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I’m Really A Dragon (Web Novel) - Chapter 5 – The Kindest Dragon In The World! (Stupidest)
Chapter 5 – The Kindest Dragon In The World! (Stupidest)
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Charles was so drunk that he didn’t wake up until the next afternoon.
The spirit wine that Taoerxian brewed was first-class, so the little milk dragon woke up without feeling the discomfort of a hangover, nor did he feel weak and tired. On the contrary, he was full of energy, and even the strength of his body had improved a little.
Charles sat on the bed, hazily staring at the canopy curtains and trying to jog his memory, but he couldn’t remember how exactly he ended up in this bed. He only remembered that he seemed to have bullied Taoerxian a little, causing him to cry loudly after getting burned.
But what he knew for certain was―The dragon cub had never slept in such a soft and snug bed before!
He curiously touched the surface material of the quilt, only to feel that it was as smooth as water, cool and comfortable. As he stretched out his finger to poke at it, he couldn’t resist rolling around twice on the bed.
There seemed to be a faint scent lingering in his nose. Charles hugged the quilt and earnestly thought, this place was actually pretty nice…
As soon as this thought came to his mind, he immediately sat up and shook his head.
Who knew what Jiang Yan’s intentions were! With just one look, he could tell that that dragon was capable of cooking up deep and dangerous schemes. He must not be fooled by these kinds of things!
Thinking this, Charles rolled off the bed. He saw that no one was around, snuck out of the bamboo house, and walked a few steps before turning into a dragon. He flapped his wings and flew away.
However, the dragon cub hadn’t flown far when he felt his feet grow heavy, and was then pulled straight down and fell into a thick clump of grass.
Charles was disorientated and rolled around twice in confusion, before getting his whole body tangled up in the Immortal-Trapping Rope that was wrapped around his feet. After such a fall, he had directly turned back into his human form, and it took a lot of effort to get up. A small, furry head that was covered with blades of grass poked out and looked around. He had a dazed expression on his face.
When Jiang Wuyi, who had pulled on the end of the thin rope, saw such a scene, he couldn’t help but scoff and let out a very clear laugh.
As soon as Charles saw his face, he knew that he wouldn’t be able to run away anymore. He secretly shot him a glare, and got out of the cluster of grass as if accepting his fate. He stretched out his hand and wrapped the rope around himself a few more times, using very practical actions to surrender himself.
Jiang Wuyi shook his head, “At least you know how to take initiative.”
Charles snorted softly and looked at him aggrievedly, “What exactly are you trying to do?”
Jiang Wuyi stuck his hands in his sleeves and his lips twitched, “As of now, I still haven’t decided yet.”
He changed the topic and then said, “However… You should study and learn some more.”
”Study?!” Charles was dumbfounded for a moment.
Jiang Wuyi suddenly leaned forward in front of him and stretched out a hand to pluck off the blades of grass. His movements were gentle, and Charles couldn’t really bring himself to feel irritated towards him. The little dragon didn’t understand his behavior and couldn’t help but tilt his head slightly.
After a while, Jiang Wuyi withdrew his hand and said, “Doesn’t look proper enough.”
Saying this, he turned around and pulled Charles away using the rope.
The dragon cub was the one who had looped this rope around himself, and it wasn’t tight, but he knew that he couldn’t run away. He could only follow the other step by step, and it made for a somewhat harmonious image.
―But this harmony completely vanished when Charles was imprisoned by Jiang Wuyi in the library [1].
”I’m going to study here…?”
As if he was struck by lightning, Charles pounded on the door, “I don’t want to! Let me out!”
However, no one responded from outside. Only the faintly glowing barrier that he had triggered on the door rippled slowly, with golden characters floating inside it. Charles couldn’t recognize a single one of those characters.
There were thousands of books in the library, which made the dragon cub feel rather depressed. Charles remembered that in the past, he used to stop outside the classrooms and laugh at the children who had to go to school. Now that it was his turn, he only felt that his heart was full of grief.
There’s nothing more annoying than studying in this world!
Absolutely nothing!
