Dragonslayer’s Class Regression 31

Chapter 31

After absorbing Bahamut’s heart, the unique skill ‘Dragon race Domination’ activated.

[Would you like to subjugate the target dragonkin?]

“I don’t know what it is, but let’s try it.”

However, a warning message soon appeared.

[User’s ability is insufficient to subjugate this dragonkin.]

[Failed to subjugate the corrupted dragonkin.]

Even with the ability, it seemed subjugation wasn’t guaranteed.

At that time, thunderous footsteps echoed outside the door as the Hydra abandoned its severed heads and left.

Looking at the Hydra’s heads stuck in the door, Zeke considered what to do before using his Gluttony skill.

Kuguguugu!

Zeke’s shadow rippled and spread toward where the Hydra’s heads were.

The three severed Hydra heads were slowly absorbed as if sinking into a black swamp.

It took quite some time to absorb all three Hydra heads.

After the absorption finished, messages appeared.

[You have devoured the severed heads of a corrupted dragonkin with tainted energy.]

[Your depleted health, mental power, and mana are being restored.]

[For devouring a marked-for-elimination creature, your Gluttony skill rank has increased as a reward.]

[You gain poison immunity constitution from imperfectly absorbing the bloodline ability of the devoured creature.]

Devouring the Hydra’s heads restored his depleted energy.

Zeke confirmed that ‘Poison Immunity’ was added to his constitution category.

Additionally, his Gluttony skill increased from Beginner to Proficient.

“Marked for elimination creature. So eliminating dragonkin beasts like the Hydra gives better rewards.”

Zeke closed his status window and only after confirming the door was completely closed could he finally enter the relic site.

The relic site had a similar structure to the Dragon Slayer’s Tomb.

While the Dragon Slayer’s Tomb was mostly made of gray material, Kaisir’s relic site was made of smooth white material.

According to legend, Hero King Kaisir was a half-fairy born between a wise sage and the Fairy King.

However, due to an evil mage’s plot, Kaisir was separated from his parents and abandoned alone in the mountains.

A sacred wolf saved the young crying Kaisir in the mountains, nursed him with its milk, and raised him to adulthood.

Kaisir saved oppressed humans with his unmatched strength and established ‘Chronos’, a human kingdom in the Central Continent.

Of course, since the Chronos Kingdom was also legendary, its existence couldn’t be verified.

However, the Rom Empire’s royal family had long claimed to be descendants of Hero King Kaisir.

The sacred wolf, symbol of the Rom Empire, originated from this.

While the Hero King and Chronos Kingdom remained legendary beings, this relic site proved the Chronos Kingdom’s existence.

Zeke marveled at the solid structure with its massive ceiling height.

It was amazing that a structure built over two thousand years ago remained so intact.

He brought up the minimap and entered deeper into the relic site.

A long corridor stretched between massive pillars extending on both sides.

Zeke walked down the corridor while staying alert to his surroundings.

Going deeper into the corridor, a door appeared.

When Zeke reached out toward the door, a message appeared.

[Opening Hero King Kaisir’s Tomb.]

The door opened simultaneously.

The space inside the door was surprisingly small.

An altar-like structure stood in the center of the circular space made entirely of white material.

The map indicated that altar as the target location.

Zeke climbed the stairs to the altar while remaining vigilant of his surroundings.

Upon the altar, there was a pedestal.

A large, ethereal sky-blue jewel floated above that pedestal.

“A jewel? Not the Hero King’s swordsmanship manual?”

He needed to find the manual to complete the mission.

Zeke looked all around the pedestal but couldn’t find the manual anywhere.

Then when Zeke’s hand moved toward the jewel:

[Found permanent record left by Hero King Kaisir.]

[Transmitting and saving permanent record to system.]

Zeke looked at the jewel on the pedestal after seeing the system message.

[Automatically playing message left by Hero King Kaisir.]

At that moment, an image appeared before Zeke’s eyes.

The face of a delicate young man with snow-white hair and eyebrows appeared on screen.

The young man’s pupils beautifully shone with clear sky-blue light.

His appearance reminded one of legendary fairies.

The young man in the image started speaking.

However, Zeke couldn’t understand a word he was saying. As he frowned in frustration, a message appeared.

[Ancient Chronos language detected. Automatically switching to Central Continent common language.]

Simultaneously, the young man’s words began being translated into the common language.

-So anyway. I went up the mountain and said it straight. Hey, are you the Giant King? Then that guy immediately started acting up with me? Back in the day I would’ve just grabbed his neck and smashed his head right then! But I had people depending on me then and was trying to keep up appearances. So I asked him politely. Why do you keep coming into our territory? Then he rolled his eyes and started acting crazy. So I… Hey, hold it steady! The screen’s shaking. Sethon, you idiot! You wanna get smacked? Where was I? Damn, I forgot because of you!

Zeke blinked his eyes.

He was confused about what he just heard.

While contextually the foul-mouthed man in the image seemed to be Hero King Kaisir, something felt off.

“His face is so different from historical records. Plus, Sethon was the most loyal knight among the Tower Knights and a symbol of nobility.”

