This chapter has been proof-read by: AnthonyL

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Later that day we finally returned to the castle. Guards escorted us to the king and queen who seemed to have perfectly recuperated from the operation as she was giggling with the king. There was the prince and the two princesses all participating to this cheesy family reunion.

One of the guard yelled:

“Sir Elvis Presley as arrived!” (Guard)

The entire family immediately turned around and came at us in a strange manner. It was no longer the king meeting a stranger but more like the royal family meeting their benefactor. They were talking to me in a respectful manner as if I was of higher rank than them. That's more like it...

“Sir Elvis! We were anxiously waiting for your return.” (King Hofhray) He said as he offered a respectful bow.

“Guess what, for the first time in my life I've been able to dance with my husband without being out of breath only 2 minutes later. You said I would need a few months to be fully healed yet I feel like I could dance the entire night. Hehehe*” (Queen Nafarihm)

“I'm glad to hear it, but please remember not to overexert yourself or your condition might deteriorate.” (Kneeko)

She would need time for her heart to fully heal since I didn't dare use a healing spell on it, afraid it would revert back to it's original “imperfect” shape. I lifted my eye-patch for a second and quickly understood that the king intended to present his daughters to me but I was in a hurry and didn't have time for this.

“I mean no disrespect great king but I received news from home. I need to be on my way as soon as possible so if you have everything I asked...” (Kneeko)

“Ho.. Won't you stay with us a few more days?” (Prince Elnfrid) Asked the prince with a disappointed face.

“Yes please do, there is so much I would like to talk about with such a great scholar as you.” (King Hofhray)

“I will come back to visit you some other day but as I said, duty is calling me away from here.” (Kneeko)

“I understand. Come with me this way please.” (King Hofhray)

The king led me toward the courtyard in the back of the castle and asked a few guards to bring what was rightfully mine. What arrived were 3 carts, 1 filled with clothes, armours and weapons, the other 2 were cages on wheels filled with fierce looking elven prisoners.

I didn't know elves could look so intimidating but these men and women looked like murderers at first sight. There was one cart for women and another for men. Luckily Nargaroth was abnormally strong otherwise we would not have been able to transport them all.

“Will this be satisfying to you sir?” (King Hofhray)

“Guhuhu* Yes, perfect. Now the most important.” (Kneeko)

“Indeed, this way please.” (King Hofhray)

“Mendy, Nargaroth, you stay here and prepare these carts for travel.” (Kneeko)

“Yes great leader!” (Nargaroth)

Lifting my eye-patch a few time I confirmed that the king had no intention of deceiving me as he felt heavily indebted to me. We walked around the castle and went to the throne room. There the king opened a secret passage protected by a magic barrier.

We walked down a stone stairway lighted by magic crystals. After a short while we were finally in a giant room adorned with gold, valuable paintings and statues, weapons and artifacts of all kinds. This room was filled with an unimaginable wealth.

We walked in the room and went to the back where were stacked a huge pile of small wooden boxes. In each one of these boxes were monster cores protected inside a thick and soft padding. Guhuhuhu* there were a few hundred of them.

Most of them were not from really high level monsters but mostly from rare specimens holding rare proprieties. I was exited like a kid at Christmas. The king asked me if I would need help to carry them all but understood I didn't after seeing me put them all away in my inventory.

“Since you have kept your part of the deal I shall do the same. The dragon you are looking for is from one of the 3 top pure blooded dragon clans. They seem to be a rogue gang of dragons working in the shadows for unknown purpose.

They attacked various towns and villages around the world and seem to act without their clan's permissions. I do not know what are their purpose but I have been made aware of 5 of them. It all comes from a true story circulating as rumour among the people.

Apparently the Rokugan's clan leader Damyon has attacked and killed one of his own clanswoman and her daughter since she was threatening his position as leader. This all happened near the Niardo kingdom a few months back.

