Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 50 Close Relations

"We personally wanted to welcome you on your visit here, General Marcia,” Mia and the otherministers who had been waiting for a long time came up to the general to greet her.

"There's no need for ceremony. I planned to visit secretly, to patrol. How did the news of my visitspread so quickly?" Marcia sternly said, unimpressed by the ceremony. The attention everyone gaveher and the salacious gazes that she was receiving from the men made her uncomfortable and ill atease.

Marcia's displeased expression began to make all the ministers feel nervous, their stomachstightening in fright. They stood still as they anxiously held their breaths, hoping to give her a goodimpression. Marcia was one of the most powerful people in the Holy Dragon Empire. They all knewthat if she would want to punish them for their incompetence, she would be able to do it very easily."It is our great honour to welcome you here, General Marcia. That is why we did our best to preparean extravagant ceremony. It is our responsibility to do so,” came the hurried reply of a minister, abig smile plastered on his face.

"I don't care for the ceremony. I've been used to it by now. It's just the same every time,” thegeneral coldly stated. She then turned to Mia and said, "Master Mia, please call out all the royalspirit manipulators.”

"General Marcia, why don't you take a rest first?" Mia insisted. She knew that Marcia went for a visitto observe the training, but she did not expect that she would actually do it, let alone do it rightaway just a few minutes after her arrival.

"I believe I have made it clear that I am here to see their exercises,” Marcia emphasized. However,inside her mind, observing the exercises was just an excuse for her to replace the man who had cheatedher.

Marcia ordered her soldiers to replace Rocky. They had looked for him everywhere, including thedragon field, but they did not replace any useful clues. But unbeknownst to them, they had already raninto Rocky. They were not able to recognize him because his appearance had changed quitedrastically since he last met Marcia.

Rocky would be able to finally get Marcia off his tail. However, she was unyielding and insisted ongoing to the dragon field to look for him. Hence, this was the reason for her visit to the dragon field.Perhaps it was destined that they would meet again.

"Y-yes! Of course, General!" Mia stammered, reacting at once. She did not dare say anything else;she just bowed down before Marcia and then turned back around to order every young man toassemble at the field immediately.

All the young men then instantaneously marched up to Marcia and respectfully greeted her.

Marcia looked at each of the young men, but soon shook her head in disappointment, turned toMia and asked, "Are these all the young men?"

"Yes, that's all of..." Mia stopped abruptly as she tried to remember something. She turned her gazetowards the group of young men. As she initially thought, Rocky was not among them.

"Where's Basil Long?" Mia hissed at the young men.

They all looked at each other, also clueless as to where Rocky was.

"I'm here," Rocky said from behind the crowd, watching. He overheard Mia asking the other youngmen about him and decided to show up. If he did not appear before Mia at once, he would mostcertainly get punished for it. Therefore, he reluctantly joined up with the rest of the young men. Heunflinchingly looked at Marcia and smiled, not an ounce of terror on his face.

Marcia was not able to recognize him at first glance, but she was a bit suspicious that he lookedsomewhat familiar. After carefully watching Rocky for a while, she stared at him, pointed out, andbellowed, "It's you!"

Everyone was shocked at what had just happened. They had no idea what Marcia meant.

Rocky was also left shocked at seeing Marcia point at him. He anticipated that Marcia wouldpretend that she did not know him. However, she did in fact went there to replace him. He did notrealize it until he saw the spiteful look on Marcia's face. It was too late; he did not have the time toconceal himself.

In addition to the animosity that Marcia felt towards Rocky at that moment, she also felt veryconfused. Rocky had changed so much since the last time they saw each other that she was not ableto recognize him at first glance. She also found his spiritual power extremely strange. It was notstrong, but it was not weak either. Nevertheless, it didn't matter. What was important was that shehad already found Rocky.

It was absolutely clear what she would do now.

"General Marcia, you know Basil Long?" Mia shot Marcia a puzzled look.

