Disciple of Immortal

After finishing the 2nd trial, we rest for one day in Raigan's mansion.

After breakfast, we received a report from the haggard-looking Raigan about the estimation of the 2nd trial.

「… I've reported what you did to the dragon saint, but rest assured, you won't be held accountable for this incident. You better thank us, the magnanimous dragonfolk for that.」

Raigan heaved a deep sigh after saying that.

「Thank you…」

We bowed to express our gratitude to Raigan.

At this moment, I felt truly relieved from the bottom of my heart.

I'm really afraid that I couldn't fulfill my promise to Ramiel if we got kicked out of this village alas, we managed to avoid the worst situation.

Pomera was also looking relieved.

Philia seems to be reflecting on this matter upon knowing that it was a big deal, this was obvious from her downcast gaze.

「I've compared the color of your 《Dragon Eye Crystal》 with our color standard… And saw that each of you got a thousand points. Rejoice, now you have 2000 points, and the girls have 1500 points.」

「R-Really!? Yaay! We did it! Philia has become dragon king!」

Though Philia's eyes were glowing brightly as she spoke, she cast her gaze down again when she received a lukewarm gaze from Raigan.

「Uhm… Sorry for asking this at this late hour but, is it a bad thing if our score surpassed the dragon king? Seeing that my score is already 2000 points, can we just go directly to meet the dragon king?」

The dragon king's treasure might keep something that could be used to fight Nyarlhotep.

Since we couldn't get the treasure without having the dragon king's title, this was a chance that I wouldn't want to let go.

But, doing that might create an unnecessary rift with the dragonfolk.

That's why the first goal was to get the Dragon Saint title and meet the Dragon King.

「Nope! Are you mocking our sacred trial?」

「… But to be honest, the 3rd trial is like throwaway match.Is the 3rd trial different from the 1st and 2nd trial?」

When I asked that question, Raigan shut his mouth.

It seems the 3rd trial was pretty much the same as the 1st and 2nd trial.

After what happened to the ground of 2nd trial which according to Raigan would make us fail for good, I honestly did not expect the 3rd trial.

「I understood… Uhm, I'll try to get only 100 points…」

「… This is a sacred trial. One has to give their all. I'll go with you as the witness. If I feel that you're going easy on the trial, whether it's a hundred or thousands of times, I'll have you retake the trial.」

Said Raigan with a vexed look on his face.

「C-C'mon, stop sulking a-」

「I'm not sulking!」

Raigan roared as he struck the desk.

Dammit… This person was troublesome for sure.

He didn't want the outsider to get high scores, and yet didn't want them to pull lunch either.

「Okay, I got it… Shall we go now? If possible, I want to finish this ASAP and meet the Dragon King.」

「Understood… We're heading out. Follow me, the place for the 3rd trial is in the outskirts of the Peach Dragon village. I don't care how many points you're going to score this time, just finish it quickly…」

Said Raigan feebly.

It seems he has always been anxious since we came to this place.

My deepest apologies about that, Raigan.

We followed Raigan to climb steep stone stairs till we arrived in front of bright red torii. [Torii: Shrine entrance gate]

「We've arrived. We're in front of the dragon gate, the Dragon Gate Temple… The place for the 3rd trial.」

「Dragon Gate temple…」

I repeated the name of the place.

The dragonfolks here wore kimono-like attire.

Though I've guessed after seeing the heian palace-like style, I guess the culture of the dragonfolk has closely resembled that of Japan.

Lining up across the dragon gate were more than hundreds of dragon statues of various sizes.

Something like rubble was all over the place.

The smallest one was around one meter, the biggest one was around twenty meters.

And just like the 1st trial, there was 【50】 or, 【5】 letter carved on the forehead of the statue.

The biggest statue was around forty meters tall.

It was sitting cross-legged, separated from the other statue.

Written on its' forehead was 【1000】 letters.

And slightly behind it was a huge, two-storied temple.

That might be the Dragon Gate temple.

Its roof was made with dragon-like tile.

「This is the 《Dragonic Statue》, the golem can be activated by infusing them with magical power. I think you already understand after seeing those golems but let me explain properly, you have to activate the 《Dragonic Statue》 and beat them, once you beat them, the point written on the forehead of that statue will become a point for your 3rd trial.」

Said Raigan as he touched one of the statues.

I see now, that the 1st trial was a test for pure physical strength, the 2nd trial was a test for exploration skill, and the 3rd trial was a test for comprehensive combat ability.

But… The people who have good scores in the 1st and 2nd trials would definitely rack up a fair amount of points in the 3rd trial as well.

Maybe that was the reason why Raigan looked dejected.

And since Raigan said it too, let's end this swiftly.

Honestly, the result was already obvious.

At this point, I knew that this trial wasn't really a big deal for me.

「Yoo… I wanted to meet you again, Bean Sprout. I know you'll come to this place if I wait for you here.」

I looked in the direction of that familiar voice came from.

Mitsuru glared at me, he was itching to fight me.

Yorna stood behind him with a timid look on her face.

What a persistent fella…

His tenacity was something to behold.

「You again…」

「Don't be so cold, you ba*stard. We were interrupted by an unexpected situation last time. But now, we can finally make it clear.」

「H-Have you still not given up after squashing twice under the rock?」

Pomera's expression went beyond dumbfounded, she already started to look at Mitsuru like he was a pitiful creature.

Mitsuru grits his teeth upon hearing Pomera's snide and swings his right arm.

「I've told you since you embarrassed me twice! You guys have been looking down on me! First of all, I don't care about learning from my mistake, it's not like you guys are the ones who beat me in the previous two trials!」

「Since you already know that the one at fault is you instead of me, you have no reason to target me…」

「Shut up! You might not have done anything to me, but I get into those situations because of you ba*stard!」

Though I couldn't help but agree with him that the incident in 《Dragon's Jaw》 was indirectly related to me, the incident at the 《Dragon Head Rock》 during the 1st trial was unrelated to us.

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