“Saintess, it seems there are indeed dragons here, but it doesn’t appear to be Qian Baiyu. We should keep moving,” the maid said, hands on her hips, puzzled.
Her lady was a rare saintess of the fox clan, with a bloodline purity unmatched in history.
Even human kings and the empress of the Crimson Blood Domain had to treat her with respect.
Why should she pay attention to those vulgar dragons obsessed with money?
The fox clan had a very negative impression of dragons, and the maid naturally had nothing good to say about them.
The saintess ignored the maid’s complaints, staring blankly at the unknown liquid on her jade-like fingertips, murmuring softly.
“The Qian Baiyu appearing in the human kingdom… Could it be you?”
The saintess glanced down at the cherry-white rope bell tied to her ankle, her thoughts drifting far away, as if returning to a past memory.
After leaving the forest, following the route provided by the sub-dragon Nolai, Jasmine successfully reached the border of the Count Cuika’s territory, heading straight for the main road leading to the Kingdom of Bal.
Wearing the new cloak made her feel lighter, as if she didn’t need to carry tools like curved swords, sleeve blades, alchemy potions, poisons, and crossbows in her bag.
She could just stuff them into the space cloak.
Although she no longer had a carriage, her travel speed increased significantly.
The Trika Count’s territory was only a few steps away, and her feet were enough to get her there.
However, she faced a serious problem before reaching the main road.
“I didn’t have breakfast, and it’s almost noon…”
The young dragon’s steps were uneven, as if she might collapse at any moment.
She hadn’t even reached the main road before she was starving.
Having eaten nothing all morning, with no sustenance in her stomach, Jasmine felt like she was about to become a dried-up little dragon.
Her feet were weak, her toes couldn’t grip the ground, and she stumbled forward, falling face-first to the ground, her long white hair spreading out like a blanket.
Roast meat, tomato beef soup, cheese pancakes…
Her hunger made her forget everything but eating.
Her mind was blank, and she couldn’t remember any of her previous meticulous plans, her whole being turning into the shape of a roast meat dish.
“So hungry…”
The cloaked loli sat on the ground, rubbing her growing stomach, looking pitiful.
Dizzy and desperate, she started gnawing on the tree bark beside her.
“Ow!~~ Crunch crunch…”
A horrifying scene appeared on the forest path: a white-haired little girl, looking no older than ten, clung to a tree, her eyes vacant, eagerly swallowing the bark she gnawed off, enjoying it immensely.
In no time, over a dozen trees in the small forest had fallen victim to her, their trunks gnawed open and hollowed out.
Crunching on the crispy bark was good for her teeth, but the taste was dry and astringent.
Ugh, tree bark was hard to eat…
Wait, is that a ‘pancake’ here…?
“Gulp gulp.”
The girl held a piece of bark in one hand and a stone slab in the other, sitting on the ground, taking bites from each.
Her indestructible dragon teeth easily ground the stone slab into fragments.
Seemingly tasting something, she pulled up the stone slabs used for paving one by one, treating them as emergency food.
“Crunch crunch~~” She chewed continuously, and as she moved along, the stone slabs, along with the soil beneath, were uprooted, turning the road into a bumpy, muddy mess.
The ancient main road, built during an ancient time, suffered immeasurable damage.
Later, officials from the Papal State racked their brains to investigate the cause but never found any clues, leaving the matter an unsolved mystery.
“Gulp, hmm…”
Swallowing the last bit of stone fragments, the young dragon sat on the ground, legs spread, rubbing her slightly rounded belly with satisfaction.
The stone slabs and tree bark didn’t taste great, but at least they could satisfy her hunger.
“Hmm, half full… Ah! Did I do this??”
Mo Li, savoring the taste, suddenly stood up in shock, unable to believe what she saw.
Behind her was a complete, flat stone road, while in front was a bare patch of mud, as if the road had been completely severed…
“Oh no, I’ve caused trouble…”
Mo Li plopped down on the ground, her head drooping.
She had dismantled the official stone road, and now even if she offered herself as compensation, it wouldn’t be enough…
An accident had made her already impoverished family even worse off.
The young dragon stood up with a gulp, looking around cautiously.
After confirming no one saw her, she quickly slipped into the nearby forest.
“No one saw, no one saw, it wasn’t me, it wasn’t me, it wasn’t me…”
Mo Li muttered, covering her eyes, trying to deceive herself.
“Strange, why is the road gone up ahead?”
At that moment, a voice came from the road entrance, and Mo Li, hiding in the forest, froze.
“Who knows, maybe they’re planning to replace the old road with a new one?”
“Impossible, if they were planning to replace it, they should have informed us in advance, but we haven’t received any news.”
“What happened?”
Was it the bandits?”
“The bandits aren’t that capable, daring to rob Count Cuika’s goods. Besides, I know the bandit leaders around here, and I’ve already given them a heads-up these days.”
A convoy stopped on the main road, and a few knights dismounted.
It was the emblem of the Cuika family…
Watching all this from a distance, Mo Li immediately became alert.
Having eaten enough bark and leaves, she had returned to her human form and remembered she had business to attend to.
From her position, she could hear the conversation of the knights clearly.
“Forget it, it’s getting late today. Let’s camp not far ahead… Don’t let them see through us, understand?”
The last knight’s words were a bit odd, but Jasmine didn’t pay attention.
As the ring had indicated, the carriage traveling from the Kingdom of Baal to Count Cuika’s territory would pass through here.
Coincidentally, Jasmine had run into it.
In her past life, Jasmine had been to Count Cuika’s territory and had seen the noble family’s crest, so she could confirm that this was indeed Count Cuika’s convoy.
Having barely satisfied her hunger, she began to plan how to deal with these people and smoothly take their goods.
The situation came suddenly, leaving her no time to prepare, so she decided to act decisively and make her move tonight.
With this thought, she slipped into the forest and took out two bottles of alchemical potions from her cloak, which she had exchanged for in the ring.
Invisibility potion and Sweet Kiss.
Busy preparing to give these knights a big surprise, she didn’t notice that behind Count Cuika’s convoy was an even larger convoy, or rather, a knight escort team.
The emblem of this convoy was a large divine phoenix sheltering a cross…
