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3. A spatial restriction has been activated; a lizard has appeared!
When Anne woke up again, it was a night with stars filling the sky.
The fire beside them had long since died out, and the night wind rippled across the lake, bringing a refreshing coolness.
Anne shivered, feeling a little guilty for falling asleep unintentionally. But she could also understand the body. Miss Ash's body was exhausted, both physically and mentally. That's why she had fallen asleep unintentionally after relaxing after a big meal.
Annie sat up, full of energy. The Warcraft Forest was silent, and the twinkling stars were reflected in the lake, shimmering and enchanting. A gentle breeze rippled the water, making it a truly beautiful night.
Annie had no time to appreciate the scenery. She cast a light-based magic spell, and a fist-sized beam of light shot out from her palm. Annie located the remaining dead branches from the daytime and then cast a fireball spell, igniting the branches.
In her memory, it was summer in the continent of Gerson, which was why Miss Ash was dressed so lightly. However, since it was in the forest and by the lake, it was still a bit chilly at night. Going back into the forest to find suitable accommodation at this time would obviously be a mistake. In addition, there were no large magical beasts nearby, so Annie decided to spend the night by the lake.
Leaning against the fire, Annie felt warmer, and then, following Miss Ash's memory, she began to meditate.
As someone with a body possessing magical talent, she must not waste Miss Ash's magical talent.
Because she possessed Miss Ash's body's memories, Annie quickly got into character.
Around her, colorful magical elemental particles gradually appeared and entered Annie's body in an orderly manner with her breathing.
Suddenly, a large number of starlight-like silver-gray particles surged around her body and were quickly absorbed into Annie's body, causing many other particles to dissipate. Annie, who was meditating smoothly, suddenly experienced a ripple in her consciousness, interrupting her meditation, and opened her eyes.
The surroundings remained silent. What had interrupted her meditation?
Anne looked around and suddenly noticed a faint silver light shimmering behind the dark trees on the other side of the lake. After hesitating for a moment, Anne decided to go and take a look.
Anne took a dry branch, still burning at one end, from the fire to use as a torch, and walked toward the light.
The silver light appeared and disappeared, guiding Anne forward. Leaving the lakeside, stepping on thick, withered branches, Anne followed the light source, going deeper and deeper.
Strangely, she felt an unparalleled affinity for something in that silver light, like, like, yes, like those silver-gray particles during meditation.
Those silver-gray particles are not called silver-gray particles, of course, but spatial magic elements. There is relevant knowledge in the message left by the Space God.
She was able to survive the temporal turbulence because she possessed an affinity for temporal magic and strong mental power. Temporal magic, namely time magic and space magic, is bound by laws that prevent time from reversing, so there are no time magic elements on the continent of Gerson. However, there are space magic elements, which are the silver-gray particles she saw during meditation.
To compensate her, the Space God left her some methods for learning and using spatial magic, which she certainly wouldn't waste. However, the most important thing now was to figure out what the silver light in front of her was.
Finally, we arrived before the shimmering silver light.
What did she see? !
Her father, mother, and brother waved to her in the silver light!
Anne was a little excited.
"Dad, Mom!" she cried out, tears streaming down her face. She had thought she would never see her loved ones again, she had thought... Her hands trembled with emotion, and a spark from the torch burned Annie's forearm.
pain……
Annie regained consciousness.
impossible!
This is not Earth at all, and she is no longer that Annie, but Annie Ash. The family members in front of her are just an illusion!
Although she still didn't sense any harm from the silver light, she kept a wary eye on it. Gradually, the silver light dimmed, and by raising her torch, she finally saw what was happening before her.
An animal that looked like a lizard lay there listlessly, panting, its round eyes staring at her.
What is this?
Not far behind the lizard, there was a dark mass that seemed to be a large cave. Centered on the cave was a large spatial restriction, which Annie sensed.
Spatial restriction, a type of spatial magic, is mentioned in the messages left by the Space God. This is why she felt a sense of familiarity just now. The silver light passed through the spatial restriction, carrying the aura of spatial magic elements.
The lizard lay on the edge of the barrier, its body shimmering with silver light once more. An illusion was about to appear, but Annie couldn't help but speak:
"It's no use, this magic is useless against me." She said this in the common language of the continent of Gerson. This lizard was probably a magical beast, and a high-level one at that, because according to Miss Aisha's memory, soul magic that could bewitch people was high-level magic, so this was probably a high-level magical beast.
