Chapter 141
Everyone inside the carriage stared in confusion at the creature sitting on Suhyeok's lap.
Silence filled the carriage.
Sylvie lifted her head to look at Suhyeok, then tilted it curiously.
"Ubububua?"
("Mister, where are we?")
She still seemed unable to balance herself properly.
As she raised her head, she lost her balance and toppled forward with a soft bonk against Suhyeok's stomach.
Suhyeok gently caught and steadied her.
Sylvie simply continued tilting her head with an utterly harmless expression.
"Your Grace, don't tell me that thing sitting on your lap is...."
"That's right. A dragon."
Suhyeok looked down at Sylvie.
"And not just any dragon. She's the last remaining Black Dragon hatchling."
"T-That's really true?!"
Bang!
Wayne was so shocked by the words Black Dragon hatchling that he shot to his feet inside the carriage.
His head slammed hard into the ceiling, making the entire carriage shake.
"Hey! Sit the hell down already!"
Lee Hyein, who had spilled the alcohol she was drinking, glared at him.
"You bastard! We're lucky this carriage is big. If it were any smaller, you would've flipped the whole thing over!"
Wayne rubbed the back of his head and bowed apologetically.
"My apologies.... Ahem."
Then he looked at Sylvie again.
"But is she truly that Black Dragon's hatchling?"
"Yes."
Whoa, that's the Black Dragon? I think this is my first time seeing a hatchling too;;
Could you even summon a hatchling?
She's from the 70th-floor world too, so maybe that's why it's possible.
Damn, she's cute lol. Her head's huge because she's still a hatchling, so she keeps falling over lol
FFS, fix the camera angle already!
The Constellations were just as surprised by Sylvie's sudden appearance.
Most of them were completely captivated by the adorable hatchling, while some questioned whether it was really safe to keep her around like this.
Suhyeok looked down at Sylvie lying on his lap.
No.
More precisely, he looked at the enormous amount of Mana flowing around her.
Even a hatchling is still a dragon.
He glanced outside the carriage.
The surroundings were covered entirely in snow.
Normally, monsters should've attacked the carriage long ago.
Yet none could be seen anywhere nearby.
Sylvie was still too young to control her Mana properly, so it constantly leaked from her body.
Every monster wandering nearby had fled because of it.
And since she was a Black Dragon, a species that stood at the top of dragonkind, most monsters couldn't even bring themselves to approach her.
"Ubup?"
("But who are you, Mister?")
Sylvie sucked on her finger as she asked.
Suhyeok smiled faintly.
"My name is Lee Suhyeok."
"I'm the person taking you home."
"So don't worry."
"Ububu? Bubup?"
("Oh, you understand what I'm saying?")
Sylvie suddenly began sniffing Suhyeok.
She kept at it for quite a while.
Then, looking increasingly confused, she asked,
"Ububuu. Bubuu? Buuu...."
("You smell kind of like me too. Are you a dragon? Huh? That's strange. Your skin is white.... Hmm.")
Perhaps it was because Suhyeok had plundered Traits from Arthur, the Black Dragon he'd encountered on the 40th floor.
Sylvie seemed to have mistaken him for another Black Dragon.
"Um..."
Seong Hosu hesitantly raised a question.
"What exactly is a Black Dragon?"
Wayne began explaining.
"Dragons are divided into four major factions."
"The Red Dragons rule fire."
"The Blue Dragons rule the sea."
"The White Dragons rule the skies."
"And...."
His gaze shifted toward Sylvie, who was looking back at him with a puzzled expression.
"The Black Dragons rule over all of them."
"They don't exist only in this world either."
"They also exist in dimensions far higher than this one."
That was what Arthur, the Black Dragon Suhyeok had encountered on the 90th floor, had been.
Even though Suhyeok had only faced ten percent of Arthur's true body, his strength had been beyond imagination.
If they'd met on a slightly higher floor, where Arthur would've suffered fewer restrictions...
Suhyeok might not be sitting here now.
[Status]
Name: Lee Suhyeok
Age: 28
Level: 106
Stamina: 377
Strength: 370
Agility: 387
Internal Energy: 288 (Transcendent Realm)
Mana: 376
Remaining Points: 295
Traits: Trait Plunder (EX), Apostle (EX), One with the Divine Sword (S), Ruler of Madness (S), Agnes-Style Swordsmanship (S), Death Energy (S), Barbarian's Blessing (S), Valhalla Sword Dance (S), Will of the World Tree (S), Divine Protection (S), Body Reforging (S), Hellfire (S), Battle Eye (S), Divine Artifact Enhancement (S), Endure Mount Tai (S), Supernova (S), Disaster (S), Formation Disruption (S), Mana Heart (S), Half-Human, Half-Dragon (S), Black Heaven Swordsmanship (S), Scarlet Flame Demon Art (S), Scarlet Flame Swordsmanship (S), Night Soul Shadowless Sword (S), Myriad Ghost Necromantic Art (S), Blood-Life Demonic Art (S), Shadow Monarch (S), Mana Cultivation Method (S), Heavenly Demon Divine Art (S), Beating (A), Synthesis (S), Hardening (S), Poseidon's Blessing (S), Absolute Law (S), Imperial Swordsmanship (S), Clown (A), Poison Resistance (A), Memory Manipulation (A), Crude Dagger Technique (D)
Skills: Lie Detection (A), Intimidation (A)
His stats had risen to a level incomparable to the last time he'd checked.
Even the number of rings in his Mana Cultivation Method had increased from five to seven.
And that wasn't all.
Baul's current combat strength was at least comparable to Kasim.
As long as he had enough Mana, Baul could regenerate indefinitely.
He was practically one of Suhyeok's strongest combat assets.
Returning to the conversation, Wayne looked at Suhyeok with a serious expression.
"That's why I was so shocked earlier."
"A Black Dragon hatchling is even rarer."
"And because of that, problems are bound to follow."
"P-Problems?"
"Hatchlings are precious."
"They're protected by all dragons."
"No matter who it is, harming a hatchling is treated as harming the entire dragon race."
Lee Hyein nodded as though she understood.
"So it's like how people used to say they might ignore someone messing with adults, but if you touch a kid, everyone comes after you?"
"Dragons are like that too?"
"Yes."
"Something similar."
"Only on an absurdly larger scale."
Wayne was right.
Dragons absolutely did not tolerate anyone harming hatchlings.
Long ago, there had even been kingdoms destroyed because they kidnapped one.
"Your Grace."
"Why did you summon a Black Dragon hatchling?"
There was only one reason.
"I was asked to find her."
"Who asked you...?"
Before the regression, Suhyeok had once discovered a dragon's lair in the east rather than the north.
It had happened by pure coincidence.
He'd gone there to defend the eastern front, only to be overwhelmed by waves of magical beasts and end up isolated by himself.
That was where he'd first met Sylvie.
At the time, she'd only barely become capable of Polymorph.
And he'd also met her mother.
More precisely...
Her mother's lingering spirit.
Ironically, Sylvie's mother had already known Suhyeok would come.
That was why she'd allowed him to enter her lair without attacking him.
...You already knew I would come?
Yes.
One of the abilities of Black Dragons allows us to glimpse our predetermined final fate.
My final fate was meeting you.
