Translator: Vivi from dummytranslations
Editor: Chubby Dragon ❤
Chapter 82

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No matter what the players thought, the Black Dragon who had successfully obtained its most precious treasure no longer cared about the ordinary players looking at it from the ground. It merely flew towards its nest at a steady pace.

At such a great height, even if it were someone not suffering from fear of heights, would, in his position, lose all sense of security. But the grip around his waist was extremely firm. After having its ears pinched, the little cat in his arms began to lick his fingers, causing Gu Yan’s eyelids to twitch. He reached out to pinch the pointed ears once more.

The massive Black Dragon gradually disappeared into the horizons and left even the long-ranged classes staring, dumbfounded, after it. The close-ranged classes had long lost all hopes of attacking it the moment it flew up.

“Commander, do we still attack…?” The tank was speechless in the face of this situation. He had already been mentally prepared for a complete annihilation of the team, yet the Black Dragon merely turned around and left after picking up a magician in its mouth. It completely did not follow any sense of logic.

“Go up to the top and take a look. Right now, we will just wait for the rest to revive and return.” After a moment, the commander asked in the private channel, “Did any of you see the magician’s name?”

After this question was thrown out, there was a series of ‘no’s. That magician wasn’t a part of their party and since he chose to hide his name, they had no way of seeing it.

The player who had been sent to observe the situation from atop the floating isle finally returned. He spread his hands out hopelessly and said, “There’s a barrier preventing us from entering, it will be hard to get close.”

“Wait for the rest to regroup and then we will attempt to breakthrough.” The commander frowned. This was their only option.

At this moment, on the floating isle, the Black Dragon had returned to its cave with its most precious treasure.

In terms of beauty, the isle could not be compared to the one that the ruler of the Dragon Valley lived on. On the entire floating isle where the Black Dragon lived, there was only a single cave for its slumber while the rest was a pile of ruins.

It was simply not a place of beauty.

No matter how you look at it, this place was simply too lacking in terms of storing one’s precious treasure. Putting the human youth down in the cave, the red-eyed Black Dragon began thinking of this problem.

Should he snatch over the biggest floating isle in the Dragon Valley and let the youth stay in its beautiful palace?

It had not thought through this matter properly before acting and felt extremely unsatisfied with itself.

Gu Yan was gently placed down. Just as his back touched the ground, he decisively stood up before the Black Dragon could turn around to leave.

He was truly placed down gently and no accident occurred due to differences in strength between a human and a dragon. Gu Yan watched as the Black Dragon lowered its huge body and crouched down. With its head lying on the side on the ground, a pair of wings filled with vitality casually swayed and its half-lidded pair of red eyes were, as usual, fixed on him.

“...Qiuqiu.” Meeting its gaze, Gu Yan’s mood was complicated.

Why did his lover enjoy this sort of role-playing so much?

Donning three personas but still unsatisfied, this was already his fourth...

Although this entire holographic reality game was originally an MM-based game, it was also a multimedia online role-playing game (MMORPG). Even in this current era that worshipped futuristic games, this game could still be considered extremely popular.

A thought suddenly sprang up in his mind, there was enough to start a game of mahjong. Once this thought appeared, his mind seemed to start going down a different direction. Did this mean if there were seven Qiuqius, he could even summon the Supreme Dragon[1]?

“Me-ow~” The pointy-eared cat heard his call and purred while the Dragon who was currently lying down in a relaxed manner also let out a low roar and raised its tail.

Leaning closer to the Black Dragon’s massive body, Gu Yan was already standing before the head resting on the ground. At such close proximity, he could clearly observe the Black Dragon’s scales. These black scales contained the force of smouldering destruction, yet, they did not pose any threat to him.

When Gu Yan approached, the Black Dragon lowered its head to snuggle against him. Except, their sizes were too different; a human body was only the size of a dragon’s claw. Thus, even if it wanted to snuggle closer, it was impossible to do so.

“Grr.” The Black Dragon unhappily let out a low roar. Having a bigger body was also not good.

Just like the kitten licking his fingers in his arms, this big Black Dragon yearned to lick this youth with its tongue.

Unfortunately, there was no way it could do so in this form. A dragon’s tongue was similar to a cat’s tongue in the sense that they both had barbs. But even so, the difference was too huge.

The barbs on a cat’s tongue would only cause a person to feel as if a soft brush was whisking over their skin at most, only an itch but without any pain. This sensation was similar to being massaged and could almost be considered comfortable. However, according to the plot setting, the barbs on a Dragon’s tongue was capable of cutting a human’s skin up into a bloody mess.

