bookbashuk #127 - Come out, dragon!
#127 - Come out, dragon!
As the command was shouted, accompanied by a strange white chill, the door was flung open.
The lights immediately became bright, illuminating the entire room.
The scene that greeted them was extremely high-tech, resembling a laboratory, and the space here was vast, creating the atmosphere of some kind of research facility.
No one had expected such a hidden world to exist here.
Ah, ah le?
This feeling of separation, suddenly going from a small mountain village to a big city…
Not good!
It seems I know who built this place.
Zunzun said to Chris and Alice, “Be careful, you two, don't be careless.”
“Okay!”
“Relax, relax.”
The two of them didn't seem cautious at all, but rather eager to try, sometimes making one suspect that the greedy thieves alluded to by the Nibelungenlied were Chris and Alice themselves.
As they walked into the laboratory, they saw many high-tech devices. Even Zunzun, who had been a person from another world in his previous life, couldn't figure out what they were used for, only feeling that they were very powerful and intimidating.
“Okay, let's explore!”
“Oh!”
Chris and Alice ran quickly towards the depths of the laboratory.
Wait!
Did you forget what you just said?
However, Zunzun didn't stop them. One was the embodiment of the goddess of luck, and the other could be said to make her wishes come true, so he should be more concerned about himself, the one with the lowest luck among the three.
As Zunzun was observing here and there, Chris and Alice suddenly called out to him loudly.
“Zunzun, come quickly! Come see what we've found!”
“Coming, coming.”
Hearing the call, Zunzun quickly walked towards the depths of the laboratory. Then, there he saw a huge tank filled with green liquid.
It was at least 20 meters high.
And what was most surprising was that it contained a strangely shaped creature.
The huge heads of two magic dragons were breathtaking, with huge dragon horns sticking out of their heads. Although it had the huge wings of a wyvern, they were not attached to the wyvern's body. Its front half was a lion, with lion's claws on its forelimbs, and its back half was a goat with goat hooves. The tail was connected to a snake, a sinister and terrifying viper, not a snake tail but a snake body.
“What is this, a chimera?”
Seeing this chimera, Zunzun only felt that the guy who designed this monster had no sense of aesthetics at all, and really wanted to send Ta back to the furnace for a good makeover.
“This guy looks ominous.”
“You don't have to tell me, I can see that too.”
Chris was a little nervous.
Zunzun was very strange. Why would a reincarnated person from Japan build a laboratory here and then design such a monster? Could there be some ulterior motive?
“Iris, do you know anything about this?”
“I'm sorry, I don't know much. I only know that there is such a legend. The king… cough cough, my father and brothers didn't say much more about it.”
“I thought so.”
Alice shook her head as expected. Although she was a princess, it was already good enough that she knew about Valhalla Palace, plus the bottom of the Rhine River and Open Sesame… what a messy chimera.
“In any case, let's stay away from it first and look for some relevant explanations.”
“Okay.”
“I, I will try my best to find it.”
The three of them dispersed again.
Zunzun walked casually in a certain direction.
The lights here seemed to be voice-activated. Whenever he walked into a room, the lights in the room would turn on.
However, most of them were miscellaneous waste and some rotten food, and he didn't find anything useful.
It seemed that this place was a warehouse storage area.
Just as he finished searching and didn't find anything useful and was about to go back, Chris hurriedly ran over and grabbed his arm.
“Zunzun, I found something again!”
Afterwards, he was dragged to a room next to the huge nutrient tank. Alice was standing next to a table, and on it was a slightly dilapidated notebook, filled with words that Chris and Alice couldn't understand—Japanese.
“What's written on this?”
“Wait, let me see… [Screwed up! Arara, dragon creation failed, failed!]… What, this ghost thing is a dragon?”
Zunzun turned his head and could see the large tank in the main room from here. What was contained there was obviously a chimera. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a chimera. Where was the shadow of a dragon?
Oh, it has a dragon's head.
“Hurry up, what's written next?”
“Don't worry… [I wanted to create a cool dragon, but I didn't have enough imagination to create it. It's a real headache! There's no way around it, I'll just take all the animals I can see around me as references.
Oh, it's surprisingly handsome. It looks a lot like a chimera. But this guy is very irritable and annoying, and he doesn't have the power to grant wishes.
I was thinking of entrusting the task of defeating the Demon King to this guy, but as expected, my imagination is not good enough! Give up.]”
No power to grant wishes?
And this kind of narrative style… what's going on? Why do I always have a bad feeling?
“[As expected, it won't work. Even though I thought about dividing it into seven pieces, it's still a living thing after all. It will still die after being divided, ahaha… Then aren't the magic stones I collected useless?
