“Is it something I have to go to?”
Bastet didn’t answer and averted his gaze. I didn’t expect much. Thank you for letting Howard know there is a problem.
I immediately moved to the highest peak of the Dragon Mountains where Howard is staying.
I knew right away as soon as I arrived. Howard was not at home. I scanned the surroundings with a variation of the technique called scan that I learned from Setas, but it was the same.
It is a story that is not within the range that I can feel. Bastet said it was reckless. What could be reckless with Howard? Even in the Dragon Mountains, there is nothing around here that could be Howard’s enemy.
It doesn’t hit the detection range, but there’s actually only one place Howard can go around here.
I flew up with magic and looked halfway up the mountain to see howard had dug in. They said they wouldn’t eat it, but in the end, it seems they ate the flesh of an underground demon and gained the ability to dig burrows.
When I moved to Drakan’s lair, I saw that the remains of Drakan, who always seemed to be alive even after a long time had passed, were cracked. It seems that I forgot the most energetic heart.
In front of Drakan’s cracked chest, Howard collapsed in the form of a demonic beast. It wasn’t that he hadn’t thought of feeding Howard the body of a Drakan.
Howard’s body was inflating and deflating like a balloon. The state of the soul was also very unstable. It was similar to when I handed over my record to Jake in the past. It is a symptom of accepting something too big without being a vessel.
Because he anticipated this situation, he did not readily recommend Drakan’s body to Howard. I cast the power of healing on Howard. But I know this won’t help much.
We don’t know when Howard started preparing. But I can see why he made this choice. It must have been from that time when he saw me raising my level when hunting underground demons not too long ago.
The reason why I didn’t want to eat the corpse of the witch beast may have been because I expected that the current situation would be the same if I ate it.
“You stupid witch.”
He is truly a stupid magician. If I had just asked for it, would you not have given it to me because I felt sorry for Drakan’s heart? Of course it would have been dried.
I sometimes healed Howard and waited for Howard to stop eating.
A month passed like that. Apparently, I have a very deep connection with Drakan’s rare. Once you enter this place, you cannot easily leave.
Howard’s condition was almost intact. Although there were slight changes in the body, it was not a big change. Still, the state of the soul has become much more stable than at first.
As long as there are no major problems like this, you will be able to wake up soon. I thought so. However, on the 49th day, a big change began to occur in Drakan’s body.
Originally, the transformed Howard’s exterior was covered with a smooth black material like the carapace of an insect. It started to change like Drakan’s scales. However, the color of the scales is black.
It would have been more cool if it was golden like Drakan, but he’s a really cool friend even with one scale.
On day 67, Howard’s tail began to shrink and then disappeared. At least, the cool part of Howard’s body was a long tail that was slimly missing, but that one cool part was gone.
On Day 99, Howard’s skeleton began to change. Should I say that the previous form is the final form of a creature that evolved to kill something? It looked like that. It could inflict fatal wounds on living things anywhere on its body, and had long limbs and jaws optimized for biting and killing.
However, it was changing into a form similar to a human. No, it was just a human-like structure.
On Day 124, Howard’s face began to change. All seven pairs of eyes on either side of the head disappeared, and a single eye appeared in the front. A new nose and ears sprouted from the nose and ears, which had only holes, and the animal-like mouth shrank and became like a human mouth.
Judging from the current development, Howard was becoming more and more human-like except for the new scales.
On Day 246, Howard’s body began to shrink. Howard, in the form of a monster, had a height of up to 10 meters. However, my body started to shrink and it shrunk to the same extent as mine.
It seemed that if I woke up now, I wouldn’t have to polymorph. And if there’s a part that annoys me a little, the newly born Howard seems to be a young person. But it hasn’t grown hair yet, so let’s see.
On Day 327, Howard’s internal organs began to change. Now, even the internal organs have changed into a human-like form. However, it is not quite the same. The heart is different from humans. It is shaped similar to the heart of Drakan.
I don’t know what the finished look will look like, but isn’t Howard rather weak?
On day 451, unfortunately, Howard started to grow hair. It is black and shiny hair. There must be one thing lacking in order to be able to tease you, but it’s really disappointing. However, there is still one left.
On the 549th day, the black scales covering Howard’s body were absorbed into the skin. Looking inside, it seems that it has not completely disappeared, but has changed to hide the scales under the skin. Thanks to that, I got to see Howard’s naked body. pain.
Day 621, the last remaining jokes are gone. The most important thing has sprung up. Still, I think I won this part. But it’s painful to see her naked all day long, but now she’s able to see that too. God, why are you giving me this ordeal?
It was the morning of the 753rd day. As long as I have social responsibility and status, it’s not just that I’ve been in Drakan’s lair all along. Occasionally, I would go out and do some errands, and I would fill up the rare stuff to eat. Still, I spent most of my time inside the rare.
Thanks to my residence for almost two years, Rare Inside was now equipped with enough facilities for one person to live. Cave expert Antariel’s cave was very helpful.
I get up from the bed in the corner, make tea, take a cup and look around the rare. It doesn’t have any special meaning. Nothing will change, but to see if anything has changed. In the meantime, in my head, I organize the information collected by the clones while I sleep.
