Chapter 187 - Wait, What Are You Trying To Do? (4)
‘A dragon’s magic core. Oh my, thank you!’
Isaac smiled wickedly.
A dragon’s magic core?
What kind of item is that!
All living beings have an innate size of magic container, but skeletons had a magic container that would groan after just one fireball.
To use an analogy, it’s the size of a small cup.
On the other hand, dragons vary by individual, but from at least a lake to an ocean-sized sea. In terms of magic containers, they were the ultimate spoon-fed ones.
Of course, now this body is the best.
It’s just difficult to contain magic because the body keeps compressing, but this body can infinitely expand the magic container.
Anyway, with a dragon-level magic container, there are many things you can do.
For example, filling your own magic container, or filling it with magic, or filling it with magic again…
Of course, if I let him fill it all, the kid would die, so I have to restrain myself.
‘I have to send these guys to the Imperial Family as a bribe.’
At that moment, something began to form in Isaac’s hand. The exact shape couldn’t be seen due to the enormous light, but it was certain.
‘My body!’
He had succeeded in creating a ‘replica’ of the bone brought from Julius using the dragon’s magic.
But at that moment, the Sacred Dragon who couldn’t stand it anymore blew Isaac away with magic.
Bang!!
Isaac was flung away.
Seeing that, Leia, with her eyes rolled back, immediately thrust her sword deeper.
“Cough!”
She even shredded the opponent to pieces and then rushed to Isaac.
“Isaac, are you okay?!”
Although he had intentionally let himself be flung away, Isaac pretended to be in pain while being held by Leia.
“Ah… I saw in a book how to deal with magicians… I tried to destroy the magic core… As expected, it didn’t go as well as I thought…”
Of course, it’s a lie.
Leia was shocked.
“You, do you know how dangerous that technique is! You could have died!”
“I won’t do it again…”
Isaac, who was pretending to groan in pain, was inwardly laughing.
He could clearly feel it in both hands. The real Skeleton King’s body in his left hand, and the replica made with that guy’s magic in his right hand.
‘Good, I knew I could create an identical one with a dragon-level magic core.’
It wouldn’t have mattered even if it wasn’t a dragon that came here.
In that case, he would have been satisfied with just accumulating merit by saying he stopped a thief, but fortunately, it turned out to be the best scenario.
Of course, the opponent who was suddenly attacked in a vital point wouldn’t just stay still.
‘This bastard touched my magic!’
I thought he was trying to destroy the magic core, but he’s stealing magic?
‘Could this brat possibly be a magician?’
No, it’s possible if there’s a magic tool that sucks in magic, but it needs to be checked.
‘Rather, if he was a magician, he made a fatal move!’
To dare challenge a dragon with magic!
I’ll suck out and destroy your magic just the same!
The dragon immediately glared at Isaac with flashing eyes.
Zzzzt!
Just as Isaac did, the dragon also tried to enter Isaac’s inner world to detect the magic core. And destroying that is nothing for a dragon.
At the same time, the moment the dragon’s magic touched Isaac’s body, Whisper, who was magic, had a seizure.
[How dare that bastard! Invading whose body!]
‘Leave it. He won’t find it anyway.’
[What?]
Isaac chuckled, heh.
As he expected, the dragon who invaded Isaac’s mental world was having a pupil earthquake.
‘It’s not here!’
He was greatly shocked as if this was impossible.
‘I can’t feel the magic core anywhere in the body or consciousness world!’
This was impossible. If he was a magician, it should definitely be in one of those two places.
Where on earth did he hide the magic core?
Isaac laughed heartily.
How dare a guy like you target whose magic?
For a moment, Isaac’s eyes grew cold. And at that moment, Isaac drove out the dragon’s magic that had invaded.
It would be correct to say he expelled it by concentrating his mind and using a shout. Then something amazing happened.
Zzzzt!
“Kuhek!!”
The Sacred Dragon collapsed, bleeding from his nose and mouth. Isaac had reversed the invader’s magic and inflicted damage.