The more that Charles thought about it, the more angry he became. Then, he narrowed his eyes and thought of a wicked idea. He ran into the sea of books and started a fire in an attempt to burn down all those damn things, but to his surprise, there were layers of enchantments set on those books. After a long time of spraying fire everywhere, not even half a page was burned.
Who knew when the old locust tree had arrived outside the door, but he patiently pacified him, “Little Gongzi [2], you should save some of your energy. This library is different from the ones from elsewhere, and it’s filled with things that Daren cherishes. Little Gongzi, please treat them well and focus on studying the books. Daren won’t make things difficult for you.”
Charles was so angry that he spun in circles around the room, “I don’t want to study, why do you insist on making me read books here! Tell Jiang Yan that I’ll pay him with gemstones to compensate for his barrier!”
”I just don’t want to! Read! Books!”
However, the old locust tree just let Charles roll around and kick up a fuss. No matter how much he complained, the old locust tree refused to relent. The little milk dragon was tired from all the ruckus, and the fire in his belly had almost been completely used up. He directly collapsed on the ground, feeling that his life as a dragon was hopeless.
Long Long felt wronged.
So wronged that he was about to cry.
Clearly only two short days had passed, but Charles felt that this was harder to endure than the previous one hundred years of his life. He’d never done anything bad, but now he’s being hostage and forced to read books and become literate!
They didn’t want any compensation, and they’re also unreasonable…
What kind of human suffering was this!
The little milk dragon lay pitifully on the ground for a while, and in the end, he had no choice but to sniffle and get up to read. As soon as he saw the sea of books, he felt a terrible headache starting and his eyes quickly reddened, but there was no one there to pay him any attention, so he could only take a deep breath and selected a book.
Hearing that the room had finally quieted down, the old locust tree that was keeping watch outside let out a sigh of relief.
His hard had softened a bit, but as the successor of the Dragon God Daren, how can he be illiterate? Daren will eventually return to the Divine Court sooner or later, and wasn’t this just asking to get laughed at?
The old locust tree had a clear plan in his mind, but the little milk dragon was currently holding the book, looking at the gleaming three words, “Jiang Wuyi”, on the page. Some doubts rose in his heart.
He then took out a few more books, but the names on them were all Jiang Wuyi. Jiang Yan, those two words, couldn’t be found at all.
The little milk dragon thought about it for a while, and the grievance and anger in his belly flared up again. He shouted, “That bad dragon! He even lied about his name to me!”
The old locust tree widened his eyes in surprise, “How did Daren lie to you?”
Charles angrily rushed to the door, “I’m not stupid, you even said that these all belong to him, but it clearly says Jiang Wuyi here!”
The old locust tree didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
”Little Gongzi, this “Wuyi” is Daren’s courtesy name, but Jiang Yan is Daren’s birth name [3]. I can explain the reasons for this one by one…”
Maybe it’s because he was getting old, but as soon as the old locust tree started talking, he droned on and on. Charles felt dizzy after listening to him for a while. He couldn’t understand the meanings in his words at all, and instantly lost all patience.
”…Stop right there, there’s no need to say any more. So, what’s his name then?”
The old locust tree smiled, “Daren has already told Little Gonzi his name, so Little Gongzi can continue calling him by that name.”
The dragon cub thought for a long time before he understood what he meant. Now that he had an exact answer, his headache immediately disappeared.
It’s really too weird, he actually had more than one name.
Long Long didn’t want to listen anymore, Long Long had a headache.
Like this, Charles was locked up in the library for half a month.
And Jiang Wuyi not only locked him up, but would also visit to test his knowledge during this period. Many times, Charles had lost patience and tried to attack him, but was very easily defeated by Jiang Yan.
After the two had fought several times, Jiang Wuyi finally discovered some regular patterns. Charles’s strength seemed to change with his consumption of food. When he ate less, his strength would be weaker, but when he ate a lot, the fire would become much fiercer, and Jiang Wuyi was even burned a few times.
Jiang Wuyi felt that this was very interesting.
