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Chapter 21: Returning the favor

Cale opened the description of the two new skills

[Florakinesis: the power to mentally manipulate plants, including trees and flowers. Someone with this ability could grow plants to enormous proportions in nearly any environment, and speed up the process of germination and plant maturity.]

[Poisonous Rose: the ability to grow poisonous vines and flowers instantly and give poisonous attributes to other plants at will. It also passively grants full immunity to any type of poison.]

Cale couldn't believe his eyes, these two skills are enough to be a whole independent ancient power on its own.

He summoned the indestructible shield and as he suspected the pattern on it has changed, the new red shield had a heart surrounded by rose vines. It looked like the vines created a cage to protect the heart.

"Just as I expected"

The vitality of the heart has strengthened the shield.

"You."

Cale had walked toward the dragon, that was pretending like nothing was going on and instead kept staring up at the ceiling.

Cale just continued to stare at the dragon that was crouched down on the ground. He then stoically asked the dragon, as if he was throwing a rock into a lake.

"You want to come with me?"

"...You are so weak that you need protection. But I do not like humans."

The dragon answered, that way before starting to turn invisible. It had used its invisibility magic again. Cale just snorted at the disappearing dragon.

"What a fickle punk."

He knew that the dragon was following them but he didn't expect him to follow him in the cave.

Cale looked around the cave, which no longer had any wind storms raging about, before turning around and heading out of the cave. Of course, he had to crawl back out as well. He returned the vines back to their original spots, and covered up the cave entrance properly.

He then turned around and started to speak while walking away. His gaze was directed toward a grassy area.

"I can see you standing on the grass."

He could see four imprints on the grass, each one representing one of the dragon's four paws. These paw imprints then quickly disappeared. The dragon had flown up into the sky. Cale shook his head.

Cale could not help but let out a deep sigh. It was obvious that the dragon would continue to follow him in that invisible state. Just why was this dragon such a noob when it knows ancient magic like invisibility? Cale had thought that all dragons were intelligent, but that seemed like it might not be the case.

After walking back down the mountain, Cale could see Choi Han's judging expression. Choi Han looked at Cale silently, before finally asking.

"Did you... roll around the mountain?"

'Shit.'

The wind had made his hair a mess, and his clothes were dirty after crawling across the rocky and sandy cave entrance.

Cale sternly responded to Choi Han.

"Yes. I rolled around."

The dragon who was invisible behind Cale put a sound barrier and started laughing at Cale's responde.

Choi Han looked toward Cale with concern. Cale just avoided the gaze.

That night, Cale told the kittens to deliver a message. It was a letter that was created with magic, which made it impossible to determine the handwriting of the writer.