I got into school for nothing - 292
I got into school for nothing (292)
Lesson 57. Dowry Legion - 2
Dragon Fang Soldiers are a race that appears in Greek mythology, sometimes called Spartoi, which means "sown men" in Greek, because they were born from scattering dragon's teeth on the ground.
Depending on the media, they are sometimes treated as undead, but as a race strictly born from teeth, some even married and had descendants in mythology.
For reference, Earth, in the process of connecting with the Union Net, saw the eradication of all kinds of myths, so naturally, the lore of the Dragon Fang Soldiers had long been swept away with the tide.
If I tell my sister, would she remember it? No, she probably wouldn't.
“But what are they like in reality?”
“Dragon Fang Soldiers are golems created by a True Dragon from its soul, blood, and a part of its body. The originals even possessed reproductive capabilities. Their physical structure is very similar to Dragonoids, but they differ in that they are completely subjugated to a dragon. To put it simply, Dragonoids are descendants of dragons, and Dragon Fang Soldiers are their subordinates.”
“Ohh.”
It was unclear whether she had obtained the family head's approval, but considering she had brought a truckload... no, an entire spaceship full of Dragon Fang Soldiers, which don't easily leave the Melodia Family's possession, one could easily surmise her standing within the Melodia Family.
“However, the Dragon Fang Soldiers created by the True Dragons were too dangerous, and their enemies were too numerous, so they all died without bearing descendants. Furthermore, to unleash the full power of the Dragon Fang Soldiers, their creator must be present... so, there are no true Dragon Fang Soldiers now.”
“Then what are the ones you brought?”
“Golems that the Melodia Family... and I, together, created by referencing the originals. They don't have reproductive capabilities, but they can exert powerful strength without complex conditions, and their resistance to magic is high, so they are treated as elite forces.”
Ban Yuwon, with her permission, summoned one Dragon Fang Soldier and examined it. The core concept, 'Dragon Fang', and its mana were each an enormous level, close to 1,000.
As they were neither living beings nor monsters, they didn't possess the concept of 'Life'. However, it felt as though they possessed combat abilities equivalent to, or even exceeding, 1,000 Life.
“Whoa... we don't have anything like this in our kingdom.”
Asha, a descendant of dragons just like Aire, uttered a rustic, unrefined remark and meticulously examined the Dragon Fang Soldier.
Then she suddenly tilted her head as if sensing something strange, but when Ban Yuwon looked back at her, she shook her head, dismissing it as nothing.
“It just felt a little familiar, that’s all.”
“Because you’re a True Dragon’s descendant. Asha, your dragon blood might even be thicker than mine.”
“You said there are no inferior Dragonoids, Aire.”
“But there are superior Dragonoids.”
Aire slightly furrowed her brow as she said that, but then, with a playfully mischievous expression, she poked Asha’s soft cheek, teasing her.
“Just looking at you now, I’d say I’ll be superior for life, though.”
“Ugh— Yuwon, let’s make Dragon Fang Soldiers too! Ones much stronger than Aire’s! I’ll pull out my teeth?! I’ll pull them out now!”
“Don’t pull them out, please.”
Ban Yuwon was horrified and tried to stop Asha, but he didn't miss the sparkle in Aire's eyes at the mention of creating Dragon Fang Soldiers.
“Aire, by any chance, the reason you brought the Dragon Fang Soldiers this time...”
“As expected, Yuwon, I like how quickly you grasp things.”
Aire nodded and said.
“If it’s you, a genius not only at creating artifacts but also at crafting artificial sentient familiars, I thought you might be able to make the Dragon Fang Soldiers more complete. I’d like your help with the research.”
“Actually, it does seem possible?”
If he were to gradually bestow a large amount of 'Life', which he currently couldn't absorb directly due to its low depth and instead kept stored in his Code Core, upon those Dragon Fang Soldiers—of course, it would be difficult as is, and he'd need to add other concepts to harmonize with it, but with a little trial and error, he felt he could achieve results quickly.
