head pattern embossed in the center hurt her fingertips, with distinct edges and corners, and she could no longer hold it with one hand.
The nails scraped against the horns of the bronze faucet, making a slight friction sound, and the leather belt under the buckle creaked as the waist was tightened.
She pressed the deep wrinkles created by the tightening of the belt, her slender finger bones wedged in the gap between the buckle and her abdominal muscles, where the warm bronze and the cold body temperature intertwined.
Click.
On the molten gold iris, Su Cheng saw his own reflection.
Split by the dark, needle-shaped vertical pupils.
Another scene was also reflected in her eyes.
The black-haired man leaned over and picked up the giant sword on the ground. The sharp blade, soaked in blood, seemed to have lost its murderous aura.
He moved his wrist and raised the heavy sword upwards. The coldness rolling on the blade moved along the ground until it touched the damp rock crevice covered by crystals and vines.
"...During the years you were asleep, well, you woke up occasionally, didn't you? Did you never leave here during that time?"
Su Cheng asked curiously.
"Almost nothing, at least I don't remember." Kai thought for a moment, "The Sunless Ruins wasn't like this in the beginning, there wasn't this magma..."
He bent down slightly, exerted a little force with his hands, and used the cold and hard edge of the black sword to tentatively press against the crack in the rock where the hot molten lava was flowing.
The rock wall was not as solid as imagined, but rather as flexible as jade.
When the sharp blade made of dragon bone was pushed in, it sank slightly due to melting in the high temperature, as if it also tacitly agreed to this reckless and awkward exploration.
"You see," he whispered, "since I arrived here and have been here for many years, the entire plane has been changed..."
The sword blade stopped stiffly, tightly wrapped and ground by the warm stone marrow. Every time it tried to move inward an inch, it could feel the suction and pull from deep underground.
The special mineral with the aura of magic and curse has a wet and soft inner wall, and it also secretes hot stone paste in an attempt to soften the cold sharp blade.
The pitch-black heavy sword sank into it until the guard was stuck on the trembling rock, making a dull thud.
The sword blade fiercely chiseled into the magma deep in the earth's core.
The extremely hot magma rolled and wrapped around the sword edge with a sizzling sound, greedily licking the lines on the sword body and filling the grooves at the bottom.
He injected some magic power and showed her the true face of the ancient dragon's hometown.
Every time the sword blade stirred, the magma pulsed and boiled violently, impacting the narrow cracks in the cliff, and every twitch and tremor brought out red flames.
The raging flames flowed down the sword's spine, and were pushed back at the next intersection, flowing into the deeper and hotter source of the earth's core.
The cracks in the rock wall were pushed open by the sword blade, and the rocks were burned into muddy pieces by the molten lava. The sharp blade left hot scratches, which were quickly smoothed out by the flames.
The entire mountain was shaking due to the injected magic power. It was an imperceptible hum at first, and then gradually turned into a violent shaking.
The rocks are groaning, like screams of being overwhelmed, or like chants of extreme joy.
Kai held her hand and asked her to feel the temperature of the blade together - the dragon bone, which had almost been melted by the magma, was now completely hot.
Su Cheng almost felt his palms being burned.
The magma under the ground turned into a whirlpool under the stirring of the sword blade, gathering into a gushing torrent, rushing and crashing in the narrow corridor of the rock wall.
He pushed the giant sword completely into the magma, and the surging magic power poured into the core of the plane, and the ancient runes on the sword lit up one after another.
The magma below finally found an opportunity to vent, erupting with a roar, carrying a scorching heat wave and splashing onto the dark black rocks.
After a long time, the restless volcanic veins gradually subsided.
The giant sword is still buried deep in the earth, and the sword body is burning red in the high temperature.
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