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Valerie

Second Princess of Karshvar Draconisno formal combat rank statedKarshvar Draconis

Valerie is the second princess of Karshvar Draconis, a sheltered Golden Dragon whose curiosity draws her from the Inner Palace to Lux's guild headquarters. Her romance with Lux forces the Dragon court to reconsider both his place in its politics and the limits of her protected upbringing. She later joins Heaven's Gate, chooses to bear Lux's child, loses her memories of him during the Abyssal crisis, and rebuilds that relationship before becoming his wife and the mother of their daughter Rhea.

Biography

Namesake disambiguation and first royal appearance

The Valerie named in Chapter 177 is not the Dragon Princess. She is the Blue Dragon among Iris's four Beast Companions, listed beside Astra, Hanz, and Myrtle during the academy conflict. That creature appears again with the same guardianship context in Chapter 298. Nothing in those passages connects the Blue Dragon to Karshvar Draconis, King Azza, or the later princess, so assigning her combat actions or early bond with Iris to the royal Valerie would merge two separate characters. (Chapters 177, 298)

Chapters 206–207 contain another distinct namesake: an officer of Eternal who serves as Aina's second-in-command during the Beast Tide, escorts a punished mage, and identifies an approaching Deimos-Ranked Warthog. The Dragon Princess is neither present in Leaf Village nor Aina's guild officer in this phase. Her actual chronology begins in Karshvar Draconis, where King Azza asks her to care for a newly hatched younger brother. Preserving that distinction explains why the royal Valerie's later innocence, family, and first meeting with Lux do not continue either early namesake's storyline. (Chapters 206–207, 427)

Heaven’s Gate and the continental wars

At seventeen, Valerie is loved so protectively that her parents and attendants maintain false lessons about pregnancy and secretly deploy hundreds of Rankers whenever she “sneaks” out. Wanting to see the Outer Reaches, she activates the magic in her veil, takes the name Valencia, and travels with Ali and Ari. At Heaven's Gate's marble headquarters, Cethus refuses to believe the plain-looking visitor is the princess even when she tells him. Lux treats her without regard for status or beauty, lets her meet Eiko, and gives her the first unguarded companionship she has found outside the palace. (Chapters 524, 532–535)

Valerie's first response to Lux's duel with Cethus is concern that a Dragon Born will bully someone from the Lower Realm. She orders Ali and Ari to stop the fight if it becomes excessive, then watches Lux win through preparation and coordinated abilities. During the aftermath he holds her to keep her from seeing Cethus's humiliation, and her sheltered understanding converts the contact into a belief that she is pregnant. She reports this to King Azza and names Lux as the father, nearly provoking a royal killing spree before Queen Saphira later corrects the misunderstanding. The comic error nevertheless exposes a real emotional shift: Valerie has begun to imagine Lux as part of her future. (Chapters 540–545, 584, 632, 637)

The Dragon kingdoms and the Abyss

Valerie begins taking greater risks for that future while still depending on adults to protect it. When Lux seeks King Azza's help against the Divine Army, she privately argues on his behalf, but her father refuses and hopes adversity will remove the Half-Elf from her life. Valerie reveals her real name to Lux, asks to keep visiting his headquarters, and eventually kisses him after he gives her the rare Dragon Slime Kei. The kiss is her own impulsive decision; the secrecy that follows is maintained by Ali, Ari, Lady Faustina, Gaap, and Keoza because they know how violently Azza might react. (Chapters 692, 783–786)

Valerie then admits to Faustina that she does not want to be separated from Lux. Rather than confront her father and lose all freedom, she accepts a plan in which Queen Saphira authorizes her to represent Karshvar Draconis during a visit to the Crystal Palace. The mission gives the Dragon courts a plausible peace initiative while letting Valerie travel with Lux. When the Divine Army's Saints attack the floating island, she remains with Ali and Ari while stronger protectors fight; her role is the person others defend, not a hidden combatant. She later trades warnings with Aur, who sees through her veil, and frankly says that she came only because Lux was there. Their encounter turns mutual suspicion into the beginning of cooperation between two disguised Dragon princesses. (Chapters 813, 815–820, 828)