The Black Dragon narrowed its scarlet red eyes as it yearned to return to its human form. However, it quickly suppressed this thought because it had discovered that the human youth standing before it was rather interested in its current form.

This was the dragon race’s tough and impenetrable scales. When it came into contact with a human’s warmth and soft touch, it was cool. The youth who had been brought into this large cave by the Black Dragon seemed as if he were observing something rare, his left hand around the pointy-eared cat while his right hand constantly touched the dragon’s tough skin.

An actual real-life dragon and it was one that allowed him to touch and observe.

He completely did not realise that what he was doing was equivalent to seeking death. Gu Yan touched every part of the dragon lying on the ground. After touching its head, he would touch its neck and then, his hands would move towards its wings. In the end, his hands even extended to the quietly resting tail.

The ‘inverted’ scales of the dragon race referred to the scales on an inconspicuous part on their neck shaped like a crescent moon. When touched, it would cause the dragon to go crazy and attack the person who touched it with a destructive fire breath.

However, the youth had not only touched but even stroked the part of its scale several times with his soft fingertips. Unexpectedly, this Black Dragon did not move and quietly lay on the spot, only growling softly.

As for its tail, the Black Dragon took the opportunity of when the youth touched it to rub against his body several times. The tip of the tail was smaller and therefore, easier to touch him.

With the exception of its back and belly, Gu Yan had mostly stroked its entire body once over. As for why he did not touch the other two areas, the former was because he needed to climb over the Black Dragon’s back in order to do so while the latter was because the Black Dragon was currently crouching and it was inconvenient to reach.

Touching to his heart’s content, Gu Yan did not notice the Black Dragon’s narrowed eyes and the low growls issuing from the back of its throat. He only remembered one matter, “Where’s the princess?”

Recalling this problem, Gu Yan forced himself to tear his gaze away from the ancient and powerful beast that had captured his attention. He began to look around this massive cave.

A cluster of undying flames lined against the stone walls of the cave and to a certain extent, lit up the Dragon’s resting place. It also made it much more convenient for Gu Yan’s search.

Unfortunately, he was not able to observe for long before he felt something tighten around his waist. In the next second, he was pulled by it.

His vision spun and he quickly found himself on the ground. Moreover, he was being rubbed by the Dragon’s lower jaw.

The thing around his waist was in fact, the Black Dragon’s tail, which was restricting him. Gu Yan felt his eyelids twitch unconsciously and realised that there seemed to be something wrong with their positions...

He was currently being imprisoned under the Black Dragon’s large body while the Black Dragon seemed to be snuggling and rubbing against him.

He was completely unable to break free and his body was also unable to move. Gu Yan could only use a coaxing tone to ask, “Qiuqiu, be good. Where did you put the Princess?”

He was nearly unable to find an appropriate verb and in the end, could only settle on the word “put”.

At this time, he noticed the Black Dragon’s scarlet-eyes squint. This micro-action seemed to make Gu Yan recall something and thus, he quickly added, “I don’t have any interest in the Princess.”

It appeared, this sentence was successful in appeasing the Black Dragon. Its head lowered to snuggle against the youth once more before turning to gesture towards a certain direction.

Following the direction that he was pointed to, Gu Yan found a beautiful maiden with shimmering golden hair. She was extremely young, and the expensive dress, as well as the crown on her head, were symbolic of her identity.

Unfortunately, this noble lady seemed to have been carelessly tossed into a corner by the Black Dragon. Her eyes were closed, apparently, in a state of unconsciousness.

The legends of how the Dragon must truly love the Princess were rubbish. Gu Yan finally understood the true meaning behind his lover’s words earlier when he had said, “The Dragon does not like the Princess.”

Earlier on, he had only asked a couple of questions of the Princess and his lover had already drunk a pot full of vinegar. At this moment, Gu Yan suddenly seemed to achieve enlightenment and something in him collapsed. Fairy Tales, they were all...

Full of shit.

End of Chapter 82

The author has something to say: Dragon Qiuqiu: like Ah Yan, purr~

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Gu Yan: Why did his lover enjoy this sort of role-playing so much?
Drago: Chubby Dragon loves this kind of role-play too (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄) (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)
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Author: Fairytales are full of shit
Drago: I agree ~ I don't personally like fairy tales. My children will grow up on Harry Potter, Eragon and Qiuqiu 

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[1] 召唤神龙: legend has it that seven dragon pearls had been scattered across the world and if a brave warrior were to gather them all, he would be able to summon the supreme dragon and grant a wish