Talent-Swallowing Magician - Chapter 267

Part 2, Episode 7, Level

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Inside a room in a village inn a little away from the Dragon’s Nest.

Tasha was at a loss for words after seeing the report Hanabi brought.

A report that includes papers, books, and even novels if necessary.

It consisted of a tower of type that could easily have been taller than a person.

“Wow… what is this?”

Tasha couldn’t help but burst into laughter.

She asked again, wondering if she might have misheard what Hanabi said.

Hanabi responded with a wry smile, as if her reaction was natural.

“These are new materials written by Elric throughout the day.”

“what? So you’re saying you just organized the original data?”

Tasha couldn’t believe it.

‘That amount of stuff would take at least 3 days?’

But what Hanabi said while laughing was even more shocking than that.

“no. “This is a piece of material that I personally analyzed, organized, and wrote anew.”

“…!”

Tasha was shocked after hearing Hanabi’s words.

She quickly looked through Elric’s materials.

“This… is almost at the level of a paper in terms of accuracy and depth? Writing something like that instead of organizing it? And that in just one day?”

“I and the magicians are all very surprised.”

Tasha looked tired.

“Really, how could someone like that still exist…”

Tasha had already heard and knew that Elric had been unable to use magic due to mana deficiency.

However, even excluding magic, Elric’s level of talent and knowledge was already beyond imagination.

Even most of the professors at Woosden Academy are at a level where they can be easily steamed.

And yet it was still buried?

“We all just find it fascinating.”

Hanabi’s voice was full of excitement that she couldn’t hide.

Before she was an attendant, she was also a scholar who pursued magic. I felt a sense of awe at the appearance of an outstandingly talented person.

That’s why I came to the point where I fell in love with Elric, probably because I felt so much after listening to his lectures.

Of course, it was not a rational pursuit, but a pursuit of superior knowledge.

“Should we say it’s because people have only focused on Mervinger’s downfall? Anyway, what on earth is going on? “It’s truly amazing.”

Tasha muttered softly and placed her hand on the top of the tower.

〈New analogy about the habits and reproduction of dragons〉

“Well, all the knowledge related to dragons that has come out to date has been absurd, so it must be natural….”

A thousand years ago. After dragons became extinct, people began to study their ecology.

The hope was that by understanding the ecosystem of the dragon, the progenitor of magic, we would be able to gain greater knowledge or inspiration about various fields of magic that had remained unknown until now.

and.

Over the past hundreds of years, numerous theories and articles have been published.

The problem was that most of them were just speculative tales.

There were some theories that were known to be correct… but this incident completely shattered them.

Just one person came up with a theory that was decades advanced.

Tasha was sure.

If these reports were submitted to academia now, the world would turn upside down once again.

‘I’m most curious about how the imperial family will react.’

Wasn’t this the imperial family that claimed the legitimacy of their rule by saying that they were protected by a dragon or chosen by a dragon?

But how will Elric react when he finds out that he raises dragons?

‘Actually, the reason Elric wrote this report was because of the Yongyongs.’

Tasha thought of Elric, who was probably busy taking care of the baby dragons right now.

‘Still, he’s a really warm person on the inside. ‘It’s completely different from what I heard from Sean?’

As Tasha was a close friend of Elric’s younger brother, she could not help but hear a lot about him.

Of course, since Elric wasn’t famous, I wasn’t interested at all at the time.

Nevertheless, the Elric of the vague story that came to mind and the Elric of today seemed to be different people.

‘I thought he was a very selfish or self-indulgent person… but he is so devoted to taking responsibility for the lives he has taken. ‘You’re amazing.’

Tasha had no hesitation in thinking that she would have thrown a tantrum if Sean had heard.

But in reality, Elric was conducting research day and night for the baby dragons.

It was not unreasonable for a misunderstanding, not just a misunderstanding, to form positive prejudices about Elric.

‘Ah… I want to finish work quickly and go see Yongyong.’

