Evil Dragon: The young dragon I picked up keeps planning on becoming an empress

[Shall we sit down for a chat?]

"Sure."

Lance folded his dragon wings, and a huge black and red array appeared beneath him. He squatted on the black and red array, curious to see how Donnash planned to retrieve the Book of Wisdom from him.

"What do you want to talk about?"

[Let's talk about your friends.]

"???"

Friends?

What friends did he have... friends...?

Ilya?

Lance instantly caught the subtext in Donnash's words.

Right now, Donnash wasn't speaking to him as the God of Judgement, but rather in the capacity of the Heroic Spirit God-King.

Old silver coin.

Using Ilya as a reminder not to let him get too arrogant and overbearing.

Besides Ilya, there was also Fantasy Heroic Spirit Helen.

This old guy had his Achilles' heel.

"Have some dignity."

[Dignity? Yours has been smashed to the ground twice, what more do you want?]

Donnash smirked.

Lance gritted his teeth in anger. Donnash truly didn't care at all about the identity "Deity."

Even as a deity, he couldn't conceal that ruffian and indolent demeanor of his.

"Have my friends received a promotion and a raise lately?"

[That depends on you. If you are friendly toward me, your friends get a promotion and a raise. If you offend me over and over again, I'm afraid your friends won't have a chance at a promotion or a raise anytime soon, and in the future, you might even find it hard to see them.

You have a friend who is very weak right now. If she doesn't see you, she'll be very sad, feeling that you despise her, that you have forgotten her.]

Fantasy Heroic Spirit Helen!

Donnash was reminding him that he hadn't summoned Fantasy Heroic Spirit Helen for quite some time now, and Helen was beginning to miss him.

He understood Donnash. This guy was despicable and shameless, but he wouldn't just watch Helen disappear; after all, in a way, Helen was also his subject.

The Book of Wisdom was probably going to be lost.

It didn't matter to him much.

To him, the item wasn't necessary.

Using it to exchange for some benefits for Ilya and Helen wouldn't be too bad.

[So, how about giving this deity some face? Return the Book of Wisdom to me?]

"The Book of Wisdom can be returned to you, but you have to agree to one of my conditions, help me do one thing."

[...]

Doing deals with a deity, little Black Dragon really does dare.

[Let's hear your demand first.]

"Friends getting a promotion and a raise."

[No problem. What do you want me to help you with?]

"Collect a debt."

[???]

Collect a debt?

Asking a deity to collect a debt for him?

Who owed him that would warrant a deity's debt collection?

The Pope?

The Holy Giant Dragon?

Apart from these two kinds of beings, he really couldn't think of anyone else worthy of making a deity personally knock on their door for debts.

[You're not being... very friendly to your debtor.]

"Very friendly to her," Lance glanced at Donnash, then added: "Not so much to you."

[???]

Ha...

Even a god would die laughing.

Unfriendly to a deity?

Besides this little Black Dragon in front of him, nobody else dared to be "unfriendly to a deity."

[Come on, tell me what kind of unfriendly you're talking about. No, wait, first tell me about your debtor, let me see what level of existence your debtor is to dare to be unfriendly to me.]

Lance curled his lip in a smile, lifting a Dragon Claw, with a humanoid phantom appearing in the center of it.

Due to the angle, only Donnash could see the humanoid phantom in the center of Lance's dragon claw.

The matter of a Valkyrie owing him wasn't to be widely publicized.

As long as Donnash knew, that was enough.

Donnash, looking at the humanoid phantom in the center of Lance's dragon claw, felt a sense of familiarity but couldn't remember who it was for a moment.

After staring for quite a while, he finally recognized who the humanoid phantom was.

Damn it all!

The Valkyrie!

This wretched little Black Dragon was asking him to collect a debt from the Valkyrie.

What a joke!

He might be the God of Judgement, but he truly couldn't beat the Valkyrie in a fight.

Moreover, he didn't believe the Valkyrie would owe Lance anything.

[Indeed, it's a bit unfriendly toward me, aren't you even trying to hide your intention to harm me?]

"Harm you? She really owes me money, and when you see her, just mention my name and watch her reaction. If she dares to say she doesn't owe me, then come find me."

"I don't believe it, in your dragonic life, your most powerful and accomplished friend should be me."

"Quit spouting such disgusting comments, you don't need to ponder over this too much, just help me find her. If you agree, I'll return the Book of Wisdom to you.

