Faced with Olivia's inquiry, the magic mirror quickly provided an answer.
【By suppressing the nine-headed dragon both physically and mentally, you can temporarily restore the clarity of its black dragon head.】
Suppression from both physical and mental aspects—wasn't that exactly what she and Rose were doing right now?
Just as Olivia thought of this, the nine-headed dragon suddenly let out a violent roar. It forcefully broke free from their control and flapped its wings, soaring high into the sky.
Its massive body physically crushed the white clouds, and a terrifying Dragon Might spread across the entire land. Like a gale, it uprooted trees on the ground, sending sand and dust swirling everywhere.
They couldn't hold it.
Facing the nine-headed dragon that had broken free, both Olivia and Rose looked extremely grave.
The nine-headed dragon soared through the sky, its nine massive heads staring fixedly at Olivia and Rose, seemingly ready to charge again at any moment.
Olivia immediately said to Rose, “Rose, can you suppress its soul for me again?”
“I can try,” Rose said, taking a deep breath.
Subsequently, a powerful aura rapidly spread out from Rose's body.
It was a destructive aura. She activated her magic pool, causing surges of magic power to billow continuously, as if she could destroy the entire world with a single gesture.
In this state, a phantom figure emerged behind Rose, leaving Olivia momentarily stunned.
It seemed to be the phantom of an object, appearing exceptionally unique.
Could this be the forbidden artifact that Rose had fused with?
But what was it?
Olivia looked at it quietly for a moment, then hurriedly rubbed her eyes. She discovered that although she was staring at the phantom of this object, she couldn't remember it.
She might have memorized its shape one half-second, only to forget it the next.
It was as if this was an unrememberable object.
However, now was not the time to worry about such things.
With the appearance of this unrememberable object, Rose's aura became increasingly turbulent and powerful.
She pointed at the nine-headed dragon from a distance, and a terrifying clamping force acted upon its body, binding its soul.
This caused the nine-headed dragon, which had intended to charge, to freeze mid-air. Unable to move forward, it began to struggle violently instead.
Olivia took this opportunity to strike. She let her hand expand until it was like a palm falling from the heavens, slamming down onto the nine-headed dragon's heads.
With a thunderous boom, Olivia forcefully pinned the nine-headed dragon back onto the earth.
Was this enough?
The suppression of both body and soul was now complete.
Under these circumstances, could the nine-headed dragon wake up and tell them exactly what had happened in the Dragon's Nest?
In truth, Olivia already had some suspicions regarding the matter, but a guess was, after all, just a guess.
She needed a more accurate answer to confirm her theory.
She actually hoped her guess was wrong, for it was far too terrifying.
Pinned firmly to the ground, the nine-headed dragon struggled incessantly, yet it could not break free.
Under the dual suppression of body and soul, strange changes began to occur within the dragon.
Eventually, the black dragon head showed a difference. The madness in its eyes rapidly receded, and a glimmer of clarity slowly emerged.
“Why is it like this?” the black head lamented once more.
“Stop grieving and tell me, what happened? What exactly changed within your Dragon's Nest?” Olivia shouted urgently.
Hearing the voice, the black head froze for a moment, and the sorrow in its eyes deepened.
“A god descended. They seized all of us dragons and used us as experimental subjects for unknowable experiments.
“Now, all dragons are nothing more than experimental products.
“I was originally a black dragon. But now, my father, my mother, my wife, my son, my daughter, and my friends... their heads have all been grafted onto my body. These heads you see—I have become a monster.
“Faced with the experiments of a god, even we dragons have no power to resist.”
Hearing the black dragon head speak these words, Olivia's heart shook violently.
Although she had previously suspected that all of this was the handiwork of a god, having it confirmed still threw her mind into utter chaos.
“Which god was it?” Olivia asked hurriedly.
“I do not know them. I have never seen them, never heard of them. It was a stranger deity.”
“...”
The black head's answer left Olivia in a brief silence.
Just as she fell silent, the madness once again began to replace the clarity in the black head's eyes.
In the moment before it succumbed to frenzy, the black head seemed to realize something and cried out loudly, “Give me release! Set me free!”
Accompanying the voice, a violent roar once again echoed between heaven and earth as the nine-headed dragon began to struggle anew.
Looking at the frenzied nine-headed dragon before her and thinking of the unknown deity's handiwork, Olivia felt a chill in her heart.
This was the entire dragon race!
Throughout the long ages, dragons had existed as a powerful race of mythical creatures. They possessed their own alternate space, traversed the world, and were looked up to by many.
Yet such a race had fallen to this unbearable state simply because an unknown deity had intervened.
In the presence of a god, even the most powerful race appeared pale and powerless.
In the distant past, the dragon race had even produced a deity known as the Dragon God.
It was just that the Dragon God had fallen in the ancient past for unknowable reasons.
But regardless, this was a race that had produced a god.
To see a race that once held a god fall to such a fate—how could one not sigh?
Olivia let out a long sigh, her eyes filled with complex emotions. She whispered to herself, “I understand. I will give you release.”
She could only make the black head within the nine-headed dragon briefly conscious; she had no way to save the creature.
Therefore, some things could no longer be changed.
Olivia raised her massive palm and slammed it down heavily.
She raised it and struck again, and again, attacking the nine-headed dragon continuously. What she sought was to physically beat the dragon to death before her eyes.
This was also the nine-headed dragon's wish.
It wanted release.
Then, let it be free.
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