Chapter 74-74- Investigation

The invitation was fruitless. Just as Yvette was about to return to the air-raid shelter, Douglas suddenly stopped her and said stiffly, "What have you thought about that matter?"

"What thing?" Yvette turned her head to look at it, confusion in her ruby ​​eyes.

"It's...it's that thing!"

"Oh~~" Yvette suddenly realized, but quickly turned her head and asked again, "What is it?"

"Don't ask questions when you already know the answer!" Dugrabi was anxious. It was only because the person opposite him was a god. If it were a normal human wizard, he would have at least breathed a dragon's breath at him.

How dare they tease the son of the Flame Dragon King like this? How audacious! Even the three great human churches that possess true gods dare not treat them so lightly!

"...But why do you want to become my disciple? I'm probably far from your father." Yvette asked.

This time she really didn't understand.

Through Dugrabi's introduction, she had some understanding of the dragon clan, and she also knew that the six dragon kings of the dragon clan were all-powerful and could be regarded as the top combat echelon in the human world. It was difficult for ordinary creatures, even third-rate gods with fewer believers, to defeat the dragon king of the dragon clan.

Among the six dragon kings, the Flame Dragon King is one of the top two in terms of combat power and can be regarded as the ceiling of the dragon clan's combat power.

Under such favorable conditions, Dugrabi took the initiative to become her disciple, which was a bit unreasonable no matter how you thought about it.

Yes, until now, Yvette didn't realize that she had already taken advantage of the legendary wizard's influence to enter the mainstream mythology of the Glowing Continent and become an unknown and unpopular god.

She even felt that as long as she didn't say it herself, Dougrabi would not be able to guess her relationship with the legendary wizard, and would only think that she had some connection with Rosaline Sheen.

So soon, she had a slight misunderstanding about the origin of Dugrabi's apprenticeship.

She felt that Dugrabi might want to use her connections to establish a relationship with the legendary wizard.

This is a very reasonable explanation and very logical.

The only thing that can refute this logic is that this kind of long-term strategy does not seem like something that someone with Dougrabi's intelligence could come up with.

…

Faced with Yvette's question, Dugrabi was silent for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

It wanted to have adventures like the legendary wizard, but did not want to tell the other party the legend of the Silver Witch, because it would seem that it had planned this for a long time. All its actions in the past four years of getting along became deliberate and insincere.

Although it had indeed planned this for a long time, it thought it was very sincere, or perhaps the pride of the dragon clan made it disdain to disguise.

After being frozen for a long time, it decided to make an excuse and said awkwardly, "I can't go back right now, but I don't want to waste time. I want to start learning as soon as possible..." After a pause, it said, "Uh... is that not possible?"

Yvette frowned. She thought that this statement was fine for anyone else, but it was not right for Dugrabi. First of all, dragons can live for two thousand years, and they will reach adulthood at the age of seven hundred. They also have the innate ability of "Dragon Language Magic" that awakens with age. There is no need to be so anxious.

Moreover, it was extremely proud of its dragon identity and looked down upon humans and other species. Even the gods were considered equals to the dragons. Under such circumstances, it was even more strange that it would lower its noble dragon head and worship a human as its teacher.

Besides, it seems to be a lazy guy...

But she wasn't a paranoid person. Seeing that Dougrabi was unwilling to speak, she let it go and seriously confirmed, "Do you really want to learn?"

Although there was no magic terminal, according to her understanding, the magic standards of the Glowing Continent were extremely low, and the specifications of all spells were limited to within 200 runes, and the more common spells would not exceed 50 runes.

After all, there were no elemental chips, rune point caches, or rune hard drives. Mages had to memorize and chant incantations to cast spells, so how could they perform high-level techniques? The conditions didn't allow it.

In this case, Yvette taught Dougrabi some basic knowledge and some small-scale techniques, so she didn't have to worry about falling behind.

"Of course I mean it!" Dugrabi said quickly.

"Yes, I can...but I need to examine you."

"Investigation?" Dugrabi became nervous. "What investigation?"

"You don't need to know this, but I will tell you when the inspection is over." After saying that, Yvette turned and disappeared into the corridor of the air-raid shelter.

…

In the next few days, Dugrabi obtained a rather difficult combat technique, which was a super-super-simplified version of the Scarlet Armor, which was equivalent to turning the extreme color into simple lines.

Although there are only more than 200 runes, for the Glowing Continent where the average number of runes in a spell does not exceed 50, the difficulty of this spell is comparable to the legendary forbidden spell.

Dugrabi originally thought that this was the so-called inspection, but the witch told him that it was not, it was just to give him something to do and to start learning in advance.

What is this? I am investigating.

Dugrabi waited and waited, but did not see the so-called inspection. He found that the Silver Witch was just like usual, sleeping until noon every day, and then staying in her room all day long. Occasionally she came out to get some fresh air and see the scenery, and then went back in a few minutes. She was even lazier than the lazy Dragon Prince - at least she liked to go out and play, walk around and see the sights.

I'm not kidding myself... Actually, as long as I master this technique, the investigation will be over?

Thinking of this, Dugrabi made a rare effort.

But soon, a new problem arose - it did not recognize runes. The first step in learning the spell was not the spell itself, but to let the witch teach it rune lessons to establish the most basic rune cognition.

This is really going to kill it.

Just like learning a foreign song, the first step is not to learn the song, but to learn the foreign language first. For Dugrabi, who has never worked hard since childhood, this is more torturous than taking a history class.

It even preferred to attend history class. At least the dragonborn who taught the class respected it and didn't dare to have any opinion about it sleeping in class. But in the witch's rune class, if you dared to doze off, you would really get a beating.

So after studying for more than two months, Dugrabi decided to take a leave of absence for a while.

