Baby Dragon (2)
A cough was heard in the room, the cough was in the front part of the room.
“I forgot to tell you guys to introduce yourselves. Of course you know one of the people in the back so the part of the room doesn’t matter.” The auburn woman smiled.
“Of course if you don’t know how to start just tell my dearest Acacias, they will just tell them what the other side doesn’t know right now.” She laughed.
The laugh gave all three Cale’s(and also Kim Rok Soo) chills.
She walked out of the room leaving the two women in the room like last time, so far it has been two days since they’ve come here. TCF!Cale noticed the fact that Kim Rok Soo and F!Cale are in the middle of the barrier, stopping others from asking questions.
- Human! Can we eat the cookies yet?
TCF!Cale sighed and pushed the bowl of cookies to all three kids.
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TCF!Alberu was wondering if they will reveal secrets of others for them to get information. He looked around the side he’s in, noticing some he saw at the terrorist attack.
“It doesn’t look like they’ll be introducing themself anytime soon, Kuu.”
“You’re right Yuu, should we introduce them?”
“She said we could.”
The black haired one, Kuu moved in front of the screen.
She looked around to analyze who was in the room then pressed a black button on the side of the screen.
“Since you guys haven’t introduced yourselves yet, we’ll do it for you.”
Yuu walked in front of the screen next to Kuu as words started to appear on the screen.
TCF Side in seating arrangement orders.-
Alberu Crossman, crown prince of Roan Kingdom, Seat 1
Zed Crossman, King of Roan Kingdom, Seat 2
Taylor Stan, Unofficial title, Seat 4
Cage, Excommunicated Priestess of the GoD, Seat 5
Ron, Butler, Seat 7
Beacrok, Chief, Seat 8
Deruth, Count, Seat 9
Lily, Unofficial title, Seat 10
Basen, Unofficial title, Seat 11
Violan, Countess, Seat 12
Hans, Butler, Seat 13
Choi Han, Unofficial title, Seat 14
Rosalyn, Unofficial title, Seat 15
Lock, Unofficial title, Seat 16
Odeus, Merchant, Seat 19
Billos, Bar keeper, Seat 20
Bud, Merchant King, Seat 25
Glenn, Mage, Seat 26
Witira, Future Queen of the Whales, Seat 34
Paeston, Half-Blood Whale, Seat 35
Archie, Killer Whale, Seat 36
Shickler, King of the Whales, 37
Tasha, Unofficial title, Seat 45
Mary, Unofficial Title, Seat 46
Obante, Unofficial title, Seat 47
Jack, Saint, Seat 50
Hannah, Holy Maiden, Seat 51
Antonio Gyerre, Inheritor to the Marquis Gyerre Territory, Seat 60
Sonata Gyerre, Marquis of the Gyerre Territory, Seat 61
Rex, Knight, Seat, Seat 64
Rei Stecker, Unofficial Title, Seat 65
Gashan, Shaman, Seat 70
Gilbert Chetter, Young Patriarch of the Chetter Household, Seat 84
Amiru Ubarr, Young Matriarch of the Ubarr Household, Seat 85
Eric Wheelsman, Young Patriarch of Wheelsman Household, Seat 86
Litana, Queen of the Jungle, Seat 88
Jopis, Dethrone Princess, Seat 90
Pendrick, Healer, Seat 021
Eruhaben, Ancient Dragon, Seat 001
Mila, beige Dragon, Seat 005
Dodori, Pink Dragon, Seat 006
Rasheel, Gray Dragon, Seat 009
Cale, Young Master Silver Shield, Seat 000
Middle part -
Future Cale, Unknown, Seat EX
Kim Rok Soo, Unknown, Seat EX
“Well now that you have those name show casting you can look around, then you’ll be able to decipher face’s in each side.”
Yuu smiled.
Kuu watched F!Cala and Kim Rok Soo’s movements while they looked around.
After a few minutes Yuu got up from her seat.
“It’s time to start watching(reacting) now! Please look at the screen as words continue to play from the previous chapter.”
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Chapter 19 - Saw a dragon (2)
The location that the kittens, On and Hong, buried the black orb was out of Cale’s expectations.
The Viscount’s villa was 30 meters away from the dragon’s cave. On and Hong had buried the black orb 50 meters away from that cave, in an area filled with trees and shrubs, making it very difficult for the orb to be located.
“You two are kind of amazing.”
“Something like this is a piece of cake.”
On was saying it was easy, but Cale could see On’s nose twitching in joy.
On stopped munching as she looked at TCF!Cale, then went back to munching. TCF!Cale sighed.
