Ch.33. The Dragon Wants to Make a Contract!

# Cave Life Day 1

First, I decided to establish the foundation inside a mountain cave near the city.

Starting with a room large enough for my bulky frame, I need to complete the path leading to the temple for visitors who might come here.

The top priority was creating a place that would serve as my home, so I decided to complete my room first.

Since I’m building a home… no, a temple, I decided to make an impressive room that would inspire awe in visitors.

# Cave Life Day 2

After working all day using magic, I completed the room where I’ll stay inside the underground mountain cave.

However, while I’ve finished a space where I can sleep, it wasn’t a sight that would inspire awe in people.

By human standards, it was an unimpressive setup with just a single bed, so I thought about ways to decorate the interior.

My first idea was to create statues the size of humans.

The image of a dragon being revered by numerous statues seemed truly magnificent even to me, so I immediately began working on it.

# Cave Life Day 3

There was no problem with creating the statues.

Since I was sculpting them from rock chunks that appeared during the room-making process, there was no shortage of materials for the sculptures.

However, one problem arose.

It’s good to carve statues, but in what style should I carve them?

Carving ordinary human figures would be fine, but if portrayed incorrectly, I might be misunderstood as a villainous dragon who oppresses humans.

Hmm… thinking about it this far, I need to deeply consider what concept to use for the statues.

# Cave Life Day 4

I completed one statue with great care.

The first statue I created was of a female figure depicting my ideal from my previous life.

Given my large size, when I held the statue in my hand, it felt somewhat like making a plastic model from my previous life… no, even smaller than a plastic model, more like creating a Nendoroid.

No… if I were to equate the statue in my hand to the plastic models, figures, or Nendoroids from my previous life, this lifestyle wasn’t much different from before.

Hmm. I suddenly felt depressed.

# Cave Life Day 7

I finished all the human statues to decorate the interior and decided to create statues depicting dragons.

However, one problem was the arrangement and coloring of the statues.

How should I arrange the statues to make them look prettier and more impressive?

And how can I create the surrounding landscape to harmonize with the placed statues?

And finally, the color scheme.

Thinking that far, I began to consider the terrain and scenery to place around the statues.

Just having a single lump of a statue wasn’t particularly stylish.

True style required utilizing all the terrain features.

# Cave Life Day 13

The arrangement of human statues and the form of terrain features to place near them.

After much deliberation, I decided to refine and arrange the terrain features with the perspective of visitors to this place in mind, rather than my own view.

Since the people visiting would be much smaller than me, I needed to create something that would look magnificent and visible from their perspective.

Given my large size, it became difficult to get down on my stomach to match a human’s eye level, so I devised a new magic called the Scrying Mirror to compensate.

It truly seemed like I was spending productive days.

After developing the new magic, I was able to create paths and roads for people to walk on easily.

It’s fun to meticulously craft bricks for roads and stairs or to refine rolling rocks.

Perhaps because figurines and plastic models were my hobby in my previous life, I found this work surprisingly well-suited to my aptitude.

# Cave Life Day 20

I finally completed the basic scenery for placing the statues.

I meticulously placed each brick and positioned the statues in exquisite locations.

The statues appearing one by one on the way to me would make visitors realize this was a mystical place, or so I thought.

However, I could feel that something was lacking here.

Despite the well-paved path and beautiful human statues, why did I feel something was missing?

By pressing my body against the ground or using the Scrying Mirror magic I developed to match people’s perspectives as much as possible, I soon found the answer.

From a human’s perspective, there were only roads and a few statues, far from the magnificence I had in mind.

The terrain features were appropriately placed, but the scenery to beautify the appearance of the statues was truly poor.

Ugh… this was far from the temple image I had envisioned.

I needed to think more deeply about this.

# Cave Life Day 32

After much consideration, I decided to fill the surrounding scenery with patterns.

The problem was that my hands were too large to engrave patterns that would be visible to humans, but I solved this by using what was, by my standards, a delicate toothpick to meticulously engrave patterns on the walls and then using magic to stamp those patterns elsewhere.

The patterns engraved in the scenery had no particular meaning or significance, but since I was engraving patterns anyway, I decided to create ones that could be considered my symbol from now on.

A dragon walking alongside humans.

A dragon helping humans.

A dragon listening attentively to human songs.

And even the image of a great dragon defeating human enemies.

Literally, I recklessly engraved patterns claiming, “This dragon is full of goodwill toward humans!”

By appropriately placing these along the path to my room, I could show visitors a favorable image of dragons.

Oh, and since it was a dark cave, I also installed lights that would automatically illuminate the darkness in case visitors might miss the patterns, so the follow-up was perfect!

