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48.07% Law Of The Devil / Chapter 99: Dragon Clan’s Cave (part one)

章 99: Dragon Clan’s Cave (part one)

"Do you see that?" The old magician was standing behind Du Wei for who knows how long, but his tone was very bitter as he spoke: "I saw those things two hundred years ago, at this exact spot."

"You and Semel came here?" Du Wei bitterly asked: "two hundred years ago?"

"Yes, in search of Aragon's inheritance two hundred years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't have the prophecy with me at the time. In the end, I couldn't open Aragon's treasure and had to go back empty handed." The old magician whispered, "Two hundred years ago, I already saw those bones at the northern foot of the mountain."

"They are... What?" Du Wei puts forward his question.

"They are the legendary races exiled by God during the ancient periods. Originally, they lived alongside the human race on the Roland Continent, but later on, they betrayed god and was exiled to the north. Once they left the Roland Continent, these races traveled to the northern lands, passed the Holy Mountain, and continued onwards to the unknown lands past this point. No one really knows what lies beyond the Holy Mountain, but one thing is certain, that place is where the exiled races dwelled. As for the dragon clan, they are here to guard against those in the land of the exiled. Since ancient times, members of the exiled races will try to return, but none were able to make it past the Holy Mountain. If by the odd chance, one of these beings does make it past the Holy Mountain, they wouldn't make it far….. Awaiting them afterwards is the terrifying snow storms of the 'Forgotten Ice Field', as well as the freezing cold, ice covered forest filled with magical beasts! Based on these obstacles, the exiled races can never return to the Roland Continent!"

The old magician spoke as he pointed towards the bottom of the mountain: "Those bones, all of them belonged to powerful individuals of the exiled races. By relying on their immense strength, these individuals tried to bypass the barriers set by God, but all of them failed. In the end, they were killed by the dragons stationed here on the Holy Mountain."

Du Wei's eyes gleamed with wonder, "How do you know all of this?"

"The dragon chieftain told me." The old magician smiled: "I've been here once two hundred years ago…. The chieftain is a very complex being. Once you meet him, you will understand why."

On the third day of their climb, the group finally reached the top of the mountain.

On top of the Holy Mountain was an enormous cave. From Du Wei's perspective, this cave was just like a hive with seven to eight openings. From inside the cave, a faint dragon's roar could be heard while a group of dragons flew over their heads like sentinels.

The sight and hearing of Dragon's are far superior to other organisms. So on top of this flatly laid out ice field; they could clearly view any sudden movements as far as 10 miles away!

The gigantic black dragon and supposed sentinel leader has already been impatiently awaiting the group. With a low growl: "You're too slow! The Chieftain is already waiting for you!"

Once finished, the dragon pointed one of his paws towards the biggest cave entrance: "Go! But don't go anywhere you are not supposed to!"

The cave was very big, or it's better to say it's super big!

Seeing such a scene seemed to have a strong impact on Du Wei. The metallic mountain of high purity seemed to be hollowed out and faint bursts of wind could be felt coming from the inside.

Upon entering the cave, the insides weren't even dark. On the contrary, there is even a ring of light!

Even more surprising, the walls were embedded with all kinds of valuable treasures: gold, gemstones, and a variety of shiny objects reflecting a brilliant light!

Du Wei thought this was strange, but the old magician ignored all of this and pulled against him tightly to lead the group further into the cave.

After coming all the way to the deeper sections of the cave, what welcomed them was a huge iron gate with a cross shaped winch in the front and a chain dangling above the door! Although unsure of the chains use, it had an obvious faint black coloration to it.

Soundly asleep next to the huge Iron Gate was an enormous black dragon lying on the ground. Each snore it made was comparable to a loud thunder strike and each puff of air it breathed out to create fierce blasts of wind in the air!

Coughing once to clear his throat, the old magician shouted: "We, human friends, come looking to seek an audience with the dragon chieftain!"

The Dragon did not respond.

This time, the old magician's cough was much louder: "Oh great dragon chieftain, this old human friend came to see you!"

The Dragon still did not respond.

The old magician was somewhat angry now. Despite being the same height as the dragon's head, the old magician walked over in big strides and stood at the edge of the dragon's mouth. Taking out his wand, he lightly pointed it at the dragon's nose and spoke: "I haven't seen you for two hundred years, yet a guy like you is still such a heavy sleeper?"

Wiggling his nose a bit, the dragon took in a deep breath of black smog and suddenly sneezed with its jaws wide open!

ROAR!!