The fallen Sacred Dragon trembled.
‘Damn it! What the heck!’
Not only was he sliced by Leia, but he had also received mental damage. He reluctantly contacted the leader secretly.
“I’m sorry, leader. It seems you’ll have to come in person… An unexpected variable has appeared…”
“When you come, bring the rest of the Skeleton King’s body too.”
“?!”
Isaac had appeared beside the dragon at some point and was interrupting the communication. Then he pointed at the necklace around the dragon’s neck and said.
“You’re communicating with this right now, right? With the leader?”
The Sacred Dragon was flustered and tried to leave, but Leia immediately took down the Sacred Dragon.
Bang!!
Leia twisted his arm and bound him, and Isaac chuckled softly beside him.
“Don’t try anything useless. You, strictly speaking, are a half-dragon, right? Well, for something like that, your magic core was quite usable.”
“…!!”
How does this bastard know that?
“Hmm, so. Why are Sacred Dragons ignoring the Hella Imperial Family?”
Do you think I’ll tell you?
“You guys need to revive the Imperial Family’s energy for my retirement too, but if you keep your mouths shut, it’s troublesome for me, you know?”
Re-retirement??
“If you guys are like this, I can’t become a Saint and Pope, you idiots. Do you know how much our Crown Prince is being despised because of you?”
Then the dragon let out a hollow laugh.
“Well, if the Skeleton King was here, this might not have happened.”
“Whaat??”
Why does the Skeleton King come up there?
Moreover, I am the Skeleton King. So what?
“It seems you’re pro-Emperor? No matter what persuasion, we will never contract with the Imperial Family again… Hueeuk!!”
Isaac pressed and twisted Leia’s sword stuck in the dragon’s back.
“Aaak! Stooop!”
“You seem to be misunderstanding something. I’m not persuading, I’m planning to force a contract, you know? Don’t think you have a choice.”
This bastard, was he from the Red, not from the Blue?!
The dragon tried to attack Isaac by reaching out his hand, but it stopped in mid-air before reaching Isaac.
At that sight, Isaac smiled.
“As expected, you guys can’t attack me, huh?”
“!”
“Ah, to be precise, ‘Melissa’s bloodline’.”
“…!”
In fact, Isaac had heard something from Melissa.
-Isaac. If you ever meet Sacred Dragons, beat them up and attach them to the Imperial Family.
-…Beat up dragons? Are you telling me to die?
-It’s okay. Sacred Dragons can’t attack me and my bloodline. So just beat them. They can’t touch you.
It might be related to when Melissa, who was a half-dragon among the dragon group, was adopted into Eshua.
I don’t know the details, but anyway, what’s important is that this helps in making ‘peace’.
Is that all?
Melissa said this:
-How you lead the family after becoming the family head in the future is up to you, but my personal wish is for you to help Shablis and Charlotte… that is, the Crown Prince and Imperial Princess. They’re such pitiful children because of the Pope.
Well, there’s no reason to listen to Melissa’s request, but there’s no reason not to either?
Rather, since Grandma ordered it, violence is legal, right?
Sure enough, Isaac spoke sternly towards the Sacred Dragon.
“You know your crimes, right?”
“What?”
“The crime of trying to steal the Skeleton King’s body and destroying this place.”
“No, wait. I’m not the one who destroyed this place. When I came, it exploded on its own…”
“The crime of awakening the Skeleton King’s magic and trying to throw the Holy Empire into chaos.”
“No, I’m telling you it woke up on its own?”
“The crime of dirtying my clothes by getting blood on them.”
“No, you guys attacked me! So my blood splattered…!”
“All these crimes are indeed heavy.”
“This bastard isn’t even listening??”
“The perpetrator has an obligation to compensate for all this damage.”
“I don’t have human money!”
“Do you know why you have two kidneys? They’re there to replace when urgent.”
As Isaac smoothly drew his sword, the Sacred Dragon’s pupils shook. How can there be such a vicious child in the Blue!
“So if you bring the leader too, I’ll spare your life… Hmm? Ah, I guess there’s no need to threaten.”