The last of the rare walk was Howard. Howard had brought in a bed and had been lying on it since he was small.
“Isn’t it time to get up soon?”
It doesn’t seem like there’s much left to change, but there’s no sign of awakening. Wouldn’t it be like absorbing Drakan’s heart and sleeping for decades like Drakan once?
While watching Howard like that, Howard opened his eyes.
“Oh my God, Junon, what a surprise!”
“What are you so surprised about?”
Howard was lying there, grinning. I smiled and sprayed the remaining hot tea on my face.
“Oh hot!”
Howard grabbed his face and rolled across the bed. It’s tough. No matter how much you change into a human, you know that there are dragon scales under the skin. No, even without that, he’s a grand master. It won’t die even if you spray it with lava instead of hot water.
When I didn’t react much, Howard took a quick look and went back to normal.
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, that’s fine.”
“Let’s have some rice”
I’ve been starving for two years, so I need to feed them something. I took out the soup dish I had prepared in advance from the subspace and heated it up. We sat face to face without saying a word and started eating soup.
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Howard got stronger. Could it be that I am weak? After a while from the moment of doubt, he began to become stronger as his appearance changed like a human. I don’t know how many ranks he jumped, but one thing is for sure he’s stronger than me.
I instinctively felt that no matter how much I used my space-type authority, I couldn’t beat Howard right now.
“Why aren’t you saying anything?”
“What?”
“I ate Drakan-nim’s heart, didn’t I?”
“Did you really think I would regret it?”
“no?”
“no.”
We ate the soup without speaking again.
“But you’ll be a bit busy as soon as you wake up.”
“why?”
“Because you woke up because you became too strong, the monsters’ great escape began.”
In the meantime, if Drakan’s energy and Howard’s energy were delicately intertwined and balanced, now the power is too much. An uproar was brewing as the magic beasts who felt abnormal tried to move away from the center.
Well, even if it is pushed back to some extent, Persen Neymas will block it, but there is a degree.
“Is that so?”
Howard waved his hand in the air a few times. Then he started eating the soup again.
“Did you do something?”
“Yeah, it’s solved.”
From the clone’s point of view, the large monsters were quietly returning to their nests as if they had received an order. Isn’t this kid almost a half-god now? At least, it is clear that he has stepped into that boundary.
I am not jealous that my friend has become stronger. Rather, it is a welcome thing. This could definitely be said to have added a powerful force to the fight against Utukawa.
After eating, he took out Mistiltein and threw it at Howard.
“Why is this all of a sudden?”
“Can’t you feel anything?”
After accepting Mistiltein, Howard pretended to wield it a few times before returning it to me.
“I have no idea”
Isn’t the evolved Howard also the owner of Mistiltein? So, it means that the owner pops out from somewhere.
“Let’s go now”
“Where?”
“Um, where are you going?”
Where else could I go? When Howard disappears, a great escape occurs.
“Is it okay if you disappear from here?”
“maybe? Instead, we need to elect a new captain.”
Came out on the ground with Howard. The house on the peak had been uninhabited for a long time, but thanks to the well-built dwarves, it had maintained its original form.
“Which one should I use?”
“If possible, let’s use the flight type”
“why?”
“The original owner here was Black Drake.”
Howard nodded and accepted my offer. and jumped up It looks like it jumped a little bit, but it’s incredibly fast.
With just a few sprints on the ground, Howard reached one of the nearby peaks. Griffins live here.
Because it is the Dragon Mountains, it is also different from the griffons of the outside world. The griffon here has a much longer and more colorful tail than the average griffon in the outside world. And the feathers are strong and shiny.
Howard and I approached, but the griffons showed no hostility. Rather, it took an attitude of submission. Howard walked up to what appeared to be the griffon’s captain and stroked his head. The griffon made a sound like a neighborhood dog.
“This guy is good”
I don’t know what or how, but golden feathers began to grow on the griffon’s head as Howard pet it. It looked like a crown.
“Now you are the captain of this place.”
rumble!
The griffon let out a cry as if it were in a good mood.
“Are you able to do that?”
“It’s just a little of my power, not indefinitely.”
“Sorry, I was thinking of making something like the Griffin Knights.”
I imagined for a moment the Griffon Knights flying around as if escorting the side of the Nautilus.
“By the way, do I have a house?”
Howard never had a home. Both in the Akasha estate and in the New World, I only lived in a room in my mansion. Howard’s house is everything here.
“Where do you want to build a new house?”
“Um, no. Shall we cling to Argin this time?”
“Wouldn’t the Akasha estate be better than the Tempest estate?”
I guess I’m used to it because I’ve lived in the Akasha estate for quite some time. There is a lord who often does bizarre things, and the servants and territories have a lot of resistance to that side, so it’s okay if Howard does weird things sometimes.
“I have nothing to do there.”
“Isn’t it the same as going to the Tempest Mansion and having nothing to do?”
“But can Argin recognize me now?”
uh? That’s it. Howard now looks completely different from before. Her appearance, which looked like she was in her 50s, became younger to that of her late 20s, and the color of her hair and eyes changed to black. It was good to see him as a completely different person because his size and height had also decreased.
“Okay, that sounds like a lot of fun”
Howard smiled broadly. Unintentionally, I became an accomplice.