A Dragonslayer’s Peerless Regression – 44



Episode 44

‘Melissa Alencia.’

Judging from his healthy appearance it seemed he had recovered from the rheumatism with the treatment Zeke had given him.

He bowed his head toward Melissa.

“I have heard of Princess Melissa’s fame. I would like to express my deepest gratitude for your presence at my promotion party. It is an honor to meet you.”

These were compliments that were ticklish enough to give you goosebumps but they were an essential part of aristocratic society.

It was fortunate that I had learned several lines from Andrei in a hurry before coming to the party otherwise it would have been difficult to fit in with the atmosphere.

Melissa smiled and responded to Zeke’s words.

“I am so happy that the youngest blue-ranked knight on the continent knows me.”

“I was very interested in the charity work that the princess was doing. People who don’t know much about relief work might think that they are just giving what they have but isn’t it a lot of work that requires careful consideration of each and every budget?”

Melissa’s expression changed at Zeke’s answer.

The mask-like smile broke and a face of real surprise appeared.

Most of the young knights she had seen were full of nothing but pride and ambition.

He only heard superficial information about the charity work he was running and used it as a topic of conversation but he had no sympathy for the difficulties hidden behind it.

But even in his brief remarks Zeke hit the nail on the head about the difficulties of charity work.

‘It might not be just a simple article as Cliff said.’

“Thank you for your understanding. I can’t afford to take up any more of the party host’s time. It was nice meeting you. Well then.”

Melissa bowed to Zeke and stepped back thinking she might need to find out more about him.

Zeke was exhausted from meeting countless royals nobles and politicians who kept coming after Melissa.

‘I’d rather have Master Kaiser’s hellish training.’

The Drake family is a knightly family but they are also deeply involved in the politics of each kingdom.

Because it played a role in maintaining balance in the central continent other kingdoms also considered their relationship with Drake important and actively tried to maintain an alliance.

A single family with greater influence than any kingdom or empire.

That was the Draker family the Transcendent family.

At that moment a group of people approached Zeke.

As they approached others were seen stepping aside.

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The party atmosphere changed because of those who attended the party wearing armor instead of formal attire.

The first of them a young man approached him and gave him an imperial salute.

“Zeke Draker! The youngest blue-ranked knight on the continent!”

The young man who seemed slightly drunk was strangely pretending to be friendly with Zeke.

A young man with a very stylish hairstyle and wearing shiny armor grinned at Zeke.

“I am Carus Nerva Constantine the fourth prince of the Great Roman Empire.”

Hearing the young man’s words the surrounding central kingdom officials were startled and stirred.

I never thought that the Imperial Family of the Roman Empire would attend a personal promotion party.

Zeke was troubled when he encountered Karus the fourth prince of the Rom Empire.

‘Why did that damn prince come here?’

Although he didn’t know it directly the person who had created the desolate Atlas he had seen in his past life was Karus right before his eyes.

Zeke had no choice but to greet Karus with a trembling expression.

“Your Majesty Karus. Thank you for coming to my promotion party.”

Honestly I didn’t even want to get into it.

But instead Karus approached Zeke and showed his friendliness.

“Come on let’s go have a drink together. Listen. Quickly bring me some liquor. Bring me the best liquor you can to celebrate the historic first meeting between Karus the continent’s greatest playboy and Sir Zeke Draker who will become the continent’s greatest knight!”

At Karus’s words a servant hurriedly brought a glass of wine.

He completely ignored the gazes of those around him and proudly handed a glass to Zeke and made a toast.

“This is a drink bestowed by the imperial family so drink it all up and don’t leave any behind.”

The people around him frowned at Karus’s words.

Even if the Drakes only existed as a family considering their influence they should not have acted rudely like this.

Others began to murmur about Carus’s words and actions. Zeke drank the drink Carus offered him.

Then Carus clapped his hands and cheered.

“Good good! Zeke! Come drink with me today until your nose is crooked.”

At that moment Abel approached from behind Karus.

“majesty.”

Karus was very happy to see Abel calling him.

“Oh Abel. Thank you for inviting me to such a delightful occasion. Come and join us in celebrating!”

Abel spoke to Karus trying to control his expression.

“I am so happy to see you well. I had something to discuss with you anyway so why don’t you have a drink with me and talk for a moment?”

“Hmm I don’t really want to hear about anything painful.”

“This is a matter that requires Your Majesty’s opinion.”

At those words Carus finally nodded.

“I can’t help it. Next time Sir Zeke let’s have a drink all night and discuss the epic poem that praised the legend of the dragon slayer!”

Karus walked with a swing his long cloak billowing.

Only when he disappeared from the banquet hall did others breathe a sigh of relief.

Then they lowered their voices and whispered to each other.

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“It’s truly surprising that the prince of the empire is like that.”

“The Roman Empire itself lacks tradition. So the emperor and prince must be like that.”

“By the way the Lion Sword responded is really amazing. It took the initiative and solved the problem so quickly.”

