Chapter 302. How to seduce the dragon king (1)
Seoul.
The undisputed capital of Korea.
It is one of the busiest and most complex cities in the world, where 10 million people live in hustle and bustle even today.
Life in this city was truly dynamic.
The audience did not discriminate between men and women of all ages.
A sanitation worker roams the streets before the sun rises.
A salesperson who is nervous in the morning ahead of an important contract.
An office worker hurriedly crosses a crosswalk in case he is late for work.
A bus driver picking up such an office worker.
A taxi driver, a former manager of a mid-sized company, rushes to the front of the bus.
A self-employed chicken restaurant looking at a taxi and hoping sales will improve today.
A college student sending a part-time job interview text to a self-employed person.
A returning student flirting with a college student.
With the professor who glanced over the report of the returning student.
Even the delivery man who brought the professor’s lunch and handed over the card.
Besides, it is a place where many people live their lives very busy.
That place was Seoul.
And right here.
An eastern foot of a mountain on the Laurasia continent that skipped several layers of walls between Seoul and the dimension.
In the guest room of Count Frontera’s mansion, Dragon King Verkis was scratching his side.
“Growl…Fuyuu.”
The dragon king’s sleeping posture was truly perfect.
There was truly a sense of impeccable relaxation.
When the morning sun seeping through the curtains is warm?
He scratched his side in a leisurely andante tempo.
What if a cool breeze blows through the curtains?
The tempo of the scratching increased to allegretto as the hand moved up to the stomach.
Then what if you hear the sounds of the manor servants working outside?
He scratched his sternum with a flashy and dazzling prestissimo beat reminiscent of Jimi Hendrix’s performance.
Of course, even during that time, the dragon king never opened his eyes.
Because the eyelids are too heavy to open.
I’m tired of putting the light in my eyes.
No, actually, I just love to sleep.
For days, days, and months, I just lay in bed and slept.
To the people of Seoul on the other side of the dimension, it was such a leisurely daily life that they were so envious and sick to their stomach.
But Dragon King Verkis didn’t even care.
never woke up
No one in the Frontera Territory could wake him up.
In fact, I threw a gauntlet to wake him up several times.
Although many people tried to keep Lloyd’s command.
The goalkeepers under Lloyd’s instruction worked hard day and night.
Try screaming from the side.
I also play drums and gongs.
I even staged a dance floor that was so much fun.
Even so, Dragon King Verkis never woke up.
It was to the point where there was literally no other sleeping dragon or bastard in the guest room.
and today.
It was so warm that it was a morning similar to usual.
On behalf of the faces who failed to awaken the dragon king over the past few months.
A man with a meaningful smile opened the door to the guest room where the dragon king was lying and entered.
“Ugh. Our Dragon King is still sleeping like this.”
Lloyd let out a wry smile.
It had to be.
‘That sleeping posture seems somehow the same as when I left the territory to find clues to the gem.’
Not that it wasn’t, it really was.
It was to the point of admiration at the surprisingly consistent (?) appearance of the dragon king.
But now is not the time to revel in admiration.
Especially not when I was just appreciating the dragon king’s oversleeping.
‘The final core material of the jewel. I have to go to Seoul to find it.’
Lloyd’s lips held a bitter smile.
The smile disappeared from his lips.
Instead, the events of yesterday came to mind.
The northwestern part of the continent far away from the Prontera domain.
These were the things he experienced immediately after winning the bet with Bingryong Tyranus in the Great Plain of Klamath.
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“Seoul.”
“…yes?”
Bingryong’s answer came flying to the eardrum shaking the air of the Great Plains.
In response, Lloyd tilted his head.
And suddenly I thought.
‘What did that Bingryong just say?’
Could it be that I heard it wrong?
Or is it that his eardrums are crazy(?) as the tension he has been holding in because of the bet is released.
He involuntarily raised a suspicious eye.
I’m sorry, but I’ll put in a beat, so could you say it one more time?
That’s how I wanted to ask Bingryong.
But did Bingryong guess the feelings of this side?
Thankfully, I heard the same answer again.
“They said it was Seoul. Did you hear me now?”
“…Yes, I heard.”
“To describe it, it is a city of another dimension. It’s the capital of a country, and it’s a gorgeous and busy place with a huge population. Have you ever heard of it?”
