Chapter 400: Luke Dresses Himself… and Emberlyn Can't Look Away?!

"Luke?"

Emberlyn suddenly noticed the faint movement of his eyelids, causing her fingers to stop among his black hair.

She immediately leaned forward.

"Luke, can you hear me?"

A genuine smile gradually appeared on her face as she watched him begin regaining consciousness.

"Ughhh..."

Luke released a weak groan before slowly opening his eyes.

However, the sunlight entering the room immediately irritated his vision, forcing him to close them again.

After several moments of adjustment, he finally managed to open his eyes properly.

The first thing he noticed was a beautiful face framed by long, snow-white hair, which appeared almost silver beneath the sunlight.

"...Aurora?"

The familiar name escaped his mouth before he had fully recovered his senses.

Unfortunately, the person looking down at him reacted immediately.

"Aurora? Who is Aurora?!"

"...?"

Hearing the unfamiliar tone, Luke became confused.

Then his memories gradually returned, reminding him that he was no longer on the Human Continent.

'That's right... I'm on the Dragon Continent.'

He rubbed his eyes before looking upward again.

This time, he clearly recognized Emberlyn, whose icy-blue eyes were fixed upon him with an unusually displeased expression.

For some reason, she looked almost as though she had just caught him cheating on her.

'...Cheating?'

Luke became confused by his own comparison.

Before he could say anything, Emberlyn continued questioning him.

"Tell me, Luke, who is this Aurora, and why were you calling her name when I'm the one who's been taking care of you all this time?!"

"..."

Luke stared at her for a moment.

He was somewhat surprised to hear the usually reserved Dragon Princess speaking so many words at once, especially with such an accusatory tone.

However, his surprise soon turned into confusion.

'Why should I explain who Aurora is?'

After all, Emberlyn wasn't his wife, and he couldn't understand why she seemed so bothered by him accidentally calling another woman's name.

Deciding that the matter wasn't worth discussing, Luke attempted to sit up.

However, when he moved one hand backward to support himself, his palm unexpectedly touched something soft.

"...?"

He glanced toward his hand and discovered that it was resting against Emberlyn's waist.

Only then did he realize that his head had been lying on her lap the entire time.

"Huh? Ember, why am I sleeping on your lap?"

He casually used the shortened name he had heard her family members call her before.

Unfortunately, that simple form of address immediately distracted Emberlyn from her earlier questioning.

'Ember?'

Her expression changed slightly.

Apart from her family members, almost nobody addressed her by that name, especially someone who had only known her for a month.

Yet Luke had used it so naturally that she momentarily forgot what she had been asking him.

A faint blush appeared across her cheeks.

Unfortunately, as she lowered her head to conceal her embarrassment, she completely forgot that Luke was still lying on her lap.

So their gazes immediately met.

"..."

Luke looked at her with a strange expression, while Emberlyn's blush deepened as she realized she had practically brought her face closer to his.

'Ahh! Why did I lower my head?!'

She wanted to hide somewhere, although the embarrassment only made it harder for her to respond normally.

Luke watched her unusual reaction for another moment before losing interest.

"Whatever."

He removed his head from her lap and stood up, stretching his newly regenerated limbs as he examined the surrounding room.

Only then did he realize that he had somehow returned to the Dragon Palace.

'How did I get here?'

His memories immediately returned to the moment when the three A-Rank Orcs had descended toward his injured Vorthar body.

He could still remember the casual flick that had nearly killed him.

"What happened to those A-Rank Orcs?" Luke asked, turning toward Emberlyn. "The last thing I remember is one of them attacking me, so how did I end up back at the palace?"

Hearing his question, Emberlyn finally recovered from her embarrassment.

She explained that after he was injured, Rhaenyra had come to confront the three Orc leaders, allowing her to take advantage of the situation and rescue him.

After escaping the battlefield, they had returned to the palace and waited for his injuries to recover.

However, she deliberately avoided mentioning how both she and Rhaenyra had attempted to heal him, especially the incidents involving the healing potion and Rhaenyra's blood essence.

"Rhaenyra..."

Luke quietly repeated his wife's name.

For some reason, hearing that she had come to save him caused an unfamiliar emotion to stir within his heart.

After all, this was the same woman who had nearly killed him during their earlier encounter.

Yet when he was in genuine danger, she had apparently come to his rescue.

He remained thoughtful for a moment before turning toward Emberlyn.

"Thanks, Ember. You really helped me this time."

Then he opened his System interface, intending to check the condition of his body.

However, the moment his cultivation progress appeared, his expression froze.

[ETERNAL TITAN ZERO — BODY RECONSTRUCTION]

[Progress: 99.9999999%]

'WHAT?!'

Luke stared at the notification in disbelief.

'System, what happened?! How did my reconstruction increase this much?!'

He clearly remembered that his progress had reached fifty percent after the destruction of the Zhurkhal army.

So how had the remaining portion almost completely filled while he was unconscious?

The System finally answered.

[Your darling dragon wife fed you her blood essence while you were unconscious, and the extraordinary quality of that essence allowed your reconstruction to progress much faster than expected.]

Luke became even more astonished.

'Rhaenyra healed me?!'

[Yes, but you should understand that this method is considered a shortcut, and because of it, the tribulation awaiting you will be far more dangerous than it should have been.]

Unfortunately, the System didn't explain the full consequences of his reconstruction, particularly the connections involving Rhaenyra's karma, fate, and possible death.

Luke, meanwhile, was still trying to understand why his dragon wife had willingly given him her precious blood essence.

'But why would she do that after everything that happened between us?'

He immediately attempted to question the System further.

However, its response was unusually brief.

[Go ask her yourself.]

"..."

'Like hell she'd tell me anything!'

Luke immediately dismissed the suggestion, knowing Rhaenyra's personality far too well.

So he decided to leave the matter for now.

Using his inventory, Luke retrieved a set of magical clothes and dressed himself in a black shirt and matching pants.

Throughout the process, Emberlyn continued watching him.

For some reason, even the simple act of putting on clothes seemed unusually attractive to her, and she found herself following his movements without realizing how obvious her attention had become.

Over the past ten days, her feelings toward Luke had grown considerably, especially after spending so much time worrying about whether he would ever awaken.

Unfortunately, she hadn't properly recognized those feelings herself.

Luke eventually noticed her unusual expression.

'What's wrong with her?'

He glanced at Emberlyn for a moment before dismissing the matter.

'Maybe she's in heat.'

Having reached that rather strange conclusion, he headed toward the door.

However, just as he was about to open it—

BAAAM!

The door suddenly swung open.

"You are not going anywhere!"