Thud…

The head of the Royal Guard knelt down. There was no need for any weapons.

His strong power, enormous mana, or strong vision was of no use. It was not even comparable to him in the first place.

Pat... Pat...

The lion's mane, which had been stretched out in all directions with an ominous energy, was also finely twitching under Jaehw.a.n.g's touch as if he had never been hostile. As Jaehw.a.n.g patted his long fangs in his mouth, the head of the Royal Guard, who was a proud pillar of the Kingdom of the Su people, laid his face down with his tail trembling.

In front of Jaehw.a.n.g, he realized that he could not even be an Orc or a Goblin in front of a dragon. The hundred royal knights who were standing firm also split themselves up when Jaehw.a.n.g just looked at them. It wasn't because their conductor surrendered. The intense speculation that a human being put on as a joke made them stand back.

"Guide me."

"Yes." The head of the Royal Guard, who turned soft, stood in front of Jaehw.a.n.g. Given the honor and pride of defending the royal family of the Kingdom of the Su people, it was a change that no one could think of.

But inside him, he could not think at all.

Maybe this was how it felt to be standing on a cliff. His brain, exposed to Jaehw.a.n.g's speculation, was already in a mess. The only thing that he would be able to do now was to fulfill Jaehw.a.n.g's orders like a well-tamed dog.

"Woahhhhhhhh..."

People in the capital city who didn't know what's going on were cheering for them. Upon entering the castle while following his guidance, hundreds of soldiers armed with flas.h.i.+ng armor were soon spotted. Behind them, everyone in the castle gathered and looked at Jaehw.a.n.g. Their clothes were like the aristocrats' and were luxurious, but they were all animal-headed anyways.

The road to the castle was quite complicated. It's not narrow, but it seems to be full of roundabouts.

After such a long walk, he reached the front of the palace in a few minutes. As he pa.s.sed the Dogae Bridge and entered the area, he could see that the Su people were lining up in a different sense than before.

With sacred energy flowing through their bodies like the knights, they lowered their heads en ma.s.se toward Jaehw.a.n.g.

'They're strong.'

Their numbers were small, but he could feel that they were really strong. Of course, his object of the comparison was only the head of the Royal Guard who was leading the way, but with their power, they could easily catch a tier-10 monster.

As they were escorted inside a moment later, on a high platform, they soon saw a huge golden-colored rooftop symbolizing L on a wide-spread red carpet. And it was the Queen of Su who sat at an angle on it.

The Queen of Su was young. Her body, wrapped in a delicate white, sky-high dress, had all kinds of brilliant jewels that made her body stand out even more.

He could almost feel her voluptuous beauty beyond her race. As she looked up at Jaehw.a.n.g with an agitated and languid look, she raised herself. But her spirit was quite different when she lifted herself up. He could feel the absolute beauty of the ruler of this country. She gazed solemnly at the approaching Jaehw.a.n.g. As she raised her hand, the people standing on the left and right sides of the throne pulled their weapons together. There was not much welcome in sight.

"Stop," said the queen, but Jaehw.a.n.g didn't stop on his tracks.

The hall was covered in a commotion.

"Hmm" She didn't welcome the ancient warrior very much. L told her to consider him as an equal to L herself through her oracle, but she knew well what her people had suffered from humans.

When the men's mission arrived, they greeted them in a desperate attempt to forget any of their previous conflicts. The Su cooperated with them for all their convenience, but their true intentions were full of greed that drooled over the distribution of Mana Stones, which was considered the most sacred and important thing in their kingdom. In the end, the men attempted to sneak all mana stones away and committed a ma.s.sacre to those who had set out to arrest them before they ended up infiltrating L's sanctuary.

She was grateful that the Dark Earth monster, which was threatening the capital city, was killed instead. It was hard for the queen to accept him, even though L told her to greet an ancient warrior through an oracle. So, she tried to test him, but her opponent didn't seem to want to take her test. The queen tried to order her guardians to arrest the warrior...

...but she could not lift her hand.

The closer Jaehw.a.n.g approached her, the more relaxed her expression began to be. And then, as soon as Jaehw.a.n.g stood in front of where she was standing, the queen's expression turned loose and was completely untied. This was not simply a phenomenon that happened because Jaehw.a.n.g was attractive or because he was strong.

It was because of one of the myths that Jaehw.a.n.g had…

[Goongi's master [cla.s.s S]].

[Goongi's master] wasn't originally a myth that would end in cla.s.s S. It meant that he owned a different G.o.d, but their relations.h.i.+p was so secretive that it's not well known. Nevertheless, it was only because it was a combination of the two G.o.ds.

The Myths did not have a single effect like a skill.

There were many influences that affected the connection between Goongi and Jaehw.a.n.g or the two. Their synergy would be amplified when they would fight together because they share their spirits. And there's another little impact like this…

'Su People's affinity increased by 30%.'

The essence of Goongi was the spirit of the tiger and the G.o.ddess. Tigers and lions were similar anyway, and that's why this ability works. The head of the Royal Guard was not just playing tricks on Jaehw.a.n.g.

That's because there was the power of Goongi lurking inside Jaehw.a.n.g. The queen of the Su had lost her mind. Then, with a sly gesture, she approached Jaehw.a.n.g gently. Her rejection against a human being has long gone and soon, she behaved like an accepting wife towards her husband that her G.o.d had nominated for her. She raised her hand and touched Jaehw.a.n.g's heart. The mysterious aura that emanated from Jaehw.a.n.g made her more excited.

But her intentions were bound to fail.

