C4: Forseer

Spring had blossomed as the 4th year of my time as the Dragon Prince came.

In Arion Online, one year was merely a monthly game season. But here, I've spent all those days just to be a 4-year-old who could barely do anything.

Living as an NPC is certainly difficult.

According to my family, word of my existence was not to be spread across the lands of Arion. If that does happen, there would be dozens of warriors attempting to murder me and make the rule of the Dragon come to an end.

Of course, my family of NPCs didn't know that this was a game.

But… Now that I am part of this game myself, I had hundreds of questions left unanswered. And my life itself was threatened if players were coming for my head.

As to make sure that no one spies on me in the castle as a shapeshifter or whatever entity, I took precautions of staying hidden as much as possible through the last three years.

In the spring, I took grave precautions for this because the event was near and many players might come to see if my existence was true.

For a person with shapeshifting skills to shapeshift into something as small as a mouse, the person should at least be at Level 500. Half of the max level, which not even 500 players in the massive world of Arion had reached.

The smaller it gets, the higher the level required.

Because of this threat of mice and vermin who'd spy on me, I've begun to set mouse traps in the pipelines and holes that were left open in the castle walls. I even kept an eye out for all the birds that came to Mount Darkness.

There weren't many due to the extreme conditions of this landscape. So if there were one, it would definitely be suspicious.

I only have this life left now. Truck-kun won't come back to give me another chance at life in a medieval world where cars do not even exist yet.

So, I had to be extra cautious with every step I took.

I could not lose this life too.

Now…

What'll happen in the game when I, a mere NPC now, alter its system and go rogue? Will I get deleted?

I had no way of finding it out yet, but soon, I figured that I would.

Because this Fall, there was the event of the "Destruction of the Dragon Family" coming to the game season.

4 years ago when I was still on planet Earth, the best players of Arion Online had a group chat called "The Divine Five."

There were even developers who'd entered the group chat to talk with us, so we had a few spoils here and there.

The most exciting news for us was the event of the "Destruction of the Dragon Family" where we would come to destroy the Dragon Queen Melissa and end the tyranny of dragons. But – what the game developers didn't know was that I, Revlon, the world's greatest Arion player had reincarnated as the son of the Dragon Prince.

Now that I have foreseen the future, I had a chance…

A chance of defeating the world's greatest players and continuing to live on.

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That evening the royal tower of the Dragon Family was not as quiet as it usually was.

There were visitors from outside of the tower coming up the spiraling stairs, noisily, clanking their armored feet.

Melissa was on the throne, awaiting the strangers' arrival. Chloe was right next to Mother's throne, wearing a long black dress that showed the cleavage of her enormous breasts.

'Dressed to impress?' I pondered, gazing at my sister's breasts.

I was also in the throne room that evening because Melissa had told me to come with her. I was keeping my back against the windows, gazing at the staircase to see whoever was visiting.

I have not seen everyone who lived in our castle in Mount Darkness, even though I've lived here for 4 years.

Mostly, it was because Melissa did not let me go outside much. I guessed she did not want me to have any unnecessary relationships with the slaves or half-bloods.

At first, Aunt Crystal came up the stairs in shining white armor with her enormous claymore on her shoulder. Escorted by her were three strangers whom I'd never seen before.

The male had blue scales on his body and horns on his head, just like the shifted form of a dragon. I realized that he was a half-blood. The other two were women with cat ears. They were most certainly Animagi, half animal, half human species.

"Melissa, I brought you the shapeshifters," Crystal announced, stepping aside and presenting the three warriors behind her.

Melissa laid back on her throne and said, "At ease, folks."

The three strangers stood at ease.

"My Queen, why is it that you've asked me and the girls to come here?" The one in blue scales asked, interfering before Mother spoke. He was probably afraid. I could tell from his tone.

"No no, I've just asked you to come here to give you a quest, Trya," Melissa replied.

"A quest? Oh… what is it then, your highness?"

I, too, was interested in this now. I gazed at the scene intently.

"Tyra, I must ask you to go on an expedition to spy on the lands of Arion," Melissa began.

"As you see, you are one of my most trusted men. The others, I cannot trust like I trust you and your girls. So, grab a horse and search the lands for clues… and if you find anything related to some assassination attempt or anything against our Dragon Family, you ride like the wind back to us. And you tell me every little detail, understand?"

"It is an honor to serve you, my Queen. I shall gladly accept," Tyra bowed his head and his girls followed.

'So, she knows that something is coming too?' I thought, smiling at Melissa. 'She's a smart Queen. No wonder she was called the greatest Queen of Dragons.'

"Good, Tyra. You shall take a horse and leave the castle at night."

Crystal took the three warriors back down the stairs escorting them on each step. Even though Melissa did trust the slaves and the half-bloods, they couldn't take risks. The royal bloodline was in a tight position, after all.

I gazed down from the spiraling stairs as the warriors walked down all the 30 floors in the tower. I wondered when I'd be able to step out and do some action like this.

For that, however, I had to survive what will come in the Fall.