"Quack!"
After the Rolin couple left, Russell stayed at the Cigar Courtyard and practiced diligently, mainly focusing on coordinating with the Harpy Dragon Hape.
Since Hape had opened its heart, the speed of spiritual cultivation had increased rapidly.
Especially since Hape's intelligence was no less than that of humans, the communication and mutual calibration between them felt like a delightful case of water flowing into its destined channel.
However.
Russell could still feel through their psychic connection an urgency within Hape, especially when Unicorn Polly appeared nearby, intensifying this urgency.
It wasn't that Hape was jealous of Polly's current Pseudo-Dragon form but a longing, an immense desire to become a Pseudo-Dragon itself.