As the guardian of the gates of the Underworld, Harrow has always stood firm in his duties, never letting the living pass through this first gateway to the Underworld.
That day there was an unexpected visitor.
The visitor was a young, strong red dragon who looked down on Harrow, who was guarding the gate, and said contemptuously, “Open the gate, guard, I want to go in.”
Harrow informs in a businesslike manner, “The gates of the Underworld are closed to the living.”
“How dare you!”
The red dragon was as arrogant and bratty as most of the dragons, it instantly rebuked Harrow angrily, “You brain-dead puppy, you’d better open the door for me, Master Kataro is representing the dragon race and is going to pay a visit to the gods of the title above the River Styx, so you’d better not cause any trouble for yourself.”
Harrow repeated his previous words again
“Damned guy! Are you provoking the Dragon Clan?”
“If you have a spell for passage, show it, if not, the door cannot be opened.”
The red dragon stormed out, cursing and calling Harrow a ‘stupid dog with three uncoordinated heads’.
Not to be outdone, Harrow mocked Katara as a ‘red leaky lizard’.
Both sides are poked and prodded, and they immediately lash out at each other.
However, due to the fact that it’s an important place in the Underworld, both the Red Dragon and Harrow exercise basic restraint and don’t start a fight on the spot.
But both sides were also furious to teach each other a lesson.
“Leaky Piss Dragon, do you dare to fight me?”
“Ridiculous three-headed dog, would you actually be stupid enough to challenge a powerful dragon race? Since you’re looking for death, I’ll satisfy you and personally send you back to the River Styx.”
Both parties swore by the Underworld God and the dragon tomb respectively, agreeing to fight to the death in a third party world.
The place of the duel could neither be within the range of strength of the dragons nor be swayed by the Underworld to ensure justice.
They eventually went to war on a desolate gravel world.
In this battle, Harrow defeated the red dragon, sending the dragon’s horn flying from its left forehead.
Harrow won refreshed.
The red dragon was unconvinced, stating that he had travelled a long distance to the Underworld, encountering several sneak attackers along the way, and was not in full condition, fighting with injuries.
Harrow said, “Not convinced? Then we will fight until you are convinced!
They use a special prop [time shell] to uniformly proofread the time, when the time shells send out a whimpering whine, it means that the time has come.
The second battle was a hundred years later, and both sides came to another world to fight each other.
This time it ended in a crushing defeat for Harrow, with one head hammered in.
Apart from the fact that the red dragon Kataro was indeed very strong, another reason for this was that Kataro had brought with him the 「Dragon Spine Scale Armour」. This powerful equipment covered its entire body, increasing its defence greatly, and also came with Dragon Grammar damage.
Haro lost with his bare hands.
After about 500 years, the decisive third battle began.
This time, Harrow had saved up its strength and borrowed the prop “Hell’s Eye” from the title god and incorporated it into its second head.
With the invitation of a weapon of death, Harrow regained the upper hand. However, the Hell’s Eye was summoned away by its master, the Hundred-Armed Giant, at a critical moment, causing the second head to explode on the spot, ultimately failing.
Harrow was devastated by the loss of his heads.
The red dragon Katara proposes: “Two more matches, three out of five. All forbidden to bring things, rely on flesh and blood to decide.”
Harrow could not refuse.
The fourth battle was nine hundred years later.
This battle was easily won by Harrow, but he couldn’t be happy.
This was because He could clearly sense that the red dragon was much weaker than in the past. It looked exhausted, and its heavy body no longer had the power to lead without firing, but instead became a burden for the red dragon to fly and move.
Winning against a weak kataro accomplished nothing.
Harrow had heard some rumours.
It was also being said within Cyberus that something was wrong with the dragons, that the dragon lodges were closing down, and that many places could no longer be accessed where the dragon lodges were located.
All the dragons were weakening at a rapid rate, and those who were stranded outside were unable to return to the Dragon Lodges, so they could only hide and slumber everywhere.
