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  FLASH!

  “Ohh?”

  Vd gasped as he saw the dying dragon suddenly being enpassed by the silver-colored moonlight, pletely healing his dying body and rec his stamina.

  Above all, his dark purple and bck scales pletely ged, being pure silver in color. Its appearance, which was very ky and fat, became leaner and more streamlined, resembling something simir to a serpent but with rge legs.

  His horns fused together into the shape of a half-moon, pointing upwards and ad its forehead beautifully, while its draic head became more serpentine and elegant, with big, sharp golden eyes.

  He had pletely evolved through the power of the Moonshine tract!

  “He did it!” Vd was amazed. “I ’t believe he tamed such a strong monster with a Oar Subcss! This is nuts…”

  As he was surprised, Alitheus slowly opened his eyes, shining brightly with the radiance of the sun, and so did the dragon; both met one another.

  “Thank you, priestess of the Silver Moon,” the dragon said. “I apologize for ever doubting your ho words. If I had known you were blessed by oddess, I would have trusted you sooner. I had thought you were simply trying to talk emotionally to vince me to sign a sve tract, yet I feel different; this is not a sve tract. This is a pact between two equals, is it? My body has been reborn by our silver dy’s grace! I feel so good now, so happy! Thank you! Thank you!”

  The giant dragon celebrated, speaking aloud, surprising the two even more as he vowed down to Chris.

  “From this day on, I swear to serve you, the beautiful Priestess of the Silver Moon and the daughter of our Lady Selene, until the day I die. Even if you help me achieve my revenge, I will tio be by your side.”

  “T-Thank you….” Chris muttered. “Wait a moment, did you say priestess? Daughter? I-I’m a guy…”

  “Hahah! You jest! I suppose you are indeed quite tomboyish, but there’s no way I would ever create a Moonshine tract with another man, dear priestess. I suppose you pretend to be a man to not be persecuted. I uand that very well, and don’t worry; if that is your secret, then I shall save it.”

  "No, dude, seriously, I am!”

  Chris stantly tried to vihe dragon he was a man, but the dragon could simply not believe him; he was way too beautiful and feminine and had “no manly features at all,” acc to the dragon, whily made Chris feel a bit bad.

  “So it worked then!”

  And their versation, full of misuandings, was quickly interrupted as Vd arrived. The dragon’s eyes quickly became suspicious, his huge neck moving around Chris as his rge head faced the vampire.

  “Who might you be, vampire?!”

  “M-Me?”

  Vd stepped back. The pressure of the dragon was immense, making his body feel heavier and his breath difficult.

  “Wait! Argentia! Don’t look at him like that, he’s my… well, he’s my friend! I also work for his household as a healer and servant.”

  “What?! A priestess is the servant of a vile vampire?! Then allow me to ge that, midy! I shall elimihis tyrant that has been ensving you this very instant!”

  “Wait, what?!”

  Paul panicked as the giant dragon opened his jaws, gathering purple-colored fmes as the moonlight empowered him even more.

  “Begone from the face of this world, embodiment of sloth, vile emotionless demon!”

  “STOP!”

  As Paul was running away, Chris suddenly screamed. His scream wasn’t just his voice; as it carried power, threads made of pink moonlight appeared out of nowhere around the dragon’s long neck, lifting it up before his breath was unleashed.

  BOOOM!

  “Ngh?! M-Midy, why would you stop me?! I am freeing you from this monster!”

  “You’re the only monster here, Argentia! You ’t possibly just attae random person you met; are you crazy or what?!”

  “T-That’s…”

  Feeling the wrath of the “Priestess of the Silver Moon," Argentia couldn’t possibly fight against Chris' adorable, pink-colored eyes and even cuter little body, and it wasn’t because he was just too cute, but because he held power over him through the Moonshine tract.

  Although it was a tract between equals, the master of the Moonshine tract still had some power over the other. Moonlight Threads were the maion of this authority, which allowed Chris to temporarily stop the dragon from being too chaotic to breach the tract’s rules.