And today, the big shots in the country asked me to hand over the magic stones. Why do those people know about the magic stones?
Ah, ah, speaking of which, when I was drunk in the tavern before, I seemed to have said it out loud when I was drunk.
But there's no way to say that it was a failure, so I told a big lie, saying that it could grant any wish…]”
Hey, why divide it into seven pieces?
Seven magic stones, granting wishes, a cool dragon… What are you trying to do, you bastard? I've already guessed it!
Zunzun suppressed the unease in his heart and continued reading.
“[I tried to ignore it, but the big shots got super angry. Not good, it seems they're going to arrest me for treason or something.
There's no way around it, I'll just escape to another country. This laboratory is useless anyway, so I'll just leave it here…
Speaking of which, running away like this is a bit unwilling. I have to find a way to retaliate against the big shots!
I might as well tell them when I leave that I've put the tool that can grant any wish in Valhalla Palace, the abode of the gods.
That's right, that's right, and I'll add a warning from the bottom of the Rhine River at the door, and just think of a password to open it… let's just go with Open Sesame.]”
So that's why it's a chimera?
No matter if it's the riddle at the door or this chimera, it's all a mess.
Speaking of which, who the hell are you!
“[Next time, I want to go to a country where I can easily make a living by making magic tools.
That's right, didn't a country want me to make magic guides before? I might as well go there. When the time comes, I'll use the extra research budget to make a game console. I want to play it a bit… End]”
Is it you, is it you, this guy!
The image of some old geezer who swindled people into making game consoles with expenses appeared in Zunzun's mind.
It's hard, it's hard, my fist is hard.
In just a few minutes, the whole picture of the matter almost appeared in Zunzun's mind. Now he only had one question in his heart.
—How old are you!?
Why is it always you?
Chris twitched the corner of her mouth and said in a low voice, “Zunzun, could this be…”
“That's right. It's the good deed of a reincarnated person.”
If you were to say who among the three was the most troubled, it would undoubtedly be Eris, the goddess who ruled this world. Cleaning up after Aqua was one thing, but sometimes she had to clean up after the reincarnated people.
Zunzun couldn't help but sympathize with her.
Alice, who had been listening quietly, suddenly asked, “Then, that… the tool that can grant any wish, isn't it in Valhalla Palace? Isn't this Valhalla Palace?”
“It is Valhalla Palace, although it is Valhalla Palace, but…”
This was like telling a child that there was no Santa Claus in the world, and that the gifts in the stockings were put there by their family.
“I see… the tool that can grant any wish doesn't exist after all. That's right, how could there be such a tool in the world? Hehe… I'm sorry, I actually had such an improper fantasy, making you two laugh.”
Alice gave a heart-wrenching smile, full of disappointment and loss.
“No, it exists!”
Zunzun suddenly said this.
Under the puzzled gazes of Chris and Alice, Zunzun said, “It's actually written here that in order to retaliate against the kingdom, he gave the real tool that can grant wishes to the Demon King, while the failed product was left here, so as long as you defeat the Demon King, you can grant your wish!”
He wasn't lying.
Although there was no magic tool, wishes could be granted.
When he was reincarnated, Aqua clearly said that as long as he defeated the Demon King, he would be granted a wish by the gods, and this point was also confirmed when Satou Kazuma was reincarnated, so there was absolutely no mistake.
“Zunzun, you…”
Chris also immediately understood what Zunzun wanted to express.
Alice said excitedly, “Is that so? As long as we defeat the Demon King, we can grant any wish?”
“That's right, that's how it is.”
Zunzun's affirmation made her mood improve again.
Chris looked at the huge tank and said, “Speaking of which, this is a failed product. It's a little scary.”
“Yeah, if it were the real thing, it should be something more majestic and cool.”
Zunzun recalled the scene when he first saw Shenlong. That feeling of shock was still fresh in his memory even after reincarnating twice.
It was just that he heard the bad news about his teacher's death before his first reincarnation, and he felt a little heartache.
I hope that the teacher can be reincarnated into the world he created and collect the magic stones that can truly grant wishes.
Wait, is this a blessing or a curse?
“Um, how should we use the real magic tool that can grant wishes?”
“Let me think… it should be the sentence [Come out, Shenlong!]”
“Come out, Shenlong?”
“That's right, that's right. Come, so as not to forget, let's shout it again.”
“—Come out, Shenlong!” X3
The three of them shouted with smiles on their faces.
And then at this moment—
The huge nutrient tank in the center of the room suddenly burst out with a bright light, and then with a crack, it completely shattered.
“…Eh?”
Zunzun was immediately dumbfounded.