Chapter 331 – It’s Just That the Dragons Don’t Do It, But When They Do, They Do Well

The 1st floor of the 10th Tower.

Snore, snore.

A massive silver dragon lay face down, snoring as she slept.

At that moment,

-Stella Heathron, wake up quickly!

The administrator of the 10th Tower woke Stella.

“Ah. Why are you waking me up?”

-Finally, someone who has passed the trials of the 10th Tower has appeared!

“Really?!”

Stella brightened at the words of the 10th Tower’s administrator.

Stella had been extremely bored while waiting all this time.

“They’re finally coming!”

Stella looked at the entrance to the 10th Tower with sparkling eyes.

However,

……

even after a long while, the entrance remained quiet.

“Administrator, they aren’t coming. When are they arriving?”

-Well… it’s about time they got here…

The administrator of the 10th Tower gave a vague reply to Stella’s question.

A moment later,

Snore, snore.

Stella, tired of waiting, fell back asleep, but the administrator of the 10th Tower could not bring himself to wake her up.

***

“A key?”

Despite its small size, the key was quite heavy.

Tap.

As Se-jun held the key in his hand and tried to examine it,

[It is confirmed that the Dragon Blood of all nine Dragon Clans is at the patriarch-level.]

[Your intimacy with the Dragon Clans is at the highest level.]

[As an additional reward, you have obtained the qualification to ascend up to the 2nd floor of the 10th Tower.]

messages appeared one after another.

“Hehehe. Great! A direct free pass to the second floor.”

Se-jun smiled while looking at the messages.

Furthermore, he obtained two decent pieces of information from the messages.

One was that if he went to the 10th Tower, he would ascend from the 1st floor.

Although it was highly common sense, scaling a tower from the first floor was not common sense to Se-jun.

The other was…

‘I can obtain the Dragon Blood of other patriarch-level dragons as well.’

that he could obtain the Dragon Blood of the other five Dragon Clan patriarchs at any time.

It was by no means easy, but seeing Kaiser and the other dragons create a container to hold the Dragon Blood in just a single day, Se-jun was deeply mistaken.

‘It’s just that the dragons don’t do it; when they do, they do it well.’

Having drawn a somewhat reasonable (?) conclusion like that,

Se-jun looked closely at the key.

This is the key that opens the door leading to the 10th Tower.

When mana is infused, a golden guide line appears from the key pointing toward the door. (Only the one using the key can see the guide line.)

The farther the distance to the door, the fainter the guide line becomes, and the more mana is infused, the clearer the guide line becomes.

Durability: Indestructible

Usage Restriction: The one who passed the trials of the 10th Tower (Black Tower Farmer Park Se-jun)

Grade: Unmeasurable

“Infuse mana?”

After reading the description, Se-jun channeled mana into the key,

Hummm.

and the key trembled minutely.

And,

……

nothing happened.

“What is it?”

*Is the surrounding too bright to see the guide line?* Se-jun cupped the key with both hands to block the light, and

Hummm.

poured all of his mana into the key while looking inside.

However,

“I don’t see it.”

the golden guide line he read about in the description was nowhere to be seen.

In this case, there were two possibilities.

First, the possibility that the door leading to the 10th Tower did not exist.

Second…

“Because my mana is low, the guide line is too faint to be seen. It’s this.”

Se-jun, naturally, assumed it was the second one. Based on his experience so far, this was highly probable.

Thus, Se-jun unexpectedly had his low mana stat proven to him.

“Aileen, you can talk to Kaiser-nim now.”

-Bwahaha! Thank you!

He casually compensated Kaiser for the Dragon Blood. Since such things had been common, Kaiser wasn’t particularly hurt either.

“Kaiser-nim, try eating this.”

Se-jun handed Kaiser 100 Deep Darkness Cherries.

“?! ?!”

“Huh?! This?!”

Kaiser checked the cherry’s options.

-Bwahaha! As expected of our Se-jun!

Kaiser looked at Se-jun with doting eyes and said,

-Se-jun, take this.

He handed over a black bracelet. The design was similar to the Dragon Horn Return Bracelet.

[Dragon Horn Summoning Bracelet]

Created by the great black dragon Kaiser Pritani, who directly enchanted a fragment of his own horn.

