Unlike the narrow entrance, the stone chamber was extremely wide. It made me wonder what the hell was going on to create such a space under the mausoleum.
What’s even more surprising is that it’s not just the scale.
“Wow, it’s so gorgeous.”
Despite being underground without a single light, the basement was bright. It was because all the golden patterns that glowed inside flashed.
At first glance, they were patterns engraved with special magic on gold.
‘Instead of lighting, it’s an underground stone chamber full of fancy golden patterns and various decorations.’
Just looking at this, I already came up with an estimate for Godfrey. A person who likes flashy things and has a strong desire for self-revelation.
This splendor must also be a response to such a desire. It was half-expected, but more and more certain.
‘It’s arrived.’
In terms of the number of floors in the buildings on Earth, after going down about 7 or 8 floors, a flat floor and a long passage finally appeared.
As Luke moved along the aisle, the golden patterns on the wall lit up and paved the way. The moment I moved forward about 5 minutes.
-The one who came to take the test.
Whoa ah.
All sides were illuminated, and the entire stone chamber became as bright as daylight. Among them, a warrior clad in leather appeared as a blurry figure in the center.
Luke muttered involuntarily.
“… hologram?”
Anyone in this world would have shouted that it was a ghost. However, to Luke, who came into contact with modern media, the warrior in front of him looked like a three-dimensional image in a movie.
-My dear, if you wish to obtain the dragon’s heart, pay your respects.
“respect?”
Luke tilted his head at the solemn warrior’s voice. Seeing the reaction, the warrior jumped up and shouted.
-Yes! Respect! You, you who seek to obtain my inheritance! Who do you think I am!
“Oh oh.”
Luke was slightly amazed. Hey, I guess this was also interactive. It wasn’t a recorded video. The warrior only exclaimed exclamation, and when there was no answer, the warrior frowned.
– How can you not answer! tell me who i am!
“… Godfrey, Godfrey the Demon Slayer.”
-Yes! I am Godfrey!
While bewildered, let’s roughly match the rhythm, the warrior shouted with a voice full of pride.
-I killed countless demons and reigned in fear, exterminated demons trying to rise to the ground, and killed an ancient dragon single-handedly. My name is legend, and my glory is immortal. So, warriors, pay your respects! I must be Godfrey!
“… … .”
Amid the booming voice, Luke stared blankly at Godfrey. As you can see, it seems to have captured the past self as it is.
‘He’s the type to hit goals.’
I roughly guessed it after looking at the stone chamber, but I never thought I would have such a strong desire to reveal myself. Still, I decided to match the rhythm once.
‘I’m a little curious about how he reacts.’
As Luke sneakily bent over, Godfrey shouted.
-for a moment! Are you going to take an example here?
“then… … ?”
– No doubt! How can you stand in the same place as me! Wouldn’t it be great if he had achieved an achievement that surpassed Godfrey’s?
Raising his chin, Godfrey pointed backwards. At the bottom of the slightly sloping stairs, there was a place where a person of obviously lower rank could be located.
-good! Pay your respects to me in your place!
After speaking, Godfrey turned his back. On the other side was a stairway going up. A three-dimensional image of Godfrey perched on a chair on a high platform.
It was as if we were going to see how good it was.
“hahahaha.”
Laughter came out. I kept trying to keep this together, but there was no end to it.
-What do you do? Come on, pay your respects to me!
“… f*ck you, you idiot.”
Luke raised his middle finger and spat out a double curse.
* * *
For a long time Godfrey was still. It seemed that he had no idea what was going on. Godfrey’s expression changed after a while.
– Go, dare… … !
Godfrey’s body trembled as if it had a real shape. I didn’t know what that finger meant, but I could tell it was a pretty serious insult.
-You guys insult Godfrey!
Chunk. Chunk. Chunk.
At the same time as the shouts, a loud sound rang out from all directions. It was like the sound of mechanical gears engaging.
– No exams! You won’t get my legacy! You will regret that you blew your chance by insulting me for one night, or all your life!
“It’s cracking.”
Luke laughed. Intimidation is grandiose on the subject of stereoscopic images that only project the ego. There is no reality, so all you can do is spit out curses.
-This guy is still!
“Let’s see.”
I ignored Godfrey’s loud cry and headed down the stairs. It was the place Godfrey had just pointed out.
Godfrey snorted at the sight of Luke getting down on one knee and examining the floor.
-Do you have any regrets now? But it’s already too late! An opportunity once lost never comes again!
“Shut up. A nobleman who died a long time ago is still alive.”
-Yes, how are you… … !
“Oh, here it is.”
Kwajik.
Luke took one side of the floor and lifted it up. Then, the hidden device on the floor revealed itself.
“As expected, I knew it would be like this.”
-What are you doing now!?
“What are you doing, you’re trying to get the dragon’s heart.”
The structure of the mechanism under the floor was relatively simple. Luke had tasted dungeon traps until he got tired of them. It was easy to interpret the structure of quite a few devices.
Moreover, this device was made long before the dungeon was created. In terms of technology level, it was rather easy to interpret because it was worse than the current era.
“There is a lock here.”
-… … !
Godfrey’s stereoscopic image trembled. It was clear that the rattling sound just before had come from this lock.
“If you touch it a little, it will be back to normal. No, I’ll have to take it out of here so that it can’t be locked any more.”
-That, stop it! Do you know what you’re up to?
“You know very well.”
