Chapter 45 (1/2)

Chapter 45: A Friend Made with Smoking Grass and Cows

Thankfully, after a flashback of more than five hundred words, Gulliver finally returned to the dragon-slaying story.

I swore that I was determined to quit smoking back then, but I forgot it later because I was shocked by the invisible dragon’s actions. It robbed me of my smoking grass and ate it. I think something might be wrong with its nose.

Sorry that I badmouthed the invisible dragon. As a matter of fact, we became friends later. Since it ate my smoking grass, it did not kill me. I earned the friendship of an invisible dragon with a bundle of smoking grass and two cows. To be honest, the invisible dragon is not huge. It’s only slightly larger than a house.

I saw Archduke Maple Leaves’s bronze dragon before. It was almost thirty meters long. The invisible dragon is like its child, if dragons ever have children.

We spent an afternoon together. In the evening, it shook itself before me and dropped me a gem. Then it flew away, but its gem was left behind. I’ve been wearing it ever since.

Haha. Now you know the origin of my space ring. Too many honorable sirs were willing to pay everything for my ring, but I never agreed, because it’s proof of my friendship with the invisible dragon!

That marked the end of the chapter on the invisible dragon.

Another Gulliver story immediately began.

Liszt skimmed through the novel, but there was no more information on the invisible dragon. Even the space ring was only mentioned once.

It seemed that Gulliver only mentioned the invisible dragon when he thought of it.

It seems that the reward this time is the knowledge of the invisible dragon recorded in the novel… Only people of courage and integrity can see the invisible dragon? In that case, I don’t think I can see it at all. He knew himself quite well.

However, he doubted the accuracy of the information. How could the criteria for seeing the invisible dragon be personality, something that could not be measured?

However, he still found information that was of use for him. Gulliver resisted the invisible dragon’s attack with smoking grass. He also exchanged a bundle of grass and two cows for the invisible dragon’s gem… The reward for my current misty mission is smoking grass. It seems part of a longer quest.

The first reward was information on the invisible dragon.

The second reward was new information on the invisible dragon.

Then the reward was the smoking grass that the invisible dragon liked.

All the rewards were associated. In that case, the target of the missions was quite obvious. It was possible that an invisible dragon was truly going to invade Flower Town.

Cows? Liszt thought of something else. The Cow Farm has two cows that are too old to produce any milk. They haven’t been butchered yet because there is still enough food in the castle. Maybe the two old cows are the food that I need to prepare for the invisible dragon?

The information was still not specific enough.

Liszt believed that his top priority was to keep on accomplishing the missions to get more details on the invisible dragon so that he could take measures accordingly.

Somebody knocked on the door.

“Come on in.”

Carter came in with a lamp. “My lord, the hour is late. You should rest.”