Chapter 973 – On the Last Ear

Beneath the ecstatic scenery where the light powder was fluttering. While everyone, whether big or small, tasted the overwhelming emotions, only Eltman, who was lying down, had a sad face.

“It’s futile…”

His long labors were fruitless, and his own faults surfaced.

Eltman felt empty.
And since there was someone who stepped on that pit, of course it was Dre.

“What about Maya and Faltra?”
“…I didn’t do anything.”

After entrusting his back to the soldiers, he didn’t care whether they died or not.
The moment he gained the king’s power, Eltman ignored the two and moved directly to deal with Malacia, so we don’t know what happened now.

“If it were the two of them, they would have been locked in the palace and fighting the soldiers.”

At Hakjinmu’s words, Dre tilted her head.

“… Will you?”
“Since you are the lord of the new territory, please be my lord.”
“Ah.”

Dre agreed.
Young-jin and Young-joo didn’t realize it, but they intended to keep what they said.

“Thank you in advance. Hakjinmu.”
“…!!”

To be honest, Hakjinmu was prepared for swearing or hateful hand-holding.

But now, without any emotion, he was saying a sincere request, and that was enough to inspire the school dance.

‘The mercy and mental strength that go far even though there is great power.’

He is a man worth following.
Hakjinmu bowed his head and bowed his head.

“Then Hakjinmu. Stop attacking Maya and Paltra.”
“Yes. I understand. To the old woman, they were so strong that we could only catch them.”

When I told him not to worry because he wouldn’t have hurt a speck, Dre nodded.
As he said, it must have been the soldiers who had been beaten so far.

Hakjinmu, who lowered his head as if to apologize, glanced at Eltman and said.

“My lord. I have something to suggest about Yeong Ji-min…”
“Do whatever you want. You can consider me a nominal lord.”
“Grace like Ha-hye. Thank you.”

Then, Dre handed something to Hakjinmu, who received it and quickly lowered his head.

The school dance that took place right after that went to Eltman, and Dre went to Malachia.
Eltman, who had been lying in a daze, let out a subdued voice.

“General. I lost everything.”
“What have you lost?”

When asked again, Eltman could not answer whether he was hanging.
The man feared by the world and who was a living reaper to those who sinned was now crying like a child.

“I’ve lost my dreams, my dreams, the ties I’ve had so far…”

In the end, he failed to kill Malachia.
He wanted revenge, and was burned with a sense of mission to avenge the enemies of the people of the king.

However, the revenge failed.
Also, his mentality did not remain when he learned that the tower of sacrificial corpses, which was the driving force of Eltman’s life, was actually a disgusting mistake.

“I see. Again. I will lose my status as a hero.”
“…”

It was.
Eltman became the king of magic, awakened the monsters, and attacked without distinguishing between his and his friends.

He didn’t care about his old teammates, the Judgment Cultists.
Even if not those actions. The Judgment Church does not have a guilty person as a hero.
Even if he didn’t know, he tried to cut down everyone and get rid of his mistakes, but he is no longer a warrior.

“Yes. I have nothing.”

It might be better to commit suicide.
It felt like a huge hole had been dug in my heart.

Far away He was furious at the huge dragon looking at him with sympathetic eyes… But the mountain of corpses that had kept that anger until now was a fabrication of memory in the first place.

I remember it clearly now.
Eltman had calmly waited unchildishly for the towers of corpses to pile up with his friend as people shoved and pushed against the walls to live.

And when the mountain of corpses rose high, he carefully climbed the mountain with a friend who barely held out.
However, the height of the mountain of corpses was too small to climb the wall.

Really little.
You might have been able to reach it by jumping.
However, the body soaked in miasma had no strength, and the footing was too steep.

They couldn’t afford it
Eltman faced his friend and, without question, swung his fists at him, spitting out his curse words.

Eltman, who was stronger and had his weapons hidden, was victorious, and he climbed the tower, ignoring the pleas of life below.

Then, looking at the black dragon behind my back, I brainwashed myself into thinking that I was just a victim…

It was terrible.

“I will die. Even if I live longer…”
“Hey.”
“?”

Questionable voice.
And.

Baek!

“…!!”

A huge boulder hit Eltman’s head with a bang.
However, the body chosen as a warrior was so strong that the stone was shattered.

Eltman, dumbfounded, widened his eyes.
What was in front of him was the friend he had killed.

