Chapter 99 "Despicable" Aragorn - Open or Not (Part 2)

  After walking through the mist, Du Wei finally saw what this so-called "secret room" looked like.

  It's not as magical as I imagined, nor is there any treasure like the "Sword of Kings" stored inside. It's just a cold, dull, and even somewhat chilly cave.

  The only difference is that in this cave, there is a large and heavy stone coffin... hmm, at least the thing looks like a coffin from its shape!

  "You're here? You're much later than I imagined."

  Just as Du Wei was carefully examining the cave to see if there was anything else - it was really difficult for him, this cave was very small, even smaller than Du Wei's bedroom at home, it seemed that there was no place to hide treasures. Bare and empty, the entire cave could be seen at a glance.

  But this sudden voice made Du Wei jump in fright!

  "Who is it?" Du Wei said in a low voice, looking around: "Hiding in the dark to talk, isn't that interesting?"

  "That's very interesting." The voice was somewhat strange, and most importantly, it seemed to sound a bit familiar: "Judging from the expression on your face, it's quite vivid. Are you afraid or something?"

  Suddenly, a shadow appeared on the wall of the cave, and then a figure slowly emerged from the mountain wall.

  "Is it you?" Du Wei frowned, looking at the guy in front of him in surprise. Then Du Wei said in a low voice: "The dignified Dragon Clan leader, actually also broke his own promise? Isn't your Dragon Clan always very proud?"

  Out of the wall came a figure, and it was none other than the Dragon Clan's patriarch, whose head seemed to be missing half its corners!

  "Have I broken my oath?" The dragon clan leader walked out with a cold smile and casually sat on the stone coffin in the center of the cave, looking very nonchalant, even beckoning to Du Wei: "Come here, I've been waiting for this day for a long time!"

  Du Wei carefully controlled his emotions, as he was well aware that he absolutely had no capital to provoke this powerful dragon clan chief - even the old magician outside was not a strong opponent, Du Wei thought it would be better for him to slightly lower his head and show some respect.

  "Alright... at least you should tell me why you're here." Du Wei's tone became much calmer.

  The dragon tribe leader raised his head, and in his eyes was a hint of cunning smile: "I promised that Aragon guy to help him keep some things safe. Wait for the messenger with the devil's aura to come. Apart from that, no one is allowed to open this place and look at the things he left behind!"

  "Then why can you come in?" Du Wei sighed.

  "Because this is my domain, the entire Divine Mountain is under my control. Here, I can go to any place, of course including this secret room. Moreover, in the agreement between him and me, it was said that unless his successor comes, no one else is allowed to open his things, including myself. So all these years, although I'm extremely curious, I haven't broken my oath to look at the things he left behind. However..." The Dragon Clan's Patriarch smiled slightly: "However, our agreement didn't prohibit me from looking when his successor comes. I can't just stand by and watch, right?"

  Du Wei was taken aback for a moment. Then he smiled wryly and said: "Your meaning is that you won't touch his things, but can watch me open the things he left behind. So, strictly speaking, you haven't broken your oath either?"

  "It is so." The dragon tribe leader replied succinctly.

  This guy has a natural talent for being a politician. Du Weining muttered to himself.

  But standing on someone else's territory, and the other party is a strong player who can make himself disappear with just a wave of his hand, Du Wei didn't have the capital to call out to him.

  "Go ahead and look then." Du Wei curled his lips, anyway he himself had some resistant psychology towards this crappy messenger's identity.

  "Are you really a descendant of Aragon?" The dragon clan leader looked at Du Wei with great interest: "You are quite different from that guy outside."

  "Who? That old magician? That old immortal?" Anyway, since that guy is not around, Du Wei's words are no longer so polite. He had been suppressing his anger all the way. Finally, he could say it out loud.

  "It is true that he regards Aragon as a god. The dragon tribe leader smiled: "But you, it seems, do not take everything that happens here to heart."

  "You're right," Du Wei nodded, his inner thoughts were not hidden: "Arrogant greatness, that's his business. Even if he was a great man, I wouldn't be willing to give up my own life and risk being killed just because some guy comes along one day, a thousand years after his death, and tells me to inherit his legacy."

  The dragon tribe leader was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing: "Well said! However, I still want to correct you on one point: Aragorn is not some great guy, he's a despicable little man!"

  Duvie didn't say anything, although he was not very willing to inherit Aragon's legacy, but calling Aragon a despicable person... Duvie thought this was probably the dragon tribe leader's sour grapes mentality because they lost to Aragon.

  "Don't you believe?" The dragon tribe's leader showed a hint of anger, and then he sneered continuously: "So, have you seen my current appearance? Don't you think it's strange? A dragon tribe's leader, why is he in human form?"

  "Is... isn't this what you've become yourself?" Du Wei asked cautiously.

  "Do you think this is fun?" The dragon tribe leader said coldly: "Do you think I like to transform into a human appearance... Oh, I do like to do it occasionally, because that way I can quietly enter the human world and travel. But it doesn't mean I like to turn my body into a tiny human! I am a dragon! I am a dragon!"

  "This guy was talking and suddenly got angry. He stood up, let out a low roar that shook Du Wei to the point where he couldn't stand still: 'I'm telling you, since that Aragon, that despicable guy poisoned me, for these past few years, I've only been able to maintain this current appearance!! I can no longer transform back into my dragon form! I can only change into this current state!'"

  “……”

  Du Wei's eyes narrowed. Then he thought for a moment and suddenly remembered something!

  Could it be... the Fountain of Youth? A fountain that would let people stay forever young?!

  Poor Gigi turned into a mouse after drinking the spring water of the Fountain of Youth, and can only be a mouse forever.

  And this dragon clan chief, could it be...

