Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her-Chapter 132: Badong

After making Elara comfortable in his embrace, Veer sat on the sofa along with Aurora while Rock stood behind them. Looking at the Chief of Aethryms, he smiled and said.

"Hello, I’m Veer Ainsworth and these are my friends..."

One by one, he introduced his friends and then waited, as the Chief nodded and said.

"My name is Badong, the Seventh Chief of Skelp Civilization and I welcome you to this humble abode. I’m sure you have a lot of questions but so do I. Sadly, you don’t seem to be in a good condition so we can do that talk later."

Veer blinked and asked, "Then why did you call us here?"

"I just wanted to see the person who can understand us," Badong chuckled softly and said. "You can even say I wanted to check your character. You see, our eyes are special and we can see things that others can’t."

’The hell! So this old man just wanted to check on us?’ Veer was speechless, but since the Chief was checking him out, he also did the same.

[Badong Selakware]

[.....]

’Huh!? What?’

"Ho? So you also have something to check me?" Badong raised an eyebrow, though it looks quite strange on him. But his big eyes showed the shock he was feeling.

’Eh! System?’

[The system isn’t Evolved enough and Certain Individuals can sense its probing.]

’I see. Well, that’s another lesson learned,’ Veer sighed and said. "Sorry about that."

"Haha! It’s natural not to trust strangers," Badong waved his hand and said. "Anyway, you can stay here for as long as you want but you’ll have to work to secure your food."

"Thanks for that," Veer said. "But I have a question, is there a way out from this place?"

"Young man, you can give up on that hope," Badong sighed. "The only way out of this settlement is through that passage but the Ancestor has forbidden us to leave this place and because of that, he placed his previous Artefact there."

"You mean that Corrupted stone?" Veer frowned. "We actually came from there."

"I know, and honestly I doubt you can leave from there," Badong said. "You see, the Ancestor did something that made the monsters out here stay away from that settlement but it also made our escape even more impossible as he had increased the difficulty."

"How?"

"That I have no knowledge of. No one has survived going past that hall and no one will. It’s simply impossible. That’s why we’re making the tunnels around the Town but it seems that the Ancestor took that in mind too. Even after digging for a thousand years, we found nothing."

He seemed to have aged more, as he continued. "We just ended up getting back to our town, so there has to be some kind of Rune Formation. Sadly, we’re too weak to do anything. Not to mention those monsters destroy our tunnels from time to time."

’They are also living a harsh life, huh,’ Veer was feeling a little pity towards them, but he ignored it and asked, "But why did your Ancestor do that to his own race?"

"I think you should take a proper rest, young man," Badong frowned and said, as he stood up. "We can talk about these later on."

After a momentary pause, he asked in a rather careful tone, "By the way, you came from the outside world, right? How is my race doing there?"

A silence followed, as Veer looked at the Chief with hesitant eyes. Noticing that look, Badong sighed and turned around, as he reached up to massage his eyelids. While doing so, he muttered, "So, they didn’t survive, huh."

"I can’t say that for certain," Veer said, as he didn’t want to disappoint them. "There are thousands of races and I couldn’t possibly know about every single one of them, right? So, maybe there are some Aethryms alive and living somewhere underground."

"You don’t have to console me. My Ancestor already said that we would be the last batch and hope of our race. If we did, our race will vanish from the face of Dawnland."

He sighed and waved his hand, "Go on! Brando and Sando will show you your room. I’ll allow you a free stay for two days so that you can recover."

"Thanks, Chief!"

Veer stood up, carrying Elara carefully in his arms. After that, he followed the duo of Brando and Sando, who were quiet the whole way so Veer also didn’t disturb them.

He could understand their sentiments, so he didn’t want to make things worse. Fortunately, Aurora also understood the atmosphere and kept her mouth shut, though Veer could see many things flashing in her eyes.

Their rooms were apparently recently dug out by Rock and were side by side. Aside from a comfortable bed, there was nothing else in the stone room lit up by the illumination stone.

Brando bade farewell to their group and left them alone. Since they had some things to discuss, they decided to just use one room for now.

Entering his room, Veer sat down on the bed, still having Elara in his embrace. He could feel a heated gaze on him but he didn’t care. He wanted to give her as much comfort as possible.

Aurora also slumped down beside him while Rock just stood on the sides. Crossing his arms over his broad chest, he said, "Boss, I’ll leave the matter of finding the exit to you."

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"Seriously? Bro, you came here earlier so you should have already worked on it," Veer sighed in exasperation.

"I did, boss, and it’s as that old geezer said. There is no exit here and even if you dug from one side to another, you’ll just end up back to the town. And I never tried the path you came from because I was getting a nasty feeling."

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Veer rolled his eyes and said, "Fine! I’ll do it. But tell me something first, do you think we can trust them?"

"Not really. That old geezer has been so nice to me that I find it too odd. Not to mention that his eyes always seemed to glow and I don’t like it."

’Now, that is problematic.’