Others Summon Dragons, I Summon Legendary Knights novel Chapter 185

Chapter 185: Elf Continent — Blue Gate Dungeon

Godfrey walked out of the dome, leaving Arthur inside with the elders. They were obviously shocked by his potential, and he had little idea as to what they were speaking about, but as he strolled around the vicinity, the earth suddenly shook.

Godfrey turned to the direction it came from. He kept looking in that direction as the sound drew near and it wasn’t just from one place.

Deep growls rang in his ears as large, glowing eyes appeared in the darkness behind the trees. As it brought its head out, Godfrey saw a bronze-scaled dragon with crimson eyes.

Other dragons came out, massive beasts whose heads were three times Godfrey’s size. These were the summons of some Pendragons. They weren’t sent to kill him, but this was their forest. When he walked through it with Arthur, they stayed hidden, but now it was only him, they revealed themselves.

One of them, a red-scaled one with almond eyes, roared at him. The earth shook as it took two steps forward.

Godfrey remained rooted to the ground, his hands still in his pockets, as the gale from the beast’s roar made his hair and suit jacket flutter.

"Hello," Godfrey said with a smile as his eyes turned black and gold. The aura of a 17.5 Saint Tier swept out, forcing the dragons to roar defiantly, yet they all slowly retreated back into the forest.

Godfrey turned to the dome and saw Arthur standing outside. Their eyes met.

"The elders have accepted you," Arthur said calmly.

"Because of my potential?"

"Sounds superficial, but the answer is yes. Strength isn’t truly superficial in our world. If you were not supposed to be important, Isolde wouldn’t see you in her visions. You two would have also never met. And I would not allow it. She will eventually hold an important position that oversees not just this dungeon but several other blue gates. Her authority is destined to be greater than a president’s."

Arthur turned away from Godfrey toward the path back to the mansion.

"I have no arguments," Godfrey responded as he joined Arthur on the path.

"I also believe once they inform any of their descendants, many will want to use me as a puppet."

Arthur glanced at him from the corner of his left eye. "You’re smart. You were accepted because wouldn’t it be better if someone with such potential is on our side rather than the side of another, especially the authorities? Having you would give the authorities a stronger grip on the world. Great families and guilds weaken their control, or we would have long descended into a dictator-type world, controlled solely by the Seven Heads."

Godfrey sighed. "I thought getting stronger would make me relevant. I really didn’t think much about what being relevant meant."

Hearing that, Arthur chuckled. "It means you’ll be wanted. Some Pendragons will pull strings at you, taking advantage of your relationship with Isolde. Guilds will want you. Those you reject might harbour grudges. At the top, it’s more competitive, and death’s blade is just a hair’s breadth from chopping off your neck."

Arthur smiled. "By the way, do you know about the first Pendragon?"

Godfrey let out an embarrassed laugh. He must have scored negative points in Arthur’s mind since it was obvious he didn’t have a clue who the first Pendragon was.

"Many Pendragons don’t even know the true story. The one who birthed the Pendragon family was a woman, but her surname wasn’t Pendragon, it belonged to the man who had a dragon. Her summon was a Red Colossus Golem, one of the summons in the first decade after the apocalypse. She had the ability to make armour that strengthened people and enhanced their size, increasing their strength and giving normal human beings the ability to fight low-tier monsters."

Arthur walked ahead. They would soon leave the forest; the edge drew nearer with each step.

"One day, a red gate opened and people were slaughtered. Her summon and its ability couldn’t match the scale of her enemy, and that’s when the dragon summoner came. Flames fell from the sky, she wrote, and he dropped like a god. That’s when their story began. Unfortunately, he was poisoned by a dungeon boss, two years later. No one they could access back then could heal him, and so he transferred his summon to her. It was the only way for a part of him to live, and that woman took up the name of Pendragon, forever wearing a helmet and armour that made many mistake her for a man."

Arthur turned to Godfrey. "She gathered other dragon summoners, forming a family. The Pendragon family, whose sole duty was to protect humanity from dungeons. We fight with claws, flames, fangs until they all fall, or we fall."

"So they don’t know it was this woman who birthed this family?" Godfrey asked.

"Most people think they were an ancient family that all had dragon summons or summoners of dragon subspecies. It’s not odd for a family to have the same kind of summon. The Ouroboros family is an example," Arthur replied calmly.

He stopped at the edge of the forest. Before them was the lawn, leading up to the mansion, which glowed brightly under the dark night sky.

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