The Red Dragon Just Wants To Do As It Pleases-Chapter 364 - 233: Infiltrating the Dragon Materials Market (Part 2)

In addition, their habit of controlling trade routes and collecting 'protection fees' meant that they generally wouldn't pass through such a distant location.

But David's Tokamak Fusion Fortress needed to 'use local resources,' and naturally, the closer, the better.

Anyway, if worst came to worst, they could just dismantle that soul artifact from Toriel and use it; relocating it would be enough.

Seeing that the site had been chosen, Dragon Dad, knowing David's impetuous nature, didn't waste any words and immediately began 'unloading cargo' from his Private Dragon Half-Plane.

Most of what he unloaded were authentic red copper materials, which David had purchased wholesale from Glaciya, a major Barto red copper wholesaler from Barto Hell.

Despite being called red copper, it was more like a natural superconducting material, similar to rare earth elements but much purer than metallic rare earths, making it extremely suitable for use as permanent magnet components.

Most of these components were already processed constructs from Toriel.

But as David watched, he started to feel that something was amiss and asked,

"Wait a second, why are there so many materials?"

The components were also much larger than he had imagined.

Attilicia replied cheerfully,

"This is the initial feedback Oberon and his team provided after reviewing your project proposal. Through careful calculations and consideration, they unanimously concluded something. With the current size of the apparatus, achieving your desired energy output—greater than consumption—is unlikely. This would only be possible if we could either develop a high-efficiency room-temperature magic conductor material or solve the unpredictability and uncontrollability of electric magic particle turbulence. Considering the extravagant cost of traveling between the two planes, I just took the liberty... haha."

David was immediately astonished. It truly was just like a bunch of researchers, he thought, to deduce the same issue faced by Blue Star in such a short time and with only a simple theoretical draft.

The only difference was that this world had magic.

They could absolutely use magic to overcome the volume limitations imposed by the industrial systems of other worlds.

If it was too small, then just pile on more materials. The motto was: brute force creates miracles.

"Wait, Oberon?"

David, slow on the uptake, was shocked again, feeling as though he had won second prize in a massive lottery.

Greed

"What about Oberon?" Attilicia looked at the suddenly excited David with some confusion.

But David quickly composed himself and said with a smile,

"Nothing, it could just be a common name."

David, unable to confirm the person's identity at this stage, decided not to expose this connection just yet.

He also didn't plan on telling his loose-lipped father.

After all, with Attilicia's emotional nature, if he learned of this, he would certainly probe out of curiosity until he uncovered the truth.

If it truly was the one who had once almost single-handedly propelled the entire space exploration program of Nathril, and I carelessly provoked them into developing a split personality, then I'd be totally screwed.

Because, as the ancients said, secrecy leads to success, and leakage leads to failure—a creed David took seriously.

Deep down, however, David was still a Red Dragon. Watching a group of Nathril Scholars, coordinated by Attilicia and organized by that 'Oberon', begin constructing the Tokamak Fortress on the spot, his initial excitement gradually faded into boredom.

After learning that it would still take at least seven years from construction to acceptance, David immediately lost patience and prepared to spread his wings and leave.

However, his less-than-reassured father grabbed him by the tail.

"Hold on! First, tell me, where are you planning to gallivant off to this time?"

This exclamation also made Tania, who was attentively studying beside Oberon, perk up her ear membranes. She flew over in a frantic rush, her nostrils flaring with anger at her older brother who was trying to ditch her and go have fun alone.

"Exactly! You promised you'd take me with you."

Attilicia, standing nearby, was utterly dumbfounded! What! He went to the Royal Capital to cause trouble with human legends last time, and he even brought Tania along?

A rather exasperated David looked speechlessly at the Silver Dragon father-daughter duo and, spreading his claws, said,

"I'm already a young Dragon! I know how to judge situations for myself, okay?"

He then glanced up and down at his Silver Dragon little sister, who clearly had a 'if you don't take me, I'll just follow you anyway' attitude, and sighed.

