Chapter 5

It was only after midnight that Adele and Sigmund returned from the wood full of fireflies.

Shortly after returning, Adele fell asleep straight away.

But even after Adele fell asleep, the little Sigmund stood up and jumped out of bed while he was rolling beside her.

Then he clenched his fists and flexed his back’s wings.

The feet of Sigmund floated up little by little, fluttering with the power of wings as small as the palms.

“I can fly. I can fly.” 8

Sigmund, who flew from end to end of the room flapping his wings to make his face red, quickly returned to Adele, who fell asleep.

To show Adele that he can fly.

“Adele, Adele.”

Touching Adele’s fingers with both hands, he called her name, but Adele, who was deeply asleep, did not open her eyes.

A small breath came out evenly from the slightly open lips.

“Adele. Adele?”

After a few more calls, Sigmund eventually gave up.

“Sleepyhead.”

Sigmund just flew away without knowing anything.

***

Tadak, Tadak.

The soldier, who was dozing beside the burning bonfire, was awakened by the sound of footsteps.

“The discipline in the army has slackened.”

“I’m sorry, I’ll get it right.”

As soon as he woke up, he was embarrassed by the characters he saw, and two men passed by the soldier who bowed down to his knee.

The man in a white cloak and a golden armor was the Grand Duke Ernes, who now rules this country. 8

The man in silver armor, closely following the side of Grand Duke Ernes, the de facto ruler of the kingdom now that the emperor’s seat is empty, is Baron Lusen, who leads the Order of the Imperial Palace.

The reason why the ruler of the kingdom and the leader of the Knights of the Imperial Palace are now building a military camp near a small village on the outskirts is a secret that few people know about.

“Haven’t you found it yet?”

As soon as he entered the barracks, Grand Duke Ernes glared at Baron Lusen.

His eyes were full of anger.

“We’re expanding our search around us, so we’ll find it as soon as possible.”

“It’s the first thing I have to get my hands on. You know that, don’t you?”

“Of course.”

“If you fall into someone else’s hands…”

Grand Duke Ernes frowned violently.

It was the whereabouts of the holy egg that disappeared from the imperial temple that feared Grand Duke Ernes with pale gray hair and nervously brown eyes.

Holy Dragon’s Egg.

It was the dragon’s egg, which showed signs of hatching in three hundred years.

But it disappeared one day without a trace.

It is not yet known who did it.

Dragon is the founder of the Vissen Kingdom of this country.

A dragon with tremendous mana descended from this world, took control of human land and built a kingdom, which is what is now the Vissen kingdom.

The first Vissen emperor, who changed from dragon to human figure, ruled the kingdom for nearly a hundred years before returning to the heresy where he came from.

He went back to the world and left behind an egg, which was the second emperor. 3

The second emperor, who awoke from an egg, was shaped like a human being, not a dragon, and he also ruled the kingdom for a hundred years. At the end, he took the shape of a dragon and went back to the second world.

Such a Vissen kingdom was ruled by a dragon of posterity, who had been awakened from the eggs left by his predecessors for generations, and from the emperors a few generations ago, the eggs had not hatched easily.

Usually, the ancestors hatched less than a month after they returned to the second world, but it took a year, 10 years and 100 years from some point on, and the eggs now showed no sign of hatching for 300 years.

It was only a month ago that the eggs, which had been enshrined in the palace for 300 years, changed.

The egg is starting to shake.

It was a sign of hatching.

Dragon’s egg that wakes up after 300 years.

It meant, in other words, that he was born the master of the real kingdom after 300 years.

Grand Duke Ernes is a man who succeeded the blood of a dragon born to one of the women of the preceding emperor and assumed the authority to rule the kingdom instead in the emperor’s absence.

Now that he had to hand over his reign to the real emperor, the most important thing to him was to be there the moment the dragon awoke from the egg. 2

Dragon imprints the first thing he sees as soon as he wakes up from the egg. 2

Only when you seize the moment will you lose this power that you have held so far.

If the egg fell into the hands of others, it means that this power is taken away. +

“I can’t let that happen.”

Grand Duke Ernes glittered with gruesome eyes.