"Night..."

Shiayar looked at his empty 4th Soul Pact Space and fell into thought.

Speaking of which, because he could freely enter Echo of History, and even rewrite past history, it indeed raised many logical difficulties.

Setting aside topics like the grandmother paradox, according to his experiences in the Echo of History at the End of the Third Era in Escarnia, Shiayar had already confirmed the Power of Historical Correction and Imaginary Zone truly existed, and many time-space paradoxes could be explained.

However, even for the Pet Beast that Shiayar contracted with, there were differences.

Shiayar's 3rd Soul Pact, Crimson, was a Pet Beast contracted five hundred years ago in the Echo of History in that part of the Ancient Dukedom Azure Garden.

According to the little silver spirit's experience, he could freely bring Crimson out of the Echo of History with the Soul Pact Space and return to the current timeline.

Moreover, Crimson's growth pace remained consistent with his own, and there was no scenario where after returning five hundred years later, Crimson had naturally grown for five hundred years and transformed from a rookie into a big shot.

But that is because Crimson and his Soul Pact is a master-servant contract.

Master-servant contract— as the name suggests, it means that the contract between both parties is led by Shiayar as the Beastmaster, so Crimson followed him to five hundred years later.

However, what Shiayar signed with Ye was an equal contract, different from the master-servant contract.

Although if Ye wanted, it could also enter Shiayar's Soul Pact Space.

In fact, during their time together in the First Era's Echo of History... the relationship between the little black night dragon and Shiayar was no different from that of other Pet Beasts contracted with a master-servant contract, like Silver, Shiny, etc.

Under Shiayar's strategy of culinary delights and spoiling, he quickly filled Ye's compatibility and intimacy to the brim.

The daily image had already transformed from the sole offspring of the Ancient Dragon King, the aloof and elegant Ancient Dragon royalty... to being no different from Silver, lazing around on Shiayar's head and napping like a silly husky.

But the nature of an equal contract dictated that Shiayar and Ye were, in fact, mutually equal.

Not like with Crimson, where one party depended on the other.

Shiayar was a human from the Fourth Epoch, while Ye was a being from the First Era...

To Shiayar, the journey through the Echo of History in the First Era was merely a segment of his life; he was just a passerby in that history, and the Fourth Epoch's reality was the tangible truth.

But for Ye, it truly was a being of the First Era.

Since there were no binds of a master-servant contract, and no clear subordinate relationship, Shiayar and Ye did indeed exhibit a scene where two eras were divided.

"My journey in the First Era will inevitably come to an end, but for Ye, it is not the case."

"Even if I leave the Echo of History, it can still independently grow in the First Era."

"And in the current situation..."

"That is to say, after the First Era, Ye continued to live and grow independently on the Western Continent..."

"If it were an ordinary Pet Beast with innate talents, from the First Era to the Fourth Epoch, spanning nearly ten millennia... it would have long perished and turned to dust."

"After all, even for a Legendary Species Pet Beast, thousand-year spans are too long, enough to reduce a Beast King overlooking the world to bones..."

"Damn, for a moment there, I almost got hit by the "longevity theory" sucker punch."

Shiayar couldn't help but inwardly complain.

"But, Ye is different."

"Its being is the descendant with all the Divinity and power of that leader of the Ancient Dragon Royal Court, a born Mythical Species."

"By looking at the Mercury Serpent, the lifespan of Fabled Creatures is nearly endless; for a pure-blood Ancient Dragon, millennia truly count as nothing."

Of course, even Fabled Creatures might fall, for instance, being hunted and having their Divinity devoured by other Fabled Creatures.

But if it were true, Shiayar's 4th Soul Pact would have already shattered, and the backlash on spiritual power from a broken Soul Pact could be so severe that it might even turn a Legendary Beastmaster into a vegetable.

However, Shiayar's 4th Soul Pact was currently intact, which also showed that Ye must have survived safely, making it from the First Era to the Fourth.

"However, since it followed me, it indicates Ye likely wouldn't take the path of becoming a deity..."

"It's not a deity, but it has survived from the First Era to the Fourth Epoch..."

"Tsk..."

A certain speculation in Shiayar's heart gradually became clearer and harder to ignore.

It seemed to have survived across several epochs, and it didn't walk the traditional path to godhood but chose a new path across the boundary of the Throne, different from the deities.

Shiayar could only think of two such existences in the Fourth Epoch.

One was naturally his Golden Elf Instructor.

And the other...

Was naturally the master of the Dark Shadow Council—

The "Night Empress" Augutina.

Moreover, according to rumors Shiayar knew.

Augutina and Hathaway had actually known each other for a long time, somewhat like girlfriends... yet no one knew how they became acquainted.

And then he thought of the Dragon of the Night and Augutina, both specializing in authority over shadows and the night.

Even the location of the Soul Pact with Shiayar was the same 4th Soul Pact.

So many facts could not just be explained away as mere coincidence.