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◈ My Girlfriend Returned as a Dragon ◈

Chapter 37: To the Very Limit

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After Minos plunged his sword into the ground,

a hideous aura, enough to make Minjun frown, began to seep out. Soon, the scenery around them began to change.

The pitch-black space, as though it had been severed from the world, turned into a blood-soaked field littered with broken swords and corpses.

Dark crimson energy rose from the sword embedded firmly in the ground and slowly took the shape of soldiers.

‘I’ve seen this before.’

Their swords, armor, the horses they rode, even their saddles.

They were all things he had seen in the magic carved into the wall.

The dark crimson mist had formed countless soldiers, yet rather than fading, it only grew thicker with time.

It even moved beyond the form of soldiers and began taking the shapes of monsters like wyverns.

Before long, countless wyverns densely covered the sky.

Minjun’s eyes shook as he watched the unbelievable sight.

If they all rushed him with hostile intent, he had no choice but to die here.

As though he had read Minjun’s thoughts, Minos reassured him.

<Do not worry. You will neither die nor be injured.>

“What exactly do you want from me?”

Was this punishment for intruding into the tomb and disturbing its rest?

But if that had been the purpose, Minjun would not have been the only one dragged here. The others should have been brought along too.

Emperor Minos shook his head.

<Did I not tell you earlier? I wish to see someone use complete Dragon Speech in a human body.>

It was not a punishment.

Without any ulterior motive, he simply wanted to see someone other than himself use the complete Dragon Speech that he had never been able to use.

His method was seriously wrong, though.

“I understand what you mean, but why go this far...?!”

He had suddenly imprisoned Minjun and told him he would never leave until he used Dragon Speech.

And what were all these soldiers and wyverns supposed to be?

But Minos gave no reply to Minjun’s cry.

Instead, the soldiers answered with fierce sword strikes.

Minjun quickly dodged their blades and swept his sword in a wide horizontal arc.

More than ten soldiers fell at once, spitting blood.

But then...

They became dark crimson mist once more, took the forms of soldiers again, and charged at Minjun.

‘Damn it.’

Just like the Sword’s Lingering Will when he had first entered the dungeon, no matter how many he defeated, the soldiers would rise again and point their swords at him.

And the same would surely be true for the wyverns filling the sky and spewing breath attacks.

“This is insane.”

Each soldier was not especially dangerous on their own, but there were an absurd number of them. More importantly, no matter how often he cut them down, they never stayed down.

And then there were the wyverns.

At Minjun’s current level, there was no way to dodge or block every attack the wyverns rained down from the air.

“Urgh!”

He tried to evade them, but a considerable amount of breath struck Minjun head-on.

If they had been real wyverns, he would have suffered at least serious injuries even with the artifacts he wore.

If he had been unlucky, he could have died on the spot.

But as Minos had said, Minjun did not die. He did not even receive a scratch.

Even when wounds tore deep into him, they sealed almost immediately. Even when his limbs were cut off, new flesh grew back at once.

Yet he still felt the pain vividly.

For the first time in his life, he writhed in the horrific agony of being burned alive, of his flesh being ripped apart and cut away.

“What am I supposed to do?”

Minjun shouted irritably.

No matter how many he killed, the monsters would rise like zombies and rush him again.

He would be forced to endure the terrible pain of his body breaking apart for an eternity.

‘That can’t happen.’

Whatever reason Minos had for trapping him here, Minjun would escape this horrible place.

As countless soldiers pointed their swords at him once more, Minjun leaped high into the air and avoided their attacks.

It did not matter whether he killed a thousand soldiers or ten thousand.

As Minos had said, he only had to smash this space apart with Dragon Speech and get out.

Which meant he did not need to waste his strength on the countless enemies charging at him.

Ignoring their assault, Minjun began pulling every artifact from his subspace.

“You’re not the only ones confident in your numbers.”

Using the artifacts, Minjun kept the soldiers and wyverns in check.

There was no use killing too many of them anyway. He only needed to hold them back enough that they would not interfere.

At the same time, Minjun removed the control device Rokan had put on him to properly prepare to use Dragon Speech.

Rokan had warned him to keep it on at all times except in unavoidable circumstances, because removing it could allow his own power to consume him.

But this was exactly such an unavoidable circumstance.

He had not worn the control device for long, so it had not accumulated much power yet. Still, when trying to use Dragon Speech, even a single speck of mana contained within it mattered.

Once he was fully prepared, Minjun put his will into the words and attempted to use Dragon Speech.