The Divine Army reckoning

Valerie's sheltered view of power breaks during the crisis surrounding Gaap. After Aurelia tells her that Lux will attempt a rescue, Valerie begs King Azza for help and cries when he refuses. Her father nevertheless brings her to the Divine Empire so she can witness a world where the strong openly oppress the weak. When hundreds of Saints converge on Lux, she pleads again for intervention, then clings to Ali in despair because she and her handmaidens would die immediately if they entered the battle. Gaap's death therefore gives personal meaning to the harsh reality Azza intended her to observe and replaces romantic fantasy with awareness that Lux and the people he loves can be lost. (Chapters 945–957, 971–974)

Hereswith takes Valerie, Aurelia, Ali, and Ari to Espoir Frieden to comfort the grieving Lux. At a private gathering, wine secretly laced with an aphrodisiac lowers the group's restraint, but Valerie's decision to seek a child is connected to a sober fear already sharpened by Gaap's death. Lux repeatedly asks whether she truly wants to bear his child; she says yes, asks him to take responsibility, and later continues pursuing conception after the drug's immediate effect has passed. Valerie's choice makes their romance concrete and potentially political, since a child binds Lux to Karshvar Draconis regardless of whether her father knows. (Chapters 984–1000)

Valerie returns home visibly happier and more mature, while her parents attribute the change to travel and friendship rather than her secret relationship. She also joins Heaven's Gate and learns that Lux commands the world's only Mythical Guild, gaining the ability to visit and communicate without relying entirely on royal travel arrangements. Before Lux meets the Divine Army's leadership, she voices concern alongside his other lovers and accompanies the group through the guild's teleportation system. These changes do not make her an independent fighter, but they give her a network, knowledge, and freedom that the Inner Palace never allowed. (Chapters 1002, 1005, 1017, 1032)

Open Heaven’s Gate

The road to Valerie's open future passes through a loss the final arc resolves. Daniel's law erases Lux from her mind during the Abyssal invasion, leaving only a painful sense that someone important is missing. She also forgets that Aur is Aurelia and resumes treating the “prince” as a trusted male friend. When her pregnancy is discovered, Aurelia and Ari tell the Dragon court that Valerie herself had asked for Lux's child. Keoza's displayed memories let Valerie learn who Lux was without triggering another erasure, although her original memories remain sealed for a time. She chooses to know him through the testimony of people she trusts and waits at Espoir Frieden while Ari retells the relationship that was taken from her. (Chapters 1105, 1150–1153, 1166, 1176)

By the end of the final battle, Valerie once again stands among Lux's partners and presses his hand to her abdomen before he enters the divine gateway. Her disappointment that Dia is his first child becomes affectionate competition rather than rejection; she helps welcome the baby into the family and imagines holding her own. Valerie tells Lux that she wants twelve children, a wish he asks King Azza to temper for her health, and her father now discusses the matter with him as family. At the public wedding, Azza escorts her to Lux and she becomes one of his ten wives. In the latest household scene, their daughter Rhea sleeps under Kei's watch while Valerie helps negotiate the family's shared schedule, completing her movement from guarded princess to wife and mother with a voice in her own home. (Chapters 1221, 1225–1226, 1232–1233)

Appearance and personality

Valerie has long purple hair, ruby-colored eyes, pale unblemished skin, and two small golden horns that identify her as a member of the Golden Dragon Tribe. The court treats her beauty as politically dangerous enough that she normally wears a veil outside the Inner Palace. Magic in the veil replaces her striking appearance with that of a plain-looking girl; Lux first knows her in that form and does not pressure her to reveal what lies beneath it. Her later unveiling shows an angelic young woman whose appearance contrasts sharply with the “ugly duckling” Cethus once mocked. (Chapters 524, 534, 992–994)

