As they walked their way towards the dungeon Iko looked back at Leo more times that she liked, he was suspicious, and he was also looking at her weird every now and then.

  Iko sighed “What do you want Leo? You keep looking at me weirdly” She stopped while looking behind her once again.

  Leo once again looked at Iko with the worry he had back in the camp, and Iko didn’t like that.

  “I’m just worried you could be carrying any type of disease or curse; we could try to get rid of it” He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

  “Once again, I am not sick or cursed!” Iko said even though she did think her nightmare was sick “Why are those your theories?! There are dozens of theories that could be better!” Iko said kind of mad at him for not even considering that maybe she was a dragon.

  “No, there really aren’t any other good theories...” Leo said, and he looked surprised from her outburst.

  “Will you two stop your fighting? I can just analyze her blood to see if there is something there and be done with it” one of the soldiers with a different uniform to the rest said, he didn’t wear anything heavy like the rest, and wasn’t built like a fucking wall, he was more as a normal person who would do exercise from time to time.

  “What do you mean examine my blood?!” Iko said kind of nervous of what the hell her blood could have, since the system did make it a big deal by giving it a description.

  “I’ll take a sample and use magic to find out what it has, not so hard” The man said with a sigh, he looked tired for some reason, he was apparently a medic but it doesn’t look as the soldiers have been wounded enough for him to feel like that.

  “That could work! So we can see if you are cursed or not! Or if you are carrying a disease!” Leo said excited.

  “Why the fuck are you excited about that? And I haven’t said I'm okay with that!” Iko said while turning to continue the trip towards the dungeon “If you want to have a sample of my blood, either go back to the camp and pick it up or wait for us to be attacked by a monster and pick it up then” Iko said with annoyance in her voice.

  They continued their walk towards the dungeon when they got to the border that divided the human land and the forbidden land of the dragons.

  Did he really build his laboratory on a forbidden land?!

  “Are you sure we are going the right way?” Asked Kilon for the third time.

  “I'm sure, now shut up!” Iko was already mad that people showed her fake worry and now she had to also take the complaints of Kilon, but she couldn’t really blame him, after all, they were entering a forbidden zone that Iko was pretty sure didn’t have a fucking tower made from corruption in the middle before.

  “You are sure it is over here? We are about to enter the land of the dragons” Leo said while looking around him carefully.

  “Don’t be such a crybaby, it’s not like they would care if we are at the border” Iko said while dismissing his worries, why would a dragon want to attack them? She looked back at the army that was following her.

  Okay maybe they would be suspicious...

  When they were about to continue the walk, a roar was heard in the distance.

  “You have to be kidding...” Iko looked around her and saw 3 fucking dragons flying towards them.

  “What were you saying?” Leo said teasingly.

  “Fuck you! Why would you even bring a whole army to catch a single man?!” Iko said as the dragons got closer.

  As the dragons landed, they had uninterested looks on their eyes except when they looked at her and at Leo.

  “What’s your business... Humans” One of the dragons said, this one was green, and it's scales didn’t look as sturdy as hers, but she had much more vitality, a vitality Iko would love to corrupt, she was huge, easily bigger than Rakikas, the three of them were.

  “We came looking for one of our kin who created his hideout around these areas, we had no intention of disturbing you, Elders” Leo answered without much trouble, after all, he had practiced in case a dragon appeared, but he didn’t expect an elder, much less 3 of them.

  “Hide out? You think we are clueless? If a human had a hideout in our territory, we would have noticed ages ago!” The red dragon said, its aura was strong and hot, it was the opposite of the feeling the sea serpent inside her gave, its scales were much stronger than the green one too.

  “I doubt it...” Iko said under her breath, but as she had enhanced hearing, she should have guessed they had too.

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  “Explain yourself...” The blue one said, Iko felt a faint connection with that one, probably the energy of thunder that came from him, its horns were bigger than the ones the other “Elders” had, Iko didn’t know what that meant.

  “He’s a scientist level 175; he must probably created a barrier so you wouldn’t notice and well, like 1-2 days ago, his entire laboratory turned into a dungeon” Iko said while looking at the blue dragon, wondering why this one felt more respectful.

  “If that’s the case, then it would make sense we couldn’t sense him...” The blue one said, if she had the system right now, she would have known their names “But... what are YOU doing here... Your majesty...”

  “Majesty? What are you talking about?” Leo said with a strange expression on his face.

  “Human, we didn’t ask to hear your voice... this matter doesn’t concern you...” The red dragon said while its tail got on fire.

  “You talking about me?” Iko asked pointing at herself with her human arm.