  It only activated if Selene allowed it, however. And thankfully, the moon goddesses were on Vd’s side too, so she happily allowed their usage, which came instinctively out of Chris' hands once he wished to stentia.

  “But Priestess…!”

  “No buts! That’s enough! Vd is my friend, and maybe something else than that too, so don’t you dare touch him, okay?! Promise me! Also, from now on, while we stay in this city, you’ll be proteg it, okay? Promise me that too!”

  “E-Eeeeehh?!” Argentia was shocked even more when he realized the goddess had agreed to such terms and the thread was not going anywhere. “This is… a bit… ugh… Fine… I agree, priestess, so please free me; I don’t like these threads!”

  “Alright,” Chris sighed, quickly freeing the giant silver dragon from the threads. “It’s fine now, Vd; are you okay?”

  “I’m fine,” coughed Vd. “I was just a bit shocked; everything just escated to that point; that was a bit too much, I would say. But I’m gd everything worked accly!”

  “Hm?!” Argentia gred at Vd a sed time, realizing his crimson aura was also made of moonlight. “Wait, you’re also blessed by the crimson moon goddess?! That’s impossible! Why did she bless a vile vampire?”

  “Are you doubting the goddesses now, you vile dragon?!” Chris angrily said, kig his giant legs.

  “I-I’m not midy; five me…!” Argentia quickly panicked, bowing to cover his head and apologizing. “I’m sorry… I won’t do that again, so don’t get mad at me! To see my beloved maiden angry at me… it hurts my drago!”

  “Okay…” Chris felt a bit weirded out when the dragon said that, taking oep back.

  Paul walked to his side with a weirded-out face too.

  “Hey, what’s wrong with this dragon? It keeps calling you a girl… I mean, you do look like one; no offense, but-”

  "Ugh, shut up!” Chris angrily said. “There! I did what you wanted me to do! I’m logging out now; I seriously ’t do more of this for today! I’m tired, and I want to go take a bath!”

  “S-Sure… Sorry, see you then-”

  Before Paul could even do anything else, Chris logged out.

  And then an awkward silence filled the surroundings as he was in front of the silver dragon.

  It was like a staring test.

  “You, vampire…” Argentia said. “What is your true retionship with midy? Are you two truly just friends?!”

  “Why does it matter to you?” Vd asked. "Also, Chris is a guy! Stop calling him a girl; he’s not a transgender girl either; he very much always identifies as a guy, so please respect him!”

  “WHAT NONSENSE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! MILADY IS CLEARLY A BEAUTIFUL MAIDEN!” roared the dragon angrily. “STOP WITH YOUR NONSENSE!”

  Argentia became so angry that he started stomping on the ground with his back legs like an angry rabbit, making the ground tremble.

  “This is hopeless, huh?”

  Paul sighed. He realized this dragon rogrammed to be either an idiot or an idiot; there wasn’t any other alternative.

  “Well, at least he’s sure strong, and after evolving into a Moon Drake, he’s much stronger now.” Vd nodded with a smile after analyzing the dragon. “Well, my retionship with Chris, or well, Alitheus, is simple; we’re friends with bes. Okay? Though I aim for something more... but it’s hard and plicated, so we’re going oep at a time, knowing each other, you know?”

  “W-What?! Priestess must remain pure! Don’t you dare y another finger on her!”

  Argentia covered his fa the embarrassment he felt by imagining his dy being touched by this evil, perverted vampire!

  “Aahhh~ Someone save me!”

  “Argentia…! Please don’t let him touch me!”

  “N-No, not there! Aahh~!”

  The delusional dragon—he even started imagining Chris moaning as the evil vampire took advantage of him in bed! He gasped in disbelief.

  “Y-You’re such a vile, despicable vilin…! I-I ’t believe you would do this to a pure, saintly maiden!” The dragon tinued spouting nonsense.

  “Hey, what are you even imagining?” Paul asked, feeling even mrossed out by this strange dragon. “You looked so intimidating before; was that all a fa?ade? Don’t tell me you’re actually a big pervert instead…”

  “I-I am nothing but the honorable steed and guardian of Midy; I would hink of any such things!” Argentia paused for a moment for some reason.

