After returning to the island’s coast once more, James sat on a sizable rock and watched as the enormous waves below crashed against the island.

He was thinking about the strange man from the Dragon Abyss.

When he first encountered the strange man, he found him to be of sound mind and receptive to conversation. However, on James’ second visit to the cave, the strange man was sane at first as well, but then suddenly seemed to have lost his mind.

“Perhaps… He was tainted with dragon’s blood a thousand years ago, and dragon’s blood, like Spirit Turtle’s blood, can cause energy deviation?” James mused.

However, he thought it seemed a bit unlikely. Dragon's blood also gave rise to the Blood Race, but its members did not suffer from energy deviation.

If it was not caused by energy deviation, why did the man on the island suddenly attack him? Did he offend this person in some way?

James thought about it for a long time but could not come up with an answer.

“Well, I won’t be able to lea