Dragonslayer’s Class Regression 39

Chapter 39

‘Dragon Slaying Technique?’

Sethon Draker’s True Dragon Sword technique was defined as a Technique for humans to kill dragons.

Zeke read through his words.

[Through the help of the Great Hero King, humans were able to form contracts with dragons, known as the Harmonizers of All Things.

Humans, who had many shortcomings compared to other races, were always weak beings.

Dragons pitied humans and freely shared their knowledge with contractors.

After the Hero King, those who contracted with dragons settled across continents and began building their own civilizations.

Their development speed was unbelievably fast, which made me somewhat fearful.

My fear was about dragons, beings beyond comprehension.

If these beings with infinite power and knowledge suddenly decided to erase humans from this world, humans would disappear that very day.

While suppressing this growing fear in my heart, I searched for various ways humans could oppose dragons.

Magic was my first thought.

However, magic was the first gift dragons gave to humans.

They taught humans how to create circles in their hearts to generate mana like dragons.

Using magic to stop dragons, the originators of magic, was nonsensical.

The second was the Hero King’s ‘Elemental Sword’. But this power was only granted to him, who inherited fairy blood.

At first, I researched various ways for humans to use the Elemental Sword.

Ironically, Chronos, the Hero King’s contract dragon, most enthusiastically helped my research.

Chronos became interested in my research and tried to find ways to transcend human limitations by combining various magical experiments, Eastern Continent successors’ abilities, and the Hero King’s Elemental Sword.

Eventually, Chronos and I discovered the power called ‘Aura’.

We found a way to manifest a different kind of power from human bodies, neither elemental power nor mana.

After finding a clue for humans to transcend their limitations, I continued research even after the Hero King departed for the spirit realm.

Finally, by completing the ‘True Dragon Sword technique’, I could perfectly control Aura’s power.

I delivered this True Dragon Sword techniquenot only to the Chronos Kingdom but to all human kingdoms.

It was a kind of desperate measure to prevent humans from disappearing helplessly if dragons turned their backs on us.

The problem was that no one could perfectly understand and deploy this True Dragon Sword technique.

To master Aura, one must endure bone-crushing pain through harsh training, but using artifacts made by dragons could easily grant much stronger power.

Thus, my True Dragon Sword technique struggled to find proper successors, leading me to leave this secret manual.

If there are future generations who find this manual, I hope they understand my intentions and diligently master it.]

Sethon Draker’s entreaty ended there.

Simultaneously, a message appeared:

―Achievement Quest (Intermediate Mission)―

[Master the True Dragon Sword technique , Sethon Draker’s secret technique. (Time limit: three months)]

[Quest Mission Reward: Title ‘Successor of the Sword Saint’ / Coordinates to Chronos Kingdom’s Treasury]

“A reward of Chronos Kingdom’s treasury.”

An ancient kingdom’s treasury likely contained valuable items.

This was a useful reward for Zeke, who was trying to build his own power.

Additionally, the True Dragon Sword technique was the origin of dragon-slaying techniques.

The secret sword technique left by Sethon Draker, founder of Aura, would surely be enough to overcome the wall of the Black Knight.

‘Three months time limit. I should focus on mastering the True Dragon Sword techniquewhile in Valhalla.’

Then Zeke noticed something strange.

The Draker family’s dragon slayer bloodline had a much longer history than widely known.

Yet somehow, these stories about Sethon Draker and his successor Terakan Draker’s inheritance of his secret technique weren’t passed down.

Everyone knows about Dragon Slayer Terakan Draker’s feat of killing the evil dragon Bahamut and saving the Central Continent.

However, surprisingly little is known about Terakan Draker.

While everyone knows about the Liberation War from a thousand years ago, the known content has been passed down more as legend than history.

Because of this, Terakan Draker felt more like a mythical hero like Kaisir rather than a historical figure.

‘Why haven’t I questioned these aspects until now.’

Rather than not questioning it, it seemed more like he hadn’t felt the need to question it.

Zeke had never thought deeply about the Dragon Slayer legend until he inherited the legacy of Terakan Draker.

However, after forming direct and indirect relationships with those he thought were just characters from legends and myths, he began to think there might be something hidden behind what he knew.

“System, find personal records of Terakan Draker in the security archive. Something like a diary.”

[Searching for administrator’s request.]

[There is one search result for your request.]

Zeke opened the content the system had found.

Then a video appeared before his eyes.

The video was damaged, with lots of noise on the screen.

Still, he could make out roughly what was happening – it seemed to be a recording of something someone had seen and heard.

[Adjusting screen.]

When the system adjusted the screen, the noisy image became clearer than before.

Something appeared on the screen.

At first, Zeke couldn’t recognize what the being was.

Then he realized a moment later.

“A dragon?”

A massive being that seemed impossible to exist in this world was looking at Zeke.

A huge dragon covered in black, hard scales looked down at him with golden eyes.

Just receiving its gaze made him feel an overwhelming pressure that seemed capable of annihilating everything and freezing souls.

Then that being opened its mouth.

「Terakan.」

Zeke realized the video’s perspective was from Terakan Draker’s view.

「Bahamut.」

Terakan Draker called the black dragon before him Bahamut.