Cale, Choi Han, On, and Hong crouched around the location that the black orb, officially known as the Mana Disturbance Tool, was located, and looked toward the cave entrance that was 50 meters away, as well as the Viscount’s villa that was farther away.
“You remember the plan?”
Cale had explained the plan on their way over. Realistically speaking, there wasn’t much of a plan.
“There are a total of 6 people on guard at this time.”
Cale recalled the information he read in, ‘The Birth of a Hero.’ The Black Dragon was smart, like most dragons. It had been gathering information for the four long years it was held captive, and there was a reason it attempted its escape two days later at around this time.
TCF!Cale noticed that some things were missing from there, Anthanasia seems to be hiding the fact he got this information from the novel.
The TBOAH side doesn’t understand where he got this information or who’s giving him the information.
There were, approximately, a total of 30 people residing in the villa. Originally, there were close to 100 people, but it slowly went down as they realized during the last four years that nobody really came to this area.
Of course, among the 30 people, there were 3 high-leveled knights at the Vice Captain’s level, as well as 7 mid-leveled knights. There were also soldiers, the torturer, and random laborers. The number of people here showed just how much attention the Marquis has been putting onto this location.
TCF!Eruhaben Scowled. He was wondering if the human actually let the dragon child go or if he is trying to tame. It wouldn't be the first time for TCF!Eruhaben to see humans' greed or how they lie.
However, Cale had Choi Han. Choi Han was someone who could take down the strongest knight in the Roan Kingdom in 10 moves. Someone like that was on their side.
TCF!Choi Han wondered if Cale actually did think about him when fighting. TBOAH!Choi Han scowled deepend.
“Let me explain one more time. There is one high-leveled knight and two mid-leveled knights at the cave entrance, as well as two soldiers. Inside the cave, there is just one high-leveled knight, and the torturer is at the end of the cave.”
Choi Han flinched after hearing the word torturer, but Cale did not care. Cale did not care to know about the things that were going through Choi Han’s mind right now. The important thing was that the black orb will activate soon, and that they needed to move quickly in response.
“The magic recording devices located from the villa to the cave entrance will not work for 40 minutes thanks to the black orb that On and Hong buried. That is the same for the alarms, magic traps, and anything else. Nothing will work for 40 minutes.”
They needed to domesticate this dragon, the greatest magic using creature in the world, but they could not ask any mages for help. That was why Marquis Stan chose to fill this area with magic items instead. The reason that there were only a few guards around the entrance was also because they trusted their magic items.
That was why the dragon had no choice but to cause a mana explosion to escape.
TCF!Cale moved his hand to cover the three kids' eyes when he noticed the last sentence, of course he would say he was getting a cookie from the basket.
“Rok Soo? What a unique name…” TBOAH!Cale said, looking at the two at the back and the other next to them on the other side of the barrier. Kim Rok Soo sighed and glanced at TBOAH!Cale who was watching both Kim Rok Soo and F!Cale.
‘An eye for an eye, and money for money.’
Both Bud’s spit their drink out.
SMACK!
“I didn’t even do anything!”
Glenn rolled his eyes
Since the Marquis used money, Cale used money as well. Cale patted the magic bag on his waist. This was a magic bag that allowed you to store a lot of items. Inside this bag were all sorts of magic items, useful tools, and objects.
“I just need to take out the guards?”
Naturally, Choi Han would be doing the battling. Why would Cale even try to fight when such a strong person was next to him? Cale thought paper-cuts hurt a lot, so he didn’t want to even think about getting cut by a sword.
TCF!Alberu’s smile twitched.
Both TCF and future Cale’s nodded their heads.
“Yet I thought you were the one who bled the most Cale.” Kim Rok Soo teased, F!Cale stopped nodding and glared at Rok Soo.
“Yes. You are the only one I can rely on to cover my back.”
‘At least for now.’
TCF!Choi Han looked like a kicked puppy after reading the last sentence, he looked towards TCF!Cale.
TCF!Cale felt shivers down his back
Cale looked at Choi Han with a serious expression, and Choi Han nodded his head and sincerely responded back.
“I will definitely live up to your expectations.”
“Yes. As I mentioned, make sure they see our outfit and then knock them out. Don’t kill them, and don’t show them your sword art. You remember what to do after that, right?”
A couple of people ended up sighing, mostly Kim Rok Soo.
F!Cale seemed to notice a couple of stares on him and slouched behind Kim Rok Soo
Choi Han’s unique transparent black aura should be easily camouflaged by the darkness, if he uses it carefully. Cale believed Choi Han should understand, since he had already told him many times.
