Chapter 24 (1/2)

“I should bring you back home for Mia.”

Neither Max nor Mia had eaten their fill when they were dining on the camels earlier.

Furthermore, ever since Max found the adventurers’ emblem, he dared not stay on the scene any longer.

As such, not only had the hunt gone to waste, but both he and Mia did not eat too well.

The desert night had come to an end.

A ray of sunlight emerged from the horizon and gradually covered everything.

Dawn had arrived, and it was time for the humans to become active.

Max looked in the direction of the camel corpses and sighed.

‘It’s too dangerous to go back for them.’

‘There’s no telling how many transmigrators there are in this world.’

‘I should head back for now.’

‘I’ve already obtained a huge ruby and a giant ballista. This is already a good enough harvest.’

Max walked to the warrior’s corpse and took off all of his plate armor.

The plate armor was of no value to the red dragon. It was merely a pile of scrap metal.

Bringing it back would only be a waste of energy.

…

By the time Max had returned to the lair, the sun in the sky was already somewhat scorching.

A small figure was standing in front of the lair.

Mia had been waiting there the whole time.

Max had told Mia not to care about anything and to just continue flying forward.

Mia had done exactly as she was told. She flew all the way back to the cave without looking back.

Then, she waited.

From the dark night until the sun was high up in the sky, she was constantly waiting for Max’s return.

Mia had many things she wanted to say.

For example, “Welcome back”, “You’ve worked hard”, “It’s good that you’re alright”…

However, being the proud creatures they were, no such words had existed in their vocabulary.

After much deliberation and much stuttering, Mia finally burst out with the words, “Brother!”

Max smiled indifferently and teased, “Open up! The deliveryman has arrived!”

Then, he threw the corpse of the swordsman to Mia.

With that, the brother and sister consumed the swordsman’s corpse at the mouth of the lair.

Naturally, they did not dine within the lair itself.

Doing so would catch Agatha’s attention, after all.

She would snatch away their food.

It was already considered noble for a dragon to not eat their own children.

As such, snatching away the food of their children was nothing too serious.

Moreover, Agatha was still sleeping.

It would not be a good idea to wake her up.

After all, human meat was rather delicious.

This was the first time Max had eaten a human.

He knew that this day would come sooner or later. Humans and dragons were mortal enemies, and humans had always been a staple of a dragon’s diet.

He had imagined countless times about what kind of state of mind he would be in when the fated day would finally arrive. Or rather, he wondered for what reason would he eat humans.

What kind of reason would cause him to have to eat his former species?

Surprisingly, however, Max did not think much of it when the time had finally come.

His hunger had allowed him to feast on the human corpse without any psychological barriers.

“Delicious.”

Mia licked her bloody mouth. “It’s even more delicious than those camels.”