Anyway, the witch also said that this is not an examination. For the dragon clan who cannot reach adulthood until they are 700 years old, a delay of seven or eight years is no different from a delay of seven or eight days for humans.

And the witch herself is an immortal, so she will definitely understand it.

…

In this way, time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was the summer of the following year. By this time, a full five years had passed since the man, the puppet, and the dragon had temporarily settled here.

On a calm morning, lying on the haystack in the hall of the air-raid shelter, Dugrabi felt someone patting his nose before he woke up. He opened his eyes fiercely and saw a clumsy little puppet with a wreath on its head staring at him.

"Mr. Long, Mr. Long, are you up?" The little puppet said happily when he saw it open its eyes.

This is the mechanical puppet named Jasmine, who is designed as a little girl. She is also one of the only three children in the local kingdom. The biggest and most obvious feature of her is that she wears a wreath on her head as a recognizable gender feature.

The other two children are named "Soap" and "Drum", both of whom are little boys. They are a little noisier than Jasmine and not very likable.

If it was soap or a roller that dared to disturb its sleep, it would have started panting by now. How could the Dragon Prince be allowed to rest when a group of lowly alchemical creatures were disturbing him?

But Jasmine had done a lot for it on a daily basis. In its eyes, she was a diligent, low-profile dragon servant and a half-friend. So at this moment, Dugrabi decided to be more tolerant and restrained his morning temper. He asked in a muffled voice, "What are you doing?"

"The sun is out outside, Mr. Long, didn't you ask me to wake you up?" A sweet voice came from Jasmine's speaker, sounding very clear, like the tinkling of wind chimes in summer.

"It seems so." Dugrabi yawned.

"We made an appointment yesterday to go to the base together today. Soap and Roller are already waiting outside. Is Mr. Long ready to get up?" said Jasmine.

"Let's go out and play..." Dugrabi hung his head and yawned again. "I'm too sleepy today, forget it."

"Oh, well then... I won't disturb Mr. Long's rest then." Jasmine said regretfully. After Black Dragon closed his eyes, she turned and walked outside, informing her two companions who had been waiting for a long time of the news, and as expected, she received disappointed sighs.

With the addition of the black dragon Dugrabi, the life of the "Kukes Family" children's expedition team has become much more colorful than before. The biggest change is that Dugrabi itself can serve as a means of transportation, greatly expanding the scope of the children's expedition team.

Before the arrival of the Black Dragon, the three children, Jasmine, Soap and Roller, could only play around the valley. With their short legs, they could not walk far, and they had to go home before dark.

But now it’s different. The black dragon’s four claws can carry people, and it can fly more than ten or twenty kilometers away. The three children can suddenly explore mysterious areas that they never dared to imagine before. How exciting it is.

"Moli, you can talk to Brother Long, please try to persuade him." Drum said, "We had already agreed on it, and it was suddenly cancelled. I'm very sad."

"Forget it. Mr. Long looks very sleepy today. Don't force him." Jasmine refused directly. "Drum, have you forgotten what Grandpa Tongpi said? You have to learn to be considerate of others and put yourself in their shoes. It's part of cultivation."

"Okay..." I thought to myself, how can I put myself in their shoes? I don't know what it feels like to be sleepy.

After sleeping in the air-raid shelter for a day, the next day, Dugrabi finally felt like taking the children's expedition team out. This time, their destination was an abandoned military base.

This base is nearly 25 kilometers away from the valley where the kingdom is located. Since the surrounding environment is open and mostly flat, even if a mountain whale approaches, it can be discovered early in advance and the danger is not high.

Carrying the three little puppets in his claws, he flew over the mountains and green meadows. What appeared in front of Dugrabi was a huge open space with pits on the ground, surrounded by the broken skeletons of some human buildings, and all around were moss and rugged black stones.

After landing, it put the three children down and looked around with curiosity in its eyes.

It was deeply interested in the history of the End of the Land, which was why it was willing to accompany the children on their adventure. Although it couldn't read the Kuroshio language, with Jasmine's explanations, it was able to glimpse a glimpse of the ancient civilization that was once extremely powerful countless years ago, like a divine kingdom on land.

Such a civilization ended up in such a way, which made it feel more deeply the horror and power of the Witch of the End. She is worthy of being the first villain in the myth who stabbed the Creator in the back and destroyed the Garden of Eden, and the well-deserved king of evil gods.

Watching the three children excitedly run into the ruins nearby, Dougrabi flapped his wings and flew into the pit. This was the lower half of the military base, shrouded in mystery. Last time, he had only briefly inspected it, but this time, he planned to observe more.

After exploring the underground space for a while, several hours passed before Dugrabi began to get bored. Many of the spaces here weren't designed for large creatures, and the doors were often blocked, making it difficult to break even with dragon breath. He decided to go up and bring Jasmine down, asking her to help him discover what other secrets there were.

But just as it was about to fly away, a strange noise aroused its vigilance. It listened carefully and found that it was a strange animal cry, coming from far away, cold and long, as if it came from the darkest and deepest depths of the sea, spreading shuddering fear.

In an instant, a cold answer emerged in its heart.

——The mountain whales are coming, and there is more than one.

Realizing this, Dugrabi's pupils shrank, and he immediately stopped moving. He suddenly felt a surge of regret. He had been so engrossed in the situation that he had forgotten to go out and look around from time to time to see if there was any danger. Now that the Mountain Whale God had approached unnoticed, the best way for him to survive this disaster was to hide underground until the whales left.

But it soon remembered that the three children were still in the ruins on the surface, and most of the broken walls and ruins there were only skeletons left, lacking roofs. If a mountain whale flew over, there would be very little space for them to hide.

Damn it! Cursing inwardly, Dugrabi gritted his teeth, flapped his wings, and sped towards the cave entrance.

(End of this chapter)