CHAPTER 123: LILITH’S DIFFICULTY

"Never!"

One thing that Lilith didn’t want to say to Seraphine, no matter what, was ’mother.’

Previously, it might have been because of her past, but now it was all because of how she treated her.

"Hehe...you stubborn girl."

Seraphine saw how quickly Lilith denied calling her mother and giggled lightly.

She was having the time of her life teasing this princess, who was crazy enough to threaten her before.

"Okay, since you don’t want to call me mother, you can’t leave yet."

She spoke, making Lilith faintly angry. But she didn’t care and instead placed her finger on her lips as if thinking.

"Although you don’t treat me as a mother, I still treat you as a daughter. So... how about I comb your hair just like a mother should? Let me make you more beautiful, so that Lucien will fall at your feet."

Seraphine said with large eyes and a beautiful smile, getting clearly excited about the idea of combing her hair.

To be honest, she couldn’t deny that she had always wanted to have a daughter of her own. That’s why she always treated Liora closely and even came here today on her request.

So, spending her time with Lilith, in any way she wanted, made her delighted.

She admitted she got carried away at times, but it was all for Lilith, wasn’t it?

"Combing hair? No, my hair is fine already?"

Lilith hurriedly shook her head as soon as she heard her. She already suffered a lot when Seraphine tried changing clothes; now she didn’t want to suffer more.

Unfortunately, today wasn’t her day. When was her denial taken seriously?

"Tch...this is fine? Girl, you clearly don’t know recent fashion. How will you make Lucien look at you when there is a beautiful sister on the side like this?"

Seraphine said, pouting while placing her hand on her waist.

"Okay, don’t just resist and let me do something. I promise, at the end you will like it."

After saying that, she immediately grabbed Lilith’s hand, dragging her out of the room. She didn’t let her protest anymore.

’Who wants to impress Lucien? That bastard must be enjoying his time with Sera while I am stuck here. He didn’t even answer me before.’

Although Lilith sighed and let Seraphine do whatever she wanted without protest, inside, she was cursing Lucien.

After all, all this was because Lucien left with Sera, leaving her alone with his mother.

Of course, she also regretted saying those words now. She never thought Seraphine was so crazy that she didn’t care about her status and played her around like this.

However, although she hated all of this, she honestly couldn’t bear to hate Seraphine to the death. She didn’t know why.

***

"Are you here?"

In the clear and peaceful sky near the Bellenford Capital of the Edoria Kingdom, suddenly a large silhouette rapidly flew, its wings stretching wide as it leapt across a large distance in an instant.

Although the figure was huge with the distinct features of an owl, surprisingly, no sound echoed in the air, nor did anyone notice its presence.

Until, suddenly, the owl stopped in the sky when an old voice appeared out of nowhere.

"Malcolm, I am sorry. I was reckless."

As soon as the voice appeared, before Lucien could even react, Velmara rapidly shrank in size, leaving just enough space for Lucien to stand on his back.

Then, he directly bowed to the front while admitting his mistake.

Only then did Lucien manage to see his old grandpa standing in front of him, hands behind his back, with a solemn look.

"Velmara, we have been friends since we were little. You don’t need to say sorry."

Malcolm saw Velmara lowering his head in front of him and lightly waved his hand to indicate that everything was alright.

"Just... from today onward, be more careful. All the fights in the Shadow Kingdom have made you too prideful."

Since he was the beast master, he could feel Velmara’s thoughts. And he already knew what had happened in Viremond from him.

So, he didn’t directly blame his beast companion but instead gave a light warning.

To be honest, he also knew that Velmara prided his ancient bloodline more than anything else and was even a little sensitive about this issue.

Although he didn’t know much, in Malcolm’s opinion, this incident might help Velmara realize his limits.

After all, there was always a sky above the sky, wasn’t there?

"Yes, I understand."

Seeing that Malcolm didn’t scold and seemed to have forgiven him, Velmara breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmm... it is better you know."

Malcolm nodded and then finally looked at Lucien, who was silently listening to them.

"You brat won’t give me a chance to relax at all. Why do you need to go outside at this time?"

Surprisingly, while he didn’t scold Velmara, he managed to scold his grandson, making Lucien speechless.

"Old man, aren’t you mixing up the order here?"

Lucien couldn’t help but ask, feeling that he was getting scolded for nothing.

After all, it was Velmara who caused the trouble, and he was just silently collecting debt and nothing else.

"Who are you calling old man? Do you want to get beaten?"

Malcolm was annoyed at how Lucien addressed him.

"Okay, this place isn’t safe. Open the Dimensional Vault and let us enter. We will talk inside."

He then put aside this banter for now and asked Lucien to open the space channel.

After Lucien inherited the Dimensional Vault, he completely lost access and couldn’t enter like before.

He had to ask his grandson just to gain access.

"Hmm? Okay..."

Lucien was confused by the sudden twist but still nodded and opened the space channel leading to his Dimensional Vault.

He then allowed both Velmara and Malcolm to enter before entering himself, appearing right at the core where he had left before.

"So, you used the gems here to entice that dragon?"

As soon as Malcolm appeared inside, he scanned the entire vault with his spiritual sense and asked Lucien.

He had heard everything from Velmara, even the deal and the unique things about Lucien.

Velmara didn’t dare to hide anything from him after this incident.

"Hmm? Yeah, haha... that guy took quite a bit of wealth."

Lucien scratched his head a little awkwardly, realizing that in just a day, he had used so much wealth from this Dimensional Vault.

But he had no intention of stopping there, as he had an even bigger plan tonight.

"Quite a bit? Kid, you have no idea how great a fortune you’ve made with so little cost."

However, what Malcolm said next really surprised him. He thought he would be scolded or at least get a light reprimand, but Malcolm didn’t seem to be interested in that.

"Can I see the dragon blood you got?"

Instead, his attention was on the dragon blood that Lucien managed to gain in this deal.

From how solemn Malcolm looked, it seemed he placed great importance on this.

"Sure!"

After seeing his grandpa getting serious, Lucien also nodded and took out the glass tube shimmering with a faint crimson color and handed it to Malcolm.

Even if grandpa didn’t ask him, he was going to give it to him, as he needed his help to refine it in the first place.

After all, the blood in that tube, although a normal one, was of a Weaver-rank dragon. It wasn’t something that he, who was at the Peak of the Apprentice realm, could refine.

He needed someone powerful to help him in that process.

"It really is dragon blood."

As soon as Malcolm took the tube from Lucien’s hand, he exclaimed in pure surprise.

How long had it been since he saw something related to dragons on this continent?

After the appearance of the World of Origin, not only the Goldveil family, but also the dragons completely disappeared from this continent.

Besides the juvenile corpse in this Dimensional Vault, Malcolm hadn’t seen anything remotely close to a dragon until now.

So now, holding the blood of a dragon, that too from the Weaver realm like him, made Malcolm emotional.

He felt that he was getting closer and closer to finding his family in that vast and unknown world.

"Did he... just give it to you?"

Feeling that the blood was real, Malcolm looked at his grandson and asked, still clearly not believing it.

After all, he knew the value of things more than anyone, and he was absolutely sure that those earthly treasures like gems couldn’t warrant such a treasure of such high value.

Although he had heard from Velmara that the dragon was quite greedy, he didn’t believe that was the reason for this transaction.

While it was true that dragons were greedy by nature, they were also the most intelligent species, more so than any human.

It wasn’t without reason that they were placed in the rank of Progenitor, even in the World of Origin.

So, he couldn’t believe Lucien had managed to get a genuine item just for his little wealth.

"Eh? Cough... didn’t I say I exchanged it with equal value?"