If you don't agree, then I'm afraid you won't be getting the Book of Wisdom back."

"Your friend..."

"Using them to threaten me won't work."

Donnash smiled. Threatening little Black Dragon with friends was most effective, but tough talk was all it was.

Forget it, no need to fuss over the little Black Dragon.

Seeking the Valkyrie to collect a debt... that sounds like a fun thing to do.

One could meet the Valkyrie.

Wait a sec...

The last time the Valkyrie was summoned by Sophia from the Divine Realm, the target she dealt with... wasn't the Black Dragon right in front of me?

"Was it you who Sophia summoned the Valkyrie to deal with last time?"

Lance grinned: "It was me."

"..."

After a brief silence, Donnash asked eagerly, "Did you blow up the Valkyrie with a single punch?"

"No, I can't defeat the Valkyrie."

"???"

You beast!

You traitor!

Given the strength Black Dragon Lance had shown before, before the Valkyrie's true form had descended into the Human World, he could definitely have blown up the Valkyrie with a single punch!

If he could be blown up, there was no reason he couldn't blast the Valkyrie.

Saying he couldn't defeat the Valkyrie, this sniveling kid must have been smitten with the Valkyrie's beauty.

Donnash thought of a phrase the Black Dragon used to describe him very long ago: "The toad lusting after swan meat!"

Now, he felt this phrase fit Black Dragon Lance perfectly.

Even the Valkyrie he dared to defile, wasn't he afraid the Valkyrie would break his legs?

"Heh, could you really not defeat her, or did you just not bear to?"

"She owes me money, what if I blow her up and she tries to charge me for medical expenses, or uses her injuries to write off her debt?"

"Heh, stop hiding your intentions, you just want to defile Her."

"Cut the crap, if you agree, I'll return the Book of Wisdom to you."

"I agree with you."

"Then you can return to the Divine Realm; I'll contact you tonight."

"Where's the Book of Wisdom?"

"After I see you tonight, I'll return the Book of Wisdom to Hammond, but doing this... seems a bit disrespectful to you."

Lance took out the Book of Wisdom from the Diamond Talisman and handed it to Donnash.

Donnash received the Book of Wisdom and returned it to Hammond immediately.

The little Black Dragon still had some conscience.

Hammond put away the Book of Wisdom at once, he really dreaded it being taken away by the Black Dragon again.

The Black Dragon in his fury didn't even care about the Mountain of the Goddess of Wisdom.

"How much does she owe you?"

"132 Gold Coins, it's been a thousand years."

"Alright, alright, wait for my message."

God of Judgement Donnash transformed into myriads of golden divine lights and disappeared into the void, back to the Divine Realm.

Watching this scene, Sophia felt a bit choked up...

Last time it was the Valkyrie.

This time... the God of Judgement.

Initially, she could hear the conversation between the God of Judgement and the Black Dragon, but later she couldn't.

Knowing only that the God of Judgement and the Black Dragon were chirping away for a long time.

After chirping, without even greeting her, he directly went back to the Divine Realm.

This Black Dragon... can we still fight?

Eh?

The Black Dragon had shrunk back to his original form!

The vitality in his body... seemed much dimmer than before, and his spirits somewhat deflated...

The backlash of a secret technique!

In becoming tens of thousands of meters tall, enhancing his combat power, he was definitely also enduring the recoil of this powerful secret technique...

Losing vitality and spirit, it had to be backlash...

Well, maybe not necessarily backlash.

The Black Dragon is cunning and sly; the weakness he's displaying now could be an act to bait them into attacking him...

Then he would suddenly burst forth and take the divine items on their bodies.

Although Sophia had not interacted with the Black Dragon for long, she felt she had somewhat grasped the Black Dragon's modus operandi.

The Black Dragon wouldn't rob divine items without reason.

Faced with a divine item that captivates him, he would find a reason; without one, he might even actively create a reason to take away the divine item from you legitimately...

"Have we finished our fight?" asked Lance to Sophia.

"For the moment... we have," Sophia answered his question.

Grinning, Lance rolled his eyes, then dropped from the sky, landing right on top of the Golden Giant Dragon Austin...

...

Meanwhile, the God of Judgement who had returned to the Divine Realm appeared in... the divine domain of the Valkyrie in the Divine Realm.