2025-12-02 00:13:59They gave him a lead plate tag with his name on it. Him. Like he was some mammal.
“This is degrading!” Sen complained to his loyal lackey Kyle, as they flew above the farmlands of Blenheim. The news had put him in a foul mood. “Lead? Lead!” “Every adventurer starts with a lead plate,” Kyle explained, the wind in his face causing his lips to move in ways Sen found distracting. “That’s the ranks. Lead, copper, iron, bronze, silver, gold, and starmetal. I’m a lead adventurer too, Your Majesty.” “But you are a human!” Also, why the adventurer guild put that greenish unshiny starmetal higher than brilliant gold, Sen would never understand. “I am a dragon. Can you humans fly? Can you breathe fire that melts stone? Can you live forever? No, so why is that not enough for gold?” “You are a unique case, Your Majesty,” minion Kyle tried to assuage his wounded pride. “Forgive my poor species, who does not know how to deal with you.” “Just this once!” Sen said, flying over a vast forest, smelling the presence of trolls, slimes, and other beasts below. Birds and harpies flew away in fear at his arrival. “Are these the troll woods?” “Yes, Your Majesty. Trolls usually live in caves, if we look for one—” “Minion, I will not sully my peerless scales with some troll’s dung. I am a dragon, remember?” Sen took a long, deep breath, and then dove towards the woods. The forge in his stomach lit up, the infernal power within turning the air into flames. The great calamity unleashed his mighty dragonfire upon the forest, a torrent of bright, nearly white flames incinerating trees, animals, everything; Sen flew in a straight line around the forest, intending to make a full ring of fire and trap the trolls – and whatever creatures unlucky enough to live with them – within. Kyle screamed in surprise, held close to Sen’s own maw. “Your Majesty, what are you doing?!” “Fulfilling your kind’s request,” Sen replied, after taking back some breath and preparing for a second round. Thanks to the wind, the inferno spread through the forest far north, turning trees to candles and grass to embers. Sen dove again through a cloud of smoke, much to his minion’s terror, smelling trolls below. A bunch of these savage, green-skinned giants attempted to flee the coming flames, only for the dragon to bombard them, spitting his fire in the shape of fireballs instead of a continuous stream. The projectiles exploded on contact with the ground, vaporizing the beasts, blasting the dirt and forming craters. Congratulations! You gained a level in [Noble]! +30 HP, +1 INT, +1 LCK! Sen awaited the declaration of a new Ability, but nothing came up. Maybe he hadn’t burned the place enough. The forest bordered several hills forming a natural frontier, and so Sen bombarded this area too, intent on devastating the entire forest instead of just the troll’s lair. After a few minutes of firebombing the land, Sen finished remaking the Woods of Gevaudan into a nice, smoking hellscape. “There, troll problem solved!” Sen said, happy with himself. “All we need is to claim the reward now!” “Your Majesty, can I…” Kyle pleaded, the ash-filled wind making him scoff, “Your Majesty, flight is terrible when you hold me in your palm. Especially when you breathe dragonfire down my neck.” “This must be your lack of scales,” Sen said. “I empathize with your situation, I truly do, but what can I do about this birth defect?” “Can I… can I… can I ride on your back instead?” Sen looked down on his insolent lackey. “Minion, what kind of ungrateful demand is that? Have I not given you an honest occupation? When I found you this morning you were but a mere thief, purposeless, adrift. Now you are chief of staff. My chief of staff. Do not demand too much.” Kyle sighed at his master’s scolding. “I guess at least I got a level out of this.” “You did?” Was that not payment enough? “Yeah, I got a level in Monster Squire when you made me your ‘chief of staff,’ and now I got another. I didn’t even know this class existed.” “What is a squire? A human term?” “It’s, uh, the apprentice of a knight or a noble. They help them get ready for battle, do menial chores for their boss, learn the tricks of the trade…” “Ah, yes. A minion.” “Yes, it pays just as much.”