Of course, the main reason for such prejudice was because Tasha had a perfect affinity for baby dragons.

“Oh. Come to think of it, I heard there was a letter from the family?”

Then Tasha suddenly remembered the report she had heard from another subordinate in the morning.

For a moment, Hanabi’s expression hardened.

“yes. “Here it is.”

Tasha took the scroll that Hanabi gave her and opened it.

And soon.

Her expression became increasingly hard.

“The crown prince… Zeraitz is dead?”

* * *

The baby dragons have been sleeping for the past three days and have not even opened their eyes a few times.

Even when I open my eyes, I am active for about 120 minutes at most.

It was a short time, not exceeding an hour in total.

To be honest, it wasn’t a particularly enjoyable time for Tasha.

It was truly a fortunate thing for Elric.

“Haa…”

Elric sighed and watched the baby dragons sleeping.

When she sleeps, she looks like an angel.

Why do I whine so much when I wake up?

“Is parenting really this difficult?”

“joy. Even if you were to ask the King about something like that, do you think he would be able to answer?』

“Well, he is like that too…”

Demons are a strange phenomenon that originates from the unknown. Of course, there was no way I knew anything about the general parent-child relationship.

『How about just getting rid of those ugly things? There are quite a lot of dragon corpses to collect, even if they are young.』

“I told you that if you’re going to talk nonsense, you should go to the moon and do it, right?”

『It’s a shame.』

“There’s nothing to regret at all, right?”

Mephisto, who I thought was someone I could share my parenting concerns with, is of no help as he only thinks about getting rid of the dragons whenever he gets the chance.

In fact, in the three days since the dragon woke up, Elric felt like he was dying.

Even though I’ve never raised a child, I had to deal with baby dragons that weren’t even in my family.

Even the information about dragons’ parenting methods was full of errors.

In particular, there was another biggest problem.

“What on earth should I feed you?”

The baby dragons hadn’t had a single meal since they hatched from the eggs.

When you give them meat, they tend to take a bite and then spit it out with a ‘tsk’ sound.

I wondered if he was a picky eater, so even when I brought him lamb or beef, he was busy spitting it out every time.

Then, he said that he wasn’t giving me what he wanted, so he made a pouty face and fell asleep again.

-Dragons must have consumed a huge amount of meat to maintain their large size.

One of the speculations that academia has had about dragons.

Even Elric believed it to be an orthodox theory.

“That was bullshit.”

Not at all.

-No matter how good a dragon is at controlling magic, it will not be able to handle mana well when it is a cub.

I believed that this too was a guess close to orthodoxy.

“Who would have thought that I would release my breath as a joke?”

Breath, commonly known as ‘Dragon’s Breath’, is a conglomerate of the mana element.

How many times did you almost get your head burned by the jaws that fired things like that at random places?

These dragons were already naturally using mana.

Because of this, all the magicians Tasha had assigned were confused.

But still, the jjambap that Neresta had given him wasn’t going anywhere, so he was observing the baby dragons 24 hours a day and reorganizing their habits, as if they were doing well.

But even if I did that, I couldn’t get anything that would be of great help.

“I’m really going crazy….”

Kiyuyu.

At that time, Gold woke up with a pleasant cry as he felt Elric’s hand scratching his neck.

And soon after, Red and Black got up and played, biting each other’s wings, before jumping backwards and falling.

Ki-ing-ki-ing.

At the same time, they are busy laughing as to what is so funny.

Of course, Elric’s expression was still somber.

“What on earth do you guys eat for a living? “Aren’t you hungry?”

Kiyu?

Gold tilted his head at Elric’s words.

“Jewel Dragons and Guardian Dragons are always good at talking about it, but why can’t you guys do it?… They won’t take care of you if you say something.”

Gold blinked and this time tilted his head to the other side.

Kiyuyu?

“Is Kiyu the only thing you know how to say?”

Flap flutter!

Wow!

As if he understood what I was saying, he just flapped his wings.

