Chapter 403: Tiger God
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav
Nobody expected for Roland’s army to appear to settle down here after arriving in the Dragon World.
They built houses, planted crops and constructed tall walls more than ten ters high. Iron buildings went up everywhere, and they had even built mage towers and biology experintal laboratories. It was obvious they were here to stay.
As for their agreent with the dragons?
“We agreed to slow down the rate at which the Titan Giants’ seal broke, didn’t we? I’ve already established a new Earth Elental God, which is helping balance the Elental Tide in the Dragon World. Doesn’t that an I’ve done my job? I didn’t even ask you for any paynt yet. As for the next step, completely sealing the Titan Giants... do you think that they’ll obediently allow us to strengthen the seal on them? At the very least, we need to have the ability to defend ourselves. Let’s not even ntion the Titan Giants’ true bodies. Even their few incarnations running around outside can easily kill us all.”
That was the excuse I intended to give the dragons’ ssenger. As for whether or not the dragons believed ? Who cared? This world never belonged to them in the first place. Could they really do anything about ?
Alright then, with this logic, I did sound a bit like a bastard. But sotis bastard logic would be the most effective. When negotiating with dragons, only the most powerful would have the upper hand.
“You’re thinking too much into things. The dragons won’t care if you build so houses here. They could care less about the activities of short-lived species like humans. Even if there’s a dragon who’s bored enough to care, with how a typical dragon views ti, that dragon would probably rember this matter after a three-hundred-year nap. And...”
However, when Evelyn arrived, she told that things were quite different from what I thought.
“...Is it really that ridiculous? And?”
“And Fourth Sister is doing her best to cover things for you. The dragons think you’re working hard to balance the four elents, so why would they co looking for you? Oh, right, since you’ve already accomplished part of the task, you can speak up now and ask for paynt.”
This was a true ally. Even if I didn’t say anything, she was thinking about and working for my benefits.
But one week later, a dragon still ended up descending from the sky. When I looked closer, I saw a familiar figure on the dragon’s back.
“Hey there, isn’t this my good old friend and classmate Kaid? What made you co over here to find ? Could it be that—”
“Haha! You still rember your task? It’s exactly ‘could it be that!’”
He played with his beard, enjoying playing at being an elder. His clean and puffy snow-white beard made really want to pull on it.
“—could it be that you ca all the way to another plane to return the money you owe ? You’re truly such a nice person!”
“I’m not here to return your money! No, wait, I don’t owe you money to begin with! Can you stop reusing this old joke! Are you not tired of it yet? Because you bring up this topic every ti, all my disciples keep guessing how much money I owe you! Besides, you were clearly the one who owed money!”
“Tsk—you actually rembered.”
“Ahhh! You really did do it on purpose! Thankfully, I spent a huge amount of money, hiring an illusion magic grandmaster to cast mory Recovery on myself!”
“Paha! You actually did such a thing? It must have been fun to have soone else ssing around in your head. I’ve heard that mory Recovery is a nine-circle advanced spell that will place a trendous burden on your body, with possible side effects, such as causing multiple personalities. Are you still the sa snot-nosed brat from before? Hmm? I think I might have misrembered. You were a bedwetting brat?”
“Snot-nosed? Bedwetting? I—I—I’m going to kill you!”
From a certain standpoint, it was amusing to anger the white-bearded old man, especially since he was clearly younger than but always loved to play at being the elder. If I didn’t prank him, wouldn’t I seem to be lacking liveliness, like an old artifact?
“Hmph, I’m still quite young. Go ahead and tell , young Kaid. What are you here to talk to about? Don’t even think about asking to borrow money from . It will only hurt relationships between friends to talk about money.”
*Huff* *Huff*
Kaid’s veins were bulging as he went on a rampage. He randomly swung his staff at in a way with which he probably couldn’t even kill a fly. After he finished his rampage, he could only lower his head and pant for breath, treating his mage staff as a walking staff.
“Besides, I’m clearly of the warrior job class... and pure mage like you wants to try in physical lee combat? If you die just like this, due to a shortage of breath, I’d feel quite bad about it. Yep, I’d feel bad for about a minute.”
Kaid brought out a dark green potion and gulped it down. He then rubbed his heart for quite a while before he glared at and spoke again.
“...You bastard, you want to die of anger that badly?! Forget it, you’ve always been like this. No wonder everyone always tells not to take anything you say seriously. Let’s get to the real issue now. You should know what I’m here for.”
I picked my nose with my index finger and then lightly flicked the booger away...
“I don’t know.”
“...Do you still have so sort of grudge against ? Will you ever mature? You were the one who first told everyone that I’m a pervert who likes little girls. Why else would I tell everyone about how you proposed marriage to Alia in public? I was telling the truth, wasn’t I?”
