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Chapter 456

“Terse, you can’t move forward in life without courage,” Jin-Hyeok said. He then stood before the fallen Thunder Dragon. As the Dragon moved with a groan, Jin-Hyeok swung Miri once again.

Thwack!

[You have activated the Skill ⌜Taming (Physical)⌟.]

“Come on. If you have confidence in yourself, you can do this, Terse!” Jin-Hyeok said.

Even though he was frightened, Terse took a step forward. ‘I can do this! No, I can’t do this...! Wait, no! I am going to do this.... Can I do this?’

His mind was incredibly conflicted, but he decided to muster his courage. At that moment, a voice filled with fury echoed in his mind. ‘If you come closer, I will kill...’

Terse instantly froze. Then came another striking sound.

Thwack!

“This Dragon’s endurance is stronger than I expected. I will need to commune with a bit more sincerity,” Jin-Hyeok said.

Jin-Hyeok was starting to feel at ease now. In truth, if he had communicated like this with Julius and Atanna earlier, the situation would have been more comfortable and easy to handle. Doing now what he couldn’t earlier gave him a sense of catharsis.

-I love the taste of a Dragon’s head!

Atanna covered her son’s eyes, while Julius covered his ears.

Having confirmed the Thunder Dragon’s impressive resilience, Jin-Hyeok decided to commune with it a bit more deeply, adding a touch more sincerity.

‘Damn it!’ Maxias’s telepathic voice reached Terse.

Surprisingly, it was a voice completely devoid of any Dragon Fear.

“Maxias, what are you trying to say?” Terse asked.

‘I will kill you!’

Maxias’s voice loudly reverberated in Jin-Hyeok’s mind. Jin-Hyeok shrugged and replied, “Learn your manners. Why are you yelling?”

Thwack!

The effect of Taming (Physical) was remarkable.

‘Please... just save me, human.’

The Thunder Dragon was sobbing.

When Terse placed his hand on the Thunder Dragon’s forehead, a light burst forth. Finally, Terse had succeeded in taming the Thunder Dragon.

Jin-Hyeok applauded this with a moved expression.

[*Resume livestreaming from here.]

“As expected of Terse. You truly are a great Tamer born on Earth,” Jin-Hyeok said.

Terse was speechless. ‘Can I even say that I tamed the Thunder Dragon?’

Julius and Atanna both gulped.

‘It’s a good thing we reconciled.’

‘Otherwise, things would have gone terribly wrong.’

The temporary couple’s relationship had improved as they raised their child. Now, it would certainly improve even further in the future.

***

“Ugh!” Pupu Baung, who had belatedly regained consciousness, sprang to his feet. Since he had been attacked by the Thunder Dragon more than once, he had developed a certain immunity to its attacks.

He yelled, “Maxias! Stop th—”

Somehow, it felt like the situation had been resolved.

“What’s going on?” Being a legendary Tamer, he quickly grasped what was going on. So, he asked Terse, “Don’t tell me you’ve tamed Maxias?”

“Yes, that’s what happened, Sir Pupu Baung.”

“Let me see your hand for a moment.” Pupu Baung took Terse’s hand. “It seems you don’t have much affinity for lightning.”

“Is that so?”

“Yes... This is truly strange.”

Tamers without an affinity for the lightning attribute found it difficult to tame lightning-based monsters.

“Have you ever been to Calvary Hill? Are you a survivor from there?” Pupu Baung asked.

Calvary Hill was a place where lightning struck year-round. Those who meditated there for a long time and survived could gain an affinity for the lightning attribute.

“No, I’ve never been there,” Terse replied.

Terse had begun to communicate with his newly tamed Thunder Dragon, and he gently stroked its forehead.

“H-How can you touch the Thunder Dragon?” Pupu Baung was even more shocked.

Pupu Baung had never once directly touched the Thunder Dragon Maxias, which had not allowed such physical contact. More precisely, only the Thunder Dragon had patted Pupu Baung’s head. The world believed that Pupu Baung had tamed Maxias, but the reality was closer to the opposite. In fact, the Thunder Dragon had allowed himself to be tamed because it had been charmed by Pupu Baung’s cute appearance.

