CHAPTER 119: TALK NO JUTSU!

’Are you kidding me right now? How can I run away just like that?’

Lucien was speechless to hear Velmara. But seeing how one punch sent him directly to the ground, all battered like this, he had to say a dragon was really impressive.

Unfortunately, he seemed enraged by Velmara’s attack.

’Sigh...system, use the debt extraction and try to extract loyalty stat or something similar if possible.’

Once Lucien saw the situation, he couldn’t help but sigh inwardly and directly ordered the system in his mind.

After all, like Velmara said, he couldn’t just run, leaving him alone here, right?

Although it was he who caused this incident, he was the one who asked for his help and dragged him here.

He just never thought that even though the dragon was also at the Peak of the Weaver rank, Velmara was no match at all. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have decided to check such an unknown, powerful entity.

’Bad luck.’

Lucien thought, when suddenly he began to hear the system prompt in his mind, initiating the debt extraction process.

Although he didn’t know if doing this would help him in this situation, he tried it nonetheless.

After all, he couldn’t go fight with his measly apprentice realm here, right?

Ding!

[Initiating the Debt extraction from the target, Zeyvyr.]

[The realm gap between you and him is very wide. You are eligible for partial debt extractions.]

[Analyzing transactions...initiating collections...]

[It is detected that the Debt Value of Zeyvyr is currently at point 85.]

[Extracting compensation according to the debt value...please wait...]

’85 points of debt value. It was so close to 100.’

Lucien thought bitterly while listening to the continuous prompt in his mind, completely ignoring Velmara, who was slowly standing from the ground in a full defensive state.

Now, he hoped that his system could do something that could make him avoid this confrontation.

If he got the loyalty stat as he said, that would be the best. Of course, he knew that he had no control over this.

’What are you doing? Why are you standing stunned? Didn’t I ask you to run?’

Just when Lucien was hoping for a good reward, he heard a voice in his mind, clearly from Velmara.

From the voice alone, Lucien could feel a faint anxiousness in him.

"Don’t worry about me. I have already sent a signal to Malcolm. You just leave me here so that I can fight without any baggage."

Feeling that Lucien might be reluctant because he was worried about him, Velmara immediately persuaded him.

But he also knew that although he called for Malcolm, he might not be able to survive that long. Not to mention, he was doubtful whether even two of them could take on a dragon.

"Tch... tch... kid, don’t you see his sacrifice? Why are you still here? Run like he said and save your life. Otherwise, you might really die here. Haha..."

However, before Lucien could answer Velmara, they were cut off by the snide remarks of the dragon that had already appeared nearby, floating lightly.

Fortunately, after he appeared, he didn’t attack like before but began to mock them, as if having fun playing with them.

Of course, the mountain-like pressure and the heavy, suffocating feeling in the air, which was increasing step by step, clearly indicated that he was still angry and wasn’t going to leave them like this.

He was just taking his time, sweet little time.

"Why don’t we make a truce? He made a mistake, and you retaliated already. Isn’t it better to stop this here? Why fight to the death?"

Seeing that the figure in front was clearly in the mood to talk, Lucien asked, crossing his arms with no fear in his eyes.

Although the pressure of such a high-ranked dragon wasn’t something he could take, with Velmara’s help, he was able to look straight into those golden-crimson eyes without fear.

"Oh? You want a truce?"

Zeyvyr was stunned to hear Lucien’s words. Not only him, but even Velmara looked speechless.

How could such a good thing happen just because he said so?

This wasn’t some anime where you could talk no jutsu your way out of trouble.

"Yeah, truce. You know why he attacked you. It was none other than because you recognized his ancient bloodline."

Lucien, although he saw their faces, nodded lightly and continued,

"If he knew you were a dragon, he would have never attacked you. And to be honest, it makes no sense to confront each other now, since you both already went back and forth."

He analyzed,

"From the confrontation, it is already clear that you are far better than him, and he is no match for you at all. Is there a need to go all the way just for this small matter?"

