Experimental Log of the Crazy Lich - Chapter 408

Chapter 408
Chapter 408: Dragon City
Translator: imperfectluck Editor: Pranav

"Who's Roland? Is he some type of new exotic food? I've never heard of him . "

"I think he's the descendant of the Mist . Right, have you heard of the Mist Kingdom? It was destroyed around three centuries ago . He was the prince at that time . "

"…Ah, I do have some recollection of it now . Has the Mist Family's inheritance perished? Sigh—I had a good relationship with the Mist King back in the day . Those Northlanders are much better warriors than the barbarians . Such a pity . "

"Hah! No matter what things were like, he was only a mortal . What is there to pity?"

"You're right… Have you heard? Third Brother said that there's a special sauce that makes the Eternal Thunder Tribe really delicious . You want to try that with me?"

Whenever Dragon City held a welcoming party for a mortal, such conversations would be commonplace .

This was unavoidable . After all, the prideful dragons couldn't even remember the last time they formally invited a mortal and treated him so politely . For the older dragons, they would casually nap for a century at a time . A mortal who was only three hundred-ish years old would be nothing more than a young brat .

At this time, the Immemorial Gold Dragon Halos had a bit of a headache . As the highest-ranking leader of Dragon City, he decided to invite the Mage Country's special ambassador by using the dragons' utmost politeness . However, Roland was quite late to arrive, which made the other leaders start complaining with comments like "This is so humiliating,""He's only a human, why invite him? Let him get the hell out if he doesn't want to come" and so on .

"That's enough out of all of you! You'll understand when you see him! Also—"

He didn't get to finish his sentence . Halos found, to his shock, that not only could he not speak, but everything before him had stopped silent, as if frozen in time . Only the consciousnesses of the dragons remained; they were unable to move their bodies . Even the tiny particles of water and dust in the air had frozen .

The next moment, everything returned to normal, as if all this was nothing more than a nightmare .

"What happened?"

Just as the astonished dragons were beginning to talk about the abnormal scene which occurred, Halos stood up .

"He's probably here… It seems that there are many others like all of you, who are so shortsighted to look down on mortals . I hope they haven't caused a huge problem . "

Half an hour ago, when my Borealis entered the Ake Canyon in which Dragon City was located, countless "curious spectators" gathered around us . But before the dragons attacked us, Blue Dragon Evelyn, who was leading the Borealis, helped us enter without incident .

The mountains around this area were strangely shaped . From the holographic projections I saw from the bridge, a gigantic airship like ours passing through would seem like a little toy . Compared to the tremendous mountains, the dragons around us were nothing more than ordinary sparrows .

"There are over three thousand and seven hundred Adult Dragons located in a radius around us . Around an equal number of young or elderly dragons are here too . And many areas can't be sensed by our radar; probably they are 'undetectable' due to the presence of powerful individual wills . As expected of Dragon World, one of the three biggest homes of the dragons . "

Radar in this world far surpassed radar in my previous world, as we used sound magic and magical engineering to improve it . The only drawback was that technology and industrial level weren't up to par, so the size of the 'radar room' took up the space of two entire rooms . Still, that posed no problem for the spacious battleship .

"Actually, we need to prepare ourselves the moment that we enter Dragon City . "

Many curious dragons would pass by . I was beginning to worry that the cannoneers wouldn't be able to control their trigger fingers .

In front of the gigantic Borealis, even a dragon would seem tiny . Naturally, this helped to curb their arrogance, and I managed to avoid the awkwardness of the dragons surrounding and gawking at me .

"So this is one of the three largest Dragon Cities? It's far smaller than I anticipated . Still, it looks quite valuable…"

At the end of the mountains, a group of castles appeared, and the first thing I noticed was that they were constructed out of attention-grabbing white jade . If I saw correctly, this was an expensive type of jade which could remain warm in winter and cool in summer . While it wasn't a magical metal capable of being turned into equipment, its price was equal to that of mithril . Rich people liked to make their beds out of jade to show off . Should I say that it was expected of the dragons to use this rare white jade to construct entire castles?

"They're only historical artifacts . The dragons guarding them have to deal with some younger dragons who try to rob the castles . The young dragons are capable of doing anything in order to decorate their dragon nests and find a partner . "

Copper Dragon Evelyn naturally accompanied me as well . After we communicated about many things, the trust between us deepened to quite an extent . At the very least, I would no longer have to intentionally avoid many things with her .

This wasn't my first time visiting a Dragon City . I had a certain understanding of these places known as Dragon Cities .

Dragon City wasn't actually a place where dragons gathered . For the city itself to have one percent of the dragons under its control living there would already be quite rare . Although this sounded inconceivable, it was understandable if you considered how individualistic and territorial most dragons were .

Adult and older dragons typically had their own territories, which would include magic beasts and other intelligent creatures that were their servants . They could live like kings there, so how would they possibly come over to Dragon City and live like an ordinary citizen?

