Make the dragon great again

Chapter 10 The Studious Dungeon Master

In the evening, in the depths of the Great Mullin Forest, there was a temporary bonfire camp.

Ten days have passed since Adrian rescued Anna and her party.

In the past ten days, Adrian, under the identity of "Half-elf Ed", disguised himself as an unknown half-elf "hero" magician, and escorted his "distant relative" Anna all the way across Murray. En Great Forest, go to the Quintus Great Swamp in the south of the Great Forest.

On the way, Adrian led the crowd to the west for a long detour on the grounds that "the road in the east of the forest may be blocked by the pursuers of the kingdom and the principality".

However, Adrian actually had an ulterior reason for doing so...

"...Speaking of dungeons, it seems that no new dungeons have been discovered in the past ten years or so. Even those adventurers with gold and diamond nameplates can only explore the ones that have been discovered for a long time. old dungeon."

A girl named Sally was chatting with her companions about the dungeon.

"A real dungeon has not been seen for hundreds of years. The so-called dungeons that everyone is talking about now are just large gathering places of monsters like Goblin Walled City."

The one who picked up Sally's topic was Anastasia, who was rich in knowledge and disguised as a noble lady who ran away from home during the rebellious period. Of course, the name of the current princess is "Anna".

——As for the strange magical ability that Anna showed that day, everyone who was friends tacitly didn't ask much...

Thinking of the Goblin stronghold they encountered a few days ago, Sally and the other companions in the team couldn't help but shudder.

Speaking of which, the big goblin shaman that appeared at that time was actually just one of the leaders of the nearby goblin city, and the large number of goblins that appeared at that time were just a branch of the tribe outside the city.

However, after Adrian quietly recovered his body and killed a big shaman in seconds, it was unknown whether it was because everyone left quickly or the remaining big shaman in the city was too frightened to catch up. No need to face an army of real goblins coming in like a tide...

"A monster city of that level is not a real dungeon..."

Sally looked terrified, but when she saw "Mr. Ed" sitting on the other side of the campfire, looking at the surrounding scenery "as if nothing had happened", Sally felt at ease again.

With this gentleman around, there is nothing to be afraid of even encountering a real dungeon, right?
"In terms of the concentration of monsters alone, the Goblin Walled City is indeed at the level of a dungeon. Over the years, the top-ranked adventurers in the eastern guild have also become famous for clearing the lairs of such monsters, but in fact , the properties of these monster lairs and dungeons are actually different..."

Anna has a very good background, and she is also a student of the highest jury member of Gaotalin. She has dabbled in all kinds of knowledge. At this time, the topic started, and she began to explain it to her companions.

"Like the Goblin Walled City, it is a large-scale monster breeding settlement. It is usually located on the surface and composed of a single monster. From time to time, it will form an army of monsters and go out to plunder the human country;
But the dungeon is different. The dungeon is a large underground labyrinth formed by ancient ruins or natural caves buried underground. There are often many different monsters existing at the same time..."

Anna introduced the characteristics of the dungeon to her companions, while Adrian on the side seemed indifferent, but actually pricked up his ears secretly.

Adrian, our dungeon lord, has never been to school in this world. Except for the memory of his previous life, all his knowledge comes from his incomplete blood memory, as well as the fact that he strayed into the dungeon for a hundred years and was oppressed by his aura. Goblins who are forced to be teachers (goblins are not really intelligent creatures, so they can't break Adrian's seal).

To sum up, Adrian is absolutely half-illiterate in this world...

Anna, who didn't know that she was "teaching" a giant dragon, continued:

"Ordinary small relics or natural caves can only become monster lairs at most, and cannot become real dungeons. An important condition for forming a dungeon is that there must be a large amount of magic power gathered in the relic cave;

And what can form the phenomenon of magic power gathering is either there is a vein of magic power in the depths of the cave, or there is a sealed ancient relic that actively attracts magic power, or there is a powerful fantasy species inhabiting it, forming a magic radiation source, or, It is simply that the above two or even three situations exist at the same time. "(Note 1)

Anna carefully explained to her companions, and Adrian, who secretly "listened to the class", also nodded secretly.

The dungeon where Adrian was born originally had a large number of low-level monsters living in it. After he grew up as a giant dragon and began to actively absorb the magic power of the earth, more and more monsters took the initiative to go underground. city ​​near;

However, at that time, Adrian only thought that intelligent creatures would be able to enter the ninth floor and unlock his own seal, and felt that the gathering of a large number of monsters would cause intelligent creatures to be afraid, so he would take the initiative to let go of his own from time to time. The breath of the giant dragon, expelling the monsters gathered in the dungeon, so that after the three-person adventurer team entered, they didn't even see half of the monsters...

"So it is!" Sally suddenly realized. "It's no wonder that in the stories of the troubadours, dungeons are always related to treasures. It turns out that the formation of dungeons is inseparable from the existence of treasures!"

Whether it is the mineral veins containing magic power, the sealed ancient relics, or the powerful monsters and phantom species that become the source of magic radiation, they are all treasures in the eyes of adventurers.

Hearing that Sally classified the "powerful fantasy species with radiating magic power" into the category of "treasure" without hesitation, Adrian, who is an ancient "ancient fantasy dragon", couldn't help but shudder.

Thinking about the "salivating" attitude that the magicians of this world have when they treat rare phantom creatures that he intentionally or unintentionally extracted from Anna these days, Adrian couldn't help but swallowed, thinking to himself Saying:
'I'm still a young dragon, and I can't be paralyzed by the weakness of the Gaia subspecies. I have to be cautious before I figure out the overall strength level of this world! '

"This time I can meet a 'hero' magician. With my perfect transformation technique, a magician who is as strong as me can't see through my body. I hope that through that magician, I can test it out." Come out with higher-level information about this world...'

In helping Anastasia, Adrian not only wanted to inquire about the history of dragons from her heroic magician teacher, but also had the purpose of probing the higher-level intelligence of this world.

"But before that, we have to complete the purpose of this long detour..."

After estimating the distance through the induction with the dungeon lair, Adrian's eyes flickered slightly, as if he was planning something.

……

To be continued.

Note: [Fantasy species] In this book, "Phantasy species" and "Longevity species" are not the same, and will not be expanded here, and will be explained one by one as the plot develops.

(End of this chapter)