“Anyway. We’ve arrived.”
In the endless darkness, a secret space located beneath the corpse of Seriphed.
As I opened the door to the place that is the final chapter of Teshiniria and where the hatchlings reside, the blue plain welcomed us.
A cave-like path led suddenly to the plain, where Yena and Leo looked around.
“It’s a completely different space, meow.”
“I can see the sky!”
[Oh]
[What’s that?]
[The inside is cleaner than I thought?]
[It’s blue.]
[Isn’t there anything?]
[Is the reward coming in?]
“The reward hasn’t come in yet. We might need to explore a bit more…”
“There’s something over there!”
“Where?”
“Over there~.”
Leo pointed somewhere beyond the plain through the spirit’s gaze.
I turned my gaze to that somewhere and soon saw something small lying peacefully asleep.
The hatchlings, with their wings neatly folded, were deep in slumber.
They lay scattered across the plain as if they had just finished frolicking around and had finally fallen asleep.
There were about twenty hatchlings, and as we got closer, Yena and Leo’s eyes lit up as they grabbed the dragons one by one.
“They’re way cuter than I expected, meow…”
“They’re way softer than Sre!!”
[? Hahaha]
[Sleeping ones are super cute]
[Is Sre twenty now?]
[Lololololol]
[Can we just adopt them one by one?]
[Let’s kill them]
[Wow, how much experience do we get from this?]
[So cute]
[Look at how excited Leo and Yena are, lol]
[What’s with the dragons all of a sudden?]
“Can I take just one of them home, meow…?”
“Probably not, right? They aren’t exactly unintelligent animals.”
While their growth might be slow, dragonkind is more intelligent than most creatures.
When comparing their racial levels, it wouldn’t be weird at all if Yena was adopted by that hatchling.
Yena stroked a pink hatchling the size of a large dog with a sulky expression.
Next to her was Leo, who was quite engrossed in petting it, showing a deep interest in Sre back then as well.
At the time, Leo, who was on the Empire’s side, had come to see me assisting the Kingdom and asked, “Can I touch Sre just once?”
However, perhaps because of the earlier talk of dragons and spirits, he seemed a bit hesitant now.
“But it’s really cute…”
“How arrogant of them. Touching dragons so carelessly.”
!
Yena and Leo jumped back in surprise and withdrew their hands.
Someone emerged from among the sleeping dragons with movements like a flash of lightning.
In the blink of an eye, she appeared with a yellow current.
She appeared with a flash of yellow lightning.
Her long hair shimmered in the same yellow hue as that lightning, reminiscent of lamb’s horns. And she had a body that would draw the attention of everyone, regardless of gender.
An ordinary person would fall head over heels at first sight.
‘But I feel like I’ve seen her somewhere before…’
[Hey, what the hell?!]
[That’s insane, lol]
[Whoa!]
[Dragon Sister is out of her mind!]
[Seriously, wow!]
[Wow!]
[Lily’s in a sweat, but with her, how about this?]
[Holy sh*t!]
[Come on, Lily has to win this still.]
[Look at Leo and Yena frozen in shock!]
[The resolution just changed suddenly!]
“…?”
“Step aside. Among them is my child.”
“Ah. Aha! Yes, yes!”
Leo stepped back about ten steps and bowed his head.
Yena also retreated, staring blankly at her suddenly appearing face, then glanced at me and muttered.
The gist was something along the lines of, ‘Still, Lily is a bit better. The other one is crazy too.’
Maybe she regained her senses because the penalty was lifted.
[Married Woman? That’s actually good.]
[Oh!]
[So it’s not a virgin dragon, then.]
[T_T]
[Lol, these guys are insane.]
[Married Woman? That’s actually good!]
[But seriously, she’s crazy.]
[For real, lol.]
And I gazed closely at her.
My memory is quite good.
I remember almost everything, and the only things I don’t remember are those I sealed myself away from.
Even those tend to unravel over time, but I definitely had never seen such a sight before.
‘Yet it feels so familiar…’
“The promised day I’ve been waiting for is finally approaching, and I had my hopes up. To think such rascals would show up… truly…”
“Plgurr?”
“……”
“Is that really you? I heard the news, but I never thought you were real.”
[?]
[???]
[Lily knows someone?]
[Lily, you know this too?]
“Well… sort of?”
Plgurr.
One of the four strongest among the dragon race, known as the King of the Thunder Dragons.
His power was so immense that he could match Sharlurodo, the Dragon Lord.
He takes great pride in his strength, referring to himself not just as a Thunder Dragon but as the ‘Thunder God Dragon.’