SWOOSH

Someone stopped her hand and at the same time, a face popped out of Jaehw.a.n.g's chest. It was Goongi. Imitating herself as a Su, her face was marked with a mottled pattern of tiger and long fangs in her mouth.

"How dare you try to touch him, you b.i.t.c.h!"

The Su people's queen sat back, oblivious to her dignity. When their queen collapsed, the countless Su people around them tried to jump in surprise but a moment later, they were all mesmerized by a woman escaping from the body of the ancient warrior.

Ziiiing!!!

With a radiant look on her face, she looked down at the Queen of the Su tribe with an arrogant expression.

"This b.i.t.c.h is das.h.i.+ng a nasty smell somewhere." Two ears popped out in between Goongi's hair. It was her who dared not see the approach of another female approaching her significant one. She did suppress her anger a lot.

"Krrrrrrrrrrrr"

An explosive burst of anger began to fill the palace. With that, a red aurora formed a figure in her body.

"Oh..."

"Ah...that is..."

It was a huge winged tiger. It was not an illusion. The mere sight of it made the people's head drop. Its irresistible and powerful stature had the power to defeat the will of resistance just by its presence.

"G.o.ddess."

"G.o.ddess."

Everyone in the palace fell flat on the floor. No one resisted. No, no one tried to resist her at all. Although the appearance of that G.o.d was quite different from their original G.o.d "L," they were unable to overcome their pa.s.sions for another G.o.d, wagging their tails to the fullness of their spirit that they had never felt with L.

It was obvious. No matter how long they served L, L was a dragon. Although she was an absolute deity, it did not bridge the fundamental differences of their species. It was just her governance through oppression, fear, and termination that kept them in place, but the Goongi that appeared now was like the ultimate perfection of the Su people, their wavelengths were so finely matched.

Soon after, on the throne where the Queen of the Su people was sitting, Goongi sat at a slant angle, pompously looking down at the Su people. Even the queen of the Su tribe was sitting on her knees in front of her, looking at her with ecstatic eyes.

Only Jaehw.a.n.g was sitting next to the throne, scratching his head as he appreciated this whole scene.

#2

"Something's gone wrong..."

L, flying in the sky with Goongi and Jaehw.a.n.g on his back, was now as complicated as she could be. They did succeed at making the Su people recognize Jaehw.a.n.g but what made it terrible was the feeling that Goongi made him feel like a sidekick.

Whether it's Goongi or Jaehw.a.n.g, it doesn't matter but the problem was that the amount of power flowing to Goongi was exploding. Now they were in a hurry, but L had a bad feeling that she will need a lot of time to recover her original divinity in the future. No, what if these two wanted to take over Elus?

'I am raising a wild beast in my own home.'

"Is it still far away?"

"Soon."

"Let's go fast."

"I am not your means of transportation!"

"Yes, you are a slave, just go faster."

"Ha.. fine." L, who answered Jaehw.a.n.g's question by gnas.h.i.+ng his teeth, increased her speed. She couldn't teleport to the capital of the Dragoons.

This was not because of its location or distance, but because the southernmost tip of the continent, where the legacy of the ancient people of the past remains strong, was their destination. In the capital of the Drac.o.o.ns, there were still magical defense facilities in existence built by the ancient people, one of which limited the movement of s.p.a.ce near the capital.

That's why L was moving with her body like this.

"But I hear that the Drac.o.o.ns serve the Red Dragon Al. Is it okay for you to go?" Jaehw.a.n.g asked. Whether it's role play, Al is the demon G.o.d and the L is in the position of the good G.o.d. Jaehw.a.n.g asked out of doubt whether it would be okay for L to give an oracle while it's not her that the Drac.o.o.ns serve.

"Sometimes we switch roles so it doesn't matter."

With that said, the golden fuselage of L began to turn red. The shape of her horn had also changed oddly and her tail had grown a bit longer. Her appearance was similar to that of the Red Dragon.

"You're such a fraud," Jaehw.a.n.g said.

"Huh." L wanted to say something but now, she's not only tied to Jaehw.a.n.g but he's also a necessity for Al's treatment. While L was murmuring her complaints inside her mouth, one of Goongi's eyebrows cracked up as she laid on Jaehw.a.n.g's knee and munched on the chocolate that Jaehw.a.n.g had put in her mouth.

"Hmm?"

When she raised her head, Jaehw.a.n.g, who shared her senses with him, also squinted his eyes and looked to one side. And what the two felt now was felt by L, too.

"That's pretty big. Is that the guy named Ruler?" L's voice became a little tense.

A considerable presence was felt beyond the horizon. The problem was that the place beyond the horizon was the capital of the Drac.o.o.ns, but Jaehw.a.n.g just shook his head as a response. Jaehw.a.n.g knew that being.

"No, it's one of the Ruler's men."

Jaehw.a.n.g and Goongi have seen him. It was among the last ones to show up when they met Ruler in the Dark Earth and fell into a trap and faced super-ma.s.sive monsters.

They didn't fight it.

He wanted to avoid unnecessary fights, but at the same time, it was too burdensome to fight that one while having the anxiety factors called Ruler. But now, he could feel its energy in the direction of the Drac.o.o.n's capital.

"Hmm." L stiffened her face at Jaehw.a.n.g's answer and raised her alt.i.tude. As she soared to the top of the cloud, her visibility widened and soon, the situation on the ground was revealed.

"It's big."

There saw a huge gate that almost devoured a mountain. It was so overwhelming that it was even bigger than the ones on earth, and there were ma.s.sive monsters crawling out of there and they were all moving in one direction. And there stood a huge fortress that seemed to have carved a mountain out of its entirety where the battle between the Monster and the Drac.o.o.n was now raging.