Damyon was apparently accompanied by 4 other dragons to do the dirty work. I also heard Damyon had kidnapped princess An'dalia from the Niardo kingdom and tried to force her to become his wife. She eventually escaped but I recently heard that she had disappeared again. Most likely Damyon's doing again.” (Kneeko)

I continued by giving the king the description of the 4 other unknown dragons. I also reminded him that he had jumpers in his kingdom, things the dragons don't have. So with the jumpers, if there was to be a world war like before, it wouldn't end the same way.

Not only that but the dragons were still recuperating from it and were acting cocky only because of their new alliance with the demon race. Dragons have a very low birth rate so recuperating the numbers lost during the war was taking them a lot longer than other races.

If we managed to sway the humans, the dragon's fate would be sealed even without the half-human race. I told the king a few ways he could use to sway the humans and also deter the demons from intervening in case of a war. I had spent a lot of time thinking about all this.

“T-t... This is monstrous... Killing their own clansmen, a mother and her child... If I were to speak of this to my clan leader acquaintances their heads would go flying. But like you said before, there may be more of them out there. Maybe some clan leaders are even cooperating with them... I will need some time to sort through it all.” (King Hofhray)

“Obviously. But if you do as I told you I am certain you will know fast enough. Also, just between you and me... Damyon soon won't be a problem. He owes me big time for something he did in the past. His fate is already sealed.” (Kneeko)

My face became dark and a black aura began to leak from my skin. The king wouldn't dare look at me in the eyes with the amount of blood-lust I was radiating. This bastard is mine... He will be the only exception as I will deal with him myself.

Well An'dalia will do most of it.. Guhuhuhu* But fact is, I have “Dragon” on my shopping list so I have more than one reason to kill him myself. From what I saw in the boxes I should find most of what's on my list with these cores. This was a mega jackpot for my growth.

Guhuhuhu* Mission accomplished. With An'dalia slowly closing in on the dragon territory I needed to move fast, so we bid a last farewell to the royal family before leaving. The queen gave me a long kiss on the cheek before our departure and seemed sad to see us leave so early.

I listened to her thoughts a little and didn't find any sign of her being under my charm sadly. Nargaroth and Mendy had attached the 3 carts together as to tow them like a train and surprisingly, Nargaroth didn't seem to have any difficulty pulling them all.

We walked for a few hours and stopped as we reached an uninhabited area. We were still a long way from our secret lands but we couldn't give any chances to these criminal to know our location so we placed bags on their head to prevent them from seeing where they were.

They were all cursing and trying to spit on us as we did so but they were all bound by chains to their wrists and ankles attached to the carriage floor, preventing them from even standing up. Those who were too noisy had their tongue severed under the eyes of their friends in order to make examples.

Soon none of them were making any noises or trying anything funny so the travel became more relaxing. We would feed them very well so they would stay healthy but didn't bother to detach them when they needed to go the the toilet.

Instead it was easier to strip them all and use WaterBolt occasionally to clean the shit and piss. Murderers don't deserve clothes... Ok scratch that, prisoners under my custody, don't deserve clothes. I kind of was a murderer myself when you thought about it.

We walked for days in this hot and humid tropical climate trying to do good time by skipping sleep. Nargaroth was pulling, I was doing recon and making sure no one was following while Mendy was in charge of using wind magic to erase our traces.

Only a S rank scout would be able to follow us and would most likely be killed by my numerous traps near the cave entrance. I kept using obscuro poison on the prisoners knowing it was better to keep them at low HP and blind.

“Master. Bird.” (Mendy) She said pointing up in a tree.

“[Arcane LightningBolt 5%] Poof!* Good job Mendy! Pat* Pat* Pat*” (Kneeko)

“PURRRRrrrrrrrrr*” (Mendy)

I had also finally finished consuming all the cores and holy mother of god was it a boost in strength. I was now level 723. I allocated my points where I thought I would need them and updated my shopping list. After a few days without anything happening and no sign of life I decided to leave to my next destination.