He also had a highly masculine appearance and personality, and due to his aggressive nature, he had been in constant competition with Sharlurodo for the position of Lord.
Though he had never won against Sharlurodo, he had pushed him to the brink of defeat at least once.
It happened.
Sure. If you’ve heard it this far, you might have some questions.
As mentioned earlier, the brain deity dragon Plgurr was a “man.”
To be precise, he was a dragon without a defined gender but living as a “man” with masculine traits.
“His personality, body, and voice were all male.”
Despite everything about him being masculine, for some reason, he suddenly changed genders to female and ended up giving birth to five children.
The once alpha male Plgurr became a married woman with five kids overnight.
Of course, it wasn’t literally overnight, but considering the average lifespan and birth rate of dragons, it was a speed that could rightly be called overnight.
“It’s been a while. I thought you were dead, but here you are. You look completely different too.”
“…I have no idea what you’re talking about. Hmph!”
Plgurr crossed his arms, awkwardly avoiding eye contact while laughing.
He didn’t seem embarrassed by his appearance, yet he didn’t boldly present himself either, creating an ambiguous vibe.
And that ambiguity came off rather femininely.
If it had been the Plgurr I knew, he would have laughed heartily and confidently stepped forward, but the female version of Plgurr was a bit more demure.
[Whoa…]
[Hahahahaha]
[Wow, crossing arms is next level…]
[Wow]
[Why? How was it before?]
[Oppa, I love you]
[I’m dying]
[I’m curious]
Before I knew it, Leo had come up to me and asked.
“What’s up? How was it before?”
“Umm… I’ll pass on commenting.”
“Why? Was it weird before?”
“No, it just feels a bit awkward since it’s different now. There’s nothing weird about it.”
In fact, her beauty was much better than it used to be.
It’s just that the standard of beauty had changed since it was based on the other gender now.
Since she seemed reluctant to reveal it, I shouldn’t say anything.
‘…Saying anything feels iffy for me.’
In my case, there was some coercion involved.
Plgurr gave me a strange look and stared at me for quite a while before letting out a sigh of relief.
“Alright. Enough with the pointless chatter. Didn’t you all come here to receive your rewards?”
“Ah, you’re right.”
“Then just behave and get your reward. You there. Come out.”
“Yes.”
I stepped forward and stood in front of Plgurr.
I was quite tall for a woman, but the polymorphed Plgurr was also noticeably tall.
Just shy of 180 centimeters.
If someone were watching us from the side, they would probably think the height difference was minuscule.
“Well, it seems like the height difference is almost the same.”
[Oh my!]
[The two-shot is amazing!]
[Wow!]
“Even you are quite tall!”
“I wonder what kind of reward they’ll give me.”
“You must have heard about the situation here, right?”
“To some extent.”
“As you expected, I am no longer a being of this world. I am merely the thought of Plgurr existing at the request of the raccoon.”
“…I figured as much.”
In the end, the only remaining thing was the thought of Seriphed.
I expected it, but for someone who was close to dragons like me, it couldn’t help but feel quite troubling.
When I made a slightly gloomy expression, Plgurr offered a faint smile.
“Don’t be too sad. Thanks to helping out the raccoon, my children can survive. My main body would wish for that too.”
“Goodbyes are for the living.”
“…Well, that’s true.”
A moment of silence followed.
Plgurr seemed awkward in this atmosphere and sighed, shaking her head.
“…Well, at least I’ll still be here. Though I can’t escape.”
“That’s… a bit of a relief, I guess.”
“Is it? That sounds like you.”
“You said you didn’t know earlier.”
“…Let’s talk about rewards. Since I’ve passed all the tasks here, I deserve to receive something.”
“What kind of rewards are there?”
“First, the simplest one.”
[You have received a large amount of Experience Points.]
[You have received a large amount of Experience Points.]
[Level up!]
[LV.140]
[You have obtained the title, ‘Transcendent One Who Reached Level 140.’]
[All stats increase by a fixed amount.]
[World Quest – ‘The Path Upwards’ has been given!]
Level 140.
The level I targeted and the first step to liberating Myeosin has been completed.
[Oh!]
[140!!!!]
[Finally 140, wow!]
[Is this level real?]
[Wow!]
[The experience points are sweet!]
[What’s the quest?]
“That’s nice.”
“Nice, huh? The next part will be even better.”
“Is that so?”
“Yeah. It will probably be the most important choice for you.”
A smile spread across Plgurr’s face.
As she snapped her fingers, seven Dragon Hearts floated up.
“Choose just two things you desire. Of course, choose mine too.”
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