As soon as he finished speaking, the silver light dimmed, and the lizard asked with its round eyes wide open:
What is magic?
The lizard opened its mouth and cried out, surprisingly in a child's voice, which startled Annie.
"Can you talk?"
"Hmph, of course!" the child's voice exclaimed.
Anne was somewhat shocked, unsure how to continue communicating with a, uh, lizard.
And so, in the night breeze, a lizard and a beautiful girl stared at each other, their expressions frozen in time.
After staring at it for a while, Annie found the scene too funny. She thought for a moment and asked the lizard:
"Why are you imprisoned here? Who imprisoned you?" As far as she knew, spatial magic had disappeared from the continent of Gerson for a very long time. Even the God of Space did not exist in Miss Aisha's memories. In the memories left by the God of Space, the spatial restriction in front of her was a very high-level spatial restriction.
"I don't know. I've been imprisoned here since birth, probably for several hundred years." The child's voice was somewhat sullen, while the lizard's round eyes stared at Annie.
"Huh? Hundreds of years?" Annie was even more shocked. A magical beast that could live for hundreds of years and looked like a lizard... She suddenly thought of a possibility.
"Do you have wings?"
The lizard looked at Annie with a puzzled expression, then nodded.
"Have."
With a whoosh, the transparent wings that clung to her body unfurled, and one word popped into Annie's mind: "Dragon!"
A dragon, it really is a dragon, a Western dragon! Because it was night, because the lizard—well, no, because the little dragon hadn't spread its wings before, and because its wings were transparent—Annie didn't recognize it at first. But upon closer inspection, faint iridescent colors swirled on its transparent wings.
But no, in Miss Aisha's knowledge, the dragons collectively withdrew from the continent of Gerson more than a thousand years ago for some reason, and settled in the endless sea to the south. They never appeared on the continent of Gerson again. In other words, the dragons have been extinct on the continent of Gerson for more than a thousand years!
Moreover, aren't dragons an intelligent race with mysterious heritage? How could they be some little lizard who doesn't even know what magic is?
So what exactly is this lizard in front of us?
"Um, were your parents alive when you were born?"
"Parents? I don't know. I crawled out of the egg myself."
They both sensed that the other party meant no harm, and the little guy answered almost every question Annie asked. Through Annie's questions, Annie learned that the little guy was probably a little dragon. It was likely a dragon egg left behind during the great migration of the dragon race a thousand years ago. As for why the dragon race, which has always valued offspring, would accidentally leave behind a dragon egg, that remains unknown.
Several hundred years later, when the dragon egg was ready to hatch, the little guy was born. Without dragon parents to instruct it on how to inherit its lineage, it only relied on its instincts to acquire a small amount of knowledge from its bloodline. The poor little guy didn't even know that it was a dragon.
Driven by extreme hunger, it instinctively learned illusion magic to confuse and lure small animals outside the barrier into it, where it would then hunt and eat them.
Miss Ash doesn't have much knowledge about dragons in her memories, but she does have a little bit of knowledge left behind by the Space God.
Dragons have no lifespan. The incubation period for a dragon egg is eight hundred years, and the transition period from a young dragon to an adult dragon is also eight hundred years. According to the little dragon in front of us, it is probably three or four hundred years old. In other words, it is still a child.
Xiaolong and Annie chatted happily because it had been lonely here for a long time. There were no high-level intelligent magical beasts around, only a few low-level ones, and no one could communicate with it.
Tonight, it was because it sensed a magical fluctuation similar to the power that imprisoned it that it couldn't help but use illusion magic to lure the magical beast that caused the fluctuation over, which led to Annie.
Anne stepped into the enclosure and patted the little one's head. The little one showed no hostility towards her and obediently let her touch it.
The poor little guy has lived here alone for so many years. His lovely voice reminded Annie of her younger brother on Earth. The little guy's voice was somewhat similar to her brother's.
"My name is Annie."
Because it had no parents, the little dragon didn't even have a name. Following the custom of the mainland, Annie named it Abag, which means healthy or strong in the language of Prisat. Annie hoped that Abag would grow up healthy and become a strong dragon!
The little one happily snuggled into Annie's arms.
Abag led Anne into its dragon cave, where Anne found a warm spot and rested for the night.
In this forest, she was all alone, as was the little one. So, on this desolate continent of Gerson, the two of them, one human and one dragon, were somewhat dependent on each other for survival.