"Basil Long? That actually sounds really familiar..." Marcia's brows furrowed in concentration. Thename was very familiar. Moreover, his family name was Long, the royal name.

"Basil is the youngest son of the emperor of the Holy Dragon Empire. He used to be a prince, butnot anymore because he destroyed-" Mia started to explain, but was cut off by the general.

"He's the youngest son of the emperor?” Marcia exclaimed and then continued to ask, "Has hebonded with the Holy Dragon Bead?" She finally remembered why the name sounded familiar;when she returned, she heard that someone named Basil Long had bonded with the Holy DragonBead. Although she was curious about the news, she didn't really pay much attention on it.

"That's right,” Mia confirmed, nodding her head.

Marcia stared at the young man in front of her. She had no idea that he was Basil who had bondedwith the Holy Dragon Bead. Her animosity towards him suddenly dissipated. Everyone's eyes werefixated on every move as she approached Rocky. She scanned him up and down and said, "I wantyou to accompany me around the dragon field. Only you. No one else is allowed to follow us.”

She then started to leave with Rocky. Everyone looked at each other in a mix of shock andconfusion. Their curiosity was aroused and they could not stop thinking about what the nature ofthe relationship between the General Marcia and the exiled good-for-nothing prince was. “Why didshe ask him to show her around?’ was what everyone thought.

Rocky had a bad feeling about the whole situation. However, once he saw the envious looks oneveryone's faces, he felt quite smug. 'All of them are probably thinking that there's something goingon between us, * he thought.

Mia was terribly confused when she suddenly remembered that Marcia had once asked about aman called Rocky in the dragon field a little while back when she retrieved the colored pearl. But shewas now even more confused. "How did they meet each other? she thought. Basil was the youngestprince and all the people knew that he had always been sickly since he was a child, often just stayinginside his room. Marcia on the other hand had been fighting ever since she arrived at the HolyDragon Empire. She rarely ever came back and hardly took part in any celebrations if it was notnecessary. It was impossible that the two had met before. Even though Mia was very clever, shecould not replace out the relation between Marcia and Rocky.

"All right! General Marcia!" Rocky raised up the corner of his lips into a smile and openly cuddledMarcia around the waist, showing that they were indeed very close to each other.

Everyone's jaws dropped to the floor at Rocky's actions. Their envious eyes that were as sharp asknives were fixed on his hand. They all thought that he would definitely receive dangerousconsequences from what he did

because they had never seen a man touch Marcia, not even her hands. The way they saw it, if a mandared to try even just a tiny bit of flirting with Marcia, he would most definitely be beaten to deathby her incredible fighting strength

They considered Marcia as a holy symbol in their minds and Rocky dared to—at least they thoughtso—violate her.

"How dare Basil do that?" Mia gasped. She immediately frowned, wanting Rocky to stop hisunrefined behaviour.

However, to everyone's surprise, Marcia did not start violently beating Rocky. Instead, she broughther lips close to his ear. "Do you want to die now? How dare you flirt with me in the public?” shesaid in a low voice, almost growling.

"You came here to replace me. It might not be good news for me, so why not flirt with a beauty while Ihave the chance?" Rocky brazenly teased.

Marcia was so furious and taken aback by what Rocky said that she was at a loss for words and allshe could do was glower at him. She did not want to beat up a young spirit manipulator like himbecause she wanted to maintain her excellent public image as a well-respected general.

However, things had become different in everyone's eyes. What they saw was Marcia and Rockytalking intimately and cuddling with each other. It made them even more curious about many thingsregarding the nature of the two's relationship. The prudish nobles and aristocrats carefully watchedthem as they gossiped among themselves. The scene that was happening before their eyes wasprobably the most interesting thing that had happened in their boring uneventful lives. Five versionsof the story quickly spread among the crowd.

"Let's go! There are too many people. We need to replace a quiet place,” Marcia urgently said as shecalmly turned around and got rid of Rocky's hand on her waist. She then proceeded to directly walkforward.