Lucien went full-blown, constantly trying to persuade the dragon in front of him with just words.

He really looked like someone who was honestly trying to persuade.

Persuade a dragon who was far stronger than him and could kill him with just a look.

’Is he crazy?’

To be honest, Velmara was even surprised why the heck the enemy was silently listening to Lucien. But he never once thought that this dragon would leave him after he attacked like that.

Dragons were prideful by nature, and they couldn’t withstand even a slight provocation, let alone his full-on blow.

"Yeah, you are right, this guy is too weak and no match for me at all."

But to the surprise of Velmara, Zeyvyr actually nodded in agreement with Lucien, crossing his arms and standing proudly.

He seemed clearly elated to hear Lucien’s praise of his power.

"Kid, although you are so weak, you clearly are smarter than this little owl. I really suggest you don’t mingle with this kind of beast. You might catch their disease of stupidity."

Zeyvyr suddenly advised Lucien while looking at Velmara with thick disgust, causing him to twitch his mouth speechlessly.

"Anyway, since you said so, let’s rest this fight here for now. He couldn’t even take my punch. What is the use of wasting my energy?"

After saying that, to the surprise of Velmara, he directly waved his hand, eliminating the suffocating pressure around them.

Even his whole body once again disappeared into a black robe that appeared out of nowhere, hiding his distinct figure like before.

’What the? It really worked?’

However, his series of actions left Velmara totally confused, and he couldn’t help but look at Lucien as if he were a monster.

’Just a small talk, and he let us go? What did he do?’

He still couldn’t believe what happened before him. He was so confused that he even ignored the thick disdain of the dragon thrown at him all the time.

"Yeah, wise choice. Thank you!"

Lucien, on the other hand, smiled in relief after seeing Zeyvyr really removing his fighting stance.

’Fortunately, this calamity is avoided for now.’ He thought, sighing in relief, a heavy pressure lifting off his shoulders.

Of course, unlike Velmara, he didn’t think it was because of his talk. How could things be that easy?

Instead, the reason why Zeyvyr suddenly changed his mind was clearly because of the prompt he heard in his mind just now.

Ding!

[Extraction successful!]

[Congratulations! You gained: +5 Loyalty, +20 Favorability, Skills: Dragon King’s Physique (A Rank)]

[Partial extraction completed. The debt values of Zeyvyr have been reset to zero. You can increase the debt value before extracting again.]

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[Dragon King’s Physique (A Rank) – A passive skill that can help you be a vessel capable of being infused with draconic essence, granting overwhelming vitality and resilience.

Effect: Increases Strength and Endurance, and an increase in natural regeneration speed. Damage taken from physical attacks is reduced by a large margin.

Note: Exclusive ability extracted from a true dragon’s body. Since this skill requires higher energy, the host is advised to search for the draconic essence of good purity to activate this skill completely.

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Honestly, when Lucien saw the prompt, he was quite disappointed. After all, he had just gotten three things, and two of them were quite redundant.

5 points in loyalty, and only 20 points of favorability.

Not to mention the only skill he gained was clearly an empty husk. Without draconic essence, he couldn’t even use it.

But when he remembered that this was only a partial extraction, it made sense.

Moreover, from how strong this dragon was, he could feel that the system might have had to take that into consideration, too.

After all, it couldn’t just extract recklessly, causing someone to notice its existence, right?

’As long as I’m out of danger, this is worth it. Anyway, I can just extract again, can’t I?’

Lucien thought, looking at the prompt that hadn’t declared Zeyvyr insolvent, unlike others.

Just his debt value had been reset to zero, causing him to be unable to extract now. This meant there were clearly other chances in the future.

"Alright, now that I’ve spared you two, kid, why don’t you satisfy my curiosity and answer my questions?"

Just as Lucien was thinking this, Zeyvyr suddenly looked at him, his eyes full of curiosity, and asked.