“Yes, I remember it all.”
“Good, I’ll leave it to you.”
Cale patted Choi Han’s shoulders, before handing him the voice changing device. It would be bad if he had to talk during the fight and they recognized his voice.
“It’s expensive, so don’t break it.”
“Got it. You do not need to worry about it.”
Cale then looked toward the kittens. Cale responded to their wagging tails, that seemed to be asking for something.
“I will give you meat once it is over.”
That did not seem to be the right answer, as they snorted and turned away. Cale didn’t think much about it, instead verifying the time with his watch.
On sighed, she knew TCF!Cale was too dense to notice what they wanted. Kim Rok Soo laughed.
“Shut up please.”
“You shouldn’t be such words in front of Cale, what if they start copying you?” Kim Rok Soo argued, causing F!Cale to grumble and slouch more.
‘Five minutes left.’
The sky had already gotten dark, and it was night time.
Cale then recalled the conversation he had with Billos.
‘The magic items that have been influenced by the Mana Disturbance Tool will instantly stop working, and most of them will turn off to prevent it from blowing up. However, the highest quality magic items will start beeping to signal that they are broken. It isn’t like alarm magic, instead, it is more like a clock alarm.’
‘It will probably be loud?’
‘I don’t know where you plan on using it, but it should be loud enough for the enemy to hear.’
Billos started to smirk and continued on.
‘However, if there are a lot of magic items in the area, it will probably get chaotic with all of the alarms going off at the same time.’
Chaotic was enough for Cale.
TCF!Odeus looks towards TCF!Billos after reading the text, he seemed to want to tell Billos something but sadly wasn’t given enough time to do so.
“Get ready.”
The kittens also covered themselves with charcoal to cover the color of their furs. They then left Cale’s side and disappeared into the darkness, such that Cale could no longer see them. The two of them would not be showing themselves in front of the enemies today.
However, Cale knew that they would follow the plan and be around him.
Choi Han folded up the handkerchief he was using to clean his blade, and put it in his pocket.
Once all of the preparations were finished, Cale stood up.
Brrrrrrrrrrrring.
Something started to vibrate right underneath where Cale had been sitting. The black orb had started to activate.
Click. Click.
The seconds hand of Cale’s watch slowly approached the set time.
And finally, the last click.
TCF!Alberu noticed how Cale was discreetly paying attention to the time, he wondered if he knew about the terrorist attack beforehand and made a plan to give himself more popularity.
TBOAH!Deruth seemed to notice that TCF!Cale was the one who went to the king’s birthday instead of TBOAH!Basen. Kuu guessed he felt worried, too bad they won’t see that chapter until after some part of Athanasia’s plan.
“Let’s go.”
At Cale’s order, Choi Han followed the plan and ran ahead quickly, while On started to create fog in the area. Cale was at the center of the fog, making it difficult to see him. At the same time,
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring-
The black orb finally activated.
“I guess they aren’t all highest quality magic items.”
Some of the magic items started to ring loudly to sound their status. Cale followed behind Choi Han with the fog surrounding him, and headed toward the cave.
Starting now, it was a battle against time.
All the dragons in the room were watching TCF!Cale and the screen, they mostly wanted to know if he actually let the baby dragon free or tried to tame it.
Choi Han was already fighting against the knights in front of the cave.
‘Scary bastard.’
The red haired woman laughed at both TCF!Cale thoughts and TCF!Choi Han’s look on his face, she found it funny how her companions acted before they met. Though TCF!Rosalyn notices that TCF!Cale didn’t seem like someone who would tell TCF!Choi Han to leave or anyone else he meets on the way.
She couldn't wait to see the black dragon free.
In that short amount of time, the soldiers already had injuries on their arms and legs, and were knocked out on the floor.
“Who are you? How dare you come to this place!”
The elves seethed at the humans on screen, how could they think to try and tame a dragon because it was young, when such dragons were too mighty and greater than humans. They knew the young dragon-nim wouldn’t help such lowly humans.
Choi Han easily dodged the attack of the high-leveled knight. He then took a step forward and made a deep cut on the side of the knight. He then avoided the blood spurting out of the cut, and used his elbow to attack the knight’s back, followed by the back of the knight’s neck. The knight fainted instantly.
“Shit! What the hell is going on?!”
Bud honestly would laugh at those people’s stupidity, he found this very funny. For both they get screwed over and the child dragon would be free from torment.
The high-leveled knight inside the cave soon showed up as well.
“Poison.”
Cale spoke through the voice changing device. The fog surrounding him started to expand, and Hong started to stealthily move around and spread the poison to paralyze the enemy. The fainted individuals would not be able to move for a while, even if they did wake up.