This one giant ROAR nearly deafened Du Wei's eardrum and under the intense hurricane like winds, the hat on top of the old magician's head was sent flying into the air!

"Who is it that woke me?!" The Dragon shook his head in annoyance and opened its big yellow eyes. Staring at the old magician, its eyes turned a few times before finally releasing some of the tension in its voice: "You, you are…."

"I am a human being and your friend. I am here to seek an audience with the great dragon chieftain."

Finally, completely awake, the dragon stood up with its massive body and looked down at the insignificantly small person in front of it. Puffing out a cloud of gas from its nostrils, the dragon suddenly cried out: "I remember now! You came here the last time!"

"Yes." Carefully reorganizing his hair, the old magician continued speaking: "Honored guard, please open the door and allow us passage to meet your chieftain."

"I don't like you." The Dragon Roared: "I hate being woken up from my slumber!"

"But I'm in a hurry." The old magician shrugged: "Also, I have a contract with the dragons. So I have the right to seek an audience with your chieftain."

"Fine then….. According to tradition, you must first make it past me!" With that said, the dragon stood up with its wings spread open and a grin on its face.

Can it be that we need to first start a fight?

If they must start a fight inside the cave, a magician is not suitable for fighting in an enclosed space. Already quietly standing behind the old magician, Hussein was ready at a moment's notice. Out of everyone in the group, he was the strongest in close melee combat, so it is only natural that he is the first one to deal with this dragon.

But the old magician only turned his head to smile back at Hussein. Waving his hand, the old magician indicated with his hand movement that force was not necessary. Then, looking back at the dragon, he asked: "So, old rules?"

"Yes! As long as you can use your wisdom to defeat me, I will open the door!" The dragon growled: "Those who win can pass, but those that lose must stay outside the door!"

Du Wei was stunned. Both Du Wei and the old magician gave each other a glimpse at the same time: "You get it now? This is a fight of intellect! This individual dragon is the dragon chieftain's leading dragon guard. Over seven hundred years ago, he was already the dragon clan's number warrior! But instead of seeking power and strength, he is seeking wisdom..."

Talking up to this point, the old magician suddenly blinked at Du Wei.

Sure enough, the Dragon immediately roared proudly at the statement: "Yes! I am already the dragon clan's number one warrior! Now I want to pursue the title of being the dragon clan's 'number one wisest dragon'! State your question! Unless you beat me, don't ever think of getting inside!"

Compete with the Dragon... On intellect?!

Du Wei was stunned.

The old magician has already turned around and pulled Du Wei over. Pushing him a bit, the old magician smiled: "I know you are very smart, so you're on your own now! The game is set by two wins out of three sets. As long as we beat him twice, we may enter…. Otherwise, don't even think of getting inside."

Du Wei sighed: "So it must come to this?"

The dragon beats him to the punch. Holding up its massive head, the dragon roared with pride: "This is my rule!!"

"Fine then." Du Wei thought for a moment, then nodded.

Competing with a dragon on intellect….

Dragons are widely recognized as higher organisms and even more advanced than humanity, but humanity thought otherwise.

The Dragon race had a longer life span, higher intellect, and wielded powerful strength. With higher intellect and longer life span, dragons had more time to learn new things than a human does in a lifetime…. Theoretically speaking, all these points give dragons a better advantage over humans.

But, all of this is just a theory.

"So, what are the rules in this competition?" Du Wei walked to the front of the dragon and smiled.

"It's easy, as long as the question you raised can stump me." The Dragon proudly smiled: "But I need to remind you, do not underestimate my intelligence! I have fully mastered your so called human intelligence! Lord Chieftain has gone to the human world before and learned a lot of things about your human civilization. He taught me a lot! Human, don't think of deceiving me with your human trickery!"

"Any questions?" Du Wei blinked.

"Any questions!" The Dragon nodded.

"Okay." Du Wei was smiling maliciously: "Then I'll start the question."

Gently coughing, Du Wei lightly laughed: "My topic is this, a very simple mathematical problem: Assuming, there is a row of houses. The first house had one person; the second had two people, the third had three people, and the fourth had four people….. Continuing like this, the next house would always have one more than the previous house! My problem is this, how many people in total are there after the one thousandth house?

1 house = 1 Person

2 houses = 2 Person

3 house = 3 Person

4 house = 4 Person

Combining everything, how many in total is there by the 1000th house? 


章 100: Dragon Clan’s Cave (part two)

The Dragon was stupefied!