“Wow. If I die, I threw it for good, but I buy this.”
“…Almin…”

My friend’s name came out of my mouth naturally.
Just as the choked Eltman was about to say something, a friend. Al Min waved his hand as if it was not necessary.

“Don’t you remember? You and I tried to kill each other.”
“…”
“Actually, it wouldn’t be strange if you became like me. That’s why it’s a draw. Okay?”
“…I, I…”

Next to him, Hakjinmu knelt down on one knee.

“It’s not just you, Eltman. At that time, there were many people who sacrificed the humans next to him in order to live.”

There were even soldiers who killed people who endured in areas where there was less poison in order to go to a place where there was less poison, or who tried to survive by trampling on other people’s babies in an overflow of poison, and there were soldiers who built towers while killing people to climb to higher places.

However, Hak Jin-moo thought that all of them were victims.
Although they were ugly compared to those who died noble or pitiful… They were also ordinary people in peacetime.

All because of a sudden catastrophe.

“But now, the Plague Dragon… No, I can’t blame the Black Fever Dragon, Malakia.”

He showed the will of atonement, and his friend paid all the karma.
Also, it opened the way to a new dream.
He also saw sincere apologies.

The lump was still there, but the lump was now small.
Usually, when you die, you can’t maintain your self.
It is miraculous luck to maintain one’s self and get new opportunities.

Hak Jin-moo chuckled.

“Eltman. Let’s run the territory with me.”
“…!!”
“It looks like you’ll need your connections as a warrior. Together, let’s raise the Horse Knights.”

Horse Knights of the Dragon Hunt.
The former hero of the Church of Judgment recalled his childhood dream, not the dream of revenge.
When Eltman was young, he wanted to join the Horse Knights.

“I’ll do my best, too. Eltman.”

Al Min reached out and took his hand, and Eltman couldn’t hold it in anymore and sobbed.
The sobbing that had been holding her breath soon turned into sobbing and wailing.

“…Okay then.”

Hak Jin-moo put something down.
That. An orb of light given by Dre.
The three faces changed.

[Uh… I’ve been hit a lot so far…?]

Nanar’s voice came out and Hakjinmu grinned.

“The ball speaks.”
[…

Cuckoo!!

Suddenly, a soccer match took place between the people of the Matan Kingdom.
Malakia, who had been looking at that figure with a savagery and subtly damaging the sphere with mana, sighed. He looked down at the one who embraced his feet.

“…Are my feet that good?”
“Have you lowered your head?”

Malacia did as she was told.
Dre grabbed his snout this time and buried his face.

It felt moist.
Dre too felt a huge bite wet his head.

Malacia was crying profusely.
How should I repay this feeling, this trust?

Dre hesitated before speaking.

“Don’t say that breaking up is inevitable. That kind of inevitability is not in my dictionary.”
“…Okay.”
“You will be by my side until I die.”
“Nothing.”

Malachia drew back her building-sized body, trying to hug Dre as much as she could.

[They’re putting on a show.]

A certain god said something disgusting, but Malachia giggled instead.

“Did you always miss me when I left?”
[…

Embarrassment didn’t answer and just smoked a pipe.
Dre asked.

“By the way, that body. What happened?”

Even though it is the corpse of an old dragon, the soul of Malacia dwells?
Is such a thing possible?

“This is the authority given to me by Amastia-sama in the past. Even if it is authority, it is impossible without the consent of the other party.”

The owner of the old dragon’s corpse, which was treated as a storage box for the spirit, also wanted to be purified and attain Buddhahood.
Dragons value pride more than pain.

“Rather than being humiliated even after death, I chose to endure the pain together and receive purification of the soul.”
“…Don’t dry up.”
“?”
“Your way of speaking is strange.”

This old-fashioned way of speaking is the way Malachia wants it to be, but the words that Dre was familiar with were nonetheless conceptual words.
Malachia cleared her throat and looked around her.

And…

Squeaky.

As his huge soul separated, the black scales disappeared and turned into white bone in an instant.

[It’s an embarrassing thing to say to others. I will go inside you again.]
“Ohhh! Nice…!!”

The delighted Dre hesitated for a moment.

“By the way, don’t you actually want to reincarnate…?”
[No. In fact, even now, it’s as if I’m half alive. Your insides are quite cozy.]

Dre laughed shyly when he said that he wanted to be with him, at least until he was alive.

[Wow]
“Wow.”
“Uweeeeek.”
“?”

