Dragonslayer’s Class Regression 251

Chapter 251

“Damn it…”

Hades, who had returned to his workshop, kept grumbling beside them.

He was annoyed because just when he was happy to be freed from his bindings, he ended up getting entangled with Zeke due to saying the wrong thing.

He had no choice but to stay by Zeke’s side until Zeke made his wish.

Zeke and Yelin looked around Hades’ workshop with a more relaxed mindset than before.

“Oho, what’s this weapon?”

Yelin’s eyes sparkled as she looked at the rare weapons in the workshop.

Being a natural martial artist, she was more interested in weapons than anything else.

Zeke carefully examined the black knight that he had destroyed earlier in the labyrinth.

“Lord Hades, is this perhaps a golem?”

Hades floated in the air, rolling around as he responded to Zeke’s question.

“Does it look like a golem to your eyes?”

“I asked because there’s nothing inside the armor. What principle makes it move?”

Then Hades straightened up and said.

“For a knight, you’re quite interested in various things.”

“I tend to be curious about many things.”

Seeing Zeke take interest in his work, Hades’ mood seemed to improve as he approached with a better expression to explain.

“This isn’t just a simple golem.”

He pointed at the black knight’s armor with a proud expression as he spoke.

“What’s engraved on this surface is, well, this is quite amazing, it contains an incredible operating formula that can absorb physical force and convert it into magical power.”

“It absorbs physical force?”

Zeke recalled how the pattern had glowed when he struck the black knight’s armor.

‘It absorbs impacts and instead radiates magical power? That’s incredible.’

If mages had heard that, they would surely have said it was nonsense.

But since it was made by a dragon, not an ordinary mage, he had to accept it.

After listening to Hades’ explanation, Zeke thought for a moment before asking a question.

“But why did you engrave that magic circle on the armor? If you had put it on the shield, it would have increased durability and could have absorbed much more impact, right?”

Hades paused for a moment at his question. Then with a complicated expression, he opened his mouth.

“T-That wouldn’t be cool. The key point is that when it absorbs impact, it creates a flash of light for effect!”

Zeke made an expression of disbelief at Hades’ words.

“What’s the use of being cool? Making it effective is what’s important. Besides, with the operating formula exposed on the armor’s surface like that, if you strike it repeatedly with a sword like I did, the formula would break and stop functioning properly. Rather, if you engraved magic to enhance defensive capabilities on the armor, and put the operating formula in a thick shield to absorb impacts…”

Hades, facing Zeke who was evaluating his work with point-by-point accurate statements, shouted with a reddening face.

“You human who doesn’t understand art! Shut up, you!”

Zeke nodded while looking at the completely offended Hades.

‘Now I understand why Bahamut used to torment him. His reactions are amusing.’

Zeke was teasing a dragon, who was called the most powerful and great being in the mortal realm.

While watching this, Zeke thought about what might catch Hades’ interest.

“Lord Hades, could you take a look at this for a moment?”

Zeke activated Theia’s Hersion.

WHOOSH!

Hades, who had been turning away in a sulk, slightly turned his head to glance at Zeke.

Then seeing the Hersion enveloping Zeke’s body, his eyes widened.

He immediately floated over to where Zeke was.

“Oh, right. You were wearing this when you beat up our blackie earlier too.”

Hades carefully examined the Hersion Zeke was wearing.

Then he tilted his head in confusion.

“Hm? What’s this? Something’s strange about this armor…”

While muttering and observing the Hersion in detail, he shouted at Zeke.

“What is this? Where did you get it?”

“It’s a magical armor imbued with the goddess Theia’s authority.”

Hades’ jaw dropped at Zeke’s words.

“T-The Moon Goddess’s authority is imbued in it?”

“Yes. Though it’s not functioning properly yet since I haven’t properly authenticated it, the armor itself is made of Orichalcon so it can even deflect Aura Blades.”

Hades swallowed at Zeke’s words.

“You would have needed an enormous amount of silver to make this much Orichalcon.”

“Silver? Why would silver be needed?”

“Huh? What do you mean why? Of course you need pure silver to make Orichalcon.”

Zeke was shocked by Hades’ words and asked again.

“Lord Hades, don’t tell me you know how to make Orichalcon?”

While the Lubern Dynasty was said to have known the method of creating Orichalcon in the past, that method had been lost.

But it seemed Hades knew the manufacturing method.

Hades spoke with a subtle expression.

“Well, I do know it. Want to know? Ask for it as your wish.”

“Hmm, for my wish I was thinking about asking you to protect my descendants for five thousand years…”

“WHOA WHOA WHOA! Okay, okay. I’ll tell you. These humans and their crafty minds…”

Zeke asked Hades.

“Is anything else needed besides silver?”

“Yes. You need to heat silver with pure fire to extract the purest silver essence, then process it with various other things.”

“Can you teach me how to do that?”

Hades scratched his cheek at Zeke’s words and said.

“I could tell you… but you probably won’t be able to get the materials.”

“If it’s materials that exist in the mortal realm, I can get anything.”

With the Draker family’s influence and Zeke’s financial power, there were no materials they couldn’t obtain.

Hades smirked at those words.

“The most important ingredient for making Orichalcon is none other than the ‘Philosopher’s Stone’.”

“The Philosopher’s Stone? You mean that dream of alchemists?”

“Yes, so you do know about it. These days there are no alchemists who can create the Philosopher’s Stone, so making Orichalcon should be considered impossible.”

Zeke remembered hearing something similar in his previous conversation with Golin.

‘Is there no way besides the Philosopher’s Stone?’

Then Hades added one more thing.

“Ah, there is one other way besides the Philosopher’s Stone.”

“What is it?”