  After all, Du Wei knew that Aragon had once found the Fountain of Youth!

  "That year, when that despicable guy came here, I was still in my dragon form! He couldn't defeat me at all! Back then, he came alone, saying he wanted to challenge me! At first, he deceived me into thinking it was just a simple challenge to prove his identity as the strongest on the continent! I accepted! We fought for three days and three nights, hmph, what's this nonsense about being the strongest under the stars?! That's just something you humans claim for yourselves! But even if it were true, even the strongest human, Aragon, couldn't defeat me! For three days and three nights, we were evenly matched. And then, that guy resorted to trickery against me!"

  Du Wei listened to the angry roar of the dragon tribe's patriarch and couldn't help but sigh: "Then what? He took advantage of your transformation into a human form and tricked you into drinking a kind of spring water?"

  "That guy, he can't win against me, so he uses words to provoke me, saying that as a dragon, we have the heavenly gift of superior physical abilities compared to humans. So even if we fought to a draw, it's actually because I had a huge advantage... So in my anger, I transformed into human form and fought him!"

  "What's the result?" Du Wei asked in a pitiful tone.

  As a result, there's no need to ask, just look at the face of the Dragon Clan's Patriarch and you'll know, he naturally lost.

  "I transformed into a human form and fought him, but I was indeed defeated." The dragon tribe leader gritted his teeth: "But he tricked me into drinking that spring water! As a result, I can no longer recover my dragon form! And so, I could no longer resist his power! He threatened me, if I didn't agree to his demands, he would kill all of the dragon tribe! He was indeed very powerful. And after I transformed into a human, I couldn't resist him, and the entire dragon tribe had no one who could resist his power! As a result... for my people, I was forced to sign that damned contract!! If I hadn't drunk that spring water, our proud dragon tribe would never have tolerated being used by humans for thousands of years! To guard this damned secret chamber for him!" The dragon tribe leader's angry voice, looking at his ferocious expression, seemed as if he could swallow Du Wei at any moment: "And besides, knowing full well that he was a devil worshipper, our dragon tribe were loyal servants of the gods, how could we help him do these things! He used cunning to weaken my strength, then used force to threaten me, and only then did I agree to his contract! This despicable guy!"

  Is this really happening?

  Although Du Wei was unwilling to believe it, reality was right in front of him!

  And looking at the dragon clan's patriarch with a ferocious aura, Du Wei suddenly thought of a terrible possibility!

  As expected...

  "Now that you're here, this matter can finally be understood." The dragon clan leader gazed intently at Du Wei, a ruthlessly cruel smile spreading across his face: "I signed that contract, I promised to help him keep his things until one day, someone who meets the conditions comes to take them away... But..."

  The dragon clan leader lightly pinched his fingers and smiled: "However, as long as you open the thing here, my contract is completed! Aragon can no longer restrain my things! I will kill you! Kill you and your companions! Now all the guys outside the door! And... this does not violate the contract!"

  Looking at the Dragon Clan's patriarch sneer, Du Wei realized that he had encountered a very big problem!

  He smiled wryly and thought quickly of a countermeasure, saying with a bitter smile: "So you want to watch me open the things here, then you can kill me? And also my companions outside?"

  "It's settled." The dragon clan leader nodded, he was absolutely not joking: "The contract didn't say that after the matter is completed, I can't kill you! Aragon cheated me once, now it's time to pay him back!"

  “……”

  Du Wei suddenly felt very wronged!

  He even wanted to follow the Dragon Clan's patriarch and scold in unison: "Damn it, Aragon!"

  You back then forced the Dragon Clan to sign a contract and offended these proud guys! Now that you're dead, they want to take it out on me?!

  Aragon, Aragon! You're so meticulous, yet you almost got me killed!

  "Come on, poor little thing." The dragon clan leader sneered coldly: "Hurry up and open these things, I'm getting impatient. Hehe..."

  As he spoke, he lightly raised a finger, and the tip of his finger emitted a thread of cold air, which condensed into a sharp ice crystal, its blade flashing with a cold light.

  Du Wei can be sure that if this ice knife cuts on the body, it will definitely be very painful...

  The Dragon Clan's patriarch stood beside Du Wei, his gaze at Du Wei was like looking at a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, pointing to the stone coffin next to him: "Hurry up and get to work."

  Du Wei's mind was in turmoil as he desperately thought of a countermeasure, but facing such an opponent whose strength was almost on par with Aragorn's, what could he possibly come up with?

  In the eyes of the dragon tribe's patriarch, Du Wei's heart was already filled with regret. He regretted running to this accursed place, regretted meeting that wretched old magician, that old scoundrel! Regretted extorting Mi Mi An in the first place. Regretted leaving his comfortable life in the castle to head south.

  If I hadn't brought people south to play, I wouldn't have met Weiwei An! If I hadn't met Weiwei An, I wouldn't have met Qiaoanna! If I hadn't met the two of them, I wouldn't have run all the way to Devil's Island! Then the old magician wouldn't have come to my door to demand something for his disciple! And I wouldn't have discovered my devilish horn! So I wouldn't have been kidnapped and brought to the Ice-Sealed Forest...

  Finally, I won't be in this pitifully small secret room, facing the slaughter of a powerful dragon clan leader with my own pitiful third-rate magical powers!

  But now regret, is it still in time?

  His hand was already on the lid of the stone coffin, and with just a little effort, it should be able to open. But Du Wei's heart was struggling, as if Hamlet's classic question echoed in his mind:

  To open, or not to open... That is the question.

  Furthermore, there is a very serious request, which is to His Majesty of Aragon.

  If he had the chance to face Aragorn, Du Wei really wanted to ask him a question seriously: Screw your mother, can you?