All sorts of dragon races had disappeared for a while.
“Losing is losing, there’s nothing to say. As for the internal affairs of the dragon race, no comment.”
Kataro’s attitude was as cold and hard as ever.
For the final battle, both sides made an appointment in the human world.
The time was a thousand years later.
Kataro said, “I need time, the Dragon Race still has official business to attend to, and I have my duties, the same as you guarding the gates of the Underworld. I will arrive on time.”
“If I don’t arrive I, there is only one reason, and that is because I am dead.”
“You should have killed me in the first duel, now you will lose that chance forever.”
Katara said condescendingly, “Cherish your last thousand years, and in the final battle, I’ll smash three of your heads, break your neck, and send your ghost back to the River Styx.”
Harrow also told his opponent, “If I win, I will collect your corpse and let everyone I know know that the red dragon Kataro died at my hands.”
The two sides parted ways.
Harrow returned to the Underworld, still guarding the gates. The loss of two heads had damaged His divine body severely, and recovery was very slow.
A thousand years later, Harrow arrived at the human world on time, having travelled all the way here.
He had come here twice in the past on official business.
Nowadays, the human race has changed greatly, they no longer live on the edge of mountains and rivers, they have built a huge number of cities, so that the world appeared a lot of strange and bizarre things.
Harrow didn’t want to invite trouble, nor did it want to be noticed by human voyagers.
It just waited and searched quietly.
Harrow was certain that the red dragon Kataro would come.
Kataro was a dragon that was proud to the point of arrogance, and not only did it want to win, it wanted to win the way it wanted to win.
That wait was hundreds of years.
Over the course of a hundred years, Harrow saw humans constantly killing each other, and wars spreading across a land like a contagious disease. All kinds of human inventions have also come and gone, and individual humans, cities and villages, lands and oceans have changed in ways that boggle the mind.
All Harrow cares about is when the Red Dragon will come.
He wanders the streets of the city, through the grasses and hills of the countryside, into the trickling waters of the streams and oceans, on the islands he discerns the scent of the dragon’s legacy in bird droppings and dirt, and in the deserts he gnaws on bones and rotting matter, searching for traces of the dragon’s presence ……
One day, not long ago, it encountered the Samson Bush.
This dragon lodged pillar bush told Harrow that the red dragon would not come. The Nine Harrow Pillars that served as a passageway here had been destroyed, and the Dragonsuite had closed off access to the outside world.
Harrow, however, did not agree.
Because it relied on [Chaser Mystery], it had found the scent of the red dragon Kataro in many places.
The scent of the red dragon was dispersed far and wide, on the skeletons and pottery displayed in the city museum, in the mineral layers and pots under the desert, in the thick ice of the Himalayas, and in the silt under the lakebed of the Dead Sea …… The red dragon seemed to be evenly dispersed throughout the world.
The red dragon Kataro was about dead, Harrow thought.
It died before it came over.
Does this count as a win for himself?
Harrow didn’t know.
He would always remember what the Red Dragon said.
–You should have killed me in the first duel, now you will lose that chance forever.
Harrow still wandered and prowled the human world.
Dragons were an exceptionally gifted and powerful race, and even many years after their death, their bones retained much of the dragon’s power and scent.
Harrow was going to honour his promise and take the red dragon’s body away by putting it together neatly.
It was a sign of respect for his dueling opponent.
……
After listening to Harrow’s statement, Lu Yao was silent for a while, “Is there a possibility that the Red Dragon’s dead soul and skeleton have already been found and collected by other Enlightened Ones?”
“……”
Harrow’s dog eyes slowly widened.
“I’m just saying a possibility, don’t worry about it.”
Lu Yao hurriedly switched topics, “That, Silkworm Bush asked you to come and find me is ……”
The pirate dog, on the other hand, was in a state of downtime, his eyes froze, and he didn’t come back to his senses for half a day.
