139. Chapter 139 – Softness of Heart
Chapter 139 – Soft Hearted
“Thank you, Attilicia, actually hearing those comforting words from you makes me feel better already.
“I have an appointment with Elf King Aelyndor this afternoon, so I won’t keep you any longer from tending to the children.
“By the way, I don’t have much cash on me, so this will serve as the treatment fee and a gift for this visit.”
After David accompanied his sister to the courtyard and listened to the corner with his ears open for nearly an hour, that fierce silver dragon girl named Shalena finally agreed to take her leave.
Just before she left the house, she was chased out by her silver dragon father, who was trying to give back a necklace embedded with five gems of various colors to the other party:
“Wait a minute! How can I accept such an expensive jewelry from you.”
The sharp-eyed David saw at once that this was the magic item that the other party wore in the morning to resist his dragon’s breath.
At the same time both [Swiftness], [Acceleration], [Elemental Protective Shield – Fire, Acid, Lightning] five kinds of effects, although they are all low-ranked spells below the third ring, but the combination is surprisingly useful in battle.
Pops is wasting this!
Even the other side of the house to move this moment still put aside this polite what it, the whole with the New Year like!
Fortunately, this silver dragon is quite understanding:
“But I can’t let you use [Regeneration] for nothing? I know that the cost of the materials for the spell alone is thousands of Devonshire gold coins.
“What’s wrong with you today, Attilicia? How come it’s all generous unlike you.
“If it were your usual self, you’d be eager to strip me of everything of value at this time.”
After saying these words that made Atilicia blush more and more guiltily, she beckoned to Tania, who had also long been glowing at that necklace.
Tania, who was still strongly hostile to this ‘stepmother competitor’, immediately ran all the way to ‘Auntie Silver Dragon’s’ body at the hint of David’s encouraging gaze.
Then, not surprisingly, there was a ‘porphyrin porphyrin’ magic necklace on her neck, and she turned back to her own brother with a giggle.
“How pretty, just the chain is a bit on the large side, I’ll let your father change it, he’s the best at this.”
“How embarrassing.” The silver dragon old man rubbed his hands with a tangled face and said.
“It’s just a piece of jewelry, I still have a lot of them there, I’ll get one for David Yutos as a gift, that’s it, I already know where you live, I’ll come back often to dine with you, just as the money for the dragon’s food paid in advance.”
After Atilicia’s body and mind ‘double healing’, Shalena only felt that she had already resurrected, and left a valiant back to David’s silver dragon family, and without looking back, waved her hand and left.
The look was like those defeated dogs of Bluestar who couldn’t fall in love but still conceited of their deep love.
“It’s true that licking dogs are not allowed to haus.”
David was just smashing his mouth and sighing, when Silver Dragon’s old man came over to his face and discussed:
“Why don’t we return those things . Give them back?”
“What? Softened?” David looked at the silver dragon daddy who suddenly had a clear conscience with a face full of contempt.
Artilicia nodded her head honestly:
“Well I just suddenly feel that after more than ten years, I don’t know if it’s because she’s grown up and matured a bit, and isn’t as hateful as she was when she was a child.”
Most importantly, he originally just wanted to take the heat out on his son for being ‘beaten up’ for no reason, and in the meantime, he was looking for an old friend to ‘borrow’ some money.
Now it seemed as if he had overdone it.
In the Dark Region, he had once experienced the taste of losing his family’s money, which was really . It was so painful that it was hard to describe.
‘Sure enough, the heart has feminized along with the body, huh?’ David couldn’t help but speculate breathlessly.
David, who was already interested in body and soul interacting with each other, secretly reminded himself that he had nothing to do but not to blindly transform like his old dad, something could easily go wrong, like right now. But his words immediately afterward made Atilicia even more torn:
“Anyway, it only adds up to three thousand or so pounds, I don’t have any problem with it, but the problem now is that you’ve already fucked and crumbled the spirit of someone’s mage tower, do you have that ability to fix it up without her finding traces?”
This was the truth.
For David, before his camp was substantially invested in starting up and developing, the significance of money for him, aside from pure purchasing power, the primary significance, was more for fulfillment and gaining [Greed].
Secondly, it was used to prepare for the [Tiamat’s Guardian] that might have to be utilized in the future.
Although to this day, David didn’t know what the hell this thing was good for, and if there were any new changes in the mechanism, he didn’t dare to try it as easily as he did last time.
In case he demolished his home again as he did back then when he tested [Tiamat’s Wrath], it was estimated that he was definitely not the only one who wanted to go crazy.
Rather, all three members of the family would go insane at the same time.
The last of the last was to pay off the debt to Dragon Mother.
And the still-young David was confident enough that he could then come up with enough money to make Longmamma smile without getting himself too torn up inside, unlike Pops, who counted in gold.
In that sense, what he needed was more the process of utilizing the dragon’s greedy instincts for treasure to get the money, rather than the money itself.
And now that he had already gained two [Greed] incomes by plundering the silver dragon Salena’s mage tower, he naturally didn’t care too much about this money, even if its total amount was already equivalent to more than half of his current fortune.
Once when he had awakened to this logic of thought David had also moved to return the ‘gained’ treasure to re-gain it like this, in order to repeat the idea of brushing the bugs.
But he quickly rejected it after having already had an in-depth exploration of the Seven Sins Power.
Because with the passage of time and the use of the power, he realized that the mechanism of this thing was a little bit similar to the Blue Star Buddhists’ ‘Doctrine of the Essence of Mind’:
That is, no birth, no extinction, no dirt, no purity, no increase, no decrease, but in essence it does have birth and extinction, dirt and purity, increase and decrease.
In short, unless he was able to achieve the kind of ability to play with his own memories and even his own mind, there didn’t seem to be a way to get stuck with this bug by deceiving his own mind.
But one day he really reached that kind of unspeakable realm, why would he still need to put it aside to cheat himself?
All in all, this power thing is very fucked up.
And just as David’s head was blowing up in a storm of thoughts, Attilicia, who had been tangled up for half a day, finally made up her mind after getting these words from her son:
“In that case, I’ll go to the basement now to build another portal, we’ll return the stuff, and move the equipment from the underground alchemy room over by the way, as you’ve also heard, she went to meet with the elf king this afternoon, and I guess she’ll be rushing back to the mage tower in the evening, so we only have half a day to do this.”
“You’re really still ah! Not! The spirit of the tower has been dried and smoked, but in the end, nothing is missing, you’re not not hitting yourself!”
David somewhat incredulous to look at the face full of serious actually really ready to put into practice the old man, half a long time, took a deep breath, gave a suggestion:
“Well, we’ll have to leave something down to direct suspicion elsewhere, and give the rest back to her.”
“Leave what?” Artilicia asked.
“The pair of gargoyle demon statues that were placed in front of the house, of course.” David chuckled.
(End of chapter)