‘Why is he contacting us now, I think you have your first mission merlin.’ I said as I landed on the ground a few kilometers away from the city in sight. Sensing me halt, the slime demon who was ahead of me stopped in his tracks but I sent him a mental message telling him to wait for me near city gates as I needed to answer an important call. Standing atop the thick branch of an unknown tree, I spread my soul force in my surroundings and confirming that nobody was near my location, I accepted the call of silent reaper. "Good evening, Mr. Lightning emperor, I hope you are doing well." He asked me politely. "I have been better, why have you called me?" Merlin said taking control over the body, trying to show displeasure because of how our last exchange ended up due to demon princess interference. “It seems you haven’t forgiven us for our lack of hospitality last time and that is understandable, you also know her real identity, and must understand how difficult it is for us to restra
“You don’t have to worry about that, we are not sending you alone, there will also be a transcended magic swordsman accompanying you, whose primary responsibility will be to clear the path for the party and protect you.” Silent reaper said.‘Transcended magic swordsman, someone who has surpassed rank 12, must be one of the upper echelon leaders.’ I deduced.“Is it you?” Merlin asked.“No, but you can rest assured, in his presence, the shadow empress won't be able to touch even a strand of your hair.” Silent reaper replied.‘It is him.’ I said to merlin because my ability to distinguish truth and lie was just triggered.“And should i just take your word for it and risk my life, anyway visiting the dragon’s lair could be tempting for any rune master but the risk of this mission is too high and it would only create problems for me in the future, I will have to decline your mission.” Merlin declined but my ability confirmed that he was telling a lie and was interested in the mission.‘I t
‘I understand his facial expressions are weird but what do you mean by not having a good feeling about it?’ I asked Merlin as I descended a few meters away from the slime demon but the next moment the demon ran toward me staggering as I prepared myself to defend.‘No need.’ I heard Merlin's voice and soon understood his meaning as a slime demon fell on both his knees and slammed his head on the hard floor.‘What the fu…’ I instinctively backed away but the demon didn’t flinch from his place and soon his body started to become all wiggly like a slime while also trying to maintain its demonic form.‘That is the sign of him not being able to control his emotions.’ I heard Merlin's voice and wondered why.I was about to tell him to get up and explain himself but I heard a shout from the edge of the city wall.“Hey, you two there, what are you doing?” My vision shifted to the two demon guards patrolling at the edge of the wall approaching our location carrying a sword in their hands.Not w
‘Deal with the nuisance you have attracted.’ I sent a mental message to Luther the slime demon and he started to hurriedly comply with my order, moving the high ranking officials brutally by unleashing his soul force while not harming simple bystanders.It didn’t take even a minute and an attendant standing near the carriage ran toward us to guide us.‘We are ready to move my lord.’ I heard Luther's message and nodded.The attendant guided us towards the extravagant carriage and we both boarded the carriage while our guide took the driving seat.The 6 meter long and wide carriage which could barely accommodate two people was nowhere to be seen because the carriage from inside was engraved with various runes expanding its insides to easily accommodate six people comfortably.Luther snapped his fingers, and I felt the carriage move but its movements didn’t create any vibration or discomfort.“It would take us half an hour to reach the teleportation gate my lord.” Luther said and I nodde
The permit for the teleportation gate was divided into three categories, lowest bronze which required people to wait for several months depending on the availability of the portal.Silver permit, which was 50 times more expensive than the bronze permit but it guaranteed a teleportation pass within a month and lastly the gold permit which was 100 times more expensive than the silver permit.A gold permit holder does not have to wait and can be immediately teleported to any location within the continent.The countryside gate like the one I was about to use was programmed to be used only a few times a day but I didn't have to worry about such things.Genesis has reserved a gold permit for both of us and as we entered the teleportation tower an attendant took us directly to the teleportation portal through the VIP route.He verified our identities and the blue light shimmering in the gate turned purple.“Please enter the portal at the interval of 10 seconds esteemed guests.” The portal op
‘Merlin, do curses exist in this world?’It was an awkward question one would ask just after waking up from a comfortable sleep when at the same time his body was feeling better than ever before but nevertheless i asked it because…‘3 Hours’That is how long I was able to sleep forcefully and for the past 5 hours, I was just lying on the bed looking outside the window trying to fall asleep but my immortal physique hindered me from taking rest.‘They do, but the situation you are experiencing isn’t a curse I can assure you.’ Merlin said what I already knew.‘Do you have any switch through which I can turn on and off my immortal physique?’ I asked, knowing well enough how inapt I sounded.‘I can turn your consciousness off with your permission for as long as you want but let me assure you, that won’t help you experience the joy one would get after sleeping for real, my advice is for you to get used to this feeling as soon as you can.’ Merlin said.I would have loved to have this physiqu
“Who is Varon dragonheart to you?” Merlin asked.“He was my grandfather, do you know him my lord?” Luther said.“Only I will ask questions, do you understand?” Merlin said, releasing the dragon aura from his body which further intimidated Luther and confirmed his fake identity.“Yes my lord, I apologise.” Luther said with a creepy teary smile on his face.‘He is more weird than babel.’ Suddenly a thought came to my mind of the beast I had saved in the dimension pocket.“To answer your question, Varon Dragonheart was my grandfather. He was the person who unified our scattered family after demon king lucifer ascended the throne.” Luther replied truthfully.‘I knew that idiot wouldn't live long considering how reckless he was.’ From the memories Merlin has shared with me, I knew Varon was the dragon fanatic who followed demon king lucifer around but we didn’t know he was Luther’s grandfather.“How did Varon die?” Merlin asked, to which Luther's expressions hardened as if the topic was t
From the distance, we weren’t able to make out the appearance of our host but as our ship got near him, goosebumps arose from the depth of my core.As me and Merlin made eye contact with the figure, A never felt before the crisis enveloped my mind inside my sea of consciousness.I don’t know why I was so afraid of this person in front of me but every cell in my body was telling me to run away.‘Calm down.’ I heard Merlin's voice and realised that I was subconsciously affecting the movement of my body.My hands were shaking, sweat was accumulating on my palm and forehead but thankfully merlin hasn’t lost control of my body yet.Sensing our discomfort, Luther created a powerful shield of mana around both of us which somewhat lessened the effect of intimidation of the entity below.Merlin had already explained to Luther, why he, the all powerful and ancient dragon was hiding his power pretending to be weak and that fanatic bought all his crap without a second thought.Merlin moved his ga