Ban Yuwon, who had gained experience creating tangible life forms from intangible concepts, starting with even goblins, had found a void he could fill within the golems, which, though modeled after living beings, could never truly become alive.
“Indeed, I had faith in you.”
Aire’s eyes sparkled at Ban Yuwon’s confident words.
Asha tried to push her away with a pouty expression, but Aire held her ground, unyielding, as if the improvement of the Dragon Fang Soldiers was an extremely important matter.
“But there’s a small problem: if my touch reaches them, the Dragon Fang Soldiers are very likely to recognize me as their master, not you.”
Actually, it’s 100%.
However, Aire nodded readily, as if she had expected that as well.
“We can just have joint ownership. We’re already a community of fate, so at this point, dividing our possessions is meaningless.”
“Ack, no, I wasn’t thinking that far yet... No, no. Aire, you’re right. We’re on the same side. Yes, we should go through life together.”
“Exactly. I’m glad you understand so well.”
Aire, putting the Eye of the Dragon Orb she had taken from her pocket back into it, smiled radiantly.
Lately, Ban Yuwon had been finding Aire a little scary.
He should have listened carefully when Shati warned him to be wary of dragon possessiveness... No, by that point, it might have already been too late.
—I’m here, honey... Huh?
And into that awkward situation, the spaceship carrying Mira and Shati arrived at the terminal.
It was, of course, a given that they were stunned after seeing the dowry... the Dragon Fang Soldiers that Aire had brought.
As Mira, who had surmised Aire's adorable true intentions, acknowledged her as a full-fledged rival and burned with the flames of jealousy beside them, Shati, perhaps the sanest person in this maddening party, clutched her throbbing head and confirmed with Aire.
“With these Dragon Fang Soldiers alone, you could conquer any average dimension! Vice President, is this for real? If so, there’s no going back now.”
“Yuwon and I go together.”
“Wow— I don’t know if I should call this reassuring.”
Shati, who said that, had already sent her Dark Magic Soldiers, disguised as dimensional mercenaries, into the A-1 Dimension, Fairytale.
Having made contact with the elders of the fairy race through Mira’s mediation, they would be guarding the fairy race, wary of the clutches of the Prominence Family and the Crimson Spear, who were threatening Fairytale.
“This has gotten really interesting. How did so many races end up fighting on the same side?”
“It just means the dimensional situation is that messed up. Since reinforcements have arrived, why don’t we head to Fairytale before something unnecessary happens?”
Throughout the journey to Fairytale, Mira and Aire engaged in a glaring match. Asha also glared at Aire, who was subtly trying to close the distance with Ban Yuwon.
Ban Yuwon knew that getting involved between them would only lead to exhaustion, so he retreated from them, deciding to succumb to Rucell’s beckoning for now.
“You should rest when you can, Master. While you sleep, I’ll try to bring some order.”
“Thank you, Rucell. You’re the only one...”
Just as he was about to enjoy a short nap, lying on her plump thighs, Rucell’s mirror vibrated.
He squinted and looked up, and saw Rucell talking on the phone over two large mountains.
“Yes, Mom. You can come without being late, right? A hundred people? But... Slothy too? I’d rather Slothy didn’t come, okay? What? He’s already entered his mating season...”
The content of the conversation was bewildering.
She said she’d bring the beast-kin, and she actually went through with it?
No, but certainly, compared to their Dimension Grade, the combat prowess of some beast-kin from the E-1 Dimension, Jeda, was ridiculously strong. So it would be a good thing if they helped, but...
‘Whatever, let’s just sleep for now.’
There was no point in thinking now about how much the dowry legion would grow.
Ban Yuwon, trusting Rucell’s words about trying to establish order among the girls, fell asleep. When he woke up, the spaceship was already entering Fairytale.
“The barrier has been deactivated. You can go in just like this.”
“Wowww, it’s as beautiful as the planet I used to live on, sister.”