She is affectionate, curious, trusting, and extraordinarily sheltered. Valerie genuinely believes several false explanations her family uses to preserve her innocence, mistakes covert royal protection for her own intimidating glare, and often takes praise from Ali and Ari at face value. These traits make her vulnerable to misunderstanding, but they are not the same as cowardice or total passivity. She leaves the palace to learn, speaks for Lux even when King Azza rejects her, recognizes that open defiance would endanger him, and later accepts an erased relationship on the evidence of people she trusts. Her development lies in directing an open heart with more experience, not in becoming cynical. (Chapters 524, 532, 545, 783–815, 957, 994, 1150–1176)

Golden Dragon abilities and protections

Golden Dragon physiology and senses

Golden Dragons possess Dragon Breath and can transform into a Demi-Dragon form that retains their species' exceptional physical strength. Valerie's golden horns identify her as a member of that tribe, but the supplied corpus never narrates her activating the transformation, breathing an attack, or testing that strength in combat. Lux's borrowed Golden Demi-Dragon form has a thirty-minute duration, but that time limit belongs to his temporary skill and cannot be assigned to Valerie's natural racial ability. (Chapters 524, 744)

Valerie and Aurelia can sense the exceptional Dragon blood and Dragon Constitution within Lux, which supports a racial sensitivity to other Dragons. The supplied corpus does not show Valerie assuming a full Dragon form or receiving a named cultivation rank. References to her “glare” frightening Rankers and to hitting two Phoenixes with one breath are jokes explained by the hidden guards around her, not demonstrations of combat power. Her racial mechanics are therefore established more clearly than her personal mastery of them. (Chapters 532, 1066)

Her Dragon heritage is most consequential in reproduction rather than combat. Dragons conceive rarely, can pass hundreds of years without a child, and do not have regular human reproductive cycles. Valerie's pregnancy after asking Lux to remove his contraceptive protection is therefore treated as an unlikely but deliberate outcome. This permanent family development is not a power increase, and later chapters record no new combat stage associated with motherhood. Her latest confirmed state is Lux's wife and Rhea's mother, with Kei and the household protecting the child. (Chapters 994–996, 1150–1152, 1226, 1232–1233)

Veil disguise and limits

Valerie's veil is an enchanted concealment tool rather than an innate transformation. Once activated, it changes the beautiful princess's visible face into that of a plain young woman, letting her travel without ordinary citizens immediately recognizing her. The disguise supports the Valencia alias and allows her to meet Lux without royal ceremony; deactivating or losing its effect exposes her true appearance. Lux suspects concealment but respects her privacy, which helps her trust him enough to reveal herself later. (Chapters 524, 534, 784, 992–994)

The veil cannot defeat specialized perception. Aurelia recognizes that Valerie's face is false and infers her royal standing, while Ali and Ari possess sight that penetrates disguises, illusions, and invisibility. The tool also does nothing to conceal Valerie's behavior from people who already know her or to protect her in combat. Its development is social rather than mechanical: early on it lets her explore anonymously, later it hides her at politically dangerous gatherings, and by her wedding she appears openly as the Dragon Princess rather than relying on the plain identity. (Chapters 815, 828, 971, 993, 1232)

Royal guard network and personal limits

Valerie's practical defense is a layered network of other people. Ali and Ari accompany her as handmaidens and protectors; Faustina supervises dangerous travel; King Azza secretly sends hundreds of Rankers and several High-Rankers when she leaves the Inner Palace. At the Crystal Palace, both Dragon courts deploy Saints around the royal heirs. This arrangement can deter ordinary attackers without Valerie realizing it, but it also preserves her inexperience and restricts her freedom because every journey depends on parental permission, diplomatic cover, or attendants willing to keep her secrets. (Chapters 524, 532, 784–815, 820)

The Divine Empire establishes the ceiling clearly. Valerie, Ali, and Ari are described as weak women who would die immediately if they interfered in a clash involving hundreds of Saints and multiple Supremes. Valerie's response is to plead with the people who have the power to act, not to reveal a hidden higher rank. She later gains Heaven's Gate membership, communication, and teleportation access, but no chapter identifies that membership as a personal rank breakthrough. The fixed Golden Dragon state, artifact disguise, and increasingly capable judgment support the manifest's omission of a formal progression table. (Chapters 971–974, 1032, 1145–1176)