Nargaroth and Mendy would take 2 more days to reach our hideout and didn't need me for the rest. I was already late for my next appointment and needed to go. I asked Nargaroth if one of the prisoners tickled his fancy and he timidly pointed toward the tallest one. She was pretty... but mostly tall.

I told him she was his and he could do what he wanted with her. I also instructed him to hold a big tournament to establish the picking order among the others. Only the 50 strongest, 25 male 25 female would get to fuck them.

Why? Because I need only the strong to reproduce to make stronger babies. I had heard that instead of 1 month of gestation for female goblins that if a female human, elf, demi-human or even demon was impregnated, gestation lasted only 2 weeks and the baby was born directly as a hobgoblin.

You can easily imagine how ideal that was and as for the male prisoners, I gave a large jug of succubus juice from my treasure ring to Nargaroth. One drop of this liquid and these male prisoners would fuck the living daylight out of anything. I could already foresee a huge increase in population.

I also instructed them to leave Asta in charge of distributing the clothes, weapons and armour to the deserving warriors. I took all the clothing and dresses I had bought for them and placed them in the last carriage. Even though I wanted to give these gifts to them personally, I couldn't afford the time right now.

I asked my two acolytes to give them to Asta and that she would know which ones were made for who. With everything said and done I switched to my falcon form and flew at high speed toward the direction given by my StalkingCompass 3000. With how valuable the necklace linked to this compass was, there was no way she would have given it to anyone else. Wait for me my love... Guhuhuhuhuhu*

♬ ♫ ♪ ♩

I was born the son of a lawless man

Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand

Lived nine lives

Gunned down ten

Gonna ride like the wind

♬ ♫ ♪ ♩ ♬ ♫ ♪ ♩

And I've got such a long way to go

To make it to the border of Mexico

So I'll ride like the wind

Ride like the wind

♬ ♫ ♪ ♩

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STATUS

[table=#800000]PROFILENAME:KneekoLEVEL:723GENDER:MaleMONEY:120451G 23S 29CRACE:(Chimeric) Newt "Tadpole" (Common)MONSTER RANK:Medium HighHEALTH:7160STAMINA:6090MANA:37100STRENGTH:3258 (+550)(M)INTELLIGENCE:3095 (+600)SPEED:1472 (+150)DEXTERITY:73 (+150)(H)VITALITY:1 (+700)CHARM:1 (+415)LUCK:55 (+215)AGILITY:1043 (+150)RESISTANCE:2224 (+700)(S)ENDURANCE:94 (+500)SKILL POINTS:0FAME/INFAMY:-71500 (Seriously Evil)CLASS:-------------------TITLES:Spoiler : ☑ Death's Demise

☑ Divinity

☑ Don Juan

☑ Dungeon conqueror

☑ Elemental Master

☐ Grave Digger

☑ King of the pond

☑ Sphinx Slayer

☐ Stone turner

☑ Toxic Powerhouse

☐ Tree puncher

☑ Tycoon

☑ Vindictae Clan MemberPASSIVE SKILLS:Spoiler : Amphibious (-)

Anti-Reptile Venom (S)

Basilisk Acid ©

Blunt Weapon Mastery (E)

Dual Weapon Mastery (D)

Intimidating Aura (On)

Obscuro Poison (B)

Poison Immunity (-)

Unarmed Mastery (D)

Viper Neurotoxin (A)ACTIVE SKILLS:Spoiler : Deadly Breath ©

Gardener touch (S)

Humanoid shift (-)

ID Hide (-)

Luminar (E)

Poison Spit (D)

Sad puppy eyes (B)

Tail Whip (B)

TerrorEyes (B)

Vindic Flames (B)

Vindic Wave (B)

Vines Hell (B)

Viper Bite ©ARCANE LIBRARY:Spoiler : Arcane ClayBolt

Arcane EarthBolt

Arcane LightningBolt

Arcane MagmaBolt

Arcane FireBolt

Arcane FrostBolt

Arcane WaterBolt

Arcane WindBolt

Arcane Gatling

Immovable MountainCHIMERA FORGE[/table]