[Shatter.]

He wanted this disgusting space, which dared to imprison him forever, to break into pieces without leaving a trace.

Minjun shouted with more intense will than ever before.

Yet despite that powerful will, nothing changed.

Instead, several wyverns used that opening to force their way through the defensive formations Minjun had deployed with his artifacts and crush him beneath them.

“Cough!”

If this were real, every bone in his body would have shattered and all his organs would have ruptured.

But everything before him was only an illusion, and Minjun knew he would not die.

A groan escaped him as pain twisted through his entire body, but Minjun gathered his will again and shouted.

[Shatter!]

Yet once again, nothing happened.

As though mocking Minjun’s attempt, soldiers entered through the gap the wyverns had forced open.

Minjun swung his sword and dealt with some of them, but there were far too many enemies for him to handle alone.

The infantry knocked Minjun down, and the cavalry rode over him, trampling his fallen body beneath their horses.

“Arghhh!”

His body remained intact, but he felt every bit of the pain.

It was so horrifying that he feared he might lose consciousness from shock.

Even as pain made his whole body shake, Minjun forced himself up and gripped his sword again.

He appeared unharmed, but the pain was so terrible that he could barely stand, let alone hold a single sword.

‘I never expected to succeed right away.’

Using Dragon Speech was never going to be easy.

After that, similar situations repeated themselves several times.

Minjun failed to use Dragon Speech, soldiers and wyverns attacked through the opening, and he writhed in pain from their attacks.

His body did not bear a single wound, but the pain accumulated.

Minjun’s mind gradually began to fade.

For a moment, he was tempted to let himself lose consciousness.

Even so, every time, Minjun clenched his sword hilt tightly and refused to fall.

Gritting his teeth, he continued trying to invoke Dragon Speech with powerful will.

[Shatter!!!]

There was one strategic difference from before.

Now, whenever he attempted Dragon Speech, he also struck the sword Minos had left embedded in the ground.

Everything had begun after Minos planted that sword there.

If he pulled it out or broke it, would something happen if he did anything at all?

Like someone possessed, Minjun repeatedly struck the sword while attempting Dragon Speech.

The sword Minjun wielded was fine enough to be called a treasured blade, but Emperor Minos’s sword was also a Dragon Bone Sword.

The sword lodged firmly in the ground did not break. Instead, the more Minjun struck it, the more his head seemed to ring from the impact.

But from a certain point onward, Minjun noticed that every time he struck it, a faint aurora-like light shone from Minos’s sword embedded in the floor.

‘That...’

The feeling was familiar.

When he had faced Villains in the Gate before, had his sword not emitted a similarly splendid aurora-like glow?

Still, strictly speaking, it was not exactly the same as the light that had come from Minjun’s sword then.

It was certainly brilliant, but compared to the colors that had bloomed from Minjun’s blade back then, it was clearly less dazzling.

The light was dimmer, and its colors were more varied.

As the aurora gradually began to radiate from Minos’s sword,

Minjun began to feel something strange.

The pain had not disappeared.

But the alien energy filling this space began to absorb into his entire body. Soon, he felt overwhelming power boiling within him.

It was a strange feeling.

Power overflowed through his whole body.

It was more intense and immense than when he had subdued the Villains in the Gate.

Perhaps this was...

‘Power related to dragons?’

Until now, he had only heard about it. He had never been able to grasp what the power of dragons truly meant.

But now, Minjun thought he vaguely understood.

The exhilaration he felt even amid the pain, the endless confidence that made him feel as though he could do anything he wished.

And senses beyond anything he had ever felt, senses no human could possess.

‘What if I’m like this now?’

Could a miracle happen, and could he truly use Dragon Speech?

Even as unbearable pain made his eyes roll back, Minjun did not release his sword and desperately shouted.

[Shatter into pieces without leaving a trace!]

How many times had he shouted it?

His throat was hoarse by then.

His voice was so cracked that even Minjun did not want to hear it.

But...

‘It’s almost there now.’

The world still showed no outward change, but Minjun knew instinctively.

If he only pushed a little further, just a little, he would surely be able to use proper Dragon Speech.

Minjun gathered all the dragon power built up inside him as though squeezing out every last ounce of strength, then struck Minos’s sword.

[Shatter into pieces without leaving a trace!!!]

In an instant,

the entire space shook violently and began to fill with aurora light.

Then cracks slowly began to spread across the cloudless, deep blue sky.

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