Dragons were a race that came into existence right at the beginning, after the gods had created heaven and earth. They possessed the same powers as the ancient gods, and their survival was not dependent on ordinary food, but on the spiritual energy between heaven and earth.
However, Charles was different. He seemed to be unable to directly transform the spiritual energy into usable energy for himself, and he was very dependent on food. If he went hungry for two days, he’d be as weak and powerless as a human being. Nevermind spitting fire, he wouldn’t even be able to stand up steadily.
Jiang Wuyi was very curious about this, so he conducted a small experiment and injected some of his spiritual power into Charles’s body.
―Thus, the little milk dragon successfully burned down all the books on one floor of the library for the first time.
If it weren’t for Jiang Wuyi stopping the fire in time, he was afraid that the fire would have spread and burned down the entire library.
The old locust tree was anxious, but Jiang Wuyi didn’t feel too distressed over it. He had read these books thousands of times before and couldn’t be any more familiar with them in his heart. He’d already gotten all the answers that he wanted to know from those books, which could be considered very worthwhile.
Meanwhile, Charles was feeling rather shocked by his sudden and majestic display of power. After thinking about it, he felt that it must be related to Jiang Yan. So he approached Jiang Wuyi, pulled his sleeve and asked, “That kind of… Tingling feeling from just then, what was that?”
He was talking about the sensation that he’d felt when the spiritual power had crossed over into his body. Jiang Yan pushed his head away and said, “Spiritual power.”
At least all the time that Charles had spent reading lately didn’t go to waste, as there were records about spiritual power in the books there. Speaking of which, this kind of thing was similar to the magic of Noah Continent. They’re all natural products of the universe.
And after reading these books, the little milk dragon has faintly understood that he’s in another world now. This place was very different from Noah Continent, and although there weren’t as many races as there were in Noah Continent, there were also humans, demons and divine beings here.
But no matter the race, if one wanted to become stronger, then they’d need something like this spiritual power.
As for the potential of spiritual power, he seemed to have just experienced it…
Charles’s eyes were bright, and he shook Jiang Yan’s sleeves and asked earnestly, “Give me a little more spiritual power, I can trade for it with gemstones, okay?”
The dragon race’s spatial techniques weren’t great, but the only precious things that Charles owned were his gemstones, so he’d always keep them by his side all day long. There weren’t many, and they didn’t have much of a practical use either. They’re just exceptionally beautiful, and dragons naturally liked these kinds of bright and shiny things.
Charles had originally intended to give these gemstones as a gift to the princess who he hadn’t met yet, but he’d never expected to be sucked into the sea and end up in this place.
Jiang Yan turned his head to look at him, and Charles hurriedly took out a glittering, crystal-clear diamond. This diamond was beautifully cut, emitting a brilliant, multi-coloured glow in the sun.
Sure enough, Jiang Yan’s gaze was attracted by it. Charles stared expectantly at him, blinked hard a few times, and stuffed the diamond into his hand.
Appearing to be pleased by the dragon cub’s efforts to curry favour, Jiang Yan lifted his lips, accepted the bribe, and held Charles’s wrist.
Soon, the tingling feeling came again.
Charles couldn’t describe exactly what it felt like. He just felt refreshed and invigorated, as if he’d fallen into the sea on a warm, sunny day, with a cool breeze blowing past him. He felt comfortable and satisfied.
Jiang Yan drew back his hand and admonished, “You must not make trouble.”
Charles pondered over this for a while, but couldn’t really understand the meaning of his words. Jiang Yan paused, and could only helplessly rub the dragon cub’s hair, which was very smooth and nice to touch.
”Don’t run around all over the place.”
This time, Charles understood, and he stepped back to prevent him from touching him, frowned, and ran away.
Discarding after using, how heartless.
Jiang Yan looked meaningfully at the little dragon that was running away, then looked down at his palm and chuckled.
Of course, how could Charles be obedient? After smoothly obtaining the spiritual energy, not running away would be like shooting himself in the foot.
When the moon had ascended the sky, the little dragon cub immediately broke through the barrier and slipped out of the library.