“Huh? Isn’t it natural to build intimacy with a tamed creature through physical contact?” Terse asked.

“Well, that’s...,” Pupu Baung could not finish the rest. ‘That’s for normal taming!’

Pupu Baung was about to argue but remembered one possibility. “Ah, do you perhaps have Dragon ancestors?”

It was known that those with Dragon blood sometimes succeeded in taming Dragons. A couple of such cases happened every century.

“I probably don’t. I’m from the Earth Server, and there are only pure humans there,” Terse replied.

“Then how in the world did you tame the Thunder Dragon?”

“Well...”

“Well, what?”

“Chul-Soo encouraged me.”

“I’m assuming with some kind of buff spell, right?”

“Well, something like that, I suppose.”

“I had no idea Chul-Soo possessed such powerful buff spells.”

Pupu Baung should have realized how strong Chul-Soo was when he had drunk the Chul-Soo Potion. A buff couldn’t turn the impossible into possible. It could make the possible a surety. However, Chul-Soo’s buff had turned the impossible into the possible.

“Yes... and the Thunder Dragon spoke to me first, asking me to tame him,” Terse said.

Maxias had not exactly asked Terse to tame him. It was more like he had begged Terse to save him, but the meaning was similar enough.

Pupu Baung collapsed on the spot. “That can’t be..!”

He could not believe that a rookie Tamer was capable of perfectly taming a Thunder Dragon. Terse was low-leveled and had no affinity to lightning attributes, yet he had achieved the impossible.

‘The world has changed,’ Pupu Baung thought. ‘An era that I don’t understand... An era too difficult for me to adapt to... That era has finally arrived.’

It felt like facing a wall of a new age.

‘I really should retire now.’

He was already half-retired, but he decided to retire completely.

***

Deeply shaken, Pupu Baung staggered toward the exit of the Dungeon.

Terse wore a slightly worried expression. “Will he be okay?”

“Why?” Jin-Hyeok said.

“Pupu Baung probably feels like the world he knew has crumbled. Even if I were in his shoes, I would find this situation hard to accept.”

“Why?”

Terse wanted to explain something but gave up. It was difficult for a genius to understand the thoughts of ordinary people. Terse, who was called the most talented Tamer before Jin-Hyeok’s regression, abandoned his attempt to explain in the face of a true genius.

“I’ll be heading out now. I want to fly through the sky with Maxias,” Terse said.

At that moment, Jin-Hyeok’s eyes turned to Maxias.

Maxias visibly flinched.

“Hey, Maxias,” Jin-Hyeok said.

“W-What is it?”

“Are you going to be violent again?”

“...”

Julius flinched for no reason, and Maxias shook his head.

“I’m a gentle Thunder Dragon,” Maxias said.

“Don’t lie. You’re infamous for being violent,” Jin-Hyeok replied.

“When it comes to violence, that Julius over there is much more...”

“Don’t slander others.”

“It’s not slander!”

Jin-Hyeok slowly raised Miri.

“I-I mean..., Julius is a docile and kind Fire Dragon. I confused him with another Dragon,” Maxias said.

“That’s more like it.”

“Yes... I’m sorry.”

Jin-Hyeok nodded with a satisfied smile and said, “Make sure you serve your master well.”

Maxias momentarily got lost in self-loathing, and his response was a bit slow, resulting in another round of communication with Jin-Hyeok.

Thwack!

Terse spread his arms wide, stepping between the two. “Stop it, Chul-Soo!”

Tears welled up in Terse’s eyes. Only then did Jin-Hyeok lower Miri. Maxias realized that Terse was the only one who could save him from that hellish hammer.

“I, Maxias the Thunder Dragon, swear loyalty to my master.”

Terse succeeded in taming the Thunder Dragon, which became a cause for celebration on Earth. It was the moment a universe-level ranker was born. Watching Terse leave, Jin-Hyeok smiled contentedly. ‘There’s a certain satisfaction in nurturing my colleagues.’

