Chapter 286: Start of the Search (2)
Although we mobilized many dragons to search for the treasure, it was difficult to proceed with the search without knowing what to look for in the first place.
Even I wasn’t sure if the mysterious pretty girl I met when I first came to the Dragon District was really the treasure I was looking for.
It might be faster to just catch Iris and ask her.
‘Because she’s a dragon shrine maiden.’
I know that Iris hates the Empire,
but I still don’t know what kind of contract was made between transcendents, what she said to the hero… there’s still a lot I don’t know.
What’s certain is that she’s our enemy.
Because she saved the hero.
And….
Because she’s trying to kill me, the core personnel and second in command of the Empire.“Oppa, you’re amazing.”
“Yeah, what is it?”
“Now you’re even riding dragons. You’re a dragon rider!”
“It just happened that way.”
I feel like I’ve come a long way.
“When this fight is over, let’s go back and relax.”
“Yeah! I’ll go into bed and smell Oppa.”
“Should I just not shower?”
“Ugh! Being unhygienic is not good! Proper aging is important!”
…Proper aging.
I kind of know what she means.
“I’ll check between your toes later, so be prepared!”
“I washed them well.”
I suddenly felt uneasy and hugged Cecil tightly.
“Oppa?”
“Cecil, it’s a secret to everyone else. I’m a little scared.”
“…Yeah.”
“A transcendent is trying to kill me. I don’t know exactly what it is, but it seems to be a god-like existence that governs this world.”
I’m used to being hated by adulterous men….
But if a god is trying to get rid of me, where should I go?
Cecil tightly held my hand, which was shaking uncontrollably.
“I’m here, Oppa.”
“Cecil….”
“I promise that no matter what happens, I’ll stay by your side.”
“When the baby in your belly is born, a dad like me will be instantly forgotten.”
“Uh-uh! What are you talking about! My children will like Oppa so much they won’t leave him. It’ll be all booby-booby!”
I imagined the scene of Cecil and the children she gave birth to surrounding me.
My uneasy heart calmed down like a lie.
“Thank you.”
Cecil tilted her head back and grinned.
Kuh!
To assault the master’s heart!
I couldn’t help but fondle Cecil’s baby-making tummy.
Cecil seemed to have expected that, but she smiled a little flustered when I rubbed my dick against her butt in a vulgar manner.
“Oppa, you’re hopeless….”
“Booby-booby!”
“Yeah…. On my butt…. You want to booby-booby?”
I stopped myself from kissing her.
I thought El would notice.
“Let’s go over there, El!”
I shouted loudly to attract El’s attention and searched here and there, but in the end, there were no significant results until nightfall.
We gathered at the airfield and exchanged the information we had.
Gayeon seems dissatisfied.
“Those guys, they didn’t even think about attacking us even though we’re walking around so conspicuously.”
“Yeah.”
At first, they tried to split Alem in half without any warning, but this time they’re silent.
Is it because they know that there’s no advantage in surprise attacks?
As expected of a thousand-year-old party.
“My lord! I can still fly more. Shall we continue the search?”
“No….”
I have a strong feeling that even if we just keep searching like this, we’ll be stopped.
We don’t know exactly what we need to find.
We only know that it’s the ‘transcendent’s treasure’.
On the other hand, the enemy even has a means to directly meet with the transcendent. It seems like they’re wandering around trying to find where it is, but they’re not at the stage of wandering around looking for something abstract like us.
Then, no matter how many dragons we can mobilize, we’ll be at a disadvantage.
The chances of the enemy finding it first are high….
Was there any other clue?
Among the things that have been said so far, what is noteworthy is….
Ears perked up!
Cecilia’s ears stood up.
“Oppa!”
“Yeah? I’m thinking right now, so….”
“Wouldn’t El’s Big Sis know something?”
“Uh….”
Could it be that she already noticed the existence of the treasure?
If that’s the case, it’s not foresight, it’s precognition?
I stared at El intently.
“What do you think?”
“…I don’t know what my Big Sis is thinking either. However, she often did strange things….”
“It’s hard to believe her?”
“Yes.”
“She even abandoned her family and ran away.”
“I think she is the kind of Big Sis who would do that. But at least, she never did anything that would deviate from the duties of the four great families…….”
Her feelings about her Big Sis seem very complicated.
“Where did your Big Sis go?”
“I don’t know. She went out to the plains east of here, but she disappeared quickly….”
“Should we try tracking her Big Sis’s path?”
“…….”
“El?”
“If it’s my lord’s command.”
El doesn’t seem to like this idea very much.
“Did you have a big fight? With your Big Sis.”
“…….”
“Answer.”
“We… fought.”
“Why?”
“The Taranis are the guardians, managers, and coordinators of the Dragon District. She said that if we don’t calm the discord, the dragons will divide and fight each other… but.”
“Your Big Sis didn’t listen?”
“I think if Big Sis, Eleanor, was here, the civil war wouldn’t have happened. That’s why I’m even more angry.”
“….”
“Even though she has the power, she doesn’t try to fulfill her duty… my Big Sis is a coward!”
Hmm.
It feels like there’s something more to it.
It’s not like she ran away as soon as the civil war started, but if she suddenly disappeared….
“Let’s go there once. Let the other dragons rest first, Leyla.”
“Yes, traveler.”
“We’ll go there with El.”
“Understood.”
Leyla bows gracefully.
Her body is not graceful at all though.
I will definitely bang that huge ass.
I smack my lips and get on El’s back. We flew to the plains where her Big Sis was headed.
It’s only a moment with wings, but it was almost dusk.
“Where did she go?”
“She went straight this way. After that….”
“You didn’t try to follow her?”
“No, I thought she transformed into a dragon and flew away.”
