The White Dragon's Successor (3)
“Ssaem! Why are you so late coming up here! I thought something big was happening because of that huge wave earlier!”
“Haha. Sorry, Min-cheol. Did you worry?”
The White Dragon’s breath was so powerful that the shockwave reached not just underwater but above the surface as well.
“Of course I did. But… what is that strange thing next to you?”
“Ah, this?”
Min-cheol tilted his head in confusion at the odd creature.
“Strange? I am the great successor of the White Dragon!”
“A loach can talk?!”
“Loach… loach?!”
Min-cheol’s words seemed to infuriate the White Dragon, yet he only flailed about without taking any further action.
“She’s my pet. My pet.”
“Your pet?”
“Yeah. Anyway, I have a lot of questions for this guy, but first, let’s head back to school. I’m exhausted.”
The sun was already high in the sky, indicating how much time had passed.
After rushing out last night without sleeping and working nonstop, I was in a state of mental fatigue.
So I quickly returned to school and collapsed into bed, falling asleep instantly.
After a while, I woke up.
My mind wasn’t fully clear yet, but I was feeling better. Just as I tried to sit up from the bed.
“Huh?”
Soft, gentle breathing.
I quietly turned my head to the side and saw Elena sleeping peacefully beside me.
Thinking back, Elena must have been exhausted too after not sleeping a wink since the Hidden Park.
“Beautiful…”
My heart raced.
Seeing Elena’s face up close like this, no other words came to mind.
I wondered how happy I would be if someone like her became my girlfriend, but I couldn’t forget that she was an elf.
This wasn’t just crossing borders—it was transcending species, a love that should never be possible.
While staring at the sleeping Elena beside me, she suddenly opened her eyes.
“Ah!”
“Haha. You’re awake?”
“Yeah. I got so sleepy I just passed out.”
“Haha. The weather is really hot, isn’t it?!”
“…Isn’t it winter right now?”
Min-seong was startled by Elena suddenly waking up and started rambling in confusion.
Elena seemed completely unfazed, but Min-seong wondered why he was sweating in the middle of winter.
“Hey. You’re awake?”
“Eh! White Dragon!”
Min-seong called out to the White Dragon in a slightly awkward timing.
Thanks to that, he quickly turned his attention to the White Dragon and asked the question he had been curious about.
“You really are the White Dragon?”
“Of course. Duh.”
“But if you’re the White Dragon, then what about the successor?”
“That’s because the previous White Dragon already used up his lifespan. The next White Dragon is always the successor of the White Dragon.”
After the previous White Dragon died, a new one was born, and that new one was always the successor.
But then, if he had hatched from the egg given as a reward for this event, would he really be able to wake up as the White Dragon?
When Min-seong asked about it, the White Dragon admitted he didn’t know either.
“Then do you have the memories of the previous generation?”
“Um… I think I do… or maybe I don’t?”
“What do you mean by that?”
From the White Dragon’s actions, it seemed like he was behaving as if he had previous memories.
But he also said he wasn’t sure if that was true or not.
It was hard to understand.
“Maybe your memories are scattered?”
“Then do you know about The Struggle?”
“The Struggle?”
“You don’t?”
“You don’t know?”
“……”
Min-seong was stunned. The Struggle was an epic quest that required the White Dragon to designate him as a Dragon Agent, yet the White Dragon didn’t know anything about it.
“Then what happens to the quest?”
Would it just stay stuck like this?
Well, if Min-seong had received the quest alone, it wouldn’t matter even if it didn’t progress, but Jin-hwan had already been designated as the Dragon Agent.
Since he didn’t know what would happen if the Struggle started right away, Min-seong decided to obtain the Dragon Agent qualification and participate in it.
Moreover, the skills given to Dragon Agents were quite powerful.
There would be many strange things happening from now on, and he couldn’t be satisfied with just this.
“Ah. When I was in my adult form, I had all the memories.”
“In the sea?”
“Yeah.”
The White Dragon thought carefully and said that when he was in his adult form, he had all the memories of the previous White Dragons.
That probably meant the more he evolved through stages, the more memories would return.
“So I need to evolve this guy?”
The White Dragon knew nothing about The Struggle or Dragon Agents.
Once he reached the next stage, he would remember more, and perhaps he wouldn’t forget it.
“The Struggle won’t start before that, right?”
Thinking about Black Dragon’s words, it seemed that all Dragon Agents had to be chosen before The Struggle could begin.
So perhaps it was a good opportunity that the White Dragon was in this state.
“Min-seong, are you awake?”
Kang Hyuk patted Min-seong’s shoulder after confirming he had woken up and greeted him.
“Yeah. Hyung.”
“You really worked hard.”
“No, Hyung. You worked hard managing the guild while I was gone.”
