“ShkreeeeeeeeeeeeehhhHHHH!!!!”

The gryphon’s body suddenly emits a blue colored flame as it hovered in the sky.

Lyle’s hands was immediately scorched but still he held unto the gryphon’s body not minding the pain searing in his burned hand.

'I don't believe I can't ride you! You're a Griphon you know! A griphon!!'

He immediately activated his Demi-Dragon form: Dragon Scales Hardening.

Although these slight transformations only give him impregnable dragon scales in various parts of his body, this skill used almost half of his mana so it’s really not good to keep it activated for a long time.

His whole body glowed as one stream after another of black liquid began to flow on his skin, covering his whole body, limbs, and bones with dark colored scales.

“Rrrrrgh.”

Letting out a deep growl, Lyle persevere the pain while smiling as he held on the gryphon’s back tightly.

The pain finally subsided as his body turned black and a dense layer of small black scales began to sprout on top of his skin.

Seeing his flames not making any effect anymore, the gryphon felt a slight panic. It suddenly sped up while rotating around making Lyle swinging downward.

“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”

Because it felt nice to cut through the wind while riding at the back of the gryphon, Lyle let out a large scream as though to dispel the pain and anxiety he felt because of the gryphon’s blue flame as well as from the Dragon scale transformation.

He felt ecstatic, right now he didn’t care about the world, flying while riding on this mythical creature he can only dream of seeing in his past life, was the best so far.

Riding Airplanes felt as nowhere as this! Lyle thought.

When the gryphon went into a nose dive from above, its speed just about doubled.

The instant it realized that there was no need to hold back, the gryphon mixed in rotating, trying to shake Lyle off. It tilted three dimensionally horizontal and vertical, flying as it pleases. If it was someone other than Lyle, his stomach and head by now should have already been shaken and rolled around. He might even lose consciousness and faint then fell on the ground.

But Lyle was anything but ordinary, not just because of his extreme vitality by being a Demi-Dragon, he too was super excited riding the gryphon that he forgot this kind of things.

“ShkreeeeeeeehhhH!”

The atmosphere shook in the next moment. Now the gryphon seems mad it was utilizing its wings to manipulate whirlwinds.

If Lyle were to look down, he would be able to see the atmosphere as if it was breaking from the shockwaves.

Amidst the shockwaves that seemed like they would crush a human instantly, Lyle was laughing and screaming in delight.

“HAHAHAHAHAH…..THE BESSSSSTTT!!!....THIS IS THE BESSSSTTTT!!!... FASTER! FASTERRRRR!!!”

Hearing the laughter and joyous scream on its back, an emotion that was a mix of wonder and bewilderment welled up inside the gryphon.

Such pressure. Such cold but before Lyle it was as if he didn’t even felt it.

The endurance that he was displaying to withstand this was not something a normal being had. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to it, Lyle was not normal to begin with.

Maybe the gryphon couldn’t hold to continuously flying acrobatically for a long period of time, it suddenly reverted back to its original position.

It stopped flying and just floating in the air. The blue flames on its body disappeared.

Seeing this Lyle immediately reverted his dragon scales to normal to conserved his mana. It seems it have given up on shaking Lyle off it’s back. It tilted its head and look at Lyle.

“Who art thou, foolish one?” A voice rang out.

It was a woman’s voice.

A voice that was not spoken, but rang out just like a wide area version of telepathy.

Because a gryphon’s vocal chords and mouth were incapable of speaking human words, it definitely used a method to transmit words through air vibrations.

“I am Lyle Drake Dragonfang!.................

-------Wha-!? wait! Y-you can talk!?”

Lyle was surprised by the voice that obviously came from the gryphon, and he inadvertently let loose his hand which is holding its body tightly. He stared at the gryphon’s eagle eyes in amazement.

“Indeed, this one can talk! Isn’t that great? Isn’t this one amazing?”

“How? Neither demonic beast or monster, except for the intelligent and mighty dragons, even if it is a mythical beast like you shouldn’t have the capability to talk!”

That’s right, it was impossible for neither a demonic beasts nor a mythical beast to speak in human words in the first place.

Even among monsters, there shouldn’t be an existence such as this which is capable of understanding human language.

But, the existence of the gryphon right before his eyes can’t be denied. In the first place, this gryphon was strange in and of itself since the beginning. It was the first gryphon in the history that can emit blue flames from its body.

No such thing has been recorded throughout Montania’s history

“Fumu, thou art not wrong, but this one is special. This one has risen to the deity rank a long time ago!”

“Deity rank!?”

As expected, even the always calm and my-pace, self-proclaimed hedonist Lyle was very surprised.

He became “Eh!?” as he looked at the gryphon.

Lyle thought it couldn’t be possible, maybe he heard it wrong or maybe the gryphon was just lying, trying to frighten him but the look in the gryphon’s eyes were saying it was serious.

Lyle was surprised in the “edge” of his mind. Just how many times since reincarnating in this world he saw unbelievable and out worldly things that left him speechless?

But this… This is just too unbelievable! This was the first time he saw a deity rank mythical beast.

Who wouldn’t felt excited?

