Chapter 284 - WALKING BACK TO THE VILLAGE
LUO YAN glanced down at the sleeping dragon tied in a vine and being carried by Shen Ji Yun like a lump of meat. After they sealed the cave containing the dragon's treasure, Shen Ji Yun suddenly threw a purple potion towards the dragon making Dusk fell asleep immediately. And it seemed like it was not an ordinary purple potion to boot. The large purple potion could only make its target sleep for 10 seconds. But Dusk had already been asleep for more than 10 seconds now. So, Luo Yan was sure that the purple potion that Shen Ji Yun used was modified in some way.
Luo Yan didn't expect him to do something like that, so he didn't react fast enough to stop him. He shook his head. It seemed like Shen Ji Yun really didn't like Dusk. Although he could understand why. The dragon was naturally arrogant and couldn't really properly express his feelings. So, everything he said came out harsh even if he was doing it unintentionally. That's probably just his character setting – a proud dragon who had a little bit of a tsundere trait.
Dusk reminded him a bit of Luo Jin, so, he didn't find him annoying. In fact, he felt that the dragon was also quite cute. But that probably wasn't the case for Shen Ji Yun. As evidence of how he also couldn't get along with Luo Jin. For him, Dusk was probably just a noisy little thing he wanted to get rid of.
It also didn't help that the dragon was showing obvious preference towards Luo Yan. Knowing Shen Ji Yun, he was probably eating the dragon's vinegar. So, the favorability of Dusk in his mind also fell to the bottom. He sighed. Shen Ji Yun being a big vinegar jar just showed that he was very possessive towards him.
Something that was really unexpected for Luo Yan. After all, Shen Ji Yun had a very inherently cold temperament. Who would have thought that he would be like that when he found someone he liked? Like a big block of ice that have a smoldering flame inside. Well, the good thing was, despite that, Shen Ji Yun never really acted on it. If one didn't observe him carefully, they wouldn't even notice he had that side. Which was adorable in a way.
Luo Yan glanced at Shen Ji Yun's side profile. [Well, it's one of his charms, I guess.]
[Charm? Whose charm, Mashter?] – Eclipse asked, probably hearing what he thought just now.
He patted the little fox's head who was currently sitting on his shoulder. [Nothing.]
If he told this guy he was talking about his favorite Captain, there would certainly be another round of teasing.
"Brother Ji Yun, does the Origin Village of each race differ greatly?" he thought of asking.
It had been on his mind since they met the dragon. If all the races had their own Origin Village and it was similar to the village of the moon elves, then how come the dragon was referring to himself as 'this king'? Especially when the person with the highest authority in a village was the Elder.
Unless, there were other places in Arcadia other than the Origin Villages where these races considered as their 'home'.
"Yes. The humans' Origin Village is pretty big compared to others," Shen Ji Yun answered. It's because when a player chose the 'random selection' option, the most likely result would be the human race. That's just how the algorithm of the game worked. So, they needed to make the human Origin Village as big as they could to accommodate the large number of new players every day. "Your race's Origin Village is actually considered as quite small compared to others."
It's mostly because it's hard to get the newly added 'Special' race via random selection. These new races were just added after the latest update. So, the number of players who got them since then was pretty low. The programming department already predicted that. So, they didn't design a large village.
"Then how about the Origin Village of Legendary races?"
"The Legendary races have a small population. The probability of getting them through random selection is pretty low. So, their Origin Village was also not that big," Shen Ji Yun answered. "My village was only slightly bigger than yours. But compared to yours, there were hardly any other qilins there. I think it's the same for the other Legendary races."
The department involved in making the stories for each task and the backstories of each NPC included it in the narrative – that it was hard for qilins, phoenixes, dragons, etc. to conceive. At most, a new beast egg from these races could only be born every one hundred years. Thus, the lack in their numbers.
"Is there some kind of royalty within the Legendary races?" Luo Yan asked. It was another thing that had been bothering him. "And were these 'royalties' lived in a different place other than their race's Origin Village?"
Shen Ji Yun seemed to finally understand what he was thinking. "Are you wondering why this dragon was calling himself as 'this king'?"
Luo Yan nodded. "Yeah. I mean, it could help us in finding out his real identity."
"I've never really heard of something like that when I was in my Origin Village. But then again, I didn't really stay that long there."
Besides that, Shen Ji Yun had never really been interested in tasks that had too much backstories. He preferred those where he just had to kill a certain monster and the likes. So, he never went out of his way to investigate those type of things.
That answer was not really beyond Luo Yan's expectations. "We could probably ask the Elder of my village about that as well. Maybe he could give us an important piece of information."
[This lizard is really one pain in the butt.] – Eclipse commented on the side, as if he was the one going to do all the investigations.
Luo Yan couldn't help but chuckle when he heard that.
And as their conversation continued, they finally arrived back at the entrance of the moon elves' village.