Glancing back, Jin-Hyeok saw Julius and Atanna enjoying a hot spring bath in the magma with their young Dragon.

***

Jin-Hyeok’s eyes met with Julius’s, and the latter smiled awkwardly.

“I wasn’t avoiding you... I just love hot spring baths in the magma,” Julius said.

“I know. There is no way a Chul-Soo Lander would avoid me.”

Julius was indeed avoiding Chul-Soo. He had witnessed the harsh treatment that Maxias had received for being violent. Given his own considerable past misdeeds, the Fire Dragon chose to keep his distance for now.

“Um... Mr. Chul-Soo, just letting you know, I’m not violent. You know that, right?” Julius asked.

“Of course. I know you’re kind.”

“That’s right.”

Julius lifted the young Dragon high, and the golden-scaled creature burst into laughter. It seemed like Julius was trying to say that he was a family-oriented and child-loving father. Though feeling slightly contrived, Jin-Hyeok was moved in his own way.

‘So, this is a family,’ Jin-Hyeok thought. He had recently gained a better understanding of human emotions, and he found their appearance quite appealing. ‘Now that I think of it...!’

He had a feeling that Elines was sulking since he hadn’t summoned her in a long time.

“Would it be alright to summon the Fire Spirit here?” Jin-Hyeok asked.

“You mean, Elly, right?”

“Yeah.”

True to the title of a Chul-Soo Lander, Julius immediately knew who Jin-Hyeok was talking about.

“Now that you mention it, Elly hasn’t been around much lately. She might be a bit upset, don’t you think?” Julius said.

“You think so?”

While a rampaging Thunder Dragon did not frighten Jin-Hyeok, a sulking Elly was slightly intimidating.

“May I offer an opinion as a Chul-Soo Lander?” Julius asked.

“By all means.”

“Rather than summoning Elly, why don’t you go to the Spirit Realm yourself to meet her? It could make for good Eltube content too.”

“To the Spirit Realm? Me?” Jin-Hyeok was startled. He realized no Eltuber had ever visited the Spirit Realm. While Spirits were quite familiar to people, not much was known about the Spirit Realm itself.

“But can I open a Gate to the Spirit Realm?” Jin-Hyeok said.

“Maybe you can, if you have an excellent Navigator. But it would need to be a place with strong fire energy, like here.”

***

Lessefim, who had recently risen to the top of Arvis’s Navigator rankings, jumped in surprise. “What? Are you crazy? You’re thinking about going to the Spirit Realm?”

In fact, quite a few deranged Players had tried to find the Spirit Realm. However, none had even returned alive. Even the worst Dungeon, Dragon’s Nest, had quite a few survivors, but the Spirit Realm had absolutely none.

“Do you know what the Fire Spirit Realm is like?” Lessefim asked.

“Isn’t it where Elly lives?” Jin-Hyeok replied.

“Actually, almost nothing is known about the Spirit Realm. We just assume it’s a world of pure fire. A realm where nothing exists except flames burning intensely.”

“Oh...”

“No humans can last long in a place like that.” The fire from the Fire Spirit Realm was a flame that did not accept any species other than Spirits. “Any species except Fire Spirits will be incinerated the moment they touch the Fire Spirit Realm. There is a reason no one has ever succeeded in exploring the Spirit Realm.”

“Can’t we protect ourselves with Absolute Barrier?”

“Even that won’t work. It’s too dangerous.” Lessefim grabbed Jin-Hyeok’s hand and pleaded earnestly. “Of course, I understand you might be worried about running out of content after clearing even the worst Dungeon so easily. I understand your urgency. But please, let’s think of something else instead of such reckless content. I will help you, Chul-Soo.”

Meanwhile, when Jin-Hyeok met with Mole Woman, she had a different thought.

“Oh, that sounds interesting!” Mole Woman exclaimed.

The Earth-born Mole Woman was indeed different in every way.