Notable encounters and deeds

  • First visit to Heaven's Gate: Valerie crosses the Outer Reaches in disguise, insists on entering Lux's headquarters, and meets him after Cethus rejects her stated identity. (Chapters 524, 532–535)
  • Support during Lux's duel: She orders Ali and Ari to stop Cethus if he bullies Lux and learns that the supposedly weaker Half-Elf can defeat a Dragon Born through tactics. (Chapters 540–543)
  • Choice of Kei: After kissing Lux, Valerie hatches a rare Dragon Slime, names him Kei, and accepts responsibility for raising the companion Lux gives her. (Chapter 786)
  • Appeals to King Azza: She repeatedly asks her father to protect Lux from the Divine Army, first during his search for asylum and later during Gaap's execution. (Chapters 783, 957, 974)
  • Decision to bear Lux's child: Shaken by Gaap's death, Valerie affirms that she wants a child with Lux and later maintains that intention after the initial intoxication has passed. (Chapters 992–1000, 1151–1152)
  • Life after erased memories: She accepts Keoza's protected account of Lux, waits for his return, reunites with him before the final victory, and later raises their daughter Rhea. (Chapters 1105, 1150–1176, 1221, 1233)

Relationships

  • Lux: Lux is the first outsider to treat Valerie as a person without demanding either her status or true face. Curiosity becomes affection, then a secret partnership for which she accepts political risk. She asks to bear his child, rebuilds knowledge of him after her memories are sealed, marries him, and raises their daughter Rhea within his household. (Chapters 534–545, 783–828, 945–1032, 1105–1176, 1221–1233)
  • Aurelia: Valerie and Aurelia first confront one another as concealed heirs from rival Dragon courts. Each sees that the other is hiding something and cares for Lux. They become confidantes and lovers' sisters; Aurelia preserves Valerie's history during the memory crisis, defends her decisions before King Azza, and shares the work of integrating their Dragon families into Lux's household. (Chapters 815–828, 971–1002, 1044, 1086, 1145–1176, 1225–1233)
  • King Azza and Queen Saphira: Valerie's parents adore her and protect her so thoroughly that their false lessons prolong her innocence. Saphira gradually supports wider travel, while Azza repeatedly refuses to aid Lux and tries to expose his daughter to harsh political reality. Her pregnancy forces both to accept that protection cannot substitute for her choices; Azza later escorts her at the wedding and treats Lux as a son-in-law. (Chapters 427, 524, 545, 632, 783, 813–815, 957, 1017, 1150–1153, 1226, 1232)
  • Ali and Ari: The twins are Valerie's handmaidens, guards, confidantes, and chosen sisters. They enable her travels, protect her secrets, share her relationship with Lux, and preserve its story after the memory erasure. Ari remembers while Ali forgets, making their different experiences central to Valerie's reconstruction of the past. Both postpone having their own children until Valerie safely gives birth. (Chapters 524–545, 784–828, 971–1000, 1105, 1145–1176, 1228)
  • Lady Faustina: Faustina is a former etiquette teacher, guardian, and practical mediator between Valerie's desires and King Azza's temper. She warns Valerie that open confession would endanger Lux, secures Saphira's support for the Crystal Palace mission, and accompanies the princess into danger. Her inability to intervene at the Divine Empire also helps Valerie understand that even trusted adults have limits. (Chapters 784, 813–820, 945–974, 1086, 1150–1153)
  • Gaap: Gaap recognizes Valerie despite her disguise, quietly protects her early romance from King Azza, and encourages her to learn more about the world. His death devastates her and motivates her decision not to postpone the family she wants with Lux. (Chapters 784–786, 945–1004, 1017)
  • Kei: The rare Dragon Slime hatches from an egg Lux chooses for Valerie. She names and raises him as her companion, and he remains with the family after the war, watching over her daughter Rhea like a younger sister. (Chapters 786, 818, 1233)

Items

Valerie has no individually catalogued item in the generated inventory.