  “Yes, yes we are, we are sorry if we sound like we are not taking into account your authority, but we had no information of a heir to be out here, specially around... humans” The green dragon said while side-eyeing the army, the army Iko just noticed is with half their members knocked out.

  What are they talking about? Wait... my new sub race was juvenile ROYAL corrupted dragon, wasn’t it?

  Iko sighed and turned her mask and cloak back into her previous clothes, her tail lashing out to anything and anyone around, her wings fully opening after only a day of being closed, her horns were the only ones that didn’t need any kind of special attention.

  “I don’t know what to tell you... pretty sure there aren’t a lot like me, if there are any” Iko said while forcing her tail to a stop, the syringe in the tip inches from stabbing someone.

  The next thing she knew she was missing a wing, her tail mangled and her claws melting, the only thing that was kept intact were her horns, and the chains, but those always survive the mother fuckers.

  “What are you doing Hori?!” The blue dragon screamed at the red dragon apparently name Hori, thunder collecting in his horns and vines growing on the red dragon mouth, clearly summoned by the green dragon.

  “A royal dragon with slave chains! If that isn’t a dishonor to our race, then I don’t know what it is!” Said Hori.

  “It’s going to regenerate either way, so I don’t really care, but I do want to let you know, these chains are for my own good” Iko said while her body regenerated at a speed the naked eye could see.

  “There is no good on slave chains, your majesty! We will help you be free from them” The green dragon said as roots appeared from the ground trying to break the one on her neck, but as before, she was forced to protect it, her body forcefully using the variation of [Corrupted touch] on her wings to protect it.

  Thankfully the dragon didn’t use a lot of force as to drain a lot of corruption out of her, but it still fucking hurt, is she could check her status screen it would most likely say low or something.

  “C-could you...” She coughed blood “Not do that? I'm kind of forced to protect them, and before you do anything else, if I do not wear them, I go crazy” Iko said with blood coming out her mouth.

  The green dragon body began glowing and then a white-haired woman with green horns, wings and tail appeared, she was wearing a dress that people normally use when going out to pick up the crops at the farm, she came running at her with her arms open wide.

  She got a claw to the face by the blue dragon thanks to that, and Iko was happy, she didn’t want other touching her.

  “I'm sorry about that, your majesty... Roela is... strange in her ways to apologize. I’m Louren, nice to meet you, we will have the conversation about those chains on another time, we have to take our leave, after all, we have to tell the patriarchs that there are humans able to hide in our land and about a new heir of an unknown element, I will leave Hori here with you to protect you in case that anything happened” Louren then grabbed Roela and went flying back from where they came from.

  Iko then stood there almost standing in a pool of her own blood in front of a dragon that just tried to kill her.

  “Sorry?” Said the red dragon before his body also started shining and a red head with red horns, wings and tail appeared in his place, but without a shirt for some reason, but Iko didn’t mind much, he had good abs, he also had white plain pants and that was all.

  “I’ll be at your orders your majesty... I'm sorry for not knowing about your condition and attacking you out of nowhere” Said Hori while bowing.

  I kind of want to kick his face.

  She ignored him and turned towards Leo “Let’s continue our trip to the dungeon, shall we? Oh, and Hori, can you withdraw your aura? Half of the soldiers are dying” She said while stabbing her tail on the blood and absorbing it.

  “S-sure...” Leo then moved to wake up all of his soldiers that had been knocked out by the dragon's aura.

  “Are we just going to ignore the fact she's a fucking dragon princess?!” The old man started shouting at Leo.

  “Yes, you are just going to the dungeon that I'm guiding you to, so shut up, eat your pride and worries and follow behind Leo before I end up eat- stabbing your heart” Iko said barely saving herself of saying she would eat his heart.

  After all the soldiers woke up, they started their walk to the dungeon once again, this time followed by an elder dragon, and Iko was curious what level was a “elder” on.

  After a while of everyone except Hori evading her, she was evading him, the medic from before got near her.

  “Uhm... your majesty...” He started.

  “Just call me Iko, and you wanted to ask for my blood?” Iko said before the medic could finish his sentence.

  “Y-yeah... if not too much of an annoyance...” He said shyly.

  Now I miss his all annoyed by everything attitude.

  “You dare ask a royal dragon for her blood?! Now you'll see you tiny piece of-”

  “Sure” Iko said interrupting Hori, she grabbed one of the vials the medic had come with and dropped blood on it from her tail.

  “I don’t recommend touching it without holy magic covering you, but whatever, we are here” Iko said while giving the vial back, in the middle the giant desert there were ruins of buildings and machines and in the middle of it all a hole so big that the true body of Hori would fit.

  And to confirm the discovery, the system finally appeared, with a ton of notifications as well.