Then Bahamut slowly lowered his head and said,

「Terakan, my contractor.」

Zeke was shocked to hear those words.

‘’Terakan was Bahamut’s contractor?’’

Zzzzzzt!

The noise became severe again.

He couldn’t hear clearly what Bahamut and Terakan were saying.

The screen flickered and kept cutting in and out.

When the video continued again, Terakan Draker’s sword was pierced into the center of Bahamut’s brow.

The two seemed to be talking about something, but he couldn’t hear what they were saying properly.

Soon after, Bahamut completely lowered his head and closed his eyes.

And starting from where Terakan Draker had pierced his sword, Bahamut’s body slowly turned to black ash and scattered.

Only a jewel-like shining heart and one of his strongest fangs remained where his body had been.

And the video ended.

Zeke wore a dazed expression of disbelief.

‘Bahamut was Terakan Draker’s contract dragon?’

Zeke felt great confusion at the fact that Terakan Draker and Bahamut had been in a contract relationship.

There was clearly something unknown in the Dragon Slayer legend.

Zeke’s sharp senses activated.

‘Perhaps an important secret of the Draker family is hidden within it.’

Getting his hands on the family secret could become a useful card to play someday.

Zeke decided to investigate the hidden contents of the Dragon Slayer legend.

Where he was now was the Valhalla Library, the finest library in the Central Continent.

Zeke began to find and read all the books about the Dragon Slayer legend in the Valhalla Library.

And Zeke could learn a surprising fact.

“The contents are all the same.”

As if deliberately made that way, the contents about the Dragon Slayer legend only included that Terakan Draker defeated Bahamut and opened a golden age in the Central Continent.

What was more surprising was that there weren’t any research papers or academic books about this topic to begin with.

Compared to the hundreds of books and papers about Hero King Kaisir, whose actual existence was unclear, there was almost nothing about Terakan Draker.

“How could this be possible?”

It seemed as if someone had deliberately deleted and censored all content about the Terakan Draker.

Furthermore, Zeke realized that in his previous life, he wasn’t even aware of this situation.

Feeling that there was no longer any point in researching Terakan Draker at the Valhalla Library, Zeke returned to the mansion.

Then he contacted Kei separately.

He asked Kei to find and send any books about Terakan Draker from all regions, including the Central Continent.

A week later, Zeke received a bundle of books sent by Kei.

They were books about the Dragon Slayer legends written in Northern and Southern Continental languages.

The problem was that these too weren’t much different from what Zeke had seen in Valhalla.

Zeke read the letter Kei had enclosed.

-I understand why you made such a request while searching for books about Terakan Draker. The books in circulation are all very similar. Even the books brought from other continents are only slightly different in format.

I also felt something was odd, so I asked through rare book channels. Do you know what answer came back? ‘Forbidden’. Just this one word. And as far as I know, there’s only one reason for such a response. It means that the Draker family itself is blocking research about Terakan Draker.

Upon receiving Kei’s letter, Zeke confirmed his suspicions were correct.

The Draker family was hiding the history of Terakan Draker and censoring information about him.

It was difficult to understand why the Draker family, which had risen to become one of the three transcendent families under the name of Dragon Slayer family, would deliberately erase the past of Terakan Draker, their founder.

Zeke burned Kei’s letter.

It seemed there was an even bigger secret hidden here than he had thought.

That’s when it happened.

‘Who is it?’

Zeke’s senses detected the presence of stealthy intruders approaching.

Zeke’s senses, honed through elemental power from the Elemental Sword, were on a different level from ordinary knights.

He drew out Bahamut and immediately pressed himself against the wall to hide.

Judging by how they concealed their presence and moved systematically, they were professionals, not amateurs.

‘Have I been followed by the Empire’s Hounds? That shouldn’t be possible…’

When he killed the Hounds he encountered in the Giant Mountains, he only left traces of being a southern hitman.

Moreover, he used a portal when coming down from the mountain, so there couldn’t have been any traces left.

Zeke watched suspiciously, holding his breath, as they entered his room.

The black-clad intruders, unaware of Zeke’s presence, began searching various parts of his room.

Their movements were so careful and stealthy that if he hadn’t noticed beforehand, it would have been difficult to even detect signs that the room had been searched.

Zeke realized these weren’t the Empire’s Hounds.

The Hounds couldn’t move this stealthily and quietly.

Upon this realization, Zeke approached using the Shadowless Step.

WHOOSH!

Holding a dagger instead of Bahamut, Zeke grabbed the intruder from behind and immediately tried to slit their throat.

However, surprisingly, the intruder twisted their body to dodge Zeke’s attack and immediately rolled away to escape outside.

Zeke moved toward the others who hadn’t yet made it outside.

SHWICK!

He threw the dagger at their legs to prevent their escape.

But the other intruder also succeeded in dodging Zeke’s attack and immediately tried to escape outside.

‘At least Purple Knight level or above.’

Zeke gripped his dagger and used the Shadowless Step.

SLASH!

The intruder, blocked by Zeke’s blade just as they were about to escape through the window, had no choice but to roll back into the room.

The black-clad figure with a masked face lowered their stance considerably and drew the sword at their waist.

Zeke realized their identity upon seeing the sword drawn by ‘the black-clad figure’.

“Northern Rangers?”