Arthur had to be aware of his emotions.
His dragon blood became stronger and stronger as time passed.
Learning dragon magic would only enforce it to become even harder to control.
He sighed and said to himself.
"I will not think that the lives of any creature doesn't matter…"
Arthur thought to himself as he looked at the mirror.
His eyes shone brightly with otherworldly power.
[Parameter]
「Name: Arthur Leywin Stark
「Alias: Adolescent Dragon
「Level: 3」
「Pow SSS-1175」
「End SSS-1178」
「Dex SSS-1163」
「AGI SSS-1172」
「MAG SSS-1196」
[Inventory]
「$154,500」
「15 Gold Coins」
「5 Dungeon Points」
[Skill]
「Dragon Gods' partner」
「Authority of Sloth」
「K?ng?」
「???」
[Power]
「Dragonic Shot」
「Dragonic Canon」
「Dragonic Heal」
「Dragonic Cure」
「Dragonic Hand」
「Super Focus」
He grew up as a dragon. He was no longer a baby dragon but an adolescent dragon.
"Why did I grow up this fast as a dragon?"
Arthur asked Great Red and Ophis and they gave him the answer.
「Because you have two dragons not to mention the god level dragons inside of you.」
「Normally, our partner shouldn't have dragon power inside them as it is ours not them but you have mana core which might be because of your x-gene or meta-gene or whatever」
「It absorbs our power and gives it to your body. Your mana core act like a dragon heart to be honest」
It was a sensible reason as to why his dragon blood became stronger very fast. It was because he had two dragon gods inside of him and his mana core grew stronger by absorbing their power.
"Will you two be okay?"
「Hahaha, don't worry, Art. The power that your mana core absort is just a little faction of our power. Even if you have become a dragon king it was still miniscule to us the heavenly dragon!」
Great Red was very proud of herself but Ophis was another matter.
「You forgot that his mana core would become stronger when he became a dragon god like us Baka Red. Our soul might not be able to stand the absorption. You should find a way to control it so in the future it won't absorb us…」
Ophis said while yawning. It didn't seem like she cared much about being absorbed. Maybe she could find peace by not existing anymore.
"I will try but I don't know where to start."
「Don't worry Art, you still have so much time before you become an adult dragon. It usually takes about a hundred years but calculating with your speed. It might take you about one year.」
「And that isn't long at all…」
Both Great Red understood the crisis. Arthur grew stronger too fast and they might end up being absorbed by him.
"I think I might have to climb the dungeon as high as I can so maybe I found a way to control my mana core."
Great Red and Ophis knew how to control the dragon core but his core was much different from them so they could only teach him to at least slow down the absorption rate about 10% at most and it wasn't enough.
And while he had a conversation with Great Red and Ophis.
Emilia and Rem were inside his room and waited for him to finish his routine meditation.
They had known many things about him through Jarvis. His room was nice and reflected on how his personality was.
And both Emilia and Rem had to admit that he was calm and cool. His handsome face was just icing on the top.
How could someone be this perfect?
"Emilia, Rem, Are you two having any problem adjusting to this place?"
Arthur finished his meditation and asked them.
Two days had passed since they had come here. The matter about Hydra, he let Tony and the avengers take care of them.
Pierce disappeared after the investigation. He was really good at running away.
They found many hydra bases underground in New York and they were destroyed before they could get useful information.
"We are adjusting well. Pepper-san is really good to us and she even found a tutor for me…"
Emilia was shy and happy that she was welcomed so warmly by Arthur's adoptive mother.
She also wanted to have a mother figure as well. Pepper seemed to notice it and even encouraged her to call her mother.
It was hard but she might be able to do it in the future.
"Yes, please don't worry about us Arthur-Goshujin-sama. But Rem doesn't have anything to do…"
Pepper didn't allow her to treat herself like a servant so she kind of forced her to become a normal girl while she was staying with them.
She even told her she could become Arthur's girlfriend if she wanted to.