“Hmph—you think I don’t know how you described things? You clearly said that Alia is unconscious due to receiving too much shock, and that she keeps muttering my na in her unconsciousness. Then, you said that I didn’t care about her at all, that I ca to the Cloud Tower only to enjoy myself. The end result was that my female students who called ‘Teacher’ on the first day started looking at like I was a pervert on the very next day. My little newfound luck with won disappeared!”
“...You really are holding a grudge against for this. Are you a little boy? You’re so old already and still enjoy pretending to be young? You’re complaining to an old virgin like about how you don’t have any luck with won!? You... you... you’re utterly shaless!”
Judging from the visibly palpitating veins on Kaid’s forehead, if I teased him anymore, he would die of blood clotting. And so I finally started taking things a bit more seriously.
Of course I knew what he was here for. I knew it the instant I saw him arrive. The Truth Symposium probably had objections to slacking off for such a long ti. And I could also guess why they had such objections. Either Bardi reported to them about , or the dragons did, or the Truth Overseers with objections to did.
Yet since my old friend was the one sent here to remind to do my work, that ant things weren’t so bad. Sending a friend to et was another type of political consideration.
“I get it, I’ll work faster about the issue of the dragons...”
“That’s not what I’m here for. I’m here because of a change in the situation related to your other job.”
“My other job?”
“...You really did forget it. Your other job, the Mage Country Ambassador to the Bardi Empire. Right now, Bardi is having major problems. They lost their battles in both the east and the south. Halent lost his campaign against the remnant of the Holy Army vanguard, and the princes also lost Nightrain City to the undead. The Truth Symposium ordered to imdiately relay you this ssage to you, and they’re requesting you to act as soon as possible after you et with the dragons. It would be best if the dragons can co out and salvage the situation! Bardi can’t be allowed to collapse just like this.”
“Jinxer...”
[You’re a ga jinxer. Your System is considering whether or not to give you a new customized title: “Ship destroying demon.”]
“What does this have to do with ships!?”
[This title has a description attached to it: “I’m not Pele, I’ve supported so many ships! I believe that you can win!]
Harloys’ snide comnt and my System’s gloating simultaneously sounded in my ears. But I didn’t have the ti to care about their comnts as this was truly a huge problem.
I slowly paced around on a high iron platform in the experintal laboratory, a place from where I could observe all the newest developnts in the laboratory. Kaid was prattled on behind , but I was more bothered by my own thoughts than him at the mont.
According to the secret agreent I had with Orloss, Bardi absolutely couldn’t lose and shouldn’t have lost to begin with. If Bardi’s situation beca unstable, my secret agreent with him would beco worthless. My plan would also beco impossible to develop.
I now had to co to Bardi’s rescue. The undead were still fine, as they would lack the determination to press forth with all-out attacks as long as an Undead Emperor hadn’t yet descended. The Wood Spirits would also be slowing them down from behind. Plus, the Bardi citizens had high morale and plenty of elite troops. Counterattacking and pushing the undead back might be difficult, but retreating and holding the line of defense at another location should still be possible.
As for the eastern front, with my understanding of the Holy Church, this unexpected win they obtained would sink the Holy Church into a religious fervor. Continuing their attack on the heretical Bardi Empire would be a definite. And neither Orloss nor myself even considered the possibility that Halent would lose to the remaining Holy Army vanguard.
“...Even if Halent suddenly beca an idiot, his army had ten Ancient Dragons and two leaders from the Dragon World. How could he lose?”
But the fact was that he lost. Since I didn’t have any specific information on that combat report, it was impossible for to know the reason. Yet I would have to do sothing to save things. There was a problem, though...
“I really can’t leave right now!”
“What’s even more important here?”
“Look below you...”
The iron platform we were on was above a volcanic area. Under the platform was a massive skeleton. Each bone was already far larger than an ordinary giant. All we could see was a tiny portion of this skeleton. Many of my subordinates were wearing protective clothing, busy at work on this skeleton.
“What is that!!?”
“An ancient Tiger God. This is the greatest harvest we received here. This is the ancestor of the Eternal Thunder tribe that they worship. Just a single rib bone is more than thirty ters long. In its entirety, it must have been an incredible super monster. Also, from the information I obtained through certain channels, this Tiger God’s true identity was probably a Titan Giant’s pet from long ago. In fact, it’s highly likely that it was the pet of Yins, the fourth-ranked Titan Giant. I t Yins back at Oak Town.”
“...Are you digging up its skeleton? While an ancient divine beast’s skeleton is indeed valuable research material, couldn’t you just leave this task to your subordinates and deal with the more serious affairs that need your attention at Dragon City?”
“...Have you ever heard of an undead mage being able to pause an undead summoning experint in the middle? I’ve already begun the undead summoning, so it’ll be a waste of top-quality resources if I stop right now!”
“You’re reviving such a creature? You’re crazy!”
“Ha! Did you just learn that?”
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