"What do you need the money for?"
Kael’s expression fell:
"Count and Countess fell in battle, and the upper echelons of the Mining Workshop were completely replaced. Now the workshop is demanding that we mine more ore. If we don’t et the standards, they will deduct our wages..."
"My father has already passed away from illness, and only my brother and I are left at ho. Before, we had our father to protect us, and the workshop wasn’t so strict, but now... everything is different."
"To treat my father’s illness, I racked up a lot of debt..."
"I need to pay it back... and I need to provide for my family... so I must mine more silver."
"Sorry, Miss Black Dragon, I won’t be able to co here as often anymore."
After listening to Kael’s explanation, I fell silent.
To be honest, I don’t really understand kinship, nor do I really understand family.
As a giant dragon, I also cannot fathom the aning and value of money to mortals.
But I felt a strange impulse.
An impulse that even I found inexplicable...
I turned around, and under Kael’s puzzled gaze, I returned to the cave that I had excavated.
I picked out the smallest block of Mithril I had found over the years but after a thought, I swapped it for a slightly larger one.
"Take this, this piece of Mithril should be enough for your needs."
I said.
Kael was stunned for a mont, looking at the Mithril ingot that was even larger than his head, his expression sowhat slack:
"Miss Black Dragon... this... such a large piece of Mithril... for... for ?!"
"Take it. I am very pleased with the food you bring each ti, Kael, you have won the recognition of the great Black Dragon, and for the ti being, you have beco one whom the great Black Dragon is willing to communicate with. Consider this Mithril as a reward for you."
I lifted my head once more, and said haughtily.
"Recognition? Reward?"
Kael was stunned.
"Yes, recognition and reward."
I nodded arrogantly.
Kael suddenly beca excited:
"Miss Black Dragon, do you an that we are friends now?"
Friends?
I frowned.
Looking at the small Sub-human excitedly wagging his tail, I snorted lightly and said:
"You think too much. I never befriend weak beings. This is rely a grant."
"Not... friends then."
Kael seed sowhat disappointed.
I don’t know why, but seeing his drooping ears, I felt an unexplainable irritation grow within .
"However... you can be the exception."
Sohow, I blurted out these words.
Even I was stunned after saying them.
I must be mad...
For a Black Dragon to stoop so low as to discuss friendship with an insignificant Sub-human!
I am a Black Dragon!
A cruel and rciless Black Dragon!
And what left even more disconcerted was the fact that I did not find myself as repulsed by this truth as I had imagined...
Habit is a frightening thing.
Unknowingly, I had beco unlike myself!
"Rember, I hate tardiness. There will not be a next ti."
I threw these cold words behind and walked away.
But perhaps, ’fled’ would be more accurate.
"Miss Black Dragon! May I know your na?"
The Sub-human Kael asked loudly behind .
Na?
I paused slightly.
A na, huh...
Honestly, I did not know my own na.
At least... at that mont, it seed I had forgotten what it was.
In a daze, I seed to recall the call I heard in the darkness on the day I awakened.
An inexplicable tremor rose within ...
"Odosia, you may call Odosia."
I answered.
"Odosia?"
Kael was stunned once more.
Looking at his dazed expression, I frowned:
"What? Do you have an issue with this great na?"
Kael hastily shook his head, while shaking it, he also explained:
"No, no, no! Not at all! Of course not, it is indeed a grand na!"
Saying this, he scratched his head:
"I just... never imagined that Miss Black Dragon would share a na with a Totem that our tribe’s ancestors once worshipped in legend..."
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