“Well, it’s meaningless to move on foot.”
But Cecil seems to have smelled something.
“Oppa, this way!”
“It’s this way. The path my Big Sis took…!”
Gayeon runs ahead of Cecil.
I was a little embarrassed when I saw the scene in front of me.
“What is this?”
“Black stone?”
Gayeon strokes the black stone that sprouted in the meadow.
“Should I hit it with my sword?”
“Wait!”
I stopped Gayeon and stepped forward.
This….
“Do you know anything about this, my lord?”
“…It looks like an operating console.”
“Operation?”
“Console?”
….
Everyone has a question mark on their face.
So….
I found a seam and slowly felt the edge of the black stone.
Then the lid opened and a keyboard with buttons appeared.
Hmm,
I don’t have any computer knowledge either….
“Isn’t it possible that Eleanor’s disappearance and this device are related?”
“Huh…!”
El was surprised and looked back and forth between me and the device.
“As expected, you have great insight. My lord…. You even knew how to operate an ancient device!”
“No….”
I don’t even know if it worked or not.
“I didn’t know you had this kind of special skill.”
Gayeon is also surprised….
“It’s amazing. It looks similar to the devices that the people from other worlds sometimes carry.”
…Seina seems to have had experience seeing something similar to a smartphone.
I can’t betray their expectations.
I pretended to be skilled and operated the keyboard.
Something appears on the screen…….
Enter PasswordThe pattern I hate the most came out.
How can I find a hacker in this other world?
No…!
Wait a minute.
Why didn’t I think of this?
I’m the strongest against machines!
“…Everyone, step back.”
I declare solemnly.
Gayeon and Seina also stepped back nervously.
“The work I’m about to do is very difficult…
The entire area around here could be blown away.”
“Oppa! No, it’s dangerous!”
Gayeon suddenly prepared to draw her sword.
“It’s okay, just be careful of your eyes, I’ll cut the explosion and save you.”
Huh?
You’re going to cut the ‘explosion’?
I feel like the Sword Empress would really do that.
“I will be my lord’s shield.”
“I’m kidding. I know how to open it.”
Before it got serious, I confessed, and Gayeon pinched my arm.
“Do you want to be punished?”
“I was wrong….”
“You shouldn’t joke about safety.”
Rarely, Seina was also a little stern.
“I’ll open it right away. I don’t know what will come out after I open it.”
“You should have said that first! You jerk!”
“Sis, protect me if it explodes!”
“Kuh!”
Gayeon grabs my arm tightly and gets nervous.
I inserted a monologue into the console.
The password has been unlocked.Wooong….
The console makes a strange sound and sinks into the ground.
And a familiar facility appeared in front of us.
As if it had always been there.
Is that the lab? It looks like a similar building.
“That’s an amazing cloaking function.”
Gayeon seemed very wary of modern technology.
Building stealth is unfamiliar to me too,
because I was an ordinary person who never had to face such technology.
“Let’s go inside.”
I took the lead and entered the lab.
In the central hall where all the passages meet, we were able to find a blonde, flat-chested, pretty girl wearing horn-rimmed glasses.
“I found you!”
It’s clear that she’s El’s Big Sis just by looking at the white double horns sprouting on her head.
“Hmm?”
Eleanor (presumed) turned to look at us.
She didn’t seem like she was going to run away or attack, but I’m still on guard.
Eleanor was unique. Horns are an easily found feature in a humanized dragon, but she was supporting her body with a thick dragon tail sprouting from her butt, and she was floating in the air.
Even her body is still, but she moves around by crawling with her tail!
…Looks convenient?
“Big Sis! What are you doing in a place like this?”
“…Research.”
“How much did I look for you! I thought you were dead…. No, I wish you were found dead…!”
El shut her mouth and trembled.
Her Big Sis doesn’t seem to be very interested in her younger sister’s emotional swings.
“Who are the people next to you?”
“My lord….”
“Leave the rest to me.”
I slowly approached Eleanor.
She adjusts her glasses and stares at me intently.
I think I’m much taller than her in real life….
Eleanor’s height is corrected by the length of her tail, so she looked over 170.
Her actual height is expected to be smaller than Alremene’s.
“Geum Taeyang.”
“Oh, you know who I am?”
“The trainer of Isil who exceeds 4 million brand power.”
“…You have great intelligence. Even though you’ve been holed up in a place like this.”
“Because I can see everything from here.”
“You can see everything?”
Is it a riddle?
“It’s just as I said, this place is the ruins of the ancients. An observatory created with the technology of a civilization that was much more advanced than us.”
“An… observatory.”
“You passed through the door, you must also possess a taboo.”
“I don’t know about that, we’re looking for the transcendent’s treasure.”
“The transcendent’s treasure?”
“So… something divine and powerful.”
“….”
“….”
It was a moment when I realized that we lacked information.
“Are you talking about ‘that’?”
“‘That’?”
“I’m still researching it.”
“Is ‘that’ why you abandoned your duties as one of the four great families and hid here?”
“It’s true that I was interested in the unknown technology. But I wouldn’t have been able to find this place with my own power.”
“Explain it in an easy way.”
“I am also a shrine maiden who received a divine revelation.”
“…What?”
Hold on.
Then… there are two shrine maidens meeting with the transcendent?
The fact that Eleanor came here first means….n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om
“Then are you the guardian of the treasure?”
“I don’t know what a treasure is. Anyway, I was told to protect what’s here. Research is my hobby.”
It seems like we need to exchange information.
I explained to Eleanor what happened outside.
That the Ice Dragon Iris teamed up with the transcendent to destroy the Empire, and that the hero party is also moving because of it.
“There’s one thing that’s certain.”
Eleanor said.
“The god that that woman met and the god that I met are different gods.”