Chapter 40: The Rat and the Giant Dragon

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To ensure Su Ya gets a full belly, the Knight Order was forced to launch a feeding campaign tougher than a war.

The originally scheduled plan to depart at eight in the morning clearly fell apart, and judging by the current situation,

their king appears to have only just been half‑full.

And at this moment,

on the wall of the Norman-style Castle that faces the square.

Lu Kan snatched Dagonite, who had been hiding in the wall's shadow, as if merged with the surroundings, making him labor for half an hour in that tiny spot before finally finding Dagonite.

"You—"

The moment Dagonite saw Lu Kan, a look of horror crossed his face, and he thought Lu Kan had come to kill him, instinctively trying to flee.

However,

"Dagonite, what do you think?"

Lu Kan showed no intention of striking, merely pulling a box of New-style Cigarettes from his pocket, extracting one and tossing it over.

Dagonite took the cigarette, stared blankly for a moment, then promptly stuffed it into his waist pouch like a treasure,

"Is this a New-style Cigarette from the Divine Tower in Jerusalem? Where did you get it?"

"It costs one pound per stick."

Lu Kan, seeing his answer was off‑topic, turned his head toward the bustling scene in the square, brushed his finger over the small pouch at his lower back, and flicked a match.

The match spun wildly in midair, igniting out of nowhere,

"Ssshh—"

He took an epic‑sized drag, the tip instantly burning to the end of the cigarette; Lu Kan held the breath, stared blankly into the distance, lost in thought.

Dagonite kept playing dumb, giggling, "This is a fine thing from the future; the Knights savor it sip by sip. You're really wasting it, Lord Lu Kan."

"Lord?" Lu Kan snorted a laugh, repeating the word, and the motion caused two plumes of smoke to puff from his nostrils, making him look both trendy and rustic.

"You've already taken yourself as his subject?"

"Are you really ready to pledge loyalty to him?"

"Dagonite, you coward who hides behind the master to survive, a disgrace to the Knight, a clown‑like fellow—"

"Since when did you develop such ambition?"

When the two were alone,

Dagonite surprisingly offered no rebuttal, only sneered and looked at Lu Kan,

"Ambition?"

"Since when can we, living like dogs, possess such a thing?"

"Fifteen years ago, after the Continental Arrival incident and after the Feast of the Seven Kings, Yuse Wang chose to cooperate with the Magic King, feeding that tower with all of Britannia,"

"Lu Kan, are we a match?"

"The whole world suddenly changed overnight into what it is now,"

"Professions are worse than dogs, masters roam everywhere, bloodshed, conflicts, wars erupt, grassroots rebellions, warring kings; countless people like you and me fight to the death for a so‑called 'hero' honor!"

"Is that really a hero?"

"They're all man‑eating, bone‑chewing demons!"

"And precisely at such a time, the church that worships God, claims to save everything, preaches truth, goodness, beauty, usurps royal authority, bans merchants, its priests are fat with indulgence, while the starving populace dies in waves like grass."

"All of it, all of it, all of it—"

"All for that tower!"

"For such a vague, ethereal promise!"

Dagonite gritted his teeth, giggled, his tone dripping with sarcasm, and repeated the earlier question:

"Lu Kan, are we a match?"

Then, staring at Lu Kan, he sarcastically retorted:

"Lu Kan—"

"You, the rat in the toilet, a swindler who flaunts everywhere, never allowing souls to kneel before your so‑called 'king', a lofty person."

"You suddenly came not to kill me, but to chat about this and that with me?"

Lu Kan stayed silent, because once he spoke, the breath that soothed his throat and numbed his mind would dissipate.

"Listen, Lu Kan—"

"Clearly it's you who wants to become a 'hero'!"

"You didn't come today to kill me; I'm glad. I already promised you I wouldn't reveal your secret, so please stop hunting me from now on—six years, endless!"

Lu Kan finally exhaled a long stream of smoke, looking at Dagonite with a amused grin,

"Your promise, a clown's promise?"

Dagonite emphasized, "I said, I am a Knight."

Lu Kan snorted, "A Knight who backs the master to survive."

"I said, I just want to live."

"I'm different from you, Lu Kan; you're a rat in the toilet, smelly and stiff."

"And I am a mouse that hopes to feast in the granary, brain full of fat, fur glossy, enormous."

"Mice aren't fit to have masters; they can only rely on instinct to burrow everywhere, otherwise they'd become pets."

"Pets that can be squashed at any moment."

Lu Kan squinted, staring at Dagonite,

for a long while,

He calmly said:

"I can spare you, but you must teach 【Shadow Vanish】 to that brat."

Hearing this, Dagonite laughed, his gaze flicking to the boy eating heartily at the center of the square,

"Just by this 'King', a swordsman who just became an attendant?"

"He probably doesn't even know how to swing a sword, right?"

"You want an attendant to learn the 【Emblem Combat Technique】 that even masters can't learn?"

Lu Kan shook his head and spoke his observation:

"In two hours, that brat learned four combat techniques he had never touched before."

The air suddenly fell silent.

Dagonite thought he had heard a myth, stunned for a moment,

"Huh?"

Lu Kan said: "The Combat Technique Pattern has already begun growing inside his body, so now he needs a huge amount of heat; I can understand this at a glance, you know, I possess such expertise."

"Moreover, his identity is not that simple."

"His Magic Circuit is not of human shape, or rather—"

"He is not human."

Dagonite was stunned, after a while he began scratching his head,

Scratching his head madly.

After scratching for a long time, he only felt another brain growing in his head, thus fully understanding the huge information conveyed in Lu Kan's words.

"Dagonite, this time you have sworn allegiance to a guy who might change everything,"

Lu Kan slightly opened his narrowed eyes, golden pupils revealing a stern aura,

"And he might just be the kind of king we both idealize!"

"Just as recorded in the tales of the Fairy Kingdom,"

"Rat monsters usually rely on overwhelming numbers and tricks to live; once they lose the protection of their group, they immediately flee, join another group as slaves, and by constantly changing groups, they proliferate in the most humble corners."

"And awaiting—"

"Awaiting—"

"Until that day, they saw an egg."

"When they saw that egg, they immediately abandoned everything and unconditionally pledged allegiance to it; they huddled together in a sea of fire, not hesitating to scorch their flesh to protect the egg, sacrificing their lives."

"Because, that is a dragon's egg."

Dagonite had never seen such a serious expression in Lu Kan's eyes, his heart involuntarily tightened,

He immediately turned his head, looking at Su Ya eating heartily at the center of the square,

"So, he is that egg?"

And when he saw how fast Su Ya was wolfing down his food, he couldn't help but feel reverent,

"Hiss, this appetite is indeed remarkable!"

But Lu Kan snorted, staring at Su Ya noisily making food, corners of his mouth curling,

"No, the king has broken out of his shell!"

"Look—"

"Dragon, has been born!"

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