Luke smiled and glanced at Godfrey.
“I’m unlocking a device that unlocks when I bow to you a hundred times from the outside.”
– Oh, how!
Godfrey’s eyes widened. Because these devices are made just for that purpose. Luke didn’t answer and remembered the time before the return.
‘It was information that Ragnar spread widely along with the dungeon.’
Ragnar is a dungeon and a stone chamber, and everything is hidden until discovered. But after everything was done, it was decorated like an epic and spread widely.
In other words, he used it as propaganda to highlight his heroism.
‘I hope that will help here.’
Before the return, there was a platinum meeting, but the election of the king of the north did not take place. Still, he knew the secret about the stone chamber, so he came later and carefully took care of it.
In Ragnar’s journal at the time, it was written as follows. He bowed a hundred times in homage to the great hero Godfrey, and then the door to the dragon’s heart opened.
“Exactly as you say.”
Luke clicked his tongue as he looked at the device’s connection.
“Is it a structure in which the sawtooth moves every time you bow and a certain place opens when you fill it 100 times? I even made it go back to the beginning if I didn’t load it perfectly.”
In a word, it is said that you should hold the angle perfectly and bow 100 times reverently. If you run out of power on the way, or if you are a little rough, it will be initialized.
“Anyway, I’m not crazy. To think that a nobleman who was already behind a thousand years ago set up such a device because he wanted to be worshiped by future generations as well.”
– Shut up! Even if I just list my achievements, I can continue the story until the sun rises and sets! But do you mean that you can’t receive even a single reverence like this!?
“There must be qualifications. But it’s ugly.”
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– Is it ugly?
“lets think. Wouldn’t it be cool to defeat the demons, turn your back and walk away saying ‘I’ll leave the rest up to you’? Or ‘Worship me! Keep your head down! Isn’t it cool to brag, saying, ‘I’m a hero!’”
-… … .
Godfrey pursed his lips, probably at a loss for words. Meanwhile, Luke unlocked the mechanism and tinkered with some gears.
“Okay, if I pull this forward a little bit and do a hundred revolutions at once… … .”
Crunches, crunches, crunches
-Oh, no!
“Okay.”
Godfrey screamed at the sound of the mechanism moving, but to no avail. After a while, the floor in the middle opened up and something came up.
A treasure that looks like a small gem carved into a heart shape.
“This is the heart of a dragon.”
– Do not touch! Didn’t allow it! I didn’t allow it!
Godfrey ran wild all the way, but he couldn’t stop Luke. In the first place, all I could do was manipulate the lock.
Luke picked up the dragon’s heart, ignoring Godfrey, who was dazzling in front of him.
‘Huh, I’m a little nervous.’
Even Luke, who had maintained his composure all along, had a hard time suppressing his trembling in front of the dragon’s heart. Because this dragon’s heart is the key to awakening the lineage.
‘Let’s close our eyes and eat.’
The long-awaited opportunity has arrived. The more you think about it, the more complicated your mind will become. Luke closed his eyes and poured the dragon’s heart into his mouth.
The heart, which was hard enough to pass through the throat, melted like liquid and passed through the esophagus as soon as it was put in the mouth.
pounding.
“Suck!”
Scary to consume, Luke’s heart beat loudly. My body was cold like the north wind and snow, and then it became hot like a boiling furnace.
‘What crazy! It didn’t even go to the stomach, but it was already absorbed?’
The sudden change gave me a twinge of lust. Well, this is what I was prepared for, and I had no time to sleep.
Chee Hee.
“Turn it off!”
Steam rose from all over his body, and a grotesque pain that was hard to put into words hit his body. Godfrey burst into laughter as Luke wriggled on the floor.
– Stupid guy! To eat the dragon’s heart as it is!
‘what?’
Could it be that there was a problem? I hadn’t heard of that!
– hahahaha! If you are not of dragon blood, you cannot recklessly ingest the dragon’s heart! Are you saying that you can inherit dragon blood!?
“Ouch! what?”
-If you inherited the blood of a dragon, the pain will soon subside and you will be able to gain the power corresponding to your lineage. But those who do not have dragon blood will only die in agony!
“Turn it off! that’s it? Turn it off!”
– That greed ruined you! You who are just and do not have the right qualifications! You who have surpassed the power of the great dragon lineage! Regret it and go to the underworld!
“Keo-eo-eok!”
My body twisted in pain. how much time has passed like that 1 minute passed, 3 minutes passed, and even after 10 minutes passed, Luke was still alive.
Godfrey, who laughed at first, also looked at Luke with a dazed expression.
-… why don’t you die?
“Because I, dragon, bloodline!”
-what?
“Keugh! It’s calming down now!”
To be honest, my whole body still feels beaten up. However, the agony of going back and forth between the blast furnace and the glacier is gone.
Even the slightest pain subsided quickly. Luke, barely breathing, frowned.
“Damn it, if there are side effects, write them down somewhere!”
If that was the case, I would have prepared myself mentally! Annoyed, Luke kicked the pedestal where the dragon’s heart was placed.
Kicking close to venting anger pushed the pedestal and fell to the floor… … .
Tuquaang!
“… … !?”
… did not lose With one kick, the pedestal flew through the air and soared to the ceiling of the stone chamber, crashing into it. Luke blankly stared at the pedestal mounted on the wall.
After a while, the corner of Luke’s mouth went up after he came to his senses.
“It kills you.”