Chapter 294 A Thousand Years Later

 As the guardian of the gate of the underworld, Harrow has always adhered to his duty and never allowed the living to pass through the first gate of the underworld.

 An unexpected guest came this day.

The visitor was a young and strong red dragon. It looked down at Harrow who was guarding the gate and said contemptuously: "Open the door, guard, I want to go in."

Harrow told him businesslikely: "The gate of the underworld is closed to the living."

　　　“Presumptuous!”

The red dragon was as arrogant and unruly as most of the dragon clan. It immediately scolded Harrow: "You're a stupid puppy, you'd better open the door for me. On behalf of the dragon clan, Uncle Cataro is going to visit the title above the Styx." God, you better not get yourself into trouble.”

Harrow repeated what he said before

 “Damn guy! Are you provoking the Dragon Clan?”

"If you have a valid incantation, please show it. If not, the door cannot be opened."

The red dragon was furious and cursed loudly, calling Harrow a "stupid dog with three uncoordinated heads."

Not to be outdone, Harrow mocked Cataro as a "red lizard that leaks urine".

 Both parties were poked at a sore spot and immediately started spraying each other.

 However, since it was an important place in the underworld, both Red Dragon and Harrow maintained basic restraint and did not start fighting on the spot.

 But both sides are also determined to teach each other a lesson.

“Urine leaking dragon, do you dare to fight me?”

“The ridiculous three-headed dog actually foolishly challenged a powerful dragon? Since you are looking for death, then I will satisfy you and send you back to the River Styx myself.”

 The two sides swore by Hades and Dragon Tomb respectively, and agreed to fight to the death in a third world.

 The duel place cannot be within the scope of the dragon clan's strength, nor can it be influenced by the underworld to ensure fairness.

 Finally they went to war in a desolate gravel world.

In this battle, Harrow defeated the red dragon and knocked off the dragon horn on the left side of his forehead.

 Hello wins and feels refreshed.

The red dragon refused to accept it. It said that it had traveled a long distance to the underworld and encountered several sneak attackers along the way. It was not in full condition and was fighting with injuries.

Harrow said, “Not convinced?” Then I’ll beat you until you’re convinced!

They use a special prop [Shibei] to coordinate the time. When there is a whistling sound from the Beili, it means that the time has come.

 The second battle took place a hundred years later, and the two sides came to the agreed upon another world to fight.

This time it ended in a disastrous defeat for Harrow, with one of his heads smashed.

In addition to the fact that the red dragon Cataro is indeed very powerful, another reason is that Cataro brings the "Dragon Thorn Scale Armor". This powerful piece of equipment covers its entire body, greatly increasing its defense and also dealing dragon spell damage.

 Harrow lost with his bare hands.

 About five hundred years later, the decisive third battle began.

This time Harrow recharged his batteries and borrowed the prop "Hell Eye" from the title deity and integrated it into its second head.

 Harrow regains the upper hand with the WMD invitation. However, Hell Eye was summoned away by its master "Hundred-Armed Giant" at a critical moment, causing the second head to self-destruct on the spot, and ultimately failed.

Harrow lost his head one after another and lost all hope.

Red Dragon Cataro proposed: "Two more games, three out of five. No one is allowed to bring anything with them, and the winner will be determined by flesh and blood."

Harrow couldn’t refuse.

 The fourth battle took place nine hundred years later.

Harrow won this battle easily, but he was not happy.

 Because he could clearly sense that the red dragon was much weaker than before. It looked exhausted, and its heavy body no longer had the power to move, but instead became a burden for the red dragon to fly and move.

There is no sense of achievement in defeating a weak Cataro.

Harrow has heard some rumors.

There is also talk within Cerberus that the Dragon Clan is in trouble, the Dragon Station is being closed, and many places are no longer accessible to the Dragon Station.

 All dragons are weakening rapidly. The dragons stranded outside cannot return to Longsu and can only hide and sleep everywhere.

 For a time, all kinds of dragon clans disappeared.

“Losing means losing, there is nothing to say. As for the internal affairs of the Dragon Clan, I have no comment.”

 Cataro’s attitude was as cold and hard as ever.

 The final battle took place in the human world.

 The time is one thousand years later.

Cataro said: "I need time. The Dragon Clan still has official business to deal with. I have my responsibilities, just like you guarding the gate of the underworld. I will arrive on time."

 “If I don’t get to me, there’s only one reason, and that’s that I’m dead.”

 “You should have killed me in the first duel, and now you will have lost that opportunity forever.”

Cataro said proudly: "Cherish your last thousand years. In the last battle, I will smash three of your heads, break your neck, and send your ghost back to the River Styx."

Harrow also told the other party: "If I win, I will collect your body and let everyone I know know that Cataro the Red Dragon died in my hands."

The two sides said goodbye.

 Harrow returned to the underworld and still guarded the gate. After losing two heads, his divine body was severely damaged and his recovery was very slow.

 A thousand years later, Harrow arrived in the human world on time.

 He has been here twice on business in the past.

Human beings today have undergone tremendous changes. They no longer live beside mountains and rivers. They have built a huge number of cities, which has introduced many strange and weird things in the world.

Hallo didn't want to cause trouble, nor did he want to be noticed by the human sailors.

 It just waits and searches quietly.

Harrow is sure that Cataro the Red Dragon will come.

 Cataro is a proud and arrogant dragon. It not only wants to win, but also wants to win in the way it wants.

 This lasts for hundreds of years.

 Harrow saw humans constantly killing each other for a hundred years, and war spread across the land like an infectious disease. Various human inventions are also emerging in endlessly, and individual human beings, cities and villages, land and oceans have all undergone dizzying changes.

Harrow only cares about when the red dragon will come.

It wanders on the city streets, through the grass and hills of the suburbs, and dives into the trickles of streams and oceans. On the islands, it distinguishes the scent left by dragons from bird droppings and soil. In the desert, it chews bones and decay. Objects, searching for traces of the existence of dragons...

 One day not long ago, it met Shencong.

This dragon, Suzhucong, told Harrow that the red dragon would not come. The Nine Harvest Pillars used as a passage here have been destroyed, and Longsu has also closed the passage to the outside world.

Harrow disagreed.

 Because it relied on [Stalker Secret], it found the scent of Red Dragon Cataro in many places.

The smell of the red dragon spreads widely, on the bones and pottery displayed in the city museum, in the mineral deposits and pottery pots under the desert, in the thick ice of the Himalayas, in the mud under the Dead Sea lake bed... the red dragon seems to be uniform. Scattered throughout the world.

Harrow thought that Cataro the Red Dragon was probably dead.

 It died before it came over.

Does this count as a win?

Harrow doesn’t know.

 He will always remember what the red dragon said.

 —You should have killed me in the first duel, and now you have lost that opportunity forever.

Harrow is still wandering and wandering in the human world.

 The dragons are a powerful race with unique talents. Even many years after death, their bones can retain most of the dragon's power and scent.

Harrow wanted to fulfill his promise and put the red dragon's body together neatly and take it away.

 This is respect for the opponent in the duel.

 …

 After listening to Harrow's statement, Lu Yao was silent for a while: "Is it possible that the soul and bones of the red dragon have been found by other sailors and collected?"

　　　…”

Hallo dog’s eyes slowly opened wide.

 “I’m just saying a possibility, don’t worry about it.”

Lu Yao quickly changed the subject: "Well, Cancong asked you to come to me..."

Pirate Dog was in a down state, his eyes were blank, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

 (End of this chapter)