Then it started to count its fingers, and when it wasn't enough, the dragon started to count its toes. But very soon, even that wasn't enough. Turning its big yellow eyes towards Du Wei, the dragon looked like it wanted to ask if he could borrow Du Wei's fingers….. (I had a good laugh at this point.)

Du Wei had trouble holding in his laughter as he watched the painful expression of the Dragon clumsily counting his fingers and toes: "Well then, can you figure out the answer?"

"..." The dragon was suddenly enraged: "This is a lie! Impossible! This topic, how can anyone figure out the answer! And... And... Once you count up to the thousandth house, there will be a thousand people packed inside! Where in the world would you find such a house?"

"Ch, our human palace can. Let alone one thousand people, even with ten thousand people, it is not a problem." Du Wei Smirked: "Oh honored dragon guard, can you answer it or not?"

"This... Is not a problem! This is a lie! No one can work this out! You would need at least one year to count it all!" The dragon's confusion was turning into rage: "Not even you can answer the question, what right do you have to ask me of this!"

Du Wei did not bother quarreling with him. Laughing in a 'HeHe' manner: "Really now?"

Crouching down on the floor, he quickly drew something onto the surface of the ground. Once finished, he looked up towards the dragon and answered: "The total is five hundred thousand and five hundred people."

"Five hundred thousand and five hundred people?" Sweating profusely, the dragon desperately tried to confirm the answer in his mind: "I don't believe it, how can you possibly work out the answer! You must be making this up!"

With a straight face, Du Wei continued: "The topic was raised by me and I also managed to answer it. Now only you can't answer the question…. Do you want to go back on your words? Is this the dragons so called pride?"

"..." Tongue tied at the insult, the dragon angrily screamed out loud, then growled unwilling: "Fine! Cunning man, consider it your win! You win! You may enter!!"

Angrily staring at the old magician, the dragon spoke: "Now… Your turn! You cheated me the last time, but don't think you will be able to fool me this time!"

Watching the dragon with a sinister smile, the old magician said: "Okay, you ready? Then here I come…. This time, my problem is very simple. Humanity's simplest game: Rock, paper, scissors."

Subsequently, the old magician gestured out his hand to point out the rules. He then laughed dismissively: "To be honest, I don't think you can possibly beat me. So in order to reduce the level of difficulty, you only need to beat me once out of ten tries. Can you? Otherwise, you'll have to let us pass."

The results... In the end was obvious.

Du Wei thought he was evil by using his previous life's mathematical knowledge to bully the creature, but the old guy was even more devious!

Rock, paper, scissors?

Du Wei was laughing so hard, his belly nearly turned inside out.

Dragon claws only had two fingers! Two fingers!

In other words, no matter what the dragon used, he could only put out rock with a clenched fist and a scissor with an open hand…. No matter what, it wasn't possible for the dragon to use paper!

The old magician also didn't want to win, so he churned out rock ten straight times. This action enraged the dragon so much that he was shouting with anger.

"Hey, we won twice now! You should open the door and let us in." Du Wei said.

Sighing helplessly, the dragon moved his huge body towards the Iron Gate and rotated the cross shaped winch on the door. Hearing a 'clickety' sound as the chains rotated, the iron gate was slowly pulled up...

"Go on then!" Finally giving up, the dragon glimpsed at the two: "Next time! Next time I won't lose to you! I will ask the Chieftain for permission to travel the human world and learn of their wisdom!"

After the group passed through the iron gate, Du Wei could still occasionally hear the angry sounds of the dragon shouting in the back.

"That guy is the number one warrior of the dragon clan, but his personality just likes to mess around." The old magician faintly smiled: "The last time I came, I played him for a fool…. But it was kind of fun."

"I just think he's adorable." Du Wei shrugged: "But comparing the wisdom of dragons and humans, their kind simply doesn't work out very well."

"This is all just a joke." The old magician said it with a smile: "Even if he did mess around and held us back, the chieftain would have summoned us in the end. However, it is in your best interest to humor the guy because his strength is the real deal. If you want to have any future dealings with the dragon clan, you best remember this point."

"In the future?" Du Wei frowned.

But the old magician didn't go on.

After passing through the iron gate, the direction of the passage headed straight downwards.

On both sides of the cave, the walls had countless little cracks with flashing jewels embedded inside. Sighing at the unknown amount of treasure in front of him, it seems the legend of dragons favoring shiny objects is true.

The cave passageway continued to narrow down more and more as they walked deeper inside. After coming out of an ending, the group found themselves standing in front of a domed shaped Hall.