Dre laughed and heard three vomits at the same time.
One was of disgrace, and the other two came from close by.

Even at this close range, there are a limited number of people with presence that Dre would not know about.
When did he come?

“What are those eyes?”
“Your face is disgusting.”
“I thought it was boring, but the words I said all cringe.”

Dre’s thrusts flew at the two men.
The intangible smiled and avoided it, and Kitz just greeted it as if it was not worth avoiding.

Actually, Dre’s arm hurt so much that he rolled on the ground.

“Aagh!”
“You don’t have the ability to learn.”

Dre lit a double wick in his eyes at the seemingly insensitive, but subtly teasing comment. And.

Oh oh oh

One more soul appeared from the skeletonized old dragon.
It must have been the old dragon who lent his body.

Dre stopped his feed and stood at attention.
In one way or another, friends and family are the beings that have taken care of.

“Oh…! Thank you. What’s your name?!”
[Julia.]

His speech was short and blunt.
Dre felt bad, but the soul in front of him was one of the benefactors of this incident.

Dre was about to ask him if he wanted anything, rubbing his hands together, and a scholar from afar came running, raising a cloud of dust all along.

“Ohhhhh…! The soul of a real old dragon…! A chance to talk with a dragon that has disappeared…!”

Although he is usually an intelligent scholar, as his nickname of scholar means, he is not averse to knowledge.
Then, seeing the scholar approaching to have a conversation, the ancient dragon’s soul spoke.

[Where do bugs like bugs come from?]

Everyone sucks It hardened like ice.
In the meantime, the old dragon’s soul spoke as if nothing had happened.

[Huh… As per the contract, I will enter the circle of reincarnation. You are the Black Dragon. I will pay first.]
[Uh, uh… That, yeah…]

Kwak Kwah Kwah Kwah.

He’s really gone.
A few seconds later, seeing that he was completely gone, Dre asked.

“Don’t be skinny. Is that a minority? Most dragons have the same personality as Amastia-sama or you, don’t they?”
[…No.]

After being silent for a long time, Malachia’s answer was negative.
[Our dragons are so proud… It’s common to see all other people as bugs.]

Malachia was special.

“…Then Frostia-sama…”
[He just has a childlike personality. Even if he despises others, he does not kill or kill them without first quarreling with them, and if he likes them, he is a great benefactor.]

Dre and Kitz opened and closed their mouths when Frostia said that among dragons, their personalities are on the average side.

“…The dragon might be better off without it.”

Katz muttered.
Dre couldn’t resist.

And.

Come and go

As if waiting for this moment, there was a girl running far away.
It was Raina.

Looking at it now, the users came to give a hangover for the joy of solving the quest, but due to the atmosphere, they couldn’t get close and stood there awkwardly.

“Brother!!”
“Oh oh…!”

Rayna instinctively sensed Dre’s crisis, and she was concerned.

She huffed and grabbed Dre’s hem and buried her face in her stomach.

The moment when Dre swallowed her saliva and gently stroked her hair.

Sarah Rock.

Quaang!!

Sand gushed from the ground and someone jumped out, and someone from the sky landed with a loud noise.

“My dear!”
“Hey! Are you all right?!”

Faltra and Maya.
The two powerful, beautiful women, unscathed, looked bewildered at the sobbing Eltman in the distance.

“That gloomy zombie-like bastard. Why are you dragging on?”
“You bastard.”

Dre felt her words were harsh, but the two women were close to her sides, feeling the soft, bouncy body and opening her mouth.

“I was worried.”
“Damn it. Looks like you defeated the trap… Ugh.”

Maiya hurriedly fell when she saw users with shocked faces nearby… Then saw Paltra and Reina still clinging to her, and tried to reattach her secretly… But then stood in the middle.

The female fighter player was staring at that figure with a puzzled look.

The intangible murmured softly.

“Where is that bastard good…?”
“It’s an ability.”

Katz replied.

“This time too… You did a great job. Eight days.”

If she were herself, even if she was able to solve this quest, it would have been a mess and brought about much worse results than now.

Katz looked at Dre with a face full of trust, intangible with cold eyes, and Garcinido with anxious eyes.

And…

Tiring!!

A phrase echoed in Dre’s mind.

[You have purified the magic bullet!]
[You will receive the ‘Key to the Three Shrines’ as a reward!!]

“…”

Dre hardened.

Trinity.
Unexpected luck came to him.