Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 46

Chapter 46: Looting
“Before we leave, let me deal with all this treasures first” seeing the entire caravan of good things left to them given that everyone that knows of it except the two of them are already dead, Diluc proceeds to keep all the things for himself without even a single regard to is appearance towards the elven beauty.

“Do you want some things? Go get what you take interest in” seeing how she stares at him, the young man said with a trace of graciousness on his voice, causing the elven beauty to just shake her head as she moves towards one of the caravans, getting there a twin short sword that decorated by a clearly elven motif, with Celtic motifs and curled engravings of branches and leaves around its handle, hilt and the parrying edge of the sword.

“This is all I need, thanks” the elven beauty, Alea, said with genuine gratitude in her voice, curtly bowing towards the young man once again, her choice of weapon surprising the young man quite a bit as he already develops the prejudice of her being a marksman even without seeing her fight.

“Short sword as a mage? That’s a pretty rare combination” while it sure is true that the existence of pure mages using melee weapons are extremely rare, it isn’t nonexistent, and seeing that this elven beauty is among those kinds of people, the emperor-like young man easily accepts this fact, thinking that this way of fighting is also good for her twin elemental affinity as well.

“Wanna try it?” seeing that the tall young man is looking at her curiously, the elven beauty asked as she flexes her mastery of the weapon, twirling it around on her fingers effortlessly and with practiced precision and execution, with an unbothered look on her gorgeous face, as if the impressive thing that will make nearly all short sword user jealous is just some parlor tricks to her.

“I’d rather not” looking at the proud smile on Alea’s face, Diluc couldn’t help but think that he will definitely feel bad if he damaged her confidence when he tries her weapon, a weapon he is quite familiar with given that this is also one of the weapons commonly used by the tall beauty that often plays with him when he is young, said beauty being the Beatrice that leaves the previous city just a bit ahead of him.

“Where do you even store all those things?” seeing that this new friend of hers finds no interest in competing with her right now, Alea starts focusing on the fact that no matter how large the things within the caravan is, the young man seems to always be able to store it in his spatial pouch, making her wonder just how large the thing is.

“This is a really large spatial pouch, no need to worry about it, it’s not even half full yet” Diluc replies with a smile on his face, the words from this elven beauty and new friend of his pretty much confirming that she can’t sense him using the storage space of the Dragon Herding System to store all these things.

After a bit more of sneakily storing all the trailers on the storage space of the system, they finally set off once again, the elven beauty already satisfied with retrieving her weapon and not taking any of the other things the young man acquires, thinking that her freedom is already something worth all the treasures in that caravan.

“How the hell do you even get captured by those people in the caravan?” now knowing the fact that this lady is also a part of the nobility, albeit within the Elven Kingdom neighboring the kingdom he lives in, Diluc couldn’t help but asks Alea as they walk towards the gates of the capital city of the kingdom the young man resides in, the Flammenherz Kingdom, ruled by the family this domain is named after.

Being well aware of why the young man is asking her of this she hesitates to answer, given that usually, descendants of noble houses, however low they are in the status of nobles, are still people who has some level of security protecting them at all time, take for example the lavishly dressed Michael he previously encounters, who has a swathe of personal guards at his beck and call.

“That… it’s complicated, can I not-” as she finally lets the words out, she doesn’t even manage to finish her words as the young man starts speaking once again, saying the very same word that is supposed to come out of her mouth.

“You can just not answer it if it’s too complicated then” he said as they continue their travel, the two of them not even falling silent for a while as the elven beauty already has a question she is ready to ask him with.

“Are you also here for the academy?” seeing that he is someone really talented for peers the same age as they are, Alea asked despite having a high certainty that this young man’s purpose for going to the capital of the Flammenherz Kingdom being this as well, the answer from Diluc truly confirming this speculation of hers.

“Also? Then you’re going to the academy as well?” Diluc asked in surprise as knowing just how reclusive the elves are, he just didn’t expect that this beauty is someone sent most likely by her elders to study in the academy as well.

“Mn, apparently, among the nearby kingdoms, the Star Academy in the capital of your kingdom is the greatest academy for magic and martial arts there is, I also just heard this from my mother, so I’m really not sure whether this is true” Alea responded as she shares what she knows to Diluc, this information causing the young man to look at the academy he’s planning to enter in an even more serious light.

‘If geniuses like Alea that comes from different nearby kingdoms are going to be sent here as well, then I need to be more careful’ now knowing the significance of this academy, the Ruler of the Draconic Realm starts increasing his assessment of this place, eventually deducing that he needs to hide himself even better when he is accepted into the academy, just in case someone capable of completely seeing through him, student or staff, exist there.

“Then I guess our time there is going to be interesting” the emperor-like young man replied as he gathers his thought, the smile on his face appearing like that of someone who yearns to climb greater heights, as if that of someone who couldn’t wait to test himself compared to his peers.

“Please, you’re a monster, there’s hardly anyone who can handle you there” knowing the fact that this young man is treading the twin path of power, the elven beauty couldn’t help but roll her eyes to his words before she said in annoyance, feeling like he doesn’t mean his previous words seriously at all.

“What? You think I have my eyes on student the same year as us?” thinking of something, Diluc said with absolute confidence on his face, however, this statement of his is more of just a bragging as even if he is confident of fighting against someone an entire realm of strength higher than him, he would rather hide his entire strength and only show portion, or even his complete strength only when absolutely necessary.

‘It’s not like I need the resources of the academy, I just need all the knowledge I can obtain from there’ the Ruler of the Draconic Realm thought to himself as he recalls the stories that his birth father used to tell him when he is still living in this world, a story about the kingdom’s greatest academy holding the largest collection of books within the lands, a great library so big that mortal beings will take their entire life trying to read through all its books and not even finish a hundred thousandth of all the books in there.

Hearing his words, the elven beauty couldn’t help but giggle as she never saw a young man as audacious as him, however, knowing his strength just from how he used sheer force to free her of the bind of the mana suppressing shackles, along with the fact that he’s a mage as well, she couldn’t help but think that there might really be a possibility for this young man to deal with students of higher years than them.

“I’ll look forward to that show when we’re accepted in the academy” she replies to his words as if she knows that the two of them already has the entrance exams in the bag, the confidence in her something that Diluc appreciates really well, along with her strong character that seems to already recover from the trauma of being captured by the caravan.

“I guess I’ll see you there then” already standing in front of the colossal gates of the Capital City, the emperor-like young man and the elven beauty said as they both presents their identity cards to the guards.