Compared to human constructions, this Hall seemed much more simple and crude in comparison to Medusa's palace. The only redeeming feature was the colorful gemstones embedded into the surrounding walls, most likely used as a decoration.

What surprised Du Wei was that a chair was kept in the middle of the Hall and the size was similar to that of a human's body!!

Sitting on the chair was a male adult with a body no different from an ordinary human.

Looking up, his face was covered with a beard and the only thing he had on was a set of robes.

The only thing that could possibly highlight the fact that he was part of the dragon clan was the horns on top of his head…. But to his surprise… The horn on the left side seemed to be cut off by something.

"This gown was originally gifted by me." The old magician whispered these words into Du Wei's ears, and then the old magician suddenly burst out laughing as he marched forward with open arms: "Old friend, it's been two hundred years, but we finally meet again!"

This dragon chieftain didn't look as happy as the old magician. Only letting out a 'hum' sound from its mouth, the dragon chieftain yawned as he stood up from the chair: "Alas, I see you again. It has been really boring these days, so seeing you again is also a good thing. What interesting news did you bring me this time?"

This human formed dragon came up to everyone… but Du Wei couldn't sense any of the oppressive nature of the dragon race!

It is as if this guy had no power whatsoever. But if you were to use your senses to explore around, you will notice the endless void like that of a deep ocean!

Even his facial features looked ordinary. If not for the set of horn on the head… One would easily mistake this fella as a normal human being that couldn't garnish the slightest bit of attention.

Even his set of eyes looked droopy and weak.

Du Wei didn't have the habit of judging a person on their appearance, but this old fella just looked so ordinary and trivial. For this person to be the dragon chieftain, Du Wei couldn't stop himself from showing a hint of surprise.

"Old friend." The old magician coughed loudly: "The reason we are here is to complete the contract with the dragon clan…. I have brought the one to open the secret chamber!"

Upon hearing these words, the eyes of the dragon chieftain had a strange glimmer of light in them! Gazing around, the old fella looked at Du Wei and the others beside him.

Then he laughed in an odd way: "Oh, really? You found him? Is it one of these companions you brought along with you? Could it be this beautiful Queen Medusa, or this proud Saint Knight? Oh, let me see… Could it be this young boy?"

With only these very common words, Du Wei no longer dared to belittle this Dragon Chieftain!

It seems that with only a simple glance, this guy was able to see through Medusa's true identity and the true power of Hussein!

The old magician ponders for a moment, and then looked at Du Wei: "You come over here."

Du Wei took a few steps forward and stood there while the dragon chieftain examined him. After a moment, his eyes had a hint of surprise: "Oh, this young noble is the one you found? His body does indeed have the presence of the devil, but his strength is too weak…. You are certain he is able to pull out the thing left by Aragon?"

When the dragon chieftain was examining him, the gaze he was getting made him feel very uncomfortable. This guy may look ordinary; bur Du Wei felt completely naked standing in front of this guy….. With just a glance, it seems like this person is able to completely see through him!

"All right, I'll go get the key, but if you can't open the door this time, you should know the end result." The dragon chieftain quietly spoke these words before ignoring everyone and turned around into one of the many passageways behind the hall.

After waiting for the dragon chieftain to completely leave them, the old magician turned around and gave a serious glance at Du Wei: "What has happened to you? You look like you're occupied by something."

Du Wei said nothing.

The old magicians took in a deep breath: "Is it because you are disappointed with the dragon chieftain's appearance?"

Du Wei thought for a bit: "I'm just surprised."

"Put away your surprise!" The old magician spoke in a solemn tone: "Du Wei, I hope you will…. No, not hope, but required! I require you to show a certain level of respect when facing this guy! I'm not joking because this guy is not someone you want to mess with!"

Du Wei immediately nodded: "Of course, the chieftain of the dragon clan, how can a guy like that be a good person to mess with. I understand."

"That's good if you understand." The old magician then glanced at the passageway the dragon chieftain took, and then whispered: "I must tell you, this guy is a madman. Don't think his temper is good. If he gets enraged, no one can suppress him, at least no-one here! Also, this guy hates humans, so it is for the best not to provoke him."

After a pause, the old magician continued speaking: "You all see the horn on top of his head? One of the horns is cut off."

Du Wei and Hussein both nodded.

"That is cut was made by Aragon!" The old magician spoke in a cold manner: "But I must tell you, this guy is probably the only person alive still that had fought with Aragon! Moreover, even with Aragon's strength, he wasn't able to kill this person! This person has a weird personality, if his attitude changes, no one present here can stop him, at least none of us here!" 


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