"I'm really not trying to leave you out on purpose this time, but what I'm going to do... it's not really convenient."

Tania's temper flared instantly. Her tail stiffened, making her look like an aggrieved, oversized kitten.

"How is it not convenient? Oh! Are you going to flirt with girls again? It's not Blue Dragon girls this time, is it?"

She thought about it; among her brother's Dragon followers, it seemed only the Blue Dragons were unaccounted for. Well, there were also the White Dragons, but no, they don't count. They'd lower the family's average IQ.

"Hm?" Attilicia, however, showed a completely different expression, as if to say, 'So my son has finally reached that age, eh?' He immediately put on a kind smile.

"Hmm, as long as you're not getting into trouble with humans and Elves, I'm not fundamentally opposed to it."

"Dad! You... You're shameless!"

Tania was so furious her scales practically bristled. She retorted in anger, "Then I'll go find handsome male Dragons too!"

"Don't you dare!" David and his father said almost in unison.

The two immediately formed a united front. Attilicia then continued,

"You're too young! Huh? Do you know how deceitful some Dragons can be nowadays? Let's wait until you're of age. Then I'll take you back to Dragon Island to meet the Silver Dragon King. He will vouch for you and introduce you to some exceptional Silver Dragon bachelors."

"Exactly! At least wait until you're an adult. If you ask me, those sheltered cowards on Dragon Island are nowhere near good enough for Tania."

David thought for a moment, then craned his neck, his eyes darting around. "Well, at the very least... he'd have to be stronger than me, right? Hmm."

Watching this father-son duo sing the same tune, especially with the blatant double standards they applied to her versus her older brother, Tania was almost driven to tears by anger. The fiery temper she had inherited from Pafila began to flare up.

"I won't! Worst case, I'll just learn from Mother! Hmph!"

"Ah?" David and his father panicked.

Attilicia frantically signaled his son with his eyes. David, understanding, made a desperate move.

"Fine, fine, fine, I'll take you out to play. But just to be clear, this time I'm planning to visit a Blue Dragon Nest, and I might even end up taking a long sleep there during the visit. Those Blue Dragons are a bunch of infamous bandits, and you're a girl..."

What he didn't mention was that Blue Dragons spontaneously held an 'open-air matchmaking festival' every few years when storms rolled in, all to prepare for breeding the next generation. One could only imagine the horde of suitors that would be trailing his sister then.

Only then did Attilicia realize what his son was planning, and he instantly regretted it deeply. This brat is planning to pull the same stunt as before! Only this time, he's going to transform into a Blue Dragon and then trick them into 'generating power through love'? I'm still furious just thinking about how he conned me out of that formula when he transformed into a Silver Dragon!

Tania, however, gave her older brother a look as if he were an idiot, barely suppressing her laughter as she said,

"If you're really so worried about me, why not just transform me into a male Blue Dragon? Don't tell me you can't do it with your abilities."

"Ah?" Dragon Dad Attilicia was immediately dumbfounded.

"Uh... this..." David was rendered speechless by his little sister's wild idea and, with a noticeable lack of confidence, pointed out the problem,

"But what if a female Blue Dragon makes a move on you?"

"Females? No loss for me. At worst, I make a friend, and I can even help you screen some Blue Dragon sisters, right?"

"But what if... I mean, what if you accidentally get one pregnant? You have to understand one thing: my Shape-Shifting Magic is, objectively speaking, real."

But Tania, being a Silver Dragon, was completely unfazed. She glanced sideways at her older brother and poked David's chest with her tail, saying,

"Worst case, I'll just call you 'Dad' for that one, right? Anyway, I'm changing back later, so I take no responsibility!"

"CRAP! I'm not taking the fall for that!" David immediately conceded.

My little sister, you're really something, he thought. You haven't even transformed yet, and you're already set to be a heartbreaker!

"..." Attilicia, who was already struggling to keep up with the young Dragons' convoluted ways of thinking, was now completely bewildered.