The Return of the God Level Assassin

1079  TWO DRAGONS

A CERTAIN post in the game forum was gaining traction for a few days now. The comments kept piling up that, for several days, it had been at the top of the forum. It was almost as if it was pinned at the top. That's why many players who visited the forum couldn't help but click on it and read it. Especially with such an eye-catching title.

[Two Dragons in Flight: A Breathtaking Sight Over Arcadia's Skies!]

[I was relaxing at Blossom Fields yesterday when two big shadows suddenly passed by. I was startled. I thought it was some kind of airship or something. But when I looked up, I actually saw two dragons! One red and one black. They were western dragons, and the span of their wings as they fly in the sky is really a sight to behold.

When they flew off and disappeared from my sight, it suddenly hit me. Were they players or NPCs? If they were players, wouldn't they be, like, very well known by now? I mean, western dragons are very rare. There's only a handful of players that had them as a race. Was there a black one and a red one among the western dragon players? I think there's a red one, but I'm not sure about the black one.

But if they were NPCs, they would have usually flown way higher in the sky than that. To the point that people on the ground wouldn't even see them up close. They would only see a speck. So, how come I was able to see them so clearly?

What do you think? Were they players or were they NPCs?]

Then attached to that post was a screenshot of two western dragons, one black and one red. Just like what do original poster said.

[I think they're players. I mean, as you said, no NPC dragons would fly that close to the ground.]

[Most NPC dragons just stay in their lairs and don't bother to go out. Most particularly the western ones.]

﹂[This. Especially after what happened in the valley of dragons. They just lost their king. There's no way they would just go out, flying about this soon.]

﹂[Right, something like that did happen. But how did it happen, anyway? Did another player trigger some kind of narrative related to the western dragons?]

﹂[If someone did, I wished they shared it with everyone.]

[But it's also hard to believe that they were players. I mean, just like you said, it's rare to get the western dragon race, as much as it was to get the eastern one. Once a new player gets one, it's hard to hide.]

﹂[Are you saying these two were both rookies? I will believe it if it's only one, but two at the same time?]

﹂[Not to mention last year there was also a rookie who got a dragon as a race. You know, the one who came second in last year's Rookie Carnival?]

﹂[Maybe the game devs are trying to increase their population because of what happened in the valley of the dragons?]

[I've seen them too! I was just at Mt. Silvercrest at that time.]

[Me as well. I saw them when I was at Ember Hollow. Just like the original poster said, they flew very low. I even thought they were going to land.]

[Wait— those places that were mentioned just now. All of them were in the easternmost part of Arcadia. If they were players, does that mean that the dragons' origin village is in the east?] n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

[That would count if they were actually players.]

[Don't you guys think that there's another answer aside from 'players' and 'NPCs'?]

﹂[And what could that be?]

﹂﹂[They can be pets.]

[Someone just mentioned from the replies above that the two dragons could be 'pets'. If they were, then it would answer a lot of people's questions.]

﹂[Pets? LOL. Can dragons also be pets?]

﹂﹂[Why can't they? It's not like it's written on the Pet System manual that they couldn't be.]

﹂[If they were really pets, then I could only salute their masters. Imagine having dragons as pets? Wow.]

﹂[Their masters could only be high-level players if that was the case. Maybe the captain and vice-captain of one of the high-ranking teams.]

More and more comments speculating that the two dragons were pets came after that.

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Yu Jiao was browsing on the game forum and reading the same post. As she read the comments, she became more and more worried.

"Yan Yan, have you read this post in the game forum?" she asked Luo Yan, who was walking beside her.

She, Luo Yan, and Luo Jin were walking in their usual restaurant for lunch.

Luo Yan glanced at Yu Jiao's phone screen. When he saw the post title, he quickly understood what post the other was talking about.

"Yes, I read it last night," he said. When he saw Yu Jiao's worried expression, he smiled. "Don't worry too much, we got it in hand."

Although he said that, this situation also came as a surprise for him and the rest of the team. He didn't expect that seeing two dragons flying about in the sky would be such a big deal. Well, if he thought about it, dragons would always be a point of fascination for gamers.

"I'm just glad no one saw us," Luo Jin said. "I told you we shouldn't have flown so near the ground."

"It would be fine. We'll just look for a way to not be seen," Luo Yan said. Their team definitely had items stored that could help with this situation.

It's not really that big of a deal in his opinion. It would probably make the other teams more wary of them if it was discovered that the two were part of their team, and the element of surprise would definitely be gone, but it wouldn't really affect the bigger picture.

Or course, not being discovered would be much better. But what would happen would happen. So.

As they walked, Luo Yan saw a familiar figure ahead.