Chapter 29: The Brilliant Reason ( Part 1 )
Leon kicked Konstantin’s head with a single decisive strike, allowing the broken “big ball” to roll several times across the ground.
He staggered backward a few steps, appearing slightly fatigued.
Truth be told, this battle could easily be ranked as one of “General Leon’s Top Ten Classic Battles.”
Why the top spot? So far, no other nine battles have made him feel such pressure.
Though Konstantin wasn’t exactly an extraordinarily powerful dragon king (at least not compared to Leon), thinking back on both of their fights, they were quite memorable.
Leon glanced at the decaying head and snorted,
“Now, you can finally rest, old Konstantin.”
The monster that defeated the stat monster was the stitched monster;
And the one who could defeat the stitched monster could only be the mechanism monster.
If he hadn’t left a trump card to deal with the Empire earlier, this battle might not have ended so easily.
After catching his breath, hurried footsteps sounded from behind.
Leon turned around to see Roseweiser and Isa approaching.
The sisters ran over, glancing at Konstantin’s head.
“Done?” Isa asked.
“Yeah,” Leon nodded.
“You weren’t hurt, right?”
Roseweiser asked, as she quickly checked his arms and shoulders.
Leon smiled, gently pressing her wrist, then holding her cold hand to reassure her that he was fine.
“Don’t worry, no injuries,” Leon said.
The queen slightly nodded, and in the cover of the night, the blush on her face slowly faded.
Isa, too, sighed in relief, dusted off her dress, and then crossed her arms, tilting her head to look at her sister and brother-in-law,
“Alright, you two can flirt later. For now, someone explains to me why that heart-protecting dragon scale suddenly turned into a ticking time bomb?”
As a seasoned dragon king, Isa knew the characteristics of the heart-protecting dragon scale very well.
It was a ‘valve’ for the dragon race’s power and also a form of ‘safety device’ that could prevent the dragon from harming itself if their power went out of control.
In other words, under certain circumstances, the heart-protecting dragon scale could indeed be a massive bomb, detonating not only the power accumulated over centuries but also the dragon’s innate magic.
In the dragon race’s history, there were several famous battles where desperate dragon kings used the self-detonation of their heart-protecting dragon scale to perish with their enemies.
But while dragon scales could be used as bombs, the key point was that only the owner could detonate their scale.
If any dragon could trigger the heart-protecting dragon scale of another dragon, there would be no need for battles— everyone would just be studying how to make the opponent’s scale heat up.
So when Leon snapped his fingers to detonate Konstantin’s dragon scale, it intrigued Isa.
Seeing her sister’s curiosity, the couple exchanged a glance, and then immediately opened their team’s communication channel.
Roseweiser: Can’t tell the truth, my sister is very smart. As soon as you mention the Empire, she’ll immediately get suspicious.
Leon: [Got it, give me a few minutes to come up with a better excuse.]
Roseweiser: [A few minutes? Where am I going to get you those few minutes?]
Leon: [There’s no choice, honey, you don’t want your husband’s human identity exposed, do you?]
Roseweiser: [Hey! …You jerk, hurry up and think of something, I’ll help distract her.]
Leon: [OK]
The couple let go of each other’s hands. Roseweiser walked over to Isa, pressed her lips together, then spoke,
“Actually… it wasn’t a time bomb.”
Isa raised an eyebrow, looking at her sister, “If it wasn’t a time bomb, then what was it?”
“It was… a remote-controlled bomb!”
“……”
Isa looked at her with slight bewilderment.
“Little Rose, no matter what kind of bomb it was, it was just a simple metaphor. No need to be so pedantic about it.”
She said casually, then slowly turned her gaze to Leon, “So, brother-in-law, how did you manage to do that?”
“Ah… sis, actually—”
Seeing that her sister was about to get straight to the point, Roseweiser’s brain worked rapidly, thinking of ways to stall.
But Isa was a smart person, and Roseweiser couldn’t afford to spout nonsense, or else Isa would immediately catch on.
After all, Roseweiser wasn’t particularly skilled at lying, and she didn’t have many clever excuses to offer.
Just as she was feeling desperate, Leon finally spoke up,
“It’s like this, sis.”
Isa nodded slightly, “Mm, go ahead.”
“I disappeared for six months through the spatial rift from Lavi, and by accident, I ended up in the future, twenty years ahead. You know about this, right?”
“Right, Little Rose mentioned it in a letter she wrote to me a few days ago but didn’t explain it in detail. I’ve been meaning to ask you about it. Time travel is a rare thing I’ve never seen before.”
Isa watched Leon with interest, “So, does the explosion of Konstantin’s dragon scale have something to do with your trip to the future?”
“Yeah, there’s a connection.”
Leon said, “First of all, that dragon scale wasn’t originally Konstantin’s heart-protecting dragon scale, but Black Sun Dragon King Bly’s. That’s why he can use spatial magic, appear silently at your temple, and avoid Roseweiser’s lethal strike.”
“And that explains how I managed to detonate the dragon scale.”
“When I returned from the future, Bly and Jagers were attacking Roseweiser’s Silver Dragon Temple. I took them out, along with four other dragon kings.”
“But I didn’t destroy their heart-protecting dragon scales because, in the future…”
Leon took a deep breath, and he was about to start fabricating the lie, feeling a bit nervous.