“Hey. What did I do?”
Kang Hyuk laughed it off, but when Min-seong checked the guild status, he realized it wasn’t that simple.
The guild had clearly grown stronger than before.
The guild level had reached 2.
“When did you raise the guild level?”
“Not long ago. It just happened somehow.”
“It doesn’t just happen, you know.”
“Yeah. I worked hard, you know.”
Kang Hyuk, feeling a bit embarrassed, did everything he could.
Even just managing the shelter would have been tough, yet he had done all this too.
“Hyung! Thank you!”
“Hey. Don’t get weird. I’m also a member of the World’s Strongest Guild, so I have to contribute.”
“But when the guild level reaches 2, aren’t there any new features?”
“Ah. I was actually going to ask you about that, but the incident took up all my time.”
While saying that, Kang Hyuk opened the guild window and told him to check the new thing that had appeared.
No, wait, that's not it. The guild window appeared.
※ Guild Name: World’s Strongest
※ Guild Level: Lv-2 (Beginner Guild)
※ Guild Alignment: Pure White
※ Guild Members: 10/20
※ Headquarters: XX High School Building F Sector
- From level 2, you can use guild-exclusive quests.
When Min-seong checked the guild window, along with the level 2 status, a message appeared that guild-exclusive dungeons could now be used.
“Guild-exclusive quest. You mean this?”
“Yeah. I haven’t used it yet, but it seems like only guild members can use it.”
“What’s different from regular quests?”
“I don’t know, but it probably is different.”
He couldn’t tell what the quest was, but it seemed different from the usual ones.
However, using it right away felt burdensome.
If there was a time limit, he would have to focus solely on that quest, and since he was separated from the other guild members and had many things to do, it seemed difficult to proceed at the moment.
“My head is going to explode from how much I have to do.”
Scenario quests.
Epic quests.
Guild-exclusive quests.
Even just the quests he could do right now were three.
Plus, he had to check about job advancement once he reached level 30.
And there was more.
The missing sister.
The people who had used Megalodons to threaten the Merfolk tribe and others who were doing strange things.
On top of that, he had no idea what the Planetary Administrator was up to.
“Haa. Hyung, let’s put off the guild quest for now.”
“Looks like there are a lot of things to do.”
“Yeah. There are way too many things to do.”
“Don’t try to do everything alone. We’re guild members too. Let us help too.”
After that, Kang Hyuk listened as Min-seong explained everything that had happened so far.
“So many weirdos in this world.”
“Yeah. There are even people trying to use kids.”
“Haa. The world is really going crazy.”
Kang Hyuk got particularly agitated when talking about Ji-ah.
Since he usually liked children, he reacted more sensitively to such things.
“Can you look into these things?”
“Of course. Leave that to me, you know.”
“Thank you, Hyung.”
“Why are we like this between us?”
Kang Hyuk calmly organized the things Min-seong had mentioned and seemed to be calculating what to handle first.
“Are you going to look for your sister first?”
“Haa. I don’t know.”
Normally, one would go look for the sister first.
Why wouldn’t he worry about his only sister?
But Daegu was too far, and he didn’t know what might happen on the way.
Moreover, there was a possibility that his sister would come to Daegu first, like him.
Thinking about it that way, the best thing he could do right now was to get stronger.
Even if he had to go save his sister, he judged that getting stronger was the right choice.
And the fastest way to get stronger was through job advancement.
“Hyung, have you heard about job advancement?”
“Job advancement? What’s that?”
“You can advance jobs when you reach level 30.”
“Huh? You’re level 30?!”
Kang Hyuk looked incredulous.
Level 30.
He couldn’t understand what had happened in Daegu.
Well, Min-seong reaching level 30 also made him doubt his own level, so it was only natural.
“Yeah, something like that happened.”
“Is there anything about it on the bulletin board?”
“Yeah. Nothing seems related to this yet.”
He had already checked the bulletin board first, hadn’t he?
But there was nothing.
While talking to Hyung, the White Dragon approached at the mention of job advancement.
“Job advancement? You mean finding the Shrine of Job Advancement?”
“Huh? You know about that?”
“Of course! Who do you think I am!”
The White Dragon knew about the Shrine of Job Advancement.
He didn’t remember anything about The Struggle or Dragon Agents, yet he knew this?
Well, it didn’t matter.
Knowing was important.
“Where is the Shrine of Job Advancement?”
“Haha! If you call me Hyung, I’ll tell you.”
This bratty White Dragon.
He was so desperate to be called Hyung.
He didn’t understand why he was so obsessed with that word.
“Come on, Hyung. Please tell me about the Shrine of Job Advancement.”
“Yeah! Oh my. I’ll tell you myself. The Shrine of Job Advancement is right there!”