"Release me this instant!", the dragon roared yet again.
But oh well, other than locking his skills, the roar did nothing else. The locking effect was its innate skill perhaps and Shin was definitely not immune to that.
Yes, he was still afraid of the dragon. Who wouldn't be?
He suddenly faced a gigantic dragon that was at least ten times bigger than him.
It was half immersed in the muddy water and only its head and its body were out.
Its legs were still inside.
A way to escape the command of the territory was that if one could fly and leave the contact with the territory for a minute.
So it was quite advantageous to the dragon since they could fly away and get rid of the so-called authorities. Unfortunately, the Earth Dragons had no wings.
That was why they couldn't free themselves from such a thing and now, in front of Shin, a similar earth dragon was completely trapped in his authorities.
"You bastard!"
"Free me this instant I said!", the dragon shouted at the top of his voice.
It looked like he didn't want to have any chatter with him, more than that, it wanted to kill him.
He was hostile enough so Shin had no plans of letting him go from his grasp.
"Well well, why the hurry?", Shin sounded a bit arrogant at the moment.
He had the upper hand at the moment after all. Facing a ruler was no joke and now that the dragon couldn't do a thing, Shin could grin and mock him all he wanted.
But Shin wasn't such an idiot who would just bully some dragon, because he was way too busy in searching the clues about Aella, after all, another mission was still active at the moment.
He didn't have all the time in the world anyway!
Also, since the moon was shining brightly, he did not have any problem seeing the surrounding.
The dragon continued to roar while Shin just walked towards the small rock that was beside him and sat there.
He basically rested there and waited until the night passed by. And why was that?
It was simple, he felt much more confident during the day and nothing else, also, his vision was good enough in the night because he was a wolf, but he had this human mentality that would make him much more reckless during the nighttime.
Not that he got any good sleep because the dragon kept roaring.
Well, guess what, due to the roaring, he got another skill while he was resting.
[ Seal Resistance Lv.1 ]
[ Passive ]
[ The host and his skills cannot be locked or sealed off ]
While the text absolutely meant that his skills wouldn't be locked, it kept on getting sealed due to the immense difference in levels and strength of the dragon and Shin.
The rank difference was great too, not that Shin had bothered to take a look at its stats.
In any case, due to the constant locking and working of the skill, it had evolved into level 5 in just a single night. Probably that was because the skill got an immense amount of exp while trying to ward off a dragon's power.
[ Seal Resistance Lv.5 ]
It could have leveled up even more, but the dragon wasn't able to use half of its power because of the title's effects!
Whatever, as soon as the sun rose again, Shin's skill no longer got sealed!
"Bastard…"
"Re-"
"Release me…", the dragon seemed quite tired due to the constant roaring and shouting.
"Looks like even a mighty dragon as yourself cannot roar for long…", Shin tried to mock and see if the dragon was really tired or if he was just acting.
And as expected, the dragon was indeed acting!
"You foul beast!"
"Once I am freed, I'll shred you into pieces!"
Just by hearing that Shin realized that the dragon was acting.
While he thought that this was despicable, something came to his mind at the same instant.
'Why would a dragon disguise itself as a large rock and attack someone as small as me?'
'Why would he act as if he was tired and lure me so that he could attack me when my guard would be down?', Shin asked himself.
Yes, these were some interesting questions.
A dragon, so strong as this, wouldn't do something lowly after all dragons are quite prideful creatures.
So something definitely smelt fishy.
'I'm sure…'
'Something is wrong with him…', and Shin was absolutely right.
There was something going on with the dragon which made him do all these things.
'Let me take a look at its stats…'
'As the ruler, I think I can see his stats…', well, he was somewhat wrong there.
Even if you were a ruler and someone was your slave or was assigned a lower rank, you couldn't possibly break their mental barrier and see their skills and stats until and unless they allowed it.
And we were talking about a dragon here, a being with the highest mental defense!
So of course, he couldn't see everything. But some info was revealed which were quite important and Shin finally realized why the dragon was behaving in an abnormal manner all this time.
[ Profile ]
[ Name: ??? ]
[ Sex: Male ]
[ Race: Dragon ]
[ Earth Dragon ]
[ Status ]
[ -> Frightened ]
[ -> Anger ]
[ -> Trapped ]
[ -> Starved ]
[ -> Cursed ]
[ -> Wounded ]
[ -> Lonely ]
When Shin looked at the status, he failed to realize the pain with which the dragon in front of him was.
He stared at the blank space for a few seconds while thinking about the status effects.
'Frightened…?'
This meant that the dragon was quite scared at the moment. It could have been due to the title, but that would not be enough to give such a status effect.
There was definitely something else to that.
Also, after seeing the stats such as 'trapped', 'starved', 'cursed' and 'wounded', Shin felt sad for the dragon who was acting tough in front of him.
The final stat which he saw was 'Lonely', which he related to himself.
'I see…'
'Both of us are lonely…'
"…"
To be continued…
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