Beast Taming? Nah, Dragon Herding is Way Better! - Chapter 61

Chapter 61: Princess of the Elven Kingdom
Looking up, Diluc noticed that each of the rooms for students has a good veranda that spans the entire area of their room, most likely to provide the students with a hint of open air for themselves, in addition to providing a great view of the academy, well for the ones assigned to the higher floors of course.

Deciding to look into what more does this dormitory has, Diluc moves towards the double door with a dragon carving on them, a carving that feels so life-like that he thought it might just pop out of the door anytime.

Pushing it, he was finally greeted by the internal structure of the place, something that he finds quite surprisingly clean and pristine despite this place being one intended for the male population of the academy’s student, and he knows clearly well just how messy a gathering of men can be from all his time living in Old Arthur’s place, where male adventurers will often knock themselves out from the alcohol created by the middle-aged man himself.

What he finds even more intriguing is the fact that there’s not a single person who seem to be maintaining this cleanliness, as if this is truly the natural state of this place, something that he finds hard to believe.

‘Could it be because there’s still just a few students here?’ thinking of this, the young man eventually dismisses these roaming thoughts in his mind, before finally moving to the place where he is supposed to be.

‘Let’s see, my registered number is 010122, so I should be searching around the first floor right’ he thought to himself as he roams around in order to find the rooms assigned to his class based on his registered number, something that he finds out the meaning of after he takes interest on this information that is also included in the student handbook.

‘First year, class one, number twenty-two’ as he looks through the numbers of the door, he specifically searches for the one that contains his class number on it, a number indicated right at the middle top part of the door, something he finds really easy to search given his class number.

“Finally…” since there is a shared room policy in this place, he searches for the eleventh room, something that he saw after just a bit of search since he started.

Using his badge to open the lock placed at the doorknob of the room, he pretty much confirms that it is really the room assigned to him given that it automatically opens after the magic fueled lock scans his identity card, allowing him to push it open without any problems.

Entering inside the room, he finds that it is still pretty much his own since there’s no one inside, making him wonder whether his supposed roommate already passes the trials or already done with his registration in the reception area.

Not taking too much time to think about this though, he starts checking out this place, something relatively large given that not only does the academy so graciously gave them more than enough space moving around, having an area of about some seven meter by width and ten meter by length, with two separate beds provided for the students that are about to occupy this room.

“Pretty sweet space” he mutters to himself as he scans around, thinking that while privacy between roommates will be pretty much impossible given that there is no separating wall between the two who are supposed to occupy this place, the space wide enough for him to add some essential things pretty much compensates for it, not to mention that the bathroom is pretty large too, complete with cleaning necessity, a shower and even a bathtub, something that Diluc finds really unnecessary given how most men treat their bath time.

After checking out all the things, discovering that the walls adjacent to the bed serves as a cabinet that can be use as storage of all sorts of things, this also applies to the wooden support of the bed that acts as a drawer for the students to use.

Each of the bed also has a worktable beside them, something that can also be used for all sorts of things, well, but mostly for studying, and reading, something that the young man plans to do a lot during his time in this academy.

‘Do I really need one though? I can just read in the library’ as he settles himself sitting down on the bed, Diluc thought about these mundane things until he finally recovers, deciding to take a quick bath to clean himself after this ‘hard’ day of work before he returns to the bed once again, now with a clean clothing and still wet, slightly long hair.

‘Now for the best part of the day…’ he thought to himself as he calls on the floating gray screen once again, the smile on his face making it apparent that he is quite looking forward to this, his smile growing even more once he moves to the Dragon Herding System’s storage space.

‘Please calculate how much will these things amount to if I sold them all’ finding all sorts of valuable but not so important things to him, Diluc decided to sell the entirety of the things that he acquired during his travel, that includes the ones that he got from the other assassins that attacked him during his travel after the first one, things that he forgot to sell earlier given that he prioritizes reaching the capital city more the moment that he encounters the second assassin group, thinking that it will be more troublesome for him if he wastes more of his time outside.

[Calculating the value of all the things dedicated to the ‘loot’ space of the system storage]

[Finished calculating]

[All these things, junks and others combined, can be sold for 70,000 Realm Gold]

Seeing the numbers displayed, Diluc couldn’t help but reveal a satisfied, yet borderline maniacal smile as he starts recalling the ‘hardships’ he had to go through in order to acquire all of this stuff he sold for what he thinks is a pretty good amount of money, an amount that made his hands clench into a solid fist due to the excitement of feeling rich for the first time in a long while.

“Finally, some fucking proper money” he mutters to himself with the smile still pasted on his face as he double checks the numbers on the floating gray screen just in case he might be just seeing an extra zero on the value given by the Dragon Herding System, however, seeing that there’s nothing that changes after repeatedly rechecking it, he finally come to realize that this is the truth.

Thinking about all sorts of things that he can possibly buy from all these things, he starts getting lost in his thoughts as he starts planning for proper development of the Draconic Realm once he returns there, something that he thought is dangerous to do for now given that he doesn’t really have any idea of what kind of existences are in this academy, something that at the very least, he knows that there are a lot of strong ones for sure, given that a random loli-hag he encountered previously is someone of a half-draconian progeny and possesses strength far greater than his.

‘If it’s her, I think she can sense it if that kind of spatial fluctuation happens under her nose’ thinking of how strong these kinds of beings are, as well as how strong the spatial fluctuations are when he opens the entrance to the Draconic Realm, Diluc opts not to enter this for now just in case this very white haired, horned beauty, or anyone else who has the same or stronger power as her is in the vicinity.

What he isn’t aware though is that even though the other staffs of the academy are people who is still beyond his reach now, that youthful beauty is already the one standing at the very pinnacle of this academy being the principal and all, someone who reigns over the academy with her unparalleled wits and might.

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“It’s good that you’re safe, princess” meanwhile, on the girl s dormitory, two blonde beauties both having long, pointy ears hug each other, one of these two someone Diluc is familiar with, this lady he is familiar with being the one who receives the words from the other beauty.

“I met someone interesting Alfia, that guy save me” the other elven beauty said with a smile on her face as she recalls the face of that young man, his tall stature that completely overshadows hers, as well as his bright character that just seems to pull everyone towards him.

“Guy!? Heee~~~” hearing these words from the only child of their sovereign queen, the elven beauty who spoke first, Alfia, reveals an interested smile on her face as she looks towards this princess of the elven kingdom with an inquisitive look on her eyes, her hands already prepared to squeeze this seemingly juicy news from her.