Chapter 1314: Chapter 210: So, I Am Also an Echo

“Ian? Are you alright?”

Inside the Ice Dragon’s Nest, beside the dragon’s lair.

Beside the massive body of the Dark Gold Colossus Dragon, the intense heat from the earlier battle was causing the millennium-old ice of the dragon nest to slowly melt.

Centered around the dragon body, a semicircular dome appeared, with boiling heat waves cascading like waterfalls, clouding the surroundings.

This is the perfect example of ice and fire mingling—whether it’s the chill of the dragon lair or the high radiative heat beside the Dark Gold Colossus Dragon, ordinary people would find it hard to approach. Yet two heavily injured Sublimators still rushed into this mist-shrouded area, doing their utmost to rescue a person from the dragon’s belly.

“Uh… I’m okay.”

Being pulled out from the dragon’s flesh like a carrot by friends, the blood on Ian’s body was quickly washed away by the dripping hot water. Though he was completely immobile, he still managed to smile easily at his worried friends and said, “Look, I’m still alive, what a surprisingly good piece of news.”

“Your body’s all tattered!”

Sio pointed it out mercilessly as she jabbed Ian’s left arm, where the wound was not fully healed. “What kind of potion do you need? Don’t take this lightly; although we took down this big guy, we’ve still got lots to do next!”

“Yeah.” Yisen sighed, lifting Ian’s head from the accumulating water, then taking out some potions for replenishing stamina and Origin Quality from his chest, prepared to pour them into Ian’s mouth: “If nothing unexpected happens, the fight’s probably already broken out outside the relic, and inside… I’m afraid a couple of Fourth Energy Level powerhouses have entered.”

“Just now, when you fought this True Dragon, the entire Subspace Labyrinth shook for a moment, that must have been Chairman Yafada battling a powerhouse.”

“Indeed.” After drinking the potion, the exhausted Ian shook his support, propping up his body; he sat cross-legged in the boiling water, slowly regaining strength: “Chairman Yafada is probably battling Golan and the Ancestor Campari within her… we’re not yet at a point to rest.”

“You two should also take some potions to recover your energy, later there will be plenty to do, try to recover to the best condition possible.”

Saying so, Ian signaled for the two to sit down, he smiled calmly, “And while we recover, I’ll candidly talk about the current situation and my true identity with you.”

“…As long as you think it’s okay, I’d of course like to know.” Yisen and Sio exchanged glances, the blond boy sighed, while the True Dragon eagerly asked: “I’m really curious—Ian, you actually managed to go toe-to-toe with a Fourth Energy Level True Dragon!”

“Even if the True Dragon looks heavily wounded, a regular Third Energy Level shouldn’t be able to face it!”

“That’s because I’m not a regular Third Energy Level.”

Ian flexed his left arm, showing it to them: “Look, a Biological Aether Furnace Core, I call it Aether Crystal, a Fourth Energy Level Sublimation Organ.”

As he spoke, faint silver Mithril patterns on the light gold crystal arm gradually turned into a blazing white, indicating the Mithril patterns were operating at full power, and the visible fluctuations of the Origin Quality spread heat in all directions, instantly turning the surrounding near-boiling rainwater into mist.

Even shrouded by fog, Sio and Yisen could still shockily see the glowing patterns through the mist.

“No wonder!”

Sio exclaimed: “You actually have a Fourth Energy Level Essence Furnace Core… no wonder your endurance is so strong, even a Third Energy Level True Dragon doesn’t have this ability, yet you are stronger, definitely due to an extra source of Origin Quality.”

“But I never expected, you actually have a Fourth Energy Level Biological Ether Furnace!”

“Really?!”

And Yisen was even more unable to stay calm; the boy, although he knew Ian’s left hand was extraordinary, possibly some kind of Dragon Blood Organ… but he didn’t know it contained a ‘Biological Ether Furnace.’

“Our Ellen Family’s Aether Armament ‘Dark Brilliance’ hasn’t reached perfection precisely because it lacks its own energy source, requiring us Sublimators to supply it…”

Yisen murmured, “Although the augmentation can let us Sublimators with Dragonblood Refinement erupt several times the power briefly… the energy consumption is also several times more.”

“All of this is because we haven’t mastered the technology of the ‘Dragon Heart Core’ and ‘Biological Ether Furnace’… so our Ellen Family has always wanted…”

Yisen didn’t finish the sentence, but everyone knew the Ellen Family has always wanted to capture a True Dragon for research to perfect their inheritance.

But now, Ian appeared before Yisen with the most critical technology.

“Actually.”

A bit embarrassed, Ian pointed at his chest—due to the battle, the boy’s upper body now had only a pitch-black Dragon Skin Vest left.

But behind this Dragon Skin Vest, a golden-red halo was slowly illuminating: “Actually, I also have a Dragon Heart Core.”

Now not only Yisen was stunned, but even Sio beside him was dumbfounded.

“What?!” *2

The Dragon Maiden and the boy exclaimed in unison; one was shocked, the other incredulous, it felt very much like the reaction of background characters in a knights’ novel.