She didn't have the courage to be his friend as she was just his servant.
In Re:Zero world even though they accepted polygamous relationships there wasn't a concept of girlfriends and boyfriends.
"You have to get used to it. Treat this place like your second home. Don't worry about anything when you are here."
Arthur gave them advice and they listened to him.
Doesn't that mean they could become his girlfriends if they wanted to.
"Arthur, can you teach us how to be your girlfriends? Pepper-san wanted us to be your girlfriends but we didn't know how."
"??!!"
Arthur looked at both of them who was curious how to make themselves his girlfriends.
"What did my adoptive mother teach them…"
Arthur didn't know how to explain it so he decided to let his master teach them in his place.
"This is called google. You can search everything that you are curious about. I remember that I have something to do today."
He wanted to hatch the mysterious egg that he got from beating the great mabeast white whale.
He would go to a place far away from people in order to hatch it.
And Tony thought that hatching it on the moon was a good idea.
「I think hatching it on the moon is a good idea.」
"Why is that?"
Arthur was curious. Why hatching the egg on the moon was a good idea.
「Space is full of power called cosmic energy. It could help the familia evolve into those high ranking familiar coupled with the power of the dragon, even I, Great Red the dragon god of dreams and apocalypse don't know what kind of creature it will be.」
Great Red said with pride even though she didn't even know the result.
"And what about you Ophis. Do you think it is a good idea for me to go and hatch the egg on the moon?"
「Even though I don't want to have anything to do with Baka Red, she is right. You should go to the moon. Hatching it outside the base is recommended. The more the egg makes contact with the cosmic energy the better.」
Arthur sighed. So there was no other choice but to go to the moon if he wanted his familiar to be badass.
"But I have to get out of the base. However, I don't know if it would be dangerous to me or not. What if the egg exploded and I was sent out of the moon?"
Arthur didn't want to be swept out of the moon and then die because of suffocation.
「You don't have to be afraid that you will suffocate. Dragons didn't need air to live. Even a halfling like you.」
Ophis reassured him.
No dragon, full or half, had ever died because of suffocation before.
"I didn't know that. You mean I can live without even breathing?"
Arthur tried it and he found that he didn't need to breathe.
"How?"
Arthur asked Ophis but to his surprise Great Red was the one to answer the question.
「Breathing, or external respiration, is the process by which aerobic creatures, including humans, bring air into the lungs and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide through diffusion in the alveoli.」
Great Red said all of that with so much enthusiasm.
「This function is unnecessary for dragons, which extracts energy from the reaction of mana with molecules derived from everything around them and produces something close to oxygen…」
She said everything like it was general knowledge that they could find anywhere and it made Arthur and Ophis shocked to the core.
Ophis just said that he was an idiot but now she had proven it and Ophis became an idiot instead.
「What?」
「Baka Red…Never mind」
"...."
Great Red wanted to know what they were thinking and didn't tell him.
"I will go to the moon."
「Yes, you should.」
「Hey, you two. Tell me, what were you thinking about me earlier?! Don't run away cowards!」
Arthur said goodbye to Emilia and Rem who were now blushing and didn't dare look in his face.
They must have read the knowledge about how to be a girlfriend from google and they were so embarrassed that they couldn't let out a word.
'Fortunately that Jarvis only let them read safe articles. I don't want to know what would be their reaction when they saw everything on the internet. Their innocence must be protected at all costs.'
Arthur contacted Tony and asked him if he could go to the moon. He wanted to hatch an egg.
Tony was confused why he had to go to the moon to hatch an egg but he trusted that Arthur wouldn't do something dangerous.
"I know that you are a good behaved boy but you will not go out of the moon right."
"...."
"You will not go out to the moon right, Arthur?"
Arthur knew that if he wanted to go and walk on the moon.
He needed to get Tony's permission and it might be hard because he didn't want to have more problems with Pepper.