“Hehe, the fairy race are also a forest people, after all.”
Ban Yuwon, whose eyes opened to the chatter of Rucell and Mira above his head, rubbed his head against her thigh to shake off his sleep, then vigorously got up.
“Ah, Master.”
“We’ve arrived. How long has it been?”
“About an hour.”
Rucell, who had answered while tidying his dishevelled hair after he woke up, gave a meaningful look to the group.
It seemed that everything had indeed been settled, as Mira, Aire, and Asha were all sitting quietly.
However, the fact that things had settled paradoxically allowed him to guess at their feelings for Ban Yuwon, making his heart feel a little heavy.
At this point, he was even grateful to Dokgo Yeon, who had withdrawn to a corner and was quietly observing him, as if she had no involvement.
He wanted to give Shati, who was observing him with an endlessly amused expression, a good flick on the forehead.
Rucell said.
“We’ve decided to implement a point system among ourselves.”
“An intro that’s already making me uneasy.”
“Every time we do something that helps Master, we get a plus. Every time we stress Master out or do something bad, we get a minus. If we accumulate a lot of plus points, we can receive a reward from Master. And also punishment...”
“Leaving aside the fact that I never agreed to this system... Shouldn’t punishment be received when minuses accumulate?”
“That’s not allowed.”
Rucell said in a strict voice and glanced at Asha.
Asha, flinching and making a slightly guilty expression, turned her head away, avoiding eye contact.
Her cheeks were flushed, as if she was imagining something.
“Because for some, punishment can also be a reward.”
“Okay, I won’t ask deeply.”
“Since it starts today, those who brought dowry... no, forces that will help in this war, will get plus points.”
“So it’s being treated as a dowry after all...”
Even as Ban Yuwon pressed his hand to his forehead, the spaceship was rapidly advancing through the skies of forest-filled Fairytale.
Seeing as no attacks were flying at them, despite there clearly being fairies or someone else down below, it seemed Mira had already finished her negotiations.
[We’ve arrived. Shall we descend as is?]
“Yes.”
Mira tersely replied to Lilyth, who asked with a voice full of amusement, as if she had been observing the situation all along.
Lilyth seemed to change course and go into a freefall, but then corrected her posture in mid-air and began to land.
But then, the ground, which had looked like a normal forest of trees, seemed to crack, and peeled away with a tearing sound, like unwrapping packaging.
What lay inside was a beautiful city—no, a town—no, perhaps a forest? A cave? A coastline? that Ban Yuwon had never seen before.
All of it was mixed together in a small space, making it a chaos difficult to determine what kind of environment it truly was.
“What is this?”
“Yuwon, if you don’t know, I’ll tell you again.”
Mira approached him, taking his hand firmly, and said.
“The fairy race loves pranks. If they want something, they might thoughtlessly reach out for it... And Changeling is quite effective for decorating one’s home, too.”
“So, all of that is a fairy home?”
“Exactly.”
“Didn’t you say they were a forest race?”
“I meant that’s what everyone thinks.”
As the spaceship prepared to land, a flamboyant spaceship terminal, similar to one he might have seen at Union, split open the perfectly normal dirt ground, revealing itself.
As Lilyth landed on the terminal that had appeared precisely at the coordinates Mira had entered and let the group out, the fairy race, who had already been waiting for them, emerged with sparkling eyes.
Every one of them was slender and beautiful, just like Mira.
Among them, a beautiful woman who particularly resembled Mira, wearing an elaborate jeweled circlet on her forehead, saw Ban Yuwon, clapped her hands together, and exclaimed.
“Oh my, Mira! Is that the man who will be your husband?”
“Yes, Mom. Not giving him away.”
“Let’s trade him for my husband!”
“Not giving him away!”
Okay, let’s bolt.
Ban Yuwon immediately turned around, but failed as Mira firmly held his hand.
“Be careful with Changeling, Yuwon. There’s nothing but madmen here who’ll try to swap everything except their own lives.”
“Ahhh...”
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