Overgeared

“What about five each?”

“Three each.”

“Then four each?”

“Three each.”

“Three is too few.”

“Three each!”

“...I’ll think about it. Come back tomorrow.”

“Three each!”

“I told you to come back tomorrow!”

“Yes...”

Surprisingly, Nefelina was very careful. During the negotiations, Nefelina didn’t use the power of a transcendent species nor did she threaten him by referring to it. Instead, she tried to find a line that would satisfy both parties involved.

“I heard that dragons consider all things in this world as insignificant. They are supposed to be cruel, selfish, and capricious from a human’s viewpoint, yet she is different from the story. Is she perhaps in a disadvantageous position? That she can’t grow without being beholden to us...?” This was Lauel’s guess.

However, Sticks stubbornly shook his head. “A dragon awakens most of their magic at the moment of birth. In fact, the space reconstruction magic that Nefelina maintains is something that ordinary human magicians can’t imitate. Additionally, to use it alone with polymorph... She is an existence that can live well enough without human help. 100 cows and pigs? She can slaughter them in a matter of minutes if she wanted. She can also kill all the humans protecting the livestock.”

“Then why is Nefelina trying to negotiate?”

“She is crazy.”

“...?”

“She is out of her mind. That hatchling is crazy.”

Dragons weren’t social animals. They were arrogant and selfish because they were the most outstanding race in the world. Just as humans didn’t care about knocking down an ant nest when building a house, the dragon didn’t care about other people. They acted as they wanted and made their own way. From the viewpoint of a human, Nefelina was completely different from ordinary dragons.

“No, how is this crazy...? Isn’t it common sense?”

“It is crazy when considering a dragon’s common sense. Originally, dragons can’t be evaluated with our common sense. From our point of view, they are always selfish and and erratic.”

“Is it because she is still a hatchling?”

“It is meaningless to argue about age because the dragon’s thoughts are formed the moment they are born.”

“Hrmm... Then what should I do?”

“What should you do? A crazy dragon isn’t easily seen, so we should study it.”

The feelings of resentment and fear that Sticks had against the dragon species were tremendous. The curse had merely been a moment of fun for the gourmet dragon. Yet this curse caused Sticks to be afraid of dragons as he fought death for the rest of his life. Now, his curiosity toward Nefelina made him shake off his fear.

“Umm... Still, it isn’t easy to dedicate three pigs and cows every day.”

According to Grid, the current price of one pig was two gold and the price of one cow was four gold. This meant that 18 gold were consumed every day. It would be 180 gold for 10 days and 1,800 gold for 100 days. What was 1,800 gold worth? It was worth a huge amount of 2.6 million won.

think it is cheap to buy the favor of a hatchling. To put it plainly, how much money can you earn from making

about the value of a hatchling, it

giving you a blessing?

“The kingdom’s money?”

the hatchling’s food with the

kingdom’s

about it? You are the ruler of this kingdom. Haven’t you forgotten whose money was used to form this kingdom? Why is the king still acting poor? You forgot that you spent your money making the kingdom. You even made

“...Umm.”

course, it was a tremendous leap to call Grid poor. It was because Grid had assets worth hundreds of billions of won. Despite this, he was still far from being a chaebol. If Grid were really rich, he would’ve bought a

“Okay. Let’s do it.”

get rid of her, so he had to negotiate. If he was going to

determined, Grid rose from

for Irene and Lord while quickly hoping for tomorrow to come. Then he was caught by Lauel who pulled out a different topic. “Your Majesty, it is about the chef you brought from the East Continent. The Poison

“Idan?”

been stagnant

“Why?”

but there seems to

“Why isn’t anyone eating?”

Idan’s dishes while preparing to die for the

their poison resistance is so

there is a limit to the level of poison resistance that

we feed the dishes to

“They will die.”

can’t make

still a long way

delight.

am lonely but I enjoy this

yes. Enjoy your loneliness.

***

“W-What is that?”

“Cool...”

spot. There were 500 soldiers. They were armed with the mass-produced set and were evidently elite soldiers of Overgeared. Mercedes, the beautiful woman with her name in gold, was

“Where’s the war?”

an intermediate hunting ground? The players were

“This should be good.”

and a little boy appeared. It was Overgeared King Grid, Overgeared Queen Irene,

“Now Irene, let’s sit.”

“Yes.”

the mat and pulled out tea and sweets. On the other hand, Lord held the sword and started to hunt

“Hiyah!”

“Kiek!”

son’s

similar to Your

“...”

noisy picnic... The Grid couple gazed lovingly at Lord who was

unfolding in the middle of the hunting grounds and suddenly realized that their surroundings had become very quiet. There were no monsters when they looked around. It

diamond spoon I’ve

“I-I’m envious...”

but they didn’t resent Grid. No, they felt grateful to him. It was because Grid showed

it, but a legendary knight gave these players a bus ride. She went to every place where a boss