Chapter 74 - Chapter 11: Sword Duke #5 (1/2)
Chapter 74 - Chapter 11: Sword Duke #5
The voice of the woman he had heard every time he used the power of Conquest...
The beautiful woman who emerged in his head in every moment of crisis.
It was only a cold, grey slab, but In-gong naturally coloured in the picture engraved on the slab.
A golden crown, white hair, mysterious red and blue eyes.
Conquest.
That was her name. She wore pure white clothes and led the group.
”War.”
He looked at someone behind the white woman and was naturally able to recall the colour.
If the woman wearing the crown was pure white, the woman in armour was crimson.
The woman surrounded by flames was wearing red, blood-like armour. Her eyes were thick and dark blue. They were eyes that reminded him of the sword duke.
Additionally, there were two men behind the women.
One was blue and the other was black. Unlike the previous two women, he couldn’t recall them in his head.
Four people.
Ainkel had called In-gong a Conquest Knight. If so, did the power of Conquest come from these four people, particularly the white woman?
In-gong’s eyes rolled as he thought. The four people had been drawn exactly opposite the elder dragons.
Why were they a mirror image? Did the four people and the elder dragons have a hostile relationship with each other?
The elder dragons were said to have godlike powers.
The four people were opposite them... This might mean the four people were god-like beings comparable to the elder dragons.
‘Watcher Ainkel.’
In-gong had only faced her for a short time. He had merely heard her voice emerge from Green Wind’s mouth.
However, In-gong hadn’t felt like she was an enemy. After conquering Green Wind and taking Ainkel’s dragon heart, instead of thinking of her as an enemy, he felt closer to her.
Why?
Didn’t the four people have a hostile relationship with the elder dragons?
Or did the composition of the picture mean something else?
In-gong tried to find any new clues in the slab, but the slab didn’t have any writing around the picture. He looked at other slabs nearby but couldn’t find anything related.
Conquest Knight...
Conquest and War...
The identity of the remaining two were unknown.
However, their relationship with the elder dragons...
Why did they have a record stored in Thunderdoom Fortress?
In-gong looked back at the white woman. She had a very determined and calm face. He had never seen a different expression on the white woman.
In-gong glanced at the picture one last time before putting it back where it had been originally. He wanted to take it but couldn’t put it in his inventory due to the special protection magic around the archives.
At that time, he heard a whisper from Green Wind,
'Master, can you come over here? I have done something worthy of praise. Look quickly.’
There was a lot of excitement in her voice.
It was a cute child-like voice that bounced continuously.
In-gong smiled involuntarily and turned in the direction of her voice.
“What's going on?”
'I found a record for the elder dragons. The dwarves in this fortress seem to be really interested in dragons.’
Green Wind swung her arms while she sat on White Eagle. She was translucent like a ghost, but her smile was vivid.
'This way, this way.’
Instead of a slab, a large book was waiting for In-gong. There was a stand that the book was placed on, but the stand was made for a dwarf, so it was a little uncomfortable to use.
In-gong solved the problem by sitting on White Eagle and Green Wind sat next to him, urging In-gong on again.
'There is some related content here.’
She had been born from the fragment of Ainkel, so she could also read the dwarf characters. In-gong read the letters, that Green Wind was pointing at, slowly.
'Violent Kaltein.’
An elder dragon with the power of fire.
'Isn’t this useful information?’
He had just read the first line when Green Wind knocked against his side and asked, Instead of looking at Green Wind’s face, In-gong pulled back and looked behind her.
‘Master?’
”No, you don’t have a tail.”
If she did, it would be wagging wildly.
‘I don’t know what Master is talking about.’
Green Wind sounded puzzled, but In-gong just patted her head.
“Well done. I think it will help.”
‘Is that so? Then just read it. I will enjoy the praise after a while. Instead, I’ll ask for the praise to last a little longer.’
Her smiling face was really pleased. It wasn’t merely about the praise but because she had been helpful to In-gong.
In-gong patted her head a few more times before focusing on the contents of the book. It was a legend about the residence of Violent Kaltein.
The elder dragons had aliases that matched their characters.
Enkidu was the tyrant with the power of destruction.
Ainkel was the gentle mother and compassionate to all, while Queian was the wise and thoughtful sage.
Violent Kaltein was the warrior.
He was remembered as a hot dragon due to his ‘violence’, but he was closer to ice than to fire. Kaltein wasn’t easily rattled and he looked at everything with calm eyes.
A cold flame.
A silent warrior who didn’t pull out his sword easily, but once he did, the world would burn with his intensity.
Like the other elder dragons, he was missing. The information in the book was about an old lair that Kaltein had stayed in hundreds of years ago.
‘The book itself was created hundreds of years ago... So, it has been almost a thousand years?’
Suddenly, Ainkel’s death popped into his head. She had lost her life a thousand years ago. Ainkel’s death... The elder dragons disappearing from the world.