“If you have a holy relic imbued with a sage’s power, it’s possible without the Philosopher’s Stone.”

At those words, Zeke’s eyes widened.

‘A holy relic imbued with a sage’s power? Could it be?’

Zeke thought of Agamemnon’s mask that he was preciously keeping in his inventory.

Tyr had called Agamemnon’s mask ‘the Mask of the Great Sage’.

Given the circumstances, there was a high possibility that the mask he possessed was that holy relic.

‘If the original Lubern Dynasty had this mask, they must have used the holy relic’s power to create Orichalcon.’

However, when the Lubern Dynasty that established the Holy Empire fell and their bloodline scattered, the mask also lost its power, and while it was passed down to the Agamemnon family, the secret of Orichalcon production seemed to have been buried.

‘If I find the Fairy Lake and restore the holy relic’s power, making Orichalcon would be possible too.’

Of course, there would be many trials and errors until actual production, but with Hades who knew the method, and genius alchemists Al and Jeff, it seemed somehow possible.

Seeing that Hades unexpectedly knew a lot about manufacturing, Zeke decided to ask about the operating plate as planned.

He took out the operating plate that he had asked Feinan to prepare separately from his inventory.

“Lord Hades, do you know what this is by any chance?”

Hades tilted his head looking at the operating plate Zeke pulled out.

“Oh, where did you get this?”

“Do you know what this is?”

“Of course I do. I designed this operating formula.”

“What?”

He brought it thinking another dragon would know about something made by a dragon, but he didn’t expect this operating formula to have been made by Hades.

He looked over the operating formula and shook his head.

“Ugh, I made this when I was too young so it’s terribly inefficiently compressed. This lowers both the integration rate and magical power efficiency.”

“Are you saying you can make a better operating formula than this?”

“That’s not too difficult.”

Zeke grabbed Hades’ hand.

“If you make that, I might think of a simple wish.”

“No matter how many millennia pass, humans never change. Damn it.”

Zeke was making use of Hades here and there using wishes as bait.

Zeke decided to first take Hades out of the labyrinth along with Yelin.

Hades was floating in the air with various characters floating around him as he calculated the operating formula equations.

“Hmm, so this is… ah… I made this two thousand years ago so my memory is fuzzy. Let’s see. This is…”

Yelin had an excited expression as she received a dagger and armor that she liked from among the weapons in Hades’ workshop.

“Are you that pleased?”

Yelin nodded with sparkling eyes.

“These are weapons made directly by a dragon. I’ll keep them as family treasures for life.”

To Zeke they seemed like rather impractical weapons, but the fact that they were made directly by a dragon made their value enormous.

Zeke nodded and finished preparing to leave. Soon after, Zeke, Yelin, and Hades arrived at the labyrinth’s exit.

When Yelin knocked on the door to signal, the massive labyrinth door slowly opened.

RUMBLE!

As the labyrinth door opened, they could see the family head Jamila and the elders of the Ishtar family standing in front of it.

Jamila looked at Zeke and Yelin with an expression of disbelief.

“W-What happened?”

Yelin approached Jamila and said.

“Family Head! Finally, finally our family’s long-held wish has been resolved!”

At Yelin’s words, Jamila and the elders burst into cheers from behind. Jamila bit her lips tightly and her eyes welled up with tears.

“Finally… we can fulfill our ancestors’ long-cherished wish.”

At that moment.

Hades, who was calculating formulas while floating behind Zeke, grumbled after hearing Jamila’s words.

“Long-cherished wish my foot. They asked for protection and I even made a troublesome covenant, yet they keep talking nonsense.”

At Hades’ words, the celebrating Ishtar family members suddenly fell silent.

Jamila asked Yelin with a stern expression.

“But who is that young elf?”

At Jamila’s words, Yelin’s face turned pale as she shook her head.

“F-Family Head. Actually, that person isn’t an elf…”

Then the elders behind them started whispering.

“Wait, could it be. The two of them inside the labyrinth…?”

“No, that’s impossible. It hasn’t even been a week since they went in, how could there be such a grown child?”

“Time inside the labyrinth could be different from outside! Who knows, maybe ten years passed in there! Look, they both have the same black hair!”

Hearing the elders’ words, Zeke was dumbfounded.

‘Their imagination is quite something.’

Even Jamila was swayed by the elders’ words and pressed Yelin.

“Yelin! Tell me the truth. Did you really… make a child in there?”

Yelin shouted while trembling.

“How could that be possible! It hasn’t even been a week since Sir Zeke and I went in there…”

RUMBLE! RUMBLE!

Suddenly the entire main palace began to shake.

Jamila and the Ishtar elders were startled.

Hades, who was behind Zeke, floated forward with his purple eyes glowing.

“These elves, the more I hear! How dare you discuss me like this!”

He emanated a dragon’s aura throughout his body. Only then did Jamila realize the identity of the being in the form of a young elf.

THUD!

Jamila knelt down and looked at him as she spoke.

“C-Could you be the Great One?”

Hades burst into laughter and said.

“HAHAHA! That’s right! I am the great recluse of the Black River, Lord Hades! You insolent elves! I’ll crunch all your bones and eat you…”

Hades, who was showing off his dignity, suddenly felt a gaze and turned his head. He saw Zeke’s eyes looking at him pathetically from the side.

It was a look that seemed to say

‘At your age, do you really want to act like this?’

‘That disrespectful look. Ugh, I can’t even scold him in case he makes some strange wish.’

Hades gathered back his dragon’s aura while grumbling internally.

“…is what I’d like to do but it’s bothersome. Ah, getting angry made me hungry, go bring me something delicious!”

At those words, Jamila jumped up.

“Bring precious food to serve the Great One immediately!”

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