"Why are you so quiet?"
The dragon tittered, shutting its eyelids. Jass was uncertain about how to respond so she recited passages from the book.
"There is no difference or moot that you're a… fatigue and shit-hot entity."
"From what I understand, the population here is pale in comparison to your stoutness and muscularity. Of course, you had been inimitable over this domain, my realms, perhaps even the entire galaxy."
"Oh? Are you flirting with me, young sovereign? I'll welcome your words as an amazing praise. It's been quite some time since anyone referred to me as queen or my authority."
"Anyway, I anticipated your arrival here once I obstructed the way. Also, Don't ask why I called you here."
The dragon's eyes briefly illuminated before returning to their natural state.
"The enchantment has been dispelled. You're free to depart... ah, but it seems your companions are in danger. Shall I transport you to their location?"
Jass hummed thoughtfully, pointing towards the phenomenon where magma and liquid are still separated.
"Curious, isn't it? I'm confused about why these elements aren't affecting each other. It defies natural laws... could this be some sort of extraordinary occurrence?"
"Oh, that? The liquid is known as the eternal great one's... excretion. It's a mixture of my… perspiration from millennia of exertion and my sacred essence. Thus, it has both purity and immortality."
"The molten rock has less heat to annihilate it. Likewise, the lava is composed of magma infused with my energy, which makes it flawless enough to finance its temperature for an unspecified period."
The dragon's eyelids flickered for a second.
Jass's mischievous mind made a connection. 'The holy water was actually the dragon's urine.'
"Ugh! Why not just admit that it is your bodily waste?"
The creature fixed her with a lethal gaze.
"Dump children, we royal beings don't poop or piss like common mortals. All cultivators could finish these byproducts by using magic."
"This liquid is the accrue perspiration of centuries, and those who have bathed in it… are fated people!"
"...So you're living in this odour? How nasty is this!"
Jass pinched her nostrils, surprisingly unfazed by the creature's hostility. In fact, she seemed to enjoy the amused atmosphere.
"You-- Never mind! Here, take this. During my travels, I picked this strand egg from another universe. You may raise it as your own."
The dragon donated Jass with an egg as large as an ostrich's.
She didn't dilly-dally to grapple it when it floated before her, laying hold of it tightly while puckering her temple at the creature.
"Forsaken? Isn't this your offspring?"
"It's not mine. The egg belongs to a rare dragon species, but I found it in a relinquished planet for months."
"I have been parenting it, and now that you're here, I'm endowing it to you because I have faith. My duties will soon become too herculean and challenging to take care of the egg!"
"...So you're an unmated female!"
Jass sneered at her while pulling someone's chain language.
The dragon clenched its jaws in frustration.
"Where did you put this assumption on me?"
"Irrelevant? Anyhow, I'll take care of this egg... for as long as I'm alive!"
Jass embraced the egg firmly.
Unlike a fragile chicken egg, this one was strong and not easily damaged by being hit.
She felt a pang of empathy over her, fetching that the unborn creature inside was already abandoned before seeing its biological parents, much like the villainess herself.
"Ah, within a fortnight, you will most likely surpass your primary phase. Bye... for the moment."
The dragon moistened its lips one final time before Jass vanished, or was transported elsewhere.
With a cunning smile creeping across its visage, the female dragon stared at the place she had occupied moments ago.
"I'm rather pleased you have sacked some of your former aloofness. As your maternal figure, I feel another level of pride in your transformation."
***
Jass take shape atop a levitating boulder. She secured her dragon egg in her satchel and surveyed the scene below.
Her trio of companions were troubling themselves, encircled by a swarm of dog-sized ants. She swept her hairs back from shoulder with seductive move, fashioning them single pony tail.
'Well, it seems I must come to their rescue. I did rather not burden myself or my allies with hauling an injured comrade on someone.'
With that thought, Jass leapt from her perch. The drop was manageable, equivalent to plunging from a two-story structure.
She is a seasoned cultivator and could bear these impacts with relative ease.
"Jass!"
"You have returned!"
"Wahhhh~~ We was horrified that the ants had overwhelmed you, and eat you alive."
The group cried out in unison, positioning themselves behind her.
They pressed their backs together, forming a defensive circle to guard all angles.
"Might you do me favor of keep this unofficial?"
Jass snooped, her eyeballs predicament on the silhouette.
Cassie and her companions, still facing outward, questioned her strange request without turning.
"Why?"
"Idiot, Muskan, It is not time for search!"
"Certainly, we will keep your secret only to us."
"Just don't you dare to dig this to anyone else, alright?"
"... U-Understood. Your confidence in us is well-placed."
"Awesome!"
Jass summoned Ln and A1.
The creatures pop up from her darkness, projected themselves into a rageful assail on the defending ants, who were quickly submerge by them.
In truth, Jass's stimulation was in regulation; she counted it injudicious to squander precious moments.
While 'Thestrongactingweak' wasn't her original intent, this scenario preferred an opportunity to gauge her roommates' trustworthiness.
'What the fuck is that ant doing here? Isn't it was murdered…'
The trio stood nonplussed at the sight of these beasts, even more so than at the A1 solider.
Profiting their daze back, Without temporize, they joined the fray, accelerate the insects' to death, alongside Jass's encouragement.
"Why are you pests wasting my time? Either died in miserable death or call your wretched queen!"
Jass conjured several spikes, hurling them forward to impale numerous ants into the earth.bl
Which died after getting harmed by sharp icy attack on vessel.
With her magical reserves dwindling, she manifested twin blades instead.
She peripherally scribbled her next attacks, an cluster of ants charging towards her.
Jass spin into 90 degree, sprinting to meet their assault. As her swords arced through the air, a precise slash cleaved through their ranks.
Their bisected corpses collapsed, spilling green ichor on the crimson exoskeletons.
The gruesome vista nearly induced nausea in her companions, who scuffled to sustain composure - It was sight to vomit.
On the opposite side, Jass's face was impassive with no emotion.
"So, The real party is here, huh…"