Cale then made eye contact with the high-leveled knight and said one word.
“Cover.”
Choi Han instantly stood in front of Cale and darted toward the cave entrance. Cale followed behind him.
“Block them!”
At the high-leveled knight’s shout, two mid-leveled knights immediately charged toward Choi Han. Their swords started to glow, showing that the knights had inputted their aura into their swords. However, those two swords were instantly cut down.
TBOAH!Alberu noticed how he acted during the fight against time, TCF!Cale seemed to be a good leader, so why did he get drunk so often yet over there he knew how to manipulate the field to his liking. TBOAH!Alberu decided to start observing TCF!Cale in the chapters to come.
Clang. Clang. The upper half of both swords fell down to the ground.
“W, what the? Is he a swordmaster?”
Both shock and despair was in the voice of the high-leveled knight. The only thing that could cut through an aura-filled sword was a swordmaster’s aura blade. After instantly cutting through the enemy weapons using his aura, which was camouflaged in the darkness, Choi Han used his sword and scabbard to attack a mid-leveled knight’s neck and stomach at the same time.
“Ugh!”
“Guuh!”
‘...He just needs one hit per person.’
Cale could not hide his amazement as he crouched behind Choi Han and continued to move. At that moment, they could hear some ruckus from far behind them.
TCF!Choi Han’s kicked puppy’s face turned to a prideful face, TBOAH!Choi Han looked at both of them, on the screen and at the barrier. He didn’t know why the trash started to change in that world nor why he decided to help the dragon when it wouldn’t affect him if TCF!Choi Han was there. He thought that TCF!Cale wanted to manipulate the baby dragon into helping him after he freed him, TBOAH!Choi Han glared at TCF!Cale.
“Intruders!”
It was coming from the villa. Cale turned his gaze back forward.
The mid-leveled knights staggered before falling down. Cale made eye contact with them. They had been poisoned by Hong’s paralysis poison.
“P, poison...!”
“A, assassin!”
Choi Han made them faint before quickly rushing toward the charging high-leveled knight and swinging his sword. Cale used that opening to go through the cave entrance. Even while he was doing that, he made sure the mid-leveled knights who called him an assassin saw the six stars on his outfit before fainting.
“Ugh! Where did these people come from!”
“So loud.”
Choi Han easily avoided the mana-filled sword of the high-leveled knight. He was dragging this out on purpose.
Both Bud’s shivered, TCF!Choi Han had a strong scent on him. TCF!Bud decided to avoid TCF!Choi Han as TBOAH!Bud was happy that he wouldn’t need to meet up with TBOAH!Choi Han.
While Choi Han was acting as the distraction, Cale entered the cave behind the Cat Tribe children, who had stealthily entered earlier on. After verifying that Cale had entered, Choi Han moved to the front of the cave entrance.
He then called out to the high-leveled knight.
“Come.”
Of course, his gaze was not looking at the knight, but all of the enemies coming from the villa with torches.
“I leave it to you.”
Choi Han could hear Cale’s changed, yet still calm voice behind him, and started to smile. However, he quickly focused on releasing only some of his strength. Dark Destruction Sword Art. This sword art consisted of two components, darkness and destruction. Of the two, the force of destruction started to surround Choi Han.
“Nobody can get past this spot.”
He was someone who always kept his word.
F!Cale smiled, he at least wasn’t as bad as the white star even if he was trash he would still keep his word. Kim Rok Soo felt someone he knew was degrading what they’ve accomplished.
Kuu and Yuu sighed, they were tired watching these humans have such reactions to the text playing on the screen. They were happy that after this and chapter twenty, they were able to show a different chapter and leave it on a cliffhanger.
While Choi Han was protecting the entrance, there was someone else protecting something in a different manner in the cave. That person was none other than the torturer. He was the one to protect the dragon’s prison. By the time Cale arrived inside, he was already in a state of chaos.
“Why, why?! Why is the Magic Crystal Ball not working?!”
Raon flinched when he heard the torturer's voice, he then looked back up at the violet glowed rectangle in the front.
The Magic Crystal Ball that the torturer held onto was one of the emergency backups that Venion had prepared in case something went wrong.
“D, don’t come here! Do you know what is in here?!”
The torturer was shaking violently while looking at Cale. He had no choice but to be scared. If the torturer received an attack higher than an average person’s strength, he would instantly blow up.
It was one of Venion’s safety measures as well. The strength of the blast would make the prison key and the prison itself blow up with the torturer as well. Naturally, the torturer knew about this.