  “Aha… Anyway, I’m leaving too for now, so please don’t destroy anything, okay? The goddess is watg you; if you dare destroy anything, I’m sure they will punish you. Remember that you’re below the silver goddess blessings. They’re also what’s keeping you alive… So be a goon a here for now,” said Vd.

  “A-Ah…! Well, what else would I do?! I shall protect the resideny beautiful priestess maiden!” roared Argentia. “Now begone from my sight, you degee vampire!”

  “Why are you calling me degee?!”

  Paul logged out at long st, leaving behind the strange dragon sitting over the grassnds surrounding Elderbridge.

  “Hmph, he’s finally gohank the goddesses!” Argentia said. “Well now, what shall I do now that I am a Guardian Dragon? Perhaps build Midy a new altar to pray with me? Or maybe I could dig a very deep hole and turn it into our !”

  The dragon spoke out loud, making a lot of people trying to sleep iy all annoyed, looking around and trying to dis the in of the voice, only to find a giant dragon head above the walls, smiling viciously.

  “No, no, Miady is not a dragon; maybe she won’t fancy a simple and rustiest,” Argentia sighed. “Well then! I might have too muergy now; what I do to deplete it? Sying monsters perhaps- Oh?”

  The dragon’s golden eyes widened as he saw what resembled a giant rat of over two meters of height scurrying around a nearby forest.

  “A prey! I’m so hungry, right!”

  He felt his giant tummy rumbling as the dragon, like a cat hunting a rat, rushed towards the giant rat, running around and making the surroundings tremble.

  As he chased the “small” rat, suddenly he heard something.

  “S-Someone help meeee!”

  “Bandits!”

  “Please help! Someone!”

  “Hm?!”

  Argentia opened his eyes wide as he g the distance. Right in the middle of the road that led to the city of Elderbridge, there was a mid-sized caravan full of merts being assaulted by bandits.

  Perhaps one of the reasons why Elderbridge cked a market was because the roads were very u was so full of bandits and mohat the city didn’t even bother to take care of them all these years.

  The only caravans that would dare get here were the ones desperate to sell anything, and right now, such a gamble is now making these people pay its price.

  “Grahahaha! Take all the young women; kill everyone else! Steal everything; today we feast and breed, you bastards!”

  A savage-looking werewolf with bck fur and ach ughed, and as he pointed his giant rusty sword at the caravan, dozens of bandits of all kinds of races, such as orcs, imps, demons, and even blood elves, charged, attag the caravan.

  The caravan wasn’t without prote, as it had a couple guards and meraries that went to fight but were dying rapidly, some even running away.

  “H-Hey! You bastard! Don’t you dare run away!” A fat-looking vampire cried as he saw one of his meraries just sprint away.

  “There’s no way I’m going to die today, you fat pig! Thanks for the mohough!” The merary was a tall Blood Elf man, which ughed at the vampire’s misfortune.

  Yet…

  “Hm? A coward! I suppose you don’t t in the tract, eh? You measly merary! Or should I say snack?!”

  “W-Wha…?!”

  The blood elf’s eyes opened wide as he saw Argentia’s giant body in all its glory.

  “A da… da… dra… DRAGON?!”

  P!

  However, before he could scream any further, Argentia devoured him with a sie, before sprinting towards the battle on the road.

  “Here es the guardian of Elderbridge, Argentia the Silver Moon! Ahahahaha! I am sure Midy will gratute me for such a good deed!”

  Argentia’s foot crushed the bandits like ants, and then, with a single swipe of his tail, he turned off the fmes. The merts, barely alive, g the giant dragon in disbelief.

  “E-Elderbridge… has a dragon guardian?!”

  “Hahaha! Yes, I am its guardian, you pitiful mortals! Now that you’re safe, go on! Tell everyone my tales of heroism!”

  Suddenly, the most dangerous city in the try has bee the safest!

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  Pach