Dragon heart?
Su Nian thought to himself, "Why don't you just announce my ID number while you're at it?" But he wondered if this priestess was thinking about how tasty his dragon heart might be.
Why did her gaze seem a bit strange?
Besides, this dragon heart probably couldn't be just any dragon heart to meet the requirements.
As if confirming Su Nian's thoughts.
Kaguya's crisp and melodious voice came again.
[Since your wife was infected by your dragon aura, this heart must be yours, otherwise there's no way to save your wife]
[Unless you can find the being who placed the curse on your wife]
Kaguya's gaze fell on Su Nian.
Obviously, she was recommending the second method to solve Anna's curse problem.
Because losing a dragon heart would mean death for a dragon.
But Su Nian didn't know how to use this method. If he could find the person who placed the curse, he would have done so long ago. The dragon and the priestess stared at each other.
It looked somewhat like they were flirting with their eyes.
Su Nian felt a slight dullness from his scales. Looking down, he saw Anna puffing her cheeks and biting his chest scales.
She looked very unhappy.
[Is big brother attracted to that witch sister... he's been staring at her for so long...]
[Hmph hmph...]
[But]
[Did I hurt big brother by biting him?]
With this thought, Anna became very concerned. She released her bite and carefully rubbed Su Nian's deliberately softened scales with her soft little hands.
She looked up at her brother, and their eyes met.
"Mwah!"
Like a little puppy.
She bit down again.
[Hmph! I'll bite you!]
[Bad dragon, naughty dragon, perverted dragon!]
[Big brother belongs to Anna!!]
Su Nian watched Anna's adorable behavior with amusement.
Although she was biting him.
She wasn't actually using any force.
This level of strength wouldn't even be enough to eat a lollipop. The lollipop would sneer, "It's like you're just grazing the surface."
Truly his adorable little wife~
Even her jealousy was cute.
Su Nian couldn't help but feel his tongue itch.
The following conversation didn't need to be hidden from Anna anyway, since she wouldn't understand it. So Su Nian directly addressed the witch Kaguya:
"I have no way of finding the person who cursed Anna. I wonder if you can do it. If you can, I will certainly give you sufficient reward."
Hearing this, the witch Kaguya shook her head, but then nodded, looking somewhat hesitant.
"This humble one can try her best, but cannot guarantee finding that person. This curse is extremely vicious, and the caster's power is extraordinary."
Indeed extraordinary.
Su Nian knew this himself.
The person who cast the curse was either an Abyss Demon or an accomplice of the Abyss Demons. Anyone connected to the Abyss was nothing but trouble.
He didn't say anything more.
He gestured for the witch Kaguya to proceed as she saw fit.
This black dragon didn't seem to be a violent dragon, quite different from the legends she had heard.
Kaguya relaxed a little.
She stepped forward.
Getting closer to Anna who was shrinking in Su Nian's embrace.
She quickly began forming hand seals, her pink lips opening and closing as she chanted. A profound and mysterious rhythm began to spread around her.
At a certain moment.
The witch Kaguya looked at Anna.
A brilliant starlight lit up in her eyes.
Layer by layer, the mist was unveiled, and various abstract images that only she could understand appeared in Kaguya's mind.
"Dragon, demon, human, elf..."
"The jealous fallen one..."
The images flashed by and finally focused on a woman.
She was tall with long golden hair, wearing an emerald green dress. Unfortunately, it was only a back view, and her face couldn't be seen at all.
How could she find someone with just a back view?
Beads of sweat formed on the witch Kaguya's temples. She needed to continue looking, to see more, to see this woman's specific appearance.
The face was turning bit by bit, or rather, the woman deliberately turned around.
There was no pretty face.
Nor was there delicate, fine skin.
It was a face like that of a terrible ghost.
Crimson eyes, bulging eyeballs.
Rotting facial skin exposed deep red muscle tissue and blood vessels. The lips seemed to have been cut off by a knife, revealing eerie, snow-white teeth.
She was smiling.
The smile almost reached her ears.
"Aoaaa—"
The woman's face suddenly enlarged, accompanied by a shrill howl like ghosts wailing and wolves howling.
The witch Kaguya cried out in shock, a mouthful of fresh blood spilling from the corner of her mouth.
Her spell had been forcibly cut off.
The other party was far stronger than her, not only able to cut off her probe but also able to send back a mental attack.
Now her mind was filled with that horrifying face and that piercing scream.
Her ears were buzzing with ringing sounds.
So, this was as far as it went.
It would be unwise to continue probing.
The result would be the same anyway.
Su Nian also noticed Kaguya's abnormal state and somewhat wilted expression.
It seemed she had failed.
But he didn't blame the witch Kaguya.
This was just an attempt.
Locating someone across half a continent with no clues.
Only a legendary mage or a fabled oracle would have such an incredible ability.
"System, can you modify me to have more hearts?"
Su Nian decided to seek help from the system.
With the help of the Evolution Enhancement System, couldn't he have as many hearts as he wanted?
However, this time the system poured cold water on his idea.
[Host, the system can modify any heart for you]
[Mechanical heart, demon heart, even a divine heart is possible if you have enough system points and energy]
[But, you only have one heart that truly belongs to you]
What did that mean?
Su Nian was confused by the system's words, unsure if it was possible or not.
[Please open the modification page]
[As the host can see]
[All of this system's modifications to your body are based on the most fundamental things in your body]
[It cannot create something from nothing]
[It can only cause mutations in the organs you already have through the power of rules]
"Then what is the Molten Heart?"
"Isn't it a heart?"
Su Nian was even more confused.
[The Molten Heart is not a true heart. The heart controls the blood circulation in your body, while the Molten Heart is just an energy core]
"So, I cannot give my heart to Anna."
"If I insist on doing so."
"I will die?"
Su Nian frowned deeply, with anger and unwillingness gradually rising in his golden dragon eyes.
How could he let Anna's illness continue like this?
If a dragon heart was definitely needed.
It wasn't impossible.
But if there was even a glimmer of hope.
He also wanted to continue living.
Rather than leaving Anna alone while he became a cold dragon corpse. """~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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