Chapter 243 (2): Knight Does Not Die from Gunshots x See the Future
Wayne questioned the goddess’s purity. Based on what he knew about the idol industry, the goddess’s purity was merely religious propaganda to exploit followers.
Disregarding his personal prejudices, though, if the Goddess of Nature was pure and inexperienced, and after he became the Anointed One, she browsed through his memory and relived all the midnight shows he had starred in from the first-person point of view, with many a female star featured in the soap opera... Clearly, the church’s only Anointed One would catch a cold and meet a sudden death that night.
Wayne would never be the Anointed One. Not even he was bold enough to attempt that. He said to the grave-looking Senna, “You misunderstood, Master Senna. I’m too untalented to become the Anointed One. I’m only here as Veronica’s bodyguard. She is the star here.”
Then he brought up the dragon blood, too, asking Senna for a few more liters to ensure Veronica’s victory.
“Dragon blood is precious, so we only measure it by grams. Moreover, there is no great dragon in the Chosen Land, so one could only acquire dragon blood from Divine Realms.” Senna had no sense of humor and answered his request seriously.
“How did the Divine Realms acquire dragon blood?”
“By killing dragons!”
Wayne and Veronica both thought of Dragonheart Island. The knight order of the Goddess of Sun had once participated in a battle to slay a great dragon. Nine knights, including Valkyrie, had entered the land of the great dragon, and after a terrible fight, the dragon died, its heart falling to the Chosen Land along with Valkyrie.
“Although great dragons are not social creatures, each adult great dragon possesses enough power to rival a deity. It’s not easy to acquire one’s blood...” Senna explained the value of dragon blood.
“Master Senna, is killing a dragon necessary for acquiring its blood? Can’t we make a deal with a great dragon?” Wayne couldn’t help but speak up.
“No,” Senna shot down his naive assumption. “A great dragon can sense its blood from anywhere, leveraging its inherent dominance to render the Dragonblood helpless against it...”
“Moreover, a Dragonblood will never be more than that as long as the great dragon they got their blood from is alive. They won’t be able to evolve their bloodline.”