"T-The King of Dwarves?!" I asked in surprise. "I-Is this right?"

"Indeed, after hearing of your great feat, he has asked you if you could join him in a small meeting." Said the soldiers. "Of course, the King has little authority over outsiders, even less Players but he has promised great rewards over your efforts, and also, the intention of offering new quests"

"Huh" I nodded. "Well, we can go. But first, can we bring Kestrellius and his nephew with us?"

"Me and my nephew?!" Asked Kestrellius in surprise. "W-Why us?"

"Well you're an important person that saw everything that happened before firsthand." I explained. "And your nephew, is an important biologist too, we'll give him what we collected and then we'll let him join us, so he can further prove the authenticity of our hunt."

"I see" The guards nodded. "Then bring them along."

Like that, we made our way back to Richard's atelier after I collected back the head I had left outside, Richard was scared when he saw a pair of heavily armored soldiers coming in though, but after a few explanations, and after we gave him all the materials he wanted, he understood.

Ding!

[You Have Completed The [Chain Quest]: [Bring Richard the Materials he needs for his vital investigation!]

[Thanks to your efforts, not only have you brought Richard everything he needed, but also special materials from the Viper Drake Queen herself, which seemed imbued with a special type of energy not present before on other Lesser Dragons, helping Richard further advance on his investigation]

[All Materials Have Been Delivered]:

[Lesser Blue Dragon's Blood]: 10/10

[Cave Drake Scales]: 20/20

[Little Red Dragon's Claws]: 5/5

[Poisonous Viper Drake Guts]: 10/10

[You Received the Following Quest Rewards]: [500000 EXP] [10000000 Gold] [Dragon Emblem (B Grade)] x1!]

[LEVEL UP!]

[Your Level has increased from Level 95 to Level 96!]

[All of your Stats have increased.]

[You earned Stat Points and Skill Points.]

[Dragon Emblem]

[Item Type]: [Accessory] [Emblem]

[Item Rank]: [Unique]

[Item Quality]: [B]

[Item Requirement]: [Complete Researcher's Richard Request.]

[Item Durability]: [4000/4000]

[Item Effects]: [HP]: [+250] [MP]: [+500] [STR]: [+250] [VIT]: [+250] [DEX]: [+250] [AGI]: [+250] [INT]: [+120] [WIS]: [+120] [LUC]: [+250] [CHM]: [+500] [AUT]: [+100]

[Bonus Effects]: [STR +6% (C)] [VIT +7% (C)] [Dragon-type Monster Damage +25% (B)] [Dragon-type Monster Damage Taken -25% (B)]

[Item Abilities]

[Dragon Aura]: As an emblem made using Dragon Materials, the power of Dragons naturally flow through your body whenever you equip this accessory and fight a Dragon-type Monster, enhances your Damage Against Dragon-type Monsters by +15% and increasing STR and INT by +5%.

[Dragon Shield]: By equipping this item, and when fighting a Dragon-type Monster, decrease Damage Taken from Dragon-type Monsters by -15% and increase HP and VIT by +5%.

[Item Description]

A small yet pristine Emblem with the shape of a roaring dragon on top of it. Often wielded by those that have slain several Dragons. Increases survivability against all Dragon-type Monsters.

Bonus Effects cannot be reset using Potential Cubes.

Oh, the reward this time was one level up, a lot of Gold, and this amazing accessory! We all ended equipping it right away, which will increase our survivability against Dragons by quite a lot. It has an amazing bonus to all Stats as well comparable to even some A Rank items.

Also it seems this item is entirely Unique, and no other person will probably be able to complete it either as these Quests are very unique, I doubt they can be repeated either as the story continues. I've heard that several end game bosses are all Dragon-type, so this item looks extremely useful and valuable, especially for end-game players.

"Woah, these emblems are great!" Acorn said. "Especially to fight dragons!"

"Indeed, I can tell they'll come in good use." Mark nodded.

"Well, I'm glad you could put them to use, I had crafted them using some of the materials you gave to me." Richard smiled. These Emblems were all what he made using materials we gave to him, which then transferred into the quest reward, interestingly enough. "Now, I think I can reach a breakthrough in my research The blood of the Viper Drake Queen contains a large quantity of Nether aside from Miasma, these two, evil substances are corrupting the dragons and making them much stronger than before. It wouldn't be wrong to assume that the Kings and Queens that surged from each monster race, were probably normal lesser dragons that mutated through these energies."

"Such a conclusion" The guards were surprised. "You better tell all of this to the King, boy."

"I will." Richard nodded. "How about we meet with him so I can explain everything once we get there?"

"Sure." I nodded. "Then let's get there."

Like that, using a moving golem resembling a carriage, we moved to the Dwarf King's castle in a second, arriving at the area swiftly, and being greeted by many more heavily armored guards, giant golems, and then, in the inside of the beautiful and expansive castle, several maidservants and manservants.

"Woah, so this is the castle of the dwarves" Said Acorn.

"Incredible" Nieve said. "Though my Queen's castle is better"

"Has any player even been allowed to enter here?" Mark asked.

"There was once a player that was allowed to enter here. He offered the King a special divine treasure, and in exchange, the King let him take a treasure from our Kingdom's treasury." Explained a guard. "It was said he choose the Ancient Smithing Hammer of Divine Flames, said to have been created by the God of Fire. Since then, we've heard he has become a rather famous Blacksmith in the farther regions."

"I see. Interesting, what did he offer?" Mark wondered.

"Oh, it was a special Divine Sword made out of the Tears of the Queen of Fairies." Explained another guard. "It is usually there- Oh, you can see it from there." They pointed out.

And there it was, a pink and blue-colored sword that seemed to have been made out completely from crystal, beautiful, radiant, and divine

"It was said that this is the sword that an Ancient Human Hero used to slay the Demon King of Miasma thousands of years ago before his resurrection." Said another guard.

"W-What?!" Nieve asked. "T-That's Lady Titania's sword! So that player was the one that stole it?!"