“no.”
replied coolly.
He looked at Xaviel and added.
“It’s the first time I’ve heard of it. But on a different level…. Then what should I do?”
I wonder if Xaviel will notice this side.
I couldn’t show it off, but I was embarrassed inside.
Seriously, there was no point.
‘How did this happen? Why is Seoul coming out here? Besides, how do you go to Seoul? Look at me.’
It was stifling.
method?
didn’t even come to mind
No, to be honest, I didn’t even want to go there.
Maybe I just went there and couldn’t come back.
I also felt a bit uneasy.
But I don’t know if I know how this side feels.
Bingryong Tyranus showed only a meaningful smile.
“What should I do? Hmm, how about following me for now?”
“You want me to follow you?”
“Wouldn’t it be wiser to break this time freeze and gather the key materials you can find here, then listen to the answer.”
“All right.”
Lloyd nodded.
I heard it was right.
The second key material that we finally located.
And the third and fourth key materials in the glacier cave, Bingryong’s dwelling place.
It would have been a priority to take care of them in a row like sausages.
“Then excuse me for a second.”
I closed my eyes.
Concentrated on manahat.
The time freeze was lifted.
The ice barrier covering the area in the form of a dome has disappeared.
The coldness that formed the barrier and froze the time of the world was recovered.
[Mana Heart skill option time freeze has ended.]
Kiyi….
At that moment, Mana Heart was excited.
No, to be precise, I felt the heart of winter fused into Mana Heart rapidly getting colder.
‘Ugh.’
It felt like having a frozen ice cream stick to my heart.
Unbeknownst to me, my heart pounded and fluttered.
As usual, it was a cold that would melt away quickly.
But this time it was different.
It’s like frost that has formed in the corner of a freezer.
Once formed, the cold air adhered to the heart and did not disappear.
It was the same even with the use of the dark mind method.
‘Tsk.’
Lloyd sighed and opened his eyes.
I could feel it with that sigh.
‘The winter heart’s side effects that Bingryong said are real.’
You don’t have to listen to more complex explanations.
Even if you don’t know the principle of magic or anything.
I was able to intuit it because of the coldness that did not melt.
The side effects were real.
I also had a hunch that the side effects would get worse every time I used Time Freeze.
‘Tsk. For now, I’ll try to suppress the side effects as much as possible while absorbing the heat with the light heart method.’
Side effects are also side effects.
The priority now is to prevent the restoration of fate.
Reflecting on that proposition, Lloyd immediately moved.
Said goodbye to the centaur tribe.
I rode Yongyongi to the northern snowy mountains of the Great Plain.
Indeed, the second key material, Taupo, was there.
I took care of it.
As expected, the reward was sweet.
Ding dong.
[You have acquired all 16 pieces of Taupo, the key material that makes up the Jewel of Truth.] [
You have succeeded in excavating two key materials of Aotearoa, the Jewel of Truth that was destroyed with the end of the Age of Mythology.]
[This is a historically very rare excavation achievement.]
[When the Jewel of Truth is restored in the future, your name will remain in the history books for a long time as the core material excavator of the jewel.] [As a bonus
for this rare achievement, a large amount of RP will be specially paid.]
[2200 RP acquired.]
[Current RP: 3955]
‘Yes!’
Suddenly, my fists were clenched.
I took 200 more RP than I expected.
However, Lloyd was not satisfied with that level(?).
‘Because there are two more things I can take care of right now. therefore….’
“Bingryong or the great Taeyong King Tyranus?”
“…Tsk. Let’s go then.”
As expected, Bingryong’s magic was great.
I teleported everyone on this side, including Xaviel and Yongyongi, with one gesture.
I wanted a slight motion sickness-like sensation to pass through my body.
When I opened my eyes, the scenery had completely changed.
Not the top of a snowy mountain where a sharp wind blew.
It was in the middle of a glacier cave that was unmatched by the silence.
There were two key materials for jewels there.
“Do you see that?”
“yes.”
The deepest part of the glacial cave pointed by Bingryong Tyranus.
I saw a large, beautiful boulder embedded in it.
The third and fourth materials were ‘Hauraki’ and ‘Takapuna’.
Of course, the reward was also sweet.
This time I received 2400 RP and 2600 RP respectively.
It was a total of 5000 RP.