# Cave Life Day 42

Having perfectly completed the corridor for visitors, I now decided to decorate the room where I would wait.

Since this was also a room for those who came all this way, I decided to remodel it into a room as magnificent and majestic as possible.

First, I decided to create seven stone statues that resembled my appearance.

The reason for creating as many as seven statues was that I thought one alone couldn’t depict magnificence and majesty.

There’s a saying: “The more, the better.”

It’s an idiom meaning that more is better, and I judged that the more statues in the room, the better.

Now skilled, I decided to create them by carving the statues into the walls, and I crafted each one with great care.

# Cave Life Day 50

I completed the seven dragons that would represent the magnificence and majesty of the room’s interior.

I engraved the seven dragons and patterns to depict their majesty, and I could nod with satisfaction at the sight.

At first, I wondered if seven dragons were too many, but the completed scene exceeded my imagination.

It was a sight that could give visitors appropriate pressure and awe, so I was satisfied and was about to open the path to the temple when…

Oh no! Due to the enormous size of the seven dragons, the place for me to stay had disappeared!

I was so distracted depicting the seven dragons that I failed to create a place for myself.

Given their size, I realized that if I were to create a place for myself now, I would have to give up the seven dragons, which left me with no choice but to ponder.

Should I give up the seven dragons now and create a place for myself?

Or should I not give up the seven dragons and complete a separate place for myself?

It was a night of deep contemplation.

# Cave Life Day 51

After much deliberation, I decided to keep the seven dragons.

It was too precious to give up the statues I had completed with such care, and if even one were reduced, there was a high possibility that the scene I had envisioned wouldn’t materialize.

However, I had one good idea.

It was to create a place for me to stay beneath the seven dragons.

This way, I wouldn’t need to give up the seven dragons, nor would I need to worry about collapse by further expanding the space inside the mountain.

First, I decided to do solid foundation work to prevent collapse and then dig beneath the room.

# Cave Life Day 55

I completed the room for me to stay beneath the room with the seven dragons.

After completing the room, I made the floor of the room with the seven dragons into a mirror form reflecting my room below.

With this, visitors whose attention is captured by the seven dragons and who hear my voice will realize that I am below.

The scenario I envisioned is perfect.

With this, all preparations are complete.

Having finished the endless cave life, I’m now ready to welcome visitors.

I immediately opened the path to the temple and waited for visitors to come here.

# Temple Life Day 56

I waited for visitors with expectant eyes.

Of course, I had no intention of contracting with ordinary hikers passing by here.

The conditions for visiting this place required a good person with clear principles and strong character who wouldn’t use my power for evil deeds.

In other words, I was seeking someone with protagonist-like qualities.

Although I was picky in selecting people, naturally, there were zero visitors today.

However, thinking this was the first step in an important contract I would proceed with in the future, I smiled broadly.

There are many tourists and hikers who visit this place.

I thought there would be at least one such person among them.

# Temple Life Day 62

Today, too, I waited for visitors to come to the temple.

I waited until evening, but there were no visitors.

Regrettable.

# Temple Life Day 68

Today, too, I waited for visitors.

The visitors I was waiting for did not come. That’s all.

# Temple Life Day 72

I became anxious but waited with a relaxed mindset.

Right! I didn’t expect the person I wanted to appear with a “poof” from the beginning!

……I’m sorry. Deep down, I was expecting it.

# Temple Life Day 75

Oh no!

Thinking carefully, I finally realized that this place… is a place rarely visited by people.

While scholars exploring caves might come, ordinary hikers visiting this mountain would use the hiking trail, not dangerously take shortcuts.

Of course, there were some hikers who illegally harvested natural resources from inside the mountain.

But I realized that such hikers were not the kind of people I wanted.

…Huh? Is this really dangerous?

# Temple Life Day 82

Advertisement! I need advertisement!

I feel like advertising this temple using YouTube!

But I don’t have modern devices like smartphones!

And I have no intention of revealing myself to people, making all the work I’ve done so far meaningless!

And if I wait, someday there will be someone like a prince on a white horse who comes here…!

……………right?

Yes. There definitely will be, right?

# Stone Statue… no, Temple Life Day 100

Today, too, I only saw statues.

Statues. Statues. Statues.

# Statue Life Day 110

Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues.

Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues.

Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues.

Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues.

Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues. Statues.

Today, too, all I see are statues.

Statues!

# Temple Life Day 120

I’m sorry.

Please, anyone, come here.

There’s a stupid dragon here who fell for his own trick…

# Temple Life Day 130

Our temple is open for business!

Please don’t worry and anyone please visit!

Please save me just once!!!

# Temple Life Day 150

Finally, the prince on a white horse I’ve been dreaming of… no, a princess has arrived.