He learned to be smarter this time, not making a single noise, and only ran until he reached the outskirts of the valley.
Speaking of which, the valley was shaped like a big funnel, with a very clear point of origin. It was constantly filled with heavy fog everyday, and under the pale moonlight, it looked a little dreadful. Charles had observed this place for many days, and intuitively felt that the exit was located somewhere here, so he had immediately headed in this direction.
The fog was also very strange. It looked thin from the outside, as if it only covered a limited range of distance, but when Charles flew into it, there seemed to be an inexhaustible expanse of fog spread out over the area.
Charles sensed something and stopped immediately. He thought for a while before flying straight up.
Soon, he felt himself being blocked by a thick barrier.
The little milk dragon racked his brains, and felt that was probably the barrier that Jiang Yan had talked about. Jiang Yan had also mentioned once that the barrier was broken by him… Then it meant that there must be a gap in this barrier.
Even if Jiang Yan had already fixed the gap, that spot should also be weaker than the rest!
Charles took this into account, and began to carefully search around in the fog. He closed his eyes and released a call that was unique to the dragon clan.
This kind of call was used by dragons as a tool to explore for danger and prey, and no other race except for the dragons could really sense it. Charles didn’t want to beat the grass and startle the snake [4], so he only dared to release the dragon call within a limited scope. If Jiang Yan sensed the call, then wouldn’t that just be walking right into his trap?
The sound waves that were sent out quickly bounced back one by one, carrying with them a variety of information. The efficiency of the dragon call was extremely high, and it allowed him to successfully find the gap that had not yet been repaired. Charles happily flew in that direction, and at the moment that he crossed the barrier, he spotted an unconscious person down below.
Lying in the grass was a human youth.
He was more or less dressed similarly to Jiang Yan, but his clothes were far less dazzling and ornate than Jiang Yan’s. Charles flapped his wings and circled around him, and even used his claws to roll the person over a few times, but he still didn’t wake up. He leaned in close to this person’s heart and listened. After determining that he was alive, Charles began plotting something in his mind.
When he got drunk last time, he had burned Taoerxian, and scared him so much that he didn’t dare to visit Charles for half a month. It did make him a little embarrassed and apologetic.
Charles had never gotten drunk before, so he didn’t know that he would fly into a drunken craze and spew fire at other people’s buttocks. Charles stared at the unconscious youth on the ground, thought of an idea, and picked up this person in his mouth, intending to give him as a gift to Taoerxian.
”Jiang Yan and the old locust tree will definitely never play with him, so this person… He can be Taoerxian’s playmate!”
As Charles muttered this to himself, he felt that he was really the kindest dragon in the world!
The dragon cub immediately put his thoughts into action, and flapped his wings, bringing the person back into the valley…
And Jiang Wuyi and the old locust tree, who had concealed themselves and were watching this scene from not far away, both fell silent in unison.
Truthfully speaking, they had lived for so many years, but this was the first time that they’d ever seen someone who was in the middle of sneaking away, suddenly return to drop off a gift.
The look of the old locust tree had a subtle expression on his face, “This child… Seems a little stupid.”
He sighed, feeling that it’s a little unsuitable for such a silly child to be the successor of the Dragon God.
Jiang Yan glanced at him and said ambiguously, “That’s also good.”
The old locust tree couldn’t figure it out.
How… Was that good?
Notes:
1. Library: Technically a “book pavilion”, so like a library.
2. Gongzi: Used to refer to a son of nobility, or a way of calling someone else’s son (as an honorific).
3. Courtesy name: To be quite honest, I’m not really sure how courtesy names work. So I think that in ancient times, people had two names, a birth name and a courtesy name. People usually didn’t call others by their birth names unless they’re close acquaintances, otherwise it’s disrespectful, but the other name could be used freely. So Jiang Wuyi is his courtesy name, and Jiang Yan is his birth name. Also, I found online that the courtesy name is a name used by people in the old days to express the virtue or meaning of their real name, but idk what that means lol.
4. Beat the grass and startle the snake: To act rashly and inadvertently alert an enemy.
