345 Ronragruk (1/2)

”Fleeing?”

The dragon pursued the fleeing sea monster for a while, but then he decided to stop.

”I hope that it didn't dare to return.”

The dragon knew that he could catch that sea monster if he continued to pursue it, but at that time he would be already too far from the tribe where the members of the Dragon Race lived, and he feared that the sea monster was just trying to lure him far from the tribe to let others attack them.

After all, it wasn't normal that a sea monster went to the mountains to attack, so it was pretty obvious that it was just following orders, and since the intentions of the person giving orders in the shadows were unknown, the divine dragon didn't dare to bet with the lives of the members of the Dragon Race.

The battle between the two had been quite quick since the sea monster decided to flee at the moment that it noticed that winning was impossible.

The sea monster hid in the coast near the place where Yale's group reached the western continent because that was one of its lairs. In fact, since there were space portals connecting all the lairs, some of its preys ended falling into them and appearing at other lairs, which was the reason for people sometimes appearing at that coast after being attacked.

”I can't do anything as long as they are in that mountain. Fortunately, I don't have any time limit.”

After the sea monster confirmed that the dragon hadn't pursued it, it sighed in relief while waiting until the moment when Yale's group would leave the mountains belonging to the Dragon Race.

Without knowing anything about the battle between the divine dragon and the sea monster, Yale's group was enjoying the hospitality of the Dragon Race.

The Dragon Race hadn't been in that world for as much time as the lizardmen, but their traditions came from even before they needed to emigrate from their world, so their story as a community with their own traditions was among the longest even in the western continent.

However, all the living members of the Dragon Race were born in the western continent, so they had only learned the traditions from their predecessors and weren't sure about the origin of those traditions.

”What did you say that was this?”

Sebe had a weird face when asking a member of a Dragon Race about an item that was in front of him.

”A wine vessel, there are some of our best wine inside.”

The reply was immediate, but that didn't improve Sebe's face.

”Alright, and the other thirty items were all the same... Why do you need so many different vessels for storing wine? I admit that your wine is very good, but there shouldn't be any need to store it in so many kinds of vessels...”

Sebe had been very interested in learning about the traditions of the Dragon Race, but he was starting to have a headache.

”We don't know. This is just a tradition passed from ancient times.”

Yale was hearing the conversation and wanted to laugh due to Sebe's reactions. Of course, Yale had identified everything easily with his Divine Eyes, so he didn't need to ask questions to know about some meaningless traditions of the tribe. Moreover, he was sure, that those traditions were wrong and probably mixed too many unrelated things on them.

However, Yale didn't plan to say anything about that and just observed the members of the tribe execute their traditional dances around the fire.

”Demon Lord, our boss has just returned and asked us to bring you to his presence.”

The chief of the tribe rushed to speak with Yale as soon as he received a message from his boss that had just returned. Of course, the divine dragon could have just asked Yale directly by Spiritual Sense, but that wouldn't have been polite.

Yale was happy of hearing that because he was already bored of so much Dragon Race's traditional welcome party.

Wyba, who was sleeping on the top of Yale's head, was the only one who went with Yale to meet with the divine dragon as the others remained on the welcome party.

”Welcome, new Demon Lord. You can now leave me alone with the Demon Lord.”

After welcoming Yale, the divine dragon asked the chief to leave, and the later obeyed without any hesitation.