“Okay, okay…”

A feeling of frustration surged from deep inside my heart, but it wasn’t actually a bad thing.

No, actually, if you think about it, it was good, but there was nothing bad about it at all.

Recently, the rumor that Elric was raising a baby dragon was spreading rapidly.

‘It’s a lucrative business because you become famous just by taking them with you.’

There was a rumor that he had resurrected a dragon and started raising it to live up to the name Mervinger.

‘These guys will be the most important key to our family’s revival.’

If it were to become the Mervinger family’s mascot, it might quickly catch up to its past glory.

And when these baby dragons grow up…

‘they could become dragon riders…!’

“Ugh…!”

Elric smiled sinisterly, recalling the dragon knights he had read about in novels as a child.

Mephisto watched the scene and spoke in anger as if he had read Elric’s dark intentions.

『…It’s here again. That perverted laugh. Anyway, why don’t the people of the world know this and are always fooled?』

Mephisto, who was grumbling, looked at the baby dragons with mixed eyes.

Demons and dragons have a relationship like natural enemies.

In particular, Mephisto was the Great Demon King, the highest rank among the demons.

From Mephisto’s perspective, it was extremely painful to watch the offspring of dragons that had already become extinct before his eyes.

But he actually had a bigger problem.

Kiyuyu!

Before I knew it, Gold had broken away from Elric and was flapping his wings as he flew towards Mephisto.

『Oh my…!』

Mephisto was greatly embarrassed as he looked at the guy in his arms.

Wow! Kiyuyu!!

They even show cuteness.

“I feel this every time I see it, but it’s truly absurd.”

Elric knew because he was spiritually connected to the baby dragons.

That the baby dragons show affection for Mephisto.

『No, these don’t have any instincts as dragons! Why is it sticking together like this? Get away!』

Mephisto was scared and started struggling.

I was so genuinely horrified that all my hair stood on end.

Red and Black, who joined late, clung to the head and shoulders as if it was more fun.

“shit! Please do something with these guys…! I mean, fall!』

It was funny because it looked like a fruit-bearing tree shaking in the wind.

“It’s nice to see. “Please keep playing with us like that.”

“what? Say that now…! Argh! What on earth are you doing in this king’s head? stop! That’s not a bathroom! Stop… Argh!』

While Mephisto was struggling back and forth in pain.

Even as Elric let go of the worries of raising a child, he had to fall into deep thought again.

‘Anyway, I really don’t think I should starve anymore…’

Actually, if you think about it, it’s funny that dragons like meat.

If so many dragons in the past had eaten meat for every meal to fill their stomachs, they would have become extinct long ago due to lack of food.

‘If it’s not direct ingestion, then what… Ah!’

At that moment, a thought passed through Elric’s mind.

“The journey of magic, the enormous magical power….”

While I was muttering to myself, many thoughts crossed my mind.

‘Since they can’t live without mana, perhaps they ingest something containing magical power?’

then.

What substance is related to mana and contains it in abundance?

“Commonly used as research material for wizards…?”

Elric muttered softly and touched the magic mirror hanging around his neck as a sudden thought occurred to him.

Four jewels embedded in the cross-shaped ends.

High-purity gems were actually very precious treasures even for wizards.

It wasn’t because of luxury.

This was because it contained abundant mana elements.

then?

‘Ah, but I can’t believe it…’

Elric tried his best to ignore his premonition.

Even if it were true, I had to ignore it. If it were revealed to be true, Mervinger could soon go bankrupt.

So, when I was about to turn back.

Kiyuyu!

Suddenly, Gold stopped playing with Mephisto and looked at Elric with his vertically slit eyes shining brightly.

No, more precisely, he was looking at the magic sword held in Elric’s hand.

Glitter!

The eyes of a predator with delicious prey in front of it.

Churp. Even drool was flowing from my mouth.

Only then did Elric know what Gold wanted.

Wizard who swallowed talent