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Armin, upon hearing Seonghyun’s words, stirred up a commotion.

“What? I have to go in there? No way! Are you crazy? They say that place is really insane!”

Huh? Is it that bad?

“You’ve never been inside there?”

“Of course I haven’t been inside. Can’t you tell by the fact that I’m here right now?”

Armin’s face turned even redder at that remark.

“Then how is someone who’s going in there for the first time supposed to protect me?”

Huh? Did I say that?

“I never said I would protect you. You’re a half-blood between a Red Dragon and a Gold Dragon. Don’t you know how to use magic? You have to fight too.”

Armin shook his head vigorously from side to side.

“No, no, I really can’t do it! It’s too scary!”

Why are you being so stubborn?

“What can’t be done, can be done.”

Seonghyun grabbed Armin’s flailing body.

“Alright then, shall we go?”

“Kyaa! Humans are kidnapping dragons! Dad! Mom!”

No one is listening to you.

“Oh! Okay! I get it! I’ll walk by myself, so let me go!”

Should have done that earlier.

But having a companion made Armin feel better.

Seonghyun turned his head away, smiling at Armin who couldn’t see him.

“This is an adventure.”

Finally, it felt like a different world!

Until now, it felt like a survival story.

However, that thought didn’t last long.

– Ancient Genie of 1000 years [52,000]

“Aaah! Disgusting! Seonghyun, please save me!”

As soon as they entered the Forest of Death, they encountered a genie the size of an apartment.

“Hey, can’t you use magic? Try something at least.”

Armin drew magic circles around him and breathed fire towards the genie.

And then.

Sizzle-.

Purple smoke rose from the genie’s body.

The smoke caught fire and turned into a poisonous cloud.

Seeing the plants wither and die upon contact with the cloud, a chill ran down their spines.

“How do we deal with that?”

Touching the plants here revealed their exceptional elasticity, durability, and insulation compared to before.

Seeing these plants die instantly, the potency of the poison was evident without explanation.

Seonghyun immediately created lightning and threw it towards the genie.

Crack-!

As the lightning struck between the genie’s armor, its movements momentarily stopped.

“It worked.”

Although he suggested trying to sense it, looking at the dazzling armor of the genie didn’t make him think so.

But senses are senses. They didn’t send false information.

The genie slowly aimed lightning back at Seonghyun.

Armin grabbed Seonghyun’s arm as if having a seizure.

“How many of those can you shoot? You shot a lot when you tried to catch me earlier, is it still possible now?”

Of course it is.

Instead of answering, Seonghyun created lightning in his hand, smiling.

Not only in his hand, but a spear made of dozens of lightning bolts appeared around Seonghyun.

Seeing that, Armin praised his past self for submitting to Seonghyun.

‘Oh, my past self. You did well. I commend you.’

Thinking that those lightning bolts were aimed at him, he had no confidence to endure it.

Seonghyun didn’t care about Armin’s expression from behind.

First, let’s deal with that genie over there.

He pointed his hand forward.

And then.

Zap-.

Dozens of lightning bolts poured towards the genie.

Despite the genie twisting its body to avoid the lightning, lightning is lightning.

How do you dodge lightning?

Unless your body itself becomes lightning like Seonghyun’s, who knows.

The creature crawling on the ground was impossible to avoid.

In the end.

The lightning bolts struck between the creature’s armor, showing off their power.

Of course. That alone couldn’t stop the creature’s movements.

Seonghyun reached out his hand in front.

At the end. The technique used against enemies.

“Thunderfall.”

Feeling the ominous energy, the creature tried to flee.

But every time, the lightning bolts stuck between its armor paralyzed the creature.

The sight was enough to make even Armin tremble in fear.

‘What… what is that technique? Does it make sense for humans to deal with death? That’s…’

He had seen something similar before.

But it was a form similar to the death magic used by the dragons’ leader, the Black Dragon.

A technique that directly struck the opponent’s soul.

In other words, a technique that transcended the law of ignoring the opponent’s defenses.

At that moment, Seonghyun’s appearance seemed like something other than human to Armin.

‘Oh… that’s not human. I have to catch it. And I have to learn.’

This was a golden opportunity for Armin, the genius.

‘Found it.’

But. Despite such determination.

The lightning was terrifying.

“Strike down.”

Zap-!

“Aaah!”

As the lightning struck, Armin covered his ears and eyes and hesitated in place.

The creature hit by the lightning turned to dust without a chance to resist.

Using Thunderfall, Seonghyun’s body staggered.

It was due to the extreme consumption of magic power.