"Before I go, I have something to tell you. And please believe me I will be okay even if I were to float inside outer space."
Tony sighed heavily. He hadn't finished the matter regarding Pierce yet. Now Arthur found a new problem for him.
'Is this how Fury feels about me?'
It was called Karma.
Strange looked at Roswaal and said with a seriousness in his voice.
"I am in very big trouble."
Roswaal was now lying on the floor unmoving.
It was like he was sleeping but Strange knew that wasn't the case.
He was dead.
The one who killed him was him.
And why did he have to kill Roswaal? That was because he had found out about his plan.
The plan about resurrecting his master. The witch of greed, Echidna.
He shook his head.
"Why does it have to be like this?"
If his plan didn't involve someone from his world. He wouldn't mind him and just leave him be.
However, as he investigated Roswaal. He found that in order to resurrect his master he needed dragon blood.
His plan was to kill Arthur who possessed a dragon bloodline.
Strange couldn't let him do that and confront him.
Roswaal didn't listen and attacked him first. He used killing magic without batting an eye.
"This man is crazy."
Roswaal was strong but not as strong as him.
He had no choice but to kill him before he had done something irreversible.
And after killing him he understood that he might have to take on the mantle of the chief magician of the royal court in his place.
And that was something he found troublesome.
"Arthur possessed a dragon bloodline. Should I tell Tony about this?"
Strange thought about it and he shook his head. It wasn't his place to tell Tony about it.
Arthur must have known about it and it was his choice to tell Tony or not.
Strange looked at the body of Roswaal.
He then burned it into ashes with fire magic and blew it with his wind magic.
Strange had learned how to use magic. And it was pretty easy for him.
"I should go back to the royal castle and report that Raswaal was killed by the witch cult."
It was good that there was this witch cult in this world that he could blame everything on them.
Strange also had a way to create fake evidence that pointed toward the witch cult being the culprit.
Thus the case ended and he took the chief position.
"I will quit after Emilia becomes the king of this kingdom. I hope Tony and his adopted son will help me finish my mission. Otherwise, I can't get out of the dungeon."
Strange then returned to the capital and mind his own business after reporting Roswaal's death.
…
Natasha and Clint were now having a blast in the capital city of the kingdom of Lunica.
Gold was very valuable here and they had it for themselves to be considered rich.
They got the same mission as Strange when they entered the dungeon.
And they chose Crusch's camp because they thought that she had the best potential out of all of the candidates.
The weakest seem to be Emilia. They would never pick her.
Who would be stupid to pick her?
They didn't know that Strange and the others picked Emilia's camp.
If they knew they wouldn't make this kind of mistake.
Or maybe not?
If they failed the mission meant that they didn't have to go back and listen to Fury's rants.
They could take it as vacation.
They knew that missions weren't one time thing and they might get it again after sometime.
"So, what should we do again?"
"Find some information. Get out of the city and hunt some monsters to level up."
"It is like we are playing a game but with our lives on the line. I like this kind of game."
"You have family Clint you should be more careful"
"I am the most careful agent. I will only kill enemies from miles away. You should be the one to be careful. I know you like suicidal missions."
Natasha didn't refute him as she really liked the excitement when it came to a hard to nign impossible mission.
When she finished it. It gave her a sense of euphoria and accomplishments.
"I can't refute that. Well, we should get out of the city and hunt some low-level monster. Do you think guns would work on them?"
"I don't know but I am sure arrows can."
They went out of the city and started farming.
Finishing the mission would give them more dp and parameters up but they only have one mission each and they could not rely on a complete main mission like Arthur who was a protagonist.
…
Meanwhile, Arthur was now going to the moon. However, there was something bothering him right now.
He looked at the teleporter in front of him and said,
"Is this a Star Trek reference?"
「What is Star Trek sir? (o_O)?」
Jarvis showed more emotion than before.
"Oh, never mind me but Energize"
「Affirmative∠(^ー^)」
"That's definitely Star Trek…"