“That’s right. I guess people don’t praise him for nothing.”

Zeke looked at the missing Karus and Abel Siemens families and was lost in thought.

‘The Prince of the Empire Siemens and Abel. It seems like there’s something going on.’

Zeke’s eyes flashed sharply.

* * *

The promotion party continued like that for several days.

Parties and banquets were quite important to the nobility.

Because it was an important indicator that could show the family’s strength to others.

If you don’t have a banquet you don’t have to but if you do you need to treat the guests as well as possible before sending them off.

Because of this Zeke the main character of the party also had to deal with the party attendees for several days.

And only after the formal banquet was over could he finally catch his breath.

“It’s a million times easier to train than to hold a banquet.”

He threw off his stuffy robe.

Then he took out the note he had received from his master.

“Drake’s report.”

As expected from a dragon slayer family countless items collected over a thousand years were displayed inside the treasury.

Without another second thought Zeke headed straight towards Winterkeep where Draker’s report was located.

After confirming Zeke’s identity we were able to immediately be guided to the reporting area located underground as the instructions had already been given.

‘The temperature is low.’

Zig who followed the guide into the basement could feel the temperature being lowered by magic.

“Please come in this way and complete the procedures.”

As we walked down the narrow hallway a dozen or so knights of the family were guarding the huge door.

Zeke went to the desk and started the process.

“Confirmed. You can take one item from the report as a household leader. The inside is quite large so it will take a considerable amount of time to look around everything. Once you leave you cannot re-enter so if you wish you can take some supplementary food and bedding.”

It seemed that some people stayed there for several days to choose the items they wanted.

Since it wasn’t something that Ziggy who had an inventory really needed he expressed his intention to leave it as it was.

“Then I will open the report.”

The desk clerk pressed a switch and the huge door to the report opened by itself.

Kookookookook!

As Zeke looked inside the door closed completely again.

“Wow what is all this?”

The report revealed a huge storage facility for items.

There were what appeared to be tens of thousands of items displayed on a large angle.

Seeing this sight made me understand why people stay here for days to look for items.

I knew the report was great but I didn’t expect it to be this great so I couldn’t help but be amazed.

“There are so many that I don’t know what’s what. I guess I’ll have to look at all the functions first.”

Ziggy unleashed his skill.

Then information about the item began to flood in before my eyes.

There was so much content that he quickly released the dragon.

“Damn I’m going to lose my sight at this rate.”

After thinking about it he opened the system window.

“System. Is there a way to find useful items a little faster?”

[Checking available features at the administrator’s request.]

[Activates the system linking function for intermediate administrators.]

[You can display items on the map by linking the skill you have with the minimap function.]

“I don’t quite understand what you mean but just try it.”

[Function linking in progress.]

Soon information about items in places where Zeke’s gaze fell on the map began to appear one by one.

“I was wondering what the system linkage function was and it’s something like this.”

It seemed that information could only be displayed once items came into one’s field of vision.

Zig used the Muyeongbo to quickly look around and look around every corner.

However because the report was so extensive it took quite some time.

“Whew is this enough?”

Zig took a quick look around the report then changed the minimap to 3D and checked the information on the scanned items.

But there were still too many sheep.

“Can the system sort and view only the types of items I want?”

[it’s possible.]

“Okay. Then please exclude the normal items that don’t have magical functions from among these items.”

Then more than half of the displayed items were deleted.

“Okay good. Next delete the one-time consumable items as well.”

Again half of them were erased.

“How many items are left?”

[There are 2832.]

“Still there’s a lot left.”

Zik decided to personally examine each of these items.

He used the Muyeongbo to look around and inspected the items.

“Why are there so many swords? System. Erase the swords that are less powerful than Bahamut.”

In an instant it was reduced by half again.

Zeke looked through the remaining items.

There was no sword more powerful than Bahamut and no more swords were visible.

Then Zeke discovered something strange among the listed items.

“What is this? Why is all the information coming out as question marks?”

Beyond the black marks on the map the information window only had ??? written on it.

Zik went to where the item was.

It was a storage area for unclassified items stored in boxes in a corner rather than a general display area.

Zeke found a place he had almost passed by and quickly looked around it so at least it was marked to that extent.

It was only after Zeke had cleared away all the stacked preservation boxes that he finally discovered what was inside.

“What on earth did you hear in it?”

Zig opened the preservation box and checked the items inside.

The box was filled with a variety of odds and ends mixed together.

Zeke took them out one by one and examined them.

“Neither this nor that.”

Then something caught Zeke’s hand.

“Is this it?”

It was a crude bracelet with a sky-blue jewel in the center.

Zeke tilted his head looking at the bracelet.

“Why isn’t the information showing up even in the dragon’s eyes?”

That’s when the message came to mind.

[Title: Heir of Terracan Draker activates.]

[You will be registered as the heir of the ‘Holy Guardian Stone’.]

[You can summon a creature that matches your soul through the ‘Divine Guardian Stone’.]