Thanks to that, my current RP has become 8955!
Still, Lloyd was not satisfied.
Whether the RP received was 5,000 or 50,000.
It was an RP that I had nothing to use right away anyway.
Right now, there was a much more important and urgent problem in front of me than the huge RP reward.
‘of course. Last key ingredient. Because that’s what’s left.’
You have to find it yourself.
What if you can’t?
All the key materials found so far will be useless.
The time and effort you’ve poured in will also degenerate into shoveling.
He was the kind of person who absolutely wanted to avoid such an opening scene.
So, I definitely wanted to find the last key material.
“So I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. Could it be that King Taeyong’s son, Berkis the Dragon King…Can you send me to Seoul?”
“her. Did you guess that?”
“yes. Because you said that Berkis was the one who sent the last key material across the dimension.”
“So you think he can send you across the dimension?”
“yes.”
“Good guess. It is also the correct answer.”
“There, then…if….”
“if?”
“Is it possible to have a round-trip service that sends you to the dimension where the city of Seoul is located and then brings you back?”
“Hmm maybe?”
Bingryong shrugged his huge shoulders.
“Dimensional movement is a difficult magic. No, it’s just not that difficult. I can’t do it right either. However, it is possible with the Dragon King Berkis. Because it’s the magic he invented in the first place.”
“Are you talking about Berkis-sama?”
“okay.”
Bingryong nodded.
“Anyway, there are only two people in this world who can send something to another dimension and send it back exactly to the desired time and space coordinates.”
“What if it’s two?”
“My son, the Dragon King Berkis. And my daughter, Flower Boon…No Flores.”
“Berkis and Flores….”
“okay. A genius brother and sister who inherit my bloodline. In any case, Flores is currently on a trip, so his whereabouts are unknown. So, Berkis must be the only one who can send you safely to another dimension right now. By the way, as for where he sleeps, it’s a demon dragon in the Gapel region….”
“It’s in my house, not the oyster.”
“her?”
Bingryong stopped.
It was the look of what that means.
This time Lloyd shrugged.
“I’ll be sleeping in my house, rolling around. Well, there were several circumstances.”
“What’s the matter?”
“What about….”
Lloyd’s mouth opened.
The process of obtaining the Yongwang Sponsorship Membership.
As a result, he took Berkis to the Prontera estate to sleep.
Briefly explained what happened with the dragon king.
Of course, a false smile bloomed on Bingryong’s lips.
“Huh true. That’s him. like him If you do, you will go home now, then?”
“Yes, it should. That’s what I’m saying….”
“I won’t go.”
“…I haven’t asked you to go with me to the Prontera estate yet?”
“Didn’t you do it now? Secretly, with full of regret and selfishness.”
“….”
“Don’t you take the continued favor for granted?”
“…Yep sorry.”
Lloyd clicked his tongue in deep regret.
Bingryong is the father of the dragon king Berkis.
Shall we take her with us and ask for a dimension shift?
Wouldn’t that make the request a bit easier?
It was true what I had hoped for.
But did you see Bingryong’s attitude?
‘I’ll have to get out of here.’
I got the feeling that I might have crossed the line.
As soon as I realized that, I backed off cleanly.
Instead, I gently asked for the last service (?).
It was a teleport that could cross from the Glacier Cave to the Prontera estate in one queue.
And now.
This morning.
like this.
From the ice caves of Antarctica to the corridors of the Frontera estate guest quarters.
It was over in just a few steps.
‘And I got to see this figure still rolling around.’
Lloyd smiled as he put aside the things he had been thinking about in the past.
Accommodation for guests in the mansion.
The dragon king who still rolls around.
As soon as I saw it, I realized.
Ah, this sleepy dragon has never woken up before.
He told me that he had to contact his wife every morning, so he skipped that and just went to sleep.
‘Thanks to me, thank you. It’s because a delicious card that will draw cooperation from this sleepyhead is automatically created.’
Lloyd grinned.
Hmmm, he cleared his throat.
He recited quietly to the sleeping Dragon King Verkis.
“Hey, Dragon King? I’m now your wife, no…Did you bring the Dragon Queen?”
The moment that word flies gently and tickles the eardrum.
“…!”
The Dragon King, who had been asleep in a good (?) moment, opened his eyes.