TCF!Taylor knew how his brother was, but this was a new turn in the light. This gave him more reasons to take the succession from Venion and help raise the Stan family to greatness. The golden haired dragon really wanted to find this Venion, his lips twisted into a smile as he thought about the “talk” with him.
“If you come, everyone here will die!”
Tsk. Cale waved his hand while looking at the shaking torturer. Once he did, fog started to form in the air and headed for the torturer. On, the owner of the fog, was hidden in the shadows of the cave and still hidden.
“A, aaaaaah! Go away!”
The sounds of battle from the cave entrance. The approaching fog. Of course, the inside of the fog was completely filled with poison. The paralyzing fog quickly surrounded the torturer.
“Just what, ugh, p, poison...!”
Ugh. The torturer’s body started to shake as he fell to the ground. The torturer looked so terrible, being unable to speak or move as he forcibly shook on the floor. Cale approached the torturer and rummaged through his clothes.
If you could not attack him, you just had to hit him with poison. Either that, or make a deal with him to hand the key over. However, he didn’t want to use the latter method.
“Why would he listen to a deal?”
“If he was in it for money, all Cale had to do was offer him more.”
Bud contemplated it then smiled, “well it was better that he didn’t then right? This is more fun to watch.
‘Here it is.’
Cale grabbed the key and closed the eyes of the torturer, who was starting to lose consciousness from the poison. Cale wondered if they had used too much of the poison, but didn’t really care.
‘I don’t think he will die, but if he dies, oh well.’
TCF!Alberu scoffed at Cale’s carefreeness as he was freeing the young dragon. He did find it funny of course. The dark elf in seat 45 smiled, she didn’t think her nephew would at all laugh at this, but his reaction was much better than how she expected it.
Cale snapped his fingers. Two little black bundles fell from the ceiling almost instantly. It was On and Hong. Once they came under the torch that Cale was holding, he could finally see the two of them clearly.
Cale verified that On and Hong were safe before heading to the farthest corner of the cave.
TCF!Deruth smiled at his son's actions, his family found it cute that he would check on the kids.
Once he arrived, he could see a curled up black existence inside this now-useless magic prison. It was the dragon. The thing that shocked Cale more than the dragon itself was the blood covering the dragon and the scent of blood in the air.
Cale quickly approached the prison.
The dragon continued to keep its eyes closed, even as Cale approached. The dragon was probably in a state of chaos right now.
Cale put the key into the lock and opened the door.
Click. It unlocked with a light noise. Cale slowly opened the iron gate, and entered into the prison.
It was pretty large to be called a prison. There were whips and other torture tools, as well as the luxurious couch that Venion sat on to watch. Cale headed to the corner of the prison.
Both elves and dark elves' eyes darkened.
“That damned!”
Words that weren't kid friendly were heard throughout the entire room, of course Basen covered Lily’s ears hearing the first curse come out of an elf's mouth.
A small figure about 1 meter long was laying on a stack of hay in the corner. The inner eyelids of the dragon were shaking as it laid there with its eyes closed. There were chains on all of its limbs, and the mana restriction chain was on its neck, making it unable to use any strength.
The beige haired woman’s fist shaked, she didn’t like readed the line that showed that the baby dragon had mana restrictions on his small body. She subconsciously moved her kid closer to her, if humans had fallen this far why should she trust them with her kid?
“Hey.”
Cale crouched in front of the dragon. The dragon did not open its eyes even after Cale called out to it. Cale verified his watch. It was time to leave. He continued to speak to the dragon.
“Let’s leave.”
Cale used the key he had obtained from the torturer to undo the chains.
The dragon opened its eyes at that moment. Cale started to smile after looking at the dragon’s eyes.
It was still a very strong gaze. It had not lost its will to live just yet.
It was not the dying gaze that Choi Han had run into in the novel . It was still a gaze with a strong desire to live. That was why it was filled with energy, anger, and resistance.
TBOAH!Choi Han wondered when he had runned in with a dragon if those monsters weren’t dragons. Of course TCF!Cale uncovered all three of the kid’s ears after the curses quieted down.
It was the gaze of a dragon.
“What a nice gaze.”
Cale lifted the dragon into his arms.
The transparent lady in the back shaked, she had noticed who the young dragon was. She didn’t want to believe it but as soon as she read the details she started to shake. The white haired woman felt tears fall down her transparent body, it was her child she knew it was.
She wouldn’t have thought so if she didn’t feel the mana around her room, it felt too similar for it not to be her child. She was sad yet happy, she was happy that the human on the screen saved her child from his fated death.