Dragon Poor

Chapter 36

Having an upright head and looking down fiercely, being covered with large, colored scales and a robust body, and having a breath that swirled as hot as sulfur fire, it was the Drake that Sunhyuk had imagined. Though it might not be able to fly, that kind of fierce beast was what Sunhyuk thought a Drake should look like.

"Huh?"

But the Drake which was in front of him, kinda, well…

His eye lids were halfway down, as if there was no life in them, and the scales, which covered his skinny body, looked rather emaciated. Just from how he was breathing heavily, it was barely hanging on for dear life, and Sunhyuk began to wonder if this was indeed the Drake that he was even searching for.

It was like a large, dying, giant lizard with its head down.

[Dragon Taming Skill has been activated.] [You will be able to communicate with the Drake for a while.]

It was the first time that his unique Dragon Rider skill was activated, as he was then able to gain a glimpse into the Drake"s condition.

[Starvation, weakness. On the verge of death.]

Quickly reading the state of the Drake, he was flabbergasted. The Drake was currently starving to death.

"What kind of absurd case is this?!"

He had devoted his whole vacation to come all the way here, and after climbing the peak with all his strength, Sunhyuk was able to finally meet the Drake. But, betraying his expectations and antic.i.p.ations, the Drake was in such a weakened state that it wouldn"t be weird if it had died this instant.

Seeing how the Drake was barely breathing with a lifeless expression, suddenly the Drake"s condition changed.

[Hunger. Appet.i.te. Urgent.]

The Drake suddenly lifted its stretched out neck off the ground. The Drake, that was almost on the verge of death, endeavoured to make a last stand, as it tried to stand upright while it faced off the prey that came towards it.

"Yap!"

But that stance did not last long. With Atiya flying in the air and making a shout, the neck of the Drake which was standing upright collapsed. It was as if it was a doll falling down from the wind.

[Exhaustion. Resignation. Despair.]

Sunhyuk, who had felt the Dragon to be several times stronger along the way here, belatedly recollected himself.

Now, he had to save the Drake.

******

Munch, munch.

As if it was eating a whole, mature pig, the Drake was eating and chewing the food in front of him as it tried to flaunt ferociously with his snout. Unbefitting of that big and scary appearance with his current state, Sunhyuk laughed at the ridiculousness of it in the end.

Though its actions might be ridiculous, it didn"t mean that the fierce and vile looking Drake would disappear. Obviously, he did not have the strength to put the food into his giant jaws, so Atiya stepped forth.

"Good. How kind."

Alternating between the backpack and the Drake, Atiya was giving food and water to the Drake, as if it was a puppy. But that puppy was extremely oversized.

"Mmm. There"s no effect with just this much."

Atiya continued to hand out the food in his backpack, but the condition of the Drake did not become any better. It looked like it was not large enough to satisfy his ma.s.sive appet.i.te with its large frame.

"Ugh."

Alternating between the Drake and below Frost Peaks, he laid down his backpack and muttered.

"I"ll be right back, so wait."

*****

"Aigoo, now I"m going to die."

Lying flat on the ground, he was heaving as he was completely exhausted from bringing enough food to fill the stomach of the Drake.

There was compensation.

Thanks to his efforts, the Drake, that was on the verge of death, had regained some vitality. Some light restored back to its lifeless eyes as he felt satisfied. But, that was only for a moment.

"This ungrateful b.a.s.t.a.r.d!"

Though he collected as much food as possible, he couldn"t completely fill the stomach of the Drake, and it seemed that it was determined to solve the problem itself. Turning to the side, he saw the jaws of the Drake open as it was about to eat him, causing him to jump back in shock and twist his body.

Bang.

Enraged at this, he went over to the Drake and slammed it"s head with his fist.

"Ouch!"

However, those solid scales caused him to be at an disadvantage instead. Due to the pain, it was him who came off second best, causing him to avoid the Drake.

"Stop! You ungrateful, lizard b.a.s.t.a.r.d!"

Though he was not in an ideal condition, it wasn"t hard to avoid the Drake"s attacks, but the location was not good. The apex of the Frost Peaks was not very large, and the ma.s.sive, hungry Drake was moving around as it screamed, causing the stones to crumble down.

"It"s going to collapse! Collapse!"

As if his words were right, due to the Drake"s uproar, a part of the peak had collapsed. Sunhyuk, who had barely evaded the collapsing ground in time, wiped away the cold sweat.

Luckily, the Drake had stopped its disturbance, as it seems that he still had some common sense.

"Relax, okay? Nice, good boy. I"m a person that came to help…haa. This is really frustrating."

Talking, he suddenly felt discouraged. When he had climbed up to this place, he held large expectations for the Drake, but having arrived, he discovered a dying one. Also, after saving it"s life, it was now in the process of trying to eat him.

He felt a sudden sense of regret, as he brooded over why he shouldn"t have come all the way here.

"Good boy. Master is not a bad person."

Atiya came out and whispered to the Drake, before the eyes of the beast became noticeably soft.

[Caution.]

Angry once more, Sunhyuk"s face became contorted. However, not forgetting his purpose in coming here, he began to think of a solution.

And then, he finally thought of that method.

"I am your master. I am your master."

Just like how he had tamed the hot-tempered Widow Maker, he talked to the strong-willed Drake. It was then that his Dragon Taming Skill activated once more.