Previous Chapter
Latest Chapter
Chapter 108
Come again?“It is not enough to wear robes, manipulate an emperor from behind the scenes, and steal souls to become a true Grand Vizier,” the mummy continued. “You need a special mindset. You cannot imagine the number of advisors cut down by pesky paladins because they wanted to be emperor in place of the emperor; instead, you should make your emperor a powerless figurehead, so your enemies will blame him instead of you. Thus you can justify claiming power by removing an ‘evil ruler’.”The mummy sounded very patronizing, like talking to a child, but Kyle didn’t dispel his misconception.“Patience is the mother of Victory. Your time will come. What matters is not to appear in charge, but to be. Step by step. I assumed your soul familiar would have taught you that.”“Kyle has much to learn,” Furibon said with an obsequious, servile tone, eager not to contradict the almighty mummy. “But he is rash and rarely listens.”“The student’s faults lie with the teacher, and I detect a lie in you
Chapter 107
Kyle found himself in an underground maze of stone stairs and corridors, kept in much better shape than the levels above. His will o wisp familiar provided him with much-needed light, guiding him around.Rusted, steel golems dusted off the various rooms like workers, while undead warriors patrolled the area. Kyle guessed that no sentient creature would stick around keeping a silent tomb after the first century, leaving only mindless automatons to defend it.Unfortunately for the owner, time hadn’t been kind to the guards. Most of the golems had fallen into a state of disrepair, enough that some had collapsed and now crawled with their arms. Their design reminded the visitor of Rolo, and he figured the golem may have come from this stock.While the defenses could have easily taken down any invader in their early days, Kyle's group could probably force their way through.“Hey, can you point me towards the exit?” Kyle asked one of the undead guardians, which ignored him. “Furibon, is the
Chapter 106
This means war!”The pyramid trembled, as Sen’s roar echoed through the treasure chamber. In his fury, his tail hit a wall and caused it to shake.“Your Majesty, calm down!” Kyle pleaded before he could collapse the place on them.“Ah, that takes me back,” Furibon said from within his scythe. “I should not rejoice at the sight… but I do.”“You, shut up,” Kyle replied, while Jolie attempted to calm her uncle.“Uncle, we can still find new treasure—”“This is not about the treasure!” Sen roared back, his niece cowering at his outburst. “This is a personal insult and challenge to my authority as the first, and greatest, dragon adventurer!”As Sen loudly declared the Third War of the Hoard on Vren and ranted about his grievances to his niece, Kyle noticed that Kia remained eerily calm. She was busy examining the mummy left behind by Vren, ignoring the dust falling from the ceiling.“The mummy hasn’t risen,” Kia said, after finishing. “They plundered the pyramid’s treasure room, but no mum
Chapter 105
"But... Uncle, that is a backward mentality!” Jolie replied. “Allowing a minion to sit on your back is the true progressive attitude!”“No, the proper way to socialize with a manling is to constantly remind them of their place; this ensures that they grow into responsible minions. Look at Manling Kyle! Thanks to my proper guidance, he went from a purposeless thief to a half-dragon!”“Oh, Kia can become half-dragon too?” This only encouraged Jolie. “A dragon riding a dragon would be awesome!”“I… I am tempted but…” Knight Kia shivered at both her mount and Sen’s glare, but her species shameful obsession with dragon riding prevailed. “Under one condition.”“Yes!” Jolie answered.“NO!” Sen roared.“I do not want to be subservient to someone else, so… I will become your chief of staff if you become my squire… and let me ride on your back.” Knight Kia’s griffon let out an angry roar at the betrayal. “I’m not abandoning you, Twilight! I will still ride you, I swear!”Squire? Sen remembered
Chapter 104
“Uncle Sen!” Jolie rejoiced, as the Emperor of All landed in her open lair with his chief of staff. “You’ve come!”“Jolie, how beautiful you are today!” Sen scratched his niece between the horns as he did back when she was a dragonling, making her wriggle in pleasure. She had grown fatter on demon meat, just like him. “Who is my favorite dragon, after me? You are!”Sen remembered promising himself to rampage in Maure’s flying demon farm, back when he had confronted that grasshopper for the first time. He had been recalled to his hoard before he could properly crush the moth and ravage his land, so Jolie had beaten him to it.His niece, her minions, and Knight Kia had cleaned up the city the same way Sen’s guests had with Murmurin, destroying most of the houses and leaving beautiful, flat ruins laying everywhere. Jolie had decided to celebrate by hosting a sitting party of her own, drinking a strange green liquid from an amphora.“Hello again, Kyle.” Knight Kia drank her own tiny cup n
Chapter 103
Kyle saw where this led before Charlene made her case. “Nobody leaves the Nightblades,” the guild manager said, Savoureuse nodding. “Since Kyle was part of the syndicate, he could be made the head of the local chapter.”“Yes,” Savoureuse agreeing. “I was going to suggest it. As the Crime Lord of the local chapter, Kyle, you will have a finger in every pie, and you will be the one to approve the hits or not. The perfect union of crime and government.”Was Kyle the only one seeing a problem with this? “So, you will want me to legalize an assassin guild, by making me its head?”“Kyle, what kind of empire does not have a shadowy assassin arm to complement its monstrous army?”When she put it this way… Kyle decided to stall for time. “I will consider it, but I’m not making a decision today.”“That isn’t a no,” Savoureuse rejoiced. “I cannot wait to show you the tricks of the trade. It will be just like old times.”Kyle sighed and sent her out of the room. “Charlene, how many jobs do I have
You may also like
The Ultimate Devourer
Daoist Of Lies14.6K viewsThe Awakened Arcane Legacy
Paul_okito22.8K viewsWHIT
VKBoy20.5K viewsLegend Of The Immortal
KidOO15.0K viewsChances to Another Life
Helios2.2K viewsRise of the Unpredictable Man II
CABO167 viewsDEAD END: INSIDE THE SUPERNATURAL
Melodion1.6K viewsTHE RELUCTANT WARBORN
Jules354 views