“Fumu! Well, more importantly, aren’t thou rude? Forcing thou self upon this one! Thou want to die foolish human? Defiling this one’s cherished chastity, even death won’t be enough”

The gryphon glared at him.

The gryphon growled menacingly as it seemed preparing herself to kill the rude man in her back.

Lyle’s body shuddered because of the gryphon’s glare. He knows that it’s not just boasting but if the gryphon really wanted to kill him then he could easily do it.

He was only an A rank right now, even after transforming he would still be in between an S rank and SS rank but this gryphon is a Deity rank. No matter how you see it, this gryphon is so much stronger than him.

But Lyle wasn’t even a little bit scared.

No, it’s more appropriate to say that, dying by the hands of this gryphon doesn’t matter to him. What concern’s him the most was what the gryphon had just said...

‘I forced myself to her? Chastity? No way t-then d-don’t tell m-me……

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!? I, I, I raped her? I raped a beast? Is this what they call Beastiality?'

Lyle felt his brain was melting out of his body.

His face was dyed blood red. He couldn’t believe what he just did.

All he wanted is to experience riding at the back of the gryphon but to raped it.

Just thinking about it feels as if his mind was going to explode in embarrassment.

Guilt overwhelmed his entire consciousness and his body shuddered thinking at the worst crime he just did.

Can’t take it anymore, he stood up and then suddenly kneeled at the top of the gryphon’s body.

“What art thou doing?” Shocked by Lyle sudden action, the gryphon asked wearily.

“Dogeza”

Lyle did not change from the dogeza posture and vented out a response.

“This one doesn’t talking about that. This one was asking why thou are doing that.”

Flustered and dyed red from embarrassment, he slightly raised his head and looked straight at the gryphon’s eyes.

“I want to apologize. I didn’t mean to do it; seriously. I just want to experience riding a gryphon. It was one of my dreams so please believe me, I have no other purpose, especially d-defiling y-your c-chastity! Really, I’m so sorry! I deeply apologize!” Lyle with a flustered face, bowed deeply.

Seeing this, the gryphon looked at Lyle who is still in a Dogeza posture, with a shocked expression.

“Oh? Art thou saying thou art not here to tame this one?”

Tame is a skill that puts a magical beast; whether they are demonic, mythical, or even monsters, in a state that makes it listen to humans. Though there are a lot of methods to do it, but the simplest one are to fight and then defeat it making it submit to you.

It seems the gryphon thought that Lyle wanted to tame it by forcing himself to her especially around this time was the gryphon’s breeding season.

Just like what Lyle did to her, in mating between two gryphons, the male will ride the female and hold onto her back. If he keeps it up for a while then they will be established as a happy couple.

“No! I never thought of that.” Lyle immediately replied.

He stood up and looks at the gryphon with unwavering gaze although if you look carefully he was still blushing.

“What I wanted the most in this world is freedom. Being free without constraint without someone neither ordering you nor manipulating you. That’s what I desire the most, so how can I steal someone else’s freedom! Even magical beasts like you want freedom just like me. Tame you? Having master-servant relationship? That’s just like stealing away your freedom! What I want is to be friend with you, not that kind of terrible relationship!

But even so, what I did to you can’t be easily forgiven! Even if I didn’t know it, it is true that I am guilty for it. To make up for it, I will obediently accept the punishment you will give me. If you want to kill me, then please do so! But I will still fight because I just can't give you my life so easily. It’s just that I really, really apologize for what I did!” Lyle was serious.

For him, defiling a woman’s precious chastity is the worst thing a man could do.

It is unforgivable! It is a shame for all man in the world!

Be it a human or beast as long as it is a woman, they need respect and love.

But to hurt them? Defile them? Lyle couldn’t even think of doing such thing.

That is why; Lyle would accept any punishment because no matter what the reason is, what he did is still unforgivable.

The gryphon stared at Lyle with a puzzled expression like she just couldn't understand him.

A human with unknown ability to turn his skin into that of a dragon was prostrating in front of her and apologizing. It was something she couldn’t even believe.

Normally, human upon seeing her would immediately attack her to tame her, but this human.

Is it because she have enormous strength and more powerful than him? Is it because he is afraid to die? The gryphon was wondering while looking at Lyle.

"Human, thou have proposed thee would accept any punishment. As thou have said, this one’s honor hath been tainted. But......thou art sure? What if this one told thee to jump from here! Even if thou uses that scales thee used, from this height thou would still lead to thou death!”

‘It's not a problem of this one holding enormous strength......... from this one seen so far, this human would fight to the death even if thy enemy is stronger. Then why? Dost this human really mean it?’

The gryphon was wondering about Lyle’s strange behavior. From other’s point of view, it was obvious with one glance that there was not a hope of winning if Lyle ever decided to fight.

But Lyle’s pride would not allow him to back down from a fight that he had sold.

So even if it did became a death match, he would surely fight until the end. But he didn’t. This is why the gryphon was wondering, from what she saw in this youth’s demeanor he isn’t the type to back down in a fight, so she decided to test him.

“If that’s what you want then I’ll do it!”

Isn't it just jumping from here? Easy~ I did it many times while playing extreme sports.

Without hesitation Lyle jumps off. Watching him jumping, the gryphon was startled and surprised!

"What!?"