When mana is infused, a summoning magic is activated that summons the designated target around the summoner, regardless of any interference.

Up to five targets can be designated to summon.

Up to five targets can be summoned per month.

Currently designated summon targets: (0/5)

Usage Restriction: Park Se-jun, recognized by Kaiser Pritani

Creator: Kaiser Pritani

Grade: Unmeasurable

“To be able to summon five designated targets…”

The content was excellent.

However,

“It works properly this time, right?”

Having already been tricked once, Se-jun was suspicious first.

-Of course! This time, I made it activate based on absolute coordinates, so nothing like last time will happen. Bwahaha! I’ll enjoy these.

Kaiser, who gave a confident guarantee, did not eat the cherries but held them preciously and flew to the fountain. Obviously, it was to show off to the other dragons.

Once Kaiser left,

Click.

Se-jun wore the Dragon Horn Summoning Bracelet on his right hand.

And,

Lick, lick, lick.

Pat, pat.

he stroked Theo’s head, who was eagerly eating churu, with his right hand and

[Designating the first summon target on the Dragon Horn Summoning Bracelet.]

designated Theo as a summon target.

Slurrrp.

Next, he also stroked the head of Cuengi, who was inhaling cold bean noodles, and

[Designating the second summon target on the Dragon Horn Summoning Bracelet.]

designated him as a summon target.

While he was designating the two of them as summon targets like that,

(So, a fragment of the Apostle of Destruction appeared on Se-jun-nim’s Earth?)

[Yes! So, Golden Bat, please go and defeat it.]

Flamie was informing the Golden Bat of the situation on Earth. Because if she stepped in herself, the Earth would be destroyed.

(Baet-baet! Leave it to me!)

The Golden Bat replied confidently.

Originally, the Golden Bat could not leave the Halla Building.

At first, because his body was weak, he had to perform dimensional travel whenever dimensional travel power accumulated.

However, as the Golden Bat became stronger by eating Se-jun’s crops, he became able to endure without using the dimensional travel power.

And the Golden Bat accumulated dimensional travel power for a decisive moment someday.

Thanks to that, sufficient dimensional travel power had accumulated in the Golden Bat’s body, and his activity radius and time had now increased exponentially.

(Then I’ll be back!)

[Yes. Once you reach Earth, I’ll tell you where to go.]

(Yes!)

The Golden Bat moved to Earth, being sent off by Flamie.

***

The 84th floor of the tower.

Inside the castle of the Caiman Kingdom.

Stab!

“Ugh… Croco… Why are you…?!”

Gavial Caiman, the king of the Caiman Kingdom, looked at the one who stabbed his chest with a look of disbelief.

At Croco Caiman, the first prince of the Caiman Kingdom, who would succeed him as king.

“That is because Father is a weak king who lacks the courage to fight a dragon.”

Croco replied with a smirk to Gavial’s question.

‘Hehehe. If it’s me, who has obtained the power of destruction, I can even fight dragons.’

Croco’s face was filled with confidence.

“What?! What have you done…”

Gavial died with his eyes wide open, worrying about the future of the kingdom.

Stab.

Croco put his hand into the chest of the deceased Gavial and extracted a black bead.

[Inner Core of the Caiman King]

“Father, I will make good use of this.”

Gulp.

Croco swallowed the inner core.

Then,

Gooooo.

a red aura spread around Croco and was absorbed back.

And Gavial’s corpse, which had been briefly enveloped in the red aura, was gone. It was like the red mist scattered on the outskirts of destruction.

Once Gavial disappeared like that,

Plop.

Croco sat on the damp, blood-stained throne.

……

The ministers froze in fear as they watched Croco.

“The meeting begins.”

“……”

“Why is everyone silent? Does someone else need to die?”

“K-King! Recently, the troops of the Cobb Kingdom on the 79th floor of the tower, which is protected by the black dragon, have increased significantly!”

“Your Majesty! The growth of the Red Ribbon Kingdom on the 55th floor of the tower, protected by the black dragon, is also unusual!”

Although the ministers did not know why Croco was suddenly acting like that, they instinctively knew that they had to say what he wanted to hear in order to survive.

Thus, they mentioned the Cobb Kingdom and the Red Ribbon Kingdom, which could provide a pretext for fighting dragons without directly confronting dragons.