“Ugh. Can’t use it twice.”

If he were to spew out that technique recklessly, wouldn’t he already be considered a demon king?

Seonghyun, with a senseless thought, raised his hand to Armin’s head.

“Scared, kid?”

Armin, crying and whimpering, looked pitiful, making Seonghyun feel sorry for him for no reason.

‘Why did I bring him here…’

Armin slowly opened his eyes and bowed to Seonghyun.

“What… what is it?”

“Please accept this humble one as your disciple.”

For some reason, Seonghyun couldn’t find the previous arrogant attitude in Armin.

“Enough. Get up.”

“Yes!”

Look at how quickly he moves. It would have been nice if he had done that earlier.

Seonghyun didn’t bother to explain the misunderstanding.

So he decided to go along with it for now.

“So, you want to be my disciple?”

Armin’s eyes sparkled and he nodded quickly.

“Yes! Yes!”

At his innocent appearance.

Seonghyun almost burst into laughter, but he covered his mouth and held it back.

“Hmm. Okay? But what do you want to learn from me?”

“Just now, that lightning. Please teach me how to use that lightning too!”

‘Is he talking about Thunderfall? I don’t know how to teach that.’

Other things could be explained somehow. But Thunderfall was something Seonghyun just used instinctively.

‘Oh, this is awkward. Ah, I got it!’

“Hmm? You? Can you handle lightning to some extent?”

At his words, Armin raised lightning in his hand and his eyes shone.

See! I can use lightning too! His expression said.

‘What? That doesn’t seem like magic?’

“It’s not magic? How did you do that?”

Thinking he had been acknowledged, Armin shrugged.

“Gold Dragons can naturally handle lightning! Reds are fire! Blues are water, Grays are earth, Greens are poison! Like that!”

Seonghyun didn’t know that Gold Dragons could handle lightning.

But.

“Handling lightning at that level is not enough.”

Seonghyun urged Armin to do his best.

“That might not be your limit. Do it as strong as possible. And make it dense.”

At that, Armin, with a red face, exerted all his strength.

“What? Is this my limit? Lightning itself is not easy to handle from the start.”

Barely that little lightning bolt?

Is this the maximum power of lightning that looks weaker than the lightning used when his attribute was C grade?

This means either the Gold Dragon is weaker than imagined, or Armin in front of him is unable to handle lightning as imagined.

Or… am I being deceived?

“By any chance, how much can you handle lightning compared to other Gold Dragons?”

“Ugh!”

Armin looked as if he had been pierced in the heart and looked elsewhere.

Of course. If that weak lightning is the maximum, it should be a Trash Dragon, not a Gold Dragon.

Even a pocket monster like PikaXchu would be stronger than that.

It seemed like that feeble lightning wouldn’t even be able to charge a phone.

“So, what do you plan to do with that weak lightning?”

Only then did Armin’s spirit seem to break. His voice faltered.

“Still… if you could just help me a little…”

I was already planning to help.

But seeing him like this, I couldn’t resist teasing him.

Well then, let’s train and tease at the same time!

“Hey Armin. Do you see the spear in my hand here?”

“Yes! Yes!”

“Try to create five identical ones at the same time. Then, let me know.”

He’ll never be able to do it. With such pitiful lightning.

At Seonghyun’s words, Armin lowered his head and bowed deeply.

Heh heh. Done.

Suddenly, a laughter was heard from the deeply bowed head.

Crackle.

Oh no.

“You tricked me!”

I thought it couldn’t be true. But he really tricked himself.

Armin immediately created five spears similar to Seonghyun’s in his palm and floated them.

“This kid! Ugh? If you knew how to do this earlier, why didn’t you help when we were fighting with them?”

Seeing Seonghyun genuinely angry, Armin flinched.

Armin answered each of Seonghyun’s questions.

“If I had known you could do this earlier, would you have spared me?”

If I had used it on you… hmm….

“You can’t answer, can you! And when we were fighting with them, you ended it too easily, so there was no need to bring it out. And. Just by looking at it, you seem weak against kids.”

Oh, I’ve been caught.

“What have you been caught doing? That expression. I’m over 200 years older than you. Don’t you know that?”

Still, I couldn’t forgive Armin.

So.

“Aaah! Stop! Stop! My head! My head!”

I put my head between the fists and spun it wildly.

Phew.

Forgive me for this much.

“So! You made five spears as you promised. Are you going to keep your promise?”

Oh… I fell for the dragon’s trick.

“Yes. Yes, of course…”

I’m doomed. How do I explain this?