The three chiefs began to discuss how many people each village would send to research the Dragon Dial.

When Adrian came out, Thalia was waiting for him. The thousands of people from the other three villages who were outside were also watching him, but he ignored them.

"How did it go? What did they decide?” Thalia asked.

The dark dragon did not have much time left. Even if it did not use its power, it only had six days left before its soul would be stripped from Thalia's body. If it used its power, it would speed up the process even more. Right now, its only hope was to follow Adrian and find an opportunity to slip away from this place. Then, it could figure things out once they returned to the outside world.

Thalia had never entertained the idea of negotiating with the three chiefs. This was because it had been living beside them for over two hundred years, and it knew those three old men very well. The current situation was under their control. The dragon had no bargaining chips,