Most dragons viewed Dragon City as a political organization where the veterans debated useless things . They also thought of it as a temporary marketplace where ordinary dragons could exchange items with each other . Most dragons would avoid coming to Dragon City as much as possible in order to avoid the veteran dragons conscripting them for some purpose .

It was mostly the same for the Underground Dragon City . But the environment was far harsher there, so the Underground Dragon Queen had a more centralized authority . On the other hand, the surface Dragon City's leadership system used a council of elders or even the inconceivable system where different dragons took turns being leaders .

However, every society's system would have its reasons for existing . This type of chaotic and inefficient ruling system was the only choice for the dragons . Every dragon species had fundamentally different personalities, and having a Copper Dragon represent the benefits of a Blue Dragon would be a joke . It would already be considered nice if they didn't simply go to war with each other .

Unlike how there were only Red and Black Dragons in the Underground, there were far too many dragon species in Dragon City . Every species wanted a dragon to be their representative, and hence the ruling system was a council where all the leaders had the right to speak . But some powerful species had multiple leaders on the council, while other species had zero leaders . This was because of the dragons' typical habit: those who were strong could rule .

Since dragons were large creatures, most Dragon City residents would choose to remain in humanoid form . Otherwise, the city wouldn't have enough space to hold them all . The younger dragons that didn't yet have the ability to change their form would conduct trades with each other outside the city .

As I slowly roamed around the city, I didn't see that many dragons in dragon form . Apart from a few Infant Dragons being carried around by their mothers, the rest were strange humanoid creatures, with elves and humans the most common . There were also plenty of dragons that took beastmen or dwarf forms . I even saw a few dragons that looked like demons and even ogres . The strange part was that the dragon in demon form was one respected by other dragons .



"Adult Dragons will choose another species' appearance as their smaller form . Once they choose their appearance and species, they won't be able to ever change it . Those who choose elf appearances did so because the elves were the dominant species at the time . Naturally, there are more elf forms here than any other species . Now is the generation of the humans, so human forms are the second-most common, with mostly younger dragons choosing human forms . But if a dragon chose a demon form…"

The most obvious examples were Little Red and her mother Molly . Molly had a red-haired elf form, while Little Red chose to be a black-haired human .

"So this dragon must be from the great immemorial generation where demons ruled? I see . "

From a certain standpoint, the ratio of different forms in Dragon City represented the history of the dominance of various species . More than fifty percent of the dragons here had elf forms . I could only sigh at how dominant elven culture had been for so long in history, but I also felt some mysterious pity . After all, the ancient Gold Elves always seemed ethereal and vulnerable to change . Who knew if the last remaining Gold Elf next to me still counted as a pure Gold Elf?

Although Harloys appeared to be smiling on the surface, through our soul connection I could feel that her emotions were in a turmoil after seeing so many elf forms . This was no surprise to me . I secretly patted her on the shoulder .

While we observed the dragons, the dragons observed us .

Since we were here for their welcoming party, I didn't take a single subordinate with me other than Harloys . The dragons here didn't have the habit of using horse-drawn carriages, so we toured Dragon City by walking .

As we walked, the full set of God Equipment on my body sent out waves of elemental energy I didn't even attempt to conceal . This made the eyes of many dragons light up in greed, causing us to have a huge entourage of dragons following after us . Although there was a law that prohibited conflicts in Dragon City, it was highly likely that we, as outsiders, would be attacked the moment we left .

"These are all younger dragons . "

"Hehehe, youngsters don't understand the cruelty of the world . They'll learn after some setbacks . "

We simply ignored the dragons following us . It was obvious that they were only younger dragons . This was partly because younger dragons had entered their reproductive period and desired more wealth to establish a better nest and attract a better partner, but even more because older dragons were wise enough to know who they could and couldn't mess with . Since I dared to blatantly show off all this God Equipment, I obviously wasn't afraid of any robbers . I had nothing but God Equipment on my body, without even a single piece at lower ranks . Even if I appeared to be weak on the surface, how could I possibly be someone easy to pick on?

Suddenly, a large shadow loomed before us . A short and skinny white-skinned elf transformed into a White Dragon .

"…Should I say that not all dragons are smart enough to avoid conflict in Dragon City? Or should I say that it's to be expected of White Dragons, the dumbest of all dragons?"

"Dragon descendant! Give me all the treasures you possess . I, the great Hamast, shall become your new master . "

"Whoa, he actually thinks that I'm a half-dragon?"

Dragons were accustomed to using dragon descendants and half-dragons as their servants and slaves, as dragon descendants didn't have high statuses among dragons . The Dragon Bloodline in my body seemed to make this Hamast mistake me for a half-dragon, which would be afraid of any real dragon .

I smiled rather evilly . When the other dragons saw that someone intended to make a move, several other malevolent dragons jumped out of the crowd . There were Blue, Green, White and even a few Red Dragons . It seemed that quite a number of Red Dragons had begun to come to the surface .