“I see. To think there are so many threats to our Caiman Kingdom… Hear me, ministers. We shall no longer be ruled by dragons! And as a declaration of war against the dragons, we shall strike the Cobb Kingdom first!”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

The troops of the Caiman Kingdom began to march toward the Cobb Kingdom.

***

Gangnam, Seoul.

Flap, flap.

(Flamie-nim, where are you?)

When the Golden Bat arrived on Earth, left the Halla Building, and looked around,

[Golden Bat, here!]

Flamie waved her small root that had sprouted above the ground and called the Golden Bat.

(Flamie-nim, where should I go?)

The Golden Bat asked hurriedly, as there was a limit to the time he could stay on Earth.

[Over there!]

Flamie pointed to the Black Tower in Harbin with her root.

(Yes! See you back at the tower then!)

Swoosh!

The Golden Bat flew rapidly toward the direction Flamie pointed.

***

Harbin, China.

Hunters were in a fierce confrontation with the Black Locusts around 5km in front of the Black Tower.

Since the outer shells of the Black Locusts were considerably hard, while other hunters blocked their path,

“Wizards, use fire magic!”

“Power of fire… Fireball!”

“Power of fire… Fireblast!”

Boom, boom!

Kieeeek!

It was most effective for the wizards, who required time to chant spells, to burn the Black Locusts’ internal organs with fire magic.

When the number of Black Locusts was reduced to one-third by the wizards’ fire magic like that,

Flutter, flutter.

darkness fell along with the chilling sound of wings.

“Huh?!”

As the flustered hunters looked up at the sky,

incomparably more Black Locusts than before were flying toward the Black Tower, turning the sky pitch black.

And a giant black crow was visible behind the Black Locusts.

The Black Locusts they had been fighting so far were merely a small scouting party.

-Hehehe. Go quickly and conquer the tower.

At Halphas’s command, the Black Locusts flew toward the Black Tower.

“Stop them!”

“We must never let them through!”

The hunters screamed, preparing to block the approaching Black Locusts, but their bodies were already consumed by fear.

A natural human instinct when facing an overwhelming power.

However,

“Double Fireball!”

“Blaze!”

they desperately overcame that fear and fought tenaciously against the Black Locusts once more.

Yet, far more Black Locusts than the ones they were blocking flew past them toward the Black Tower.

“No…”

“It’s over…”

As the hunters despaired, watching the Black Tower being more than half-covered by the Black Locusts,

(Baet-baet-hu—!)

along with a clear voice,

Pop, pop, pop.

the bodies of the Black Locusts covering the Black Tower burst open. It was the Golden Bat’s sonic attack.

And,

(Baet-baet. I protect Se-jun-nim’s Earth! Baet-baet Storm Fist!)

Flutter, flutter.

The Golden Bat flapped his wings violently toward the Black Locusts flying toward the Black Tower.

Then,

Whooooosh.

a powerful storm was generated, shredding the Black Locusts.

Having annihilated the Black Locusts like that,

(One Baet Slash!)

the Golden Bat suddenly appeared behind Halphas.

A single line cutting through the atmosphere was drawn from where the Golden Bat had been to where Halphas had stood.

-How can this be… For a being capable of killing me to exist here…

Halphas’s fragment, cut by the Golden Bat’s wing, perished while denying the unbelievable reality.

(Baet-baet. I finally used Baet-baet-hu, Baet-baet Storm Fist, and One Baet Slash!)

The Golden Bat said with a proud expression.

But… the names of the Golden Bat’s techniques sounded somewhat familiar.

Baet-baet-hu copied Cuengi’s Kkuenghu, and Baet-baet Storm Fist and One Baet Slash copied Theo’s Meow Meow Storm Fist and One Meow Slash.

The Golden Bat had usually been envious of the techniques used by Theo and Cuengi.

So he had created techniques copying the two, but since they were plagiarized techniques, they couldn’t be used inside the tower, so he had just been waiting for an opportunity.

However, this was Earth.

Even if he copied them, there was no way he would get caught.

Clink.

(Baet-baet. I protected Se-jun-nim’s Earth!)

The Golden Bat picked up the black coins and returned to the 99th floor of the Black Tower with a proud expression.