For about thirty minutes after that, Kaisir continued spewing various curses, self-praise, and colorful criticism of Sethon.

Finally checking the message that appeared after the video ended, Zeke was shocked to find that there were over 500 such videos. Moreover, he couldn’t properly gather his thoughts because Kaisir was so different from what he had imagined.

Whatever the situation, what mattered was Kaisir’s secret Swordsmanship. Zeke held his throbbing head and said to the system, 

“Find me content about Kaisir’s secret Swordsmanship here.”

Zeke had now learned to handle the system somewhat. A message appeared.

[Searching for secret Swordsmanship videos from 546 Chronos videos.]

[12 videos have been found.]

Seeing the search results, Zeke was startled. 

“What? Out of over 500 videos, there are only twelve about Swordsmanship?”

His throbbing head hurt even more. Thinking he should at least watch the twelve videos found, he started playing them.

Soon Kaisir appeared on screen again, this time holding a sword. He raised his sword while staring at the screen.

-What is a sword? A sword is just a sword. Kids get confused because old fogies who don’t even know how to swing a sword talk nonsense. A sword just needs to stab well and cut well. There’s no need to think complicated about it. Hey, that was good. Sethon, write this down in the records later. What? Records aren’t autobiographies? Just do what I tell you, why so many words? Just do it, damn it!

After cursing at Sethon for a while, Kaisir, having seemingly vented enough, stood again holding his sword.

-So that’s how you should see a sword. Then how do you use a sword well? Just practice hard and swing it a lot. Nothing else. Just swing it. Like this.

Kaisir suddenly took a stance with his sword. 

Woong! 

Something like a heat haze extended from his body. The heat haze enveloped both Kaisir’s body and sword. In that state, he swung his sword.

Whoosh!

For a moment, Zeke felt as if his neck had been cut by Kaisir’s sword in the video.

Gasp!

Zeke unconsciously stepped back using Shadowless Step. That’s how much power was in Kaisir’s sword.

Zeke paused the video. 

‘What, what was that? Just now… it didn’t seem like he used Aura.’

Zeke rewound the video to watch Kaisir’s extended sword again. It was still chilling to watch even the second time.

Then a system message appeared.

―Sudden Chain Mission―

[Learn the secret Swordsmanship left by Hero King Kaisir. No time limit.]

[Sudden Mission Reward: Fairy King’s Tears]

[Note: Cannot leave Kaisir’s tomb until mission is completed]

“What is this?”

Zeke made a dumbfounded expression at the sudden chain mission that appeared. There was a condition that he couldn’t leave this place until he learned Kaisir’s secret Swordsmanship.

“This is crazy! How am I supposed to learn Kaisir’s secret Swordsmanship just by watching these videos?!”

Though there was no one to hear, Zeke shouted out of frustration. He tried to turn off the video and control the system to open the door.

[Currently in mission. Door cannot be opened until mission is cleared.]

‘This is driving me crazy.’

Though the situation was hopeless, he couldn’t stay frustrated forever. Zeke decided to first come down from the platform and assess the space.

On the circular space’s walls were three doors that opened automatically as Zeke approached.

The first seemed to be a food storage. Various foods were stored in thousands of preservation boxes.

The second room was a space for sleeping and washing.

The last room contained various weapons and armor used in the Chronos era, and books from various fields. Each had Kaisir’s name written on it, presumably all used and read by him.

The books were written in ancient Chronos language, but thankfully could be read through system translation.

It seemed prepared for closed-door training here.

He was ultimately trapped here to train.

Zeke sighed deeply and played the video again. Holding his sword, Zeke followed Kaisir’s movements one by one, appropriately skipping the useless cursing in the video. This was possible because Zeke had the Heavenly Bone Body.

After watching all twelve videos and learning the form of the swordsmanship somewhat, Zeke swung his sword as learned from beginning to end. However, no matter how much he swung, it didn’t feel like video Kaisir.

Then text appeared again.

[Learned Hero King Kaisir’s Elemental Sword basic form.]

[Ending basic stage and moving to practical stage.]

[Summoning Hero King’s spirit.]

Kuguugugu!

Suddenly the altar in the center of the space started descending. After the altar completely descended, only the platform with the floating sky-blue jewel remained in the center of the space.

Soon the sky-blue jewel’s light rippled and something formed in front.

“What, what is it?”

A human form gradually materialized from the light. Surprisingly, screen Kaisir appeared right there.

Too shocked, Zeke stared at Kaisir before him with his mouth wide open.

“Re, real Kaisir?”

Then Kaisir frowned his fine brows, immediately drew his sword from its scabbard, and swung at Zeke.

Whoosh!

Zeke hurriedly raised Bahamut to block Kaisir’s sword.

Clang!

The power in Kaisir’s sword was so strong that Zeke flew and crashed into the wall.

Crash!

Kaisir rested his sword on his shoulder and spoke to the fallen Zeke.

“Get up right now.”

A firm rebuke struck down at Zeke.

“You want to learn my swordsmanship with that level of skill? The knights of old would weep if they saw this.”