Isaac smiled contentedly while fiddling with the necklace the dragon had been using for communication.
[Isn’t this a summoning stone?]
‘That’s right.’
No wonder this guy seemed like a direct subordinate sent by the dragon leader himself.
‘So they had a medium to summon their leader?’
Originally, he was going to use this guy to reverse summon the Sacred Dragon Leader. Because all dragons are connected to each other through contracts with the leader and siblings. Using that, it was possible to draw them out.
But with this, he could directly summon the dragon leader without needing to use magic or threats.
‘Huhehe. Crown Prince. Wait. This big brother will come with a gift.’
It was then.
“Isaac! Are you alright!”
“Isaac!”
“!”
Familiar voices were heard.
The ones who came running were none other than Melissa and Lilai.
They seemed to have flown from the mansion right away at the news that the Skeleton King’s body was under attack.
“We were worried!”
“Our Isaac! It’s been a long time since I’ve seen your face! Yes, you’ve grown a lot!”
Yeah, I don’t know why none of your kids age at all.
Somehow these guys still have 20-year-old faces even after 16 years.
Lilai hugged his nephew whom he was seeing after several years. Melissa also looked at Isaac with her arms spread expectantly, but when Isaac subtly avoided her, she became gloomy like a rain-soaked dog.
Leia smiled and said.
“Isaac protected the Skeleton King’s body.”
“Ooh, is that so!”
Melissa and Lilai praised Isaac as if very pleased.
Isaac chuckled and approached the bound dragon. Then he pretended to have just discovered something on his body.
“I found it here… Gasp! Uncle! Grandma! There are two of them!”
Isaac, pretending to be surprised, held out two bodies. Seeing that, Lilai became greatly angered.
“This thief must have tried to steal this, cunningly making a fake!”
“No, I didn’t… Ugh!”
Isaac muttered lowly while kicking the Sacred Dragon hard as if telling him to shut up.
“If you talk nonsense, I’ll drag you to the Imperial Family.”
“…!”
‘Well, I plan to drag you there even if you don’t talk nonsense.’
But the Sacred Dragon was startled. Getting involved with the Imperial Family must not happen at all costs!
Soon, Isaac pretended to be a good child and smiled brightly while holding out the fake one to Lilai and Melissa.
“Don’t worry! I think I know which one is real! The Skeleton King’s energy is strongly coming from this one!”
“Oh! I see!”
At Lilai’s reaction, Isaac laughed.
‘Puhuhuh. Right. I made it meticulously, so there’s no way you could tell the difference.’
The real one has its energy hidden, while the fake one is emitting a tremendous amount of magic.
‘Of course they’ll be fooled…’
“No. This is the fake.”
Flinch.
Isaac’s face stiffened slightly.
Melissa clicked her tongue as if displeased while looking at the fallen Sacred Dragon, then pointed at the real one.
“This is the real one.”
As Melissa got the correct answer, Isaac dropped a single bead of sweat.
Uh…?
How did she know?
Lilai tilted his head as if finding it strange.
“That’s the real one? I can’t feel any magical energy from it at all?”
“But Isaak’s smell is from this one.”
You pervert!!!!
Why do you know my smell!!
At Melissa’s confidence, Isaac rarely sweated profusely.
But what made him sweat more was what came next. Lilai, who found out the real one, was very happy and excited, saying Isaac had done it.
“Mother! Rejoice! With just the Skeleton King’s body!”
“Yes, with this we can track Isaak!”
…What?
“That’s right! We can find out the location of the Skeleton King’s soul by casting a detection divine technique!”
Huh? Huh? What? What?
Isaac’s pupils shook violently.
Shit, what is this? Why is this deja vu?
Lilai laughed, hahaha.
“When you were an infant, you didn’t know and ate it, but Isaac is different from 16 years ago.”
“Yes, with this…”
Gulp.
“Huh?”
Isaac swallowed the real body.
With a moment of silence, the Eshua family screamed.
“Isaaaaac!!”