[Dragon Taming Skill has been activated.] [You have attempted to tame a subspecies of Dragon kin, which has been expelled from the skies onto earth.] [It failed.]

Sunhyuk did not give up, as he incessantly talked to the Drake.

"If I just go down, what are you going to do here alone? You"re really going to die then." [Dragon Taming Skill has been activated.] [You have attempted to tame the Drake.] [It failed.]

Again, the message of failure appeared, but he did not falter, and continued trying.

*****

[Dragon Taming Skill has been activated.] [You have attempted to tame the Drake.] [The Drake is faltering.]

After much time had pa.s.sed, the repeated failure messages had finally changed.

[Dragon Taming Skill has been activated.] [You have attempted to tame the Drake.] [The Drake is hesitating.]

Sunhyuk, who saw this message, revealed his hidden card.

"Right. Good boy. If you come with me, then you can eat as much as you want."

Taking out the emergency food he had preserved until the end, the Drake hesitated. Swallowing its saliva, it cried as it pushed out its snout.

"No. If you want something, you also need to give. Let"s keep our manners."

Sunhyuk who had extended his head far back threw the meat. The meat that was flying in the air was caught by Atiya as she was flying in the sky flaunting the meat in front of it.

The large-framed Drake also had enormous eyes as its ma.s.sive pupils rolled around, staring at the meat.

"Will you follow me? Or not?"

The attention of the Drake, which was wholly focused on Atiya, turned towards him. The appet.i.te and hunger in the beast"s eyes was clearly transparent. Sunhyuk stared at him straight in the eyes, as if he was being sucked into those eyes.

[I will follow you.]

The Drake"s will carried through it"s consciousness, rather than its language, as Sunhyuk quietly cheered from this.

"Naisu!"

Clenching his fist and raising it up high, a message appeared.

[Taming Success!] [The Drake has submitted!] [Though you have not completely succeeded in submitting it, but you have succeeded in establis.h.i.+ng a relations.h.i.+p with the Dragon Subspecies.]

If someone would ask later how he had tamed this vicious beast in the future, he would answer without hesitation.

There is no compet.i.tion in front of hunger.

*****

Though he had succeeded in making the Drake yield to him, there was a bigger problem.

"How the h.e.l.l do I take this guy down with me?"

It was impossible to carry this large drake down the dreadful peaks, in which it was hard for him to descend alone. Just in case, he tried to carry the body with the help of Atiya, but it was so excessively heavy that it was too much for a Basic-ranked Elemental to bear.

"How did you even come up here?"

At this time, he was curious how he had brought his large body up to this high place. However, after his initial success of taming it, the Drake did not relay any more of his will. All it had revealed were its emotions.

[Hunger.] "This b.a.s.t.a.r.d only thinks about eating!"

The Drake"s thoughts did not help in overcoming this current crisis at all.

*****

"What do you think he"s doing up there?"

Hansen was staring up at the Frost Peaks with a worried look. Half a day ago, he had heard a shrilling roar, as if the mountain could collapse at any moment, but it was too quiet now.

"Huh?"

He was looking up in the Frost Peaks for quite some time, before his eyes opened wide after seeing a gigantic object appearing from the peaks.

"Can anyone see what that is?" "What is it? What is it?"

The other workers ran over and saw the monster that had revealed itself from the peak.

"Get back! You can become injured!"

At this moment, he heard a familiar voice. Hearing Sunhyuk"s voice from the wind, the people retreated unknowingly in shock.

"Then, it"s coming!"

Then, before his question of what that large object was, something large suddenly began to fall from the peak.

Bang!

Simultaneously, with a large explosion, the body of a large monster covered in snow was shown, as the people stared in shock and cried out.

"What is that?"

Seeing that large, unidentifiable existence, the people slowly approached before hearing Sunhyuk"s shout once more.

"Is it alive? Or is it dead?"

Then, the large body started to slowly twist.

"It, it"s alive I think?"

He answered fully baffled, as he heard another shout from Sunhyuk.

"Until I come down, don"t ever go near it!"

At this time, the growling body suddenly turned its head.

"Ahhhk!" "It-it"s a monster!"

The people palely screamed as they made eye contact with a large beast.

***

"It, it"s alive I think?"

Sunhyuk sighed in relief after hearing Hansen"s reply through the power of the wind. Since there was no way in dragging the large Drake down, he had gambled, but fortunately, he had succeeded.

To be honest, it wasn"t that impressive of a method. All he had done was push the body of the Drake down the peak. Originally, no matter how solid its body was, it wouldn"t have survived the fall, but thanks to Atiya, she was able to prevent the Drake from dying.

It was a desperate gamble that was accomplished through the development of his attribute dominance and wind attribute. But, even with all that effort, it was inevitable that Atiya would be forcefully recalled due to the large exhaustion following immediately after.

"Ah, now there"s the problem of me descending down now."

The fully exhausted Sunhyuk sighed, as he looked down the peak.

TL Afterword:

Calvis: LOL. He just threw that Drake down. I feel bad for it. I mean all it wanted was some food, and the first thing he receives after being in a relations.h.i.+p with Sunhyuk is to be thrown off the peak.

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PR Afterword:

t0ngan: Nice taming styles & then kicking Drakey over the cliff… Borderline m.a.s.o.c.h.i.s.t: : All he did was kick it down a mountain! That can be easily solved with a pile of meat the same size as the fall. Also, can"t wait to see(read) their faces when they realize Dragons/Drakes actually exist.