"You—you—you little brats, this slave of mine escaped with this great Hamast's treasures! Are you all intending to steal this great Hamast's treasures?"



The giant White Dragon had a stinky breath, and he swept away all the younger dragons with a swipe of his tail . From his power level, we could see that Hamast was actually an Immemorial White Dragon with many years of experience . But the fact that someone as dumb as him lived until now was probably because he stayed as a hermit in Dragon City .

Well, he did have at least a few smarts since he called me an escaped slave who stole his treasure . He had done this to avoid the law of no conflicts in Dragon City . Anyways, by the time the dragon law enforcers arrived, the incident would already be finished and the victim nowhere to be found . It would be unlikely for the dragons to give an Immemorial Dragon like him any trouble for the sake of some unknown low-level dragon descendants .

Seeing that a conflict was brewing, many spectating dragons gossiped among themselves, boisterous because this involved Hamast, who was known to be vicious . None, however, tried to stop the conflict . They stood by as if they wanted to watch a good show . Obviously, none of them had good intentions towards me .

"Why haven't they started to fight yet?"

"I bet that Hamast will be the unlucky one . He was just punished a few days ago . "

"…Those are all real God Equipment, aren't they?"

Some dragons looked forward to seeing a fight, some dragons wanted to see Hamast lose and some dragons were considering the possibility of stealing the God Equipment before Hamast could . But no matter which dragon it was, none of them had friendly expressions towards me .

I shook my head at this sight . My impression of dragons was becoming worse and worse even if I never had a good impression of them to begin with, no matter what species of dragons they were .

"Sheesh! They're so talkative . Evelyn, is this how Dragon City treats their guests? Don't they recognize who you are?"

"Ha! For dragons, a human form doesn't have much meaning . They recognize the three-headed dragon Evelyn, not a young Copper Dragon like me . "

"You're not going to do your job as one of the leaders of Dragon City?"

"My older sister is a leader, not me . Besides, don't you want to make an example of someone to make the rest more obedient? A perfect scapegoat is right in front of you . Wouldn't it be rude of me to take this opportunity away from you?"

I touched the hat on my head, and a black light flashed on my staff as I shrugged .

"It's no fun if you say it out loud . I wanted to enjoy the monkey prancing around in front of me for a little longer . "

Malicious dragons had us surrounded . They were openly gossiping about us with negative intentions, something that greatly displeased me .

"…How noisy . Law Incantation: Silence!"

A silver figure of Wumianzhe appeared on my law robe for an instant as the faint silver light of Law cast out around me . This Law Incantation's level was as if Wumianzhe personally cast it, so the entire Dragon City was forcefully silenced for a moment .



The normal power level of Law Incantation: Silence would only be enough to silence the people in a small courtroom . However, my spell's power greatly exceeded my expectations . The effects of the Wumianzhe's divine power made it so that such an ordinary spell affected the entire Dragon City .

At this moment, everything became silent . The vicious gossiping stopped—they had lost the ability to speak . Meanwhile, up in midair, the flying dragons lost their ability to fly, and they fell to the ground . However, the Law Incantation would end before they fell to their deaths .

I chuckled evilly as I glanced at how Hamast and the young dragons were all panicking .

"Law Incantation: Conviction . "

This time, there was the silver light of judgement . The dragons that had intended to rob and kill me were marked in a deep red . They had been caught red-handed in attempting the crime .

"It would seem that Dragon City lacks public security . "

I looked around me and saw numerous areas light up with red . Wumianzhe's divine power once again made this simple low-level Law spell expand to all of Dragon City .

No matter how stupid Hamast was, he still realized that he had bitten off more than he could chew . But I didn't wait for him to do anything as I raised my staff .

"Law Incantation: An—"

"Your Highness Roland, please wait—"

It would seem that I'd made too much of a commotion with my Law Incantations, catching the attention of the Dragon World leaders who were waiting for me . It was quite a sight to see a group of dragons rushing towards me .

However, I shook my head and completed the Law Incantation I was casting .

"—Law Incantation: Anti-Crime . "

I simply touched the White Dragon's foot with my black staff . Hamast's giant head paused in surprise for a moment before he widened his eyes and opened his mouth with an expression filled with shock . He looked towards the Dragon City leaders, pleading with his eyes to be saved .

*Boom!*

Hamast didn't even get a chance to scream before his head exploded like fireworks . His blood went flying, painting the whole street a deep sheen of scarlet . Naturally, the dragon leaders' faces were splattered with plenty of blood .

I chuckled in satisfaction, looking at the grim expressions before me .

"Pleased to meet you all for the first time, respected dragon leaders . I'm Roland, Roland Mist . What a fun welcoming party this is, having someone like this come welcome me . You're all truly creative to have come up with such a method . "Please download our sponsor's game to support us!